CHAPTER IV.
1. Man perceived the general formation of the world, and he prayed that his eyes might beopened for a sign in heaven; and Jehovih answered him, saying:
2. The clouds in the air I bring into view suddenly; by different currents of wind make Ithus the unseen visible and tangible to man's senses. In like manner do I cause ethereancurrents to bring forth a'ji and ji'ay, and nebulae, prior to making corporeal worlds.
3. In all the universe have I made the unseen to rule over the seen. Let the formation ofthe clouds stand in the view of man on earth, that he may bear witness to the manner ofthe unseen becoming seen.
4. Man perceived, and he prayed for a sign of duration, and Jehovih answered him,saying:
5. Behold the tree which hath sprung up out of the ground and fulfilled its time; it fallethand rotteth, and returneth to the earth. But lo, the wind, which thou seest not, neverceaseth to blow. Even so is the comparative duration of all things. Think not, O man, thatcorporeal things are annihilated because they disappear; for as a drop of water evaporatethand riseth in the air as unseen vapor, so do all corporeal things, even earth, and stones,and gold, and silver, and lead, become as nothing in the firmament of heaven in course oftime.
6. Things that man seeth, created I with a beginning and an end; but the unseen I made ofendless duration.
7. The corporeal man made I belonging to the seen; but the spiritual man made I as onewithin the unseen, and everlasting.
8. As the corporeal man beholdeth corporeal things, so doth the spiritual man followupward the evaporated, corporeal entities of things. As corporeal things are tangible tocorporeans, so are es things tangible to the spirits of the dead.
9. As I cause water to rise upward as vapor, and take a place in the air above, let it be asign and testimony of other places in atmospherea whereon dwell the spirits of the lowerheaven.
10. As I made a limit to the ascent of the clouds, so made I a limit to the places of thedifferent kinds of substances in atmospherea; the more subtle and potent to the extreme,and the more dense and impotent nearer to the earth.
11. According to the condition of these different plateaux in atmospherea, whether theybe near the earth or high above, so shall the spirit of man take its place in the first heaven;according to his diet and desires and behavior so shall he dwell in spirit on the plateau towhich he hath adapted himself during his earth life.
12. For I made the power of attraction manifest in all things before man's eyes that hemight not err, that like should attract like made I them.
13. Man sought to know the progress of things. Jehovih answered him, saying:
14. Open thy eyes, O man ! There is a time of childhood, a time of genesis, a time of oldage, and a time of death to all men. Even so is it with all the corporeal worlds I havecreated.
15. First as vapor the vortex carrieth it forth, and as it condenseth, its friction engenderethheat, and it is molten, becoming as a globe of fire in heaven. Then it taketh its place as anew born world, and I set it in the orbit prepared for it.
16. In the next age I bring it into se'mu, for it is ripe for the bringing forth of livingcreatures; and I bestow the vegetable and animal kingdoms.
17. Next it entereth ho'tu, for it is past the age of begetting, even as the living who are indotage. Next it entereth a'du, and nothing can generate upon it. Then cometh uz, and it isspirited away into unseen realms. Thus create I, and thus dissipate planets, suns, moonsand stars.
18. My examples are before all men. My witnesses are without number. I rise the treeup out of the ground; I give it a time to bring forth fruit; and then barrenness, and thendeath and dissolution. I prepare the new field with rich soil, bringing forth; and the oldfield that is exhausted, and man shall weigh the progress and destiny of a whole world.
19. Let no man marvel because of the size of the mammoth and the ichthyosaurus,for there was a time for them as there is a time for the infusoria of this day.
20. I have given thee a sign, O man, in the queen of the honey bee; because of the changeof the cell cometh she forth a queen, even from the same manner of germ as the otherbees. Be wise, therefore, and remember that the earth is not in the place of the firmamentas of old. Let this be a testimony to thee of the growth, the change and the travail of theearth.
21. Nevertheless, O man, the seen and the unseen are but parts of My person; I am theUnity of the whole.
CHAPTER V.
