CHAPTER IV.
1. Hear me, O man, and angels; from my words learn to be wise and deep perceiving. Hewho standeth in darkness, seeth not; the time of Jehovih, none can comprehend. In theLight should be the delight of all men. But who practiceth to his highest knowledge? Before my days, time was no nearer the beginning of the universe than now. There weremen who believed that with death all would be ended to every man; and Jehovih sentangels to prove them in their folly; and though they saw them, and talked with them faceto face, many would not believe.
2. And in the lower heaven they were the same; they would not believe in a higherheaven. And though ethereans came to them to prove them in their folly, and talked withthem face to face, yet many would not believe.
3. I searched the disbelievers, to understand their souls; and I found they were begotten in inharmony. They prided themselves in their wisdom; but that that they called wisdomwas as a serpent in the soul.
4. Jehovih spake to me, saying: Hear thy Creator, O My Son: In atmospherea thou shaltappoint ten thousand Lords, with ten thousand kingdoms; and the earth and theinhabitants thereof shall be divided between them.
5. And thou shalt build a new kingdom in heaven, and call it Gau,1 and it shall be thyjudgment seat, with a Council of one hundred thousand men and women.
6. And all thy Lords shall be called Apollo! And they shall inspire men to make images ofstone and wood. And the images shall have short arms and long legs; and nails insteadof claws on the fingers, and well-formed mouths, with shape for motion of the cheeks.
7. And thy Lords shall find the loo'is who have been preparing these matters by birth; andthe loo'is shall lead the angels around about amongst mortals, finding the most comely-formedmen and women and young children. And when they have thus chosen them, theyshall report the matter to the Lords, and they shall send ethereans to those mortals whoare selected, and they shall be quickened by signs and miracles.
8. And it shall be proven before all the nations of the earth, and their kings and queensand governors, that the comeliness of the forms are pleasant in My sight, wherefore Icome to them. And those who are thus selected shall sing and dance by entrancement; sothat kings and queens shall be overcome by the achievements. And those that dance shallbe made to float in the air, and sail about in the dance.
9. For I will turn the judgment of man to beautify himself; and, in so doing, he shall learnto perceive beauty and harmony in My works.
1 Gau is also mentioned in the Vedic Scriptures as the home of the God, Sughdha.
CHAPTER V.
1. Think not, O man, the Gods always deliver the nations of the earth in a day or bymiracles. They go to the foundation of a matter; they make man a servant to help deliverhimself. They stir up the nations in rites and ceremonies first; then come after, andappropriate the rites and ceremonies. And the women look on, receiving the spirit of thematter in their souls, the which entaileth on their offspring that which is desired by theGods.
2. With the hosts of high heaven, unseen by mortals, the Lords stir up the whole world. Inone generation, behold, a new race is born. Man is unfitted for dangerous war, and nolonger the delight of drujas hanging around. And the drujas, and the familiars, turn fromthe peaceful earth (to them stale and unprofitable in bloody entertainments), to find theirown petty kingdoms broken down and gone.
3. Be wise, O man, and ye angels of earth! Hear the voice of thy brother, God ofthree worlds! I will tell thee a great secret: These are the words of thy Creator: Man andwoman are pro-creators! Whom they beget, are theirs, saith Jehovih. Not for a day, butforever! Take heed of thy offspring, O woman! Take heed, O man! Wilt thou beentailed with druj, to pull thee down? Wilt thou choose offspring to glorify Jehovih?
4. Have not thy people boasted, O earth? Have they not said: O the poor ancients! Whatof them? Will they turn away from the idols of Apollo, and set up on their own account? Can the people hand down a name and models to live forever?
5. So I founded Gau in the place Hored had been, extending over Jaffeth, Shem and Ham;and the rest of the atmospherean heaven I divided amongst my ten thousand Lords andLordesses, whom I selected and ordained in the manner of the ancients.
6. And the Lords established themselves in kingdoms, both on earth and in heaven. Andthey inspired kings and queens to erect images in the temples, and the images were givena name signifying Harmony, Symmetry and Music (Apollo). And the names varied inmany countries, because of the languages of the people; but the significance was thatthese three entities comprised the All Light, the Creator, Jehovih!
7. And mortals were taught by the inspiration of angels how to make the images, for therewere no corporeans sufficiently perfect for models.
8. According to the perfection of the images, so were they reckoned favored by Jehovih;and the sign of Jehovih's approval was manifested in the time of the sacred dance givenby the su'is selected; which was, if the whirling dance caused many women to fall downby enchantment, then was Jehovih pleased.
9. Hear me, O man. The enchantment of the women was what the Lords desired, for theimpression of the soul of woman shapeth the unborn child.
10. Wherefore, they worshipped blindly before the idols, not being sufficiently wiseto understand how Jehovih was laying down the foundation for the coming race.
11. O ye of little wisdom, compared with the Lords of heaven! How ye are puffed up injudgment, not knowing the race whence ye sprang! Jehovih's Gods and Lords mold theinhabitants of the earth as clay is molded in a potter's hand. They set them up and showthem the way, and say to them: Go!
12. And mortals go on a little while, like a young child that tottereth and falleth. Andagain the Lords set them up; and man, in ingratitude, forgetteth and denieth his God.
13. The unseen angels lead man and woman together, and say: Marry! And they wed,and bring forth of the Lord. Then man inquireth: What meanest thou: Bring forth ofthe Lord? But his judgment is under a cloud; he flattereth himself that Jehovihcreated him, and then went away; and since then he hath been his own master!
14. O man, what is thy folly! How has thou found such cunning ways to put off thyCreator? What profit more hast thou to put Him away than to try and perceive Him in allthings? Why wilt thou sing of man who is in darkness, and of the earth, which is but afraction of the Great I Am? Hopest thou not for wisdom, so that guardian angels may goaway and rest?
15. Why shall they stand over thee day and night, to keep away familiars and fetals anddrujas? Who shall close thy mouth against falsehold, and thy lips against cursing thyCreator? Hopest thou not, O man, that a wiser age will follow? When shall man learnharmony, symmetry and music? Who will hire a musician that forever putteth hisinstrument out of tune? Why shall the Gods applaud men or angels who live not attunedto the All Highest?
16. Show me one who is as good as he understandeth to be; that liveth as wisely as hisgoodness desireth he should. He will understand my words; I can come to him and inspirehim with great wisdom. He will comprehend the love a God hath over mortals; and thepatience of the toiling Lords and angels.
17. Hear me, O man! I will answer thee a great matter: The angels of heaven who aregood, labor for those beneath them. This is their work, day and night. Think not that theygo away to idleness forever. To the etherean, industry becometh rest; to those who haveattained to be Gods there is spontaneous growth forever. Remember this and be wise. Tothe atmospherean and to mortals, idleness of soul leadeth downward forever! Rememberthis also, and be wise.
18. Behold the rose and the lily; they are perfect in their order. Being one with Jehovih,they painted not themselves. Let thy soul practice with thy Creator, and thou shalt becomeone with Him, even His Son. Find thou the symmetry of flesh, the symmetry of the spirit;the harmony of music,2 and consider wisely thy behavior.
19. The star of Jehovih is within thy soul; feed it, O man, and thou, O angel of heaven,and it will grow to be a God! Rob it, or starve it, and thou shalt remain nothing. It is weakand dim in the vain; it is bright and of great power in him who forgetteth himself inlaboring for others.
2 Music here refers to general expression or action; in other words, gracefulness in all things. The ancient Greeks gave a similar interpretation to the word music.
CHAPTER VI.
1. Jehovih spake in the light of the throne of Gau, saying: My Son, thou has set thetemples of earth wisely, and thy ten thousand Lords have the voice of thy Creator. But,behold, this dawn of dan hath but five years and two hundred days. The five years arealready gone. Call together thy etherean hosts, and they shall report to thee who shall bethe successors to thee and thy Lords. I answered, saying: Thy will be done, O Father!
2. So I sent messengers around about the world repeating what Jehovih had commanded. And I added also: When the time of dan is completed, behold, my hosts shall assemble inGau, from whence we shall ascend to our etherean worlds. Let my messengers invite allthe people in all the kingdoms of atmospherea to be present. And these things were done.
3. Now, of the ten thousand kingdoms of the Lords of heaven and earth of that day, manyof them held their places within the corporeal temples of worship, having spiritual throneswithin them, where the hosts of angels assembled to counsel on the affairs of mortals, andto advise with them through the prophets and seers.
4. Neither was there a temple in all the world for consulting the spirits and Gods but whatwas usurped by my etherean hosts. So that when kings or queens came to consult theoracle on matters of war or personal aggrandizement, my hosts answered them not to theirown profit, but with the voice of Jehovih.
5. So it turned out, that when the chief false Gods and false Lords were driven out of thecorporeal temples, they lost interest in mortal affairs. And I classified them and made newkingdoms in the lower heaven for them, forming them into confederacies. And they, too,became earnest workers to establish themselves in harmony, symmetry and music. And atthe end of the time of hi'dan there was not one false God nor false Lord in atmospherea.
