The Lords’ Third Book

BEING CONTEMPORARY WITH THE BOOK OF APOLLO, SON OF JEHOVIH. AS THE LATTER BOOK IS OF HEAVEN, SO IS THE LORDS’ BOOK OF EARTH, FOR THE SAME PERIOD OF TIME.

CHAPTER I.

1. In the time of heaven known as the arc of Rupta and Mos, the Lord descended to the earth in a sea of fire, to the land of Guatama.
2. And the Lord spake over the land and over the waters, calling and speaking: Where are the I’hins, the chosen of the Lord? Speak, O man; come forth at the call of your*** God.
3. Then spake man, answering to the call of God, saying:
4. More than a million; more than two, more than four millions, are your*** people, O Lord!
5. The Lord inquired: Where are my people? Where is the place and boundary of the sacred people, the I’hins, whom I delivered in the time of the flood?
6. And man answered, saying: From the head of the Ca’ca’tsak, the mountain river of rivers (Amazon). In Thes’onka, wide as the ocean, and the mountain plains of Om (Mexico). To the great cities of O’wan’gache and Nathon; and Neshesh, and Tesumethgad, and Naphal; and Yeshuah, by the Lake Owane (Nicaragua), here stand the tower of Rakowana, shining with copper and silver and gold. And by the river Raxaa and her lake, Jon’gan. And over the plains of Go’magat (crescent) and Takshan, where they build great boats with sails of cloth, and beams across. And to the north land of Uphsic and E’chaung, where begin the still river Eph’su (a canal), running to the wide oceans, Vid and Sajins (Lakes Superior and Michigan), where the I’huans dig deep down and bring copper and silver and lead in boats to the King of Avaya, I’huan monarch and good protector.
7. The Lord said: The greatest place of all you has not named.1 Thine eyes have not seen, thine ears heard not. Search, therefore, and be wise. Man said:
8. I was ashamed before God, so I set out to get great learning to know of what the Lord spake. And I traveled one year to the north, and many moons to the south and east. And I found a rab-bah2 of great learning, both in books and spoken words; and not a few prophets of the Lord in the great cities. So I inquired, saying: Which is the greatest place of the Lord’s chosen? And, lo and behold, they answered even as I had answered the Lord. Then I came to the city of Ta’zuntqua, a place for the yearly dance in the valley of On-outsi, where the rab’bah’s temple is covered with copper, polished; and I asked the same question. For the che’ba within me desired to make a record of all things valuable; but, alas, I got no other answer than the echo of my own words.
9. God said: Where are my chosen? Where is the greatest place of the I’hins? You hast shown me the I’huans, their great cities and kingdoms; their places of great learning. But the greatest of all, you hast not shown.
10. Man answered: I know not, O Lord. Speak thou?
11. The Lord said: In amongst the I’huans are the I’hins, the little sacred people. The little cities in the suburbs of the large cities of the I’huans, these are the greatest cities.
12. Man inquired of God: How can that be? Behold, the I’huans are three to one, compared to the I’hins!
13. The Lord said: These that build temples of hewn stone, and cover them with polished copper, are not my people. These warrior kings, that fortify their cities with soldiers, are not my people. They are not great.
14. But these are my chosen, that live in mounds, and in cities with wooden walls, and clay walls. They are the greatest of all people. They dress not in gaudy colors, nor ornament themselves with copper and silver and gold.
15. They are the people of learning. They survey the way for the canals; they find the square and the arch; they lead the I’huan to the mines, where lead and copper and silver are buried. These are a great people.
16. Without them the I’huan could not build his own house; he could not find the level for a canal; nor provide the square of his temple. The I’hins are the greatest people.
17. My chosen have shapely legs and arms, and feet and hands; and their hair growe long and straight, white and yellow.
18. The Lord said: Because the I’huan is of all shapes and sizes; and of all grades and judgment, even down to the ignorance of a beast, behold, he is bringing forth heirs of darkness.
19. Come unto the Lord, O you* that are chosen. You* have built houses and temples for the I’huans, but of what avail are these things?
20. Behold, they are at war, tribe against tribe, nation against nation. They no longer hearken to my rab’bahs, the priests of my chosen.
21. Go to, now, you**** should build temples unto God.
22. Then the I’hins inquired the meaning of the word of God.
23. The Lord said: Long have I prophesied through my chosen, the I’hins. Now will I raise up prophets amongst the I’huans, the copper-colored race.
24. This is the temple you**** should build unto the Great Spirit and His kingdoms in haden.3
25. Two peoples there are before my judgment, saith the Lord: The one that hear”’ not the voice of God, nor know him; but the other people know me, and endeavor to obey my commandments.
26. And God was weary with laboring for the I’huans; for they went more after the way of darkness than light.
27. And the Lord called hence his guardian angels, leaving the I’huans alone for a season. And spirits of darkness came upon them and obsessed them.
28. And in that same time the Lord caused his chosen to display the mold of their thighs, and their short shapely arms. And the I’huans tempted them, contrary to law. So, it came to pass, that the I’huan women boasted of their conquests, bringing forth heirs of more shapeliness.
29. Now, in course of time, these heirs grew to be men and women; and, behold, they had the gift of prophecy, and of seeing visions and of hearing the voice of the angels of heaven. And they were called Ongwee-ghan, signifying, good shaped men.