1. Man perceived the magnitude and glory of the corporeal worlds. He said, How shall Ispeak of Thy great works, O Jehovih, and of Thy wisdom and power! Shall I open mymouth before Thee! I look upon Thy countless stars, suns and moons, spread out over theheavens! The millions of years Thou hast rolled them on in the never-ending firmament! Processions in and out, and round about, of mighty worlds! By Thy breath going forth!
2. O Thou, All Highest! How shall I hide my insignificance! I cannot create the smallestthing alive! Nay, nor change the color of a hair on my head. What am I, that Thou hasseen me?
3. Tell me, O my Creator, whence came life? This unseen within me that is conscious ofbeing? Tell me how all the living came into life.
4. Jehovih heard the words of man and He answered him saying: Let a sign be given toman that he may comprehend se'mu. Thereupon Jehovih caused the jelly fish and thegreen scum of water to be permanently coming forth in all ages, that man mightunderstand the age of se'mu, when the earth and the shores by the water, and the watersalso, were covered over with commingled atmosphere and corporeal substance. And thissubstance was called se'mu, because by Jehovih's presence quickened He it into life, andthus made He all the living, both the vegetable and animal worlds. Not that se'mu is jellyfishor the green scum of water; for the earth in this day produceth not se'mu abundantly;nevertheless the jelly-fish and the green scum of water are signs of that which was in thatday of the earth.
5. Jehovih said: Because of My presence quickened I into life all that live, or ever havelived.
6. Because I am male and female, even in my likeness, thus made I them. Because I amthe power to quicken into life, so, in likeness of Me thus, made I them, and with power tobring forth.
7. According to their respective places created I the living; not in pairs only, but inhundreds of pairs and thousands, and in millions.
8. According to their respective places and the light upon se'mu, so quickened I them intheir color, adapted to their dwelling places.
9. Each and every living thing created I new upon the earth, of a kind each to itself; andnot one living thing created I out of another.
10. Let a sign be upon the earth, that man in his darkness may not believe that one animalchangeth and becometh another.
11. Thereupon Jehovih gave permission for different animals to bring forth a new livinganimal, which should be unlike either its mother or father, but he caused the new productto be barren.
12. Jehovih said: And this shall be testimony before all men that I created each and all theliving, after their own kind only.
13. Such is My person and My spirit, being from everlasting to everlasting; and when Ibring a new world into the time of se'mu, lo and behold my presence quickeneththe substance into life; according to the locality and the surroundings, so do I bringforth the different species; for they are flesh of My flesh and spirit of My spirit. To themselves give I themselves; nevertheless, they are all members of My Person.
14. As a testimony to man, behold the earth was once a globe of liquid fire! Nor was thereany seed thereon. But in due season I rained down se'mu on the earth; and by virtue of mypresence quickened I into life all the living. Without seed created I the life that is in them.
Plate 6. SE’MUAN FIRMAMENT.
Jehovih said : Behold, I caused all the living creatures to gestate indarkness. And this shall be testimony to the end of the world, that, when Icreated life on the face of the earth, she traveled in My se’muan firmament.
CHAPTER VI.
1. When man comprehended the earth he looked upward; and Jehovih saw himand knew the desires of his soul. So Jehovih sent his son Uz, and Uz spake, saying:
2. Hear me, O man; the mysteries of heaven and earth will I clear up before thy judgment. Thou art the highest, and comest to the chiefest of all kingdoms; from Great Jehovih shaltthou learn wisdom, and none shall gainsay thee.
3. Bethink thee, O man, of the magnitude of Thy Father's kingdoms and His places in thefirmament. Save I take thee up to the heaven, thou canst not comprehend the placesthereof.
4. Man then rose up in spirit and ascended into the firmament, for his spirit hadcrystallized into separateness; and Uz and Es ascended with him, speaking in the voice ofthe Father. And man beheld that each and everything in the firmament was orderly, andstill each to itself located. Then spake Es, saying:
5. Behold, O man! As a farmer soweth corn in one place, and wheat in another, androots in another, and flax--everything in a separate place; even so doth Jehovih store theingredients of which worlds are made--everything in its place--the substance of the ironin one place, the substance of the stones in another, the substance of the vegetablekingdom in another, and even so of the substance of the animal kingdom; and the oilsand sand; for He hath places in the firmament of heaven for all of them. These thatthou sawest are the a'ji and the ji'ay and the nebulae; and amidst them in places there isse'mu also. Let no man say: Yonder is hydrogen only, and yonder oxygen only. Thedivisions of the substances of His creations are not as man would make them. Allthe elements are to be found not only in places near at hand, but in distant places also.
