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How Oahspe \Vas Written.

~Ir. J. B. ~c\\·brongh, through whom "Oahspe" "·as
written, gives the following account of its tran E: mi:::~ion : -
HSome two years ago, Oalrspo was Inechanically
writ.ten through my hands by some other intelligence
Lhan my own. :Jiany Spiritualists are acquainted with
this automatic n1oven1ent of the hnnds, independent of
one's own volition. 'rhere arc thousands mHl thousands
of persons who lun·e this quality. It can also be educatcrl,
or rather, the suscept.ibility to cxt.ernal pmYer can be in-
creased. In 1ny own ca~e J disco\'crecl, many years ago,
when sitting in circles lo obt.ain spiritual manifestations,
thnt 1ny hands could not. lie on the table without flying
off into these "tantru ms." Often they would write
n1essages, left or right, backw·ard or forward; nor could
I control them any other way than by withdrawing fron1
the table. Sometin1es the power thus baffled would
attack my tongue, or 1ny eyes, or 1ny ears, and I talked
an d sa\\· and heard different! y from JHY normal stnte.
" "
Then I went to work in earnest. to investigate spiritu-
nlisln, and T inYestigated over 200 mediums, trtn-clling
hundreds and hundreds of tniles for t.his purpose. Often
I took the1n to 1n.r o"·n bouse, and experimented with
then1 to my heart's content. I found that nearly all of
th em were snbjecL to this involuntary nloYement. of t.he
hands, or t.o cntrance1nent. They told me it. was angels
con trolling then1. In course of time, about. ten or fifteen

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years, 1 begun to believe in spiritualisn1. But I was not

satisfied 'Yith the connnunications; I was craYing for the
light of heaYen. I did not desire co1nn1unicat.ions fron1
friends or relatives, or informatiou about earthly things;
I wished to learn soJnething about the Spirit \Yorld; what
the angels did~ ho~· they traYelled, and the general plan
of the uniYerse. So after a while I took it into 1ny head
that 'rise and exalted angels would conunune better with
us if we purified ourselves physically and spiritually.
Then l gaYe up eating fle~h and fish, milk and butter,
and took to risiug before day, bathiug twice a day, and
occupying a stnnll room alone, where I sat. every nwrning
half an hour before stulrise, recouu ting daily to my
Creator 1ny short-comings in governing myself in thought
and deed. In six years' training I reduced rnyself frorn
two hundred and fifty pounds to one hundred and eighty;
my rheurnatistn was all gone, and 1 had no 1nore head-
ache. I became limber and sprightly. A new lem:e of
life came to 1ne.
'l:'hen a uew condition of control caine upon n1y
hands. Instead of the angels holding tny hands as for-
merly, they held their bands over 1ny head (and they were
clothed wit.h 'sufficient 1nateriality for n1e to see the In),
and a light fell upon n1y own hands as they lay on the
table. In the 1neantime I had attained to hear audible
angel Yoicec:: near tne. 1 \vas directed to get. a type-
writer, "·hich 'trrites lJy key~ like a piano. This I did,
and I applied 111yself industriously to learn it., but
with only indifferent success. For two years more the
angels propounded t.o me questions relative to heaven

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and earth, which no 1nortal could nnswer very intel-

ligen tly. 1 always look Lack 011 the~e two years as an
enigma. Perhaps it was to show me th at a man is but
an ignornm us at be~t: perhaps I \Yas wait.ing for consti-
tutional growth to be good. \r ell, one 1norning the light
struck both hands on the Lack, and they went for the
t.ypewriter, for smne fift een tuinute.s, Ycry vigorously. I
was told uot to read whnt was printed, and I h ad worked
myself into such a religious fear of losing th is uew power
that I obeyed re,·cren tly. The next 1norni ug:. also, before
sunrise, t.hc ~a me po,Yer came and wrote (or prin ted,
rather) agmn. Again I laid the matter a way very
religiously, saying little about it to anybody. One rnorning
I ac:ci<leu tally (seemed acri d en tal to me) looked out of
the windo w and beheld the line of light that. re8ted on 1ny
hands extending h ea,·en \rard like a telegraph wire
toward the ~In·. Q,·er n1y head \\ere three pa1rs of
hands, fully 1n aterialised i behind n1c st.ootl another
nngel with h er hand on my shoulders. ~Iy looking did
not disturb the scene; my hands kept righ t. on , printing
-printing.
F or fifty weeks thi! continued e\·ery morning, half an
hour or so before sunrise, and then it. ceased, and I \ra.s
told to read and publish the book Oahspc. The peculiar
dra\Yings in Oahspe were made with pencil in the san1e
way. A few of the drawin gs I was told to copy fron1
other books, such as Saturn, the Egyptian cerenwnies, et.c.
No\Y during all the "·bile I ha\·e pursued nty avoca-
tion (dentist ry ), nor has this n1atter nor u1y diet
(vegetables, fruit, and fannareous food) tletracted any

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fronr n1y health or strength, although 1 have continued
this discipline for upward of ten or more years. I am
firn1ly con\·inced that there are nurnberless persons who
might attain to 1narvellous deve1oprnent if they would thus
train then1selves. A strict integrity to one's highest light
is essential lo develop1nent. Self-abnegation and purity
should be the motto and discipline of every one capable
of angel comn1union."
J. B. NE\VBROt"OH.

XEw YoRK} January 21, 1883."

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PRE FACE .
Sollle of the arti<.:lcs in this pamphl et appeared in the
~1elbourn c " IIarbinger of Light.. '' .As the snbjec:t i~ con-
tinuous, anu deals with the vie\\·s announced by "Oah:::pc"
on the fah:ity of Theological Christianity, it. w:b th ought
better to publi~h the whole series in pan1phlet form. and
it is hoped they w·ill be read with intere:::t and profit by
1nany who would Ini:;s their i1nport if they hml been
separated by n1onthly intervals.
"Oah~pe, ., in denouncing Christianity as being false,
attacks on 1~· its theology and its resultant creeds and doc-
trines. Jesus of ~azareth and h is teachings are fully en-
dorsed; a history of his preparation in the spiritual "·orld
for a special work is given, thnt work being '' to re~tore the
ancient doctrines which were lost."
It is irnportant that readers shouhl <'learly under-
!tand t.hat the terms God, Lord, ~aviour. etc., etc., so fre-
quently uf5cd by Ouhspe, never in any ca~e refer to the
INFINITE BEING, trhom Chri~ tians usually a<ldress as
0
God," but ah' ays to some highly-raise(l spirit who had
been, "at one titne tnortal," but now ad,·anced t.o power
and rule in some of the innum erable heaYenly kingdoms
of .JEIIOY'TTI. This latter nmne is the distincti,·e one for
the l:Jucreated ONE, Supreme over All.
I t has been said in some quilrters that the con trolling
spirits rrpreBent them~clves to be J chovih. This is totally
untrue. In no ease i~ it ~o: they i n\·ariably represent them-

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::::eh·es to be Servants of JehoYib: when such expressions as
"Jehovih said'' occur. it n1eans that the Infinite One spoke
through a highly-raised and ruling spirit by afflatus (en-
trancenlent) . In si1ni lar nwnner are given all spiritual
con11nunicutions eYen upon the earth plane.
~o price is put upon this pa1nphlet. It is for free
distribution in the cause of breaking down error and set-
ting up of Truth. It can be obtained by application to
~Irs. Annie Bright., "Ilarbinger of Light" Office, 117
Collins-~treet., :Jlelbourne: or to the "·riter, J. Nelson Jones,
" Lea1nington," l\1oyston-road, Ararat. Friends who ap-
prove arc asked to aid in the distribution.

J. NELSON JONES.

Ararat, 2nd 1\Iarch, 1912.

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Things to be heeded by readers of Oahspe

~ as an aid to the understanding o f it.
II As but few have the whole book, and, therefore, the
greater number of its readers will have seen only excerpts,
I it may be desirable t.o devot-e a page or two in explan-
ations that may aid to a comprehension of the wonderful
Yolu me.
Its historic parts are said to be ''transcripts frOin the
libraric:, in the heavens. " 'l'hat it was given through
an arnazing manifestation of spirit. powel', exercised
through ~lr. John Ballou Newbrough of New York, we
know, and the n1at.ters t.rcated of will be an index as
to th e source frorn which they spring. This alone would
account for some of those singularities that are said by
some to be a new language, and uffords collateral
confirmat.ion of the clai1n of its writers as to its source.
Such heavenly records would, naturally, e1nbrace all the
most ancient languages of the earth, and the spelling
evidently follows the usage of some of then1. Thus,
Egupt (Egypt), Uropa (Europe), Vind'yu (India) ,
Par'si'e (Persia) , Gautama (America), et.c., etc.
From what has been said of the Ether of Space
("H arbinger of Light," April and ~lay: 1911) being the
veritable heavens and hells as to location, and these being
stupendous "Principalities and Powers" with appoint-ed
Rulers under .J ehovih . it follows th at they would have
in numerable names never heard of _before on earth, nor
is it nece~sary to attempt t.o learn off by heart these long

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and difficult lists of nmnes. For a faithful transcription,
and to enable us to get more t.ranscendant ideas of what
these Etheric or Spiritual reahns really are, we may
assume that it was necessary to give them in full.
Another point which t.ends to 1nake the oahspian
style a new language is the follovring fact which 5hould
be carefully noted by students. This is that there is but
ONE Infinite Supreme Jehovih, Ruler over all; but there
are an enormous number of Gods, Goddesses, Lords, and
other Rulers in the inntunerable etheric realms, all of
whom were "at one time mortal." The etheric realms
are mapped out and named, and lengthy lists of the
names of official Rulers (for a season) are given.
This conception is so different. from the ordinary one,
in regard to God, heaven and hell, that it cannot be too
strongly impre~sed that in Oahspe, the t.:it.les God, Lord,
etc., et.c., never mean the Supreme Creator, but always
refer to a "one time mortal" who has risen to power
and rank in the course of long and faithful service. There
is but ONE Uncreate, named variously in the different
regions of the earth and in different ages. J ehovih is
the name n1ostly used in Oahspe: being formed fro1n
the "sound~ the win d ntt.ereth": E-0-I-If. A few quota-
tions will put this matter into its proper light, and
remove the ambiguity that prevails with all who entertain
the old ideas, and are unacquainted with the real
characters of the multifarious heavenly kingdoms and
their Rulers, who are termed Gods, Goddes~es, Lords,
Orion Chiefs, Nirvanian Chiefs, etc., who were all at one
time mortal. These are appointed t.o ruling positions

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for a season. I t is in1portant to heed this because it is

a key wherewith to unlock much, and it also disposes
of the old doctrines of Angelology and Demonology,
which postulates a distinctly separate creation for these
intelligences. The following will be illustrative :-"Hear
the words of thy God, 0 man-I am thy brother, risen
from mortality to a holy place in heaven: profit t.hou in
my '\visd01n, and be achnonished by my love. For as I am
thy elder brother, so shall it be with thee, to rise also in
time to co1ne, and look back to mortals and call t.hem to
the exalted heavens of the Almighty.
"l{ear thy God, 0 man, and distinguish then, that
the twain, God and J ehovih, are not the same one; nor
more is thy God than what thou shalt be in time to come.
"Nor is this all; for there is a third resurrection, in
which the angels rise still higher in wisdom, love and
power, and are sent by thy God into Etheria, midway
between the planets- the highest of all heavens - ov~r
which there are Chiefs, who are also Gods and Goddesses
of still more comprehensive attributes."
These passages will elucidate the subject, and account
for tnucb thaL looks like a new language.
A great rnunber of ancient words also arc used for
which no exact equivalent is to be found in English.
They scmn to come from the Panic; the language of the
continent of Pan, submerged in the Pacific Ocean, the
northern portion of which still remains, and is called
Ja-pan at the present day. These "·ords are giYen in a
glossary in the book itself, and it would be well t.o give
the meanings of t.hem in brackets, when quoting isolated

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passages:-Thus) " A'ji" (first degree of den51ty of an
at1nospherean world); ''Ji'ay" (second degree of density
of the same); asu'is'' (clair-audient, clairvoyant; seer-
ship 1nediu1nship) "Sar'gis: · ( n1aterialised angel, or
mediun1 for n1aterialisation) ; "IIindan" (highest light) ;
' (Dan'' (light regions) : ·' Dan'ha" (tiu1e from Cla,n1 of
one period of hg11t. to the succeeding one). The~e periods
or "arcs" are tnapped onL in the book for the last 24,000
years; 8 arcs of about 3,000 year::: duration each. The
present arc of ·'Kosn1on" n·as entered in 1848. This n1ost
reinarkable year is noted by what is known as the
"Rochester l{nockings" which really inaugurated what
is non· called r:~lodern Spiritualisn1."
One of the great 1nerit~ of the Look is that it is
written in plain and un1nistakable English, so far as
t.hat was possible in dealing with a world's history
en1bracing a period of so1ne 80~000 years. ~loreover, this
plain Engli~h is now exactly as given by the angel
n1essengers but a few years ago. It ha~ not undergone
the inevitable errors incidental to hand-copyings from
scroll to Ecroll ; of translations into countless tongues with
re-translations; of excision~ and interpolations innumer·
able to suit the needE of priestly doctrine. In fact, we have
it unadulterateu and in its purity. It i:3 given as a
revelation for this advancing age of "Kosn1on.': Its
reiigion is, ONE INFINITE CREATOR 'ivho 1s
"FATHER," hence, all rnen arc BRETHREN. Its
ethics arc of the very highest, being t.he Eternal Truths
which are ever the sa1ne: whether gi\·en to an ignorant
world by Abram, ~1oses, Confucius, Buddha, or Jesus.
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Its discipline and rules for life are sublime, which if

put into practice would quickly revolutionise the world.
Its freedon1 and liberty for all is intense. All are
children of one Eternal Father. ~Ian is free; but he shalL
judge hi1nsolf and his Creator. Yet, this book is regarded
by many very good people with doubt, horror, and
contempt. \Vhy? Because it 1s outside the current
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0rthodoxy" of the day. Does this matter? Right is
right ; purity is purity; wheth er it comes through this
source or that. E very man must judge for himself, and
apart from priestly Authority.

