[FRAGAPPATTI VII:4]
4. I perceive that the plan of the gods on this star was to complete its inhabitation by going westward. For this reason, I will see where they designed to have the Eve of Death and the birth of the Father’s kingdom on the corporeal part.
[FRAGAPPATTI XXI:2-4]
2. As mortal children can be taught by objective illustration, so have I created My spirit worlds capable of a similar process subjectively. My rules are not man’s rules; nor are my worlds illustrated as man illustrates. Behold my rainbow, which is a subjective illustration to mortals of a bow without the substance of a bow. But man bends a stick and says: Look, a bow! And he holds it in his hand; but mine he cannot touch.
3. I gave to mortals to teach their sons and daughters many combinations by the use of objects; that they should know a circle, a square, a triangle, or learn to calculate numbers by the use of objects. Inversely in the same way I created subjective means for the spirits of the dead, that they might be taught and amused with my works.
4. To the sons of men I give earthly eyes and earthly ears, that they might attain to wisdom on the earth; but to a few I give clairaudience and clairvoyance, that they may see and hear things spiritually, without the use of their earthly eyes and earthly ears.
[GOD’S FIRST BOOK – Chapter XXIV]
THE FIRST BIBLE OF AMERICA — BEING OF EAWAHTAH, A MAN CHOSEN BY CREATOR FOR THE CHILDREN OF AMERICA
Long ago, in the sacred lands of America, within the Middle Kingdom, near the tranquil sea of So-ci-a-pan, a celestial being descended from the heavens. Gitchee, the Creator, the World-Maker, Manito, arrived with a silence that spoke to the very soul of things. His divine proclamation echoed: “Speak, O earth! Have eyes, O earth! Have ears, O earth! Behold Me, your Maker!”
The earth, in humble response, not with words of boasting, raised up man!
Man, acknowledging his existence before Gitchee, declared, “Here am I, O Gitchee!” Creator looked upon the I’hins of America – the little people, adorned in white and yellow. Gitchee, acknowledging their faith, spoke: “Because you have answered me in faith, O earth, your talking animals shall be called I’hin.” Thus, the first talkers emerged, men with mouths for words and ears for words.
Gitchee gathered the I’hins, declaring them good, the epitome of all created beauty. He commanded them to marry, male and female, and bring forth children.
They obeyed Creator’s commands, but the earth, in its silence, cast clouds upward, blinding the paths of the I’hins. They strayed from the mounds and encountered black druks, speechless beings, devoid of words, as dumb as the black mud from whence they burrowed.
Amidst the darkness of the earth, the I’hins mingled with the druks. From this mingling emerged a second-born speaking animal, tall, red, strong, swift, and handsome – the ong’wee, or Indian. Gitchee spoke:
“I do not blame you, I’hin! I saw the darkness; I saw your straits! But nevermore shall you dwell with druks, nor with the new red-born, those with faces like new copper. Call them I’hua; for they shall be protectors over My chosen, the I’hins, forever. The I’hua shall drive away the baugh, mieu, and great serpents, and all man-slaying beasts; for I will make mighty nations out of the seed of the I’huans.”
The first I’huan, O-e-du, and his wife Uh-na, bore children – Owena, Dan, and Shu-sa. However, they had no more heirs. In a time soon after, the second man, Ka-Ka-och, and his wife Wees, had children – Somma, Pan-ah, Kac-ak, Ku-bak, and Jessom.
These were the first tribes of I’huans in the land of America, flourishing together, marrying and bringing forth offspring, dwelling in peace. The I’hins, in their wisdom, instructed them in all things, becoming an honor on the earth and a glory to Creator. Blended without preference, they were named the tribe of Oedukakaooh, residing in the middle kingdom, Waneopanganosah (Central America).
In the valley of Owak, near the river Ho-e-jon-wan, the Great Spirit birthed another tribe named Bak-Haw-ugh. Northward, in the mountains Mein-how-an-go-to-bah, their tribes intertwined, becoming Bakhawughmeiuhowangotobah by Creator’s designation.
Jesson, son of Rakaooh, married Wepon, daughter of Bakhawughmeiuhowangotobah, establishing a lineage through Sto-gil-bak, Kom, See, Ban, and Labanasee.
Labanasee, born in su’is of the second order, possessed the ability to hear the voice of Creator, which remained with him for one hundred and twenty-five years. Passing to his son, Hootlabanasee, who lived one hundred and one years, the Voice descended further to his son, Hatapanagooshhootlabanasee, and then to his son after him, named Arapanseekasoodativhatapanagooshhootlabanasee.
Representing the eighteen tribes of Gitchee’s chosen amongst the I’huans, they became everlasting heirs to the Voice.
Creator spoke to Ara: “Arise and go forth; my hand will guide you.” Ara, accompanied by one thousand men, women, and children, journeyed with the hand of Creator, settling in the valley of Owg – a broad, sweet-smelling land, abundant with health-giving food, air, and water. They built a city, calling it Eftspan, meaning Place of Beauty.
The tribe of Ara carried this name for one thousand seven hundred and fifty years, their people flourishing into tens of thousands.
After the tribe of Ara lost the Voice, Sho-shone, from the tribes of Sto-gil-bak, was raised up. Creator pointed the way for Sho-shone, who departed the country of Tabachoozehbakkankan to Owg. Marrying Hisam, daughter of Ooeguffanauha, they produced E-a-ron-a-ki-mutz, a son of great beauty, strength, and swiftness.
The voice of Gitcheemonihtee (Son of Creator) came to Earonakimutz and remained during his ninety-year lifetime. Passing to his son, Fassawanhootaganganearonakimutz, and thence to his son, Monagoamyazazhufassawan-hootaganganearonakimutz.
Monag settled in the plains of Yiteatuazow (Arkansas), becoming mighty in cities and agriculture. For four thousand years, the Voice of the All Father remained with the regular succession of Monag’s heirs. However, their names and cities became so lengthy that no man could speak or write them.
Creator, acknowledging this, raised up Honga, son of Ab, of the tribe of Oedu, in the land of the Middle Kingdom. Honga, guided by Creator, went into the mountains of Ghiee (Rocky or Eagle Mountains), sloping to the east.
Creator spoke to Honga: “Take Oebe for your wife; out of your seed will I raise up a greater tribe than all other tribes.” Honga, questioning what if he had no sons but only daughters, received the divine answer: “The wife’s first daughter.”
In the course of time, Honga married and produced heirs. The Voice of the Great Spirit remained with the tribes of Honga. He who heard the Voice, always the chief high prophet, was called Hoanga. The people themselves were ong’wee, enduring to this day and known as Indians.
Generations of Honga were named first, Honga; second, Honga; third, Honga, and so on. Thus began the counting of time in America, a lineage stretching beyond known generations.
