Chapter 37
Osiris said to Baal and Ashtaroth: Go down to the earth to subdue it; and your first labor shall be in Arabin’ya, Par’si’e, and Heleste; after that you shall fall upon remote parts and subdue them to ourselves also. But do not go as the other Gods have, to destroy mortals, for we want them to propagate and make subjects for us. Nor shall you pursue them, neither tribe against tribe, nor by putting them to death if they do not worship Osiris or Baal or Ashtaroth. No, not even the worshippers of the Great Spirit, except for those whose spirits we cannot catch at the time of their death; them destroy.
But permit mortals to worship as they may, and if they worship the Creator, say to them: It is well. If they worship Ahura, say: It is well. If De’yus: Yes, it is well; for all of these are only one person, who is Osiris, whose high heavenly place is Agho’aden. In that way, teach them.
You shall also do this: re-establish places of learning, teaching the Osirian law; rebuild houses of philosophy, oracles and temples; and in all such places where mortals come to consult the spirits, provide them with spirits who shall answer through the oracles for the benefit of our dominions.
It was we who gave the name Lord God to the Arabin’yans; it was we who gave the name De’yus to Par’si’e and Heleste. Let us not waste ourselves away undoing what has been done, but appropriate it to ourselves. ||
Such, then, was the basis on which these three Gods set out to establish heaven and earth. Osiris gave to Baal and Ashtaroth, in addition to their own kingdoms, twelve Lords each, to labor with them in the earth department; and every Lord was allotted one million servant soldiers, to be under the Lord’s jurisdiction.
With this, Baal and Ashtaroth returned to their heavenly kingdoms on the earth, and at once set about their labors; first, by inspiring mortal kings and queens to build the required oracles. And the kings and queens, thus inspired, impressed tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of their subjects to do the building.
And in seven years’ time there were built in Par’si’e and Arabin’ya four thousand altars for the sacred dances; seven thousand temples of sacrifice; four hundred and seventy oracle temples; and thirty-one sar’gis temples, where the Lords took on corporeal forms and talked and reasoned with mortals, especially regarding the stars, moon and the earth: teaching the philosophers the four motions of the earth: axial, oscillaic, orbitic and vorkum; the plan of the hissagow [solar phalanx –Ed.]; and the cycles of the earth; the cycles of the sun; and the cycles of the sun’s sun, the north star-belt within that; and the vortices that move them all.
And the inhabitants of Arabin’ya, Par’si’e and Heleste began again to prosper, and became mighty. But after many years, behold, Baal and Ashtaroth rebelled against Osiris, and seceded from Arabin’ya. And this was the end of the heavenly confederacy founded by De’yus. As for the far-off Gods in other divisions of the earth, they seceded at the time Osiris, Te-in and Sudga did. And from this time on, no more spirits were sent to the Lord God, the false, the author of the name De’yus.
When Baal and Ashtaroth seceded from Osiris and resumed their own kingdoms, behold, in all the divisions of the earth, every God was for himself and his own kingdom. But between Osiris and Baal and Ashtaroth, a triangular war ensued in reference to the boundaries and divisions of the lands of the earth.
Now, therefore, since the self-Gods had become the beginning of a new order of dominion in heaven and earth, everyone in his own way, it is profitable to leave them for the present, to be resumed afterward. Hear, then, of De’yus, the false Lord God; and of God, the true Son of Jehovih: