GOD’S BOOK OF BEN.
THE NINE ENTITIES.
HEALLHIGHESTLIGHT. The All Knowledge.
Jehovih, or, Jehovih said: And is equivalent to T
AEis equivalent to the words, THEHIGHEST GENERAL EXPRESSION OFMANKIND,or, THEUNIVERSALVOICEWAS.
Corpor, or, corpor said: Corpor signifieth whatever hath length,breadth and thickness.
HEVANISHMENT OF THINGSSEENINTO THINGSUNSEEN. Uz is also equivalent to WORLDLINESS, or, world'speople.
Uz, or, Uz said: Uz is equivalent to T
HERE IS SOMETHINGINTHEWIND; or, AS THINGS SEEM TO INDICATE. Signs of the times.
Esfoma, or, Esfoma said: Equivalent to T
HEUNSEENWORLD, also to, SPIRITWORLD. The testimony of angels. Also spirit.
Es, or, Es said: Equivalent to, T
ARKNESS. Ignorance is ha'k. Darkness may becorporeal or spiritual. Dark ages; or, a time of anarchy and falsephilosophy.
HEPRESENTERA. All knowledge inpossession of man, embracing corporeal and spiritual knowledgesufficiently proven.
HEESTABLISHED, or, THEENFORCED; as the laws of the land, or, the religion of the land, asestablished.
Seffas, or, seffas said: Seffas is equivalent to, T
God said: These are the nine entities; or, according to the ancients, Jehovih and His eight children, His Sons and Daughters. And these are the same, which in all ages, poets and philosophers have made to speak as, THE FAMILY OF THE UNIVERSE. Through them I speak. Jehovih is the Light, that is, Knowledge. The manifestation of Knowledge in man is Jehovih. The growth of wisdom in man, as the earth groweth older, is the tree of light.
GOD’S BOOK OF BEN,
SOMETIMES CALLED BOOK OF THE NINE ENTITIES, BEING THE TREE OF ALL LIGHT.
CHAPTER I.
1. God said: Before the arc of Bon the earth was rank.
2. The seed of the tree of light had been planted many times, but the rankness destroyed it.
3. In the time of the arc of Bon, the earth reached maturity.
4. Jehovih said: I gave to the inhabitants of the earth Capilya, Moses and Chine.
5. Through them the tree of light was made everlasting on the earth.
6. The great peoples then knew I was God, and my word was with them.
7. Es had spoken before that day, and man knew the presence of angels. But he heededthem not.
8. When my word came, man gave heed. Mine was with authority.
9. Emblems, signs and symbols were the letters of man's alphabet to lead him upward inwisdom.
10. Wisdom cometh not suddenly; as darkness goeth away, light cometh.
11. Great knowledge is all around about; to make man perceive it, is the labor of God.
12. Man said: I have looked in corpor, but found not knowledge.
13. Corpor said: Doth thy flesh know? Have thy bones knowledge? Is it in the blood?
14. Jehovih said: I am Knowledge; come thou to Me. I am the Unseen. Behold thyself, Oman! Canst thou put thy finger on the place, and say: Here is knowledge? Hath wisdombulk, and a place?
15. Ha'k said: Who knoweth the boundary of Light? Behold, I cannot hide away fromHim. What is my small corner compared with the All Light of etherea?
16. Jehovih said: Think not that the vault of the firmament is nothing; for thither have Icreated etherean worlds, of sizes equal to the corporeal worlds; but they are independentof them. These are My kingdoms, prepared for the spirits of man and women andchildren, whom I bring forth into life on corpor. Nor are My etherean worlds alike indensity or motion, but of different consistencies, that they may be suitable for the variedadvancement of My children.
17. Man said: O World, give me light. Give me substantial knowledge, that I can put myfinger on it and say: Here is the real!
18. Uz said: O man! Behold thy folly! All things thou seest and hearest and touchest aremy abode.
19. Man said: How sayest thou? Thou art vanishment! All things perish; thou art that thatis without foundation.
20. God said: Thou art both a flesh-man and an es-man. How hopest thou for thy flesh-talentsto acquire substantial knowledge? All substance is evanescent. The real is the AllLight, which thou canst not comprehend.
21. Man said: Why, then, this craving in my soul for all wisdom? Was my creation invain?
22. Jehovih said: Because I created thee craving for light, thou goest forth searching. Thou art on a long road; to the summit of All Light, even Gods have not attained.
23. Man inquired: Why, then, was death created?
24. Uz said: Behold, even stones molder into dust. Wouldst thou have had a separate lawfor man?
25. Es said: I am within thy corpor; when thy corpor moldereth into dust, behold, I am thees-man, thy real self. I am thy spirit; and like a seed planted, I dwell within thy corpor.