The land flourished with cities from east to west, north to south. Tribes dwelt in peace, tribe with tribe, throughout all the lands. Then came the god of evil, Itura, sowing darkness in temples and on altars. With false tongues and cunning, he led prophets away from the good road, making their ears deaf to reason, claiming deception as the Great Spirit’s hand.
Itura obsessed nations and tribes, infatuating them with stories of distant lands and the false glory of kings and queens. He initiated wars of plunder, bringing multitudes of evil spirits to aid mortals in destructive wars.
The land of America, once a great land of peace, became a realm of false seers, prophets, and conjurers, seeking evil for the sake of evil. They consulted malevolent spirits for war and earthly glory, stained with blood and death. Thus, the harmony of the land faced a tumultuous era of strife and deception.
[Chapter XXV]
1. These, then, were the principal kings of that day: Lanoughl, king of Eboostakagan, a city of tens of thousands, in the valley of Aragaiyistan. Lanoughl was the son of Toogaoogahaha, who was the son of Eviphraiganakukuwonpan, who was the son of Oyoyughstuhaipawehaha, who built the canal (oseowa) of Papaeunugheutowa, which extended from the sea of Hoola’hoola’pan (Lake Superior) to the plains of Aigonquehanelachahoba (Texas), near the sea of Sociapan, where dwelt Heothahoga, king of kings, whose temple was roofed with copper and silver. Of ten thousand boats (canoes) was the canal, extending along, carrying copper and silver from the north regions to the cities of the valley of Hapembapanpan, and to the cities of the mountains of Oaramgallachacha, and to Ghiee, home of Honga the first, the mightiest of red men.
2. Next in power to Lanoughl was Tee-see-gam-ba-o-rakaxax, king of the city of Chusanimbapan, in the plains of Erezehoegammas (Central America), with twelve tributary cities extending along the river Akaistaazachahaustomakmak, to the mountains of Nefsaidawowotchachaeengamma.
3. And the third king in power was Chiawassaibakanaizhoo, of the city of Inuistahahahacromcromahoesuthaha, and to him were tributary seven and twenty cities and their kings.
4. Chiawassaibakanalszhoo was the son of Tenehamgameralhuchsukzhaistomaipowwassaa, who was son of Thusaiganganenosatamakka, who built the great east canal, the Oseowagallaxacola, in the rich valley of Tiedaswonoghassie, and through the land of Seganeogalgalyaluciahomaahomhom (Lousiana and Mississippi), where dwelt the large men and women, the Ongewahapackaka-ganganecolabazkoaxax.
5. The fourth great king of America was Hoogalomarakkadanapanwowwow, king of the city of Itussakegollahamganseocolabah, which had seventeen tributary cities of tens of thousands of people. And his kingdom extended from sea to sea in the Middle Kingdom (Panama). Here was the temple of Giloff, with a thousand columns of polished mahogany, and with a dome of copper and silver. And within Giloff dwelt the Osheowena, the oracle of Creator, for two thousand years.
6. The fifth great king was Penambatta, king of the city of Liscararzakyatasagangan, on the High Heogula Ophat (Tennessee), with thirty tributary cities of tens of thousands of inhabitants. Here was situate the school and college of great learning, the Ahazahohoputan, where were taught tens of thousands of students. Penambatta was learned, and had traveled far, devoting his life to imparting knowledge. He had six thousand attendants, besides six hundred and forty officers.
7. The sixth great king was Hoajab, son of Teutsangtusicgammooghsapanpan, founder of the kilns of Wooboohakhak. Hoajab’s capital city was Farejonkahomah, with thirty-three tributary cities, of tens of thousands of inhabitants, of the plains of He’gow (South-eastern Ohio).
8. The seventh great king was Hiroughskahogamsoghtabakbak, and his capital city was Hoesughsoosiamcholabengancobanzhohahhah, situate in the plains of Messogowanchoola, and extending eastward to the mountains of Gonzhoowassicmachababdohuyapiasondrythoajaj, including the valleys of the river Onepagassathalalanganchoochoo, even to the sea, Poerthawowitcheothunacalclachaxzhloschistacombia (Lake Erie). Hiro had forty and seven tributary cities of tens of thousands of inhabitants.
9. Between the great kings and their great capitals were a thousand canals, crossing the country in every way, from east to west and from north to south, so that the seas of the north were connected with the seas of the south. In kanoos the people traveled and carried the productions of the land in every way. Besides the canals mentioned, there were seven other great canals, named after the kings who built them, and they extended across the plains in many directions, but chiefly east and west.
10. These were: Oosgaloomaigovolobanazhooegollopan, and Halagazhapanpanegoochoo, and Fillioistagovonchobiassoso, and Anetiabolalachooesanggomacoalobonbakkak, and Ehabadangonzhooeportalicha-boggasa-megitcheepapa, and Onepapollagassayamganshuniatedoegonachoogangitiavatoo somchooibalgadgad, and Hachooaolagobwotchachabakaraxexganhammazhooelapanpan.
11. In those days the kings and learned men put their hearts to work building canals and finding places and roadways for them, and herein laid the great glory and honor of man at that time.
12. And Creator perceiving the virtue and wisdom of men, sent his angels to teach man the mystery of canal-making; to teach man to compound clay with lime and sand, to hold water; to teach man to find the gau, the level, and the force of water. The angels also taught man to make pots and kettles; to burn the clay in suitable shape; to find copper ore and silver ore, and gold and lead for the floors of the oracle chambers, clean and white shining, suitable for angels.
13. And they taught man how to soften copper like dough; how to harden copper like flint rock, for axes and mattocks for building canals; taught man how to work the ore in the fire and melt it; and how to make lead into sheets, like cloth.
14. They taught man to till the soil and grow wheat and corn; and taught the women how to grind it and make bread. They taught the hunters how to slay the lion and the tiger and the mastodon, the HOGAWATHA, THE ROOTING ANIMAL OF WISDOM.
15. Besides all these inhabited regions there lay another country to the far west, fifty days’ journey, the land of Goeshallobok, a place of sand and salt, and hot, boiling waters. And this region was a twenty days’ journey broad, east and west, and fifty days’ journey broad, north and south.
16. In the High North lay the kingdom of Olegalla, the land of giants, the place of yellow rocks and high spouting waters. Olegalla it was who gave away his kingdom, the great city of Powafuchawowitchahavagganeabba, with the four and twenty tributary cities spread along the valley of Anemoosagoochakakfuela; gave his kingdom to his queen Minneganewashaka, with the yellow hair, long, hanging down. And the queen built temples, two hundred and seventy, and two adjacent to the spouting waters, where her people went every morning at sunrise, singing praise to Creator.
