Chapter 3
God said: Hear me, O man. I have come to teach you wise dominion.
Man said: The aborigines were free. Why should man with more wisdom, learn dominion?
Seffas said: My peace is forced peace; I am the light and the life.
Man inquired: Behold, the air of heaven is free. Can dominion come down out of nothing (as it seems) and rule over something (that is proven)?
How can God rule over solid flesh?
Uz said: O vain man! Do I not come in the winds of heaven and cast cities in epidemic? And yet man does not see me.
I inoculate in the breath; I cast fevers in the bright sunlight, and yet no man sees me.
Jehovih said: I gave the unseen all power to rule over the seen.
Kosmon said: O man, why will you always search in corpor for the cause of things? Behold, the unseen part of yourself rules over the seen.
God said: Do not think that the es worlds are less governed by system than are the corporeal worlds. The same Creator created all.
Behold, all things are in dominion. You were in dark dominion before the time of Bon.
By my own light I gave you a dominion of light in the time of Bon.
Man inquired: If the unseen rules in man, what ruled the substance of man before he was made?
Jehovih said: I created all things, seen and unseen. My hand was always stretched forth in work. I make and I dissipate everlastingly.
Behold, I make a whirlwind in etherea hundreds and hundreds of millions of miles across, and it drives to the center a corporeal world from that which was unseen.
I blow My breath upon the planet, and lo, man comes forth, inquiring: Who am I, and what is my destiny?
I send an elder brother of man, to teach him, and show him the light.
God said: Behold me, O man, I am an elder brother. I have passed through death and found the glory of the unseen worlds.
Jehovih gave me, your God, dominion over the earth and her heavens.
Man said: I have found truth in corpor; I know I live; that trees grow and die.
This is true knowledge. Give me truth in regard to the unseen, so that I can prove it true.
Why, O God, do you give the matters of heaven and earth in signs and symbols? Give me the real light, I want no figures.
Kosmon said: You are vain, O man. What, then, have you learned? Can you tell why the grass is green, or why one rose is red and another white, or the mountains raised up, or the valleys sunken low? Or why a man was not made to fly as a bird, or live in the water like a fish? Where did the thought of shame come from? Even your self you do not comprehend, nor do you know of your own knowledge, the time of your beginning. You know three times three are nine; yet even this you cannot prove except by symbols and images.
Nor is there anything in your corporeal knowledge that you can prove otherwise, except for your presence; and even that which you see is not your presence, but the symbol and image of it, for you yourself are only as a seed, a spark of the All Light, that you cannot prove to exist.
Man inquired: Where, then, is real knowledge possible to man? If my corporeal body and corporeal senses are evanescent and soon to fly away, how can I comprehend that which does not fly away, namely the spirit?
Yet I know a truth: I know that ten things are ten. This knowledge I can write down, and clearly teach to my brother. See, here are 10. This is exact science.
Esfoma said: You have written only two strokes, and called them ten. Now, I will show you ten. (Esfoma wrote: | | | | | | | | | | ). Yet, do not be surprised, for, because I have deceived you, I will now convict myself also. I said I would show you ten, and immediately I made ten marks; but I should have written the word ̳ten.’ Now, you are wise! No, hear me further, for all I have spoken is false; for have I not tried to persuade you that the one uttered word TEN, was ten? Instead, I should have uttered ten utterances. Your supposed exact science is nothing, and your supposed truth is only falsehood compounded and acquiesced in.
Jehovih says: Man’s wisdom is simply the experience of My creations, expressed to man’s understanding in signs and symbols.
Man said: If I search for the real, shall I never attain it? Why, then, this craving? Is truth only that which flies away?
Behold, you have said: You shall love the Creator with all your heart and soul! How can I love that which I cannot comprehend?
Es said: Behold the utterances of the birds; and the skipping of the lambs at play! These are the expressed love they have for the Creator.
To rejoice because you are created; to seek exalted rejoicing; to cultivate the light of your life; to turn away from dark things; these are to love your Creator.
Man said: Well then, if truth cannot be found, and mathematics cannot be proven other than by things that are false in fact, I will instead search for goodness; I will shun sin. Is this not wise?
God said: This is wise. But what are goodness and good works?