Chapter XXIII

God judges Uz, commonly called the world's people.

1. God said: I am not come in this era to judge the drunkard, the harlot and thieves and murderers; these are known to you, O man.

2. I am not come to repeat former judgments against whom all men understand to be sinful; for, behold, I gave governments into the hands of men, to deal unto such themselves.

3. But I am come to the leaders of men; to kings, queens, emperors and presidents; and to philosophers and men of learning, priests, rab'bahs, cardinals and popes; and to merchants, bankers, manufacturers, farmers, shippers, and hucksters.

4. Such as pass unscathed before the laws and government of man, and are reckoned passably wise and good before the world.

5. And not even to such of these as are bad men in disguise, who escape condemnation before the courts by cunning and strategem.

6. But I am come to the best of all of them, be they true Brahmins, true Ka'yuans, true Buddhists, true Christians, or true Mohammedans.

7. Therefore, O man, hear the judgment of your God against them: They are not united and affiliated as brothers.

8. But the best of all of them are as so many individual entities pulling in different ways, every one for himself.

9. The Brahmins are not communal; the Ka'yuans are not communal; neither are the Buddhists, nor the Christians, nor the Mohammedans; neither the philosophers, priests, merchants, nor any one people in all the world.

10. There is no fullness of heaven among any of them. They are divided into thousands of ideas and projects.

11. Now, hear me, O man, and consider the wisdom of your God: Satan is wiser than any of these I have named.

12. For satan has made armies of soldiers communal. He has discovered the power of affiliation and discipline.

13. Behold, a thousand soldiers are more efficient than ten thousand men unorganized.

14. Judgment is rendered against the best of men in all the world, because they are inorganic for righteousness and for establishing the Father's kingdom.

15. This, then, is what befalls the nations and peoples of the earth: Alike and like the angels of heaven minister unto mortals (except where your God and his Lords provide especially otherwise), the inorganic heavenly regions to the inorganic inhabitants of the earth.

16. Now, behold, I said unto you in the olden times, try the spirits, and see if they be of God.

17. For the angels who wander about on the earth do not know my kingdoms, and they deny me, and deny all order and system and discipline in heaven and earth.

18. And each and all such angels, coming to mortals, do so on their own account, assuming any form and name they may find acceptable unto men.

19. Such angels have not yet entered the first resurrection; nor do they belong to any disciplined kingdom in heaven.

20. And all mortals, such as I have named to you as the best and highest of mortals, enter the es world (after death) only into the inorganic regions of heaven.

21. Neither can they enter into the lowest of my kingdoms until they abnegate self and learn affiliation.

22. Therefore, after death they remain, for the most part, in their former places: The merchant in his counting-house, the banker in his bank, the shipper in his place, the philosopher in his place, the pope in his place, the king in his, the farmer in his.

23. Neither have they power or wisdom to go to any other place; and they stroll about like one who has lost his master. Neither will they affiliate with other angels; but, in stubbornness and moroseness, persist in working out an individual identity until they are broken down in sorrow and darkness, which may be in a few years, or it may be hundreds of years.

24. And then my holy ones come to them and carry them away to my es'yan schools.

Chapter XXIV

God shows how to know the kind of angels that minister to mortals.

1. God said: One rule have I given unto all men by which it may be known what kind of angels minister unto them; that rule is a mortal's own manifestations and behavior.

2. Whoever manifests serving himself chiefly has little light from my organic kingdoms; but whoever serves Jehovih by laboring for others, with all his wisdom and strength, is attended by the light of my organic kingdoms.

3. Judge yourself, O man, as to yourself, who and what angels attend you.

4. Behold, one man will say to you: I have a band of wise and most ancient angels who attend me! Another will say: I have very Gods who attend me!

5. Judge them not by their words, nor by the names professed; but judge them by the work they accomplish. Nevertheless, hold your peace in regard to them.