17. South of Olegalla lay the kingdom of Onewagga, around about the sea of Chusamangaobe hassahgana-wowitchee, in the valley of Mauegobah, which is to say, CONSECRATED PLACE OF THE VOICE, a kingdom of forty cities. Here reigned for twenty generations the line of kings called Wineohgushagusha, most holy and wise, full of manliness and strong limbed. On the eastward of the lake lay the Woohootaughnee, the ground of games and tournaments, where came tens of thousands every autumn to exhibit their strength, carrying horses and oxen, and running and leaping, running races with the trained aegamma. And to the strongest and the swiftest, the king gave prizes of beautiful young women, with straight limbs and shapely necks, proud, who loved to be awarded handsome, mighty husbands.
18. Next south lay the kingdom of Himallawowoaganapapa, rich in legends of the people who lived here before the flood; a kingdom of seventy cities and six great canals coursing east and west, and north and south, from the Ghiee Mountain, in the east, to the west mountain, the Yublahahcolaesavaganawakka, the place of the king of bears, the Eeughohabakax (grizzly). And to the south, to the Middle Kingdom, on the deserts of Geobiathaganeganewohwoh, where the rivers do not empty into the sea, but sink in the sand, the Sonagallakaxax, creating prickly Thuazhoogallakhoomma, shaped like a pear.
[Chapter XXVI]
1. Itura, god of evil, dweller in hell, looked over the broad earth; saw the land of America, the mighty races of I’huans. And his mouth watered, like a lion’s when a lamb stands before him. Itura called his legions, tens of thousands of drujas, devils from the regions of hell: Come, he said, I have found a rich feeding place. Behold, I will make my kingdoms wider; spread out the walls of hell and gather in this great harvest of innocent souls.
2. Then Itura’s hosts of evil came, ten times tens of thousands, for such is the nature of spirits and men; call for ten thousand to do a righteous work, and only a hundred come; call for ten thousand to do an unholy work, and behold, ten times ten thousand come. They said to Itura:
3. What do you wish for us to do? Where do you wish us to strike? And Itura, wise in wickedness, said: Go to the temples, the places of shining copper and silver, to the oracles, and possess each one of them. And when the kings and the learned men come to consult Creator, my deadly enemy, pretend to be Him, and answer them with lies and all manner of unprofitable speculation; turn them upside down; make them curse Creator; make them ask for Itura. And when madness comes on them, follow them to their sleeping couches and whisper in their souls that their neighbors are their deadly enemies. Incite them to war and to all manner of deeds of death; and when they overturn each other’s kingdoms and houses, and their dead lie like ashes over all the land, gather in their distracted spirits to fill my mighty kingdom with Creator’s harvest!
4. Then the hosts of Itura answered, What are thy prizes, for the souls of men, for souls to extend thy heavenly kingdom?
5. Itura answered, saying: According to the number of subjects any angel brings me, so will I exalt him to be a captain, or a general, or a lord, or a god, and he shall have a sub-kingdom in my heavenly regions, with thousands of servants to do his bidding.
6. With that the evil god and his evil spirits began to work, night and day; and look, the fair land of America was overspread with human blood. War spread throughout all the mighty kingdoms; kingdom against kingdom; city against city; man against man.
7. And the holy temples were pulled down or burned; and the canals broken and wasted; the cities on fire, and the fields became desolate. And no grain would grow there; the grinding mills of the women were silent, like the dead stretched over all the fields!
8. Into the forests, afar off, fled the women with the children, hungry, weeping, starving. And the cities went down; the nations went down; the tribes of men were divided; only remnants remained in various locations. And where there had been great and mighty peoples, lay only heaps of ruins, past the power of man to rebuild.
9. Then Creator, the Great Spirit looked down from the highest heaven; He saw the work of desolation; He saw Itura at his blood work.
10. And the Great Spirit cried out with a loud voice, so that the earth and heaven shook with the power of His voice; sifted all things, as a woman sifts meal. And He found one grain of corn not ground by the god of evil; He found Honga! The tribes so fast sworn to the Great Spirit that the Itura’s and evil spirits’ words took no hold on them.
11. The Great Spirit saw the tribes of Honga, they that stuck most to the I’hins, the sacred little people, white and yellow, often marrying with them, thus preserving the stock to the Hand and Voice. And He called loud and long:
12. Honga! Honga! Honga! Creator would not be put off with silence; called again: Honga! Honga! But He heard only His Own Voice resounding far; knew His mighty Power! Again He called: Honga! Honga! Honga!
13. In the first call, Itura and his evil hosts ran away. In His second call, it was like spring-time, after heavy winter. And in the third call, it was like budding summer. And there came up a sprout of the seed of Honga, an I’huan; taller than any other man with a bright shining face of copper; shining as if all the destroyed temples glistened in his broad head.
14. And he spake, saying: Here, O Great Spirit, here I am! And the Great Spirit said: Who are you, My Son? And he answered: I am Son of Creator. Then the Great Spirit asked: Of what tribe? And he answered: My flesh is nothing; my genealogy is of the spirit. Of the I’hin my mother; of the I’huan my father.
15. Then Creator said: For which reason, I name you Eawahtah, spirit and flesh even balanced, best of men. Come with Me; walk along with Me; you shall reunite the tribes of men; deliver them out of darkness; make them worshipful.
16. Eawahtah said: I am Your servant, O Great Spirit. What shall I call You, so that the tribes of men will no longer be distrustful? Then Creator answered: Call Me after the wind, Eawahtah!
17. Eawahtah said: How after the wind? The Great Spirit said: Come with Me, My Son. Then Eawahtah walked along and came to a place where the wind blew in the leaves.
18. Creator said: Tell Me, My Son, what does the wind say in the leaves? And answered Eawahtah: E! Then Creator took Eawahtah to the big sea water, and asked: What does the wind say in the water, My Son?
19. And Eawahtah answered: Go! Then Creator took Eawahtah to the high crags, the rocks above the clouds, piercing, where the wind whistled; and He said: What does the wind say, My Son? And Eawahtah answered: Quim!
20. And the Great Spirit said: Call Me Egoquim, O My Son. I am three in One; the earth, and all that is in the earth and on the earth, and all the stars and moon and sun; they are one of My limbs. And the air above the earth, the Atontea, is another member of My Person. And higher yet; in the high place above the air, is the ether; the great penetrator; and that is the third member of My Person. I am everywhere, far and near; all things that your eyes can see; all things that your ear hears are of Me and in Me.
21. Whatever is one with Me has no hard labor. Look at the flowers of the field; I color them. Behold the ant and the honeybee; I lead them; the bird I teach how to build.
22. Man alone is stubborn, setting up ways of his own. O that he could learn to be one with Me! To move and labor with Me! Then Eawahtah said: Holy Egoquim! I will go and teach man, and give him Your words; and make him understand.
23. Egoquim said: For that labor I called you, made you tall and handsome, with strong limbs, and broad shoulders. Come, then, My Son, I will go with you; into all the lands; among all the scattered tribes; your voice shall be My Voice. So near you will I stand, when you open your mouth to speak, fear not, I will give you words; your word will not err.
