The Oahspe Project

God's Book of Eskra

Chapter 47

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The Lord said: Behold, it came to pass as had been foretold by God, Jehovih’s Son: The Triunes will all become false Gods, because they have denied the Almighty.

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God said: There is only One, who is All Knowledge. Whatever angel or God announces himself to be All Knowledge, is false in presence of Jehovih.

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Nevertheless, Looeamong had it proclaimed in heaven and earth that he was The Kriste, which is the Ahamic expression for All Knowledge.

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The Lord said: Now, therefore, Looeamong was from this time forward, a false God in heaven and on earth.

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And Looeamong commanded Thoth, his angel warrior in command of his earthly dominions, to raise up tribes of warriors among mortals.

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And, by the inspiration of Thoth, these warriors were induced to call themselves Kriste’yans (Christians).

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God said: So that man may know this is true, behold, the followers of Jehovih are not warriors, nor have they ever been.

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Jehovih said: This mark I put upon man from the time of Cain to the present day, that whoever raises his hand against his brother, raises his hand against Me also. And this mark shall distinguish My servants to the end of the world. Behold, I, alone, am All Knowledge.

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Now it came to pass that from this time forward, great success attended the wars of Looeamong, for the glory of his heavenly kingdoms.

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And for the space of three hundred years, Looeamong gradually gained on Baal and his allies, both on earth and in heaven.

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And Looeamong captured and cast out of his dominions more than seven hundred false Gods and false Lords.

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And he broke up six hundred and eighty oracle-houses and temples, used for consulting the spirits, who called themselves Gods, whose only service was to advise on war, conquest and destruction.

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So that even in Looeamong’s falsity to himself, he rendered a great service to Jehovih, against Whom he was doing battle.

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For three hundred years more, Looeamong, with more than six billion angel warriors, pursued war in heaven and on earth; and he had captured nearly all the earthly strongholds of other false Gods. Baal, however, still maintained himself in Roma, and as God of the Roman empire, but under many names.

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God, Son of Jehovih, said: Now, behold, even Looeamong, the false God, bewailed the wars, and he also bewailed his own doctrines.

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Looeamong cried out in his despair, saying: To whom shall I pray, O you Holy Ghost? You shadow, you nothing, you void?

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Shall I say: O you all nothing? You inconceivable? You unknowable? You all hidden?

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Or shall I say: O you nature? You God of nature? You senseless? You scattered?

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You that does not hear? You that does not know? You that does not see?

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You essence? You fountain that is dumb? You accident? You shapeless?

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You imperson? You shortness in all? That charms us to come here, to find you? Or to go there to find you?

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And find in truth, that we do not find you? But only come to understand that you are the waste and desolate of all that is?

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And, as for the Father, which we three built up, is he not dead? A divided kingdom, with three astrayed sons? And every one for himself?

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O Brahma, you had a peaceful division. And you Buddha, a place of great profit.

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But I, your equal, with an unprofitable division of these western heavens. Mine are warriors in heaven and on earth. Yours, peace and profit. How can I embellish Hapsendi, my heavenly seat? And make it a place of grandeur, like yours?

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Behold, my billions of angels are needed for warriors. How do I have time to embellish my throne, and my heavenly city? No wonder, you two point the finger of mockery at me, for the poverty of my heavenly kingdom.

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Have I not been fighting battles with satan all these hundreds and hundreds of years? Did I not find heaven, even from the start, a place of war?

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Shall these things continue forever? Whom shall I inquire of? Have I not declared I am one with the Father, and one with the Holy Ghost?

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Why, then, should I not look to myself? And is this not the sum of all? Everyone for himself? Was myself not a self from the start? And to continue a self for itself forever?

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From this time forward, I shall not go down to send peace on earth; I shall not go to send peace, but a sword.

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I go to set man at variance against his brother and father, and woman against her sister and mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

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I will make the foes of a man, those of his own household.

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He who loves father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me.

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And he who will not take up his sword and proclaim me, is not worthy of me.

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My signs shall be a sword, a skull and crossbones, and a bull.

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My edicts shall be bulls; by these my enemies shall be destroyed.

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Every knee shall bow down before me, and every tongue confess me, Lord of all.

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Behold, I will give them a book and a guide, by which they shall know me; in blood I will seal them to the end of the world.