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The Heavens and the Hells.

As it is important for students of Oahspe to not-t
lt~ teachings in regard to Gods and Goddesses, equally
so is it to note what is said of !leavens and Hells.
The old "orthodox" ideas of one heaven and its
an thropon1orphic God, its suggestion:3 of everlasting
tnonotony, and of one hell of eternal torments is utterly
exploded Ly Oahspe. There are n1yriads of Gods and
Goddesses, and 1nyriads of heavens wherein t.hey rule. No
monotony but \VORK , in which the spidts of men can
delight. A life of uplifting ot.hers, and of being uplifted:
an<l so an eternal progre~8ion for ALL. Heaven is order,
organisation, love, peace, and joy. Hell, is disorder,
confu~ion, antuchy: hate, discord and 1nisery.
Swedenborg says, every heaven has i~ opposi"U1
helL This is not only conceivable, but rational, for every
virtue nnd truth has its opposite vice and falsity.
'l'he follo·wing quotation from Oahspe ,\'ill be found
in t.he Book of Osiris, Chapt. 'VII., page 162. It is so
beautiful t.hut it is hoped it \Yill, in conjunction with
what has been said about. the Ether of Space (See
"Harbinger~" for April an<l :\.fay, 1911), serve to throw
a new light upon the iinport.ant questions of heaven and
hell.
"\\'ho shall tell the glory of the Gods of heaven!
Their mighty kingd01ns overspreading the whole earth I
IInnclred::: nn<1 lnm<1rec1~, nu(1 thousands I their librarie~ Ii
of records of holy and valorous deeds! A council charnber
of half a tnillion souls I Hundreds of departments,

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thousands! Here a board to select. young students to t.he

colleges of 1nessengers. .Another board to select students to
the colleges of art~ . .Another to seleet stu<.leu~ to Jnathet na-
tics. Another for prophecy. Another for great learning.
Another for factorie;:;. Another for compouuding and
dissolving the elc111ents. Then oome the clepartlJlents of
the cos1nogony of the stars ; then of t.lw ethereal \Yo rids;
then the roadway:s of the firmmn ent ; t.hen a'ji and ji'ya ,
and nebulae; then Se'mu ; Lhen I Ii 'dnn; then the dawn
of Dau; then hi:stories of corporeal affairs, and of the
affairs of the heavens far and near ; then genealogy of
thousands, of Orion Chiefs ; t.hc creation of 1nineral
vegetable, and animal kingdon1s. Yea, hut to enumerat.e
the half of \\'hat c01neth before a God and his Council
would itself fill a book. \Vho, then, 0 Jehovih, shall
venture to tell the labour and wisdon1 of Thv ., etherean
Gods! IIow shall the second resurrection give up its
mysteries? Shall 'I'hy recorder follow the young student
for n1essenger, and disclose the training put upon him?
"How like a carrier cloYe he is tnught to go frotn
place to place, but holding the 1nessage 1n his head?
Then follow the student in another departn1ent, and 1nake
a record of how he is taught? And of the 1nultitude of
questions that come before the coun(·il frorn far-off places.
Then the rites and cereu10nies, and the unending \·ariety
and 1nagnificence of the u1usic. Cnn a man describe a
1nillion 1nen and 'ro1nen and children? .A. hundred
million I A thousand 1nillion I Fh·e thousand n1illion I
\Yho hath seen so great a man to do thi~? And yet thi8
i~ bnt Thy lower heaven, 0 J ebovih I .\ strange voice

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nseth up from the earth, saying :-Have they anything
to do in heaven? 0, ye Gods l And one half of t.he
earth-born coming hither in infancy! And the countless
millions who know little more than the beasts of the
field l To be falsely taught that. these unfortunates would
skip off to paradise and possess great learning in the
hour of death! 0, that their understanding could be
opened up to Thy kingdo1ns, 'I'hou All-extending Creator I
That their eyes could look upon the greatness of even
Thy lo\Yer heaven! 'fo behold a thou2und departments
reaching as wide as the earth! And then the hundreds of
thousands of branch depart1nents, of hundreds of grades,
adapted to every soul that riseth up fr01n the earth.
"0 that they could look into the uark places ln
Atmospherea! That they could see a rnillion souls
plunged in chaos by terrible war! Crazed spirits, wild
and battling! Not. knowing they are dead l The ceaseless
toil of a million nurses and physicians, labouring day and
night with them! 0, the darkness upon the1n I 0, the
glory of Thy exalted ones! ·\Vho is there, having seen
the magnificence of Thy glories, will not bestir himself
every m01nent t.o lift up his brother, and point. the way
to Thy throne. 0, that they could see Thy swift Gods
of dawn! I-Iow they hear a hundred tongues at one

I time, and frame ans·wers to then1 all, and by a 1not.ion

of the hand, dispatch messengers to fulfil the same in
words! IIow they select officers, to know a hundred at
a glance, and know where to place then1; and t.hat every-
one shall fit his place! \Vho is there, 0 Father, can frame
I into words the proceedings of heaven, so that 1nortals

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can co1nprehend even a fraction of 'fhy great glories 1

Shall a man light a candle and say it representeth the
Sun? flow, then, shall they find the affairs of n1ortals
comparable to Thy kingdon1? 0, that they knew the
meaning of the difference betwixt all Light and the dark-
ness of 1nan's judgtnent! 0, that they knew THEE,
Thou Central Sun of all LIGl-I'l' I 'rhey have put away
Thy Person, and they go in any direction. T'hy great
Gods are but. 1nyths to the1n, because of the darkness of
their souls. Behold, they look for a small man with a
large sword! rrhe power of great wisdOin they know not.
That they c.ould behold the cOining and going of
thousands of 1nessengers, fro1n far-off kingdon1s, before
the throne of Thy God l
"How ho bath answered their matters suddenly ! And
the while heeded the \'oices of a thousand n1arsbals I 0,
thr..~ man knew the glory of Order I The power of
Harn1ony! They have seen a clock with a hundred
wheels, and the eye of its 1naker overseeing its every part
in motion, and t.hey call it wonderful! But how can they
know Thy councils, 0 Jehovih? 'l'hy millions? And
Thy God on his t.hrone, 1nantled in Thy Light, overseeing
a whole hea-ven! \Yhat 1najesty of words can make
1nortals comprehend his wisdom, and po·wer, and great
labours I"
Glossa.ry for the foregoing:- I
A'JI - - First degree of condensation of an
Atmospberean \Vorld.
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AT~IOSPHEREA The et.h en c w orld~ near to the earth;
the lo\\·er h eaven ~, the nearest
Leing carried round with its ro-
tation.
SE')IU Jelly-fish. Gl'een scum. ( Qy; Pro-
toplasul, Leginn.ings of life'?)
HI'DAN Highest Light..
DAN R egion of Light.
Da wn of DAN Uouun ence1ucn t of a Light Cycle.
Several of these periods are
described 111 the pns:-:age of the
Solar Phalan x thro ug h the Ether-
can Ilea\·ens during the past
24,000 years. These heavens are
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false Religions.
l n t.his age of criticisn1 wheu the foundations of every •
cult are being subjected to the test of 1nost rigid investi~
gation, it is well to ren1ember that, whatever the result
of such criticis1n 1nay be, it cannot touch the great and
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abiding rcali ties of the Spirit. 'V'hcn Christianity is put
under the lens, it is not the divine ethics of Jesus of
Nazareth that arc assailed, but the travesty of them M
evidenced in the aggressive ecclesiasticisins of to-day which
have obscured the light that illuminates, not only the
p ages of the Gospels, but the t€achings of every true son
of God. Egyptologists are continually finding parallel
ethical passages in t.h e Book of the Dead. buried for age.s
before the Christian Era, even passages that are found
in Jesus' serrnon on the :Mount. Thi~ does not detract
from the Yalne of the teachin .g. but. shows that The
Infinite God, our Fnt.her, has never left Jiimself without
n. witness, and that inspiration 1s universal. As Dr.
Silvanus P. Thompson says, as quoted in t.he July " Har-
binger of Light'' :-(Cif all our Churches were pulled down~
if all our creeds were blown to t.h e four quarters of the
earth, if all our Bibles were unfortunately burnt, there
would still remain t.hat which was the real and one
essential thing-without which Churches and Bibles and
Creeds were simply worthless-there wonlrl r emain God
Almighty in ! l eaven and the human soul , and God could
re-veal Himself directly if }Te chose .. "
Bnt the world has been in the past., nnd now is, full
of fal~e religions. If Anyone doubts this assertion, it. is

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prove it. The devotee of any cult will always 1nost
stoutly maintain t.hat his system is the true one, and all
others n1ore or less erroneous; and this, even with only
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shades of differences in the sa1ne cults. Can they all be 11

right; or rattler, can any of them be true? The rat.ional •

an~'yer to the question is that none can be en'tirely true,
while all 1nay hold son1e germs of t.ruth, so sinot.hered
up and obscured by the creeds and traditions of men as to
be aln1ost indiscernible, and to have been so perverted as
to ha,·e lost all their original significance and meaning.
Now, Oahspe boldly states that the world has been
don1inat.ed by j'ou1· great false syste1ns of religion . 'rhat
there 1nay be no n1isunderstanding of this we will quote
fron1 the book; but to economise space, a portion 1nay be
abridged.
The opening chapter in the book describes a series
of eras after the creation of n1an: and after the third
era of developn1en t., it says: - "In that san1e tin1e the
BEAST (Self) rose up before n1an, and spake to him,
saying :-'Possess thou whatsoever thou wilt, for all things
are thine, and are good for thee.' And n1an obeyed the
Beast; and \Yar cmne into the world. This was the fourth
era. And 1nan was sick at heart, and he called out to the
Beast1 saying : -'Thou said est: Possess thyself of all things,
for they nrc good for thee. Now, behold, war and death
have encompassed me about on all sides. T pray thee,
therefore, teach me peace!' But the Beast said :-'Think
not I am come to send peace on the earth. I come
not to send peace, but a sword. I come to set man at

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vanance against h is fat.her: and a daughter against her

mother. \Yhatsoever thou findest to eat, be it fish or
flesh, eat thou thereof, taking no thought of to-morrow. '
And 1nan ate fis h and fiesh, becoming carnivorous, and
darkness came upon him, neither yet heard he the voice
of J ehovih, nor believed in Him. Thi:s was the fifth era.
"And the Beast divided itself into four great heads,
and possessed the earth about~ and n1en fell down and
worshipped them. And the names of the h eads of the
Beast were, Brahmin, Buddhist, Christian, and :\lohau1-
1nedan. And they divided the earth, and apportioned it
between then1selves, choosing soldiers and standing armies
for the 1naintenancc of th eir earthly aggrandisement. And
the Brahrnins had seven million soldiers; the Buddhists
twenty n1illion ; the Christians seven 1nillion; and
the l\lohammcdans t"·o million , whose trade was killing
man.
HAnd man in the service of the Beast, gave one sixth
of his life and his labour to war and standing armies;
and one third of his life he gave to dissipation and
drunkenness. This was the sixth era. J eh ovih called
to man to desist fron1 evil; but man heard Him not.
For the coming of the Beast had changed man's flesh,
so that his soul was hid as if in a cloud, and he loved
sin. J ehovih called unto His angels in heaven, saying:-
'Go ye down t.o the earth once more to n1an, whom I
created to inhabit the earth and enjoy it, and say ye
to man: thus snith J ehovih: Behold the seventh era is
at hand. Thy Creator commandeth thy ch ange from a
carnivorous 1nan of contention to an herbivorous man·
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"The four he~1ds of the Beast ~hall be put away; and

j war shall be no 1nore on the earLh . Thy ar1nies shall be
l rlisbandecl. And from this time forth, vd1osoever desireth
1 not to war: thou shalt not irnpress; for it is the command-
rnent of thy Creator. Neither shalt thou have any God,
nor Lord, nor Saviour, but only thy Creator, Jehovih I
Ilim onl~r shalt thou worship henceforth forever. I a1n
sufficicnL nnto ~line 0\\'11 creation~ . . . . And the angels
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of he:1xen llescended to the earth to 1nan, and appeared
before him. face to face, hundreds of thousands of the1n,
speaking as man !3peaket.h: and writing as man writeth,
teaching these t.hings of .JehoYih and Ilis works. And in
the thirty-third year thereof (the I{osn1on era ) the
Ernbasc:adors of the angel hosts of heaven, prepared and
revealed unto 1nan in the name of .T ehovih, His Heavenly
Kingcl01ns: and have t.hus herein tnade known the plan
of IIis delightful creations, for the resurrection of the
peoples of t.hc rartl1. Not INFALLIBLE is this book,
OAHSPE; but to tca.ch n1ortals 1-IO\Y TO ATTAI~ TO
I-IRAR TIIE CR.EATOR'S VOICE, and TO SEE HIS
REA YENS. in full consciousness, whilst still living on
t.hc earth; and to knov~T of a truth the place and condition
awaiting them after death. Neit.her are, nor were, the
revelations within this OAHSPE wholly new to n1ortals.
The same things haYe been revealed at the Saine time
unto many, who live at remote distance~ from one another,
but who were not. in correspondence till afterwards.
Because t.his light is thus comprehensive, en1bracing
corporeal and spiritual things, it is called the beginning
of the J{osn1on Era. And because it relates to earth, sky.
and spirit, it is called OAHSPE."

