The Oahspe Project

God's Book of Eskra

Chapter 48

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The Lord said: While Looeamong, the false God, was yet bewailing, behold, Thoth, his chief warrior God, came upon him, saying:

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Alas, O master, your followers have no king or queen on earth to protect them.

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Your mortal Kriste’yan warriors, who drew the sword to establish you, have been slaughtered in Cardalia, Cyprus, Aitina, Thessalonica, Dalmatia, Lacaonia, Napla, Selucia, Macedon, Galati and Scythia.

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In Thebes, six thousand Kriste’yan warriors were massacred by the armies of the emperor Maximus, inspired by Baal.

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In Eocla, the Gods Jupiter and Ira inspired the king Hoethus to slaughter three thousand seven hundred Kriste’yan soldiers.

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In Utica, the God Jupiter, with seven thousand angels caused three hundred of your soldiers to be burnt in a lime kiln. And they were soldiers battling for you.

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In Damascus, two thousand seven hundred of your warriors were cut to pieces with the sword. And the only charge against them was their fighting for you. Yes, their sacred bull was taken from them and roasted alive. And their bloody cross, which you gave them as a sign of the battle-cry, was broken and burnt.

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In Crete, one thousand eight hundred of your warriors, who had served you well in slaughtering pagans, were walled around with fire, and roasted alive.

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On the plains of Agatha, three hundred and eighty of your soldiers were returning with their booty, having done you great service in destroying heathen temples, when they were set upon by the Gath’yans and destroyed, and for no other cause than that they served you.

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Looeamong cried out: Enough! Enough, O Thoth! I, too, will have a mortal emperor.

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Descend again to the earth, to Hatuas (Constantine), and inspire him to raise a mortal army of forty thousand men, and move upon Roma.

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Behold, I will prove myself before Hatuas, and he shall covenant to me. Through him I will drive Baal out of Roma. And, as I make myself Kriste of heaven, so will I make Hatuas (Constantine) emperor of the whole earth. ||

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Thoth then descended to the earth, to Hatuas, who was a su’is, and could both see angels and hear them talk; and Thoth induced Hatuas to raise an army of forty thousand soldiers, and set out for conquest.

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And when they had come to the plains of Agatha, even where the Kriste’yans had been massacred many years before, behold, Looeamong and his angel hosts appeared in the heavens, above Hatuas’ army, so that all the soldiers there saw the heavenly visitors.

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And Looeamong showed Hatuas (and the soldiers), in the air of heaven, a true cross, on which was written in letters of blood: IL’KRISTE.

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Nevertheless, there was no man present who could read the inscription; and many were the conjectures on its meaning. In the evening, Looeamong descended to Hatuas, and said to him: This is the interpretation of the sign and cross I showed you:

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IN THIS YOU SHALL CONQUER! And when you arise in the morning, you shall cause a cross to be made, of most excellent workmanship; and you shall have it inscribed: THE KRISTE, OUR LORD, SON OF THE HOLY GHOST.

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And this cross you shall cause to be carried at the head of your army. And your edicts you shall call, bulls, and they shall be written with lamb’s blood, in remembrance of the sacrifice of the Jews in Egupt, through which sacrifice the Father in heaven delivered them. For I am Lord of heaven and earth.

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Accordingly, a cross was made, and highly decorated, and inscribed as commanded, and Hatuas and his soldiers went forth with renewed courage. And so great was their zeal that everything fell before them.

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And now that Looeamong’s angels had an anchorage on earth, they were in all respects the equals of the angels of the pagan Gods. So that, while Hatuas was victorious on earth, Gabriel, otherwise Thoth, was victorious in heaven.

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And it came to pass in not many years, that Looeamong, through Gabriel, captured Baal and all the false Gods in all the regions far and near. And along with the captured Gods, Gabriel took seven million six hundred thousand warring angels, and carried them altogether to Makavishtu, in hada, and cast them into hell, where there were already more than ten million who were in chaos and madness.

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And Gabriel had the place walled around with fire and noxious gases, so that none could escape.

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Such was the end of the earthly dominion of Baal, who had ruled over mortals for evil, for more than three thousand years. And, in fact, it was the final termination of the earthly Gods who ruled over mortals through oracles and pagan practices.

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The earth was now clear of evil Gods, whose chief labor had been for thousands of years to capture the spirits of the recent dead, and make slaves of them for the glory of the hadan kingdoms.

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Thus Looeamong had done a good service; for the earth and lower heavens now had nothing to suffer from any Gods, except the Triunes.

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Looeamong inspired Hatuas, the mortal emperor, to call together a council of wise men from all the kingdoms of Arabin’ya, Heleste, Par’si’e and Uropa, in order to select from all the religious doctrines in the world, that which was the wisest and best, so that it could be established, by kings, emperors and governors, by the sword and spear, so there would never again be more than one religion.

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And, in course of time, there assembled a council of seventeen hundred and eighty-six learned men from all the regions named, and they placed themselves under the rules and presence of Hatuas. And he selected from them one hundred and forty-four speakers.

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As for the others, they were divided into groups of twelves, besides a goodly number being appointed scribes and translators. But many, having the appearance of Jews, were rejected altogether.