26. Jehovih hath said: The corpor of man I created as a womb for the es of man. By death,behold, the es is born.
27. Around about My corporeal worlds I placed atmospherea; for, as the earth and othercorporeal worlds provide a womb for the spirit of man, so have I made atmospherea thesubstance for a womb for the souls of men.
28. Man said: If, when I am dead, I shall see the place, is not the germ of that light alreadyin me? How am I made that I see, but see not this? Hear, but hear not this? If I am nowdead to that which is to be, will I not then be dead to what now is? Give me light, OFather?
29. Jehovih said: To man I gave a corporeal body that he might learn corporeal things; butdeath I made that man might rise in spirit and inherit My etherean worlds.
30. Two senses gave I to all men, corporeal senses and spiritual senses; nevertheless,the twain are one person. A man with corporeal senses transcending, choosethcorporeal things; a man with spiritual senses transcending chooseth spiritual things.
31. Two kinds of worlds have I made: corporeal worlds and es worlds. He who desirethof corpor shall receive from corpor, for he is My Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hewho desireth of es shall receive from es, for she is My Daughter, in whom I am wellpleased.
32. Kosmon said: Because man liveth on corporeal worlds, corpor is called son; butbecause man in spirit liveth in the es worlds, es is called daughter.
CHAPTER II.
1. God said: Hear me, O man. I am come to teach thee wise dominion.
2. Man said: The aborigines were free. Why shall man with more wisdom learndominion?
3. Seffas said: My peace is forced peace; I am the light and the life.
4. Man inquired: Behold, the air of heaven is free. Can dominion come down out ofnothing (as it seemeth) and rule over something (that is proven)?
5. How can God rule over solid flesh?
6. Uz said: O vain man! Do I not come in the winds of heaven and cast cities inepidemic? And yet man seeth me not.
7. I inoculate in the breath; I cast fevers in the bright sunlight, and yet no man seeth me.
8. Jehovih said: All power gave I to the unseen to rule over the seen.
9. Kosmon said: Why wilt thou, O man, search forever in corpor for the cause of things? Behold, the unseen part of thyself ruleth over the seen.
10. God said: Think not that the es worlds are less governed by system than are thecorporeal worlds. The same Creator created all.
11. Behold, all things are in dominion. Thou wert in dark dominion before the time ofBon.
12. By mine own light gave I thee a dominion of light in the time of Bon.
13. Man inquired: If the unseen rule in man, what ruled the substance of man before hewas made?
14. Jehovih said: I created all things, seen and unseen. My hand was forever stretchedforth in work. I make and I dissipate everlastingly.
15. Behold, I make a whirlwind in etherea, hundreds and hundreds of millions of milesacross, and it driveth to the center a corporeal world from that which was unseen.
16. I blow my breath upon the planet, and lo, man cometh forth, inquiring: Who am I, andwhat is my destiny?
17. I send an elder brother of man, to teach him, and show him the light.
18. God said: Behold me, O man, I am an elder brother. I have passed through death andfound the glory of the unseen worlds.
19. Jehovih gave to me, thy God, to have dominion over the earth and her heavens.
20. Man said: I have found truth in corpor; I know that I live; that trees grow and die.
21. This is true knowledge. Give me truth in regard to the unseen, that I may prove ittruth.
22. Why, O God, givest thou the matters of heaven and earth in signs and symbols? Giveme the real light, I want no figures.
23. God said: Thou art vain, O man. What, then, hast thou learnt? Canst thou tell why thegrass is green, or why one rose is red and another white, or the mountains raised up,or the valleys sunken low? Or why a man was not made to fly as a bird, or live in thewater like a fish? Whence came the thought of shame? Even thyself thou dost notcomprehend, nor know of thine own knowledge the time of thy beginning. Thou knowestthree times three are nine; and even this thou canst not prove but by symbols and images.
24. Nor is there aught in thy corporeal knowledge that thou canst prove otherwise, save itbe thy presence; and even that that thou seest is not thy presence, but the symbol andimage of it, for thou thyself art but as a seed, a spark of the All Light, that thou canst notprove to exist.
25. Man inquired: Where, then, is real knowledge possible to man? If my corporeal bodyand corporeal senses are evanescent and soon to fly away, how can I comprehend thatwhich flieth not away, the spirit?
26. Yet I know a truth: I know that ten things are ten. This knowledge I can write down,and clearly teach to my brother. See, here are 10. This is exact science.
