Yazidism is a monotheistic religion, revering one God who created the world and entrusted its care to seven holy beings, known as "Heft Sirr" (Seven Mysteries).
The Yazidi religion identifies seven holy beings, referred to as the Heft Sirr (Seven Mysteries), who are the divine manifestations of God's will and serve as intermediaries between God and humanity.
It examines Baal's transformation from a revered god to a demon in later religious traditions.
Baal's Transformation:By 1800–1500 BCE, Hadad had evolved into Baal-Hadad, eventually known simply as Baal ("Lord"), signifying his dominance over nature and his emergence as a kingly god.
Establishment of Kingship:After defeating Yam, Baal constructs a palace on Mount Zaphon (modern Jebel Aqra), solidifying his role as king of the gods.
1000 BCE), the Israelite god Yahweh emerged as a tribal deity.
The similarities between Baal and Yahweh, both storm gods, created theological competition in the region.
Works such as Stories from Ancient Canaan and Yahweh and the Gods of Canaan provide detailed analyses of Baal's mythology and its theological significance.
The discussion explores the idea of oneness with the universe or God.
Known as the Valley of Hinnom, this area holds a dark history as a site of child sacrifices to the god Molech in ancient times.
This structure, dedicated to Zeus, the Greek god of the sky, is an unusual find in a region typically associated with ancient Egyptian deities like Isis, Horus, and Ra.
For the Greeks, Zeus Kasios represented a fusion of their god Zeus with a local storm deity.
Long before the Greeks, the mountain was sacred to the Canaanites, who worshipped Baal, a storm god whose characteristics influenced deities in both the Egyptian and Greek pantheons.
Canaanite Mythology: The rivalry between the thunder god Baal and the sea god Yam parallels Zeus and Poseidon’s conflict.
Babylonian Mythology: Myths involving gods battling sea monsters, such as Marduk versus Tiamat, reflect a common narrative theme.
The discussion begins with the account in Exodus 3, where Moses encounters the burning bush and is given God's name, represented by the four Hebrew letters Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh (יהוה).
In most modern English Bible translations, God's name does not appear as "Yahweh." Instead, it is represented as "LORD" in uppercase letters but with a smaller font size.
To avoid misusing God's name, which could be considered blasphemous, ancient Jewish readers substituted the Divine name with the word Adonai (Hebrew for "My Lord") when reading aloud.
"An inscription which I excavated at the Lion Gate at Mycenae in Crete recites that Misor, from whom, according to the inscription, the Egyptians were descended, was the child of Taaut or Thoth, the God of History, and that Taaut was the emigrated son of a 'priest of Atlantis, who having fallen in love with a daughter of King Chronos, escaped and landed after many wanderings in Egypt.' He built the first temple at Sais and there taught the wisdom of his native land.
Ra was the sun god of the Egyptians.
Ra-Na was the sun god of the ancient Peruvians.
Le Plongeon, the great French archeologist, recovered at Chichen-Itza in Yucatan the figure of a god who was club-footed and bore in every way the attributes of the great god Thoth, of the Egyptians!
The racial memory of Atlantis is found in the legends of the Garden of Eden of the Bible, the Garden of the Hesperides of the Greeks, the Asgard of the Scandinavians, the Tir n'Og of the Celts and in all the legends of a wonderful, mysterious land in which dwelt gods or godlike mortals.
In the same way the escape of some of the Atlanteans over a narrow land bridge, which connected Atlantis with what is now Brittany, survives in the legends of the Rainbow Bridge Perilous with the razor edge which the Scandinavians believed was the only road to Asgard, the dwelling place of the gods, in the famous Hell's Causway of the religious books of the Middle Ages and in similar legends of the Hindoos, the Mayans and the Turanians.
The gods and goddesses of the ancient Greeks, the Phoenicians, Hindoos and Scandinavians were simply the Kings, Queens and heroes of Atlantis, and the acts attributed to them in mythology are a confused recollection of real historical events.
Circumcision stamped out the disease in Atlantis; we read of one Atlantean king, the Greek god Ouranos, who, in a time of plague, compelled his whole army and the armies of his allies to undergo the rite.
They first domesticated the horse, hence the association of Poseidon or Neptune, a sea-god, with horses; hence the race-courses for horses described by Plato.
We find the worship of this One God in Peru and in early Egypt.
They looked upon the sun as the mighty emblem, type, and instrumentality of this One God.
William the Conqueror, Richard Cœur de Lion, Alfred the Great, Cromwell, and Victoria might survive only as the gods or demons of later races; but the memory of the cataclysm in which the centre of a universal empire instantaneously went down to death would never be forgotten; it would survive in fragments, more or less complete, in every land on earth; it would outlive the memory of a thousand lesser convulsions of nature; it would survive dynasties, nations, creeds, and languages; it would never be forgotten while man continued to inhabit the face of the globe.
Titans) that "Mercury, one of the Atlantean gods, was placed as ruler over the Celtæ, and became their great divinity." F.
And it must not be forgotten that Greek mythology tells us that the god-like race who dwelt on Olympus, that great island "in the midst of the Atlantic," in the remote west, wrought in iron; and we find the remains of an iron sword and meteoric iron weapons in the mounds of the Mississippi Valley, while the name of the metal is found in the ancient languages of Peru and Chili, and the Incas worked in iron on the shores of Lake Titicaca.
A still further evidence of the civilization of this ancient race is found in the fact that, before the dispersion from their original home, the Aryans had reached such a degree of development that they possessed a regularly organized religion: they worshipped God, they believed in an evil spirit, they believed in a heaven for the just.
When we turn to that other branch of the great Aryan family, the Hindoos, we find that their gods are also the kings of Atlantis.
The Hindoo god Varuna is conceded to be the Greek god Uranos, who was the founder of the royal family of Atlantis.
At-tika and At-hens are reminiscences of Ad, and we are told that Poseidon, god and founder of Atlantis, founded Athens.
We have seen that Zeus, the king of Atlantis, whose tomb was shown at Crete, was transformed into the Greek god Zeus; and in like manner we find him reappearing among the Hindoos as Dyaus.
He is called "Dyaus-pitar," or God the Father, as among the Greeks we have Zeus-pater," which became among the Romans "Jupiter."
The strongest connection, however, with the Atlantean system is shown in the case of the Hindoo god Deva-Nahusha.
In consequence of the connection of this king with the vine, he was converted in later times into the dissolute god Bacchus.
In the Sanscrit books we find reference to a god called Deva-Nahusha, who has been identified by scholars with Dionysos.
Here we see that the great god Indra, chief god of the Hindoos, was formerly king of Meru, and that Deva-Nahusha (De(va)nushas--De-onyshas) had also been king of Meru; and we must remember that Theopompus tell us that the island of Atlantis was inhabited by the "Meropes;" and Lenormant as reached the conclusion that the first people of the ancient world were "the men of Mero."
The Egyptians placed Dionysos (Osiris) at the close of the period of their history which was assigned to the gods, that is, toward the close of the great empire of Atlantis.
Who is the god to whom we shall offer sacrifice?
"He who gives life; He who gives strength; whose command all the bright gods" (the stars?) "revere; whose light is immortality; whose shadow is death.
He who through his power is the one God of the breathing and awakening world.
He who measured out the light in the air… Wherever the mighty water-clouds went, where they placed the seed and lit the fire, thence arose He who is the sole life of the bright gods.
This is plainly a hymn to the sun, or to a god whose most glorious representative was the sun.
It was the hymn of a people living in a volcanic country, who call upon their god to keep the earth "firm" and not to destroy them.
"Youngest of the gods, their messenger, their invoker.
For thou, O sage, goest wisely between these two creations (heaven and earth, God and man) like a friendly messenger between two hamlets."
