CHAPTER XIX.
1. Eloih, Almighty, Thou, my God, Who hast delivered my people! I will sing unto Theea song; and the children of Israel unto Thee, O Eloih!
2. Thou art a great strength and salvation; unto Thee, Eloih, will I build my habitation;Thou, my father's God, O Eloih!
3. Thou art my Warrior; Eloih is Thy name, forever!
4. Thou has encompassed Pharaoh and his hosts; they are swallowed up in the sea, hischosen captains and his warriors in the Red Sea.
5. The depths covered them up; they sank to the bottom as a stone, O Eloih!
6. Almighty Eloih: Glorious in power in Thy right hand that passed over innocent blood!
7. Thou, my God, Eloih; Wise in majesty, in Thy right hand that dashed in pieces Thyenemy!
8. Excellency, O Thou Eloih; in graciousness that came upon them that rose up in Thyway; Thou sentest Thy breath upon them; as stubble they were cut down by Thy righteoussword!
9. By the breath of Thy nostrils, Thou heapedst up the waters of the sea; and the floodsstood upright by Thy voice, to entrap them in the heart of the sea!
10. Thine enemy said: I will pursue; I will overtake them; the spoil shall be mine; I willdraw the sword; my hand shall destroy them!
11. Thou didst blow with Thy wind; the sea covered them; they sank as lead in the mightywaters.
12. Who is like unto Thee, Eloih, amongst the Gods? Who is like Thee, Glorious inHoliness, fearful in praise and wonders, O Eloih! Thou stretchedst out Thy right hand,and they went down into the earth.
13. Merciful Almighty, Eloih, my God, and God of my fathers; Who hast led forth Israeland delivered her into the land of her fathers, O Eloih! Who hast guided them to a holyhabitation and peaceful one.
14. All people shall hear and be afraid; sober thought shall take hold on the inhabitantsof Palestina. And the nobles of Edom shall be amazed! The warrior of Moab;trembling shall take hold on them, and the wild men of Kana'yan shall melt away!
15. Thou, O Eloih, shalt strike them with fear; in the magnitude of the strength of Thinearm will they be amazed and helpless as stone. For this land is Thy purchase, O Eloih; inthe passover of the blood of the lamb purchased Thou it; and Israel shall pass over it infear.
16. And Thou shalt bring them to the mountain of their inheritance, to Thy place, OurGod, Eloih. To dwell in Thy sanctuary, which Thou has established for Thy reign, foreverand forever.
CHAPTER XX.
1. Moses called together the Heads and the rab'bahs, privily, and spake before them,saying:
2. What have I taken upon me, O Jehovih? Behold Thy sons and daughters havefollowed me out of Egupt; how shall I bind them unto Thee and not unto me, O my Fatherin heaven?
3. Jehovih said unto me: Moses, Moses, what I say unto thee, say thou unto the rab'bahsand unto the Heads; saying unto them: Not Moses, nor the Heads, nor the rab'bahs,brought ye out of Egupt; ye were brought out by the Creator, Jehovih, Who is God of all,Captain of all, Head of all, Rab'bah of all.
4. For herein have I drawn the line betwixt My people and My enemies, the idolaters ofmen. Because of signs and miracles, the idolaters make a man-God of their magician andworship him. But who is like unto thee, Moses, My son; in miracles who can match theein the magnitude of thy proceeding?
5. Who led forth My millions; and delivered them out of a great power without loss of aman, woman or child?
6. But I declare unto thee, thou shalt do a greater miracle than any of these; for thou shaltpreserve thyself from becoming an idol before men. For thou shalt proclaim Me unto thypeople in all things, teaching them that thou art but a man. And thy Heads and thyrab'bahs shall likewise teach them after the same manner; for I will put away all idolatryfrom the face of the earth.
7. Neither will I have kings nor queens; I am sufficient unto all men.
8. As Abraham apportioned My people into families, with rab'bahs and with chiefrab'bahs, so shalt thou re-establish them.
9. And My commandments, which I gave unto Abraham, will I give unto thee; and Mycrescent will I re-establish with My rab'bahs. And My crescent shall be the fullness of Mylaw unto the rab'bahs and chief rab'bahs.
