CHAPTER IV.
1. The Council of Yeshuah, of which there were one million members, was formed ingroups, and these again represented in groups, and these in still other groups. Consequently, a group of one thousand had one speaker, who became the voice of thatthousand; of these speakers, one hundred had one voice in council; and of these, ten hadone voice before God, and he was the voice of the whole, and Jehovih was his voice. Thus was the whole council represented in all its parts. And this was the manner ofproceeding, to wit:
2. God commanded the subject; the council deliberated in thousands, and each speakerbecame aware of the voice of his group. Then these speakers assembled in hundreds anddeliberated, and they again centered into one voice; and each ten of these had one voicebefore God. Thus it came to pass that the decrees of God were both the wisdom of menand of Jehovih. Hence the saying: When God said this, or God commanded that, it wasthe word of Jehovih expressed by men and angels.
3. After God and his hosts visited the earth and the lower heaven, they returned toYeshuah and sat in council on the affairs of mortals and atmosphereans.
4. God said: Behold, the heavens and earth have become like gardens grown foul andrank, producing nothing. I have come with a pruning knife and a consuming fire.
5. God said: I withdraw from the druj and the druk the beneficence of Jehovih's chosen; Ileave them destitute. Who can approach the beggar with wisdom, or the king withinspiration to be good? A drowning man will try to swim; but the reveler in lust mustperish before his soul can learn Jehovih.
6. Better is it to labor with a child from infancy, and thence to maturity, to teach it aright,than to strive with a score of conceited adults, and fail to redeem one. Who is the mockerof charity more than they that give to such as can help themselves but will not? Wisdomand uprightness of heart are but bread. Preach not to unwelcome ears; are sermons ofwisdom to be forced into men's souls?
7. Blessed Jehovih! He made hunger, and so men love bread. Without hunger they wouldnot eat. A wise God driveth home to man's understanding his helplessness in spirit whenJehovih is denied.
8. Pursue the earth, O my beloved; bring hence all light. Pursue the lower heaven of theearth also; bring hence all light. I will leave the earth and heaven in darkness one wholeyear. They shall cry out; their conceit in the dumb wind shall fail.
9. Have not the spirits of heaven despoiled Hored and Moeb? Do not evil spirits and evilmen say: Behold, there is enough! Let us divide. But they produce not. They aredevourers; living on others' substance. The Great Spirit made man to exert; by exertiongroweth he in wisdom and strength.
10. They seek ease and comfort; helpless and more helpless they fall; they are on the roadto everlasting destruction. Happy is the God who can arouse them.
CHAPTER V.
1. God said: Blessed is the surgeon's knife; its burn is the capital of health regained; butyet a fool will cry out: Hold! hold! enough! thou inflicter of pain!
2. Who hath an eye like Jehovih? His whipping-posts are on all sides, but there is a clearroad between them. Yet man followeth it not.
3. Withdraw all good men and good angels, and there is no person left; they would not behalf made up. A man without an arm or a leg is but part of a man; a man withoutperception of the All Person is a deformity in soul. He seeketh a home for his own easeand glory; but the Son of Jehovih seeketh to find the severest labor that will profit hisbrethren.
4. Yeshuah shall be my homestead; hither will I bring the fruit of heaven below; hitherbuild my training schools. Seven years shall be my service; and they shall learn the waysof etherea. Build me a house of brotherhood and fill it with willing pupils sworn to labor. I will make them Gods and Lords with power and wisdom.
5. Behold a man maketh a factory and turneth out fabric for sale. I make a college and Iturn out sons and daughters of Jehovih, to give away. Bring me such material as willstand in warp and filling; Jehovih's fabric shall endure forever. Search me out the seed ofI'hin, and house them with care, for they shall redeem the earth-born after I ascend to theFather's kingdom.
CHAPTER VI.
1. All the first best angels of atmospherea were brought away from the earth and housedin Yeshuah, being placed at school and in factories new made in heaven. These wereI'hins.
2. The second first-best spirits were brought also, but placed in hospitals and nurseries.
3. Of those who had advanced to receive the second resurrection, God said: Build anetherean ship and take them to Theistivi, in etherea.
4. So it came to pass there were two hundred millions raised to the second resurrection, ofthe grade thirty-five. Theistivi lieth betwixt etherea and Seven A'ji, which is the lowest ofthe etherean heavens next to an atmospherean abode.
5. God said: Two qualities have I left in Yeshuah, first and second. These shall be thenew kingdom after I am ascended. From these I will raise up a God and Lords, and theyshall rule over the lower heaven and the earth; and they shall bequeath to others afterthem to rule in like manner.
6. Thus was founded the second light of Jehovih on the fruit of the earth. God's ethereanhosts became as a training school to raise up a God and Lords and marshals and es'enaurs,and all other officers, and men and women, for a lower heaven. God said: Yeshuah shallnot approach nearer the earth; nor shall it be as Hored, where spirits of darkness mighteasily approach.
7. One hundred millions of spirits did God and his Lords and fellow-laborers bring fromthe earth to Yeshuah, and they were placed in a brotherhood apportioned in the placessuited to their talents. And God divided the time of study, and of recreation, and of music,and of discipline, marching, and so on, suited to all the people; and it was a place of orderand glory.
8. For without discipline there is nothing; and discipline cannot be without ceremony; norceremony without rites, and forms, and established words. Is it not a foolish soldier thatsaith: Behold I am wise! I need no discipline nor manual of arms. What more is he thanone of an untutored mob?
9. God said: As I drill them in heaven to make them a unit, so give ye to mortals rites and ceremonies, that, coming into heaven, they go not back to their old haunts and fallin darkness. Whatever tendeth to harmonize the behavior of individuals is of theFather; the opposite tendeth to evil. Better is it that men march to the sound of onemonotonous word, than not to march at all; the value lieth not in the word, but inbringing in unison that which was void. A fool saith: I need not pray, there is no virtue inwords. But his soul groweth up at variance with Jehovih. Neither is there more virtuein the prayer or the words, than in marching (sacred dance) before Jehovih; forwhatever tendeth to unite men in one expression of soul in harmony, is Jehovih's.
10. Sacred dances and rites and ceremonies were established in Yeshuah in the name ofJehovih; and the new heaven became a place of delight.
11. God said: Teach my chosen to labor hard and wisely; and to dance with energy, and tosing with strength and fullness of soul. For what more is there in any man or woman thanto learn to put forth? And what more pitiful thing is there in heaven than a man or womanwho hath but dragged along?
