BOOK OF CPENTA-ARMIJ, DAUGHTER OF JEHOVIH.
BEING OF THE FIRST DELIVERANCE OF GOD’S CHOSEN PEOPLE.
CHAPTER I.
1. Jehovih spake to Cpenta-armij, Goddess of Haot-saiti, in Nirvana, in the arc of Spe-ta,Commander of the South fields of Abarom, in the Orian Plains of Bilothowitchieun, of areign of two hundred thousand years; Surveyor for Otsias, ten thousand years; Leader ofthe Oixan, seventy thousand years; Captain of Geliyas' roadways, in the forest of Lugga,twenty thousand years; Founder and Ruler of Isaas, thirty thousand years; Trencher of theHaigusets swamps, four thousand years; Goddess of Nor, Goddess of Eunigi, Goddess ofPoutu, each ten thousand years, saying:
2. My Daughter, behold, the red star and her heavens come thy way. She will cross the arcof Spe-ta, four years and thirty-two days' riding. Open thou thy fields in Abarom, and giveher forty years' indulgence, for this is the first of her deliverances.
3. Cpenta-armij answered, saying: I see the red star, the earth, O Jehovih! Like awandering ship in a wide ocean she cometh through my fields, the young earth, travelingon, carefully, in the roads of Salkwatka. Hath she so soon, but little more than sixtythousand years, overcome her enduring knots and torturing hells?
4. In Thy Wisdom and Power, O Jehovih, I will go in person to this corporeal world, andencourage her God and Lords for the excellent labor done.
5. Jehovih said: Call thy Council, and proclaim from My throne the FEAST OF THE ARC OFSPE’TA. Then Cpenta-Armij called her High Council, a hundred millions, Sons andDaughters of Jehovih, and she ascended to her place in the midst of the throne of theGreat Spirit.
6. And there were present: Obed, God of Oise, in Embrahk; Gavaini, Goddess of Ipthor,of the Solastis Plains; Ab, First Shriever of Riv-Seing; Holon-ho, God of Loo-Gam;Raisi, Goddess of Esdras; Wish-tse, God of Zuth, in Ronega; and all these Gods andGoddesses were above a hundred thousand years raised in etherean realms, and knew theearth before inhabited by man.
7. On a visit to Cpenta-armij were: Owks, Orian Chief of Maiter-lan, fifty thousand years,Marshal of Wiski-loo, thirty thousand years, God of Tunsin, in the Tarps Roads, ninetythousand years; and See-wah-Gon, Chieftainess of the Orian arc of Su-los, two hundredthousand years, Mistress of Aftong, in the Plains of Bel, three hundred thousand years,Pilotess of Lu-wow-lu, one hundred thousand years, Goddess of Eune, in the Mountainsof Gem-king; and Ha-o-ha, Founder of Ogee, of Siam, of Wick-a-wick, and the twelveNirvanian Old-tse, in Lo-owtz, Eli-hagam, together with their traveling hosts, each fivemillions.
8. Cpenta-armij said: For Thy glory, O Jehovih, I proclaim the FEAST OF THE ARC OF SPE’TA. And these, my visiting hosts, shall enjoy the four years' deliverance of the red star and herheavens!
9. Then responded Owks, and then See-wah-Gon, then Ha-o-ha, speaking at great length,and rejoicing for the invitation. And they related many adventures on other stars in thetime of the arc of deliverance, the arc of Spe-ta, and with what Gods and Goddesses theyjourneyed, and what Chiefs and Chieftainesses.
10. So Cpenta-armij spake to her chief marshal, saying: Send thou heralds to the builders,and order me an airavagna capable of five hundred millions, and of speed, grade sixty. After this thou shalt select from my attendants one hundred millions, and after that threehundred millions of the Egisi.
11. With these, and with my visitors, I will start for the red star in twenty days. The proper officers attended to these things, and whilst they were moving about, behold,the red star, the earth, rose up in the far-off place, the roadway, and the es'enaurs saw it,and they chanted:
12. What is yonder? The red star, Jehovih! Thy breath hath spoken. Thy voice, the silentmotion. O Thy endless power, Jehovih!
13. Around about her, close; what is that filled with angels, thousands of millions! Wondrous are Thy works, O Jehovih, and measureless. She rideth around the sun, twohundred and seventy million miles.
14. It is her atmosphere, traveling with her; its boundary, Chinvat. How fearfully hastthou created, O Jehovih! And the magnitude of Thy places! That little red star is a world,O Father! And the thousands of millions of angels, why do they stay in such heavens, OJehovih!
