THE LORDS’ FOURTH BOOK.
BEING COTEMPORANEOUS WITH THE BOOK OF THOR, CYCLE OF THOR, SON OF JEHOVIH. AS THE LATTER BOOK IS OF THE HIGHER AND LOWER HEAVENS, SO IS THE LORDS’ BOOK OF THE LOWER HEAVENS AND THE EARTH, BOTH BEING FOR THE SAME PERIOD OF TIME.
CHAPTER I.
1. By altars and temples, and by idols and images, and by painted signs and engravedwords, God foresaw that the knowledge of one generation could be handed down to thenext. And though all these things are false in fact, as a written word is not a word, but animage of an idea which hath been spoken, so by symbols conveyed God the living truth.
2. God said: Behold, with my sacred people have I established myself in written words. Now hath it come to pass that all the races of men on earth shall be made to know me.
3. God commanded man to make stone and wooden images, and engravings also, ofeverything upon the earth; and man so made them according to his own knowledge.
4. God said: As every living creature hath a name, so shall the image thereof andthe engraving thereof have the same name. And even so shall it be with all thingson the earth, and in the waters thereof, and in the air above the earth; the image andthe engravings shall have the same names, even as the real things themselves.
5. And God sent his angels down to man, to inspire him in the workmanship of imagesand engravings, and man thus accomplished the commandments of God.
6. And these were the first writings since the flood, other than such as were kept secretamongst the I'hins. And of this manner were the writings, to wit:
7. A picture of a man was a man; a picture of a tree was a tree; a picture of a bird was abird; and even so was everything represented by its own name and image.
8. Then God said: When thou hast made the picture of a spear, behold it is a spear. Andwhen thou desirest to show which way a man goeth, thou shalt add to the graven imagethe likeness of a spear; and the way it pointeth, shall show the way man goeth. Even soshalt thou express the going of everything on earth and in heaven.
9. Thus man made a written language, and in every region of the earth. By many menwere these things done; according to the light of God upon them, so accomplished theythe written languages of thousands of tribes of men.
10. God said: This shall be called the Panic language (Ah-ce-o-ga), because it is made ofearthly images. And, in after ages, whoever desireth to find the first written words ofman, shall have recourse to the pictures of all things on earth, and in the waters, and inthe air above the earth.
11. God said: As in the olden time man named all things according to their own spokenwords and sounds uttered, so in the days of Thor came the written words of everything onearth and in heaven.
12. When man had written the name of all things, one only had he not written, even thename of his Creator.
13. God said: Even that also shalt thou write. Then man inquired: O Lord, how can I finda word to express the Creator?
14. God said: Many tribes have I raised upon the earth, and, behold, they have all writtenthe names of all things, save only the Creator. Go to, therefore, and write thou His namealso.
15. Man said: Alas, O my God! I know no name, save the names I have already made. If Icould hear the Creator, or see Him, then could I write His name.
16. God said: Thou hast named the wind (wh-sh!), which thou hast not seen. Name thouthy Creator. And His name shall comprehend all things, far and near, seen and unseen.
17. Then man drew a circle and called it O, for it represented that which was withoutbeginning or end, and which contained all within it. Then man drew a line cutting throughthe circle from east to west, to represent the light of the east traveling to the west. Thenman drew a line from below upward, cutting the circle at right angles with the horizontal,to represent the one road of all things, from the bottom upward forever. The first lineman called E, for it was the same as the wind speaketh in the leaves. But the secondline he called IH, for it represented that unseen shaft that cutteth all things in twain.
18. And when man had completed the engraving, he called it E-O-IH!
19. God said: In this, thy symbol, thou hast found the way of a true square (true cross) and the four quarters of the world.1
20. Keep thou His name and the image thereof a secret betwixt the rab'bahs and thy God. Neither shalt thou utter it aloud, for it is sacred upon the earth.
21. Betwixt thee and thy Creator standeth thy God, who is Lord of heaven and earth. Behold, I am the key of life and death; through me, thy Lord, shalt thou unlock all themysteries of heaven and earth.