24. Eawahtah inquired: What shall I say; how do I teach the sons and daughters of men? Give me a summary.
25. Egoquim answered Eawahtah, saying:
[Chapter XXVII]
1. Egoquim is one Great Person; He is Creator and Ruler over all in the heavens and the earth.
2. It is Him that you shall worship forever, and no other god, nor lord, nor idol, nor man, nor angel.
3. It is Him that you shall love above all things in the heavens above, or on the earth, or in the waters of the earth.
4. And you shall teach Him to your children, and command them to teach Him to their children, and so on forever.
5. And you shall disavow all other gods, and lords, and idols, and never serve them! And the same to your children, and to their children after them, forever.
6. And this is the first Egoquim law.
7. You shall deal with all men, and women and children, as justly and as kindly as to your own mother, out of whose breast you were fed when you were helpless and of no strength.
8. Teaching this to your children, and to their children after them, forever.
9. And this is the second Egoquim law.
10. And to the sick and helpless; to the stranger and the man that comes afar; to the widow who is destitute; to the child that has no father; you shall be both father and mother to them; and take them into your house and feed them; and give them skins and cloth to wear; and if they are lost, you shall go with them and show them the way.
11. Commanding these things to thy children, and to their children after them, forever.
12. And this is the third Egoquim law.
13. You shall not tell lies; nor speak falsely against any man, nor woman, nor child; nor break your word of promise, even though death come upon you to tempt you otherwise. Unchangeable as the setting and rising sun shall be the word of your mouth.
14. And you shall command this to your children, and to their children after them, forever.
15. And this is the fourth Egoquim law.
16. And you shall not take and possess that which is another’s; nor cause your children to do so, nor their children after them, forever.
17. This is the fifth Egoquim law.
18. You shall respect the cycle of woman; and when she is bearing to you, you shall not have sexual relations with her; nor give her heavy labor, nor angry words, nor cause her stress; but listen to her, and do what she needs of you, for it is her time, and she is your queen.
19. You should teach this to your young men and to your young women, and to theirs that come after them, forever; for their young are brought forth of Me, and I will have them handsome, attractive, strong, and brave!
20. This is the sixth Egoquim law.
21. You shall labor six days, but on the seventh day (Saturday) it is the moon’s day, and you shall not labor, nor hunt, nor fish, but go to the altar of your Creator and dance and sing before Me; and sit in silence to hear My words, which I speak into the souls of men, and of women and children.
22. Teach this to your children, and to their children that come after them, forever.
23. This is the seventh Egoquim law.
24. You shall restore the rites and ceremonies of the old ways. However, there is one thing you must not revive, and that is: you shall not flatten the head to create a seer, a Haonga, to push the reasoning of the mind away to the prophetic regions.
25. Teach these ordinances to your children, and to their children after them, forever.
26. This is the eighth Egoquim law.
27. Then rose up Eawahtah, Son of Egoquim, saying: I am Your servant! Lead me, for I am going in Your Name, even to the end of the world.
28. After Eawahtah, Son of the Great Spirit, spoke, a Light came over him, dazzling, brilliant, lighting the way, showing him the good path.
29. And so great was the spirit on Eawahtah, that when he came to the river, he rose up like an angel, sailed over and landed safely on the other side.
30. He did not know the place he was going; he did not know the places of the scattered, divided peoples.
31. And the angels of Egoquim went before him; they went into the forests and valleys, calling to the souls of the suffering, starving, dying, saying to them in their despair:
32. Egoquim, the Mighty, is coming! His Son! Look at Him! He holds the keys of Yaton’te, the heavenly hunting ground. Come forth from your hiding! Come forth, My beloved! It is your Heavenly Father calling.
33. And the women heard the voice. The little children, with sore, bleeding feet also heard. The very brave men paid attention. They said: Why do we fight? Why do we destroy? It was a evil god! He called himself a savior, the wicked monster, Itura!
34. Then Eawahtah came; he first arrived in the kingdom of Took-shein, and to his queen, Che-guh, in the land Anagoomahaha, the flat-heads. He told them all the words of the Great Spirit, Egoquim.
35. Then Took-shein said: To me the Great Spirit has spoken; He told me all the words you have. I know that all you have said is true. Then Che-guh said: Gitchee, the Great Spirit, spoke to me. True are all your words, Eawahtah. By your will all the scattered tribes will be gathered together. Many tribes will there be of the red man; Egoquim will be the center, the Mighty Spirit.
36. Then Eawahtah said to his good host and hostess: Your place shall be the center; from your place I will shoot out around about, always returning, bringing in followers.
37. While they were talking, a Light came above them. Look, said Took-shein: It is the hand of Egoquim! Look, said Che-guh: It is the Voice of Gitchee! Then Eawahtah, seeing more clearly, raised up and said: It is a ship of fire coming down from heaven! I hear the voices of the angel of Egoquim, the Mighty!
38. Then Eawahtah went and stood between Took-shein and Che-guh, holding their hands, so the Voice of Egoquim could speak plainly; so he could hear.
39. Then, speaking out of the ship of fire, Egoquim said:
40. My beloved! I am with you! Look, My worlds are wide and many. When My back is turned, evil gods come to steal My children; telling them lies to win them; telling them they are My Sons come to save them!
41. Hard is the fate of those that worship only one God; but they are Mine. I look around at times; I send the evil gods flying away. Be of strong heart, My beloved! Many races will come and go on these lands. But the red man shall possess it; they shall inhabit it far and near. Then shall come another evil god*, to beat and murder My sons and daughters, and cover all the lands over with pure blood. Then I will come again and move out the evil god, and raise up My sons and daughters, full of glory.
42. From far over the water will I bring their kindred (Jews), who do not worship humans; a wise speaking people. They are a people that do not war; who do not murder weaker nations. I will come in the Mohawk (Tenonachi), and the Mohegan (Hoochiquis); My hand shall reach around the earth in that day. I will chase away all human gods and saviors. Only the Great Spirit shall all men worship.
43. Go forth, My son; build My foundation wide; in this land I will found My earthly kingdom.
44. Then the ship of heaven rose upward; and Eawahtah buckled on his traveling shoes; he said good-by to Took-shein; he filled his pockets with the bread of Che-guh, kissed her hand good-by.
45. For many years Eawahtah traveled over all the regions of America teaching, gathering together, admonishing the people ever after to be strong in the ways of the Great Spirit; he made them affirm solemn oaths that they would never listen to any god except Creator; he made them affirm that they would never be caught by another cunning savior, like Itura, whose people delight in war.
 Plate 15. TOOK-SHEIN. |
 Plate 16. CHE-GUH. |
46. Eawahtah gathered the frightened tribes into villages, and taught them the skills of writing and engraving; he taught them the secret name of the Great Spirit, Egoquim; and explained to them the moon, and how to keep the seventh day (Saturday) for worship.