15. Then the trumpeters afar off answered: She that spinneth round the sun, the red star,the earth, a new world, a generator of the souls of men. The Gods have called her, butshe will not hear. Her atmosphere is full of angels struggling for the earth. But Thyhand is upon them, O Jehovih. Thy trumpeters will line the roads of Salkwatka.
16. Then sang the es'enaurs: How lovely are Thy works, O Jehovih! Too lovely areThy places, O Jehovih! Too lovely is the red star, the earth, O Jehovih! Thychildren love it while in mortal form; after death too much they love it, O Jehovih!
17. The pipers answer for Jehovih from the Wide East:1 O so little to love, made I theearth, the red star. I gave her poisoned weeds and vines and grasses; millions of death-dealingserpents. Then I created poisoned marshes and terrible fevers. In sore travail, andfull of misery, created I man on the earth, that he should turn and look upward for a holierplace.
18. Then sang the en'enaurs: Too lovely createdst Thou Thy atmospherean heavens,O Jehovih! Thy bounden heavens that travel with the red star, the earth. The spiritsraised up from the mortal earth find too much to love in Thy lower heavens, O Jehovih!
19. The pipers again answered for Jehovih: My lower heavens created I full of darknessand evil possibilities. A place for madness created I it; a place for lying and deceit; full ofhell and torments. To drive man upward; to blow My breath upon him, to lift him up, asone lighteth the fire by blowing.
20. Cpenta-armij spake from Jehovih's throne, saying: What is the deliverance of man? Isit from his mother's womb? Is it from his corporeal body? Is it from the corporealworld and her atmosphere? Three births hath the Father given unto all men. In thefirst, man hath nothing to do, as to his shaping or time in his mother's womb. In thesecond he hath a little more to do as to directing his course during his mortal life;but for the third, for the higher heavens, he must work for his own deliverance.
21. Cpenta-armij said: Three kinds of earth deliverance for man created the Creator; Firstfrom his mother's womb, coming crying, blank and helpless; second, from the tetracts(earthly passions and desires), serious and full of fear; third, from the enemies of theGreat Spirit. This is the Feast of Spe-ta.
1 Wide East is a term used in the Aven Rites.
CHAPTER II.
1. Cpenta-armij said: I looked afar, and saw the earth and her heavens traveling on. Ilistened to the voice of mortals! A merchant counted over his gains; he said: This isheaven! A drunkard quaffed a cup of poison; he said: This is heaven! A wanton said: This is heaven! A general, red with blood, counted the badges on his breast; he said: This is heaven! A tyrant, rich in toiling slaves, said: This is heaven! Then a vastmultitude, all smeared with the blood of war, pointed to a field of mortals slain, andsaid: This is heaven! A farmer stretched wide his arms, toward his great possessions,uncultivated; he said: This is heaven! A little child with a toy said: This is heaven!
2. Then spake Jehovih, saying: None of these canst thou convince to the contrary. Theyare not ready for deliverance.
3. I listened to the voice of spirits, the angels traveling with the earth. A wanderer, goingabout, with nothing to do, said: This is heaven! An obsessor of mortals and of otherangels said: This is heaven! The fairies, the butterfly angels, the triflers, that forever lookin crystal waters to behold their own forms, said: This is heaven! The rollicking,deceiving angels, went and inspired mortals to falsehood; these angels said: This isheaven! Vampire angels, that nestle in the atmosphere of mortals, largely living ontheir substance, said: This is heaven! Evil angels, obsessing mortals for murder's sake,to make mortals burn houses and torture helpless creatures, said: This is heaven!
4. Then spake Jehovih, saying: None of these canst thou convince to the contrary. Theyare not ready for deliverance.
5. Again I listened to the sounds coming from the far-off earth. And I heard the prayers ofmortals. The king prayed for his kingdom and for himself. The general prayed for successin war. The merchant for great gains; the tyrant for great authority.
6. Jehovih said: Only the earth can answer such prayers.
7. I listened again for the prayers of mortals; they had great afflictions, dire diseases, andfamines, and wars; the merchants were bankrupt, and there was great suffering, and theyprayed for deliverance.
8. Jehovih said: Shouldst thou deliver them they would return to their old, evil habits. Isay unto thee, the merchant shall be bankrupt; the king shall fail; the general beoverthrown; the healthy shall be sick for a season. Save they know My power, theycannot learn; save they feel affliction, they will not help one another. Shall a man say: OJehovih, come Thou and heal the sick? Shall he not first of all recognize My will andknow My power?
