Chapter 16
Hamonastas, one of the chief marshals of God, and for the heavenly city of Paradise, came before the throne, duly saluting, and saying:
O God, Son of Jehovih, I would speak before you! God said: Speak, my son.
Hamonastas said: There stands outside the city of Paradise, beyond the pillars of fire, and in company with your high-raised captains, one Nu-ghan, delivered from one of the hells of Hassa, over Egupt, and he cries out continually: O God, Son of Jehovih! Deliver me! Deliver me! O Moses! Moses! Moses!
He is distracted, continually using the same words over and over, without ceasing. Now behold, the nurses and physicians have tried all the remedies they can invent, but failed utterly to break the spell upon him.
For seventy days they have labored, and, as a last resort, they have brought him here, in order to learn from you.
God said: Nu-ghan! Is this not one of the Pharaohs, who took up arms against the Faithists of Egupt? Return, Hamonastas, to the keepers of this man, and have him blindfolded so that he may endure the light of the throne, then you and his keepers shall bring him before me.
Hamonastas saluted and departed, and after a certain time, returned with the keepers and Nu-ghan, who was crying out unceasingly, even as had been said.
And now, when he was quite before the throne of God, God said to him: Behold me, I am God, Son of Jehovih; what may I do for you?
But the man did not hear what God said, but kept crying out as before. So God said to the keepers: Remove the blinds a little, so that the light may come upon him.
And they removed the blinds a little; but, lo and behold, the light made him more distracted than before. And when God saw his deplorable suffering, he inquired of his keepers as to how long the man had been in hell, and they said: Seventy-six years, and in a knot, three years!
God said: I know that this is Pharaoh, who persecuted the Jews. Take him again outside the walls, and retain him there. I will send one of my swift messengers to Lika, in etherea, who knows the abiding place of Moses. Perhaps Moses put a curse upon him! If so, only Moses can deliver him.
And the keepers took the spirit, Nu-ghan, outside the city, as commanded by God. And God sent the swift messenger, Haeroponitis, sister of Raban, in an arrow-ship of fire to the etherean worlds, to Gussawanitcha, Lika’s sojourning place at that time, commanding her to lay the matter before the Nirvanian chief, Lika.
|| Now the report continues in the words of Haeroponitis, that is, these are her words, namely: In not many days’ time I came before Jehovih’s throne, upon which sat Lika, through whose etherean provinces the solar phalanx was now traveling, and I told him the story of Nu-ghan.
After which Lika, Son of Jehovih, said: Let my reporters of destinations go find Moses; and if it is true that Moses put a judgment on Nu-ghan, then Moses must return to the lower heavens, and deliver him. The justice of Jehovih reaches to all time and place.
Haeroponitis continued: So I saluted before the throne of Jehovih, and in company with the reporters of destinations, started forth again in the etherean realms, and after passing through seven worlds, and more than three hundred Nirvanian kingdoms, we entered the plains of Sapeas, where the colleges and schools of Embassies, belonging to the Ghiturpsan board of Ritivius, are situated. And here we found Moses!
Who, having been told that he was inquired after, no sooner looked upon us than he prophesied the cause.
Moses said: Alas me! Because you have come for me, you have awakened in me that which slept all these hundreds of years. Yes, it is true, I put a curse upon Pharaoh; for I said to him: You shall yet call upon me to deliver you out of torments. And I added to it, afterward, saying of the blood of the sacrifice of the lamb: This shall be the testimony of innocent blood against yourself and your people for what the Hebrews have suffered.
Instead of this, I should have forgiven him. O Jehovih! Jehovih! I have sinned before You! And You have searched me out after all these years, and brought the matter home to me.
You are just, O Almighty! In Your name and by Your wisdom and power I will return to the lower heavens, and take in charge the man and people I adjudged!
And Moses wept; and he gave command to the builders to provide him at once with a suitable boat of great fleetness. And then Moses procured thirty thousand volunteers to go with him.
And when all things were ready, Moses took leave of his companions, and he and his hosts entered his fire-boat, and presently our two vessels were under way, as if in a race, for the red star, the earth. After some days, we arrived in the heavens of the earth, at the city of Paradise, the abiding place of God. ||
So ends a brief of the heavenly report of Haeroponitis, for, on her arrival in Paradise, her mission was completed for the present.
When it was known in Paradise that Moses was coming, great joy was manifested, for God and the Holy Eleven and the Holy Council all desired to see Moses. And God commanded the full board of marshals and also the musicians to go outside the capital, and meet Moses, and escort him before the throne. And they accomplished these things; and Moses came before the throne of God, saluting in the sign, JUDGMENT OF TIME! And God answered him under the sign, YOUR LABOR IS OUR JOY AND GLORY!
And God said: In Jehovih’s name, O Moses, come, and honor my throne.
And Moses went up, and sat on the throne, at the right hand of God. And Moses said to the Holy Council and to the Holy Eleven:
Your God shall be my God. In his love and dominion I am cast by Jehovih’s will, to deliver those who have suffered from me and my words.
God said: Shall we not have a day of recreation first?
Moses said: No; till I have delivered Nu-ghan, who was Pharaoh, there can be no peace. Permit, therefore, your marshals to go to the keepers of this man, and bring him before this throne.
And soon, Nu-ghan was brought in again, all muffled up, to keep the light from hurting him. And he was still crying out: O God, Son of Jehovih! O Moses! Moses! Moses!
And when Moses saw this, he was nearly overcome by the pitiful scene. Moses brushed away his tears, and rose up, raising his hands to Jehovih, saying: Light of Your Light, O Jehovih! Power of Your Power, O Jehovih! Deliver him, whom I accursed! Put his grief and sorrows upon me, who has sinned against him!