27. Esfoma said: Thou hast written but two strokes, and called them ten. Now, I willshow thee ten. (Esfoma wrote: / / / / / / / / / / .) Yet, be not surprised, for now I willconvict myself, also, inasmuch as I have deceived thee. I said I would show thee ten, andstraightway, I made ten marks; but I should have written the word ten. Now, thou artwise! Nay, hear me further, for all I have spoken is false; for have I not tried to persuadethee that the one uttered word,TEN, was ten; wherefore, I should have uttered tenutterances. Thy supposed exact science is nothing, and thy supposed truth is onlyfalsehood compounded and acquiesced in.
28. Jehovih said: Man's wisdom is but the experience of my creations, expressed to man'sunderstanding in signs and symbols.
29. Man said: If I search for the real, shall I never attain it? Why, then, this craving? Istruth only that which flieth away?
30. Behold, thou hast said: Thou shalt love the Creator with all thy heart and soul! Howcan I love that which I can not comprehend?
31. Es said: Behold the utterances of the birds; and the skipping of the lambs at play! These are the expressed love they have for the Creator.
32. To rejoice because thou art created; to seek after exalted rejoicing, to cultivate thelight of thy life; to turn away from dark things; these are to love thy Creator.
33. Man said: Why, then, if truth can not be found, and mathematics can not be provenbut by things that are false in fact, I will search for goodness; I will shun sin. Is this notwise?
34. God said: This is wise. But what are goodness and good works?
CHAPTER III.
1. Man said: Behold, I have struggled hard all my days, and met many crosses and losses. To provide my son that he shall fare better, this is goodness.
2. Uz said: Vain man! Thou understandest not the creations. Thy trials, thy losses andcrosses, have built up thy soul. To provide thy son that he shall have no trials, nor lossesnor crosses, will not be good for him. This will not be goodness. Give him experience.
3. Man said: Then I will teach him to sin not. To tell no lies; to steal not; to preserve hisbody pure. This is goodness.
4. Uz said: What canst thou do, that is not a sin? What canst thou teach, that is notfalsehood?
5. Thou paintest a picture, and sayest: Behold, this is my farm! In this thou utterestfalsehood. Thou givest a book to thy son, saying: Here is a good book! This is also false. Can paper be good? Thou sayest: Here is a book of wisdom! This is also false. Wisdomdwelleth not in paper.
6. How, then, canst thou teach thy son to tell no lies, since no man can speak withoutlying?
7. God said: One only is Truth, Jehovih. All else are false. One only is without sin,Jehovih. All else do sin every day.
8. Man said: To understand the laws of the universe, this is great wisdom.
9. Es inquired: What is a law of the universe?
10. Man said: That an apple will fall to the ground.
11. Uz said: By my hand the apple rotteth; the earth to the earth; but moisture fliethupward.
12. Jehovih said: By My touch the substance riseth up out of the earth and becometh anapple. Sayest thou, law is My opposite?
13. Man said: Why, then, there are two laws: one to make the apple rise up and grow on atree, and one to make it fall down again.
14. Is this the creation? One law to pull one way, and another law in another way?
15. Can one law make one rose red, and another law make another rose white? One lawmake one man good, and another law make another man bad?
16. Jehovih said: I make no laws. Behold, I labor with Mine own hands. I am everywherepresent.
17. Es said: All men may be likened unto green fruit, and on the way toward ripeness.
18. What more is man's earth life than a tree? It hath its winters and summers for aseason, and then the end cometh.
19. Jehovih said: Behold, I created light and darkness, and one followeth the other.
20. I give dan to the earth for a season, and then I rain down ji'ay for a season. Even socreated I the soul of man; to-day, light and joyous; to-morrow in gloom and melancholy.
21. Man inquired: How can I know if a thing be of God or if it be of nature? What isJehovih more than natural law?
22. Corpor answered: What is nature, O man? Why wilt thou use a name for the membersof my body?
23. Behold, the trees are mine; the mountains and valleys; the waters and every livingthing, and everything that liveth not; they are me.
24. Why sayest thou nature? Now I say unto thee, the soul of all things is Jehovih; thatwhich thou callest nature is but the corporeal part.
25. Man said: I mean the laws of nature. Certain combinations under certain conditionsgive the same result. This is law.
26. God said: What hast thou gained by the word law, instead of the word Jehovih? If thatthat doeth a thing, doth it of its own accord, then it is alive, and wise withal. Therefore itis Jehovih.
27. If it do it not of itself, then it is not the doer, but the instrument. How, then, can lawdo anything? Law is dead; and the dead do nothing.
28. Within atmospherea, wark becometh organic and falleth to the earth.
29. Wark in etherea becometh an a'ji'an cloud, and shattered.
30. Men make laws, as betwixt themselves; these laws are rules governing action, butthey are not action itself.
31. Jehovih is action. His actions are manifested in things thou seest. He is Light andLife. All His things are a complete whole, which is His Person.