9. To give money to the drunkard, what good is that? To give wealth and earthlyprosperity to them that acknowledge not Me, is to set them against Me. To give healing tothe fevered, is to teach them that I have no power in the unseen air. Answer not thou theprayers of these.
10. I listened once more to the prayers of mortals. And they were such as lived accordingto their highest light; they purified the flesh by pure food, and by bathing every day;and they went about doing good constantly, hoarding up neither clothes, nor silver, norgold, nor anything earthly. And they purified their thoughts by putting away the eviltongue, and the evil eye, and evil ear; and many of them were bound by the kings, andthe tyrants, and the laws of mortals; and some of them were sick. And they prayed,saying: Great is my affliction, O Jehovih. I know that in Thy sight I am justly punished.
11. But hear Thou my prayer, O Father! Make me strong, that I may carry heavy burdensfor the weary; give me liberty, that I may go about helping the poor forever. Give mewisdom, that I may uncover Thy glories before men.
12. Jehovih said: Go thou, My Daughter, and deliver them. They are ready fordeliverance! Answer thou the prayers of such.
13. Then I called my hosts together, five hundred millions, in the Nirvanian heavens inHaot-saiti, in etherea, the highest heaven. And we entered into the airavagna, as, swellinghigh on every side, the music of millions cheered us on. Upward, high up, shone theglimmering red star, whereon now our steersman pointed the fire-arrow, to shoot meteor-likeacross Jehovih's pathway, and thitherward turned our buoyant souls, saluting ourstarters with a happy good-by!
14. Arise! Arise! By my vested power in thee, O Jehovih, shall the elements fallbefore my will! Arise; onward! To the red star, speed on! Airavagna, upward, on!
15. Thus spake Cpenta-armij, her voice mellow and sweet, but so tuned to the spheres itcould be heard the breadth of a world. And Jehovih, with whose power and will she hadlearned to be as one, by long experience and studying submission to His will, lent awilling ear and strong hand. Out shot the flames, the buoyant force manufactured by lessskilled workmen learning the trade of Gods, where whirled the million screws of fire,propelling, till the mighty ship reeled, and turned, and rose from its foundation, with allits joyous hosts aboard, shouting loud, and singing praise to Him who ruleth over all. Then turning round and round, slowly, spiral like, the great secret form and force ofvortices now first revealed to man, to show the plan of worlds, and how holden in theirplaces and moved in universal harmony and endless creation, the great airavagna beganher course in the roadway of Salkwatka, in etherea, shooting toward the red star, theyoung earth.
16. Nearing first the Oixanian Spars of Ochesu, where were gathered near the road tenmillion spectators to see the Goddess pass in her ship; and their banners waved, and theirmusic burst forth most exhilarating; the which were answered by the airavagna's cheeringhosts and sailing streamers. She halted, to salute in honor, the Goddess Yuetisiv, and thenupward shot a thousand miles suddenly.
17. Again onward, turning the breadth of the road, a million miles, to the right, to saluteVultanya, Goddess of the swamps of Ailassasak, where stood by the portico of herheavenly palace seventy million pupils, in their thousandth year of tuition, to receive thepassing blessing of the Orian Chieftainess, Cpenta-armij. And thither, but a halt, as itwere a nod, and downward on their heads Cpenta-armij sent a shower of newly-createdflowers from the sphere above, and in turn heard their chorus rise joyfully, in as manymillion words of love and admiration.
18. Still onward, upward sped the airavagna, her hosts viewing the scenes on every side,here most, the richest part and most glorious places of Salkwatka. Where the ethereanworlds, rich in the glitter of swamps shining on the countless rainbow arches and crystalpyramids, afford an extensive view of the new Orian boundaries of Oteson's broadkingdoms. Here course the thousands of excursionists from the measureless regions of theHuan lights, where are to be seen a million varieties of fire-ships, of sizes from ten milesacross to the breadth of a world, in unceasing travel, in tens of thousands of directions,onward in their ways, every several one a history of millions of years, and of thousandsof millions of souls, and every soul rich in the knowledge of thousands of worlds.
19. By music alone, some their ships propelled, the vibratory chords affording powersufficient in such high-skilled hands, and the tunes changing according to the regionstraversed. Others, even by colors made in the waves of sound, went forward, carryingmillions of angels, every one attuned so perfectly that his very presence lent power andbeauty to the monarch vessel. And downward and upward, and east and west, and northand south, and of every angle and course; such were the traveling regions ofWellagowthiij, in the etherean fields of Oteson.