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The fir~t.thing t..o note tu this retuarkable utterance is

that, at n certain ::;tagc of tuau ~ de\·clo}Jment wbat i~ called
the "Beust'' aro:-e \\it bin him. This Beast is the Selfhood,
the prineiple of e\·il, a~ opposed t.o the principle of good~
t.he divine spark of Conscience. It JS Paul's "Carnal-
mind,'' which is "not ~ubject. to the law of God, neither
indeed can he.'' \\rhy't Because God's Law is Lo\·e.
The next point to note is how the Beast ::peedily
brought di~cord and war into the life of man; und
falsit.1es in the shape of pen·erterl truths, or false religions;
and wnr 111 the name of religion became a sanctioned
t.hing. If anyone doubts thi:s: let hiHl read the hi~tories
of the Crn~ades, which for 17G years devastated the world;
Christians against. ~loslems; ~Ioslem::; again~t Chri~t.ians.
Thus the world continued, and still is anning to the
teeth; Xation again~t Katiou. But. Oahspe rleclart>~ that.,
in this Kosmon Era, this state of things is t.o be abolished.
The Kosmon Era commenced about t.he year 1848, that
1nemorablc year of remarkable upheaYab 1n the social
and political world~. In this year also occurred those
"Roche:-\ter l{nockings" ._ "·hich rreated 8uch a furore, and
1nay be ralled the commencement of n·hat is termed
'' ~Iodcrn Spirituali-=n1. '' Since that time thP ·'angels of
heaYen haYe descen cled to the (larth, to 1nan, and appeared
before hint face to face. " ns predicted. It IS to this
wonderful eruption of spirit forces that we n1ay
nttribnte the great changes in religious ideas, and the
general desire to enter i11to peaceful relat.ions that is to
be ob.served in ever increasing ratio since 1848.
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of the book, as throughout th e whole of it war is 1nade
a sort of test of falsit.y in religion, for it is the direct
consequence of the rule of the Beast, instead of the rule
of Love.
The Christian Religion, if we n1ay accept the histories
as we have t.hem in the Synoptics, was heralded by the
angel song of "Peace on eurth, and goodwill towards
men."
Jesus of Nazareth, according to the same authority,
said: uBlessed are the Peacemakers, for they shall be
called the children of God," and, "If a man smite thee
on the right cheek, turn t.o hin1 the other also," and again,
" agree "·it.h thine adversary quickly, whilst thou art in
the way with him .'' The whole spirit of the ostensible
founder of Christian Religion, is Peace. If then \var be
an attribute of a false religion, how can Christianity as
a system set up a claim for truth? The whole of the
Christian 'Vorld is at the present. 1noment engaged in the
invention of the deadliest engines of destruction the
world has ever seen, each one vieing with the other for
suprmnacy.
Oahspe makes no special attack on Christianity. It
is simply grouped with three other great syste1ns as one
of a class of false religions, having certain qualities in
common. Instead, then, of ignoring or ridiculing the
e;tatement, it should be cahuly investigated with the
view of arriving at trut h ; for the truth concerns us all,
·whatever be our creed.
At the beginning of this paper it was said that,
probably, a substratum of truth ran t.hrough all these

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false sy::,ll.:nb of religion. and il i::; a matter of ckep lllt.ere.")t

t<> try nnd di:::cover \vhat that truth i::;. It JllU~t be simple, 1
because it tnusl be universal. Throughout the age:; from
tin1e to time have ever been given heaven-sent n1c~~cngers
for the purpo~e of guiding poor humanity, and opening
its expanding intelligence to a perception of ~piritual ~~
things.
Such heayen-sen t 1nes~enger~ were Zarat.hustra
(Zoroaster) , Abram, ~loses, .T esus and othe r~ ; who~e
tnission wns to put truth, philosophy and ethics into the
world in a. nutnner suited to the genius anrl character of
t.he peoples to wh01n they were sent. A study of the
teachings of these Lights will reveal the fad that, the
essential tcnching has always been, The onene:::-: of .Jehovih,
I I is Fatherhood and the Brotherhood of ~I nn.
This is simple and un iversal. A child can understand
it. I t em braces the whole of a true religion. They are
the basic truths in all religions, though ~mot.hcred and
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False Gods and False Heavens.
To the Christian n1ind accuston1ed to the idea of
one God (the Supren1e), and one hea-ren (the highest),
t.he abo-re heading '"rill appear paradoxical; but it is not
really so. The idea of a false nod itnplies the idea of a
false heaven where he rules.
Swedenborg talks of (•false heaYens," anJ explains
the paradox by ~aying that, from all cults there are con-
tinually passing into the spiritual world host.- of spirits,
who are right in their genuine goodness of life, but wrong
in their intellectual conceptions about their religion. .A.ll
such pass in to a heaven of their own, and are happy ;
but it is not a true hea\'en, for to constitute a true heaven,
the spirits inhabiting it must be right in their goodness,
and right in their intellectual conceptions of trl1th. I n
other Trords, the love and the intelligence must be con-
joined. Love and \Yi1l1nust har1nonise ·with \\.,.isdoin and
Truth. Swedenborg further states that all thc~e spirits
are visited by spirits fron1 true heaven~. and are instructed.
~!any who have open and receptive tninds soon receiYe
the truths pres en ted, abandon their false iclen:::, and pass
into higher heayens; others, who are bigoted in their
beliefs, cannot be touched for a ti1ne, and just remain
where they were until they can receive truth: it. tnay be
for centuries, but all must eventually be brought intD
harmony.
This pre~cntation of a false h eaven is conceivable-
we have in the religious communities of earth something
quite analogous.

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Oahspe presents a somewhat Jifferent idea. Though

Swedenborg's uefmition may ~till apply, the origin of
the falso h rrwen s see1ns to base been false Gods "ho set
themselves up as bein g t.he infinite Creator, .) ehovih,
which, of course, t.hey \\'ere 11ot; haYing Leen thetnselves
at one time tnortal. Thus \\ e hare histories of fow· false
Gods presenlcd-Enn och issa, Kabalactes, Thoth, ancl
Looeamong, heing re::pecti\ ely the 1nspuers of the four
false systt!lHS of Brahminism. Buddhistu, Christianity,
and ~Iohammedanism; and the Rulers in the fal~e heavens
of the earth.
lt is Looean1ong as the falsifier of: or rather, inventor
of, the theological system called Chri:-.tianit.y w1th whotn
we shall have to rlo in these papers, because this systen1,
which 1s lauded as the only true system, has overrun
the western ·world, and affects ourselves mo~t n early It
is noteworthy that three of these false Gods were T'riunes.
and entered into a con federacy in oppo~ition to .Jehovih.
As a matter of course, the~· all ea me to grief; I ~ave been
brought to judgtnent and sentenced , but we cannot. at
pr~cnt enter into this. It is the intention fir~t. t() try
and show h ow Oahspe explains th e origin of the svsten1
under which we lh·c, and in what its fal~ity con~ists.
It is the comn1on bcli<'f that Christianity, n~ we haYe
it now, con11nenced wit.h .J esus of Nazareth in Palestine.
This i~ a great error. It conunenced under Emperor Con-
stantine. and the Couu cil of ~ice iu A. D. :ii5. ff we
searc.h the pure ancl ~imple t eaching~ of J esu~. we cannot.
find anything of the complex theological tlortrines pro-
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religion i~ ~umu1cd up Ul t.hc ut.terauce "Thou ~halt
love the Lurd, thy God, with all thy heart , an<l with
all thy ~oul, and with all thy 1nind. This is the first
and great. cotn1twndn1ent. And t.hc second is like unto it:
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ': and as though
to en1phasise t.he complete sufficiency of this. he ad<lcd:
"On thc'-e two commandmen ts hang all t.he law and the
prophct5.''
This teaching is in perfec t accord with that of
Zarnthust.rn, :Jloses, and other heavcn ·sen t mc;.;scngcrs of
previous ngc;-:; but where in all these can "·c find anything
about Three C~ods in Oue) and One in Three, and Vicarious
Sacrifice?
.J c~u:-: never taught it. It ca1ne into our theological
fystetn wit h Con;--tantinc and the' Council of ~ice, and as
,,jll be pre~c ntly ~een from Onh;:;pe, under t.lw in::-pirat.ion
of the false God Looeanwng, who had assumed the name
or title of 1\]~ISTE, which nwan~ ALL Kn o,de(lge. In
this \Yas hi~ ~ill n11d fahdty: he claimed an attribute which I
belongs to .Jehovih alono-Omn iseience.
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i In the c·on ~ideration of t.h is ~ubj ect of false Gods
and fabe ht\aYcn~, the sugge;--tion oecur~. n~ to \Yhy the
Infinite o,·cr R uler of all permit~ th e~c high aud po\Yerful
J ~pirits to go wrong. Th e answer to the query would seem
to be in t.hc fact t.hat the InfiniL(\ Father, .Jeho,·ib, has
placed all IIi~ intelligent creatures, tnan and ~pirit-111an ,
hl}v;ever mtwh advance<1, in PERFECT FREEDO:JI.
IIenc·e, OC'ca~ionally, ndYnnccd spirits, bei ng led by a ~ph·it .c
of Selfhoo(l. go a~tray: for perfection can be predicated I
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absolute freedo1n IS an essen t.ial for progressiOn.

Looeamong erred. l-Ie had to run his course, 1nake
miserable failure, be brought to judgtnent and sentenced
-as with all of us. In illustration, the Book of the wars
against Jehovih has tho following: Chapt. XVII. :-"God
the Ruler of the h:eavcns of the earth, thus bewailed
because of falsity in his kingdon1-"Grcat J chovih, how
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have I failed in Thy Kingdom. Behold, Thou gavest
into 1ny keeping the earth and her heavens, and they
haYe gone astray!' J ehovih said: 1Bchold tlw plan of
~Iy government, which is to c01ne against nothing in
heaven or earth; to seize nothing by the head and turn
it round by violence t() go t.he other way. Though I am
the pmYer that created then1, and a1n the Ever-Present that
moveth thmn along, I gave to them to be Gods like
~fyself, wit.h liberty to find their own direction."
This question of all being placed in perfect liberty
cannot be too strongly impressed, because it gives the
key to the unlocking of what seems otherwise inexplicable. I
"I-Iearken to the wisdon1 of your Creator, 0 )Iy sons and
daughters. \Vherein haYe I not g1ven liberty to all
people? lie that cloeth a right, wherein is he not free?
l-Ie that docth a wrong, wherein hath he liberty? 'Yho-
ever endeavouretb to surpa~::: hin1self, have I not shown
hin1 his limit? I created 111an at zero, but for him to
add to hin1self forever. Liberty I g~we hitn t() add only
that "·hich pcrfecteth his own soul. " ' herefore, if he 1
eat poison, it taketh fron1 hin1 his body ~rhich I gave. f
Herein tnade I a boundary, both on earth and in heaven,
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II w1~dom, patience, love, truth, and pure \\'ords, he is free ;
because in so uoing, he followeth l\le in ~ly works. But
he that- seeketh t.o glorify hin1~elf in his posiSessions
l bindeth hin1self; because he is unlike ~Ie, for 1 gaYe ALL,
and thus 1nade the uniYerse. rl\ro st.ates, therefore, have
I created open to all men, both on earth and in
Atmo;;;pherca, "·hich are liberty and bondage. \ud uuu14

