BOOK OF LIKA, SON OF JEHOVIH.
KNOWN IN HEAVEN AS THE DAWN OF BON, AND ON EARTH AS THE CYCLE OF MOSES, CAPILYA AND CHINE! JEHOVIH SAID: I GAVE UNTO THE EARTH A TIME OF FULL EARTHHOOD; AND, THAT THE GENERATIONS OF MEN MIGHT KNOW THE PERIOD THEREOF, BEHOLD, I CAUSED MAN TO BUILD A PYRAMID IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WORLD. FOR IT WAS MY MARK, THAT, FROM THAT TIME HENCEFORTH, MAN SHOULD TURN FROM STONE TEMPLES, AND THE HOPE OF EVERLASTING FLESH-LIFE, TO REJOICE IN SPIRITUAL ABODES IN MY ETHEREAN HEAVENS. AND I BROUGHT THE EARTH OUT OF DARKNESS AND ENCOMPASSED IT AROUND WITH THE DAWN OF BON.
CHAPTER I.
1. In the far-off etherean worlds spake the Voice of Jehovih, saying: Lika, Lika, My Son! Behold the red star, the earth. She cometh thy way; she mergeth dark and soiled from theforests of ji'ay, in the swamps of Bonassah. She will cross thy etherean fields,the Takuspe, and Opel, and Wedojain, dripping with the odor and dross of theji'ay'an swamps. Go thou to her, and wash clean her soil and her atmospherean heavens.
2. Lika said: Alas, O Jehovih, how they have forgotten Thee!
3. I will go to the red star, the earth, O Father! I will deliver her into purity and faith. Thychosen shall be delivered from bondage; Thy God made triumphant on earth and in herheavens.
4. Lika called to his high Council, in his etherean kingdom, Vetta'puissa, in the Plains ofPeo'ya, off the Road of Ahtogonassas, at the high Arc of Bon, made light by the holyangels of tens of thousands of years; and he said:
5. Behold, the red star, the earth; the Voice of Jehovih came to me, saying: Go thou toher, O My Son, and wash clean her soil and her atmospherean heavens. And I said: I willgo, O Father! I will deliver her into purity and faith.
6. Lika said: Five hundred million etherean hosts will I take with me. For five years andforty days will I and my hosts sojourn on the red star and in her heavens. Her true Godshall be restored and delivered in my name by Jehovih's hand. According to the rank ofharvest of the gardens of Honyon, so shall my marshals choose and record my hosts.
7. Then spake the Council, the historians of the etherean libraries of the Vorkman Road,where hath traveled the earth for tens of thousands of years. And they detailed the affairsof the earth for many cycles past; made plain before the Gods assembled all the doings ofthe earth and her heavens.
8. Then Lika sent swift messengers off to the earth and her heavens; in arrow-ships of firethey sped forth, twenty thousand, well skilled in coursing the etherean heavens andpenetrating the atmospherean vortices of traveling stars. To obtain the details of her Godand her false Gods; her Lords and false Lords; her hadas and her hells; to scan herlibraries and hastily return to Vetta'puissa, to lay the matters before the high Council andLika, the Nirvanian Chief on Jehovih's throne.
9. Lika was sprung from the corporeal star Atos, which traversed the roads, Yatas-koowen,of the south circuit of Thoese, the vortex of another far-off sun, and was raised toetherea in the cycle of Sai-kah, one hundred and twenty-five thousand years, by Meth-ya,Goddess of Ori-iyi, afterward Chieftainess of Yeuna-gamaya.
10. And Lika rose to be God of Avalassak four thousand years; God of Kemma, sixthousand years; Inspector of Judas' etherean roads at the a'ji'an swamps of Hennassit,fifteen thousand years; Surveyor of Iwalt, two thousand years; Surveyor of the Wachaexcursion, four thousand years; Recorder of Hitte-somat, eight thousand years; Delivererof Habian vortices, twenty-six thousand years; Measurer of densities in Ablank, onethousand years; Recorder of the Ratiotyivi, two thousand years; God of the Home Plainsof Cteverezed, twelve thousand years; and Chief of Vetta-puissa, twenty-five thousandyears.
11.Lika had for his high Council thirty thousand Chieftains and Chieftainesses, of gradesof more than a hundred thousand years in the etherean worlds; five hundred thousand ofthe rank of Inspectors; seven millions of the rank of Gods and Goddesses; and of the rankof Lords and Lordesses, more than half a thousand million.
12. Of the Rapon hosts there were seven Chiefs and nine Chieftainesses, who were Lika'sprivate companions. First, Rebsad, Chief of So-tissav, forty thousand years; Sufristorof Sheleves, sixty thousand years; Marshal of Zele'axi, twenty thousand years;Master of Bassaion, seventy thousand years; and he passed twenty thousand years on thejourney of Loo-soit-ta-vragenea, besides thousands of other journeys of less duration.
