Chapter 2
The Lord said: A wise physician amputates a diseased limb and so preserves the trunk to become healed.
Did I not see the rankness of the tribes of darkness, the druks; and that the proceedings of man would render the earth void?
What worth has all the world, if it does not bring forth heirs to everlasting life?
Behold, I saw that my chosen had become exterminated on all the divisions of the earth except Pan. And I saw that those who had been their destroyers had, in turn, nearly exterminated one another.
And I saw that by bringing the remnants of my people here, they could re-establish themselves, and become the seed of a mighty people.
But, as for the land of Whaga (Pan), it was already in the throes of death. The druks had become a festering sore; and the spirits of the dead, tens of billions of them, would not quit their hold on mortals while life was on the earth.
And I sent my angels around the whole earth, and gathered in the spirits of darkness; gathered them to the land of Whaga.
And when my work was ready, I raised up my hand, as a surgeon that would lop off a diseased limb, and I cleft asunder the continent of Pan and sunk it beneath the waters.
And my angels conducted my chosen out of that land, and not one of them perished.
I said to the guardian angels whom I had given to man: In the lands where I will take my people, let them build mounds and walled cities, with ladders to enter, like the ancients. In all the divisions of the earth, they shall build alike.
For in the time of Kosmon, their relics shall be testimony that the I’hin foreran the I’huan, the copper-colored race, all over the world.
So also, I, the Lord, will provide in the Kosmon era to discover the sunken land of Whaga, so that mortals may comprehend the magnitude of the work of the Lord. ||
In those days the I’hins did not dwell alone, but in cities and villages; and they were clothed. They tilled the ground and brought forth grains and seeds good to eat; and flax and hemp, from which to make cloth for covering the body. And their food was of every herb, root, grain, seed, and fruit, that comes from the earth, and is good to eat; but they ate neither flesh nor fish, nor of anything that breathed the breath of life.
They toiled by day, bringing the fruit of their labor within their cities; and they slept at night within their cities, and on mounds, so they would not be molested by beasts of prey or by serpents.
And every city had one rab’bah (head father), who knew the way of the Lord; by the rab’bah, the altars of the Lord were built, and the times of the sacred days foretold.
And the rab’bah made written records on stone; which they taught to their successors, and to whoever desired to learn of the Lord.
And the Lord remained with them; and they kept the commandments and multiplied exceedingly, in all the divisions of the world.
Nor was there in those days, any war in any land under the sun.
In three thousand years time, behold, there were thousands of cities and hundreds of thousands of inhabitants who had spread abroad over the lands of the earth.
And they had built ships and sailed abroad on the seas, and inhabited its islands, north and south and east and west.