Chapter 31
Thoanactus, Chief of the million loo’is sent by God down to the earth, to Chine’ya, to raise up an heir capable of the voice of God, sent word to God in Paradise, saying:
Greeting to you, O God, in the name of Jehovih. Your Son is born! And his name is Ka’yu.1144 He is son of Heih, who is sub-king [governor –Ed.] of Te’sow. Behold, your son Ka’yu is k’te’sune in the borders, whose mother, Ching-tsae, is not yet fifteen years old. And Heih was father to twelve children previously.
Let us rejoice before Jehovih, Who has quickened into life this tree of universal knowledge. _ _ _ _ _ _ [That Newbrough (the recipient of Oahspe and chief 1882 editor) did not understand how Ka’yu became Confucius only underscores for the critics that this work Oahspe did not come from his mind, but from the Es realms. We now know that Ka’yu’s family name was K’ung or Kung, and that his first name was Ka’yu, or K’ew, usually rendered into English nowadays as Ch’iu, which is phonetically equivalent to Ka’yu, and in any event refers to the same person, that is, Ch = Ka, + i + u = K’i’u. Since the Chinese place the surname first, his – – – – – –
Also my hosts have brought about more than three thousand births, who shall become his disciples in time to come.
God returned answer to Thoanactus, saying: In Jehovih’s name all praise to you and your hosts. Your words have been proclaimed in Paradise! There is great joy in heaven. Send the grades of mortal resurrection in Chine’ya, with doctrines and rites and ceremonies and the dominion of the spirits of the dead.
Thoanactus then applied to the angels who had charge of the numerating and appraising of mortals as to their grades and spiritual intercourse; and having obtained the reports, he made selections, and reported as follows:
Thoanactus sends greeting to God, Son of Jehovih: Ling, sun king of Chine’ya, with twelve sub-kingdoms, one to represent every month of the year. Four hundred and six million mortals; two billion seven hundred million angels, not fettered by angel tyrants. Of the angel emissaries of the Triune God, one and a half billion.
Mortal grade, eight; maximum, eighty; minimum, nothing. Of fifties, one to seven. Of twenty-fives, one to three; of tens, one to one; but of seventy-fives, one to forty, mostly guardian births.
The rise in the eleventh year, two; in the thirty-third, five; in the hundredth, twelve.
Of rites and ceremonies, seventy-two; of sacrifice without compunction, thirty-five.
Funeral rites, ninety-eight; observances in full, forty-five.
Perception in su’is, one to three hundred and sixty-two; in sar’gis, one to six thousand two hundred and eight.
Of spirits in sar’gis, one to thirty-three thousand; of first and second resurrections, mostly ashars.
Thoanactus says: Because Chine instituted reverence for the dead, the funeral rites have become worshipful.
After the body is put away, either buried or burnt, mortals read prayers on three succeeding days, at sunset, chanting the virtue and love of the dead; and often the spirit returns to them in the house, taking on sar’gis, appearing like a mortal, and talking to their mortal kin.
Of drujas, who have not attained to live alone, seven hundred million. Of these, thirty percent are in declension, and seventy in ascension.
Of mortals in druk, sixteen percent; of mortals in idleness, including druks, twenty percent.
Of those who are addicted to secret evils and pollution, seventy percent; of abortionists, one-half of one percent.
Thoanactus says: Owing to the veneration for, and to, the rites to the dead, speug’s increase is attributed.
Furthermore, your servant sends to you with this report, for the libraries of heaven, a full record of the cities and country places of Chine’ya; and the grade and rate of every mortal.