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Now, the council had brought with them, in all, two thousand two hundred and thirty-one books and legendary tales of Gods and Saviors and great men, together with a record of the doctrines taught by them.

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Hatuas, being under the inspiration of Looeamong, through Gabriel, alias Thoth, thus spoke:

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Search these books, and whatever is good in them, retain; but, whatever is evil, cast away. What is good in one book, unite with that which is good in another book. And whatever is thus brought together shall be called, THE BOOK OF BOOKS. And it shall be the doctrine of my people, which I will recommend to all nations, so that there shall be no more war for religion’s sake.

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Thoth (Gabriel) and his angel hosts formed a circle around the mortal council, a thousand angels deep on every side, and extending upward densely for a long way, and then, by a line of light, extending to Looeamong’s throne, in Hapsendi, his heavenly kingdom.

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By day and by night, Thoth and his hosts watched over the mortal council, overshadowing their every thought and word.

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For four years and seven months the council thus deliberated, and selected from the two thousand two hundred and thirty-one books and legendary tales.

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And, at the end of that time, there had been selected and combined much that was good and great, and worded so as to be well remembered by mortals.

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As yet, no God had been selected by the council, and so they balloted, in order to determine that matter. And the first ballot gave prominence to the following Gods: Jove, Jupiter, Salenus, Baal, Thor, Gade, Apollo, Juno, Aries, Taurus, Minerva, Rhets, Mithra, Theo, Fragapatti, Atys, Durga, Indra, Neptune, Vulcan, Kriste, Agni, Croesus, Pelides, Huit, Hermes, Thulis, Thammus, Eguptus, Iao, Aph, Saturn, Gitchens, Minos, Maximo, Hecla, and Phernes.

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Besides these, there were twenty-two other Gods and Goddesses that received a small number of votes each.

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In seven days after that, another ballot was taken, and the number of Gods was reduced to twenty-seven.

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In seven days more, another ballot was taken, and the number of Gods was reduced to twenty-one.

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Thus the number was reduced each ballot, but slower and slower. Six days in the week were allotted to discuss the merits and demerits of the Gods, and on the seventh day they balloted. But many weeks elapsed toward the last, when the number was not reduced.

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For one year and five months the balloting lasted, and at that time the ballot rested nearly equally on five Gods, namely: Jove, Kriste, Mars, Crite and Siva. And here the ballot did not change for the next seven times, which was seven weeks.

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Hatuas spoke before the council, saying: Ours is a labor for all the nations of the earth, and for all time. I know the angels of heaven are with us in this matter. We have found five Gods, good and acceptable before the world. What do you say, council, that the angels give us a sign? For we all know the angels’ signs of these Gods.

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The council said: Well said, you wisest of men! Such a God shall be ours, now and forever.

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And immediately, there and then, Looeamong and his angels gave a sign in fire, of a cross smeared with blood, and it rested on a bull’s horns, like a cloud of fire on a cloud of fire!

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And at this, Kriste was declared GOD AND LORD OF ALL THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH.

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And the council agreed to this, unanimously, and, moreover, to reject all the other Gods.

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The next question was, what mortal representative should be chosen?

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The first ballot brought out the following men: Zarathustra, Thothma, Abraham, Brahma, Atys, Thammus, Joshu, Sakaya, Habron, Bali, Crite, Chrisna, Thulis, Wittoba and Speio. Besides these, there were included in the ballot, forty-six other men, who received a small number of ballots each.

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|| God, Son of Jehovih, said: Behold, the Council of Nice (Nicaea) balloted for twelve months, as to what man heard the Voice? Do you say Jehovih sends His matters to a council of men? ||

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Hatuas said: The Gods will not let us choose any man. Now, therefore, hear me: All the lawgivers chosen by the Gods have been iesu. Now, since we cannot make preference as to a man, let us say: THE MAN, IESU.

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So the name, Iesu, was adopted, and the sacred books were written accordingly.

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God, Son of Jehovih, said: The council of Nice did not sin, for the doctrines set forth, as Iesu’s, were for Jehovih. 28/48.53 But, where their words made worshipful the names of Kriste and the Holy Ghost, behold, that matter was with Looeamong.

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God said: My testimonies were previously with Abraham, Brahma and Moses, and I did not speak of Kriste nor of the Holy Ghost, I spoke of God and of the I AM.

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They have said: || Whoever speaks a word against the son of man, it shall be forgiven him; but, whoever speaks against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him. ||

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Therefore, let Looeamong bear his own testimony to the kingdom from which it sprang. The Holy Ghost was his labor. 28/48.57 Jehovih said: Had I weakened since the time of Moses, that I need to incarnate Myself, in order to make man understand Me?

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God said: Sufficient for the time is the work of Jehovih; because the Triunes overthrew the oracles and hundreds of false Gods and hundreds of sacred books full of error and evil, behold they fulfilled their time.

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Sufficient for another time, even the present (kosmon), is another work of Jehovih, which is to establish His Presence with the living generation.

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Jehovih said: Behold, I created; and I am sufficient for all men.

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In the ancient days, man worshipped all the spirits of the dead, and I cut him short, giving him many Gods; and, again, I cut him short, and gave him three Gods, and then, three Gods in one.

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This day, I cut him short of all, except his Creator. Behold the signs of My times, My preachers are legions.

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