1 In another place described, this country seems to have been inhabited first in Central or South America, and to have embraced South America, Mexico, Texas and the Western Mississippi, whence a canal extended to the Lake Superior mines. Further research now shows that these wonderful people also extended over a large part of Tennessee and Ohio, and part of Kentucky, and a large portion of Kansas. The extent of the country inhabited by these sacred people shows that not less than 4,000,000 could have occupied it.
2 The modern Chinese omit the first syllable, saying “bah,” signifying “father.” The usual spelling of the Hebrew word rabbi is not phonetically true. The “i” is sounded more like “oi,” and the accent is on the second syllable. “Ra” usually signifies earth or mortal, and, if accented, destroys the spiritual value of the word. The Hebrew pronunciation should be “r-r-b-boi,” accented on the second syllable. This would signify spiritual father or priest; while the pronunciation “rab’bi,” accented on the first syllable, makes the meaning “earthly priesthood,” which is nothing.
3 Haden is both the Chinese and Algonquin name for sky. Phoenicians said, Aden; the modern Hebrew, however, is sha-chag. Aven is the mythical Hebrew for an undefinable place or idol. Some scholars trace the English word Heaven to the same source. Galgal is a condition of the mind.

CHAPTER II.

1. God said: Suffer not the Ongwee to dwell with the I’hin, lest the seed of my chosen be lost.
2. The Ongwees came suddenly into the world; came in the north and south and east and west; came by thousands and thousands. And they had long hair, black and coarse; but their skin was brown, copper-colored; and their arms were short, like the I’hins. Very proud were the Ongwees, they would not mix with the I’huans; and they dared not mix with the sacred people, because of the commandment of the Lord.
3. So, the Ongwee-ghan became a new race in the world, having all the symmetry of the I’hin, and the savageness of the I’huans. And, being feeders on flesh and fish, fell under the dominion of angels of the lower heaven, and they rejected the Lord God.
4. The Lord said: Even this will I appropriate for their own salvation in time to come.
5. So the Lord commanded the I’hins to give to the Ongwees laws, rites and ceremonies; and these things were done as commanded.
6. Then came the angels of the lower heaven, teaching the Ongwees the secret of making eunuchs of their enemies, the I’huans with the long arms; teaching them how to make spears and bows with arrows, and darts and fishing-hooks and nets; teaching them how to make fire by striking flint stones; teaching them how to cook flesh and fish to make them more palatable. And this was the first cooked food for man since the days of the flood.
7. The I’hins feared the Lord would visit a judgment upon the land, because of the Ongwees killing and eating flesh; but the Lord said unto them: Suffer you**** the Ongwees to fulfill their labor; too full is all the land with beasts and serpents. Nevertheless, it should come to pass that great destruction should come upon the I’huans, and the ground people, and the Ongwees. Their great cities should be destroyed, and the lands laid desolate; but I will rebuild them again with greater glory than in this day.
8. And so it came to pass, as the Lord had spoken through the I’hin prophets. In three thousand years the large and handsome race, the Ongwees, transcended the long-armed I’huans, the short-legged race.
9. God said: Hear me, O man! Understand the labor of the Lord thy God. Jehovih saith to the Lord: Go you to yonder earth, and make man upright (on two feet). And the Lord accomplish”’ it. Then saith Jehovih: Go yonder, and make man shapely on the earth. And the Lord find a way to do this also.
10. Forget not the Lord your* God; such labor will fall to your* lot when you are long risen in heaven. Behold, there are millions of worlds, new coming into being every day. Expand thy judgment; make thyself comprehensive, that you mayst fulfill in wisdom the glory of the Almighty.

