CHAPTER X.
1. When Osire had completed his instructions to his hosts, he sent messengers to Vibhraj,saluting, in the name of Jehovih, calling for one million more ethereans, who camepresently; whereupon, Osire divided them into ten thousand groups, giving each groupone or more of his attendants, whom he had instructed what to do. When all of them werein readiness for the work, Osire said:
2. Experience hath proven that to dispossess familiar spirits in one place, is but to drivethem to another. It is wise, therefore, that in the same day ye make the attack in one cityor temple, ye shall do so in the principal places all over the earth, giving the familiarsno place to fasten upon. Let it be the sign, therefore, of attack, in each and every place,at the beginning of sunrise, on the morrow; and ye shall possess all the temples, andplaces of the oracles, and the cities, and the kings and queens, and rulers and leadersof men, driving hence, by stratagem or by force, all the false Lords, and all spiritsprofessing the name of Apollo, or any representative spirit in the name of Apollo or Thor.
3. And immediately will mortals recognize that some change is going on in the unseenworld; and they will go to the places of spirit communion, asking for Apollo to explain;and ye shall answer: Apollo is cast out! Hear ye the wisdom of the Great Spirit, Jehovih!
4. And thereafter, ye shall instruct them as I have commanded.
5. So it came to pass as Osire had decreed; the ethereans drove out the false Lords of theearth, and they banished the familiars of all the kings and queens and leaders of men. Andthe ethereans taught in the temples and oracles, and by entrancement, and by inspiration,even as commanded by Jehovih, through His Son, Osire.
6. But in all places the Great Spirit's name was made a secret; and it was commanded ofmortals that His name should only be spoken in whisper, or low breath, because Jehovihspeaketh to the soul of man silently. And these things were established; and this was thefirst universal teaching of the Great Spirit to mortals, save to the sacred people, the I'hins.
7. And Osire decreed: One Lord shall ye give to every city and oracle; but every Lordshall profess Jehovih, being His Son.
8. And this was also accomplished; and when the people consulted the oracles as to whothe spirit was, the answer was: Jehovih, through His Son, Lord of earth (or God of earth). But it was made lawful to use the names, Lord and God, with audible words; and theywere thus used and spoken of by mortals as the substitutive words, permissible in public,in place of the name, JEHOVIH.After this, the names LORDand GODwere worshipful.
9. Osire said: It is an easy matter to rule over the kings and queens and prophets, and alllearned people; but not so easy to rule over the ignorant. Who, having been accustomed toworship Apollo through the idols, will long continue to do so; therefore, ye shall causethe kings to issue edicts prohibiting familiar spirits, and forbidding soothsayers andworkers of magic; but teach ye mortals that these things come of satan (the evildisposition of men).
10. This was also done, according to the commandments; and now there was no place leftfor familiar spirits to obsess mortals. And these spirits distributed themselves after themanner of spirits of the olden times; some going into swine, and living with them;whereupon, Osire commanded his hosts to inspire the kings and queens to pass lawsprohibiting the eating of swine's flesh, lest mortals become bound with fetals.Accordingly, this law was established on the earth. Some of the dispossessed went intothe forests to dwell, and some to the fountains and mists in waterfalls; others; who weredepraved, dwelt in the fisheries and slaughterhouses; and still others, in the kennels, withdogs and cats. Nevertheless, there were many mortals who were dealers in magic andwitchery, and these had an abundance of familiars. And when such mortals would die, thefamiliars would go to their sons or daughters; whereupon, it was said of them theyinherited the gift of magic.
11. Osire, having overcome the evil spirits, now called a council at We-ont-ka-woh; andthere came five hundred thousand angels.
12. Osire said: In Jehovih's name, will I now deliver them I have cast out; and ye shalllabor to this end in conjunction with the Gods of atmospherea. Behold, I have had thefamiliars enumerated, and there are more than six thousand millions of them on earth. Yeshall go forth, therefore, into all the divisions of the earth, where they inhabit, andproclaim a great festival, to be held in We-ont-ka-woh, inviting them hither. And ye shallprovide them conveyance, bringing them across the seas in suitable vessels. For,when I have them here congregated, I will destroy the ships, and they cannot return.