20. And of the million ships, with their tens of thousands of millions of spirits, who sogreat a Goddess, like Cpenta-armij, could turn her well-learned eyes on any one, andknow its home regions, and from what Orian pastures sailed; or perhaps Nirvanian rivers! Or, like her visiting friends now with her, great Owks, and See-wah-Gon, and Ha-o-ha,that with her stood side by side, reading the coursing fleets, and relating to oneanother who they were, and the great Chiefs aboard, with whom thousands of yearsago they had been together taming some rambling star and quieting its disturbedvortex, or perhaps surveying a roadway many millions of miles through an a'ji'an forest.
21. And the while the airavagna was shooting on in the hands of her proper officers, everyone to his part and all the hosts in varied amusement; for such is the labor of the highraised in heaven, labor itself becometh an amusement of great relish. Coming then to theCrossings, near Bilothowitchieun, where was a small colony, ninety million ethereanweavers, superintended by Cpenta-armij's ward, Hoewuel, God of two thousand years,who knew she was coming his way, and had lighted the roadway a hundred thousandmiles in honor thereof, she turned the airavagna and cast the streamers and banners,saluting. Here again Cpenta-armij sent down to her beloved sons and daughters, for everyone, flowers and keepsakes; and on every flower was written the history and missionto the earth and her heavens. And then again the airavagna upward rose and sped on.
22. Thus in Jehovih's wide universe went forth the Goddess, the Chieftainess, Cpenta-armij,went toward the red star; passing through ten thousand varieties of ethereanworlds and roadways in the ji'ay'an fields and forests of high heaven, seeing millions ofetherean ships going hither and thither, every one knowing its own mission and fieldof labor, whilst the highest raised Gods and Goddesses could exchange courtesieswith the fiery vehicles, and speak them, to know whither bent, and for what purpose.
23. Then rising high; here on a level lieth the earth, here the boundary of her vortex,Chinvat; just beyond the sweep of the moon; halteth here to view the rolling earth, herland and water; and her atmospherean heavens, the sojourning place of the newly dead,and of such as have not aspired to rise to holier heavens.
24. Quickly, now, Cpenta-armij taketh in the situation, and ordereth on the airavagna,which now taketh a downward course, steering straight toward the habitable earth. Slowly now, turning slowly, and descending; viewing all the regions on every side inthe great vortex, she spies the plateau Craoshivi, the place of God, new founded.
25. And to her companions and to her hosts quickly Cpenta-armij, of the NirvanianChengotha, explaineth the place; and, stretching forth her slender hand, itself most like astream of fire, she crieth out: Behold my anchorage! Here bring my ship and make fast,where riseth now the voices of my weary God and his Lords, of me so long expectant. InThy wisdom and power, O Jehovih, I will raise them up!
CHAPTER III.
1. Jehovih spake to God, ruler of atmospherea and of the earth, saying: Well done, O MySon! The beginning of the end of thy trials is at hand. I have spoken in the highestheavens, in My etherean worlds; in the gardens of Haot-saiti, near the arc of Spe-ta, to MyDaughter, who hath attained to One with Me, a Nirvanian in the regions of Chen-gotha,the holy Cpenta-armij.
2. Her ship, an airavagna, with five hundred million etherean deliverers on board, hathstarted on the road Salkwatka, swiftly bound to thy regions, to thy new plateau, Craoshivi.
3. Send thou word to Yima to come, and to Vishnu, and to Os, each to come in rank,attended by ten millions, grade above seventy, with es'enaurs, and marshals, and captains,and generals, to come to Craoshivi.
4. And send thou invitations to thy Diva to come, and to thy sub-Gods, and to thy LordGods, and to thy Lords, in all the divisions of heaven and the divisions of the earth; and tobring of their people all above grade fifty. And to thy marshals give thou a list of all whowill be with thee in Craoshivi on that day. And thy marshals shall apportion and divideand arrange all thy hosts thus assembled in Craoshivi, according to grade, approachingthy throne in four lines, east and west and north and south, and thy throne shall be theextreme east.
5. And in the center of the cross shall thy marshal provide space sufficient for the hosts ofCpenta-armij to land her airavagna, and to disembark. But at the extreme boundary of thelines of thy hosts thou shalt draw a circle, and thither shall thy light makers erect pillars oflight, making the circle as a wall of light; and, as the diameter of the circle is to thedistance down to the earth's surface, so a tenth thereof shalt thou make as the summit ofthe apex of the canopy of thy capital chamber, for the Holy Council of thy Goddess,Cpenta-armij.