The dawn of the day (Ushas), part of the sun-worship, became also a god:
56, 24) we find a prayer to the Maruts, the storm-gods: "O, Maruts, may there be to us a strong son, who is a living ruler of men; through whom we may cross the waters on our way to the happy abode." This happy abode is described as "where King Vaivasvata reigns; where the secret place of heaven is; where the mighty waters are .
"The religion of the Veda knows no idols," says Max Müller; "the worship of idols in India is a secondary formation, a degradation of the more primitive worship of ideal gods."
He was, as we have shown elsewhere, one of the gods of Atlantis--probably one of its great kings and navigators.
Haroeri was the son of Osiris and grandson of Rhea, a goddess of the earth, a queen of Atlantis, and mother of Poseidon; Typhon was a wind-god and an evil genius, but also a son of Rhea, the earth goddess.
"Hercules, it was said, being once overpowered by the heat of the sun, drew his bow against that luminary; whereupon the god Phœbus, admiring his intrepidity, gave him a golden cup, with which he sailed over the ocean.
Hercules was, as we know, a god of Atlantis, and Oceanos, who lent the magnetic cup to Hercules, was the Dame by which the Greeks designated the Atlantic Ocean.
257), that he borrowed "the cup" of Helios, in (with) which "he was accustomed to sail every night." Here we seem to have a reference to the magnetic cup used in night sailing; and this is another proof that the use of the magnetic needle in sea-voyages was associated with the Atlantean gods.
We find in Sanchoniathon's "Legends of the Phœnicians that Ouranus, the first god of the people of Atlantis, "devised Bætulia, contriving stones that moved as having life, which were supposed to fall from heaven." These stones were probably magnetic loadstones; in other words, Ouranus, the first god of Atlantis, devised the mariner's compass.
And that this is not all surmise is shown by the fact that a city of India, in the time of Alexander the Great, defended itself by the use of gunpowder: it was said to be a favorite of the gods, because thunder and lightning came from its walls to resist the attacks of its assailants.
Iron.--have seen that the Greek mythological legends asserted that before the submergence of the great race over whom their gods reigned there had been not only an Age of Bronze but an Age of Iron.
The great god of the so-called Semites was El, the Strong One, from whose name comes the Biblical names Beth-el, the house of God; Ha-el, the strong one; El-ohim, the gods; El-oah, God; and from the same name is derived the Arabian name of God, Al-lah.
The great god of Egypt was Neph or Num; the chief god of the Samoyedes is Num; and Max Müller established an identity between the Num of the Samoyedes and the god Yum-ala of the Finns, and probably with the name of the god Nam of the Thibetians.
He erected an edifice at Samarcand, bearing an inscription, in Himyarite or Cushite characters, 'In the name of God, Schamar-Iarasch has erected this edifice to the sun, his Lord." (Baldwin's "Prehistoric Nations," p.
Upon the head of their great god Baal they placed the horns of the bull; and these have descended in popular imagination to the spirit of evil of our day.
Less than two hundred years ago it was customary to sacrifice a bull on the 25th of August to the "God Mowrie" and "his devilans" on the island of Inis Maree, Scotland.
In the next figure we have a representation of the war-god of the Dakotas, with something like a trident in his hand; while the next illustration is taken from Zarate's "Peru," and depicts "the god of a degrading worship." He is very much like the traditional conception of the European devil-horns, pointed ears, wings, and poker.
"Fuh-hi, who is regarded as a demi-god, founded the Chinese Empire 2852 B.C.
This surprising discovery brings the Chinese civilization still nearer to the Mediterranean head-quarters of the races, and increases the probability that the arts of China were of Atlantean origin; and that the name of Nai Hoang-ti, or Nai Korti, the founder of Chinese civilization, may be a reminiscence of Nakhunta, the chief of the gods, as recorded in the Susian texts, and this, in turn, a recollection of the Deva-Nahusha of the Hindoos, the Dionysos of the Greeks, the king of Atlantis, whose great empire reached to the "farther parts of India," and embraced, according to Plato, "parts of the continent of America."
The Ethiopian word aorf, to fall asleep, is the root of the word Morpheus, the god of sleep.
"This is shown in the blending of Hamitic and Semitic in some of the most ancient inscriptions; in the facility of intercourse between the Semites of Asia and the Hamites of Egypt; in the peaceful and unobserved absorption of all the Asiatic Hamites, and the Semitic adoption of the Hamitic gods and religious system.
The religion of the Peruvians was sun-worship; "the sun was the peculiar god of the Mongols from the earliest times." The Peruvians regarded Pachacamac as the sovereign creator.
On landing on the coast they offered sacrifices to Neptune or Poseidon"--the god of Atlantis.
Their chief god was Bel or Baal--the same worshipped by the Phœnicians--the god of the sun.
The Irish name for the sun, Grian, is, according to Virgil, one of the names of Apollo--another sun-god, Gryneus.
141.) The Irish custom of saying "God bless you!" when one sneezes, is a very ancient practice; it was known to the Romans, and referred, it is said, to a plague in the remote past, whose first symptom was sneezing.
The practice of the creditor fasting at the door-step of his debtor until be is paid, is known to both countries; the kindly "God save you!" is the same as the Eastern "God be gracious to you, my son!" The reverence for the wren in Ireland and Scotland reminds us of the Oriental and Greek respect for that bird.
"The Atlanteans, among the ancients, passed for the favorite children of Neptune; they made known the worship of this god to other nations-to the Egyptians, for example.
They claimed descent from "the twelve great gods," which must have meant the twelve gods of Atlantis, to wit, Poseidon and Cleito and their ten sons.
The Phœnician legends show that Misor, from whom, the Egyptians were descended, was the child of the Phœnician gods Amynus and Magus.
Misor gave birth to Taaut, the god of letters, the inventor of the alphabet, and Taaut became Thoth, the god of history of the Egyptians.
Sanchoniathon tells us that "Chronos (king of Atlantis) visited the South, and gave all Egypt to the god Taaut, that it might be his kingdom." "Misor" is probably the king "Mestor" named by Plato.
The religion of Egypt was pre-eminently sun-worship, and Ra was the sun-god of Egypt, Rama, the sun of the Hindoos, Rana, a god of the Toltecs, Raymi, the great festival of the sun of the Peruvians, and Rayam, a god of Yemen.
19.) The Elysian Fields were the "Elysion" of the Greeks, the abode of the blessed, which we have seen was an island in the remote west." The Egyptian belief referred to a real country; they described its cities, mountains, and rivers; one of the latter was called Uranes, a name which reminds us of the Atlantean god Uranos.
Religion consisted in the worship of one God and the practice of virtue; forty-two commandments prescribed the duties of men to themselves, their neighbors, their country, and the Deity; a heaven awaited the good and a hell the vicious; there was a judgment-day when the hearts of men were weighed:
The five intercalated days to make up the three hundred and sixty-five days were called by the Mexicans Nemontemi, or useless, and on them they transacted no business; while the Egyptians, during that epoch, celebrated the festival of the birth of their gods, as attested by Plutarch and others.
In Egypt we have the oldest of the Old World children of Atlantis; in her magnificence we have a testimony to the development attained by the parent country; by that country whose kings were the gods of succeeding nations, and whose kingdom extended to the uttermost ends of the earth.
The Egyptian historian, Manetho, referred to a period of thirteen thousand nine hundred years as "the reign of the gods," and placed this period at the very beginning of Egyptian history.
The color of gold was something of the color of the sun's rays, while the color of silver resembled the pale light of the moon, and hence they were respectively sacred to the gods of the sun and moon.
And this is probably the origin of the comparative value of these metals: they became the precious metals because they were the sacred metals, and gold was more valuable than silver--just as the sun-god was the great god of the nations, while the mild moon was simply an attendant upon the sun.
Gold and silver were not valued in Peru for any intrinsic usefulness; they were regarded as sacred because reserved for the two great gods of the nation.