13. Next to Rebsad was Yanodi, Chieftainess of Ure, seventy thousand years;Chieftainess of the Roads of Sallatamya, seventy thousand years; marshalless of Petanasa,forty thousand years; Goddess of the ji-ay'an forest of Loo-loo-woh-ga, sixty-fivethousand years; besides Goddess of Mor, Goddess of Chichigennahsmmah, Goddess ofEl, and of Raumba, and of Zee.
14. Next to Yanodi was Thazid, Goddess of Zoleth; Matrusettes of Yith-kad, Chieftainessof Hagu, Chieftainess of De'baur, and of Hachull, and of the Roads of Oleaskivedho,besides Goddess of more than one hundred etherean worlds.
15. Then came Thoso, Chief of Kassarah and Dassamatz, ninety thousand years; God ofSaxax, seven thousand years; God of Chennesa, God of Hoxora, God of Fiben, God ofHotab, each six thousand years; surveyor of the Lymthian Roads, twelve thousand years;marker of meteors, two thousand years; Fireman of Thostus on the Ibien excursion, thirtythousand years.
16. Next to Thoso came Miente, Chieftainess of Gawl and Sanabtis, in whose dominionsthe star T-lemos was uzated, when Gai-loo opened the Road of Enjxi-ustus for theNizaigi vortices of Messak; Chieftainess of Lam-Goo and Kud, Goddess of Itzi, Goddessof Ashem and of the Baxgor Wing, Goddess of the Duik Swamps, and Lordess of Sus andHavrij; in all one hundred and seven thousand years.
17. Chama-jius stood next; she was Chieftainess of Hors-ad and Tu and Okadad, Goddessof Asthy, and Hid, and Sheaugus, and Jagri, Surveyor of Arvat and the Vadhuan Roads;surveyor of Anchas; surveyor of the Han Mountains in the etherean Uuj of Drij-Lee; in alltwo hundred and sixty thousand years.
18. Next stood Murdhana, Chieftainess of D'hup and Hen-Dhi, Chieftainess of Happa andHirish, surveyor of Sepher and Daka, Inspector of Anachu, and Zadon, and Edau, andMedtisha, and Roth; in all ninety thousand years.
19. Oshor stood next: Chief of Out-si and of Yotek, and of Samoan, and of Yadakha,maker of the Bridge of Weasitee, Marshal of the Honlaguoth expedition, and, besidesthese places, God of seven etherean worlds; in all one hundred and twelve thousand years.
20. Next came Yihoha, Chief of Shung-how and Agon, Chief of Neo-sin, God of Izeaha,and Kaon, and Ahsow, and Una, and Yuk-Hoh, and Ahgoon. He was also the builder ofthe Raxon etherean arches; in all ninety thousand years.
21. Hisin was next: Chief of the Kionas Belt, where Yagota, the Orian Chief, walled thePlains of Maga, the Nirvanian home of the delivered hells of Mina half a millionyears before. Hismi was here nicknamed Creator of Wit, because of establishinghis Chieftaincy on the ruins of hell. He was also Chief of Mamsa and Jauap, Godof Gah, and of Darah, the region of fountain flowers; in all ninety thousand years.
22. Bowen was next: Chief of Apaha, formerly the Farms of Lung-wan and Srid, Chief ofVadhua, and of the Valleys of Nasqam, where a million years before the Chief of Chaksadisrupted the Atmospherean Sakri, and liberated from its four thousand hells more thanthirty thousand million angel slaves in chaos. Bowen had also served as God of Amaan,and Havat, and Shedo, and Pivan; and as measurer of Pracha, and Xeri, and Asthus,surveyor of Ulam, and Sheyom, and Chozeh and Zadark, in all eighty thousand years.
23. Gwan Goo was next; she was Chieftainess of Andol, the place of the one-time apex ofthe Karowgan vortex, whereat was formed the star Ogitas and sent on its course byAclon-guin, Orian hemmer of Shegoweasa. This vortex, when first formed by Aclonguin,was three hundred thousand million miles long and was cometary thirty thousandyears in Aclon-guin's hands. Gwan Goo was also Chieftainess of Ahsa-thah and Waegon;Goddess of Anoa, and of Howgil, and of Zahaive; in all one hundred and ninety thousandyears.
24. Geehoogan was next; Chieftainess of Sumatri in the By-roads of Yotargis,Chieftainess of the four etherean worlds, Yoni, Ogh, Theum and Wachwakags; surveyorof Unshin, Zarihea and Keanteri; inspectress of Saquiz, and Hagimal, and Hafha, andBorax, and Rab, and Shor-loo; in all eighty thousand years.
