Chapter 2
God said: Before the arc of Bon the earth was rank.
The seed of the tree of light had been planted many times, but the rankness destroyed it.
In the time of the arc of Bon, the earth reached maturity.
Jehovih said: I gave to the inhabitants of the earth Capilya, Moses and Chine.
Through them the tree of light was made everlasting on the earth.
The great peoples then knew I was God, and my word was with them.
Es had spoken before that day, and man knew the presence of angels. But he did not heed them.
When my word came, man listened and took notice. Mine was with authority.
Emblems, signs and symbols were the letters of man’s alphabet to lead him upward in wisdom.
Wisdom does not come suddenly; as darkness goes away, light comes.
Great knowledge is all around; to make man perceive it, is the labor of God.
Man said: I have looked into corpor, but did not find knowledge.
Corpor said: Does your flesh know? Do your bones have knowledge? Is it in the blood?
Jehovih said: I am Knowledge; come to Me. I am the Unseen. Behold yourself, O man! Can you put your finger on the place, and say: Here is knowledge? Does wisdom have bulk, and a place?
Ha’k said: Who knows the boundary of Light? Behold, I cannot hide away from Him. What is my small corner compared with the All Light of etherea?
Jehovih says: Do not think that the vault of the firmament is nothing; for there I have created etherean worlds, of sizes equal to the corporeal worlds; but they are independent of them. These are My kingdoms, prepared for the spirits of men, women and children, whom I bring forth into life on corpor. Nor are My etherean worlds alike in density or motion, but of different consistencies, so they may be suitable for the varied advancement of My children.
Man said: O World, give me light. Give me substantial knowledge, so I can put my finger on it and say: Here is the real!
Uz said: O man! Behold your folly! All things you see, hear, and touch are my abode.
Man said: What do you mean? You are vanishment! All things perish; you are that which is without foundation.
God said: You are both a flesh-man and an es-man. How can you expect your flesh talents to acquire substantial knowledge? All substance is evanescent. The real is the All Light, which you cannot comprehend (in entirety, and the flesh-man cannot at all).
Man said: Why, then, do I have this craving in my soul for all wisdom? Was my creation in vain?
Jehovih said: Because I created you craving for light, you go forth searching. You are on a long road; to the summit of All Light, which even Gods have not attained.
Man inquired: Why, then, was death created?
Uz said: Behold, even stones molder into dust. Would you have had a separate law for man?
Es said: I am within your corpor; when your corpor molders into dust, behold, I am the es-man, your real self. I am your spirit; and, like a planted seed, I dwell within your corpor.
Jehovih has said: I created the corpor of man as a womb for the es of man. By death, behold, the es is born.
Around My corporeal worlds I placed atmospherea; for, even as the earth and other corporeal worlds provide a womb for the spirit of man, so have I made atmospherea as the substance of a womb for the souls of men.
Man said: If, when I am dead, I shall see the place, is the germ of that light not already in me? How am I made that I see, but do not see this? Hear, but do not hear this? If I am now dead to that which is to be, will I not then be dead to what now is? Give me light, O Father.
Jehovih said: To man I gave a corporeal body so that he could learn corporeal things; but death I made so that man could rise in spirit and inherit My etherean worlds.
Two senses I gave to all men, corporeal senses and spiritual senses; nevertheless, the two are one person. A man with corporeal senses transcending, chooses corporeal things; a man with spiritual senses transcending, chooses spiritual things.
I have made two kinds of worlds: corporeal worlds and es worlds. He who desires of corpor shall receive from corpor, for he (Corpor) is My Son, in whom I am well pleased. He who desires of es shall receive from es, for she (Es) is My Daughter, in whom I am well pleased.
Kosmon said: Because man lives on corporeal worlds, corpor is called son; but because man in spirit lives in the es worlds, es is called daughter.