Chapter 55
God said: In the name of Jehovih, how can I find an excuse for your behavior?
When my angels taught man how to make a capstan, a screw, a telescope and a compass, behold, your emissaries inspired my chosen to be tortured, or put to death.
When my angels inspired man to comprehend and announce the glory of the stars and planets, you put my chosen to death; through your vindictive angels against Jehovih these things were accomplished.
When my angels taught man by inspiration that the earth was round instead of flat, you sent spirits of darkness to inspire the death of my philosophers.
Because, in truth, my inspiration did not agree with the sacred books which you compounded for your own glory.
Yes, you palmed off your compilations from other false Gods as being Jehovih’s; and you played upon the honest innocence of man’s understanding, contrary to the will of the Almighty.
You have held your sacred books up, and said: Here is the ultimate; beyond this no man shall go! ||
And you knew, all the while, that any fixed revelation could not be true, because all the universe is in constant progress.
You have held up your own sacred books, and said: Here are rules and a sure guide to reach the all highest heavens! ||
Knowing all the while that your heavens were the lowest of the bound heavens of the earth.
Now, behold, the same rules apply to you as to the least of Jehovih’s children; which are, that whoever sets up a mark, with himself as the highest, and he, the interpreter of it, is already on the downward grade.
And whoever seeks to glorify himself by his kingdoms, or by the magnificence of his possessions, takes a burden upon his shoulders, that will, sooner or later, fall upon him, and crush him.
And whoever fortifies himself by armies, whether in the heavens or on the earth, binds himself with them for his ultimate sorrow.
And whoever turns away from Jehovih, and says: I will not go after Him, nor anymore search to find Him, but I will build for myself; || plans an edifice that will tumble down upon him in time to come.