47. Creator saw the great work of Eawahtah; He saw the people gathered together in tens of thousands of places. Then Creator spoke to Eawahtah, saying:
48. My son, you shall establish forty mighty nations; and each one shall be an independent nation; but all the nations shall be united into a brotherhood of nations, as one mighty people, and that one shall be called O-pah-E-go-quim, signifying One. For when I come in kosmon, My people shall have many states, like yours, and their combination shall be called Union, signifying One. Build a model for them, Eawahtah. For, though when they come they shall overthrow your people in the earth, the angels of your holy ones shall come and purge them of their false savior, and make them clean in My sight.
49. Then Eawahtah made the nations; united them into one mighty people, and called them the nations of Opahegoquim. And they planted the country over with corn-fields, and dwelt in peace.
END OF EAWAHTAH’S HISTORY.
Footnotes
* XXVII:41 This god is likely in reference to the European false version of Christ. Some members of the various Native American tribes refer to this version of Christ as a false god. The historical Jesus/Yeshua (“Creator Sets Free”) in the sacred texts is believed by many Native Americans to have been sent by the Great Spirit. Native Americans can see the difference between the New Testament Jesus and the nominal Christian version of Jesus.
[Chapter XXVIII]
1. The Great Spirit said: Be wise, man, in the words of your Creator. My records do not come not up out of the ground, nor from the books of human beings.
2. I open my heavenly libraries, and find my living sons and daughters who once walked upon the soil of the earth.
3. Their light I recast down again to mortals in a stream of fire, and look, my words are rewritten.
4. Search for the evidence of my footsteps on the earth; find the people who stand by Creator, the All One, God of All! Who can shake their faith, or feed them with your story of a false savior?
5. Listen to the voice of the millions of Chine’ya and Vind’yu, and the remnants of the Algonquins! Their sacred texts are a power to this day. Their people are appalled at the work of your blood thirsty sword.
6. They will not fall down and worship as you decree; they know that Jehovih (Creator) is mightier than you.
7. Be considerate of all the races of men, and their doctrines and rites and ceremonies.
8. Look, I raise up the nations of the earth in My own way. According to the times and conditions of human beings, so do I deal with them from My heavenly kingdoms.
9. You have tried to convert all of My people, but have failed utterly. Look, I come now with a new book; and they will accept it from My hand.
10. Herein do I prophesy to you, beforehand, that you shall witness in time to come, that I, Creator, have spoken.
11. Nor shall you say: Man of himself progresses; and that such and such would come of a natural order.
12. I say to you, man does not progress, except through Me and my angel hosts in heaven.
13. In testimony of which I have left many peoples before you, for hundreds of years. Your natural order is laziness and uncleanness. Wherein you are revived in spirit, behold, it is the heavens upon you that stirs you up.
14. You shall not mistake the teaching of Creator which was manifested the same in the ancient days as in this day: Which is, to worship Creator only; to not bow down to any other gods or lords; to love your neighbor, and to do good to others with all your wisdom and strength, having faith in the Almighty!
END OF FIRST BOOK OF GOD.
Jehovih said: The time shall come when angels and humans shall know the truth about the false gods and lord and the vain-glorious usurpers. For I will leave one race of I’huans on the earth, in America, even till the time when all the nations are united. And men and angels shall see and understand that man of himself never invented a god in human form. And that only through the inspiration of My enemies, who build kingdoms in hada for their own glory, has any people ever fallen from My estate to worship a human god. (Book of Wars Against Jehovih Chapter XXI:11)
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BOOK OF SAPHAH
Port-Pan Algonquin
THE SACRED PEOPLE, I’HINS, OR MOUND-BUILDERS
READETH as follows:
1. Which way, man?
2. To the tree of knowledge.
3. I go thither, also.
4. Where, then, is thy treasure?
5. I bring this pitcher and pot, a tame gowt and a dead man’s skull. I have no more.
6. Seffas bows down in thy favor. Hast thou slain any living creature?
7. Nay, Ong-a-pa, but housed in a mound high-built, and steep, I have slept my nights away in peace, slaying naught.
8. Hast thou the Hagaw’sa (the head compressed), from infancy?
9. On my breast, engraved, the sign single standeth most honored of all I have. When I was a child my head was thus compressed, to school the judgment down beneath the prophetic sight. I have seen the Es world and the angels of the dead.
10. Hold up thine hand, and show me, too, the leaf sign of Egoquim. Then the burning flame of sacrifice and monstrous serpents thou wouldst rather feed than destroy?
11. To engrave the sacred symbols in Corpor I was well-educated. Behold I write.
(He then displayeth his skill.)
12. Thy skill is excellent. Go thou to the south-west corner, and in the ark of the black hand thou shalt find a charm for venomous serpents. Bring it hither.
13. Alas, O Onga, ask of me any service but to deal in charms against anything.
14. How sleepest thy father and thy mother, and thy wife and thy sons and daughters?
15. On the mounds and in the mounds, O Onga. Hid are we all away from the devouring hiss-sa (serpent), and baugh and mieuh (lions and tigers).
16. How was it with thy forefathers and foremothers?
17. In the mounds and on the mounds, O Onga. For a thousand generations my ancestors killed not any living creature Egoquim had created.
18. What is yonder building in the north-east?
19. The temple of Egoquim.
20. What meaneth it?
21. It is the sacred house of Dan. (Faithists.)
22. What are the signs?
23. The All Light hand teacheth mortals to ever reach upward; the cup, that all the firmament is filled by the presence of Egoquim.
24. What is the sign of half a dog, of half a horse, and a man’s head?
25. That man at best is two beings, a beast and a spirit.
26. What is the sign of the black hand and black onk, the slaying tool?
27. The mortal who slayeth the wolf and serpent hath a hard time in heaven.
28. What is the hard time of the slaying-man in heaven?
29. In the firmament of heaven he is haunted; the spirits of the slain come upon him. He findeth no place. With his black hand of death uplifted he crieth out.
30. What is the sign of Oke-un (tent), and the sign of the black head of the Ghi-ee (eagle), and the black mouth with black tongue projecting?
31. That all the earth must be subdued by man. Even the blackness (slander) that issueth out of man’s mouth must also be subdued.
32. What are the signs of the ear, the triangle and the square, the evil quarters, the wedge and the vessels of copper?
33. Alas, O Onga, I know not.
34. What are the signs of the trumpet, the windlass, the hewing-ax and the altar of fire?
35. Alas, O Onga, I know not.
36. What are the signs of the Az-aj (stretcher), and the basket?
37. Alas, O Onga, I know not.
Plate 84.–PORT-PAN ALGONQUIN.
The sacred people, I’hins, or Mound-Builders.
