Chapter 5
The words of the initiation, led by the etherean hosts, were of this manner:
God on the throne said: O E-o-ih (Jehovih)! Almighty! Boundless!
Response: How shall I comprehend You, You Mighty One?
God: You, Higher than All Gods and Lords!
Response: Who moves the universe with power unlimited!
God: Creator and Controller of the corporeal worlds!
Response: In Whose hands the etherean firmament is like a fruitful garden, wider than the boundaries of time!
God: Whose members are All Space!
Response: Whose members are the All that is within place, beyond measure!
God: You, O E-o-ih! You Fountain and Terminus of all things!
Response: E-o-ih! E-o-ih! Of Whom all things are simply parts, attuned to Your will!
God: You All Person, O E-o-ih! Incomprehensible!
Response: Who speaks in the Light! Whose voice is the progress of the universe!
God: E-o-ih! You All Giver! By giving, Creates!
Response: What are Your secrets, O Mighty One? O E-o-ih, Everlasting, and Greater than Magnitude!
God: I see nothing in all the universe but You! All selfs are merely fractions of Yourself, O E-o-ih!
Response: Who has not seen You, O E-o-ih? Your Person is in the east and west and north and south! Below and above; far and near.
God: Who has not heard Your voice? Who has not found Your hand, that pushes him along?
Response: Without You, O E-o-ih, I do not go; I do not move. I set out to do things of myself, and fail utterly.
God: What is man before You, O E-o-ih? He sets up a kingdom, and it falls like a house of straw.
Response: O E-o-ih, how I have wasted my time! My buildings were lighter than chaff! My virtues were merely bubbles, and they are burst and gone!
God: When will man learn to attune himself to You, O E-o-ih?
Response: How can I put away myself, O E-o-ih? Have I not said: I cannot put away my own judgment?
God: Man says, I will not put away my judgment! And lo, by that, he does it!
Response: Have I not said: To protect myself is the first law; and to preserve my own, the highest law?
God: Man assumes to protect himself, because he is without faith in You, O E-o-ih! And to preserve his own, which, in fact, is not his. ||
And here the Light fell upon the throne, and Jehovih spoke out of the Light, saying:
I have called you, O man, from your youth up! My voice has never ceased in your ear. Who can come into life without Me? Who can measure his own footsteps? Behold, he treads on My ground. Of all that he is made, the substance is Mine.
The kingdoms of the earth and the kingdoms of Gods and Lords in heaven, what more are they than imitations of My works? Where they imitate Me well, I am with them in wisdom, love and power. Shall a man butt his head against a wall to prove he is greater than his Creator? Behold, I came in the ancient days, saying: Strive to become one with Me, and you shall rejoice that I created you. Strive to set up for yourself, and your vanity shall in time pierce you as a two-edged sword.
Hear the love of your Creator, O man! For, I made you with fondness for your sons and daughters. Of love like My Own, I gave you a part. And as you send communication to your wayward son, beseeching him to return to you, so do I bring My messengers from higher worlds to call you. And, so that you may not mistake their higher place, I give them power and wisdom surpassing yours.
The Voice ceased, and the initiates said:
From this time forward I will serve only You, O E-o-ih! No more will I think what shall become of me. For I know You will appropriate me wisely, O E-o-ih!
Accordingly, as the stone is hewn and polished, so will You put it in the walls of Your house.
My labor is to hew, polish and perfect my own soul forever!
My soul shall become as a shining star.
My love like Your etherean angels.
And plain my raiment, and clean, forever!
Never more will I boast, nor speak untruth, forever!
Nor sloth attain me.
Nor vanity, nor self; nor will I talk of myself.
Nor criticize my brethren, nor my neighbors, for they are Yours, O E-o-ih!
To do righteous works and lift up my fellows shall be my labor from this time forward, forever!
Make me strong in You, O E-o-ih!
And wise to do Your will forever. Amen!