Chapter 7
In the three hundred and ninetieth year of the cycle of Bon the roadways of the earth’s heavens were completed, and this was the standing of earth’s heavens at that time:
Thirty-six billion Brides and Bridegrooms had ascended to etherea, nearly half of whom were from the kingdoms of Anuhasaj and his sub-Gods.
And forty-eight billion spirits now inhabited the five spheres.
In the first sphere, or hada, in which there were two thousand four hundred heavenly kingdoms, the grades were from one to seven.
In the second sphere, which ranked first resurrection in those days, the grades were from seven to fifteen. In these regions there were ten thousand heavenly kingdoms.
In the third sphere the grades were from fifteen to thirty. In these regions there were four thousand heavenly kingdoms, as well as five thousand kingdoms of Anuhasaj.
In the fourth sphere, the grades were from thirty to sixty, and there were one thousand five hundred heavenly kingdoms in these regions.
In the fifth sphere, the grades were from sixty to ninety-nine, and here were one thousand heavenly kingdoms.
And yet, not included in these, because they were of a different kind, were the kingdoms of Yaton’te, the subjective heaven, a visiting place, and with only a small fixed population, but whose visitors and students and teachers numbered three billion angels, graded from one to ninety-nine. But many of these belonged in other heavenly kingdoms.
Such then were the inhabitants of the bound heavens. And they numbered, all told, forty-eight times more people than the mortal inhabitants of the earth. But in those days not many women on the earth committed abortions; neither died so many very young children; so that the fetals sent back to inhabit mortals numbered, all told, only two hundred and thirty million. While of vampire spirits, of both classes, (that is, those who inhabit gormandizers, gluttons, drunkards, and harlots, absorbing their spiritual sustenance, and thus making them the breeders of infidels; and those who live on the atmospherean part of mortal food, thus causing their mortal victims to emaciate and to become insane), there were, all told, not more than forty-six million.
Besides these, there were thirty-one million lusters, who feed on the secret vices of mortals; who were being forever pursued from place to place by ashars, and often captured and carried away to heavenly kingdoms; but would often escape and flee back to mortals. Yet, with all these fetals and vampires and lusters included, never before had the earth remained so long in so pure a state. ||
When the roadways were completed, God proclaimed seven days of recreation in all the kingdoms of heaven, so that the inhabitants could sing, dance and render praise to Jehovih for the great works that had been accomplished.
And on the last of the seven days, Toyvraghah assigned the roads over to God, naming them, ROADS OF PARADISE. And God crowned Toyvraghah, PRIMAL GOD OF THE ROADS OF PARADISE, of one million two hundred thousand miles.
God had said: I do these things in the same way as the government of the etherean heavens.
And as the kingdoms and spheres of my heavens are situated with their roadways and heavenly canals, within and without, forming one great kingdom with many parts, it shall be modeled on the kingdoms in etherea, which are thousands of times larger. And it was so.