22. Neither shall my rab'bah, nor my prophets, call on the name of any spirit, save theLord, who is God. The words I give corporeally I have recorded in heaven; neither canman alter my records and make them accord with that which is written above. But in thelapse of time I provide seers and prophets, to whom I can reveal to mortals the things ofheaven.
23. This have I spoken to Jehovih for thee: Man shall measure Thy hand upon him;remember Thy eye upon him; seek for Thy wisdom within him; and be thankful for Thygood things before him; to consider the little good of them that deny Thee; the conceit ofthem that claim to be self-made; and the folly of uttering other glories than Thine, and yetto mention them not; for these are the attaining of wisdom.
1 See tablet Se'moin, Book of Saphah.
CHAPTER II.
1. The Lord came down to man on the earth, and spake to man in two ways: By the voice,as man speaketh; and by the spirit, as soul answereth to soul.
2. The Lord said: The voice of man is air in motion; by the mouth of man cometh theword of knowledge.
3. But back of the voice; back of the air in motion; back of the mouth, which givethvoice, there lieth the soul, which it is that causeth man to think of speaking. And the soullieth in the ocean of the Creator, Who is God of all.
4. The Lord said: That that speaketh to thy soul, O man, teaching thee wisdom and goodworks; reproving thee for thy faults, and enchanting thee with the glories of all createdthings, is the voice of thy Creator. And that is the road by which the Lord thy God comethto thee.
5. The Lord said: Behold, man hath attained to written knowledge; now shall he havebooks, and learn to keep records, after the manner of the angels in heaven. Then God sentangels down to man, speaking both by the soul and by the voice; in different places and todifferent rab'bahs, teaching them how to make books of skins, and of bark, and of cloth,for the graven words and images which he had taught man.
6. In these days the lands of Jaffeth and Shem and Ham were inhabited by millions ofI'huans and Ghans; but the countries lying between them were inhabited by I'huans only.
7. And God spake to the people of Ham, saying: Behold, there are two other countriesinhabited by kin of your kin, flesh of your flesh, and they are Ghans also. And they speakand write with Panic words, even as ye do.
8. And the Hamites inquired: How far are the two other countries? Where are they?
9. The Lord said: Gather together a thousand men and women, and I will lead you to yourbrethren, whose forefathers were also saved from the flood; saved by the sacred littlepeople, the I'hins. Provide ye oxen and asses and all things requisite for a journey of fouryears, and I will lead you.
10. The Hamites obeyed God, and provided themselves as commanded; into twocompanies of a thousand each equipped they themselves, and started on their journey forJaffeth and Shem.
11. Then spake God to the people of Jaffeth, saying: Behold, there are two other countriesinhabited by kin of your kin, flesh of your flesh, and they are Ghans also. And they speakand write with Panic words, even as ye do.
12. The Jaffeth'yans said: How far are the two other countries? Where are they?
13. The Lord said: Gather together a thousand men and women, and I will lead you toyour brethren, whose forefathers were also saved from the flood; saved by the sacred littlepeople, the I'hins. Provide ye in all things requisite for a journey of four years, and I willlead you.
14. The Jaffeth'yans obeyed God, and provided themselves as commanded; into twocompanies of a thousand each equipped they themselves and started for Ham and Shem.
15. Then spake the Lord to the people of Shem in the same way, telling them of Jaffethand Ham; and they also equipped themselves in two companies and started for Ham andJaffeth.
16. Thus provided God these three separate peoples to go and visit one another, and all inthe same period of time. And God said unto them, ere they started: Very fierce and savageare the I'huans who inhabit the wilderness on the way. Behold, they eat the flesh of bothman and beast. But they will not harm the I'hins; therefore, O my beloved, on your longjourney take with you two score of I'hins. Through the I'hins can the Lord your God speakall languages, even the language of the barbarians, the I'huans.
17. Leave all things in the hands of the Lord God.
18. So it came to pass, after a journey of four years, the migrants from each country cameto the place of their destination. And by their written and spoken words knew they oneanother; and they called themselves the three children of the arc of Noe.