13. This was accomplished, and more than five thousand millions of spirits came to thefestival, where were provided for them food, and also clothes of fantastic colors, to pleasethe eye of the ignorant; and after they were provided in decency, they were entertained inmusic and dancing, they themselves being taught to take part. For seventy days thefestival lasted, and every day varied from another; and the multitude became sointoxicated with delight, and withal, so broken off from their old habits and associations,that they forgot all about the ships and conveyances.
14. Osire spake to his Council privily, saying: Provide ye an airiata large enough forall these people. I will show you what shall happen! So, whilst the festival was goingon, the proper workmen built the vessel, and its capacity was sufficient to carry allthe multitude of spirits, besides a sufficiency of regimen for them on a long journey.
15. Now, after the festival had lasted seventy days, Osire proclaimed order, that he mightspeak to them. He said:
16. Brothers and sisters, in the name of the Great Spirit, greeting to you all. I am aboutto depart to a higher world. That ye might hear my voice, I proclaimed order. That yemay rejoice in my words, I speak in love and tenderness. My home is in a world faraway. Where there is no suffering; no sorrow. And the spirit of my people is radiantwith light. I would tell you of the beauty and glory of my home, but it would not bejust to you. Ye would no longer be content to remain here. So I seal up my mouth.
17. Because ye suffered, and my soul was full of pity, I made this festival. TheGreat Spirit taught me how to make food and clothes, and to travel far, and be notafraid. All the people where I live can hear the voice of the Great Spirit. Theylearn all things by first learning to hear Him. His Wisdom supplieth every want.
18. It will be a long time before I come again; my heart of love will come back to you. The time of the festival is ended; your time is come to return to your old places. TheseLords of yours, which you have had so long, may provide you.
19. Almost at once, when Osire began to speak, the people desired to go whither hewould decree, and when he suggested for them to return to their former Lords, whowere also present, they answered with a universal shout: Nay, never more with them!
20. Osire said: I perceive ye desire to go with me and my hosts. I have learned tounderstand the souls of people. But do ye understand me? I mentioned the great glories inmy heavens; but I did not tell you that we worked to make them. Yea, we work every day. The Great Spirit made the tree to get its food and clothes without labor; but, behold, ithath no power to travel. Some things in the world labor not; but man, who hath neitherfeathers nor hair to cover his body, is provided with talents. Talents are the greatest of allgifts. The air and the ground provide the substance of fruit and foliage to the tree; but thespirit who hath talent can find the substance of fruit and foliage in the air, and gather it.
21. Lights of various colors were now being set up by the ethereans, and the placeenriched with the most enticing perfumes.
22. Osire proceeded: By the cultivation of talent, all things are possible unto all men andwomen. With a sufficiency of talent, ye need no Lords or oppressive rulers. I mentionedthe great beauties in my etherean home. Ye go to the spray of fountains, and disportyourselves in rainbows; but ye are in a small corner, at best, and the substances of yourjoys are in perpetual failure. Behold the sprays and bows made by my hosts! Hear themusic played in the elements of their handiwork!
23. The hosts here overcast the entire multitude with the vapor of the air, converted intomillions of kaleidoscopic pictures, and filled the place with the music of wind currentstrained to tunes.
24. The hosts were overjoyed beyond measure. Again Osire said: Hear me yet further; thefestival must cease. Ye forget, I told you I must go. My marshals will now conduct meand my hosts to my fire-ship. As for ye, my heart is broken. I know the toil and hardshipput upon you. But if ye desire these things, they are yours.
25. The universal shout was: We will go with thee! Take us in your fire-ship. Teach ushow to improve our talents!
26. Osire said: What will the Lords do? Shall they remain without subjects? But the falseLords answered quickly: We will also go with thee, and be servants to do thy bidding!
27. Osire said: When I am on the ship I will answer. So he departed, and went into theairiata, to the side of which his own fire-ship was made fast; and presently, hecommanded all who chose to come aboard; and lo and behold, the whole of them, evenmore than five thousand millions, went in. Osire at once commanded the ascent; andthus he delivered them high up in atmospherea, where his proper officers had alreadyprovided a plateau of habitation for them; and the name of the plateau was Assan,signifying, no escape, for here Osire decreed to have them educated, and purged fromevil; nor was it possible for them to return to the earth of their own power and learning.
CHAPTER XI.