Izdubar, from the description of his reign, evidently belonged to the Mythical period; the legends given in these tablets, the offer of marriage made to him by the goddess Ishtar, the monsters living at the time, Izdubar's vision of the gods, his journey to the translated Sisit, with a curious account of a mythical conquest of Erech when the gods and spirits inhabiting that city changed themselves into animals to escape the fury of the conqueror: all these things and many others show the unhistorical nature of the epoch.
the gods I saw and I feared10.
and before the gods my supplication came12.
say how thou hast done it, and in the circle of the gods life thou hast gained."8.
and the wisdom of the gods I will relate to thee.11.
was ancient, and the gods within it13.
their god, the great gods14.
the gods feared the tempest, and108.
The gods, like dogs with tails hidden, couched down.110.
then I in the presence of the gods prophesied evil;114.
when I prophesied in the presence of the gods evil,115.
The gods concerning the spirits, were weeping with her:119.
the gods in seats, seated in lamentation;120.
The gods collected at its burning, the gods collected at its good burning.152.
the gods like flies over the sacrifice gathered,153.
From of old also, the great God in his course,154.
of these gods, as of Ukni stone, on my countenance I could not endure;156.
May the gods come to my altar;158.
saw the ship, and went Bel with anger filled to the gods and spirits;163.
'Thou prince of the gods, warrior,169.
I did not peer into the wisdom of the gods,177.
reverent and attentive a dream they sent, and the wisdom of the gods he heard.178.
When Sisit and his wife and the people to be like the gods were carried away,184.
When to thee whom the gods have chosen thee, and187.
he was answered, 'To the Gods'; upon which he offered up a prayer for the good of mankind.
Xisuthrus then paid his adoration to the earth, and having constructed an altar, offered sacrifices to the gods, and, with those who had come out of the vessel with him, disappeared.
Him they saw no more; but they could distinguish his voice in the air, and could hear him admonish them to pay due regard to religion; and likewise informed them that it was upon account of his piety that he was translated to live with the gods, that his wife, and daughter, and the pilot, had obtained the same honor.
"The rest having heard these words, offered sacrifices to the gods, and taking a circuit, journeyed towards Babylonia.
Sisithrus, when he had complied with these commands, sailed immediately to Armenia, and was presently inspired by God.
And when upon the third trial he succeeded, for the birds then returned with their feet stained with mud, the gods translated him from among men.
In the opening of the account of the Flood there is a noticeable difference between the Cuneiform and Biblical narratives, for while in the Jewish account one God only is men tioned, the Cuneiform inscription mentions all the principal gods of the early Babylonian Pantheon as engaged in bringing about the Flood.
The gods having resolved on the Deluge, the deity whom we have hitherto provisionally called Hea announces the coming event to Sisit.
Now, in the account of Berosus, the god who announces the Deluge is stated to be Cronos; so this passage gives us the Cuneiform name of the deity identified by the Greeks with Cronos.
The description of the Flood in this inscription is very vivid; it is said to have been so terrible that the gods, fearing it, ascended to the heaven of Arm, that it is the highest and furthest heaven, the destruction of the human race is recorded, and the corpses of the wicked are said to have floated on the surface of the Flood.
In the statement of the building of the altar, and offering sacrifice after leaving the ark, all three accounts agree; but in the subsequent matter there is an important difference between the Bible and the inscription, for while the Bible represents Noah as living for many years after the Flood, the inscription on the other hand agrees with Berosus in making Sisit to be translated like the gods.
The Cuneiform inscription, after giving the history of the Flood down to the sacrifice of Sisit, when he came out of the ark, goes back to the former part of the story, and mentions the god Bel in particular as the maker of the tempest or deluge; there appears to be a slight inconsistency between this and the former part of the inscription which suggests the question whether the Chaldean narrative itself may not have been compiled from two distinct and older accounts.
From this sea, Oannes the fish god is supposed to have arisen, and the composite monsters who followed him in the antediluvian period came from the same region.
Traditional Roman society viewed Christians as subversive due to their worship of a single god and refusal to participate in state festivals and sacrifices.
This refusal was perceived as antisocial and treasonous, as the traditional gods were believed to protect the empire.
Emperor Decius ordered universal sacrifices to the gods, requiring all citizens to participate and receive certification of compliance.
Subsequent edicts ordered the arrest of Christian clergy, leading to overcrowded prisons and systematic torture to compel sacrifices to the gods.
Riana describes encounters with the Seraphim, beings she learned are the feminine emanation of God.
God or Source: Pure love.
Adjacent to this site is the Corycian Cave, tied to the Hittite myth of a snake monster that initially defeated the storm god Tarḫunta, hiding his eyes and heart in the cave.
The inscription, uncovered after excavation, reveals that Eupeithes honored the gods Pan and Hermes—central figures in the myth where they retrieve Zeus’s stolen sinews.
These discoveries have contributed to interpretations of ancient myths, such as Greek stories of giants and gods battling with thunderbolts.
Determinism: Humans are neither puppets of an omnipotent God nor products of mechanistic determinism.
Osiris, Ancient Egypt's God of the Underworld, symbolized death and resurrection.
The precursor to the Egyptian gods—(the Sumerians)—had huge Orion, Sirius and Lyra connections as well.
Horus, the God of the Sky and War, avenged his father Osiris against his uncle Set, becoming the king of Egypt.
And they were what people thought was the god, Horus.
During many of the Egyptian dynasties it was quite common to have a visitation from a Sirian in the disguise of one of their gods (such as Isis, Osiris, and Anubis).
These “costumes” made it easier for the Egyptians to honor their presence, and often the visitations triggered memories of the very early days when the “gods” walked openly upon Earth.
(Also spelled as: Seth, Setekh, Setesh, Suty, or Sutekh.) Generally speaking, in Egyptian mythology Set is seen as the god of chaotic forces and violence.
Sobek, depicted as a crocodile-headed god, was honored alongside Horus at the Nile-side temple of Kom Ombo.
Ra, Ancient Egypt's Creator God, shaped Earth, Heaven, and the Underworld, along with all living creatures.
Ptah, part of the Triad of Memphis, was worshipped as a God of Craftsmen and Builders.
Amon rose to prominence in the New Kingdom and merged with the Sun God Re after a military victory.
Geb, the God of the Earth and Father of Snakes, was also the father of Osiris, Isis, and Set.
Nu (also spelled Nun) was the ancient Egyptian god representing the primordial waters of chaos before creation.
The Sun-God (Phre or Ra) has a Hawk's Head, Disc, Serpent, Uræus.
Most of the Egyptian gods and most of the Egyptian myths — for instance the story of Osiris and Isis — are actually Egyptian versions of the memories of an older culture.
Their goal was to transcend the material world, awakening the divine spark within and reconnecting with the true God, described as the unknowable source of all light and goodness.
Jesus’s acceptance signified his alignment with the true God and his mission as a divine revealer.
The Gnostic perspective invites reflection on spiritual truths that may lie beneath surface interpretations, emphasizing that the kingdom of God is within and waiting to be discovered.
Gods book of Eskra, chapter L, versus 30
The names Jon, Jôn, Jhon, Yohan and Jan have origins rooted in different linguistic and cultural traditions but share a common ancestry in the Hebrew name Yochanan (יוחנן), which means "Yahweh is gracious" or "God is merciful." Below is a breakdown of the origin and evolution of these names:
יָהּ (Yah): A short form of YHWH (יהוה), the Tetragrammaton, which is the sacred name of God in Hebrew, often rendered as "Yahweh" or "the LORD."חָנַן (Chanan): A verb meaning "to be gracious," "to show favor," or "to have mercy."
It is used in biblical texts to signify God, emphasizing His attributes like sovereignty, grace, and salvation.