25. Next stood Bachne-isij, Chief of Yahalom, where the Gein Maker, Tarmoth, clearedthe Forests of the a'ji'an Haloth, in making a roadway for Havalad's group of Shemasiancorporeal stars, in which labor he employed ninety thousand million Nirvanians forfour thousand years, and the distance of the road was more than one hundred thousandmillion miles. Bachne-isij was Chief of Agwan, and Shoe-nastus, and Hador, andAd; God of Vach, and of Kuja, and Rai, and Kathab, and Cynab, and Buhd, andAbbir; measurer of the mountains of the etherean worlds, Vijhath, and Hakan, and Dis;measurer of the arches in the etherean world Niksh; constructor of the Plains inthe Nirvanian world Chom; in all one hundred and thirty thousand years.
26. Rehemg was next; Chieftainess of Otaskaka, commonly called World of ShiningWaters, a great visiting place in Nirvania; she was Goddess of Theasapalas and Timax,weigher of Sultzhowtcih in the Ofel Plains; in all one hundred and ten thousand years.
27. Then stood Antosiv, Goddess of Munn, renowned because she was of two hundredand sixty thousand years, and had declined exaltation above the rank of Goddess.
28. Such, then, were the Rapon hosts.
CHAPTER II.
1. Far and wide, spread the words of Lika, words of Jehovih, over the Plains of Poe-ya,first highest light in etherea, where traveled the earth and her heavens. Far off, toward thenorthern group of twinkling stars, gazed the etherean millions; rose the voice of millions:Where is the red star? Where lieth the earth and her troubled heavens? Is not this theyoung star, a satellite that traveleth with the hidan sun? What is the angle and course ofthis little, traveling world, that our eyes may feast on the road where soon our Chief willsend Jehovih's redeeming ships?
2. Then they pointed, surmising, by the red-like color and tedious motion, which was theearth, one of the small gems that Jehovih had placed in the measureless firmament. Andthey gazed thereon, speaking with souls of delight: Great art Thou, O Jehovih, to build sowide. To stud the etherean worlds with gems like these; to provide a place for the souls ofmen to germinate. Surely her people, the sons and daughters of the red star, must beholdetherea; must realize the difference betwixt a short corporeal life and this endlessparadise. Can it be that they have, in their small heavens, unscrupulous false Lords andfalse Gods who set themselves up to be worshipped as creators, whom mortals name withbated breath? And have they, too, a host of Saviors, who profess to have the key to allthe roads that lead into this great expanse, the etherean worlds? Some excuse mortalshave who are brought forth to life on the central suns, to be stubborn in their egotismof their Lords and Saviors and Gods; but on one so small like the earth, how can it be?
3. Then came back Lika's swift messengers in their arrow-ships; messengers attainedto be very Gods in wisdom, and in swiftness. And they quickly told the tale, abouttheir visit to the red star and her heavens; told how the true God, Son of Jehovih,had struggled on, but had been outmatched by all odds by self-Gods and self-Lords,who had plunged thousands of millions of hapless souls into torturing hells.
4. And this news Lika spread abroad in his etherean dominions, which only needed to betold once, for every sympathetic soul by his shocked appearance told it to others, thelike of which spread instantly to thousands of millions of high-raised ethereans. Andwhen Lika said: Five hundred million angels shall go with me to the troubled earthand her heavens, in double-quick time the volunteers were ready to be enrolled on the list.
5. Then Lika inquired more fully of the swift messengers, and they answered him, saying: This, O Lika, Son of Jehovih! The earth hath passed her corporeal maturity, and mortalshave set up a pyramid to mark the time thereof. The days of the highest, greatest audacityof the self-Gods are passed, and are memorized by the pyramid also; for in that self sametime, they taught mortals to worship the God and the Lord and the Savior, instead of theGreat Spirit, Jehovih. But darkness is upon the self-Gods, and they are bound in hells; andmortals are also bound in hells.
6. Behold, this is the first dawn of dan on the earth since she passed the limit of hergreatest corporeality.
CHAPTER III.
1. Lika said to his chief marshal: Enroll thou my hosts, five hundred millions, andappoint unto them captains and generals, and grade them and apportion them. Besidethese give me one million singers, one million trumpeters, one million attendants,one million heralds, one million messengers and one million recorders and waiters.
2. Lika called his chief builder and said unto him: Build me a fire-ship, an airavagna,with capacity for a thousand millions; and provide thou the ship with officers andworkmen sufficient. Consult thou with my mathematicians as to the distance to the redstar, and as to the densities through which the ship shall pass, and as to the powerrequired, and the time of the journey, and provide thou all things sufficient therefore.