1. In Assan, Osire appointed Sha'bon as God over the delivered hosts; and Sha'bonselected officers and teachers, and then divided the people into groups and sections,according to their development, and then erected schools, and nurseries, and factories,and put the inhabitants to work, feasting them plenteously with rites and ceremonies.
2. After Assan was duly organized, Osire departed, and went and sojourned in variouskingdoms that had been established by his Lords.
3. And all the heavens of the earth were thus organized anew under Osire. And the wholetime of organization was three years; but Osire spent the balance of dawn in Vibhraj,perfecting it as the central kingdom of atmospherea. And lastly, he decreed theappointment of ten thousand Lords, to dwell on earth. Some at the temples of worship, ororacles; some within the cities of the Ghans; and he decreed for his Lords as followeth, towit:
4. Ye shall not teach mortals of heavenly things, neither by inspiration, nor through theoracles.
5. Ye shall not suffer them to commune with the spirits of the dead, not even their ownkin.
6. Ye shall not permit spirits to come to their mortal kin. And the spirits of those who diein infancy ye shall deliver to the asaphs in Vibhraj.
7. Ye shall not permit spirits to inhabit deserted houses; nor permit them to formhabitations on the grave-yards, on the earth.
8. Ye shall not permit spirits to inhabit caves nor waterfalls on the earth.
9. Ye shall not permit spirits to obsess mortals, nor to speak through them byentrancement, save they be such spirits as ye appoint in order to carry out these, mydecrees; or save they be masters of generation (loo'is), whom ye shall appoint overmortals for other purposes.
10. Ye shall control the selecting and appointing of guardian spirits over newbornmortals.
11. And all such guardian spirits shall teach their wards nothing of heaven near theearth, but inspire them that it lieth far away, and very high, from which place none return.
12. And the guardians shall also inspire their wards to consult God only, or his Lord, andto do this by secret prayer.
13. And that the Lord and God are all goodness, and all wisdom, and all love, and allpower.
14. And that all evil cometh from tetracts, born with man's mortal condition.
15. And ye shall inspire mortals to acquire a knowledge of the sun, and moon, and stars,giving names unto them, together with their places in the firmament.
16. And give them temples for observation, and tablets for instruction.
17. For in all things ye shall direct man's soul to the acquisition of corporeal knowledge,causing him to look into corporeal things to find a reason for the behavior of all createdsubstance.
18. And they shall not in any sense longer depend on the spirits for knowledge, nor truth.
19. For I am not laying the foundation for spiritual knowledge on earth; that must comeafter. For as Jehovih first gave to man a corporeal life, and then a spiritual life, so am Ilaying a foundation for a new race (the Ghans) on the earth. For from their kin shallspring the heirs of kosmon, who shall embrace both corporeal and spiritual knowledge.
20. But these shall rise in corporeal knowledge, and go down in it, suffering death in thatwhich I now rain on the earth.
21. Ye shall teach them in truth; but they will in after generations contort your teachingsinto corporeal worship, prostrating themselves before the sun, and moon, and stars, goingdown in disbelief in not only the spiritual life, but in the Great Spirit, and His Gods andLords.
22. And these things must come to pass on the corporeal world; nor is there anyresurrection in the latter days, save these of this day go through the fall which I ampreparing for them.
23. For which reason, ye shall found corporeal knowledge in the stars, and name them,for these things will be testimony in kosmon, of the fate of the worshippers of corporealknowledge, in the time of the Osirian cycle.
24. Wherein ye shall leave nothing undone that can be done, to make mortals put aside allspirituality, save to believe in the Great Spirit and a distant heaven; but make them pursueknowledge wholly corporeal.
25. For the labor of God and his Lords shall not always be to fetch spirits back to earth, tolearn of corpor, for this is not Jehovih's plan.
26. A heaven shall be built up of corporeal knowledge, which shall have a base in thefirmament of heaven, where spirits can be taught in time to come.
27. Fear not that man can be too unbelieving in spiritual things, in this age; Jehovihrequireth even perfection in unbelief, in certain periods of time. And this is the foundingof that era on the earth.
28. Do ye, therefore, these matters with all your wisdom and strength; and may the Lightof Jehovih be with you, now and forever.
CHAPTER XII.