יָהּ (Yah) appears independently as a name of God in several verses, emphasizing His majesty and holiness.Example:"כִּי עֹזִּי וְזִמְרָת יָהּ, וַיְהִי-לִי לִישׁוּעָה"(Exodus 15:2)Translation: "The LORD is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation."In Combination:
יָהּ (Yah) is a poetic and shorter expression of יהוה, emphasizing the same divine attributes.Represents God’s eternal and self-existent nature.Focus on Attributes:
Allows for a more accessible expression of God’s name, especially in liturgical or artistic settings.Cultural and Linguistic LegacyNames Derived from Yah:
Central to Hebrew prayers and hymns, symbolizing God’s immanence and transcendence in concise and powerful terms.יָהּ (Yah) is a poetic, reverent form of יהוה, symbolizing God’s grace, power, and salvation.
AS THE UPPER BOOK IS OF HEAVENLY THINGS, SO IS THIS LOWER BOOK OF THE EARTHLY ADMINISTRATION OF GOD FOR THE SAME PERIOD OF TIME, AND IT IS CALLED THE BOOK OF GOD担 WORD, BECAUSE IT IS OF THE FIRST DESCENT OF GOD TO THE EARTH TO ESTABLISH HIS WORD WITH MAN.
THROUGH ZARATHUSTRA, A MAN OF PAR担I脱, CAME GOD TO THIS END, EIGHT THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED YEARS BEFORE THE KOSMON ERA.1
The Master of the I'huans, Samati, High God of heaven, whose home was in Mount Vibhraj, a heaven created in heaven, a thousand miles high.
I go to the temple; it is closed against God, I'hua'Mazda!
Where are the altars of your*** God?
Angels and Gods are scouted.
When I suffer thee to fall in bondage, you criest: O God, my God!
Of A'su I cleft a rib and stood it up, saying: Be you a man, upright in likeness of thy God.
1 GOD'S WORD is an important book, because it is the father and mother of all other religions in the world.
I'hua'Mazda, is synonymous with God; Mazda, synonymous with Jehovih.2 I'hua'Mazda, The MASTER VOICE, or, as we would say, Saith God or, God said, etc.
I'hua'Mazda, God of heaven, sent certain loo'is, highly learned angels, to look around, and afterward he called them and asked what they saw?
The loo'is, the angels who were guardians over mortals for such purpose, went and accomplished what had been commanded by God.
The loo'is went before God, saying: Behold, a child is born, capable of All Light.
Then spake God, saying: I will come; go you**** and lead the way.
Whereupon God answered him, saying:
I had hoped to see a God come in stronger shape, and in majesty of a thousand angels, winged, and in flames of fire!
For if it be true you are a God born in this questionable shape, you hast some motive more than to overthrow the town.
When he had finished, the king said: According to the histories of the ancients, when a God appeared amongst mortals, there were signs and miracles.
On the next day another man, even the king's brother's son, came before the king, saying: This day I have seen such a wonder as would have been marvelous in the days of angels and Gods.
Ay, and this child already proclaim''' itself Zarathustra in communion with the God, I'hua'Mazda!
To me it said: Why killest you the sons and daughters of thy God?
I'hua'Mazda talked to the virgin, saying: Twenty years should you tarry in the forest, fearing nothing, for your*** God will provide for you*.
And when your*** son should be larger and stronger than other men, behold, your*** God will manifest for the redemption of the races of men who are hunted and slain for the glory of the kings.
But because of his gentleness like a young goat, the tribes of the forest called him the Lamb of God, signifying, strength and good-will.
Art you not descended from the Sun Gods?
God saith: Think not, O man, that things happen without a cause, or that all things are left to chance.
God said: Yet with the king's decree I had no part, for I foresaw he would do this of his own will; and with the multitude in slaying the king I had no part, for I saw they would do this on their own account.
God saith: The multitude slew the king because he had gone so far from me he heeded me not.
During the infant age of Zarathustra, God manifested no more through him; but he sent Ejah, one of his Lords, to be with Zarathustra, day and night.
So Zarathustra went in, and, in the time of worship before the altar of God, the Lord appeared in a great light and commanded the high priest, saying: Behold, I have brought my son to you*.
Then spake I'hua'Mazda through Zarathustra, saying: I am I'hua'Mazda, God of the I'huans.
As you wouldst bend a straw, so do the Gods wield the nations of the earth.
Titles: The Virgin Mary, Mother of God (Theotokos in Greek), Our Lady.
GOD REVEALETH WHO HE IS.
Hear the words of your*** God, O man, I am your*** brother, risen from mortality to a holy place in heaven; profit you in my wisdom, and be admonished by my love.
Hear your*** God, O man, and distinguish then that the twain, God and Jehovih, are not the same one; nor more is your*** God than what you should be in time to come.
As a kingdom on earth hath a king, and the king is nevertheless a mortal, so in like manner is the heavenly place of your*** God a kingdom of angels, and the chief over them is God, an angel also.
Howbeit the kingdom of your*** God embrace all the heavens of the earth.
So is it also with all the corporeal worlds and their atmospherean heavens, a God and organic heavens belonging to each and all of them.
Nor is this all; for there is a third resurrection, in which the angels rise still higher in wisdom, love and power, and are sent by your*** God into etherea, mid-way between the planets, the highest of all heavens, over which there are Chiefs, who are also Gods and Goddesses of still more comprehensive attributes.
GOD EXPLAINETH THE FIRST AND SECOND RESURRECTION, AND THE DIFFERENCE IN MANIFESTATIONS FROM THEM.
Hear me, O man, and consider the weight of the arguments of your*** God.
For a season your*** God hath suffered this also to come to pass, that the spirits say there is no God; that there is no higher heaven than to dwell upon the earth, to enjoy the things thereof; to be reincarnated, and to live over and over in mortality.
And your*** God gathered them together, and said unto them:
And they covenanted themselves unto Jehovih not to return again single-handed to minister unto mortals; neither to return again to mortals save they came in phalanxes, and only when duly authorized and directed by their most Holy Council, and their chief, who was God.
And the rank of all such angels was, ANGELS OF GOD, or ANGELS OF JEHOVIH, in contradistinction from the angels of the first resurrection, who know no organization for righteousness' sake.
But that mortals be not left in darkness, behold your*** God and his holy council prepared certain rules of discipline and conduct and commandments, whereby the angels of the second resurrection should be as a unit in their duties and teachings thereafter.
And that such guardian angels be in phalanxes of millions and tens of millions (but still in close membership with your*** God and his Holy Council) in order to relieve one another on guard.
For, by the inspirations of the angels of your*** God, the individual entity of a mortal is directed in its normal growth; but by the angels of the first resurrection, mortals are used abnormally, by entrancement, by miracles, or by sar'gis, oracles or otherwise.
That the angels of God might inspire mortals with the same inspiration, behold, he and his Holy Council prepared certain instruction with rules, words and commandments adapted to the understanding of mortals for the good of their souls, pandering not to their earthly desires.
Such then are the angels of God and of Jehovih.
And their teachings are the same as my Lord's and your*** God's; nor doth one of them teach a matter in one way, and another teach it differently; howbeit there are different grades and systems adapted to the different degrees of intelligence of the different peoples on earth.
GOD ILLUSTRATETH THE DIFFERENCE OF METHOD BETWEEN THE FIRST AND SECOND RESURRECTIONS.
Open your*** understanding, O man, that you mayest discern the beauty and glory of heavenly places prepared by your*** God, Lords and guardian angels.
Now therefore your*** God showe you* certain signs characteristic of the difference between the angels of the first and the second resurrection:
Thy God come not as an individual; neither do my Lords (nor holy angels though they come in my name).
O man, beware of angels who say: In heaven there is no organization, nor God, nor Holy Council, nor discipline, nor order, nor teaching, nor self-denial, or,
Who say: There is no God, no Jehovih, no government in heaven, or,
GOD ILLUSTRATETH THE CHARACTERISTICS OF MORTALS ACCORDINGLY AS THEY ARE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE FIRST OR SECOND RESURRECTION.
Consider the words of your*** God, O man, and profit you in the application of thy judgment for the growth of your*** soul everlastingly.