6. When the Father driveth forth His worlds in the heavens, they gather a sufficiencyof all things. So also cometh it to pass that when a corporeal world is yet new andyoung it is carried forth, not by random, but purposely, in the regions suited to it. Hence there is a time for se'mu, a time for falling nebulae, to bury deep the forestsand se'muan beds, to provide coal and manure for a time thereafter. So is there a timewhen the earth passeth a region in the firmament when sand and oil are rained upon itand covered up, and gases bound and sealed up for the coming generations of men.
7. And man said: I am ashamed in Thy sight, O Jehovih! I looked upward and said,Behold the sky, it is nothing! Then I said: It is true, the corporeal worlds are made ofcondensed nebulae; but I saw not the wisdom and glory of Thy works. I locked Thee up incoincidences and happenings. Thy unseen world hath become seen; the unreal hathbecome the real.
8. O that I had been mindful of Thee! O that I had not put Thee afar, nor imagined lawsand decrees. Teach Thou me, O Jehovih! How was the beginning of man? How was itwith the first of the living that Thou broughtest forth?
9. Jehovih said: Have I not declared Myself in the past; in My works have I not providedthousands of years in advance? As I have shown system in the corporeal worlds, knowthou, O man, that system prevaileth in the firmament.
10. To the tree I gave life; to man I gave life and spirit also. And the spirit I made wasseparate from the corporeal life.
11. Out of se'mu I made man, and man was but as a tree, but dwelling in ha'k; and I calledhim Asu (Adam).
12. I looked over the wide heavens that I had made, and I saw countless millions of spiritsof the dead that had lived and died on other corporeal worlds before the earth was made.
13. I spake in the firmament, and My voice reached to the uttermost places. And therecame in answer to the sounds of My voice, myriads of angels from the roadway inheaven, where the earth traveleth. I said to them, Behold! A new world have I created;come ye and enjoy it. Yea, ye shall learn from it how it was with other worlds in agespast.
14. There alighted upon the new earth millions of angels from heaven; but many of themhad never fulfilled a corporeal life, having died in infancy, and these angelscomprehended not procreation nor corporeal life.
15. And I said, go and deliver Asu from darkness, for he shall also rise in spirit to inheritmy etherean worlds.
16. And now was the earth in the latter days of se'mu, and the angels could readily take oncorporeal bodies for themselves; out of the elements of the earth clothed they themselves,by force of their wills, with flesh and bones. By the side of the Asuans took they oncorporeal forms.
17. And I said: Go ye forth and partake of all that is on the earth; but partake ye not of thetree of life, lest in that labor ye become procreators and as if dead to the heavens whenceye came.
18. But those who had never learned corporeal things, being imperfect in wisdom,comprehended not Jehovih's words, and they dwelt with the Asuans, and were tempted,and partook of the fruit of the tree of life; and lo and behold they saw their ownnakedness. And there was born of the first race (Asu) a new race called man; and Jehovihtook the earth out of the travail of se'mu and the angels gave up their corporeal bodies.
19. Jehovih said: Because ye have raised up those that shall be joint heirs in heaven, yeshall tread the earth with your feet, and walk by the sides of the new born, being guardianangels over them, for they are of your own flesh and kin.
20. Fruit of your seed have I quickened with my spirit, and man shall come forth with abirth-right to My etherean worlds.
21. As I have quickened the seed of the first born, so will I quicken all seed to the end ofthe earth. And each and every man-child and woman-child born into life will I quickenwith a new spirit, which shall proceed out of Me at the time of conception. Neither will Igive to any spirit of the higher or lower heaven power to enter a womb, or a fetus of awomb, and be born again.
22. As the corporeal earth passeth away, so shall pass away the first race Asu; but as Ipass not away, so shall not pass away the spirit of man.
