Coordination with Other Angels: Ashars work alongside asaphs (who collect deceased souls) and loo’is (who guide mortal leaders), forming a cohesive spiritual network.
“Ashars and asaphs labored together, the one guarding the living, the other receiving the dead, all for Jehovih’s glory.”
In the Oahspe: A New Bible, asaphs are a class of angels assigned specific duties in the spiritual hierarchy, primarily responsible for collecting the souls of the deceased and guiding them to the lower heavens for judgment, education, and eventual resurrection.
Below, I provide a concise and accurate explanation of who or what the asaphs are, focusing on their nature, role, and significance, grounded solely in Oahspe’s textual evidence.
Citation: Book of Sethantes, Chapter II (approximate):“And Jehovih said: Appoint asaphs to receive the spirits of the dead, and bring them to the place of judgment, where they shall learn the ways of the heavens.”
Spiritual Grade: Asaphs are spiritually advanced compared to drujas (low-grade, chaotic spirits), possessing the discipline and wisdom to perform their duties without succumbing to earthly attachments (Oahspe: Book of Aph, Chapter II).
Organizational Role: Asaphs are part of the heavenly hierarchy, working in organized groups under chiefs or marshals appointed by Gods like Sethantes or Thor.
Mobility: Asaphs travel between Earth and the lower heavens, using their spiritual abilities to locate and transport souls, often with the aid of ethereal vessels (Oahspe: Book of Sapha, Chapter V).
Citation: Book of Sapha, Chapter IV (approximate):“The asaphs gathered the spirits of the dead, lest they fall into the hands of drujas, and brought them to Haraiti, where they were delivered unto the schools of learning.”
Support for Heavenly Organization: Asaphs work alongside other angelic classes, such as ashars (guardian angels) and loo’is (angels guiding mortal leaders), to maintain spiritual order.
Facilitators of Resurrection: Asaphs are essential to Oahspe’s universalist redemption, ensuring all souls, even those of low grade, are guided toward eventual ascension by preventing them from becoming drujas (Oahspe: Book of Sethantes, Chapter VIII).
Stabilizers of Spiritual Order: By countering druj interference, asaphs support the worship of Jehovih, as their work prevents chaotic spirits from undermining Faithist communities (Oahspe: Book of Thor, Chapter IV).
in 2025), asaphs’ ongoing role in soul collection supports the spiritual awakening, ensuring deceased souls are educated in Jehovih’s truth (Oahspe: Book of Knowledge, Chapter IV).
Oahspe: Book of Sethantes, Chapter II–VIII (asaphs’ role, soul collection)
Oahspe: Book of Aph, Chapter II–V (asaphs post-flood, druj prevention)
Oahspe: Book of Thor, Chapter III–IV (asaphs in Thor’s cycle, countering druj influence)
Oahspe: Book of Sapha, Chapter IV–V (asaphs in Haraiti, soul delivery)
Oahspe: Book of Cpenta-armij, Chapter II–V (asaphs supporting prophets)
In Oahspe, asaphs are angels tasked with collecting deceased souls and guiding them to heavenly kingdoms, preventing druj interference and supporting Jehovih’s worship by maintaining spiritual order.
Asaphs: Angels collecting deceased souls for judgment and education in Hapsendi.
They appoint officers such as asaphs (collectors of deceased souls), ashars (guardian angels), and loo’is (angels guiding mortal leaders) to maintain spiritual order and protect the I’hin race, Jehovih’s chosen people.
Asaphs: Angels who collect newly deceased souls and bring them to Haraiti for judgment and education.
He appoints a hierarchy of officers, including asaphs (collectors of deceased souls), ashars (guardian angels), and loo’is (angels guiding mortal leaders), to maintain spiritual order and protect the I’hin race, Jehovih’s chosen people.
Asaphs: Angels responsible for collecting the souls of the deceased and bringing them to Hored.
He restructures the spiritual hierarchy by appointing millions of officers, including Lords, marshals, asaphs (collectors of newly deceased souls), and ashars (guardian angels), to manage the heavens and protect mortals.
He appoints officers, such as marshals, asaphs (collectors of newly deceased souls), and ashars (guardian angels), to maintain order and protect mortals from drujas (low, chaotic spirits).
Establishes the first heavenly kingdom, Hored, and appoints asaphs (collectors of newly deceased souls) and ashars (guardian angels) to guide mortals.
Then should you* deliver his spirit unto My asaphs for the mansion I have built.
And in due time you**** should render his soul unto My asaphs in heaven, being glorified therein.
Fourth: The hosts of the Lord God should be distinguished from ashars and asaphs by the name MISHM, but of a single one the name should be MISH-AH.
And My Lords should appoint asaphs to reside in heaven, sufficient in number to receive the spirits of all who die on the earth, which they should receive from the ashars in My name.
And the asaphs should take such angels, thus received, and place them in the regions My Lords should have prepared for them, where there should be sufficient of teachers and nurses and physicians in My heavenly places to administer unto them.
And then he should be taken to his place in heaven, and given into the keeping of the asaphs, who should explain all things to him.
And the ashars should take the young es'yan to a place suited to it, and deliver it to the asaphs; and the asaphs should examine it, and, if it require fetal, they should provide it in heaven, if possible.