GOD SHOWETH HOW MORTALS MAY ATTAIN INSPIRATION FROM JEHOVIH AND FROM THE ANGELS OF THE SECOND RESURRECTION.
Should a man inquire of the magician as to the inspiration of the prophets of your*** God?
The fool will say: The sacred books are no more than man of his own knowledge might write; yet, he hath not imitated wisely the power of the words of your*** God.
It is the will and wish of your*** God, that all men become constitutionally capable of receiving and comprehending the highest light, and that they should no longer depend upon any priest, church, oracle or holy book, or upon consulting the spirits.
GOD SHOWETH THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE RELIGION OF THE OLDEN TIME AND THAT OF THE PRESENT.
Now all of these things were taught in the religion of the olden time, and were given to man by your*** God to raise man up toward my heavenly kingdom.
Neither was it possible in the olden time to give man any other religion, it being necessary to appeal to his own advantages to make him heed your*** God.
But now, behold, O man, I come to give a great religion, yet not to set aside the old; I come to such as do fulfill the old, and to give them the religion of Gods themselves!
How choose your*** God his initiates?
Now, behold, O man, after the second resurrection was established in heaven, I called out unto all the heavens of the earth, saying: Come, all you**** of the first resurrection, also, let my guardians go down to mortals and proclaim unto all people, the kingdom of God is open to all who choose to come.
But your*** God answered them, saying: That is not our matter; ours is to serve Jehovih by working for all whom He inspire to come unto us.
And your*** God answered them, saying: When you**** practice the all highest, behold, the others will depart away from you.
And your*** God answered them, saying: Answer them not, lest you**** also practice darkness.
And your*** God answered, saying: Censure them not, for they are weak or diseased.
Nevertheless, whoso hath strength and yet will not support himself, teach thou one such man to change his attributes, and you should be honored amongst Gods.
GOD SHOWETH WHAT IS MEANT BY FOLLOWING THE HIGHEST LIGHT.
Be considerate of your*** fellow man, and weigh his standing place in the sight of your*** God.
GOD SHOWETH WHO IS AND WHO IS NOT PREPARED TO ENTER JEHOVIH’S KINGDOM ON EARTH.
GOD REVEALETH THE CURE FOR REMORSE.
GOD SHOWETH THAT THE RENUNCIATION OF THE UZIANS IS NECESSARY.
Hearken, O man, to the discourse of your*** God upon the second resurrection in heaven, and apply you these principles to founding Jehovih's kingdom on earth.
Many come to my holy place, saying: Hear me, O God, I am weary of the first resurrection and of the earth.
As woman forsake father, mother, brother and sister and become one with her husband, so do they of the first resurrection forsake all the earth and the lowest heaven in order to become one with the kingdom of your*** God.
In the second resurrection the angels are relieved of individual responsibility, all matters being under the wisdom of the Holy Council, whose head is your*** God.
GOD DISCOURSETH ON LOVE.
Not to abridge love but to extend it, God-like, embracing all people, so should the members of the brotherhood labor with your*** God and his holy angels, for the glory of Jehovih.
Let these two examples stand before you*; and when the speech of the vain man is directed against heavenly revelations, saying: This is not of God; this is not of Jehovih, or this is not of angels, know you that that man is not a builder.
GOD DISCOURSETH ON THE AUTHORITY OF HIS OWN WORDS.
So, of the words of your*** God, one man can distinguish, and another cannot.
The revelations of your*** God portray the harmony and glory of Jehovih's creations, and of the organic heavens of His holy angels.
Whether thyself, or your*** brother, or your*** neighbor, should profess to reveal the words of thy God, it is well.
To be one with Jehovih, this is Godliness; to be one with your*** God, the way is open to all men.
Let any who will, say: Thus saith God, or thus saith Jehovih, or thus say I.
These are the words and discipline; in such direction shape your*** God the thoughts of millions.
GOD REVEALETH THE CURE FOR REMORSE.
GOD SHOWETH THAT THE RENUNCIATION OF THE UZIANS IS NECESSARY.
Hearken, O man, to the discourse of your*** God upon the second resurrection in heaven, and apply you these principles to founding Jehovih's kingdom on earth.
Many come to my holy place, saying: Hear me, O God, I am weary of the first resurrection and of the earth.
As woman forsake father, mother, brother and sister and become one with her husband, so do they of the first resurrection forsake all the earth and the lowest heaven in order to become one with the kingdom of your*** God.
In the second resurrection the angels are relieved of individual responsibility, all matters being under the wisdom of the Holy Council, whose head is your*** God.
GOD DISCOURSETH ON LOVE.
Not to abridge love but to extend it, God-like, embracing all people, so should the members of the brotherhood labor with your*** God and his holy angels, for the glory of Jehovih.
Let these two examples stand before you*; and when the speech of the vain man is directed against heavenly revelations, saying: This is not of God; this is not of Jehovih, or this is not of angels, know you that that man is not a builder.
GOD DISCOURSETH ON THE AUTHORITY OF HIS OWN WORDS.
So, of the words of your*** God, one man can distinguish, and another cannot.
The revelations of your*** God portray the harmony and glory of Jehovih's creations, and of the organic heavens of His holy angels.
Whether thyself, or your*** brother, or your*** neighbor, should profess to reveal the words of thy God, it is well.
To be one with Jehovih, this is Godliness; to be one with your*** God, the way is open to all men.
Let any who will, say: Thus saith God, or thus saith Jehovih, or thus say I.
These are the words and discipline; in such direction shape your*** God the thoughts of millions.
Together: In remembrance of the pillars of light in heaven, that surround the throne of Thy Son, God of earth and heaven, we build here a hedge and a fence, as a lasting testimony that we dedicated to You*, Jehovih, the enclosed PLACE OF THE SACRED COVENANT.
And I abjure all Gods but You*.
We will not, now, nor forever, make war, nor engage in war, nor take any part in war, for any God, nor Lord, nor Savior, nor country, nor king or other ruler on earth; nor will we aid nor abet war in any way whatever.
Now, when Tae and his hosts had made the covenant with Jehovih, behold, the Voice descended upon Tae by entrancement, with the holy angels of the God of heaven and earth, and he said:
As you**** have dedicated to Me, so do I dedicate to you, to serve you in holiness and wisdom, by angels from the throne of My God.
And I have given to My Gods and Lords of heaven, and to wise men on earth, knowledge to provide unto the multitude something to do constantly, that satan (mischief) may not enter in amongst them to their injury.
When the temple was completed, Tae said: Who but Gods could have made anything so beautiful with such cheap material!
On the east summit was a figurative illustration of the God Apollo with his heavenly hosts, descended to earth looking at a group of Druks (ill-formed mortals) with long arms, who were squatting on their haunches.
Jehovih hath said: By My spirit, I move infants to ask questions; answer you**** them, and, behold, they should become as Gods.
Now, from twelve to fourteen, they were initiated into the religious rites and ceremonies of the ancients, after the manner as set forth in the Book of Saphah, with explanations of signs, symbols, emblems and the sacred implements; with the ranks of Gods and Lords and Saviors and archangels; with the divisions of the higher and lower heavens; with the first, second and third resurrections in atmospherea, as set forth in the Book of Ben; and with the cosmogony of the corporeal worlds; the position and travel of the solar phalanx; with actual observations of the stars, planets and satellites, with their times and seasons, as set forth in the Book of Cosmogony and Prophecy.
In the heavens of My Gods, I bequeath a time to labor unto them also; and when their angel hosts are prepared for a new resurrection to a higher heaven, I come and deliver them.
For which reasons, and because of your evasions of My commandments, I called unto My God and Lords and My holy angels, saying: Waste not your time and labor more with the Uzians.
For they have become a conceited people, saying: There is no God, and Jehovih is void as the wind.
Again I called to My God and to his angel hosts, saying: Behold, I have separated the wheat from the chaff; I have divided the sheep from the goats.
Thus it came to pass; the people were admonished by God and his angels, and by Jehovih speaking in the souls of mortals.