I 1nade to choose that. which he will; but that he might

noL err, behold, I send 1\iy en1ancipatcd angels to explain
these things beforehand.n ( Oah., page 102, 1 to 3.)
Again :-··Liberty, first of all, untu all people; then dis-
cipline ancl hannony, and theu the i1nproven1cn t. of all
the talents 1 creat-ed with all.'' (Oah., 730, 11.)
Jehovih hath said :-~·Even to them thaL rhoose dark-
ness and evil have I giYen liberty abo; for they shall
learn by experience, in ti1ne to con1c, that. all these guides
and leaders, be they kings, or gods, or lords, or saviours,
are but snares fron1 \\·born soon or late, they tnust turn
in order to rise out of the hells they have built for others.
For, becau:3e they put ..Me afar off, or denied ~ly Person,
or called l\le void like t.he wind, 1 cut them not off; buL
they cut thetnselves off from .\le, and thus fell into tor-
ments. For I am as near to the corpore~u1 ( n1an of
flesh) as to t.he cs'sean ( spirit~nuu1) : let t.hetn disown
their kings and gods, and wh01nsoever hat.h a kingdom

! to glorify: and they shall espouse :;\1e, for 1 an1 eYer

present. For this, all people shall do, either on earth
or jn hca ven. ,jly kingdoms are not by violence or by
II war, but by liberty to every soul; and who~o pract.iseth
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453, 9, 10.)
Jehovih saith :-''Because I gave thee liberty, thou
art responsible for all thou art , and for all thou makest
thyself, and for all that shall come of thee, and for thy
peace ancl happin ess, both in this world and the next."
Thc~c pa~~ages, jf carefully st.udied, show that. per-
fect liberty for all is the Infinite Father's Order; that it
is a necessary clemen t in the spiritual progre:--~ion of His
creature wan , and that it in1poses a responsibility on hin1
that he cannot e~cape. ~1oreover, it offers a sufficient
explanation of why both 1nen and gods go wrong when-
ever, 1n their freedon1, they listen to the inherent devil
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Jesus of Nazareth.
lt is thought and said by 1nany that Oahspe wants
to "get rid'' of the Christ. If Jesus of Nazareth be the
Christ this is a false assertion, because, in its pages we
have a fuller account of .John or .Jesus than we get in
our New Tcstan1ent. There is nothing, indeed, about an
immaculate conception, but there is an interesting account
of how Jesus was specially fitted, by f:pirit power and
control, for a special work; that \York being the restor-
ation of the old trut.hs formerly given to the Israelites,
and which had become partially lost, or at least, perverted
and fal~ified. It will be best to make a somewhat lengthy
i quotation in elucidation of this very interesting subject ;
premising only the following note of explanation to
enable the reader to understand what is said. In the
spiritual or etheric worlds th ere are, it would seem, a class
of angels or spirits whose special business it is to supervise,
order, and arrange the generation of men upon earth,
probably, for the purpose of continually i1nproving or
evolYing higher grades of the race. Occa~ionally when
a heaven-~cnt Ines;::enger is needed upon earth; these
angels are comtnissioned to raise a man who is fitted to
hear the l oice ,· that is a sensitive with what we to-day
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call remarkable mediu1niatic powers, and which Oahspe

call:5 "Sn'is/' and "Sar'gis," that. is clarYoyance, clair-
audience. und materialisat.ion of :-:pirit fonn. (Oah., Book
of Eskra, Chap., XLII.) "God, Jehovih's son, was wise
above all these trials; for he h ad the light of Jehovih's
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how 1nuch farther ahead are the plan-., laid out by

J eh ovih's sons, than by his en ernie::. Becau::e Pharaoh
pcr~ecuted the lsraelitc~, !\loses put a cur::;e upon Pharaoh.
Now, after hundreds of year;:: in the lower heaven:::, behold,
P haraoh was cast in t.o hell, and then in to chaos, and none
but ~loses could deliver hiu1, n::; hath been previously
described. So, ,jlo~cs descended from the higher hea\'en~
and delivered Pharaoh, aucl he prO\·idcd Pharaoh a new
na1ne, l ilac~, and ::cnt hitn back to the <.'nrth to labour with
the braelitc::;, in order to fulfil hi~ ~h o rt1 c:::b in righteous
work~. Illaee, therefore. hccmnc n \\ illing \'Olnnteer, and
1nany angels with hhn. ..\.nd t.he::e angel~ inspired seven
hundred Israelites to separate them::ehe:: from all other
people, and to go and live by direction of the angel::; of
J ehovih. ~loreoYer, the angel~ in:: pi red tbe:::e people to
call t.hetnseh·es Es'eans ( Essenes) as cotnmanded by ~loses
m heaven. 'fhesc E::;'eans were, therefore, a separate
people, pledgct1 to Jehovih, to have no king nor earth-
ruler, save their rab'bnhs (heads of cotuntunit.ies). .And
they d'Yelt 111 conununities nnd families of t-ens and
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t.,ycn tics and hutHlred~, holdi11g all thing:: in co1nmon.
But in marriage they were monogamir: neither ·would
they have 1nore than one ~uit of clothe~ each; an{l they
lh·ed on fruit and herbs only; nor ate th<:y fish nor flesh
of anyt.hi ng that hati ever breathed the breath of life.
And they bathed every n1ortuug at. :::unn~e, and wor-
5hipped before the altar of .J ehovih, doing. in all things,
after the n1anner of the ancient Faithi~t.s . By Yirtue of
the angel hosts, who were with thetn, did they the:::e
t.hings. .\nd they held conununion with the angels of

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heaven every night before go1ng to sleep. Illaes had
said: Because T persecut.ecl the Faithists, and raised up
my hands against them and against .J ehovih, 1 \\·as
inE>tru1nental, in part, for their fall. ~ow \vill I labour
with them, to re-establish them in purity and 1ove. ...\.nd
he so laboured. And Illaes a.nd his angel hosts made
the ea1np:- of Es'eans t.heir dwelling place::-1 \Yat.ching oYer
these few Israelites day and night for hundreds of years.
Yea, \Yithout leaving t.he1n. these faithful angels guarded
them frmn all the "·arring hosts of angels belonging to the
armies of Baal and Ashtaroth : and to the Triune God,
Looea111ong, and his host~. And, though the Es'eans lh·ecl
1n great purity of body and soul, yet they "·ere evilly
slandered by the world ~s people around a1out them on
every side. But Jehovih prospered the :=eed of the Es' eans
in holiness and love for many generations. Then catne
Gafonaya~ chief of the Loo 'is, according to the conunand
nf God, to rnise up an heir to t-he voice of .TehoYih. And in
four generations more an heir was born and na n1ed Joshu
(.Jesus in Greek), an d he \Yas the child of Joseph and his
wife, ~lara, cleYout worshippers of Jehoyjh, who stood
aloof fron1 all other people. ~aYe the Es~ean:-:. And, be-
cause of the extren1e youth of j[ara. the child was of
doubtful sex: whereupon the rab'bahs ~e1id the child was
an iesu . signifying neutral.
The time of the birth of the chilO. wa::; three claYs
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the de~ccnt of a hea,·enly ship fro1n the Throne of God.
And Inany of the EE'cans look0d up ancl heheld tht~ star,
and they felt. the cokl wind of the higher heavens fall upon
the place and around about the tent, where the child was

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born. .A nd they .!aid, oue to a11other ·J ehovih remem-

bers us.''
Gafonaya, the chief angel of the Loo'i~, knew before-
hand what the birth would be, and he sent out around
about the Es'ean encampn1en ts extra guardian a11gcls: and
these notified the descending .... ho~t~ of heaven of what was
near at. hand. So the 1ne~~cngers frorn heaven t.nTicd until
after the chilJ was born, acquainting Illae.s of the ume
ahead when .Moses and Elia~. with their hf,~ts, would come
to complete the delh·erancc of the spirits of the Eguptian.s,
wh01n ~1o::es had colonised in atmospherea (hea\·ens of
the earth). Illaes said :- "Thank J chovih, I shall once
moro look upon l\1o~es' face.'' "Then the birth was con1~
pleted, the angels of heaven re-entered their star-ship and
hasten ed back to Paradise-God's hea,·enly seat.
" rhen J o~hu was grmYn up. and ready for hi~ labour,
God provided a. host of one hundred million angels to
make a line of light from his T-Ioly Council down to the
earth ; and they so tnade it. And God provided a guar-
dian host of two thousand n1illion angels to protect the
line of c01nnn1nicntion; for it was \Yar tirnes in heaven
and ectrth Then came ~[o~es from his ethcrean realn1~.
accompanied by Elias and a sufficient host; anrl he came
to Paradise, to God on the Throne, where due preparation :
had been n1nde for them. For the heaYenly kingd01ns of 1
God "·ere stirred from cent.rc to circu tnference. \rhen it was
heralded abroad that nloses and Elias "'ere coming. And
Parafli~c was like a new hem·enly city, beinJr acreded by
an influx of n1ore than a thou~nnrl 1nillion visitors for the
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And h eralds and recei,·er., ancl1nurshal:-: and musicians 1
extended every way. A whole book 1night be written on
th e glory of the occasion, "·hen that etherean ship
descended fr01n the higher heavens. Suffice it, )loses ·was
l'eccived according to tl1e cust.on1 of gods. 1\nd God said to
J\loses and Elias: (1Con1e ye, and h ononr n1y throne; and
I will proclailn a file before the throne, to be followed by
two days' recreation." Then l\Ioses and Elias went. up and
sat on the Throne of God. And God pr oclain1ed the file:
whereupon hundreds of millions, thousands of n1illions~
fil ed past th e Throne of God, that th ey rnigh t look upon
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~loses' face. And )loses stood up before them. J\1oses
said :-"I ren1ember st.anding on t.he ear th "·hilst the hosts
that came out of Egupt passed before me! G reat Jehovih,
what syn1bols of things Thou givest. And ever with a new
thrill of joy to the souL 0 Thou A ln1ighty !"
That was all he said; but so g reat was t.he love and
glory in his face as he stood on the Throne of God that
every soul that passed said :-"l\1oses, blessed son of
.Jehovih I"
And God granted two days' recreation, during which
time the ethereans n1ingled with t.h e atn1osphereans in
great delight. After that, ~foees with his hosts went to
Elaban, his colony of Eguptians who were now raised high
in the grades. A nd ~1ose~ had the1n removed to Aroqu,
where they were duly prepared and adorn ed as Brides and
Brirlegrooms of Jehovih.
And after suitable preparation, ~loses provided for
their a~cent to the Nirvanian fields of :Yiesopotamia, 1n
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After that, ~loses and his ren1aiuing hosb descended

to the earth, to I{annn:yan (Canaan), to the tribes of
Es'eans, which had been raised np by Illacs (Pharaoh).
And great \ras the meeting betwixt Illaes and ~loses.
The fonner broke down with enwt.ion . rlc said :-ccAll
praiso to Thee, 0 J ehovih! Thou hast rcmeu1bered me at
last." :\loses came to hin1, and said :-"I h ave come for
thee, 0 Nu 'ghan! I haYe a place prepared for thee and
thy hosts in tny etb erean kingdoms! Thou hast done
well! Then ~loses and his hosts drew their otcvan (ship )
down to the angel ca1np, which was ncar the camp of the
n1ortals, t.he E s'eans, and they tuade the light to fall upon
the boat.; and it caine to pass that rnany of the Es'eans
looked up and beheld the ote,·an, calling it a chariot. And
j\loses and Elias went and stood before J oshu, a nd he saw
them.
n!oses said unto him :-'c Jly son! my son I the light
of Eloih (Jehovih ) is upon thee. I srael, through thee
shall regain t.he All One, \vhich was lost. Thereupon,
n!oses and his hosts, together with Illaes and his hosts,
wont into the ote,•an, and immediately took course for
Paradise, God's heavenly seat, where they arrived in due
season. And after three days, they again entered the fire-
ship, and took course for l\loses' etherean realms.