10. Moses said: I cried unto Jehovih, saying: How shall it be with the square and at highnoon? And the angel of Jehovih, speaking in the Father's name, said: To the north-eastGod, to the south-west Lord, to the north-west Baal; to the south-east Ashtaroth. ForOsiris is dead already.
11. To this end, then, prepare ye a place this night, that the Great Spirit may bless us. Therab'bahs and the Heads said: It is well.
12. And when it was night Moses and the rab'bahs and the Heads went away aside;placing sentinels that they might be alone. And when they were thus prepared the light ofJehovih came upon Moses, and the books of the ancients were opened before him. Andhe administered emethachavah upon them; by the voice of Jehovih he re-established it;with all the rites and ceremonies as they are to this day. And after that the Heads were nolonger called Heads, but Chief Rab'bahs; for Moses anointed them; by command ofJehovih he anointed them.
13. And in not many days Moses wrote the Levitican laws; for the inner temple ofJehovih was in spoken words only; but the outer temple was written. Wherefore it wassaid: The Hebrews have two laws; one which no man else knoweth; and one for themwho are not eligible unto faith, being such as were called Leviticans, but not Leviticans infact, but hangers-on who had followed the Israelites out of Egupt and who for the mostpart had no God, little judgment and no learning.
14. But of all that Moses did, and taught, and how he labored with his own hands, manybooks might be written. And it is doubtful if the world ever produced so good and great aman.
15. At the time Moses reached Shakelmarath, he was forty-four years old by the Hebrewsun, but by the Eguptian he was eighty-eight years old.
16. Of Pharaoh and his hosts who were not destroyed in the sea, be it said, they returnedhome to their places. And not long after that, Pharaoh banished God (Osiris) from theearth, declaring himself the SAVIOR OF THE WORLD, AND VICEGERENT OF THEHOLYGHOST.
17. The scribes and recorders assembled in Kaona and appointed Feh-ya (An Eguptian) towrite the departure of the Israelites out of Egupt. And Feh-ya wrote the account andcalled it THE EXODUS OF THEHEBREWS, and it was recorded in the king's House of Records. And copies of it were sent to the large cities, and there recorded also, for such was thelaw of Egupt. Feh-ya's record was afterward accepted by Ezra, and is that which is knownto this day as the First Book of Exodus.
18. The Book of Genesis, as it stood in the Eguptian records, was written by Akaboth andDueram and Hazed, and was the substance from which Ezra copied it through his scribes,even as it is to this day. The inspiration of Genesis was from the God, Osiris, the false,and his emissaries, chief of whom were Yotabba and Egupt, who were angel servants toOsiris. And so far as the records now stand the spirit of both books was the Eguptianversion of the whole subject.
19. Touching genealogies, in which men seemed to have lived to so great an age, this,then, is the explanation thereof:
20. Thothma had said to his recorders: In searching for the truth of legends, give ye thelatitude thereof. For one legend will say, such a man lived seven hundred years ago,another legend will say he lived ten hundred and fifty years ago. The latitude betweenthem is, therefore, three hundred and fifty years, which shall be the time of that man's life. And in this way latitude became confounded with fact, and with no intent to deceive.
21. And behold, it came to pass that the records were worthless; and to make mattersworse the records were so voluminous, being more than six thousand books, that thescribes of Ezra could make neither head nor tail of them. Nevertheless, they were allwritten, in the first place not by the Israelites, but by their enemies; wherein the testimonyof the miracles is none the weaker.
22. Thus endeth the history of Moses' deliverance of the Faithists out of Egupt.
23. Hear ye now of Chine of the land of Jaffeth:
CHAPTER XXI.
HISTORY OF CHINE (TSCHIN’E), OF JAFFETH, FOUNDER OF CHINA.
1. These are the generations of the seven antecedents of Chine, the chosen of the GreatSpirit, Ormazd, otherwise, in Fonecean, Eloih; that is to say:
2. Tse'wong begat Hi-gan, who begat Ah So, who begat T-soo Yong, who begat AhPaing, who begat T-chook Lee, who begat Tschine Loo, who begat Ah Sho'e, who begatTschin'e (Chine), gifted in su'is and sar'gis of six generations.
