The Lords' First Book

God said: So that my people may remain upright, behold, I give to them and their successors forever, certain sacred words which shall be to them the bond of my covenant.

The Lord said: Seven degrees of sacred rites I bestow upon my people. And no man shall take the second till he has learned all the words of the first; nor shall he take the third till he has learned all the words of the second; and so on. Man shall learn all my sacred words; from mouth to ear they shall be learned, by every man and every woman of my people.

Listen, then, to the words of the servants of the Lord:

I will serve the prophets of the Lord my God.

Heal my flesh, O God (Iod), and cure poison.

The Lord is my spirit (s’pe) unseen in the heavens.

He is all power, wisdom, love, and anger.

He can heal, and he can tear the flesh, and strike dead.

His prophets have his good grace; they can hear his voice and interpret him.

The Lord is my guardian; ten times a day I will remember him.

God who is Lord can stop blood; choke it up, O Lord.

He gave blood-stopping as a power of the prophet’s hands.

Confound my enemies, O God.

The ashars (angels of the Lord) shield me.

I will honor the I’hins, the sacred people of God. They are my brethren.

This was the first lesson. Also the Lord said to his prophets: Go to the druks and sit them on the ground in a circle, and you stand in the center, saying: Behold, O druk, the Great Spirit has spoken; I have heard His voice. His words are holy words; whoever learns His words shall have power over sickness and poison, and the flowing of blood. And, if a woman, she shall become fruitful and have great rejoicing. Hold up your hands and repeat the words of the Lord.

And it was so, the prophets taught the words of the Lord. First, the first degree (as shown above); and when that was mastered, then the second:

Blessed is the name of the Lord. He can make me alive after I am dead, and this is all he requires of me, to say: Blessed is the name of the Lord. In the morning I will say it; at noon I will say it; at night I will say it: Blessed is the name of the Lord.

I will wear clothes to hide my nakedness, because God requires it of me.

I will not steal, nor speak untruth.

If my brother takes what is mine, I will not be angry, nor judge him; but I will lay the matter before the prophets of God.

I will do no violence, for it is God’s commandment.

This, then, that follows, was the third:

I will have only one wife; I will not go after other women while she lives. (I will have only one husband; I will receive no other man while my husband lives.)

I will permit no man or woman of poison (leprosy) to come near the oe’ugah [camp –Ed.]. In the Lord’s name, I will drive them away.

I renounce them; nor will I mingle with them, for it is God’s commandment.

The fourth commandment was:

I forswear the hunt; but whatever comes, and is fit food for man to eat, I will kill it. I will take up fish in the name of the Lord, for they suffer no pain.

I will till the soil, gather roots to eat, and weave fibers of barks for clothing, and live like the I’hins, the chosen people of God.

I renounce murderers; nor will I marry with them, nor live as they live; they are the enemies of the Lord God.

I will curse no man, woman or child, for it is the Lord’s commandment.

I renounce anger and all weapons of death; they are enemies of the Lord.

If a man injures me, I will lay the matter before the Lord’s prophet, for his judgment is holy, says the Lord.

If a woman entices me, I will go secrete myself and repeat the sacred words.

I will respect the times of woman, for she is the gift of the Lord to be man’s helpmate.

When my wife has a newborn child, I will do her labor for forty days, for it is God’s commandment.

The fifth commandment, which is:

The four days of the moon are the Lord’s; on those days I will not labor.

I will keep sacred the four days of every moon, and I will repeat the sacred words of the Lord three times.

And when the prophets say: Behold, the Lord says this is a sacred day; then I will keep that day holy, for the prophets hear the voice of God.

When the I’hins worship before the altar of the Lord, I will keep on the outer circle, for the I’hins are the chosen servants of God.

When the I’hins march forth, following the prophets, I will come after, for I will honor the Lord’s chosen.

When the prophets say: Pitch the tents here, I will comply, for the prophets cannot err.

The sixth commandment, which is:

I will provide for the sick, and for the woman with a newborn child.

I will give, first to the I’hins, second to the druks, and lastly keep for my own self.

To warriors, I will give in time of sickness, but when they are healed, I will say: Go your way.

And if a man or woman is sick from poison, I will go to them. But before I go in I will say: O Lord, my God, in your name I go on a dangerous business; come through your ashars and protect me for your sake.

For the Lord can shield me around, and I shall not receive the poison.

The seventh commandment, which is:

I will keep these holy words secret in the name of the Lord my God.

When the Lord commands, saying: Go here, or go there, or build a city here, or a house or an altar; then I will do the Lord’s bidding. ||

Thus the Lord established laws among men; and because of the sacredness of the Lord’s words, man treasured them and kept holy the commandments of God. ||

Now I, the Lord, reveal in this, the Kosmon era:

My angels were with the chosen in the days of these sacred scriptures.

And when the words were repeated for the stopping of blood, behold, my angels compressed the veins. The words themselves did not stop the blood, but it was by the words that mortals came into concert with my hosts.

And when a man went into the presence of dangerous diseases, repeating the sacred words, behold, my angels enveloped that man with my unseen blankets, and the man was protected from the disease.

Without such words, there could be no concert of action between mortals and angels.

Do not think that your Lord taught a foolish thing; nor that the mumbling of words by my prophets was without wisdom and forethought by the Lord your God. ||

Now in those days the Lord caused the rab’bah to make a wheel, and hang it beside the altar. And its meaning was: As this wheel is without beginning or end, so is the Creator. Whoever turns the wheel once around has said: In you, my God, I trust.

And the Lord made an image to stand at the extreme of the altar, where only holy men and women could pass, and the Lord called the emblem Fete, signifying, BEYOND ME THERE IS NO APPEAL.

And the form of fete was a circle having an all-light center, with four dark corners cut off. And the Lord explained the meaning, which was:

There is a central light within man seeing clearly, but the four dark corners of the world (ignorance, lust, selfishness, and anger) beset him on all sides.

And the Lord made an instrument and called it GAU, which was a triangle with a plumb line from the upper corner; and across the plumb line was a hollow reed for seeing through; and at the bottom end of the plumb line a weight was attached, which pointed to marks on the lower border of the triangle. And the Lord explained to the prophets how to use the gau for proving all things, such as calculating the height of mountains, and the velocity of running waters, and how to lay the foundations of the temples, so that they would be square with the world. And the prophets taught the I’hins, but with them the mysteries were kept secret from all other people. So that, in after time, came the saying: Even the wicked were compelled to employ the I’hins, and were thus beholden to the Lord.

In all, there were two hundred and eighty signs, emblems, symbols, and implements given by the Lord to his people; and when they were all completed the Lord taught the prophets the meaning; and these became the sacred language of mortals in all the divisions of the earth. END OF THE LORDS’ FIRST BOOK Book of Sue, Son of Jehovih Being the second cycle after the Flood.