Chapter 7
God said: I declare in the name of Jehovih, the Whole. Through Him, and by His hand I have been lifted up. Hear me, O mortals! Give ear, O you spirits of the dead! The Father has spoken; Him I reveal; in Him, bestow the Tree of Light.
I was in darkness, but am now in light. His presence is upon me. Listen, then, to my words, and be wise in your lives.
Do not seek to disprove Him; or to prove that these things cannot be; or seek to deny His person, or His spirit. That was my bondage. In bitterness of heart I was bound in darkness. Those who deny, those who try to disprove Him, are in darkness.
He is the same today and forever. The prophets of old found Him; so can you. But He does not come to the denier, nor to the disprover.
He who would find His Person, must look for Him. He who would hear His Voice, must listen for it. Then comes light.
All argument is void. There is more wisdom in the song of a bird than in the speech of a philosopher. The first speaks to the Almighty, proclaiming His glory. The second plods in darkness.
By my hand, the ancient libraries were burned, to draw man away from darkness.
Kosmon said: What has great learning found that is valuable?
Shall learning, like riches, be acquired for one’s own selfish gratification?
If a rich man with his hoarded wealth does little for the resurrection of man, how much less does the learned man do with a head full of knowledge? It neither feeds nor clothes the sick and distressed, nor stays the debauchery and drunkenness of the great multitude.
How shall we class the man of exact science? Where shall we find him? How shall we know that he will not be disproved in time to come?
Yesterday it was said that a man cannot fast forty days and live; today it is proven possible.
Yesterday it was said: There is attraction of gravitation between the sun and the earth; today it is proven that there is no such thing. And that no man can see without eyes or hear without ears, in su’is (clairvoyance and clairaudience); today hundreds of thousands know it to be so.
Yesterday it was said, you shall eat flesh and oil, because they supply certain things for the blood, without which man cannot live; today it is proven otherwise.
Yesterday the physician said: Take this, and it will heal you; today the same thing is proven to have no virtue.
This only is proven: That man is vain and conceited, desiring to make others believe he is wise when he is not.
What healed the sick yesterday, will not tomorrow.
Philosophy that was good yesterday, is folly today.
Religions that were good for the ancients are worthless today.
Crime and pauperism grow up in the heart of them, even worse than in the regions of the earth where they are not preached.
The physicians have not lessened the amount of sickness on the earth.
The lawyers have not lessened the rascality of the wicked, or depleted the number of defrauders.
The march of Jehovih and His peoples is onward; it is like a tree of light, forever growing, but man does not heed the growth.
Man binds his judgment by things that are past; he will not quicken himself to see and understand the All Light.