CHAPTER IV.
1. Hear the word of thy God, O man, and be considerate in thy little learning; interpretingthe records of the ancients rather by the spirit than by the word.
2. Wherein it was constantly commanded, in the ancient sacred writings, to avoid GOINGDOWN TO DESTRUCTION, and they obeyed not the commandments of the Lord, behold yethe light of your God in this day.
3. For the I'huans, even before the flood, were in the first place born capable ofeverlasting life. But they mixed with the druks until the seed of the spirit of eternal lifebecame exhausted, and they brought forth heirs incapable of self-sustenance in heaven. Hence it was said of them: They went down in darkness.
4. Now after awhile a new race of I'huans was brought forth, and they were at firstcapable of All Light and of everlasting life. But they also kept not the commandments ofthe Lord; but also mixed with the druks (the ground people), and they descended rapidlyon the road of everlasting death (as a race).
5. But the Lord your God created the new race, the Ghans, capable of an upwardinspiration.
6. And he gave unto them the same commandments, to preserve their seed from the racesbeneath them, lest they go down in darkness also.
7. To which end thy Lord gave unto them certain rites and ceremonies and pass-words, inaddition to the circumcision, which would enable them to distinguish with whom theyshould mingle according to the commandments of God.
8. Behold ye then the testimony which I lay before you, that ye may perceive the wisdomof my ways: For it will be said by some that there is a law of evolution whereby manriseth from a lower to a higher state as the earth groweth older.
9. But I say unto you, there is no such law. Save but by the labor of thy Lord and thy God,through their angels, man riseth not upward; but he goeth the other way.
10. In which matter, behold, I have left many nations and peoples before you to this day,who are on the downward road. And ye have corporeal records before you, showing youthat in times past, the same countries were inhabited by a higher race.
11. For thus Jehovih created man, to go as readily down the mountain as up it.
12. Behold, all resurrection cometh from above; all aspiration cometh from the Lord andhis angels. For man, being in the flesh, goeth rather to the desires of the flesh than to thespirit.
13. As the light of the sun causeth sleep to pass away, so doth the light of Jehovih,through His Gods and Lords and angels, cause the soul of men to awake to thepossibilities of everlasting life in the exalted heavens.
14. This also have I, thy Lord, proven in the world: that they who fall from the light of theFather, lose their symmetry and beauty of proportions.
15. Behold, in the time of Thor, man considered not the shapeliness of his spouse, nor themold of her face, nor the clearness of her voice, nor her wit, nor conversational powers.
16. By all stratagems, and devices, and rites and ceremonies, have the Gods andLords labored to make man mindful of the way of resurrection through the tree of life.
17. But even in this day, behold, the mother bartereth off her daughter to a rich man; andthe man seeketh a spouse of wasted flesh for the sake of gold. And they bring forth heirsof crime.
18. And man crieth out: He cannot be a good God that createth these!
19. But I say unto you, they keep not my commandments; they have gone astray in thewilderness.
20. Be wise, O man; from that which is before you, remember the times of the ancients,and the labor of the Lord your God.
21. In the beginning of the cycle of Thor, the Lord opened up many ways for thedeliverance of the tribes of men on the earth; and man prospered in the way of God for along season.
22. Then darkness came upon the races of men; millions of them returned to a state ofsavagery. And angels of darkness came upon the earth, verily taking upon themselves thesemblance of corporeal forms, and dwelling with mortals, and engaging in practiceswhereof it is unlawful to write or speak.
23. So that, at the termination of three thousand years, the lands of the earth were coveredwith darkness.
24. And Jehovih cast a veil over the face of the sun, and it shone not in brightnessfor many years. (For these nebulous periods, see the latter part, GOD’S BOOK OF BEN)
END OF THE LORDS’ FOURTH BOOK.
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