1. Osire, through his mathematicians, now furnished the Lords with maps of corporealstars, and moon, and sun, and the position of the earth, with the sun-belt, and bestowedthe names of animals upon them. Showed where the region of Cows3 was; the place ofBulls; the place of Bears; the place of Horses; the place of Fishes; the place of Scorpions;the place of Sheep; the place of Lions; the place of Crabs; the place of Death; the place ofLife; the place of Capricornus; and marked the seasons, and made twelve sections(months) to the year, which was the width of the sun-belt.
2. And he placed the sun in the midst and made lines thence to the stars, withexplanations of the powers of the seasons on all the living.
3. And he gave the times of Jehovih, the four hundred years of the ancients, and the halftimesof dan, the base of prophecy; the variations of thirty-three years; the times ofeleven; and the seven and a half times of the vortices of the stars, so that the seasonsmight be foretold, and famines averted on the earth.
4. When the tablets were completed and ready to deliver to the Lords, Osire said: Takethese and bestow them on mortals, both through the oracles and by inspiration, makingthem sacred with the prophets, and seers, and priests, and their kings and queens.
5. And ye shall inspire them to build temples of observation, to study the stars; teachingby the gau and by the travel of the sun north and south, and by Cnest, and by darkchambers, that they may prove the Fichtus of Haak,4 for nothing shall be left undone oruntaught whereby man's corporeal senses shall not prove adequate to a perfect corporeallife.
6. For this rule followeth on all corporeal worlds; that with the culture of the corporealsenses, man becometh vigorous, strong, and independent; and with the culture ofthe spiritual senses in corporeans, they become weak, sensitive and dependent.
7. In the first case, they ultimately become selfish and wicked; in the second case,they become impotent, and unadapted to corporeal life, and thus become extinct.
8. On all corporeal worlds, Jehovih hath provided these two seasons for every race Hecreated; a season for the development of the corporeal senses, and a season for thedevelopment of the spiritual senses. To find the mean between these is to find kosmon,which lieth far in the future.
9. In this day, therefore, I give the matter into your charge, in the name of Jehovih, thatyou consider not the spiritual nature of the corporeans in any respect, leaving that matterto God and his sub-Gods, who will receive them at the time of their mortal death.
10. But ye shall teach them to fear no spirit, nor Lord, nor God; teaching them that bytheir own wills they can cast out the tetracts which assume to be spirits. Rather inspire yethem to be Gods and Goddesses themselves; and by their aspirations they will becomelarge and powerful, and of fearless disposition.
3 The term cows and horses, or mares and bulls, in the Vedic Scriptures, do not refer to the animals themselves, but to groups of stars, with reference to their power on the male and female; or rather, positive and negative forces. In some of the astrological maps, in Upper Thibet, the star groups are still set with animal outlines. In our European almanacs, the central figure in the zodiac is a man; in the Chinese and East Indian secret tablet, it is the sun. The sun was also the central figure of the zodiac with the Egyptians and ancient Hebrews. At the time Ezra made the present Jewish Bible, the Great Spirit, Jehovih, was expunged, and the term God substituted, because the God represented an exalted man in heaven. From Ezra's time till the present, the zodiac surrounds the figure of a man, symbolical of God, and of the seasons of his manifestations. Man would easily fall into this trap: If the sun, at a certain season, causes the fish to spawn, and the male and female animals to go together, is not the sun, then, the Creator? And yet, to reason further, is there not a Great Man behind the sun? Osire was sent to the earth to develop corporeal brains in man; and be will stand to the end of time as the God of natural philosophy, as that term is understood. Apollo's mission was first to develop a well-made physical race, which were the Ghans, and he had to precede Osire. The names of many of the stars, and of most of the signs of the zodiac, are to-day as they were given by this God, Osire, more than ten thousand years ago.
4 Fichtus of Haal refers to 24,000 years' periods, as will be seen in another place, when great changes take place on the earth. It also refers to an AVERAGE POSITION OF THE NORTH STAR. And yet again, the same term applies to certain distances from the sun, where planets have orbits. It is by this rule that astronomers, to this day, judge of the place where a planet is likely to be discovered. The ruined temples of India and Eastern Persia suggest that, in the time of their building, the astronomers of those days knew nearly as much of the heavens as we do to-day. Afterward these things were taught in Egypt, when the first pyramids were built. According to the rules in prophecy, these astronomical desires came to man every eleven thousand, and six and five thousand years.Plate 65. ARIES.
See book of Jaffeth.
