Chapter 59
In the names of the Son, the Father and the Holy Ghost, greeting to you, God, Jehovih’s Son.
In confederation assembled, we reply to you, with patience and mercy.
We did not set up our kingdoms for self-glorification, but righteousness and good works.
Behold, the firmament was overcast with falling a’ji, and our former Lord-doms were broken up and gone.
And we chose our several places in uninhabited heavenly regions; therefore, we took nothing from you.
We admit the goodness of your heart and the honesty of your purpose, but we do not acknowledge your wisdom as a sufficient guide to heavens like our own.
The wise and exalted may rise in wisdom, purity and power, by the policy of love and nonresistance and by the example of good works.
But where such inhabitants, either on earth, or in its heavens, comprise only a small percent of the population, they become the victims of the lawless.
And this is the reason your followers, both on earth and in heaven, are persecuted and abused.
We admit the declension of our grades, as you have said; but, behold, your emissaries carry off our highest grades.
If you would carry away only our drujas, we would not interdict the travel of your ships in our heavenly dominions. But as soon as your ships come, behold, our highest grades rush for them.
For which reason, we have been obliged to prohibit your laborers within our dominions.
Touching on the matter of our slaves, of whom we have more than eighteen billion, without slavery they would do nothing in heaven, and, for the most part, would inhabit mortals as vampires, demons, engrafters (reincarnaters) and familiars.
Only by holding them as our slaves can we restrain them from these vices.
Do not forget that before our heavenly kingdoms were established, the earth was covered over in many places with oracles and temples used to consult the spirits.
And these spirits were in darkness, holding mortals down in darkness.
We broke them all up, and thus cleared the earth of innumerable self-Gods and self-Lords.
Touching the matter of the name, Holy Ghost, do we not have freedom, as well as you, to choose a name to please ourselves?
You have prophesied our downfall, and yet plead for us to prevent it. If we are to be overthrown, how, then, could we avert it; then your prophecy would not realize truth.
Nevertheless, we propose to you that if you will renounce the Person of the Creator, and style it, the Holy Ghost, we are prepared to treat with you.
Otherwise, no more!