The Oahspe Project

God's Book of Eskra

Chapter 53

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In the name of the Almighty, greeting to you.

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A thousand years ago, the grades of your heavenly subjects were from thirty to fifty; now, they are fallen to fifteen.

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As you have caused the grades of the angels in your heavens to decline, in like manner you have caused the grades of mortals within your dominions to decline.

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Instead of well-tilled fields and good orchards, you have given them war, widows, orphans, paupers, debauchees, thieves and murderers.

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Instead of giving them good harvests, you have given them famines and pestilences.

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For your ashars inspire the priests, and they in turn entice their followers away from the fields, to come and dwell in the cities, where they can be conveniently absolved from neglect in not confessing you.

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Thus you have set aside good works, instruction and the desire for knowledge, both within your heavenly kingdoms and on the earth; and instead, you have given them rites and ceremonies, leading angels and mortals as if they were cattle for your markets.

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Instead of teaching angels and mortals to think for themselves, you have prohibited them from thinking, except as your leaders think for them.

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Thus you have thwarted, with all your might, the cultivations of the talents Jehovih created with all.

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Do not say, that I, Jehovih’s Son, desire subjects or worshippers; behold, I prohibit both angels and mortals from worshipping me, or announcing me or my kingdoms, as the all highest.

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I teach them that ONE ONLY is the All Highest, even Jehovih.

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I teach them that I am merely Jehovih’s servant, working for the resurrection of mortals and angels.

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I teach both angels and mortals that they shall not worship anyone born of woman.

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And behold, my footprints cannot be mistaken: I raised up Zarathustra, and the man Brahma, and Abraham, Moses, Po, Chine and Capilya.

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Yet not one of these, with all the wonders they accomplished, was worshipped by their followers.

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Yet, who was greater than Moses? Who stretched forth his hand, and said Come! Come!

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And four million people, in bondage, marched out of Egupt!

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Yet none worshipped Moses.

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Behold the seventy colonies founded by Zarathustra, and yet they did not worship him.

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Behold Chine, who named the empire, who turned three hundred million warriors into a people of peace.

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Behold Capilya, who overturned the laws of thirteen kingdoms in Vind’yu, and gave peace and plenty to a hundred million people.

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Yet, neither Chine nor Capilya were worshipped.

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But you harp on the idle tales of obscure magicians, and teach mortals to worship them.

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Nevertheless, you have caused to be preached, in your heavens, that I am a God like yourselves, working for my own glory.

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Now, behold, I prepare my angel hosts in wisdom and virtue, so that they may go away from me, and inherit the etherean heavens above.

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For this was my labor for which Jehovih, through His exalted Gods, made me God of the earth and her heavens.

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And I have sent away thus, as Brides and Bridegrooms to Jehovih, billions of angels, whom I had raised to grade ninety-nine.

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Yet, in all the time of your dominions you have not raised one angel to the emancipated grades.

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Those who are wise within your dominions, tire of your pomp and splendor, and, in course of time, come to my heavens, and renounce all Lords and Gods, and betroth themselves to Jehovih only

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And I give them places in my schools, colleges, hospitals and factories, and thus educate them, so that they may, indeed, in time, become fit companions to Gods and Goddesses.

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Thus your kingdoms are continually depleted of your highest grades. So that your heavenly kingdoms and your earthly dominions have chiefly the ignorant and depraved as your idolaters.