19. And the Lord said unto them in each of the countries whither they had come: Providerecords unto the work of God; for these journeys shall be remembered to the end of theworld.
20. And in all these countries there were made images of stone and copper, andengravings thereon of the children of Noe, and of the flood, and of the sacred tribes,Shem, Ham and Jaffeth.
21. God said: These shall be preserved as the first written names of these lands.2 And it was so.
2 JA'FUNG is Chinese for Jaffeth, and is the oldest original name of the country. Shem is the Vedic word for land, or country (India). Ham, as the student is aware, is A'ham, the original name of Egypt (Egupt). Legends of the flood, and of the journeys related above, are still existing in all those countries.
CHAPTER III.
1. For two years the migrants tarried in the countries they visited; going much about,showing themselves, and relating a history of the country whence they came.
2. Thence spake the Lord to the migrants in their respective places, saying: Behold, thetime is come for your departure. Gather together, O my beloved, and return to your owncountry, and there relate all the glories that your God hath shown you.
3. So they departed, and returned to their own respective places. And, behold, it took fouryears to accomplish the journey.
4. Now during the travel of the migrants the Lord spake to them every day; through theI'hin priests spake the Lord unto them.
5. The Lord said: Keep together, O my beloved. I will lead you; ye shall not be lost.
6. Nevertheless, the journey was so long that many lost faith, and were not heedful of thewords of God. And some of them strayed off amongst the I'huans, the barbarians, andwere lost.
7. Of the six thousand migrants, there were lost ten tribes; in all, three hundred andeighty-six people, men and women. Some were lost in one place and some in another.
8. God said: Sing ye songs of lamentations to my chosen who are lost, the Faithistsin Jehovih. For this also shall become a matter of record to the end of the world.
9. Nevertheless, a time shall come when the Lord your God shall reveal the mystery ofthis day.
10. So, when the people had returned to their respective places, behold they all sang songsof lamentation3 for the tribes that were lost.
11. God said: I have shown you the far-off people; I have marked out the road. Keep theroad open; keep the travel open between the great countries I have shown you.
12. Every eleven years shall one expedition start to the far-off countries. And, ifperchance ye find my chosen, bring them home.
13. And on all the camping places of your journey shall ye build an altar to the Lord yourGod. In a circle shall ye build it; and the congregation shall sit in the circle thereof, butthe priest shall sit in the midst. And, behold, I will speak in the mouth of my priest wordsof wisdom and comfort.
14. But, in all your journeys, keep aloof from the I'huans, the barbarians, the man-eaters. For they kept not my commandments; nor preserved they their seed through thecircumcision.
15. But they mixed with the druks (ground people) and went down in darkness(barbarism).
16. Keep ye away from them, O my beloved; carry with you, on all your expeditions, I'hinpriests, the sacred people, the mound-builders.
17. In your journeys ye shall encounter your brethren coming and going, who dwell in thefar-off countries. That ye may distinguish them, keep secret the sacred password4 and therites of my chavah (order).
3 In all these countries, to wit, China, India, Egypt and Persia, there is still in existence a legend that, long ago, the chosen of God went on a long journey in search of their ancient brethren, and then ten tribes were lost in the wilderness. A similar record is in the Ezra Bible, calling the lost tribes Jews, who were in fact FAITHISTS IN THE GREAT SPIRIT. Further on in this work it is shown how Ezra obtained his version from the Egyptian and Persian records. In this work it is also related as to what became of the lost tribes, who became the Persians (Parsa'yans) in fact, whence sprang the great Zarathustra (Zoroaster).
4 E-O-IH, or Je-ho-vih, was the master's word amongst the ancient Jews. The Chinese said Che-hih-no, in their ceremonies, being the same phonetic word. The Algonquins (North American Indians) said U-he-no-win, accented on the second and fourth syllables. The Chinese word is accented on the first syllable. The Algonquin "U" is, most likely, without any signification. The word Git-che-ma-ne-to, of the Algonquins, means servant to the Great Spirit, that is, as the English word Lord means Land God, or an underling of Jehovih.