To teach you*, O man, that you shouldst be considerate of your*** brother's talents, behold, what a labor for My Gods and ministering angels!
As Jehovih, through His God, bequeathed to the children of Guatama a government unfettered by the name of God or Lord or Saviour, so Jehovih sanctified the day of the ratification and the signing and sealing of His compact, as the DAY OF THE HOLY SEAL.
As Jehovih, through His God, pulled aside the veil of heaven,1 saying:
As Jehovih, through His God, delivered into freedom Guatama's slaves, and, thus, to general slavery dealt the final blow, so Jehovih blessed that day, and sanctified it.
BEING THE GRADES AND RATES OF MORTALS AND ANGELS IN THE LIGHT OF GOD, AS THE WORD CAME TO ES, DAUGHTER OF JEHOVIH.
These are the words of Judgment by the will of God, Jehovih's Son, as rendered by Es, for the resurrection of man:
Hear the words of your*** God, O man!
Profit you in my wisdom, and learn the discourse of your*** God.
Jehovih, Creator of all things, spake to me, your*** God, saying: Give ear unto Me, O God, My embassador of the earth and her heavens for this your*** season.
In all former cycles, My Gods had to deal with separate divisions of the earth; My revelations were unto each, for a special time, which is now at hand.
I have prepared this land untrammeled with Gods and Saviors and Lords, enforced by the sword, so that My revelations of this day should be published and not suppressed.
And to whomsoever worship Gods or Saviors because of miracles, give thou them plentifully of miracles and signs through unclean spirits, and through mortal sar'gis (mediums) of low grade.
Yea, you should let spirits of darkness assume to be these very Gods, that mortals may be made to know what manner of evil spirits dwell in their churches and temples.
For I will destroy the worship of all Gods and Lords and Saviors on the ground of miracles.
And some should say: Hear you me, for I am God!
And they should forswear all Gods and Lords and Saviors, but profess Me, the Great Spirit, Jehovih.
God, embassador of Jehovih, saith: You**** should assemble for the communion of angels, regularly, and maintain intercourse with them.
THE JUDGMENT UPON THE BRAHMANS, THE BUDHISTS, THE KRISTE�YANS, THE MOHAMMEDANS, THE CONFUCIANS, THE JEWS AND ALL OTHER PEOPLES ON EARTH, IN THE WORDS OF GOD.
Or say you that God spake in the dark days of the earth, but latterly hold his tongue.
First, I charge you* that whoso saith: GOD, GOD!
I am not come to establish, but to abolish all Gods and Lords and Saviors amongst mortals.
But whoso cry out in fullness of heart, saying: GOD, GOD!
signifying a God in figure and shape of a man, sitting on a throne in heaven, is a blasphemer against Jehovih, the Ever Present, the Creator.
signifying a God in figure and shape of a man, sitting on a throne in heaven, is a blasphemer against Jehovih, the Ever Present, the Creator.
signifying a God in the figure and shape of a man, sitting on a throne in heaven, is a blasphemer against Jehovih, the Creator, the All Person.
And whoso call''' on the name of any other man or angel, worshipping such as a God, is an idolater in my sight.
I take from all of them their idols, their Gods; but I give them a greater, even the Creator.
For I will have no quarrel in my exalted kingdoms in heaven as to Gods and Lords and Saviors.
But you should return in spirit to the earth, and abide in the church and temple of thy chosen God, wandering about, in stubbornness of heart, a prey to drujas and vampires and other angels of darkness.
THE NUMBERS OF THE JUDGMENT, IN THE WORDS OF GOD.
Hear the words of your*** God, O man; I am your*** elder brother, the captain of heaven and earth.
I want to be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, and rise and sit on the right hand of God.
Hear the words of your*** God, O man, and be wise in your*** judgment: He Who created thee alive, gave to you* of His Own Being.
Wherefore, in your*** soul thou should abjure all Gods and Lords and Saviors.
Hear the words of your*** God, O Israel.
Shut not thyself up against the wisdom of thy elder brother, God of heaven and earth.
Nor magnify you the ancient days above the present; nor feign and say, your*** God is gone away to come no more forever.
With your*** sling thou hast smitten him with thy ONE God, Jehovih!
You wast encompassed on all sides by a multiplicity of Gods; one by one, you hast overcome them, and cast them out.
The giant of the great beast, the false Gods, lie dead and cold at your*** feet.
But your*** God profited in your*** footsteps, and in the words of your*** mouth: There is but one Great Spirit, Jehovih!
And I have provided unto you*, after the manner of your*** forefathers, a place to inhabit, where you should not longer pay tribute to the Gods of the idolaters.
Because, for two thousand years, you hast not gone forth with the sword to possess any new country, and establish thyself, you are glorified before your*** God.
Think not that this book is mine only revelation in this day; within your** house, O Israel, you should prepare unto the voice of your*** God.
Judge you not, O Israel, who are apostates before your*** God.
And they say: God prospered me!
For which reason, more are they apostatized in my sight, than such as are good, who say: There is no God.
IN THE WORDS OF GOD.
Nor hide thyself behind doctrines, or behind the promises of Gods or Saviors.
These are also graded by your*** God, according to the ascendancy or the declension of the whole.
You are remembered, O man, by your*** God, and admonished and instructed for thy soul's sake that you mayest become a glory to your*** Creator and to thyself.
Remember your*** Creator and the comprehension of His kingdoms; and be considerate of the words of your*** God:
In this, you are graded by your*** God.
These are the labors of your*** God.
Magnify your*** perception, O man, that you mayst comprehend the kingdoms of thy God.
Even larger than these are the divisions (plateaux) of the heavens of your*** God; the heavens of the earth are separated by atmospherean oceans.
These are the dominions given into the keeping of your*** God.
As you, O man of the earth, sailest your*** ships abroad over the ocean, and coming to a new land, going ashore, dost settle your*** people thereon, and it become a new kingdom, even so doth your*** God in the heavens of the earth, in the plateaux of this vortex.
Consider the habitations of the resurrections of the dead which are in the keeping of thy God.
Behold me, your*** God; I am your*** elder brother which He sent after you*.
Come you, and learn wisdom of your*** God.
You turnest thy back to me, and sayest: Behold, there is no God!
And your*** God weep''' for you*; because, in the time of your*** death, you should stand in heaven in grade one, even as the spirits of the beasts of the field.
Neither should you call out: God, God, exalt my soul!
And that he that practice the All Highest he know, hath the ear and the hand of his God!
O man, that you wouldst put thyself in the way of your*** God!
Of the foundations of the resurrections of your*** God, there are two kinds; one, which deal''' with those already born, and the other, with such as are not yet born.
The delight of your*** God, who hath dominion over both, the earth and her heavens, is to witness the birth as such as come from the pure in flesh and pure in spirit.
This is the fountain-head, which your*** God would bring to the understanding of all people.
In this matter, you takest upon thyself a new grade, according to your*** heirs and thy God-ship over them.
You should find joy in your*** talents, and profit in the wisdom of your*** God.
But to induce the spirits of the dead to rise up from the earth, this is the work and the glory of your*** God.
To make them put away earthly desires, to become pure and wise and strong and adapted to the sublimated spheres, what an endless labor for your*** God and his exalted angels.
And, in time, all holiness pass''' away therefrom; and, when your*** God abandon''' that city for a day, taking hence his holy angels, the people fall into anarchy, or run with brands of fire, and burn down the city.
And the hundreds of millions of drujas lose their anchorage on the earth, and your*** God and his exalted ones march them away.
Be upright before your*** Creator and your*** God, who know your*** weakness.
O man, weigh the words of your*** God, your*** elder brother, of tens of thousands of years experience.
It hath been said of old: You can not serve both, God and self.
To serve your*** God, is to work for others, especially the sick and helpless, and not for thyself.
Hear you your*** God, and weigh his words in the balance, and be not blinded by the tricks of satan.