CHAPTER III.

1. God said: Hear the word of the Lord, O man; be considerate in your* little wisdom of the magnitude of the labor of your* Lord.
2. Certain times and seasons are allotted by Jehovih for the development of new orders of men on the worlds He created. According to the times and seasons and condition of the earth, so hath the Lord your*** God provided the race of man.
3. To raise man up, that he may comprehend the beautiful creation, and that he may be adapted in harmony therewith, is the glory of your*** God.
4. Behold, I have spoken of the land of Guatama! Think not that as one division of the earth is made answerable to my will by a certain rule, that even so another division of the earth is provided in the same way. The Lord your*** God find one place filled with beasts of prey and great serpents, which must be destroyed; and he providea race of men to accomplish this. And man is suffered by God to become carnivorous for a season.
5. In another country the Lord find drought and frequent famine; and he provideman with knowledge adapted thereto. So also are there seasons to the earth, when man should be changed from one condition to another; according to the progress of the earth, so God lifted up man for the glory of the Almighty.
6. Suffer not your*** judgment to mislead you* as to a law of selection. There is no law of selection. Man hath no inspiration of his own to select and provide his progeny, neither in shapeliness nor judgment.
7. He marry because of the impulse of the flesh; nor care he for the issue, whether they have long legs or short ones, or whether they become warriors or imbeciles.
8. And woman even care less than man. Nevertheless, a time come upon the world, in a later age, when man and woman both consider these things, and somewhat govern themselves accordingly. But in such an era they are almost fruitless.
9. But in the early age of a world, man hath inherent but two impulses, to eat and to indulge in cohabitation. Neither consider”’ he what may result therefrom. And the Lord and his angels lead man, unknowingly to himself, to fulfill his times and seasons.
10. Now have I come to you* in kosmon to make plain the government of heaven upon the earth; and of your*** God and his angels upon the race of man. Behold, in the time of Apollo, man in his present form was brought into being on the earth. The time and season of the earth was in that day come unto that end. Even as in this day thy Lord hath come to change man from a race of warriors to a race of peace; for now is the time and the season of the earth propitious to that end.
11. In the time of Apollo were the first prophets raised up from other than the I’hin race. In that day, the I’huan, the flesh-eating man, was first capable of hearing the voice of thy Lord understandingly. And your*** God commanded man to remember the God of harmony, symmetry and music, and to build images of him in all the divisions of the earth.
12. Be most searching, O man; for you should find, in this day and generation, the legends and history of Apollo in all the divisions of the earth.
13. And the word of his name, in all languages, hath the same significance.
14. Behold, as in Guatama, the Lord raised up seers, whom he instructed in the methods of slaying beasts of prey and serpents, in the same period of time raised up for the same purpose other seers in Shem, Ham and Jaffeth. And the names of the great slayers are preserved to this day in the mortal histories of these countries.
15. Thus created the Lord a new race on the earth; and in all the divisions thereof, the new race came of the I’hins and the I’huans. According to the different countries where they dwelt, so are they found to this day. In which your*** God provided all these people who are of pure blood to have no other God nor Lord than the Great Spirit, Jehovih.
16. Nevertheless, in the time of Apollo, this race was but a fraction compared to the hundreds of millions of I’huans and ground people and I’hins that dwelt on the earth. But the I’huans were at war for more than a thousand years.
17. They built great cities, and established mighty kingdoms, but as soon as built, lo, the wars laid them low or dissipated them.
18. God said: Now will I give to man a new commandment, which is, to go forth and subdue the earth; to slay every beast of prey and every serpent that come before him.
19. And of beasts of prey and of serpents, should you not eat the flesh, nor the blood, which contain”’ life.
20. Neither should you eat the flesh of the beast with uncloven foot; nor should you eat swine’s flesh.
21. But all cloven-footed animals I give unto you*, for food to eat. For in the day thou takest the place of beasts of prey, you should also take to thyself to eat the flesh they would have eaten.
22. Then the Lord sent I’hin priests to circumcise the new race, the GHAN. And he commanded the Ghans to marry amongst themselves, promising to give all the world into their keeping.
23. And the Ghans began to wear clothes, after the manner of the I’hins; and the latter gave them rites and ceremonies, and taught them how to pray and dance before Jehovih.

END OF THE LORDS’ THIRD BOOK.