6. God said: Thy will be done, O Jehovih! And thereupon God sent word by hismessengers, as commanded by the Great Spirit; sent invitations to all the Gods and Lordsof heaven and earth, commanding them to come to Craoshivi.
7. And the Lord Gods, and Gods and Lords, thus notified, appointed substitutes to rule intheir places. And they made otevans, every one suitable to the number of angels he was totake with him, and they embarked and rose up from their several places in atmosphereaand the earth, and, being guided in their courses by such experts as had learned the way,they came to Craoshivi, where they were received by the chief marshal of God and hisofficers, and allotted their several places, according to their respective grades. But as theplateau was above grade fifty in the earth's vortex, so there were no angels of less gradethan fifty amongst all the hosts assembled.
8. And Jehovih commanded God to number the angels thus assembled in Craoshivi, andthere were seven thousand millions, and nine hundred and seventy-five millions, andeight hundred thousand, officers and all.
9. And the day and the hour of their assembling, when they were numbered, was theself same time that Cpenta-armij's fire-ship arrived at Chinvat, when her light burst in fullview to the hosts of God in Craoshivi. And they all beheld her coming; saw the manner inwhich a Chieftainess cometh to the lower heavens. And because of the great glorybefore them, they burst forth in a song of praise to Jehovih, the seven thousand millions.
10. Jehovih spake to God, saying: Ascend thy throne, My Son, and allot the Council andthy officers to their place, for quickly now, behold, My Daughter will descend. And whenshe cometh. My Voice will be with her for the years and the days of the dawn of dan.
11. So God caused his Council and his marshal and his Diva to take their places and be inreadiness for the emancipated Sons and Daughters. And presently the descending stargrew brighter and larger, larger and brighter, till like a sun she shone abroad over all theplateau of Craoshivi.
12. In awe stood the Gods at sight of the sublime spectacle; for the light of the airavagnawas brilliant, and unlike all the lights of the lower heavens, and new to nearly all thepeople.
13. Nearer and nearer descended the ship of light, till soon the music of her hostsdescended down to those beneath, who, awe-stricken and buoyant with delight, burstforth, entranced with the glory thereof, singing, by the force of Jehovih's light upon them,the same glorious anthem.
14. And now the marshals spread the way, for close at hand came the airavagna, over thebows of which Cpenta-armij shone like a central sun, and with her, her visiting hosts,Owks and Ha-o-ha and See-wah-Gon; so, but for Cpenta-armij holding out her taperhand, the hosts below had hardly known which of the four great lights Jehovih had sent. Presently the curtains swept across the high pyramid of the capital, and then thetransparent blankets and crystal frame-work; and now shot down the anchors, threehundred thousand; lower and lower, slowly came the mighty ship, till her screen-work,from which the anchors hung, touched the very floors of the capital; and, all radiant withholiness, before God and his hosts stood the ethereans, the glory of the most highheavens.
15. The attendants then quickly spread the homa; the masters of arches opened the floorand sides of the airavagna, and there, seated or standing, was ready the central part of theetherean Council chamber, even as if the throne of God had been built for it. Thencame forth the Chieftainess, Cpenta-armij, accompanied by Owks and Ha-o-ha and Seewa-Gon, and arriving before the throne stood, waiting for the salutation and the sign.
16. God, still sitting on the throne, said: Daughter of Jehovih, Chieftainess of Haotsaiti, inthe name of the Father! And hereupon he gave the sign ARC OF SPE’TA.!Cpenta-armij andher three companions saluted in the SIGN OF THE CIRCUIT! Which was the highestcompliment any God of the earth had ever received.
17. Cpenta-armij said: By Jehovih's command am I before thee, O God. In Love andWisdom and Power am I come. Behold, My Voice is His Voice, Creator of Worlds!
18. God said: My throne is founded in Jehovih's name. Come thou and honor it, and bringthy most high Gods and Goddesses with thee.
19. They went forward then, and all the Gods and Goddesses, and Lords and Lordessesstood up, saluting by shaking hands; and then Cpenta-armij went and sat in the midst ofthe throne. Meanwhile, the es'enaurs chanted a hymn of thanksgiving.
20. Cpenta-armij, being under the Voice of Jehovih said: For joy created I man andwoman; for seasons of labor and seasons of recreation. Be ye mirthful before Me, andjubilant toward one another, in remembrance of My creations. And when I call you tolabor, behold, My hand will move upon you for the furtherance of My kingdoms in theirresurrections.
21. Hereupon the multitude broke off from their places and stateliness, and commingledtogether joyfully. And all that were on the throne came down and went into the multitude,saluting and rejoicing.