38. What is the sign of the men ascending the Orugh (the stairs), and lamp and the trees and the black fish?
39. First, there was an egg, and then a fish, and then trees, then man, and he saw the light and the sun. Then wisdom came and he learnt of Egoquim, ever after.
40. Thou art wise, and now, by virtue of my power and wisdom and love, do I crown thee brother of the Hoanga (prophets). Peace be with thee, Amen!
41. He who taught thee all the other signs will now teach thee three thou knowest not. After which the Oi will invest thee with cloth and with the signs of Chaigi (words of enchantment), that when thou travelest in far-off lands thou shalt be received as a brother.
(Signs and pass-words withheld from publication.)
Agoquim.
(Alias Egoquim)
1. AGOQUIM said: These are My divisions for the twelve feasts of the Gods of heaven. Observe ye them in My name, for they are My inheritance, bestowed to enrich the wisdom of men.
2. All labor is Mine, saith Agoquim. By My hand moveth all that is.
3. The earth is My footstool, and I have made it square to the north and south, east and west.
4. Three things made I: air, earth and water. The angle with three sides made I in remembrance thereof. Three things bestowed I on man: the earth body, which is dark, and none can see through it; the spirit which liveth after the earth body is dead; the third part I gave to man is the soul, which joineth him to Me.
5. The sun I made, and I set him high in the firmament that I might see from afar and behold My earth-born children. And the lakes and forests and rivers, and the caves in the earth, made I for man.
6. All that I have made is good, and round, or square, according to the place I made for it.
7. But in the very young days of the world, the impatience of men led them to perceive not Me and My good works, and they set about to do My labor. Thus came evil into the world; but I separated the evil from the good. Into the four corners of the world separated I them. I gave to the evil, where all is coldness and hunger; where they have invented the evil-killing bow and the flint-dart, destroying My living creatures.
Plate 86.–BIBLE OF THE MOUND BUILDERS.
[Read from left to right, beginning at top.]
8. My righteous shall live in mounds of earth and stone and wood, where the Ugha (serpent and tiger and all other evil-devouring beasts) can not come upon them.
9. But for the light of My angels to come and abide with My people, ye shall provide the hoogadoah, the well-covered house, and it shall have but one door, and pieces shall be put therein, so that when My chosen are within, all shall be dark, that My angels may teach them.
10. But the dwelling of the Hoonshawassie (the prophet) shall have one Ongji (window).
11. And he shall have a Mukagawin, the true sign of poverty, and it shall be his jewel, made of copper and gold. For whom I have made to live in poverty in this world will I exalt in heaven. Only the poor have I made to be My prophets.
12. Over the mounds My angels shall keep watch against the evil approaching Ugha, and they shall awaken My sleeping children, and they shall not suffer.
13. Agoquim said: Boats have I provided for the spirits of good men to rise to heaven in, and My angels shall accompany them to a place of light and rest.
14. Agoquim said: To the priests have I given authority to make My signs and symbols, and to bestow them on My righteous children.
From BOOK OF JUDGMENT Chapter XXXV
17. This is wisdom, O man, to have no law or government between man and wife.
18. This is ignorance, to have a law between man and wife.
19. Yet, because there are bad men and bad women who do marry, it hath been found necessary to have a law between man and wife, as regardeth their duties.
20. But consider how wrong it is to have a law between a good man and a good wife, as regardeth her duties. Better is it for them to be thrown upon their own love and judgment.
21. After such manner gave I governments and laws unto all peoples. To the bad and evil-minded, rigid laws, with many details; but to the wise and good, I come now as an emancipator, saying: Go ye, without laws and government, fulfill your destinies according to your own judgment, that ye may be an honor and glory to Jehovih.
22. In kosmon, man shall not be longer driven in yoke and harness, but shall stand upright before Jehovih, practicing his highest light with rejoicing, being a free man, and a brother to his God!
23. Behold, the Uzians have a custom of eating bread, and drinking wine, saying, after the manner of the worshipers of of old: Eat of this, for it is my flesh; and, drink of this, for it is my blood, signifying, that that they do, was commanded by me, God of heaven and earth.
24. Judgment is rendered against this custom, with abhorrence; moreover, it shall be, henceforth, known as blasphemy against Jehovih.
25. Thy God never commanded man to eat flesh and blood, nor pretended that bread and wine were flesh and blood, nor commanded them to be eaten in remembrance of the flesh and blood of any man born of woman.
26. Also have they a custom of decorating and draping themselves in crepe, and characterizing the same as a sign of mourning for the dead.
27. Judgment is rendered against such custom, but without prohibition.
28. Jehovih created alive, and Jehovih taketh life away, for all things are His.
29. Remember thy Creator with wisdom; and neither in thy dress nor habit shalt thou censure Him for what hath been.
30. Neither curb thou the full sorrow of thy heart and thy soul, because thy brother or sister, son or daugter, or father, or mother hath passed away.
31. But remember, Jehovih is over all His works, and provideth wisely unto the living and the dead.
32. Jehovih hath said: To man I gave an earthly body that he might learn earthly things; but death I gave to man that he might rise to the inheritance of My heavenly kingdoms.
33. He appointeth a time unto all; to some an hour, to some a year, and to some a hundred years; every one fulfilleth to result in wisdom and happiness, and for the glory of the Almighty.
Chapter XXXVI
GOD SHOWETH HOW HE HATH WROUGHT.
1. GOD saith: Behold, the work of my hand, O man: As thou findest an old house, no longer habitable, thou sendest workmen to pull it down, and then, thou sendest laborers to clear away the rubbish.
2. And, afterward, thou bringest builders, and they lay a new foundation, larger and broader than the old one, and, thereon, they build thee a new edifice, adapted with new improvements unto the increase and requirements of thy family.
3. Even so, hath thy God labored, for hundreds of years, to prepare unto the generations of this day.
4. For I saw, beforehand, that man would circumscribe the earth, and that all the nations and peoples thereof would become known to one another.
5. And I beheld also, that, in the coming time, which is now at hand, the old edifices of doctrines and creeds and religions, as of the Brahmins, Buddhists, Jews, Ka’yuans, Kriste’yans and Mohammedans would not fulfill the requirements of man.
6. And now, behold, O man, the wisdom of Jehovih previously: He had permitted corruptions and contradictions to creep into the sacred books of all of the said great religions, purposely and with design, so as to make easy the work of thy God.
7. And when I saw that the coming together of nations and peoples would require a new religious edifice, I perceived, also, that the old ones must be cleared away.
8. And, behold, I, thy God, went to work systematically, inspiring man to accomplish even what man hath accomplished.
9. I raised up scholars and infidels against these religions; inspiring them to attack the corruptions and contradictions in the sacred books of all these peoples.
10. And, in the same time, that I sent infidels against the Jewish bible, I sent infidels against the Hindoo bibles, and against the doctrines of Brahma and Buddha and Ka’yu, and against the Kriste’yans and Mohammedans.