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Jesus of Nazareth.
(No. 2.)
lt will be \Yell, at this stage, if the reader will bear i11
tnind that the interesting narr~tive of the events given in
the la:::t quotation fron1 Oalu-pc, a~ having occurred on the
earth ancl in the heavens of the earth, at the birth of J esus
of Nazareth, was giYen upon a typewriter through the
hand2 of .John Ballou Xewbrough, nud without any know-
ledge on hi..: IMrt of Yrhat '"a~ being written: also that the
matter given clahns to be a transcript from t.he libraries in
the hea\ E'll~ . Fr 0 111 its ,·ery nnture this account rnust have
ranscendecl the knowledge of the llledinn1. \\ e 1night,
then, reasonably conclude the com1nunication to be approx-
imately true ; unless, "·e fall back upon the asstunption
that a band of high-grade spirits descended to earth for no
other purpo~e than to alntbe themselves by deluding their
poor ignorant brethren in the tle~h. This would surely be
the redttrf io ad absurdtcm, for the whole ethical and
spiritual teaching of the book forbi ds such nn asstunption.
This ren1ark is n1ade because in the quotation that 1nust
follow, the "·hole truth or falsity of the doctrinal .~y~tem
of our comn1on Christianity is invoh·ed. It. therefore, be·
comes a question of accepting; or r ejecting wlwt Oahspe
ha~ to say about .Jesus of Nazareth. There arc sotne, eYen
to-day, who Ylill be renay to believe that the Deril h as
transformc(l himself into an "angel of light." and t.hat the
remarkable book \\'e are studyi ng is hi3 particular effort to
overthrow a creedal cult, which is but one among~t 1nany
b othf'r cults \\ ith cla im~ equal ly as good in the eyes of their

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devotees. Bu t, in view of the sul)lime teachings of the

book, suth an idea could have no place in the mintb of in-
telligent people. \Ve venture to think the idea nta.y be
wholly dismissed.
'rwo or three interesting points in the last quotation
1nay be noted :-"It giYc::~ an account. of the fonnation and
the na1niug of the J cwi~h sect called "E~~cncs," anJ ;,bows
that Jesus of Nazareth was both a Co1nmunist and Faith-
ist, which there is e\·cry reason for thinking his earliest
followers were also. lt ~hO\\'S that, although there i~ not the
slightest suggestion of i·m?naculate conception , nor of an
incarnated Jcho~·ih, there was yet a ~pecial preparation in
the spiritual world whereby J e!'us was fitted for special
work . and it shO\YS what that special work was. for in the
apparitional interview with ~loses and Elias, the fonner
addressed hi1n thus :-")1y son I my son! The light of
Eloih is upon thee. I:.:rad, through thee, shn ll regain the
all one, which was lost." This is dcfinjte, the mission of
Jesus was t.o restore the ancient Faith to Israel. :Xot to
be a propitiation for the sins of the whole world.
\Ve now proceed to show what Jesu~ taught, in the
following quotation, which agrees largely with the ser-
mon on the ,j{ount as recorded in ~IatthC\r : -
"God said (not Jehovih) :-'These were 1ny doctrines,
as I taught through Joshu (Jesus) :-Thou shalt keep the
Ten Conuuand1nents of ~loses. Thou shalt not engage in
war, nor abet war. Thou shalt cat no flesh of any anin1al,
or fish, or bird, or fo,d, or creeping t.hing which J ehovih
created alive. Thou shalt dwell in families ( con1munities
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held all things in connnon. 'l'hou shalt have no king nor
queen, nor bo'" d0\\'11 in worship t.o any, save thy Creator.
'rhou shalt not call on the nan1e of angels to worship
then1, nor to counsel with them on the affairs of earth.
Thou shalt love th y neighbour as thyself. and do unto thy
fellow n1an as t.hou would'st haYe him do unto thee. Thou
shalt return gooJ for eviL and pity to th en1 that sin. It
hath been ~aid :-"An eye for an eye, a toot.h for a tooth;
but I say, return good for evil. If a n1an sn1ite thee on
one cheek, turn the other unto him also . The In an shall
haYe but one wife, and the woman but one husband. As
the child!en honour the father, so will the fan1ily be blessed
with peace and plenty. Remember, that nll things arc of
.J ehoYih, and ye nrc l lis ;-;or van t~, t.o help one another.
And as n1uch as ye do t.he~e ::>c.'rvices to one an other, so
sen·e ye J ehoYih . Behold only th e ,·irtues and \Yisdom in
thy neighbour; his faults thon shalt not discoYer. I-Iis
matters are with hi~ Creator.
Call not on th e nmne of nny God or Lord 1n
wor::;hip; but \YOrship .TehoYih on ly. And when thou
prayest, let it be after this 1nanner :-Jehovih, who rulest
in heaven and earth, hallowed be Thy Name, and reverent
amongst men. Sufficient unt.o n1e is my bread, and as
much as I forgive those that trespass against 1ne, so n1ake
Thou me steadfast., to shun ternptation, for all honour and
glory are Thine, worlds without end. Amen!
To visit the sick and distressed, the helpless and blind,
and to relieve the1n; to provide for the widow and orphan,
and keep thyself unspotted before 1nen: these are the way
of redemption. Thou shalt take no part in the govern-

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tucnL of meu. Lut oLscne the will of .Jeho\'ih,

being obe<iient llll to all guvl:rntnen ts for IIi~ sake.
All n1cn arr the children of ONE Father, who
is .Jeho,·ih: and who~ot·ver choo~eth Hin1, nnd keepet.h
IIi~ co1nn'landmcnt~~ i:;; Hi~ cho~en. 'fo preserve
t.hc seed of T-1 i.~ cho~eu , thou ~halt not \\'C(l but with t.he
rhoscn. Conlenci not with any man for opinion ·s sake,
nor for any earthly thing .
. . \tH.l )(•t tit~· ·'tu•e('h lw fol' other·~ jo~·: or O!Jl"H not
t by mouth, if thy \\·ords will giYe pain. Therefore, be
con~iderate of thy ~peech: teaching other.:: by gcnt.leness
and lo\·c. to be re~rpe('tfnl toward all men. Pre~crve the
sacred day~ of the ra b'bah~; anc1 thP rite~ and <.:eren10n i(ls
(,f cmcth-achavah (the hrotherhooci of I''aithi~t~ ) . For
three year~ Joshu t.ra\·elled among~t the f:--raelites preach-
ing, and rfslo1-ing tlu· ancirnt doctrine~.
,\ nd tbrn· were gat hcrl:'<l in group;'. or l <'ll'. t \\ etllie:-,
and fift.ies, more t.han t.wo thousanci hraelite~. of the
ancient. order of ~lose~, who he<'ame :-:teadfa~t followers of
the teachings of Jo~hu. But, het:an:;e of per~ecutions, by
t.he apostate .I ews, the~· kept themseh·eg aloof front the
world, having sign:3 and pa~sword~ whereby they knew
one another. First., the God, Baal, and after him, Thoth.
inspired the kings nnd rulers against these Faithists. And
they proved t.henl by comn1anding then1 t() cat fte~h. e\·en
swine's flesh. the which, if t.hey refused. was testin10ny
sufficient before the law~, to convict them of being enetnies
against the Gods. So, t.hey \\'ere !'Courged. and put to
death, whenever found.''
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and it becon1es necessary to particularly note it., because on
the truth or othendse of the statement depends the truth
or falsity of the current Christian theological system:-
"Now, it came to pass, that Joshu went into Jer usalem
to preach, and 1n not many days thereafter he was
accused of preaching Jehovib. And he was arrested, and
whilst being carried to prison, he said: 'Ye are hypocrites
and blasphen1ers I Ye practise none of the command-
ments, but all the e\·ils of Satan. Behold, the temple shall
be rent in t~ain, and ye shall become vagabonds on the
earth.' At that the n1utlitude ca~t stones upon hin1, and
killed hin1! And J ehovih sent a chariot of fire and bore
his soul to Paradise."
There is but one co nunen t possible here. If the
above transcript from the libraries of the heavens is true,
then, Jesus of Nazareth was not crucified on Calvary, nor
can he be the san1e as the Christ of the Christian system.
Oahspe distinctly shows that he was not, but that his life
and teachings became mixed up with t.hat of the God-ma~1
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Jesus of Nazareth.
(No. 3.)
That Jesus was stoned to death in Jeru5alem, is a
staggering blow to all \\·ho have acceptet1 the hi~tory of
the crucifixion, as giYcn in the Go~pels; but coming from
such a source as it doe~ . it ought. not to be dismissed with-
out so1ne consideration, giYcn in the light of history, conl-
mon sense and present-day facts ''hich may affect or
throw light upon the question. ,,-e propose to offer a few
thoughts.
That Jesus was stoned to death in Jerusalem seems
to be far more probable than death by crucifixion. Stoning
to death is exactly what a fanactical 1nob would do in
those ti1nes when their fanaticism was assailed; it is
exactly what they did with Stephen, the l\Iartyr, under
shnilar circumstances. See Acts, Chap. vii. But more it is
recorded in John viii., ver. 59, that they actually did
take up stones to kill Jesus, but he evaded the catastrophe
by what would be called a 1niracle. The verse reads:-
n'l'hcn took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid
himself) and went out of the tetnple, going thro-ugh the
midst of them, and so passed by." This is a very singular
statement, and suggests two thoughts: one is as to whether
or not they did really kill him, but it did not suit the
compilers of the Scriptures in Constantine·~ ti1ne t.o aYow
the facl, mHl ~o t.lJey thought to gC't. rid of it. by declariug
a 1niracle of deli \·erance, and the other ia that, if Jesus

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escaped dea th by stoning through rendering h in1self
inYisible, for that i::: the inference. why should he n ot
have escaped <1eath by crucifixion iu a si1nilar 1nan n er?
ln this connexion, it \Yill be shown later h ow the canon
of Scripture \YH~ ~ett led .
Another point c.h to th(~ improbability of Jesus having
been crucified a~ narrated in our Gospeb i~ the fact that
it was tont.rary t.o Homan Law to p u t any to death on
accouut vf their religion: uor would th<· HoJtliHl ( ;oyernor
have haclpo,Yer to unt hori~e ~u(·h till <.'Xc<·utiou \\'ithout fir:-t
~ub1nitt.ing it t.o the Ron1nn En1p cror for h i:; final decision.
If we con~i<ler that., at the period of hi:::tory \Yith which we
are dealing, the R01nans \rere bu:::ily engaged conquering
th e ''hole world , and it was their poliey t.u conciliate the
nation:- Ly e\'ery means in th eir power: au d allowing all
to retain their Yariou~ Gocl:;, re ligions and rites apper-
taining, ,,·as exactly what they practi~ecl. In proof e>f
this the Pantheon at Ron1e is standing c\·idence to-day.
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This tcn1ple "·a~ built by ~larcns Agrippa. son-in-lan· of

Augu:31u;;. and wa::- consecrated to J upiter1 the Avenger)
and all the Uurl.~, iu the year '21 before .] esu::: Christ. In
th i~ ten1ple the de,·otee~ of any Cult. could worship their
own God in their own wn y. Rome troubled i tself little
3bout the religion of its subjugated peoples; but they had
th e good ~en!'c to nwke ('Once.3~ion=-< in thc:-:e n1at.ters,
t whereb~· t.hey ren der ed them more docile.
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But th e improbability we are Jiscussing becomes
more accentuated whc11 we retiect that.1 outside the Gospel
narrative~, there is ah~ol n tely no con ten1porary historical
re('orcJ of suc-h an e,·ent R~ the crucifixion of J esu8. \Ye

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are aware that Chnstian apologi:-t:-; nppeal to J o~ephus

and the "Acts of Pilate" to proYe their ca~e, but eyen if
these "·ere not discredited, it. must IJe achnittcd they would
be but a rneagre and sorry proof of the fact upon which
hangs the truth or falsity of the :so-called Christian
Heligion. Competent. ('l'itic·, 11ow con:-iclcr tlw :-hart
paragraph in Josephus to be an int erpolation, and it
would certainly pre:-seut that aspect to au unbia~~ed reader
of the pas::!age. "~e gtYe it 111 full wit.h the impartial
historian ~s comment5. The quotation 1s from the
"lii:storiaus· liif'tory of the \rorlfl,'' an(l it i~! prol>tlbly, t>ne
of the n1ost impartial historief! published. II istorie~, and
especially Church histories, ha\·c been fearfully garbled
and tampered with in the in lerest~ of some cherished
religious ideas, such, for instance, as t.he doctrine of the
Trinitv.
"
The hi~torian says: .. This en~nt (the crucifixion of
Jesus) which divides the hi8tory of the world 1n two,
passed unmarked by the generation that witnessed it.. The
five or six lillc:; which we find in .Joscphu~ appear to be
nn intn·poluti,;?l. If JrMr11lnu~ had h(.,;f'L't d, <l:- tl,r pn:-:-"nge
states, that .J es u~ was the ~Jr~siah. uud t.hat he was more
than }tlW! J it i:' obYions that , in~tead of remaining a Jew,
he would have become a C'hri~tinn... The excerpt fron1
.Jo::-cphu:-: i~ a;-; follon·~:-"~ J\r thert· \\':\:- :.l,. )u~ thi~ tinw,
.Tcsus, a wi.::e n1an. if it be lmYful to <'all hiu1 a man, for
he wa~ a doer of wonderful works-a tench~r of such n1en
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ns receive the truth with plca~nre. I Ie dre'' oYer to hin1
both n1any of the Jews, and many of the Gentiles. He
was (the) Chri~t: and when Pilate, at the suggestion of I
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t.he principal 1nen an1ongst us, had condemned him t.o
the cros:5, those that loved hin1 aL the first did not forsake
hhn, for he appeared to thcn1 aliYe again t.he third day,
a::s tho divine prophet~ had foretold these and ten thousand
other wonderful things concerning h]m: and the tribe
of Chrhtians, so named from hiin, are not extinct at
this day.~' NoYr co1nes the co1n1nent of t.he historian. He
proceeds thus : -
As has just been said, this paragraph is probably
an interpolation of a copyist of a much later period. It
would ~ee1n, then, that no contemporary record, no
mention eve·n, of th e life of Jesus has been preserved
to us. This is one of the rrwst striking paradoxes in all
histol'y. As a general rule, it n1ay be taken for granted
that the great nan1es in history are achievecl during the
life of thei1· beaTe?'s. But here, ~peaking purely fro1n the
stand-point of the historian, was an obscure personage,
who.se entire theatre of action, so far as known, consisted
of the pdly State of Palestine, at that tim e one of the
?ninm· dependencies of Rome. Tho period of activity of
thi:- personage as an historical character compa$ses but
a jew yem·B; and it wou1d appear that during hi$ life his
deeds '\Yere pt(lctica lly Ut~known &eyoncl the bounds of
the pr·tty State 111 which he livu<l. Yt:)t the historical
re~ult of thef.:o activities was 1nore 1nomentous, even fro1n
a strictly secular stand-point, than the deeds of any othe.r
character of hist.ory. A new era~ recognised by the chief
civilisations of the world, dates fron1 his birth: and whole
libraries of literature are devoted to every aspect of his
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records. There 1s no occa5ion to chronicle here the