6. This rule do I also give unto you, in regard to the angels who attend mortals.

7. As, for example, you know that a soldier is not permitted to go away from his regiment and pursue other employment.

8. The soldier belongs to his regiment; he is one with the regiment; he moves with it; the affairs and business of the regiment are his affairs and business also.

9. Even so is it with my organic heavens, in which es'yans become volunteers to accomplish resurrection.

10. And thereafter they apply themselves, not to isolated development, but to affiliation, for attaining to the higher kingdoms.

11. The least of my organic kingdoms contains half a thousand million angels; and many of them contain five thousand million.

12. These are composed of thousands of branches, suited to the various talents created with all; so, that all who enter find a delightful adaptation.

13. When you were taught of old to say: May your kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven, it was instruction given you to lead you in the method of my dominions.

14. As to wandering spirits, they have not yet entered the first resurrection; but such as have enlisted in my organic kingdoms are called es'yans while learning the rites and discipline, and are said to be in the first resurrection. And such as have become organic workers are in the second resurrection, and this is a kingdom of heavens.

15. This rule is also uniform in all my heavenly kingdoms: That after the entrance to the first resurrection, none of the angels return as individuals to commune with mortals, except as hereinafter mentioned, or except when especially commissioned by me or my Lords.

16. Think not that my discipline is less systematic than that of a mortal general's army, or that the heavens of your God are permitted to run at loose ends and without order or concert of action.

17. Be reasonable, O man; weigh these things according to your own observation and judgment, for there is not, in all the heavens, any wide departure from what you have in some form a counterpart-resemblance on earth.

Chapter XXV

God shows how and when the second resurrection manifests unto mortals.

1. God said: In the cities and country places I have innumerable Lords, apportioned to districts and to the mortals and angels in them.

2. And my Lords know the rates and grades of their people, their occupations, their aspirations, their labor, their behavior, private and public.

3. Now, behold, I have said unto my Lords: The era of dictation is past; man has arrived at kosmon. Declare the light of my heavens unto man; but let man judge himself, and labor to save himself, so that he may have honor and glory in doing so.

4. And I further said unto my Lords: Man has prayed, saying: Your kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven. Now, this I give unto you: That where men abnegate self and affiliate into a communal brotherhood after the manner of my heavenly kingdoms, then shall you affiliate my organic angels with such mortals and make them one with my second resurrections.

5. And you shall surround such communal brotherhoods with the light of my kingdoms, thereby controlling the angelic intercourse with mortals, so that drujas and vampire spirits cannot molest them.

6. And these brotherhoods shall be taught to not question the spirits and oracles on personal matters, but for light and truth as to what will contribute to meliorating the condition of man, and as to light and truth regarding the higher and lower heavens; and as to attaining spiritual gifts and great wisdom.

7. And such mortals shall have times and places for worshipful matters; and these times shall be in concert with my Lord of that district; and the light of his throne shall be given unto such a brotherhood.

8. The members of such a brotherhood shall not desire a leader; neither will any one of them desire to be a leader. For if one should so desire, he would not be of the Godhead but of himself.

9. Moreover, none of the members of such a brotherhood shall go off of his own accord to minister as an individual to the inhabitants of Uz. But each and all in the brotherhood shall concentrate their profits and force unto one end and object.

10. Even so, O man, are my organic heavens; all the members of each heaven being as a unit with the whole, they do not waste their strength and time in isolated endeavors.

11. So that when a prophet foolishly boasts to you as to having some high-raised angel with a loud-sounding name as his special guardian and guide, know that such prophet is in the hands of drujas, who have not entered my heavenly kingdoms.

12. Neither has it ever happened on the earth with any individual man raised up by me or my Lords for a specific work, like Moses, or Ka'yu, or Sakaya, or any other, that they knew of or boasted of any especial angel over them; but all of them experienced the light, which was as a pillar of fire.

13. Even such is the manifestation of the second resurrection through my Lord and his Holy Council.

14. And the manifestations are not like those of a mere magician; but the accomplishment of something that embraces nations, empires and mighty peoples.