A mantle of yellow light, cloud-like, descended upon Moses, as he stood transfixed before Jehovih. All the place was still as death!
The blinds and muffles on Nu-ghan fell off, and he stood silent and motionless, gazing with fixed awe upon the holy scene, and upon Moses on the throne of God!
The spirit of Jehovih moved upon the holy place, and the musicians felt the power. It was the light of one who was mighty, from the etherean worlds!
Gently, then, the music of ten thousand voices fell upon the holy audience. First mild, as if far off, then louder and louder, as if coming near, till soon the words of the anthem proclaimed Jehovih’s praise.
Nu-ghan did not turn his eyes from the glory of Moses and the etherean mantle, for he knew Moses, even as if it were only yesterday that they parted in Egupt, on the earth.
Slowly now, Moses lowered his up- stretched arms, and his hands were brilliant, like yellow fire. And Moses said, solemnly: All praise to You, Jehovih! (Eloih!) You are just, You Almighty Creator!
Nu-ghan added: For through Him is all deliverance, worlds without end. In Your praise I will sing forever, O Jehovih, O Most High God of Moses, my Deliverer! Make me strong, O Jehovih, so I can look upon him, whom I persecuted and abused.
Then Moses looked upon Pharaoh (Nu-ghan) and said: These things had to be. You were the last of the pyramidal age of man, and I was the first founder of the migration of the righteous. All things are done by Jehovih, in His own way and time.
As I have been bound by my curse upon you and your people, to come back to deliver you and them; so, by your curse against Israel, you shall now return down to the earth, and labor to lift up Israel.
For Israel has fallen from communities, and has taken to kings, in the same manner as the heathen and the idolater. Her people are divided and broken up, and many of them have become worshippers of the false Gods, Baal and Ashtaroth.
Yes, they are forgetful of my commandment of peace and love, and have taken to war and earthly aggrandizement.
And you shall take with you ten thousand angels of exalted grades, and go down to the earth, to the habitations of the Israelites; and by inspiration, you and your hosts shall select and inspire those Israelites who are within reach of inspiration, and you shall take them away from all others of their people, and from the heathen and idolatrous tribes, that are around them.
And you and your hosts shall abide with these mortals hundreds of years; re-establishing them in peace and non-resistance, in the manner of the doctrines in the es’sean worlds. And you shall call them, Es’seans, so that they may be distinguished from all other peoples.
Nu-ghan said: Your decree is most just, O Moses, and I know in truth your words are Jehovih’s. Tell me, how long shall this labor be for me and my hosts?
Moses said: Some hundreds of years! Until you have raised a light sufficient for Jehovih, so that peace and love and the doctrine of good for evil is again re-established from the blood of the Israelites, even as by the blood of the lamb, I delivered Jehovih’s people out of Egupt.
And when you have perfected the generations of the Es’seans, certain loo’is shall be sent to you from the throne of God, and they will labor with you until an Israelite capable of the Father’s Voice is born into the mortal world.
Nu-ghan said: Hear me now in my plea, O Moses, you who are Son of the Most High: When I died as to the earth, and entered heaven (these worlds), I found before me, my kingdom in heaven waiting for me!
And they were miserable, being beggars, slaves and idiots, because of the slavery I had put upon them in the earth-life. And I could not escape them, or put them aside. If I went away objectively, then subjectively I remembered them, and was drawn back to them.
Yes, I was like a young colt when first being haltered, pulls away, but fails; then pulls again, and fails, and so on, until he finds he cannot escape, then tamely submits; even so was I bound to my kingdom, and obliged in the end to yield and become a slave to them, to provide for them. For I had so despoiled them of their talents, they were as helpless as infants; and many of them were wicked in the extreme.
Nevertheless, I accepted that which I could not escape; I toiled with them hundreds of years, restoring them as well as I could. And in time a ray of happiness came to me, in the hope that in hundreds of years to come I would find my way out.
But, alas me! Darkness (a’ji) came upon my already dark heaven. My evil ones, those whom I did have slaughtered on earth, came upon me for vengeance’ sake. Anarchy over-flooded me and my people. They became very demons of madness, and they seized me and bound me, and bruised me, and suffocated me with horrid smells. Millions of them! And their curses pierced me like poisoned arrows. Long I fought them; and I cried out to you and to Jehovih! But, alas! I was in hell. None could hear my prayers. For days and months and years I held out, but only to experience new and more terrible horrors!
How long this woe was upon me, I do not know. I only remember that my soul sickened within me; and I felt a sinking and a fainting, like an endless death that could not extinguish me. To me it seemed ten thousand ages!
Suddenly I find myself here! Distracted before you, O holy Son of the Great Spirit! How did I get here? What has occurred? Or is this just the spell of a delirious dream? And will I relapse again into that terrible nightmare of horrors? How can I go forth without my old kingdom coming upon me?
Do they not wait somewhere close by, to seize me again, for renewed torments? O teach me, Moses! How can I fulfill your righteous judgment? And not be entrapped again, and, perhaps, forever!
Moses said: I will give you a new name, and I will clothe you in garments of my own making, so that they would rather flee from you, than come to you.
And Moses gathered up of the yellow, cloud-like mantle of light, and made a mantle for Nu- ghan and clothed him; and he named him, Illaes, signifying, Servant of Light. And after that, Illaes was provided with ten thousand co-laborers, assisted by Gafonaya, and sent back to the earth, on his mission.
And God appointed one hundred messengers to Pharaoh, so that word could be transmitted every month to Paradise.