And straightway they raise his salary, and they present him a good house, where he feast''' sumptuously every day, thanking God for his own prosperity.
To serve your*** God, or to preach and practice the words of your*** God, require not great oratory or education.
One cry out: Come to God!
Did your*** God limit you*, saying: Do you this, in the present condition of society?
The words of your*** God are not for the glory of any man under the sun, or for any angel in heaven, but for Jehovih.
Remember the words of your*** God, O man, and be reasonable in your*** understanding.
Neither their doctrines, nor sacred books, nor their Gods, nor Lords, nor Saviors are anything before me.
I do not command, saying: You should believe, because I, your*** God, hath said it, or revealed it in this book.
But I say unto you*, your*** God labor''' not in such method.
Hear the words of your God, O you**** priests and preachers and rab'bahs, and all you**** that set yourselves up before men, professing to hold the key to salvation and the places of my resurrections in heaven.
Hearken to the words of your elder brother, God of these heavens and the earth; behold, I will set you in judgment over yourselves; and the powers of Jehovih within you should cry out for truth and justice.
Choose you**** the best of your flock, and show before your God an example of all such as serve not mammon, but Jehovih.
Nor say: When we are dead, our souls should turn suddenly good, and ascend to the right hand of God.
You**** are marked by your God!
Behold, O you**** destroyers of religion; you**** perverters of the word of your God.
GOD GIVETH A NEW RELIGION.
God said: Hear the words of your God, O you**** preachers, priests and rab'bahs; seek not to gainsay my words.
And you**** should take neither money, nor scrip for your labor, but be an example of faith in the promises of God.
You**** go not to the drunkard's den, nor to the unfortunate woman; these you**** take not in your arms, saying: My brother, my sister, come with me, I will show you the kingdom of God!
Neither avail''' it you one jot or tittle, to rise at break of day and recite prayers all day, nor to say: God help the poor!
or: Blessed are you, my God!
This is the new religion, which I give unto you; and, moreover, let it be a prophecy to you of the words of your God.
GOD DECLARETH A DAY OF JUDGMENT, AND ALSO HE BEQUEATHETH LIBERTY UNTO ALL MEN.
God said: There should be a day of judgment unto you*, O man.
But touching the matter, as to how you should judge thyself, hear you the wisdom of thy God, your*** elder brother, and profit you accordingly.
Think not, that the soul growe by prayers or confessions unto this God, or that God; for, in whatsoever God you firmly believest, him mayest you worship, for he is thy choice.
But, remember, the same rule hold unto all in this day, no God, Lord or Savior should exalt you* for words without works.
For, behold, I have cast out the Gods, Lords and Saviors on the earth and in the heavens who promised otherwise.
Nevertheless, if you worship a God, or Lord, and he be as a figure unto you* to cast thine eyes into your** own soul, to purify thyself in the sight of your*** Creator, it should not be accounted as if you worshipped a man.
Yet this also should you prove: That, whosoever of the ancients were great, or whatever Gods were well known, that you settest your*** soul on to love, behold, familiar spirits will come to you* to deceive you*, professing to be such ancients or Gods.
This day in the lower heavens there are millions of false Brahmas, millions of false Budhas, millions of false Kristes and millions of false Gabriel-Gods.
For which reason you should school thyself every day of your*** life, that thy Creator only is your*** God; and that Him you should never see as you seest a man or an angel; but that Him also you can see every day in the glory of His works.
With this faith in your*** soul, you should die and enter heaven fearlessly; and, when a pretended God or Savior come to you* asking tribute, you should know of a truth he is false.
Neither should you judge thyself by any God, or Lord, or Savior, or by any idol, or by any man or woman; for you standest thyself second to Jehovih in your*** attributes.
It behoove you* to make a God of thyself, in your*** behavior and in your*** words and deeds.
Neither should you judge thyself by any sacred book, or any bible, in all the world; nor by the words within them purporting to be my words, or the words of any God, Lord or Savior.
For I have abolished all such sacred books and bibles and words and sayings contained in them, purporting to be my words and the words of any God, Lord or Savior.
Neither should you, henceforth, swear by any book under the sun; nor by any God, nor Lord, nor Savior, nor spirit, nor idol, nor image.
Behold, the olden times are past away; and your*** God set aside the bondages of the olden times also.
None can stay the hand of the Almighty or gainsay the words of your*** God.
GOD DECREETH AGAINST INFIDELITY.
God said: Hear the words of your*** God, O man.
And your*** God come not now as a dictator, but as your*** elder brother, with ample experience.
And I say unto you*, after the manner of your* professors in the college to their graduated classes: Behold, you are free; go your* way, and no longer hope to hold your*** God accountable for your*** behavior.
Think not, because I emancipate you* from the God and Lords and Saviors of the ancients:
More are you bound now than before; for you should not, henceforth, throw the responsibility of your*** conduct on to this man, nor that man, nor this God, nor Lord, nor Savior, nor holy book, nor bible, nor priest, nor church decree.
Many of these should return to you*, saying: There is no hell, no satan, no God, or Lord, nor anything in this world to make you* afraid.
For, of a truth, the hell they looked for, they found not; nor found they a God, nor Lord, nor Savior, such as they had hoped to find.
And after that, when they come to you*, they will also proclaim, even as your*** God now doth: That the commandments must be fulfilled:
Remember the words of your*** God, O man, when angels or men advise you* against these commandments, they have little to offer you* that will promote the harmony of the state.
Judge, then, O man, when one spirit come to you* preaching one thing, and another spirit come to you* preaching another thing, their words are proof that they have not yet entered the harmonious heavens of your*** God.
God said: I have heard your*** prayer, O man: Thy kingdom come on earth, as it is in heaven.
Now, behold, Jehovih hath sent me, your*** God, to answer your*** prayer.
And that you are servant to no God, nor Lord, nor Savior, nor church, unacceptable to any man in all the world.
GOD judge UZ, COMMONLY CALLED THE WORLD’S PEOPLE.
God said: I am not come in this era to judge the drunkard, the harlot and thieves and murderers; these are known unto you*, O man.
Therefore, O man, hear the judgment of your*** God against them: They are not united and affiliated as brothers.
Now, hear me, O man, and consider the wisdom of your*** God: Satan is wiser than any of these I have named.
This, then, is what befall''' the nations and peoples of the earth: Alike and like the angels of heaven minister unto mortals (save wherein your*** God and his Lords provide especially otherwise), the inorganic heavenly regions to the inorganic inhabitants of the earth.
Now, behold, I said unto you*, in the olden times, try the spirits, and see, if they be of God.
GOD SHOWETH HOW TO KNOW THE KIND OF ANGELS THAT MINISTER UNTO MORTALS.
God said: One rule have I given unto all men, whereby it may be known what kind of angels minister unto them; that rule is a mortal's own manifestations and behavior.
Another will say: I have very Gods who attend me!
Think not, that my discipline is less systematic than that of a mortal general's army, or that the heavens of your*** God are permitted to run at loose ends, and without order or concert of action.
GOD SHOWETH HOW AND WHEN THE SECOND RESURRECTION MANIFESTETH UNTO MORTALS.
God said: In the cities and country places, I have innumerable Lords, apportioned to districts and to the mortals and angels thereof.
For, if one should so desire, he would not be of the God-head, but of himself.
Now, therefore, O man, consider the judgment of your*** God against all such as are called the best of men, the wisest of men, the greatest of kings or queens or popes; for none of these have even passed the first resurrection in their own practice.
GOD judge THE ASCETIC.
God said: There are such as shut themselves up in colleges (convents and nunneries), and such as retire to the forests, devoting their lives to prayers, confessions and rites and ceremonies, being most systematic in routine, and in being shut away from the Uzians [world's people].
Be considerate, O man, of the words of your*** God: He, who created you*, gave to you* one star of light whereby you mayst determine truth and wisdom.