incidents of the life of J c~u:::. To eYcry reader of these
pages thc;::,e iuc1<1ents hare bClu familiar fron1 childhood.
As thoro is no coHlnoporrlt'y .~.ww·rc t.o quote, at best we
could but 7>ura.phrase the scriplt~ral accounts, to which
every reader n1ay turn for him~elf . n
\\" e said before that the "Act:: of Pilate·· arc unreliable.
They profe~~ to be an account of the death of .Je,us sent
uy t.he Procurator to the En1peror Tibcriu~. But the
imprubnbility of thb being true i:- that the condemnation
to death of Je~u::: "·as beyond hi~ legal po\\'er~J and he
would hardly ~end a n1issiYe to the Emperor which ,,.ould
proclaim hi~ O\Yll defection from the Ro1nan La\YS.
Chambers~ En<'ycloperhn hn;-; the following, \Yhich bears
out the as~vrtiiJn of unreliability:-
"Pilate 1~ said by .Justin ~lartyr, 'fertullian, and
Eusebius to have forwnrdeu to Tibcrius for hi:::- own justi-
fication, an account of the jndgn1ent. of .Je:3u~. but the so-
called ''Rcpui't," and ''Acts of Pi lair/' as well t1::i the two
IdLer:' of Pilat e to Tiberius, have 1W clai?n to authority.'}
There can Lc but little doubt, if any, that there has
been fearful destruct.ion of true record::;, and fearful
distortion of \rhat rc1nain of all documen tc relating to
Christianity. Perhap~, this \\'a~ iueYitable In 5uch a
stupendous utovemeut a~ the trun:--ition of the pagani~m
of R01ne to the Christ.iauity of Home. lt \\ ould be well
if all Etudents of Ouhspe would abo ~tndy the little book,
' 0rigiu3 of Christ.inn ity. '' It can be gut fro1n Cole. of the
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Book Arcade, ~lelbourne. Thi~ little Look "·a~ rccen t.ly

publi~hcd in .L\nstralia by the writer of the~e Onh~pian

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papers, after getting pernn;:;swH of the copyright holder
1n Anwrica: and he did ~o for further confirmation of t.h c
stat.enwnls therein made. It i~ not a little remarkable
that Oahspe waR giYen through the medium5h1p of ~[r.
J. B. ~ewbrough, 1n 1881, or thereabout. and t.he little

I 'rork, ~:Origins of Christianity.·· \\'H~ g1Ycn about 1882,

through the mediunwhip of a prin1te gen t.leman, "·ho is
::;till aliYe . but. de8irer; to re111ain in<.:ognito, and both Yrerc
giYen at. place~ wide apart. in America, an<l unknown to
~·aeh otlwr. The t\n) Look~ are, therefore, <.:OllieluporaneousJ
and while Oah~J>e Jenb nwre part.icnlarly "·ith \Yhat 'vas
occutTUlg 111 t.he heaYen s of t.hc· earth. in re1at.iou to the
establi~hn1en t of Chrif:tinnity 111 plate of Pagu ni~n1, the
other little l>ook (1c.'ab with 1he enrth·, dc!\'c-'lPpntt•nt~. and
~bows the p:uts played by Lhe pagan prie~t~ Rnd others,
by their own confes:;ions.
The following is a shorL quotation from the statetnent
of Saint . .\mbrosc: - "\\'" e changed the Empire from
Paganisrn lo ChriEliauit.y. and. t.h rough our po\\'er 1n the
Church, ha,·e goYernefl, and f;t.ill govern_, the Christian
world. 'Ye clccciveo t.o ol>t.ain this }'ower, but what of
t.hat? Elllperors nncl King~ clccein'. au<l yet the \rorld
obey:J. \Ye arc greater than they, for they obey ns. \Yhy
~hould \YC refu;:;.e lo wield thi:-:: power oYer the conscience
when it is ~o 0asily extorted for goocl '! The 1nasseti knew
no1hing in lL1)' time, and they know nothing no"·· \Yhy
~lwultl they be in:-;t.rnctefl? I prote~t against being
t·u ulpdlnl to r--ay 1norc. L helped, indeed, to change t.he
record:-:, but why do you drag me here against n1y will?
l!nnnot ~·ou ::co t.h:tt we tli<l wh8t \ni~ Lest for the world?

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J <·su:; is better than .Jupiter, aud .\lar,\· is bclt.cr thun Venus.

1 will not !:iay uwre, even though Y £1~pasian himself should
detnand it.''
lt is (·heeriug to be able t.o say lhaL, latrr , thi~ haughty
and rccal<:itrant ~pirit 1nadc full confcs~ iou, nnd found
hirusclf goiug up ill grade of ~pirit life a:- a cou::cquence.

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Jesus of Nazareth.
(No. 4.)
The staten1ent made by Oahspe that. Jesus of
Nazareth \vas stoned to death 111 Jerusale1n, if true, Is
so far reaching, and so fa tal to theological~ creedal, and
doctrinal Christianity. that anything thnt can throw light
upon the su1ject should Lc ,,·e)eonwrl by all \vho wish
to sift out. the truth. In the former paper on this subject,
son1e good aud Yalid reason~ were giYen \Yhy thi~ account.
of the death of Jesus ~ee1n~ to be far 1nore probable than
that of his crucifixio11. Since giving t.hese, another state-
ment to the same effecl comes fro111 an nnexpe<:t.ed source.
A little book, called "Illm11inated Brah1ninism,''
'"·hich was published In An1crica. IF a c01nmunication
fron1 the ~pi.rit of the Great Brahtna, Ranga Hilyod,
given through the Faraday mediun1, the smne through
\\'hOJn cmne the confessions cont.ained 1n the book,
" Origins of Christianity:·' before referred to. The
immediate ohjett of the Great Brahma was to recall
his own countrymen to the pure truths originally pre-
sented to lhen1 by the hea,·en-f'ent rnessengers, and which
bad becon1e corrupted. lneidentially he touches upon the
Christian Religion 1n Chapter VIII. of the book, and
the follo\Yin g passage oecnr~ :-Speaking of the I ~rnelitP~
who had~ and treasured, the tnost ancient Oriental writ-
ing:::, but. djd not comprehend their spiritual n1eaning, he
~a,·:-: :-"there were SOH1C who \YOre never ~at.ir.:fl e<l with the
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J ewi~h intcrprotat ion of the sy rnbolisn1, nor the traditional
rendering of the \\'riti ngs themselves."

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"A1uong these," he proceeds, tlwas a n1an named

Joshu, or Joshua, who was qui t~ n teacher of the lt ty"'t i c
sy1nbolisn1 upon a new basis, and he, being familiar with
the true life of the spirit, declared that the prie!ts and
scribes of the law were ignorantly g1v1ng the people
a false iu terpretation. So strenuous was he as to their
inability to interpret the writings, t.hat. he aroused their
wrath, which finally cuhninated in his death at their
hands.
"This was not the only one who had met violence
nt t.he hands of the priesthood, for so ignorant were the
hereditary rulers of the nation of the law of the spirit,
that t.hey supposed it to be impossible for any revelation
to be n1ade that. did not co1ne through their order, and
the appearance of a teacher of spiritual truths outside
of their ranks was the signal for accusation of blasphemy
against their God. Joshua, having been duly charged
with this offence, 1uus su?nmarily executed by being stoned
to death, but his word~ had n1ade son1o impression upon
~ome illiterate and obscure disciples, to wh01n he after-
wards appeared fron1 the world of spirits to confirn1 them
in his faith, and for Rt least. three generations he was
able to make his presence felt at son1c of their asseznblies.
To these ignorant followers the return of a spirit in a
\'isible for1n, or by other 1neans, was hailed as an evidence
of Divine power, and in their traditions t.hey ascribed to
him the honour of having trin1nphed over death, and
achieved a Yictory that dmnonstrat.ed hhn to be the
traditional ~Messiah. In reality Joshua had only done
what the sage$ of India lwd long before declared to be a

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COlllLHOllplae<' t1l<lllif~:4ationuf the :--piritnal \\Orl(l, Lut to
the harbarOU!:- ~a,·age~ of the \r e:"t it. ~eetned to be much
greater, and it wa:-\ not. long cr<' thoy began 1-o "orship
him i\~ a (;oct and to fonmtlate a 8Y8f~'m uf 1·r.li_qion with
,rtom,~ of his snyin.r;s fur doctrines.
··There \ra;:; another clement. that lwd much to do
I with ~haping the religious thou ght. of th e bnrbnrinn \V e~t
about the same t.ime t.hat .Jo:-:hun "·a~ (li~pnting with t.he
.T ewi ~ h hieran:hY, viz. , th e in trocluctiou of Buddhism.,
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through t.he follmYer:-; of Sakyn )l unj , \Yhn had gone from

[ndia to the \\~c~t., a~ well a~ t.o t.hc nat.ion~ near0r h01ne.
I ··These missionaries of the go;"-pcl of pearc were
warml~: \relcomefl by t.he sages of the .-.chool ... of lc·arning
in Gn~P<·c and Egypt., anfl numbered rna11~· disciple~
among the learned an d wi~c of those nation-=. In fact,
~o powcrfnl did thPy hetomc t.hat tlw wor:-:hip of tlH• nat.J Y('
deit.iP~ of tho:-;r rountrie~ bcga u to clcrllne . .~,, that the
' '
pticstlt rJ{Jd. ferui Jtff o l rdul Ol'('l'ilii '0 1f' ''f /h f'i ,· }Jfl11'r l' , sf'f
aho11t dPI'i.f{ing mfu~'iHTN; to rhrm[Jf lhe their
C.Htrf nl in
own fa, ,our, and. nr-: n ''on~oq ncn te, t.he adn1ixture of
th eory nnd t.rut.h that. hrlonp:ed to the ~y:-~tmns of t.he
followers of Joshua. and al:--o of SnkYa .\luni , was L •

ndoptrd. an(1 b ecanw the rentralreli,gion of t.hat. people.