15. For this reason, O man, I declare unto you that the Father's kingdom is now being founded on earth, and the mortal manifestation of it is near at hand.

16. But it shall not come in this era as in the past, through any one great leader-forth; but it shall appear as a spontaneous light permeating the soul of thousands; and they shall come forth, establishing Jehovih in truth and fullness.

17. Now, therefore, O man, consider the judgment of God against all such as are called the best of men, the wisest of men, the greatest of kings or queens or popes; for none of these have even entered the first resurrection in their own practice.

Chapter XXVI

God judges the ascetic.

1. God said: There are such as shut themselves up in colleges (convents and nunneries), and such as retire to the forests, devoting their lives to prayers, confessions, and rites and ceremonies, being most systematic in routine, and in being shut away from the Uzians.

2. And they allot certain ones as leaders and overseers, making themselves inquisitors over one another in hope of purifying their thoughts and aspirations, constantly trapping one another for shortness, and then submitting to petty punishment and inflictions, hoping thereby to check evil thoughts, words and actions.

3. Judgment is rendered against all such people, be they mortals or angels.

4. For these are the methods of the imprisonment of mind. All such mortals are preparing themselves for the bondage of drujas on their entrance into the es world.

5. Yes, even in that same college (convent and nunnery) shall they be immured after death by thousands of drujas who inhabit the place, who profess to have some scheme of projected salvation.

6. All such people are the manifestation of darkness instead of light. Jehovih created man with capacity for developing talent to do good unto others.

7. Now, behold, these ascetics labor for themselves in these foolish proceedings; they do not do these things in order to meliorate the condition of their neighbors. Neither have they shown in a single instance where a benefit resulted to the state in consequence of their practices.

8. They call their initiations sacred, but I declare unto you, they are a blasphemy against Jehovih. They are as a snare for the imprisonment of the mind and the soul.

9. And after death, these people are prevented by their drujan masters from entering heavenly places of resurrection, becoming, instead, slaves in the es world, to pursue such calling and practice as may be put upon them.

10. For the same rule holdes on earth and in heaven as regards the bondage of the mind. If, by imposing rites and ceremonies, and by the strategems and cunning of mortal priests, they can be captured on earth, even so can they be retained in bondage in heaven.

11. And it happens with them, that even as they honestly believe they are right on earth, so will they persist they are right in heaven, even willingly submitting to cruelty and to torture in order to prove their fidelity.

12. Be considerate, O man, of the words of your God: He who created you gave to you one star of light by which you may determine truth and wisdom.

13. Whatever doctrine shows self as the chief consideration, even if it be for obtaining wisdom or supposed purity for self sake, is not of Jehovih.

14. The aborigine that roves foolishly in the forest stands higher, therefore, before your God than does the nun or the ascetic. For though the former lives for self only, yet he is not bound in spirit.

15. In all things, you shall weigh the object and end aimed at, and the final result; and, where self stands as a part, or whole consideration, know that such matter is not of Jehovih, but of satan.

16. It is not sufficient for the apologist of satan to say: O we dwell in the colleges (nunneries and convents) in order to pray for Uzians.

17. But you shall weigh their prayers also, and you shall estimate the value of them by what is accomplished. And you shall prove whether their prayers provided harvests of wheat and corn, and food and clothing for the poor, and education for the unlearned, or any other thing that was good.

18. Do not be put off by the cunning of satan's words in the mouths of priests or popes; but look matters in the face, and be a God yourself in discerning things that meliorate the condition of man.

Chapter XXVII

God judges charities.

1. God said: A certain man built a dam across a river using only stones, but no cement. And the water ran through the crevices, rendering the dam worthless.

2. Then certain neighbors came to him, saying: You should apply cement to the crevices.

3. So the man went to the lower side and applied cement; but, lo and behold, the result was only temporary, for the water washed the cement away.

4. Again his neighbors said unto him: Apply the cement at the upper side, and the water will carry it into the crevices, where it will remain with good effect.

5. And the man did so, and, behold, the dam was a complete structure.

6. After such manner, O man, consider all charities. You may apply your riches and your estates for charity's sake, but of no profit under the sun.