11. And I made the beginning of the work of these infidels and scholars to correspond with the discovery of Guatama by Columbo, and I kept them at their work for three hundred years, which was up to the time of the establishment of the republic of Guatama, which I, thy God, provided to be untrammeled by an established religion.
12. After my workmen, the scholars and infidels, had thus undermined the old edifice, behold, I sent laborers, under the name of merchants and traders, to commence clearing away the rubbish.
13. And, because of their desires in money-getting, they considered not the religious edifice of any people, and they provided comity relations withersoever they went.
14. For a hundred years, these, my laborers, have been at their work, stripping off and clearing away the prejudice of nations and peoples against one another.
15. And then, behold, I came with my builders, and I prepared a new foundation, broader and wider and firmer, for an edifice adapted to all the nations and peoples in the world.
16. First, I sent my miracle-workers forth into every quarter, saying unto them: Whatsoever was done by the ancient Gods and Saviors, do ye even so, and greater. For I will show, unto all the world, that no man nor God is worthy to be worshipped because of miracles.
17. And they went forth at my command, and my angels went with them, doing wonders.
18. They healed the sick, by the laying on of hands; they restored the blind to sight, and made the deaf to hear, and have brought the supposed dead to life.
19. They have caused writing to come on stone tablets, and on paper, in the light of day, by unseen hands.
20. They have caused ponderous bodies, without mortal contact to move, and to beat time to music.
21. A child hath lifted eight full-grown men with her little finger.
22. They have passed full-blown flowers and plants through boards and tables, unbruised and uninjured, and, yet, there was neither hole, nor opening in the boards and tables.
23. They have made stars of light that spake with audible voices; they have made pillars of fire by night, and pillars of cloud by day.
24. They have caused the spirits of the dead to appear as if in flesh and blood; and whilst thus appearing, talking face to face with their mortal kin, who saw them, heard them, and, by the subject of the discourse, proved them to be the very angels of heaven returned to their earth-kin and friends.
25. For the time of one generation thy God hath thus kept open the gates of heaven; working through mortals, by the angels of heaven.
26. My testimony and my witnesses are hundreds of thousands. I hide not the work of my hand and of my angels in a corner; I extend them abroad over the earth; I manifest in the cities and country places; I prove unto all peoples, that common men and women can do the miracles for which Gods and Saviors have been worshipped.
27. Yea, I give these powers unto good and bad men, and unto good and bad women.
28. For I show miracles in order to break down the worship of miracle-workers.
29. For I will have none worshipped but Jehovih. And I have inspired angels to this end, and to the end that good works and wisdom shall be, henceforth, the means of resurrection in heaven.
30. And I have shown also, that only by harmony and the union of many, can any great good come unto the generations of men.
[Book of Es
Chapter XXXVII]
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GOD REVEALETH HIS METHOD OF WORK.
1. GOD said: Think not, O man, that thy God goeth about a work without a system and order.
2. Verily these are the first of my considerations.
3. First, I send my loo’is, my masters of generations, down to the earth, to the nations and peoples where I design to build my edifice.
4. And my loo’is, by inspiration, control the marriages of certain mortals, that heirs may be born into the world suited to the work I have on hand.
5. For many generations, my loo’is labor to this end, raising up thousands and tens of thousands of mortal heirs according to my commandments.
6. So, O man, since four hundred years my loo’is shaped mortal births to bring about the armies of thy God.
7. And now, when the time of kosmon had come, behold, I sent my Lords and my numerators, to receive the harvest and the records of my loo’is.
8. Thus, O man, thy God knew beforehand what part and what place each and every one of his mortal laborers was adapted to.
9. And through my Lords and generals and captains of my angel hosts, I commanded man to fall to work on my building.
10. Some to heal the sick, some to work signs and miracles, some to lecture, some to write, and so on, every one according to the work of his adaptation.
11. And all of this is to one purpose; not to build up or exalt any man, nor God, nor religion, but to found Jehovih’s kingdom on earth.
12. To give man the system of universal peace, love, harmony and kosmon, adapted to all nations and peoples in all the world.
13. And I commanded my Lords and angels, generals and captains to this end; and I, furthermore, commanded certain angel registers to accompany and be with mortals in this, the kosmon era, to observe them at the work I provided them.
14. And to whoso doeth a good work in truth, righteousness, wisdom and love, my holy angels are commanded to extend their sphere of usefulness and light.
15. I said unto my angels: Go ye with these proofs, before mortals, with signs and miracles; go to the rich and the poor, to the learned and to the unlearned. And ye shall observe them, as to what use they make of the new revelations.
16. For some shall appropriate these things to money-making; some, to personal fame; some, to evil purposes; but a few, to the glory of the Almighty, and the exaltation of mankind.
17. Try ye all mortals, and make a register of them and their behavior, and preserve the same in my heavens.
18. And it shall come to pass that many of my seers shall have great poverty and great hardships, for they will be unsuited to serve mammon. Nevertheless, they shall convert the rich, proving my truths unto them. And my seers shall go to them in distress, and the rich shall deny them, and refuse them.
19. Make a record of these also. For, in course of time, and, because of the hardness of their hearts, I shall withdraw my holy angels away from such rich people, and they shall be left to fall into the obsession of drujas.
20. And their families shall be obsessed, their wives, or husbands, or sons, or daughters.
21. And the drujas shall divide the families, turning a man against his father, and a daughter against a mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
22. For, whoever goeth away from me, paying tribute to satan (self), I will not follow after.
23. And the drujas shall say: Think not we are come to send peace on earth, we come not to bring peace, but to bring a sword.
24. And families of the unrighteous, being obsessed with drujas, shall keep secret their convictions, and they shall say: This is lunacy, meaning derangement.
25. Others, being asked if they belong to the new dispensation, shall say: Nay, we know nothing of it; behold, we are good members of the church!
26. And now, accordingly, all such matters were recorded in my heavens, and such mortals became known to me.
27. And such as consulteth the spirits in regard to money-making, or to earthly matters for self sake, also became known to me.
28. And I commanded my holy angels to withdraw from all mortals who were not working for Jehovih’s new kingdom, who were of no profit in the resurrection of man; and, behold, this was also done.
29. And it came to pass, that many whom I had designed for exalted work, fell into the hands of drujas. And they held conferences, and were divided, man against man, and woman against woman; full of boasting and short-sighted wisdom, seeking the applause of the multitude.
30. And, so, my angels sifted them and sorted them, in order to find such as were willing to sacrifice self for the sake of the Father’s kingdom.
31. These I drew aside, and I said unto them: Ye, that choose to serve Jehovih, behold, Jehovih hath chosen you also.
Chapter XXXVIII
GOD SHOWETH THE MISTAKES OF MAN’S JUDGMENT.