"T he \Ve::;tern prief-:.thoocl rli1l not like to attribute
thrir worship t.o a teacher so far away a~ India,
hut they fr,ok .lrMlnw. and rhan ,r;rd his 1wme to cor-
respond with a Greek and Latin term Rignifying 'the
1ne Eternal Being.' and t.hnR labf lt>d thf' Christia.n
ll'nrlrl lw.~ f>,,t> o 1rnr.~h ippin y fr)/· f' ( 11 l lt!'ie.~ 11 f7d i f iou.~
Oorl manu fact.urecl from the lrgcncls . nnd myths ~

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of all t.he l'e ligiou"' of precedent generation~ . ~ upplc mc utR'l

by a ('Olnbination of the idea~ of two religions teaf'hcr~,
who both were d [rectly indcbt<!d to the spirit ~·orld for
what truth they knew about the world eternal.
"It is not strn11gc that the Christian world rejects the
trut.h of spiritual revelation in this age when it flashes so I
much Ii gh t upon the obscurity of it~ origin. It was the
policy of t.hc ear/71 Christian fatlu'rs to eeadr the trnth
or conceal it under a clou(l of ~pecio u ~ pretension~ , for
many knew their faith was but. a fabrication fron1 the
outsot. Nor have they ever been willing to acknowledge
their duplicity in the "·orld of ~pirit , for ~o gigantic have
been the results of their fraud upon the \\ orld, they
stand aghast at the probable ronsequenccs to the race
should their dishonesty and disgrace be known upon the
oa.rth.
" lienee, t.hey seek in all 1nnnner~ known to <1ecei ,·cr:-:
to pre,·ent a knowledge of the t.rnth reaching the earth
from the spiritual world, and , by n \Yholesale denunci-
ation of spiritual manifestations, seek to prc,·cn t the world
of 1nortals from a~ccrt ai ning the foundation of t.he dogn1as
formerly tHught n~ spiritual t.ruth by them upon earth .
" Ere l clo~e this chapter upon the nature of the
Chri~t.ian deity. [ ought to refer to one characteristic of
those followcrl: of him that i~ specially worthy of notice,
although it is not specially <'Onfined to those of hi:-: faith
alone, YlZ. , t.he great credu lity of the Inn~ses of t.hose
countries 1n accepting the diYinity of their n1an-god.
Their priesthoods arc equally ign orant of the impossibility
of tlH'ir God being born out of th (l u~unl cour~e of natnre,

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but such is their superstitious credulity, that they teach
the a vataship (a GoJ-incarnation) in this particular form
\\ith an earnestness unknown in India ~ave among the
most superstit.ious devotees of the Gods.
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'The Christian world ~t.akes its hopes of eternal
salYation upon this priestly fabrication, and teaches it
with n zenl that surpasses t.he c01nprehension of earthly
wisdom. In reality their God was born the same as other
1nortals, aud li\'erl and <lied in t.he sawe 1nanner as all
mortals woulrl under the sanw circtunstances; but the tales
t.hnt. ea111e fro111 the East thnt were but. mi::;taken tran:31u-
t.ions of Odent.al tnetaphor, were accepted by these
ignorant people as literal trut.hf'. lienee, their God has
all the distinguishing traits of Sakya l\1uni, coupled with
much of the philosophic wisrlon1 of Egypt and Greece in
the palmy days of the latter nation, so that the Christian
\Yorh1 i~ hut. un eYo1ution of the Oriental in its religious
\Yorship, yet not able even to con1prehend the subtle
thought that. the l1~ast sought to e1nbody in its n1ystical
language. For spiritual life and spiritual thought 1nust
have their own time for a perfect evolution, and the
religion of the \\'est haR never had the power to rise above
the savage superstitions that c]ouderl the Oriental thought
when translated into its barbarous language. In fact, so
low were they in the scHle of nn intellectual spirituality,
that they conceived the iO.ea fron1 some savage or ignorant
mind thHt the Supren1e Otn sent his only begotten son
into the earthly life that he (the son) might be killed.
so that justice should be satisfied) and their God vindicated
from the charge of cruelty in the wholesa1e destruct.ion of
the human race."

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Thi~ quotation, so eun finnatory of Oahspe's state-

mont, came through quit .. another , ncd1umi~tic source,
nnd wide in pluce and time. If it be regarded as of little
i wport:mce b(.lcau~e it is n spirit coinlnunicat.ion, the same
ohj0etion mn~t be m:u1c in r(.lgarcl to Oah!-;pe, and CYcn more
.:u t<> all the aucil!nt Liblc::: of the world, for the~L hnvL· all
undergone serious man ipul<ltion3 at the hand£~ of unscru-
pulous prie;:,t..:. lt. is a fact that eYery utterance from thl'
spiritual worlrl mu~t. oe judged of Ly mun 's intelligence,
excrc·i~ed in the ligl1t of hi:-tory, rea~on, nud present facts,
\Ye 1nu:.:t. repeat, if Je:-us of Nazareth wns stoned to
death iu Jeru:'alem, he couln not be the p0r~onality '"ho
"·as rrucified on Cnh·ary a~ the Gotpeb ..:ny, and thE'
Chri~tian Churche~ teach. and. as a con~equenre, the whole
theological~ creedal, and doctrinal system of our common
Christianity 1nu~t go, except it~ Ethics, which is essentially
the :-<lme as thnt of Jesus of ~aznreth, and all the heaYen-
seut. mes~enger.- who prercrlr·1 him in former age.... Bnt.
if t.he theologies nre erroneou~. 're n1ust. gain by distnissing
them. whilr we cnn never lo:-e n particlr of what i~ true,
for truth i8 eternal.

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Looeamong the false Khriste (Christ).

The Yicw of the question we are now investigating
is of such importance as to de1nand the most serious con-
... jtlcrution. The onus probandi is with Oahspe to show
how it is that Jesus of Nazareth has becorne mixed up or
identified with Christ the God-man of Christendom. This
it does in its own way, as -.;yill be shown by quotations,
but it is neeessary to rnakc son1e preli1ninary remarks.
By those 'Yho haYc followed these articles, it will be
remembered thRt Oah:3pe clas~es Christianity, a1nong other
worlr1 rcligion8, a:: being false, and as having originated
1n the heaven~ of tl1e earth through the defection of a
I false God (Looeanwng) who was a ruler in the heavens
of the emth for a ti1ne. Also that three of these false
Gods whose systems of religion '"ere "Triune," had formed
them'-elves into a confederacy for the upholding of this
triune idea. A1nong thein was Looeamong, whose rule
wa:- in t.he hea vens situated above the \Yestern world, and
the nation~ thnt fayourccl the Christian systen1. But his
kingcl01ns were not so prosperous as those of the false
God:-) over India and China, and he bewailed his loss of
po\vcr: ':Now, behold, Looeamong stood no longer upon
th e practice of righteousness, but upon n1ight. Neither
considered he rnore the resurrection of 1nortals or of
angE:ls (spirits) . . Looea1nong fought no longer for
the Trinity nor the Holy Ghost, but to save his h eavenly
kingcl01n, lest he be captured, and cast into hell. . .
I Behold. it <'amP to pa:-:s as had been forteold by God,

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bccau_e they have denied the A lrnighty God :--aitl : There

is but ONE, who is All J{nou:led!Je. \\"hatsoever angel
or God announceth himself to be All 1\. nou·ledge, Is
false in pre~cnce of J eho\'ih . Xevertheless, Looeamong
had it proclaimed in heaven nnd earth that. he was the
/{riste, \Yhich is t.he Ah<1mic expression for All Knowledge.
The Lord said: .Xow, therefore, Looemnong was fron1 this
time fort.h a fabe God in hetn·en and on earth ."
Looea1nnng continued to get in to difficulties, and it
is related that he ('bewniled the wars, and he also bewailed
his own doctrines." Then his warrior chief, 'Thoth, or
Gabriel) e;omplaincd that his follower3 had no king or
queen on earth to protect the1n, and that, as a conse-
quence, hi~ mortal Kriste'yan warriors, who drew the
sword lo estaLlish hi1n, were being slaughtered everywhere, I
till at length Loocamong, driven to desperation by the
tales of disast-er, cried out: "Enough! Enough! 0 Thoth f
I, too, will have a 1nortal cntpcror. Descend thou again
to the eart h. t.o liatuas (Con:-:tnntin e), and in~pire thou
him to rai~e a mortal anny of forty t.housand m2n, and
moYe upon Roma. Behold, I will prove myself before
I-Iat.na~, nn<l he --hall (•ovennnt unto me. Through hi n1
will I drive Baal out of Rome. And, as I make n1yself
Krist0 of he~n·cn. ~o will 1 make lintua~ (Con:--tnntine)
eu1peror of the whole earth.'' Thoth then descended to
the emth, to lfntna:::. who wn~ a su'is (p~yrhic), and could
both :-:ce th(• <"Hlg<'l;-; ( ~pil·i t~ ), nnd hear them tnlk: nnd
Thoth intluc·c<l Tintna:-- lo rni~e an nrmy of forty t h o n~antl
sold ier~. and ~et out for ronq uc~t.
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even where the Krist.e 'vaus had Leen ma:-"sacreJ n1aJL.Y
years before, behold, Looean1ong and his angel hosts
appeared in the heaven~ above IIatna~' arn1y, so that all
the soldiers thereof, beheld the heavenly visitors (or
they thought they did). And Looeamong showed unto
Hatuas, in the air of heaven, a true cro~~, on which was
written in letters of blood: Il J(?·iste.
:Nevertheless, there was no man present who could read
the inscription; anrl many ''"ere the conjectures thereon.
In the evening Looeanwng tlescended t.o Hatua~: and
said unto him: ((This is the intcrpretatiou of the s1gn
and cross I showed thee: (In this tho'tt shalt conquer l'"
(\Ve have something of this in the n1undane hist.ories,
but it i~ very questionable whether the whole ought not
to be regarded as a fabrication.-J.:\.J.) "And when
thou arisest in the morning t.hou shalt cause to be 1nade
a cross, of most excellent workmanship, and thou ;3balt
have it inscribed: (The J(riste , Our Lord, Son of th P 11 oly
Ghost.' And this cross shalt thou cause to be carried at
the head of the ar1ny. And thy edicts shalt thou call
bulls, and they shall be "·ritten with lamb's blood, in
remmnbrance of the sacrifice of the Jews in Egypt, through
which sacrifice the Father in heaven delivered then1. For
I an1 the Lord of heaven and earth.'' Accordingly a eros~
was made and highly decorated, and inscribed a:_-; coin-
manded; and Hatuas and his soldiers \Yent fort b '"ith
renewed courage: and so great \Vas their zeal, that. every-
thing fell before t-he1n. And now, after some years,
Looeamong, through 'fhotb, becan1e victorious over Baal
and other false Gods, and it is said: "Such was the end

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of the earthly Jom1n1on of Baal. who had ruled O\er

mortals, for evil, for upward of three thou~and years. \nd,
in fa et, it. was the final termination of the ~arthly God~
that rulecl over the ruortals through (Jracle~ nnd pagan
practices. 'l'he earth was now clear of evil Gods. whm:e
chief labour had bt·cn for thou~and:-- of year~ to capture
the spirits of t.he recent dead. and make slaves of the1n
for the glory of the hadnn kingdOins. Thu~, had
Looeamong <.lone a good ~erYice: for t.he earth anJ lower
heaven~ had now nothing to ~uffer from any Gods, Sa\·e
the Triunes."
Ilero "·e have a narrati\'e, not only of what was being
done on earth, but also of the iuspirat.ion Constantine
received from t.hc (false) heavens of the earth, which
resulted in his clearing the exi~ting polythei5m out of the
way, and so paving the \Yay for the intro<.luct.ion of a
ne"· cult, the ba!:es for which were ~horlly afterwards laid
at the celebrate<.l Council of Nice, which was con\·oked
in 325 A.D.
The Emperor Con~tantine has been constantly lauded
as the Chrif:t.ian e1nperor, v:;ho '"as converted to Chris-
tianity.. But.. his Christianity wa~ not what we under-
~

st.anJ Ly th e name to-daY. The svsletn had not ret been

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fully formulated. ~loreover, Constnnti11e was a great

criminal and an ambitious 1nan, and it is 1nost probable
his espousal of the projects of the priests, who were intro-
ducing a new cult into the \r ef:tern world, wn~ due to
the reasons h e hitn~clf fl8~1gns In his coufc~sion n1ade
1n t.he litt.lc book, " Origins of Christianity. '' I-Iere it I
i~ :-ttBnd a~ were t.he God~ of my country. they had no I
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pardon for n parricide or fratricide, and it was chiefly the

! hope of pardon fron1 the New Divinity (Jesus-Christ)
\vhich canscd my adhesion to his profes::::ed disciples."

II To tho~e "ho imagine that our Christianity took its

rise in Pale:-\tinc with .Jesus of Nazareth , instead of with
Conf't<llltih~ and the priestly Council of ~ice, in A.D. 325,
R
it will he C\'ideiJ L by thou ght, that the etlitt of this
r.: e ~ l H?l' 1 H'-u 111ere da~h of the pl'll-could not subYert
the whole long establi~hed ideas and practices of the
pagan Ro1nan Empir(l. The cenain and necessary result
was an acltuixture of the olcl anfl 11ew religions, so that,
the Chri:-:tiauity, such as it was at the tiine, hecmno grafted
on to the old pagan religion with it~ rites and ccrcn1onies,
n1any of "hich 1nay Le traced to-day. 'T'his consideration
alone , ought to be sufiicicnt to ~how how in1possible it
\Yas that the rlahorate theological and creedal Chri.Jianity,
whiC'h d cYe]ul-'ecl in Rmne after the Council of Nice, could
be identical with th e pure and simple teachings of the
Essenem1 .Je:-ms of Nazareth, whose whole religion was
comprised in the short ~entence: "Thou shalt love the
Lord thy God with all thine heart, and 111ind, and soul ;
and thy neighbour as thyself. "
J
If it be objected to the quotation given from (COrigins
of Christianity," that. it. is hut a spiri tualist.ic con11nunica-

Ii tion given t hrough an unknown lHedium, who wishes to

retnain incognito, and ::;o1no will Le ready to object, \Ye
say, true; but, so also 1~ Oah:5pe a couununicat.ion of
precisely the ~a1nc sort., and ::;o abo is our Bible; but the
i two forrner ha,·e the aclvantagc of being now ns they

I were givtn, ,,·hile the latter has been so manipulated by

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translation , acci(lcnt, and fraucl, that it is impossible now

to know exactly what th e originals really were. .Mort-
over, the Faraday JlHl<lium 1::; not un kn()wn, but ts n
private gcn tleman, wh o does not wi~h to obtrude upon
the public. l u all sueh question~ it i~ of r1o irnportancc
where th e information <'Omcs front , if it. fits in with what
we can fin rl out from hi:-::lory an<l pre:-cnt 1lay faet. Every
spiritu al contmu uiC'ation , whatcYer be ils ~o urc<.:, lllUSt be
so submitted to cxaminat.ion Ly every inuividual soul in
all honesty of pu rpose.