7. When the man applied the cement where it was not self-sustaining, the waters washed it away.

8. Where you apply charity and it be not self-sustaining, judgment is rendered against you.

9. When the man applied the cement toward the fountain, it became self-sustaining.

10. Where you apply charity and it be self-sustaining, judgment is rendered in your favor.

11. When you meet your neighbor on the road, and he has fallen down and broken his legs and cannot stand, consider how foolish it would be to lift him up, and then, let him fall again. Do not flatter yourself that such would be charity.

12. And yet, how much of the so-called charity of the world is of that kind.

13. You may feed three drunkards' families and flatter yourself you have done charity worthily; but if you have not done that which will make them no longer in need of charity, you have done little.

14. Another man may not feed them, but he may reform them and put them on the way to becoming self-sustaining. Such a man will have done a hundred-fold greater charity.

15. To open the way for employment and industry, this is the greatest of all charity. For by these avenues, charity will not be needed even for the aged or for orphans.

16. Consider then how little any people have to boast of for charity's sake. Even their asylums and poor-houses and homes for the aged and helpless are so many witnesses of condemnation against the people who built them; because some great wrongs and evils existing within the state were also built by the people in the first place.

17. They are as paint and plaster, hiding and redeeming them, in some measure, for the sins of a wicked people.

18. And when such a city says: Look at us! what a charitable people we are! I say unto you that that city does not understand the kingdom of your God.

19. Yet, you shall avoid going to the other extreme, doing nothing, which is worst of all. But you shall go to the root of the matter; your charity shall be directed to prevent the causes of such ill-fortunes.

Chapter XXVIII

God shows how to do charity.

1. God said: O man, consider the folly of individual effort! One will say: I help my family and my neighbors; let others do so and all will be well.

2. This is his philosophy and doctrine! Now, I say unto you, this is just what has been tried for thousands of years, and it has resulted in impotency all the while.

3. It has been said: Sell all you have and give it to the poor; but I say unto you, you shall not do this.

4. Though that opened the way to salvation in the ancient days, it is not sufficient in this day. Neither shall you hope that, by giving to the poor, you shall escape condemnation.

5. But you shall go to the foundation of things, and go systematically.

6. Your efforts shall not be single-handed, but you shall unite with others; and together you shall provide a remedy against poverty.

7. Remembering it is wiser to accomplish with the young than with the aged. For the mature will be dead in a few years; and in that day those that are children will be mature.

8. Better is it that you provide a way for ten fatherless children than for forty people that are grown.

9. But even in this you may err toward the children. For to provide them an asylum in infancy, saying: Behold, what a good work we have done! shows that you do not measure as your God measures.

10. For it is not sufficient that you feed and clothe little ones; but you shall teach them a trade and occupations and give them learning, so that when they are grown, they can sustain themselves.

11. But even yet your work is not the highest; but you shall so provide them that they will not only be self-supporting, but that they shall be willing and capable of rescuing others as they were rescued.

12. After this you shall see to it that all things are so provided that, after your death, your institution be not liable to fall into disuse or perversion.

13. This is founding the Father's kingdom on earth; and whoever labors thus shall be ministered unto by my heavenly kingdoms for the glory of Jehovih.

14. Therefore, let your charity not be for a year nor for a hundred years; but be the corner-stones, founding places on earth where a system shall rest perpetually that will provide a new race, where poverty and crime and helplessness cannot enter.

15. You thus become, even in mortality, members of my second resurrection in heaven.

Chapter XXIX

God judges the missionaries.

1. God said: In the olden times I commanded you, saying: Go forth into all the world, preaching my doctrines, chief of which was: There is but One, even the I Am; Him shall you love with all your heart and your mind and your soul, and love your neighbor as yourself, having faith in Jehovih through righteousness and good works.

2. Moreover, I declared unto you that whoever fulfilled my commandments, believing in Jehovih, certain signs should be given unto them by which they might be known unto men.