The aborigine, that rove foolishly in the forest, stand higher, therefore, before thy God, than doth the nun or the ascetic.
Be you not put off by the cunning of satan's words in the mouths of priests or popes; but look matters in the face, and be you a God thyself in discerning things that meliorate the condition of man.
GOD judge CHARITIES.
God said: A certain man built a dam across a river, using only stones, but no cement.
I say unto thee, that that city understand not the kingdom of your*** God.
GOD SHOWETH HOW TO DO CHARITY.
God said: O man, consider the folly of individual effort!
showe that you**** measure not as your God measure.
GOD judge THE MISSIONARIES.
God said: In the olden time, I commanded you*, saying: Go forth into all the world, preaching my doctrines, chief of which was: There is but ONE, even the I AM; Him should you love with all your* heart and your* mind and your*** soul, and love thy neighbor as thyself, having faith in Jehovih through righteousness and good works.
For this was the judgment of your*** God against you*, because you hadst turned against the I AM, teaching another God than Jehovih.
And, following in your*** path, whithersoever you hadst gone, thousands and millions of drujas followed you*; and your*** people went with weapons of destruction, slaughtering those Jehovih had created alive, in order to establish your*** idol-God.
or to sing anthems in praise of your*** idol-God.
Thy God measure you* and your*** converts according to such purification as add to the glory of everlasting life, as well in heaven as on earth.
GOD judge DOMINIONS.
God said: Now, behold, a certain rich man coveted his neighbors' children, and he went about and captured many of them.
Hear, now, the judgment of your*** God, O man: Soon or late, all things answer unto Jehovih in a way man imagine not.
Such, then, is the judgment of your*** God upon dominion; and this should be ratified in time to come by every ruler on the face of the earth.
GOD judge THE MAN OF PROMISE.
God said: Consider the judgments of God, O you man of many promises.
Behold, I have heard you* say: O God, if I were rich; or, if this undertaking hold good; or, if I am spared, then will I do something handsome for the Father's kingdom!
Hear you, then, the judgment of your*** God, for it is that which you should put upon thyself after your** entrance into the es world.
GOD judge AGAINST WAR.
God said: Now, behold, O man, I have declared my first and second resurrections unto thee.
And so on are all the heavens of Jehovih, higher and higher, until the inhabitants thereof and therein become very Lords and Gods.
Nevertheless, hear you, O man, the wisdom of your*** God, and be appreciative of the way of resurrection being opened up unto you*.
Now, hear you, O man, the judgment of your*** God: Half the people, born into the world, including still-births and abortions, die in infancy.
In olden times, the false Gods used such angels to fulfill curses on mortals; and to carry poison in the air, and inoculate mortals with foul diseases.
Behold, in this day, my angels have shown you* that they can bring flowers and ponderous bodies; even so could the false Gods with their trained warrior angels, who delighted in evil, cast mortals in death by poisons and suffocation.
Behold, your*** God hath come to put away old things, and to give unto you the kingdoms of Jehovih, as they are in His exalted heavens.
Heed you the judgments of your*** God; you can not stay the hand of the Almighty.
GOD judge AGAINST EXCLUSIVENESS.
God said: Hear the judgments of your*** God, O man; look you upon all the world with the eye of a God.
Now, I, your*** God, O man, declare this judgment unto you*: Inasmuch as your*** wisdom hath surmounted the corporeal barrier, the ocean, between you* and your*** brother, it is meet and proper, that your*** soul surmount the barrier of prejudice against your*** brother.
Now, behold, when kosmon came, I said unto you*: Come with your*** God; peacefully should you knock at the doors of Chine'ya and Japan, and they should open unto you*.
GOD judge THE GOVERNMENTS OF MAN.
God said: When a man hath young children, he make just laws, in order to teach them discretion, justice, harmony and consideration, in regard to one another.
When a government no longer fill''' the grade, according to the advancement of the people, behold, your*** God withdraw''' his heavenly protection from that government.
In these respects, O man, governments are measured and graded by your*** God.
Hear the wisdom of your*** God, O man, and consider the way of righteousness in the governments of mortals:
The more diverse the government is from the people, the farther it is from the kingdom of your*** God.
And your*** God rate it the same as a selfish man, being diverse from Jehovih and His kingdoms.
Flatter not thyself, O man, that these matters can escape the observation of thy God.
GOD DECLARETH AGAINST THE GOVERNMENTS OF MAN.
God said: Whoso live with Jehovih is free from Jehovih.
Nevertheless, when a child hath attained to fourteen years of age, and it choose of its own accord to be sprinkled with water, to conform to the rites and ceremonies, then that child should be thus baptized in the name of Jehovih, but not in the name of God, nor any Lord, nor a Savior, nor an angel.
In kosmon, man should not be longer driven in yoke and harness, but should stand upright before Jehovih, practicing his highest light with rejoicing, being a free man, and a brother to his God!
Behold, the Uzians have a custom of eating bread, and drinking wine, saying, after the manner of the worshipers of Baugh-ghan-ghad, of old: Eat of this, for it is my flesh; and, drink of this, for it is my blood, signifying, that that they do, was commanded by me, God of heaven and earth.
Thy God never commanded man to eat flesh and blood, nor pretended that bread and wine were flesh and blood, nor commanded them to be eaten in remembrance of the flesh and blood of any man born of woman.
GOD SHOWETH HOW HE HATH WROUGHT.
God saith: Behold, the work of my hand, O man: As you findest an old house, no longer habitable, you sendest workmen to pull it down, and then, you sendest laborers to clear away the rubbish.
Even so, hath your*** God labored, for hundreds of years, to prepare unto the generations of this day.
And now, behold, O man, the wisdom of Jehovih previously: He had permitted corruptions and contradictions to creep into the sacred books of all of the said great religions, purposely and with design, so as to make easy the work of your*** God.
And, behold, I, your*** God, went to work systematically, inspiring man to accomplish even what man hath accomplished.
And I made the beginning of the work of these infidels and scholars to correspond with the discovery of Guatama by Columbo, and I kept them at their work for three hundred years, which was up to the time of the establishment of the republic of Guatama, which I, your*** God, provided to be untrammeled by an established religion.
First, I sent my miracle-workers forth into every quarter, saying unto them: Whatsoever was done by the ancient Gods and Saviors, do you**** even so, and greater.
For I will show, unto all the world, that no man nor God is worthy to be worshipped because of miracles.
For the time of one generation your*** God hath thus kept open the gates of heaven; working through mortals, by the angels of heaven.
I hide not the work of my hand and of my angels in a corner; I extend them abroad over the earth; I manifest in the cities and country places; I prove unto all peoples, that common men and women can do the miracles for which Gods and Saviors have been worshipped.
GOD REVEALETH HIS METHOD OF WORK.
God said: Think not, O man, that your*** Godgo about a work without a system and order.
So, O man, since four hundred years my loo'is shaped mortal births to bring about the armies of your*** God.
Thus, O man, your*** God knew beforehand what part and what place each and every one of his mortal laborers was adapted to.
And all of this is to one purpose; not to build up or exalt any man, nor God, nor religion, but to found Jehovih's kingdom on earth.
GOD SHOWETH THE MISTAKES OF MAN’S JUDGMENT.
God said: I said unto you*, O man, pursue your* wisdom after the manner of your* God.
Now, behold, because I told you* this, you sought to have children born unto you* after the manner of Gods.
I have chosen me my women, who also comprehend, and, behold, our offspring will be very Gods!
GOD PROVIDE FOR INCREASE.
God said: When your*** educational colony of infants should have grown up to manhood and womanhood, they should understand that, as they were once homeless and fatherless, and ye gathered them up, and provided unto them, even so should they go, and do likewise, gathering up from the Uzians other orphans and castaways, and raising them in other colonies, after the same manner.
It is not the work of your*** God in this cycle to raise up any man to become worshipful because of such wonders; it is my work to show man how he should attain to these things himself.