SAPHAH!
I am to perish. I, being SAPHAH, am of the perishable. I am of the earth perishable history. Iam the dying history not dead; the legends; the skeleton of a one time giant. In my youth Iwas science and philosophy, religion. I reach into all the nations of the earth; distance withme is nothing; time nothing. I was as a tree of life in time long past, the devotedly loved SONOF LIGHT. The fruit I bore fed all the inhabitants of the earth. But the flesh of the fruit hathperished; the seed still liveth. My seed is in languages, in words, in rocks and ruined walls; infallen temples and buried cities. These are the remnants of my corporeal body; in these mylast days my remnants, that were once the living members of my body, shall forth and speaktheir parting words to the new born Kosmon. Hear ye these, my sons and daughters; O ye thatsearch for the light of ages past, but find not. I am the book of the past, of the things that arepast; of the corporeal world perishable.
PAN.
THE PRIMEVAL TONGUE.
1. Pan said: I am the earth; the first habitable place for man; I am beneath the water. Beingsubmerged, my name survives. My words are man's first words. On the continent of Pan werewords first used by man.
2. I am the 'Ah', signifying earth. I am earth words. I am the dispersed language. From me, Pan,came all earth languages. In all nations I am found. I deliver up; by me shall man know Him Whosent me. By His angels I was given to mortals; by them brought forth in this day.
3. Pan said: My steadfast lieth in the East. I founded the words of China and India. Fonecia andEbra are my offspring. By the tribes of Faithists was I carried over. Egoquim founded me inGuatama. Egoquim became Algonquin. I am before all other languages; the first spoken words. Before me, man uttered as a beast, but made no words.
4. Pan said: The angels made some men as prophets and healers of the sick. By impression andby voice, taught they the prophets to utter words. These were Pan words; that is, earth words. The prophets taught their brethren. Many words were made sacred, that they might be welllearned and sacred.
5. Pan said: I come not in a day, nor in a year, nor in a hundred years. I come not to one manonly, but to many. I was uttered differently in different places on the 'Ah', the earth, accordingto the throats and tongues and lips and their development. Nevertheless, I was the same language.
6. Pan said: I am the key to unlock words. I make all things speak. Asu, the first men, were thustaught. As the camel uttered, so was he called; and the cat and dog and all the living. As the childcalled his father, so was the name 'man' made. This was in some places, Ghan, and Egan (China);Edam and Edan (Fonece); Adam (Ebra, Hebrew); Puam (Sanscrit); Pam (Vede); Sam (Kii); Ang(Algonquin); Anger (Poit); and Man (English).
7. Pan said: Think not that all the living uttered alike in all places. The wild dog spake not as thetame one; nor the small like the large one. Neither could all Asu utter the same sounds alike.Nevertheless, on the continent of Pan they were taught to name the living after their own speech.Thus was Asu taught of land animals and of the birds and all things whatsoever that utter.
8. Pan said: The wind spake but was seen not. Asu was taught that Corpor, the Seen, was ruledover by Es, the Unseen. In the leaves the wind said Ee; in the ocean surge and in the storm'sroar, Oh; and in the winter's whistle, Ih; and he called the Unseen, E-O-Ih; Eolin (Poit);Eolih (Zerl); Eloih (Fonece); Jehovih (Ebra, Hebrew); Wenowin (Algonquin); Egoquim (Huit);Ze-jo-is (China). Nor were these all, for there were many imperfections of His name. He was the Unseen. What the Unseen spake, the Seen should not speak. E-O-IH was Almighty.
9. Pan said: I am language. I am two members, the utterance and the behavior. All things areembraced in my two members. The unmoving are dead; a stone has a name, but no behavior; it isunmoving; it is dead. It is the property of Uz.
10. Pan said: Two behaviors have things. If a man look toward Uz, it is downward; if towardJehovih, it is upward. If a man march toward Uz, it is war and destruction; if toward Light, it ispeace and wisdom. Whoever learneth these, my signs, shall read all languages.
SPEECH.
1. Jehovih said: As I caused man to grow, so I caused man's language to grow. Yea, even as theearth matureth in its place, so shall man look backward and judge what has been.
2. According to the time and place of the earth, so spake man. And it was so. And the deviationin the progress of speech was even as the deviation of the vortex of the earth.
3. Even the words of man in ages past shall be revealed by My seers in the time of Kosmon. Andit was so.