3. And you went forth, and, behold, my signs went with you, and you did accomplish service unto Jehovih.

4. But it came to pass, in course of time, you did forsake your Creator, setting up Lords and Saviors of your own, worshipping them instead of Jehovih.

5. And I looked down upon you from my holy place in heaven, and I saw that you had become obsessed with evil spirits, thousands and millions of them, who professed to be the Lords and Saviors whom you worshipped.

6. And I said unto my Lords: Behold, man has erected an idol in heaven, go to them that preach in my name, and take from them the signs and miracles which I gave.

7. And my Lords came unto you, finding you were gone abroad over all the world. And my Lords cut you short of signs and miracles.

8. For this was the judgment of your God against you, because you had turned against the I Am, teaching another God than Jehovih.

9. And I made this, my edict, manifest on the earth; for I withdrew my holy angels from you, and from that time forth, wherever you have gone, behold, I have given you none of the signs of which I had been liberal before.

10. And I measured the work of your hand in the places of your mission, and I found that you were impotent to establish good works.

11. And following in your path, wherever you had gone, thousands and millions of drujas followed you; and your people went with weapons of destruction, slaughtering those Jehovih had created alive, in order to establish your idol-God.

12. And my Lords numbered all the places of your missionaries in all the earth, and behold, there was not one place which you had established that was not given up to sin and blasphemy against Jehovih.

13. Neither had you raised up any member or members in all of them that practiced even the first commandments.

14. And I said unto you: Behold, you do not have the signs and miracles; give up your preaching and go among the barbarians teaching them how to plant, to sow and reap and clothe themselves, and to live in houses.

15. But this was untasteful to you in your hypocrisy; and you made of your occupation a scheme to live in worthlessness on the contributions of your neighbors.

16. And, behold, your doctrines have not prospered in any place in all the world to work righteousness for the glory of the Almighty.

17. Do not flatter yourself that you have done a good work because you have taught the ignorant to say: Brahma, Brahma! or Buddha, Buddha! or Lord, Lord! or to sing anthems in praise of your idol-God.

18. Your God measures you and your converts according to such purification as adds to the glory of everlasting life, as well in heaven as on earth. And such purification manifests not only in words but in good works for the glory of the Father.

19. And when it has come to pass that your mission brought about a war afterward, behold, that war is also upon your head.

20. I do not measure a little good that happens for a moment, and there an end. I comprehend the lapse of scores of years and hundreds of years; and I weigh the whole matter and render judgment in the aggregate.

21. Neither do I judge by man's inventions or mechanical contrivances. My judgments are in reference to man's comfort and joy in life, and to his resurrection in my heavens.

22. According to a man's, or a people's, ascending grade in approximating Jehovih, so shall a man and a people be judged.

Chapter XXX

God judges dominions.

1. God said: Now, behold, a certain rich man coveted his neighbors' children, and he went about and captured many of them. And also he was powerful over his neighbors, and none of them could regain their offspring.

2. And a certain rab'bah inquired of Jehovih concerning the matter. And Jehovih answered him, saying: Whatever he coveted and has taken, allow him to keep. What he has taken exultingly shall be a bondage unto him in sorrow in time to come; for he shall provide according to law.

3. And it so happened that a famine came upon that land, and according to the laws, the rich had to provide for the kin of their own households.

4. And, behold, the rich man's possessions were consumed by the neighbors whom he had robbed, and great sorrow came upon him.

5. Such, O man, is the way of the dominions of men. A mighty king stretches forth his hand to possess his neighbor's kingdom, and Jehovih gives it unto him.

6. And that king exults, saying: Behold my possessions and my power!

7. Hear, now, the judgment of your God, O man: Soon or late, all things answer unto Jehovih in a way man does not imagine. Whoever covets and receives is bound unto Jehovih.

8. And when a king possesses himself of a new country, he not only receives its riches but its misfortunes also. The profits and losses are all his.