3. Then Lika spake to the high Council, saying: For the time of my absence my vice-Chief, Heih-Woo shall hold my place. Touching matters whereof ye desire my voicebefore I go, speak ye!
4. Atunzi said: Behold, O Lika, the star, Yatis, headeth towards the a'ji'an Forests ofActawa, and she hath not passed the esparan age! Lika said: To clear the forest Actawa Iappoint Eashivi, Goddess, with three thousand million laborers. Eashivi, how sayestthou? Eashivi said: Thanks to Jehovih and to thee, O Lika. I will at once choose mylaborers and proceed to make the road.
5. Wan Tu'y said: Erst thy return, O Lika, the Hapsa-ogan vortex will cross the southfields of Vetta'puissa. She hath twenty thousand million souls in grades of sixty andseventy. Lika said: To her assistance for three years I appoint Tici-king, God, with fiftymillions for his hosts. How sayest thou, Tici-king? Tici-king said: By the grace ofJehovih, I rejoice in this labor. In sufficient time will I prepare my hosts and accomplishwhat thou hast given into my keeping.
6. Wothalowsit said: In four years the hosts of E'win will return from the double stars,Eleb and Wis, with their harvest of forty thousand million angels. How shall they beapportioned? Lika said: To Bonassah, six thousand millions; to Opel, two thousandmillions; to Wedojain, five thousand millions; to Eosta, two thousand millions; to FeubenRoads, seven thousand millions; to Zekel, four thousand millions; to Huron, threethousand millions; to Poe-ga, six thousand millions; to Yulit, one thousand millions, andto Zulava, four thousand millions; and I appoint Misata, Goddess, to provide the places inthese several heavens for them, and to have charge of their selection and allotment. And I give to her five hundred million angels for her laboring hosts. How sayest thou,Misata? Misata said: It is Jehovih's gift; I am rejoiced. I will prepare myself and my hosts.
7. Ching Huen said: Behold the star-world, Esatas, in her se'muan age will cross theRoads of Veh-yuis in three years hence! Lika answered Ching Huen, saying: To crossthese roads of light in her se'muan age would blight her power to bring forth animallife sufficient unto her wide continents. The trail must be filled with se'muanforests to preserve her gestative season. To this labor I appoint Ieolakak, Godof Esatas' se'muan forests in the Roads of Veh-yuis, four thousand years. And I allotto Ieolakak six thousand million laborers. How sayest thou, Ieolakak? He answered: This is a great labor; by the wisdom and power of Jehovih, I will accomplish it.
8. Veaga-indras said: In two years the fleets of Leogastrivins will return from theirvoyage of four thousand years, bringing two thousand million guests from theIniggihauas regions. Who shall provide for their reception? Lika said: Yeanopstan, withten million hosts. How sayest thou? Yeanopstan said: A most welcome labor, O Lika.
9. Hiss-Joso said: The Arches of Rassittissa, the etherean world of Yungtsze's Plains,will be to cast in four years. Lika said: To Sut-tuz six million arches, and to Iviji fourmillion arches, and to each of them one hundred million laborers. How say ye? Thenspake Sut-tuz and Iviji, saying: By the help of Jehovih, the labor will be accomplished.
10. Sachcha said: The star-world, Neto, will be to turn on her axis in two years hence, inwhich time she will pass through the south Fields of Takuspe. Lika said: This will be agreat labor, and I appoint Urassus, with Salas, to accomplish it. And I give to them threeyears, with four thousand million laborers. How say ye? Then answered Urassus andSalas saying: With fear and trembling we rejoice at this great work. By Jehovih's wisdomand power, we shall accomplish it.
11. After this manner Lika made more than a thousand appointments to be accomplishedere he return from the earth and her heavens; but ordinary matters he left with his vice-Chief, Heih-Woo, and to the high Council, the select ten millions.
12. Jehovih had said: Even as I provided a little labor unto mortals to develop thetalents I created withal, so in like manner, and after the same like, but spiritually,provided I greater labor unto the high-risen inhabitants in My etherean worlds. Forwhich reason let My children learn the secret of harmonious and united labor with oneanother. I gave labor to man not as a hardship, but as a means of great rejoicing.
13. And the talents I gave on corpor, I gave not to die on corpor, but to continueon forever. As I gave talent for corporeal mathematics, and talent for corporealbuildings, even a talent for all things on corporeal worlds; even so provided I inMy etherean worlds for the same talents, but spiritually. Wherein man on thecorporeal earth, judging the adaptability of talent to corporeal things, may comprehendthe nature of the labors I provided in My exalted heavens for the same talents.
14. Neither let any man fear that his talents may become too exalted for the work I haveprovided; for until he hath created a firmament, and created suns and stars to fill it, hehath not half fulfilled his destiny.