But if it be too young, then the asaphs, with a sufficient guard, should take it back to its mortal mother, or to its mortal father, or to its brother, or its sister, or other near kin, or to whomsoever the asaphs find most advisable.
But the asaphs who have it in charge should bring it away in the morning to its place in heaven.
And during this time he should be attended by not less than two asaphs when hego away from his heavenly home; and the asaphs should teach him the mode of travel, the manner of knowing localities, both on the earth and in the first resurrection.
But when he travel''' with his companions of his own heavenly group, then the asaphs of the group should go along with him and them.
The twelfth Divan law was in reference to the same spirit, which was: At the end of two years the asaphs should deliver him, and such of his group as are prepared, into the department of first instruction, and his name should be entered in the library of that department of heaven as ENTERED APPRENTICE, IN THE FIRST RESURRECTION.
The fourteenth Divan law was in reference to the same spirit, which was: The craftsman’s examination being completed, he should then return to labor in the nurseries in heaven, becoming assistant to the asaphs.
The fifteenth Divan law was of the same spirit, which was: After he hath served three years as nurse-assistant to the asaphs, he should be promoted to the hospitals in heaven, as assistant to the physicians.
Div decreed: Having passed the examination as ashar, he should now be promoted as asaph, where he should serve sixty-six years.
And this was made the forty-sixth Divan law: He should be delivered to the asaphs, who should enter him in the nurseries as an es'yan, where he should remain six years, learning the elementary powers and expressions.
God said: Now that the earth and heaven are purified from evil, my Lords should deliver the es'yans to the asaphs, and enjoin them to deliver in Yeshuah, which I have established a short distance from the earth as a barrier against their returning to mortals.
And it was so; at the time mortals died, their spirits were taken by the asaphs to Yeshuah; and to make this an acceptable labor to the es'yans, God said: Tell my Lords of the earth to teach mortals by inspiration and otherwise of my kingdom, Yeshuah.
You**** should appoint asaphs, whose office it should be to receive es'yans from the ashars.
But when he die the ashar should deliver the es'yan to the asaph, saying: In Jehovih's name receive you this new born spirit.
And the asaph should take the es'yan, saying: In Jehovih's name, receive I this new born spirit.
When ships come to your kingdoms, the asaphs should deliver all the es'yans they have received, and My officer should receive them, and bring them to My place in heaven.
The marshals filed past the throne saluting, and after them the Lords, saluting also; and after them came the asaphs, and lastly the ashars; and the procession was under way, passing off between the pillars of fire with which God's laborers had ornamented Hored around about.
And God called the asaphs, and he said unto them:
And the asaphs said: Thy will is our will, but what meanest you by the first fruit of the first resurrection?
The asaphs said: The spirits of the dead.
The asaphs said: Who then are the spirits of death?
The asaphs departed and went down to the earth, and the Lord, through the ashars, delivered unto the asaphs five hundred es'yans, and they brought them to Hored, before the throne of God.
The asaphs said: These are the first fruit of the first resurrection.
The asaphs answered: Alas, we have tried them with all manner of food on which we ourselves subsist, but they will not eat.
The asaphs then departed, taking the es'yans with them.
The asaphs went back with all haste to learn in reference to the food.
The asaphs said: Alas, this difference have we observed: The trees, and plants and fruits emit delightful atmospheres, most nutritious to the spirit, but that which is emitted from the living fish and living worm is foul-smelling, being but the sweat and dead substance evaporating.
The asaphs then departed.
My Son, behold what the asaphs have done in your*** name thoughtlessly!
And the asaphs said: It seem''' well; do as you* desire.
And then the asaphs said to them: You* have feasted sufficiently; come you* away with us.
The asaphs, not knowing what to do, called on My name.
After many days the asaphs came before God, saying: The physicians severed such as were bound, and we brought them away.
The asaphs said: If we leave the es'yans alone, they will return again to the fisheries and fasten themselves upon mortals, doing nothing but eating.
And I will allot unto you a Chief, who is wise in experience in founding heavenly kingdoms; and he should appoint, from amongst you, officers, and messengers, and ashars, and asaphs, and es'enaurs and you**** should be numbered and apportioned unto your labor and places like unto My other lower heavens on other worlds.
And such of you as are appointed to receive the spirits of the dead into heaven should be called ASAPHS, and you**** should report to your respective Lords and their kingdoms.
And the ashars should make a record of every mortal, of the grade of his wisdom and good works; and when a mortal die, and his spirit is delivered to the asaphs, the record should be delivered with him; and the asaph, receiving, should deliver such spirit, with the record into such place in these heavens as is adapted to his grade, where he should be put to labor and to school, according to the place of the resurrections which I created.
All the priests who were there had consecrated themselves, regardless of their divisions. 12 All the Levites who were musicians—Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun and their sons and relatives—stood on the east side of the altar, dressed in fine linen and playing cymbals, harps and lyres.
The Hebrew word for "again" is "asaph" meaning to add something, in this case the birthing of Abel was added to the birthing of Cain.
I don’t think he was mentioned anywhere else in the readings as an incarnation of Jesus.], as Asaph [?] [Songs of Asaph?
81:5 indicating that Joseph and Asaph were one and the same?], as Jesus [Jeshua]—Joseph—Jesus.