1. GOD said: I said unto thee, O man, pursue thy wisdom after the manner of thy God.
2. I go to the beginning; I labor not so much to convert adults, as to prepare the minds of the young.
3. Now, behold, because I told thee this, thou sought to have children born unto thee after the manner of Gods.
4. Thou saidst: I understand the new kingdom; I have the solution for raising up a new generation on the earth. I have chosen me my women, who also comprehend, and, behold, our offspring will be very Gods!
5. But I admonished thee, saying: Thou openst the door for adultery; thou shalt surely go down.
6. Thou wouldst not profit by the wisdom of the ages. I had holden up my hand, and said: One wife, one husband!
7. Now, hear me, O man: In a new cycle man ever runneth to the extreme opposite of the old errors, and thus bringeth upon himself new ones, that he knew not of.
8. I say unto thee: The new edifice shall be of all that was good of the past, of things proven in heaven and on earth.
9. Also, I say unto thee, it shall be of the young, and not of the adult.
10. Because thou hast attempted to beget offspring for the new kingdom, thou, of all men, art the most unfit.
11. My laborers shall not have desire to be either fathers or mothers. Nor shall they seek in any way things that belong on the earth; nor have passions that belong only to the earth.
12. Nevertheless, they shall be the founders of the Father’s kingdom on earth, and with the young.
13. They shall gather up orphans and castaways in infancy, and take them into colonies, hundreds and thousands of them.
14. And these infants shall be fed and clothed and raised up, not after any man’s whim or conceit, but according to the accummulated wisdom collected from all the different nations and peoples in all the world, as to how to make the best corporeal and spiritual men and women.
15. Behold, it hath been proven in the warrior and pugilist how to raise a savage man, by flesh diet and inharmonious surroundings; and in nations and tribes of peace, how to raise a virtuous and industrious man, on herbs and fruit diet.
16. These are things for thee to learn, O man, going at the subject systematically, to find the best way to make the best man and woman out of the infants entrusted to thee.
17. Not only as to diet, but as to clothing, and as to comfort and cleanliness; and to avoid disease; and as to strength and suppleness and swiftness; and as to virtue and modesty; and as to education, practical and theoretical; and as to industry and quick perception; and as to willingness to work for one another; and to trades and occupations; and as to pastimes, amusements and recreations, singing, dancing, and playing with great joy and delight; and as to worship, to rites and ceremonies; and as to acquiring seership and prophecy and signs and miracles, in su’is and sar’gis; as to communing with angels, and as to the value of angels as teachers and instructors by tangible presence and audible voices.
18. And yet, above all things, thou shalt preserve liberty unto all, with pleasant and enjoyable discipline for everything, after the manner of my heavenly kingdoms.
19. Remembering, that every faculty in every one shall be cultivated to the utmost.
20. Teaching them, from the first, that the eye of Jehovih is upon them, and that His hand is stretched over them, to bless them, according to their goodness, purity, love, gentleness and wisdom.
21. And that they shall not own nor possess individually; but that all things are Jehovih’s, and they, themselves, are angels in mortal form, created by Jehovih to rejoice and to help one another forever.
Chapter XXXIX
GOD PROVIDETH FOR INCREASE.
1. GOD said: When thy educational colony of infants shall have grown up to manhood and womanhood, they shall understand that, as they were once homeless and fatherless, and ye gathered them up, and provided unto them, even so shall they go, and do likewise, gathering up from the Uzians other orphans and castaways, and raising them in other colonies, after the same manner.
2. And it shall come to pass, that many will desire to marry, and it shall be granted unto them to choose amongst their own people, and marry whom they will.
3. But it shall be a law that no man nor woman shall marry more than one time.
4. Whether the partner die, or whether they divorce themselves, yet, to none other shall either ever wed more.
5. And it shall be a law, that, at maturity, if any one desireth to leave the colony, he shall do so without hindrance or prejudice.
6. Though it shall be inculcated into them, during their youth, that, at maturity, they are supposed to swarm out, after the fashion of bees, becoming too numerous for one hive, and go and form a new colony; that in all things they shall be taught not to do anything for self sake, but for the good of man and for the honor and glory of Jehovih.
7. And these things shall come to pass with these people:
8. They shall abjure war;
9. They shall be non-resistants;
10. They shall have su’is, and shall see without their mortal eyes, and hear without their mortal ears.
11. My angels shall appear before them, and walk with them, talking to them, and teaching them of my kingdoms.
12. And angels of the I’hin race will come to them; and of the I’huans, and of all other peoples whereof mention is made in this OAHSPE.
13. And mortals shall recover, from the libraries in heaven, things that have been lost on the earth, as to languages and histories of tens of thousands of years ago.
14. And mortals shall prophesy truly of things in heaven and on the earth.
15. And many shall attain adeptism, and, in spirit, go out of their mortal bodies, and appear hundreds of miles away, and there make themselves known; and they will return again to their mortal bodies, unharmed.
16. All these, and even greater things, shall my angels teach them.
17. Flatter not thyself, O man, that these things can come in Uz, or that they can come suddenly. They can neither come to Uzians, nor can they come suddenly.
18. It is not the work of thy God in this cycle to raise up any man to become worshipful because of such wonders; it is my work to show man how he shall attain to these things himself.
19. For this reason, I come not, in this day, to call sinners to repentance, nor to gather up the lost sheep of Israel.
20. I come now to the wise and pure, who have fulfilled the former commandments.
21. I come to give them a new lesson, which is, to show them how to build the Father’s kingdom on earth.
22. I come to raise up a new people in the world, greater than hath ever been.
23. Those that I sent have cleared away the old edifice. I come not as a destroyer; I come as a builder.
24. Into thy hands, O man, I give the key to the heavenly kingdoms. Remember, the pass-word which admitteth thee to the all highest kingdoms is, JEHOVIH, THE I AM.
END OF THE BOOK OF JUDGMENT.
A North American Indian Prayer
(Delaware Indian Version)
By Big White Owl
O, Gitche Manitou, (Great Spirit) whose voice we hear int he winds, whose breath gives life to all the world – hear us.
We are your children, but many of us have become confused in the turmoil of this fast changing world. Humble, we appeal to you for help. We need your guidance. We need your strength and wisdom.
O, Great Spirit, teach us how to walk along the narrow pathway. Open our eyes so that we may ever behold the red and purple sunsets. Teach us to respect the many things you have created. Make our ears ever sharp to hear your voice. Help us to learn again all the wonderful things you taught our forefathers – th elessons you have hidden in every flower, leaf and rock.
O, Gitche Manitou, we seek strength, not to be superior to our brothers, but to be able to fight our greatest enemy, the evil within ourselves. Help us to be ever ready to comcce to you with clcean hands and a steady eye so that when life fades away like the beautiful sunset, our spirits may come to you without fear or shame.
Aho!