3. Of these, T-soo Yong and Ah So were prophets of Jehovih (Ormazd), and Ah Sho'ewas a seer; but the six generations could hear the Voice, and they walked upright, keepingthe commandments of Jehovih as revealed in the Zarathustrian laws.
4. Ah Sho'e was a basket-maker, and after the manner of the man, Zarathustra; and Chine,his son, was the fourth birth of Ah Sho'e's wife, Song Heng. Like Moses, Chine was ofcopper color, and very large, but his hair was red, like a fox, and he was bashful and offew words.
5. Ah Sho'e, i.e., Chine's father, said: I have had other sons; my words are wise and true;Chine was unlike any child born in the world; for boy child, or girl child, no physiciancould tell which, but rather to the boy kind was he. The angel of Jehovih (Ormazd) cameto me before the birth and said: The child shall be called Chine, signifying no sex; as it iswritten among the ancients, i-e-su, having no earthly desires. For he shall restore thechosen people of Jehovih.
6. Whereof I told the physicians before the birth, but they would not believe. Nevertheless, by command of Jehovih, I sent for seven physicians to witness the birth,lest it be said afterward the surgeons have dealt wrongly with the child at its birth.
7. These physicians came to wit: Em Gha, Tse Thah, Ah Em Fae, Te Gow, T'si, Du Jon,Foh Chaing, and Ah Kaon, and they beheld the child born, whereto they made oath, and arecord thereof, touching the strangeness of such a birth, and of the prophecy of its cominginto the world; this record was put in the Ha Ta'e King (library) of record belonging to theSun King.
8. Being now in my old age, I, Ah Sho'e, put these things on record, of which hundredshave come to ask me concerning the youth of Chine.
9. First, that he was the laziest of all children, and dull past belief. For his brothers andsisters mocked him, concerning my prophecy, as to becoming a great man.
10. Second, he ate less than a small bird (Fa'ak), and grew so thin we were ashamed ofhim in his childhood; verily was he nothing but skin and bone, with a large head.
11. Third, when he walked about, the stools and tables moved out of his way; and yet nohand touched them.
12. Fourth, the angels of Jehovih oft carried him about the hut, and would lift him up topick fruit from the trees.
13. Fifth, he never laughed, but was serious and pleasant, like an old man that hadabandoned the world. But he spoke so little no man knew whether he was wise or stupid.
14. When he was three years old his mother weaned him, or rather he weanedhimself. And from that time forth he never ate but fruit and nuts and grains of rice. When he was sixteen years old he began to grow suddenly large and strong, and ofdeep color. Whereat I procured a teacher for him; but lo, and behold, he could learn awhole book in a day. He learned by hearing once; neither forgot he anything he learnt.
15. In his twenty-second year he began to talk, and the angels of heaven spake throughhim also. And great was his speech.
16. From sunrise in the morning until late at night his tongue ceased not to speak. And hismouth moved as if it were the mouth-piece of heaven. For when one angel had discoursedbefore the audience for a while, then came another and another, and so on; and whennone came, then spake Chine himself.
17. And there came before him men of great learning, and philosophers, to try him as tohis knowledge; but they all went away confounded, as if they were fools. Neither was itpossible to ask him a question he could not answer correctly. Whether it was to read atablet or to reveal the size and build of a temple he never saw; or the sickness of a manwho was far away; for all things were to him as an open book.
18. For four years this great wisdom remained in him, and his fame spread from the eastto the west, and from the north to the south; no man knew how far. When he was askedhow far he could see and hear, he said: Over all my land. And he marked with his finger,saying: On this tablet, Chine land!
19. Thus was the country named Chine (China), which it beareth to this day.
20. Ah Sho'e said: Suddenly Chine's abundant speech ceased, and he answered onlyyea and nay to all things. And he was silent for seven years and eighty days. Andthen the angels from the second heaven came to him. After that he spake not as man(save in private), but he spake as the All Light, whereof the world knoweth the rest.
