Chapter 6
Jehovih said: When I created life on the earth, in the waters, and in the air above the earth; I brought the earth into hyarti for a thousand years.
And the earth gave out light because of the darkness of the heavenly forests where I had brought her.
Man said: What greater delight is there than to know the beginning of things?
To know when the earth was made; and how the living were created!
The billions of kinds and species!
God said: Was this not answered to you? According to the light that man was capable of receiving, so was he answered.
Man inquired: But why was the truth not told? Why the six days? And why the rib?
God said: That which man can accept, and is good for him, is given to him. That which man cannot comprehend, cannot be revealed to him.
Behold, even now, as has been shown, you use false symbols to illustrate the number ten.
Would you make man worship angels because they took on forms by his side?
Then you would lose influence over him, and angels would be his guides.
All teaching shall be to make man comprehend the Almighty’s dominion upon man.
Symbols and images that do this, are true lights, though false in fact.
Man said: How shall man find light, knowledge, wisdom and truth? Is there no all- teacher? Is learning void, because it is based on false grounds? Are the senses void, because they themselves are perishable and imperfect?
As the insane man does not know his insanity, may not any man also be insane, and not know it?
Where shall man find a true standing point to judge from?
Uz said: All you see and hear, O man, is only transient and delusive. Even your own corporeal senses change every day.
Today you try to raise your son in a certain way; but when you are old, you will say: Alas, I taught him differently from what I would now.
Man inquired: Then is it not the best course to devote myself wholly to doing good?
Es answered: Who shall tell you what doing good is? Do you know?
Man said: To provide the best of everything for my wife, and for my sons and daughters, and contribute to the poor.
Es said: If you had created man, would you have given him hair or feathers, and a cushion for his head?
Think, then. If you give one thing too much to your wife and sons and daughters, thus preventing the calling out of their own talents, then, alas, your works will be bad instead of good.
Contribute to the poor one fraction too much, and you injure instead of doing good.
Give him one fraction too little, and you shall rebuke yourself.
Man inquired: What, then, are good works? Shall I preach and pray for others?
God said: Man, you shall judge yourself as to what you shall do.
Within every man’s soul, Jehovih has provided a judge that will sooner or later become triumphant in power.
Man said: Hear me: I am tired of reason and argument.
Now I will covenant with Jehovih. He only shall answer me; He will give me light:
To You, O Jehovih, I commit myself, to be Yours forever.
To serve You by doing nothing for my own selfish ends; but by doing the best I can for others, all my days.
My flesh body I will baptize (bathe, shower) every day in remembrance of You; for my body is Yours, and I will keep it clean and pure before You.
Nor will I suffer my spiritual body to be injured by wicked thoughts or passions of lust; for my spirit is Your gift to me also.
Twice every day my spirit body shall be covenanted to You, at which times all earthly thoughts shall depart away from me. And whatever light You bestow on me, that shall be a guide and ruler over me for that day.
In the morning at sunrise I will turn to You, so that I may be spurred up to swiftness in doing good and in manifesting Your light in my behavior. And at night before I sleep I will recount my day’s labor, so that I may see where I was short in doing with all my wisdom and strength.
You, O Jehovih, shall be my Confessor and Adviser; to You I will give praise without ceasing; my prayers and anthems to You shall be without number.
This I perceive is the highest of all aspiration. For what better is it for God or the spirits of the dead to tell me something than for mortals to tell me? Must not all wisdom necessarily be proved within each and every man? Is it not better that my vision reaches up to heaven and see it myself, than to be told of it by the angels?
It is wiser for mortals to become as pure as angels, than for angels to become as impure as mortals. No, I will not drag the spirits of the higher heavens down to the earth. If they came and told me, it would be no more than hearsay testimony at best.
I will commune with them and weigh their words, as to whether they are wise and adapted to founding Your kingdom on earth.
Am I not done, O Jehovih? You have sealed up Your kingdoms from me. From this time forward I will neither preach nor hear preaching; but only to labor and to do good, and be in peace within my own soul, and with my neighbors, and to glorify You.
I will do no more, nor will I multiply words with anyone under the sun.