9. And the sins of the people are his and are henceforth upon his head.

10. And when a famine comes upon that country, the king shall be responsible for them.

11. And he shall supply every want of the people, or judgment shall be upon his head.

12. And for all of the newly acquired subjects who may be in sickness or distress, the king shall be judged.

13. Moreover, judgment shall pursue that king into the es world; and the subjects he took unto himself on earth shall be his in heaven to redeem, and provide for, and educate.

14. Neither shall he have exaltation in my heavens faster than the lowest of his subjects.

15. Behold, I not only bequeath the glory and joy of the Father's kingdom on earth, but I reveal also the responsibilities which shall be hereafter known to mortals.

16. Man shall not only perceive the justice of my judgments, but he shall realize the power of my hand upon kingdoms and empires.

17. I show man not only the way of liberty, but the way of bondage. He shall know understandingly the ways of my dominions and the judgment that is upon him.

18. For every one whom the king causes to be slain in order to possess a new country, the king shall mete out rebribution until all his enemies do pardon and forgive him.

19. Behold, I have revealed the grades and rates; and such king shall perceive that his bondage can not be less than six generations, but may be twenty or forty generations before he reaches beyond the second resurrection.

20. And the same rules shall apply to every king and queen and emperor, and every other ruler in all the world.

21. The resurrection in heaven of each and every one of them shall be with, and no faster than, those they ruled over on earth.

22. And they shall be responsible to all their subjects for deaths resulting from wars in which the subjects were used for the glory and power of the king. And for all famines, pestilences, and all other injuries that come upon the multitude through any failures in the king's government.

23. And for the poverty of the people, and for their ignorance and crime; nor shall the king escape retribution for any good thing he might have done, but did not accomplish.

24. And for all the profit and service the king receives on earth from his subjects, he shall render back to them an equivalent profit and service, either on earth or in heaven.

25. Let not the king or other ruler any longer flatter himself that death effaces the bondage of man to his subject and neighbor.

26. Behold, by opening the gates of heaven, I have also given you the glory of it; and with it, I also give you the responsibilities.

27. I have brought the angels to your door; they bring you news of great joy, and bring you also the afflictions you cast upon them.

28. I told those of the olden time that sword would answer sword; war would answer war; and peace receive in peace.

29. Such, then, is the judgment of your God upon dominion; and this shall be ratified in time to come by every ruler on the face of the earth.

Chapter XXXI

God judges the man of promises.

1. God said: Consider the judgments of God, O man of many promises.

2. Behold, I have heard you say: O God, if I were rich; or, if this undertaking hold good; or, if I am spared, then will I do something handsome for the Father's kingdom!

3. And your vows have been registered in heaven, over and over again.

4. And my angels have labored with you to fulfill your promise. And yet you do not regard your word. But you hold onto your earthly possessions, saying: Wait yet a little while.

5. Hear then the judgment of your God, for it is that which you shall put upon yourself after your entrance into the es world.

6. Which is, that you shall be bound in heaven till you accomplish what you might have done but failed to do.

7. And this is the penalty for neglecting on earth to fulfill the light that was given unto you: You shall, in heaven, accomplish without money, what you could have done with money. And the difference it requires to do a thing without means, as compared to what might be done by one with means, is the extra bondage and duration that shall be upon your head and soul.

8. To all men who set out with a promise to accomplish charity or any good for the resurrection or melioration of man and fail to do it, the same judgment shall be upon them in heaven. Nor shall they rise above the first resurrection until they have fulfilled the same in all particulars. Thus shall they judge themselves in heaven.

9. It is not sufficient for you, O man, to say: I did not see my way clear as to the best method of doing a thing, and so I waited.

10. The commandment of Jehovih is upon you, to do what you can, according to your highest light and ability to accomplish. In this respect then, you shall find no excuse because you did not know the best way.

11. Neither does it matter, the amount of your riches being less than another man's riches.

12. Nor shall you find an excuse in saying: I did more according to my means than did my neighbor.

13. One man shall not be judged by another; but all shall be judged according to the light of Jehovih in them, and according to what He has given unto them.