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More of Looean1ong.
In order to trace the cuuuection between Luoean10ng!
"ho forgot his allegiauce to J eho\·ih by ch~claring hin1self
to be "KH l~TE," or "All 1\:.nowledge/' jt will be
necessary to giYe more ext.mu led q notations fro1n Oahspe.
"The Lord saitl: .l\ow, tht-refore. Looeamong was from
this t.jn1e forth a false God 111 heaven and on earth."
( Oah., p . 711. \'. -1.) ln furtherance c,f hi~ ends, the
aggrnndisement of his h eavenly and earthly kingdo1ns : -
.. Looea1nong inspired Ilatua:s (Constantine), the nwrtal
en1peror, to call together a Council of wise 1nen fron1 aU
the kingdon1s of A rabin ~ya (Arabia), IIele::>te (Greece L
Par'si 'a (Persia) . and U ropa (Europe), to select from all
the religion ~ doctrines in the world t.hat which was the
'"isest and best~ that it might be established by king~,
emperors~ and governor~~ by the S\YORD and SPEAR,
so there should neYer 1nore be but one religion." This
referB to t.he celebrate<..l Council of ~ice. conYened bv y

Constantine in A.D. 325. 'rhe narratiYe proceeds thus:-

.i And in course of tiine, there assen1bled a Council of 1,786

learned n1en from all the region~ na1ned, and they placed
them8el Yes under the rnles and presence of Hatuas. And
he selected fron1 then1 144 :-peakers. .-\::; for the others;
they were divided into group~ of t'Yel,·es~ besides a goodly
number being appointed scribe:! and translators. But n1any,
having the appearance of .Jew:--~ '\Yere rejected altogether.n
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passage, because the 1-HW~ts of Home who were at tbi:1

Council, were elaborating a rl'hree-Gocl ~yste111 of religion,
while Je\\'s would surely be th€·ir opponent" in this.
"Now, the Council had brought with thetn, in all, ~,231
books nnd legendary tale:: of Gods and Sn\'iour:; nnd great
rnen, together with recorfls of the doctrine:-: tuught by
t.hem. IIatua~, being under the in~piration of Looeamong.
through Gabriel, alias Thoth, thus ~rake:- Sc~rrh ye
these book-- and whntsoeYer is g/1011 iu them , that retain ;
hut whatsoever is e\·il that ra:-t away. \\·hat i::- goorl in
one book, unite ye with what i::: good 1u another Look .
And whatsoever i~ thus brought togethet 'hall be callerlJ
THE BOOK or BOOK~. And it ~hall be the doctrine
of my people, whirh 1 'nll recomnJt ncl unto all nation~,
that there ~hall UL· no more war for religion ·s ~ake." Hc·re
is t.ho account, as gin~n fro111 the hca\'ell::;, of the formation
of the canon of Scripture by the Couneil of :\ice. Is it
any wonder that, with ~uch instructions, a ma~:; of writ-
ings from all the countrie~ nan1cd should have been twisted
and pre ...:::ed and dove-tailed into each other, in such a
manner as to favour the theological ideas of the framers
of theological Christianity. '' l~or four years and ~e,·en
months the Council thus deliberated, and selected from
the 2,231 hooks and legendary tales. And, at the end
of that ti me, there had been .selecterl and rombined 1uuch
that was good and great. and worded, so as t.o be well
remembered by nwrtals. A.; yet., no God bad been ~elected
by the Council, and so they balloted, in ordc.r to clcter1nine
thnt matter.'' This brought ~o1ne 37 Gods into protninence,
and an10ng~t the nuwber wRs "Kriste'·: ~2 others receiYed

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a few votes. " In seven days thereafter, another ballot

was taken , and the nu1nLer of Gods wa;:) reduced to 27.
In ~cYcn days thereafter, another ballot was taken, and
the numLer of Gods reduced to 21. Thus was the number
reduced each ballot, but slower and slo,rer. Six days in
the week were allotted to discuss the rnerits and <le1nerit~
of the Gods. But 1nany weeks elapse<l to,vard the last,
when the nuwber w·as not reduced. For one year and
five 1nonths the balloting lasted, and at that tin1e the
uallot rested nearly equal on five Gods, namely, Jove,
Kriste, ~lars, Crite, and Siva. And here the ballot
changed not for yet seven ti1nes 1nore, which was seven
weeks." IIere "·as an in1pass, and Constantine solved the
clifliculty thus:-·· IIatutt~ :::pake before the Council, say-
ing: Ours is a labour for all the nations of the earth, and
for all ti1ne. I know the angebi of heaven are with us
1n this Inatter. \Ye have found five Gods, good and
acceptable before the world. \Yhat say the Council, that
the a ngels give us a sign? .For \Ye all do know the angels'
~igns of these nods. The Council ~aitl :-\rell said thou
wisest of rnen I Such a. God shall be ours, now and for-
ever. And immediately, there and t.hen, LOOEAl\IONG
A;\D IllS ANGELS GAVE A SIGN IN FIRE, OF A
CHOSS S~l E~\RED \VIT1-I BLOOD, AND IT RESTED
ON ..\. BCLL'S IlORNS, even as a cloud of fire on a cloud
of fire! \\"hereupon K RISTE wa~ declared GOD AND
LOHD OF ..\LL TIIE KATIONS OF THE EARTH .
. \ nd the Council ngreed thereto, unani1nously, and more-
over, to reject all the other Gods." The following passages
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up '' ith tho fnlse :;ystein of " l(riste" :-"The next quebtion
was, what \lORTAL REPltF.Sr~TATI\ '" E should be
cllOf-'Cil. The fir~t. ballot brought out the following men:
Zu.rathnstra, 'l'hothwa, .Abrallntn, Brahwn! Atys, Thattl-
mu:-::,.JO~IllJ,0ukaya. Ifabrull, Hnlr. Critc. Chri..n a. TlnJli ...
'\\'"ittoba, and Spoio. Be~icles tlwsr, there \n•re included
in the oallot., 4G other men, who rcteived a :-:mnll numl)er
of bnllot~ each. (Tod, Son of .J eho\·ih. said: Behold the
Council of :\'iC'e bnllote<l for a twl'lYcmonth 1 as to what
man heard the \'"0 ICE·~ :-;ayr:-t thou, .T (\ho,·ih :-entleth
lli~ matter~ to a Council of men'(' This lat.t<·r is f'\·idently
paretheutical; a question put by the ruling God in the
heu,·cu~ of the earth , t.o :'how the absurdity of supposing
for a ntoincn L that the I nfinile J ehoti h settled His
"matters" by remitting thCin to a Council of men. The
proceedings of the Counc·il of ~ic·e t.hen continues thu~ : -
''llntuaB ~aid: Thr c~od~ will nut l<.•t u:-- t·hoo'L ..:\:\Y ~L\.:\.
Now, therefore, h ear Ine: all the law-gi\'er~ chosen by the
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gods h rwe beeu IESU. ~ow, ~nnce we cannot n1ake
preference ns to a ~~ A~. let us ~ay: 'l'H E J!AN lESt;.
'rhercupon the nmuc, IESU. wa~ adopted, uncl the
SACRED BOOKS \rEHE \YHIT'I'[X ~\CCORDI~GL ·y.
Go(l, Son of Jch ovih, said: 'l'he C\.)tm('d of 1\iee ~innec.l
not. for the doctrinr~ :'Pt forth, as IESl 'S. were for
JEIIOVIli. (Joshu, or .Te~u::: of i\azarcth was IF'-'C, i.e.,
neutral or pa~5ionle~5.) But, ,,·herein their worth marlc
\YORSIIlPFCL the tullne~ of KRISTE (CHRIST l and
the IIOL!.,. GHOST, behold, that. matter ' Hls with
LOOEA:\IONG (hi:-; inYention). C1od HUJ · .)ly te~timonics
were previously with •\.braham an d Brnhma and with

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)loses, and I spake not of KHlSTE, nor of the HOLY
GHOST, 1 spake of GOD and of the I Al\1. They h ave
~aid:-·· \fhosoeYer speaketh a word against the son of
man, it shall be forgiven hin1; but, whosoever speaketh
l\gainst the Holy Ghost., it shall not be forgiven hin1.
Therefore, suffer ye Looeatnong to bear his own test.ilnony
to the kingd01n "·hence it sprung. TI-IE HOLY GHO~T
\"\'"AS IllS LABOUR." J ebovih said:- " HAD I
\YEAI\:E~ED since the titne of )lo:;es, that I need to
I~CAR~ .\. TE :JIYRELF. in order to nwke man under-
stand :JIE?'>
God said :-"Sufficient unto a time is the work of
Jehovih; because the TTIIC"NES overthrew the oracles
and hundreds of false Gods and hundreds of sacred books
full of error and evil, behold they fulfilled their tin1e.
Sufficient unto .-\.~OTHER. TL\lE. EY.EN THE PRE·

I SENT. is another work of Jehovih, "·hich is TO ESTAB-

LISH HIS PRESE:0TCE \\'ITH THE LI VING GEN-
ERATION... Jehovih said :-uBehold, I CREATED;
and I an1 SUFFICIENT unto all men. In the olden
time 1nen worshipped all the spirits of the dead, and I
rut hin1 ~hort, giving him tnany Gods; and, again, I cut
him short, and gave h im three Gods, and then, three Gods
in one. THIS DAY. I curr HIM SIIORT OF ALL,
SAVE HIS CREATOR. Behold the signs of 1Iy times,
~Iy preachers are legions."-Oah.: Book of Eskra, Chap-
ter XLVIII.
Here. iu the above quotat.ions, v:e have in a few
~hort and terse sentenf!es th e CELESTIAL RECORD of
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ligion in to the world, and it clearly ~bow:; that 10 iu

theological nspect~ it is fals, Lcing of Looeu.>11vng through
Constantine nnil the Council of ~ice; nnrl nl~o that, in
it~ ethical aspect~ it is true, being of Jesus of Nazareth,
n hcavciH:c·nt me~senger, who came to reE:tore the ancient
doctrines.

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The Christ of Christendom.

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Fron1 what has been already written it becomes
e\·iuent that the CHR.IS1' of Chri~ten<lom is an IDEAL
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creation of the priests of R01ne in the time of Constan- I
tine, and thnt it \ras brought into something like a
a
rlefmite fonn under this Etnperor and the deliberations
of the Council of Nice. Christian history extols this
En1peror as being the first to c1nbrace the Christian
religion ; but history also records that he was anything
but a Christian in itc;; ethical i<leas.
lie caused the death of two sons of his brother-in-
law, ~laxentius. H e suffocated his wife, Fausta. He
put to death his own nephew, Licinius) and also his
son, Crispus. In this view of things it sceJnf-: reasonable
to suppose that his espousal of the Christianity the priests
of Rome were putting into the world was occasioned in
the manner he himself ha5 given jn a confession of his,
\vhich appears in the little Faraday book called "Origins
of Christianity." H ere it is :-('It is a powerful impul~e
which c01npels n1e to come and di:sclose the true reason
\Yhy I subverted the religion of Pagan R01nc, but. I find
that the truth must bP told before I can escape frotn th e
chain~ which bind me to the memories of earth. I was
a man of blood, and allowed neit.her friendship nor
fraternal relations to interfere with 1ny ambitions. ~ly
hanrls were imbrued in the blood of my own fa1nily.
Bad as were the Gods of 1ny country. they had no
pardon for a parricide or fratricide, and it was chiefly the
hope of pardon fron1 the NE\V DIVINITY which caused

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my ad hesion to hi~ profe:,se<l di~ci plc:-:." 'I'o this way be

added what Eu~obius t:ay::. in hi:' confc~~ion, gi,·en in the
san1e little book. Speaking of Con~tnntine. he ~ays : -11 Ile
never wns a Christian in any sen~e a:-: you tnodcrn::; under-
stand it. . Be~idcs, he was fenrful beeau~c of his
cnmes. Chrir-:tiunity never f'toppul him tn the com-
mission of crime, but we (priests of Home) lJl''J ntiscd him
absolution if he u·o1.dd juin u.~ ancl grant our wishes.J'
It is sai(l that this Emperor wn;-; eon \'erlcrl to Chri~tianity
through seeing n Vl::-IOn of a ero::--. in the ~ky. and over
it the words u En toulo niA·an ( O) t hi::: eonquer). Gibbon,
the historian, thinks this to be n fabl e, and Eu~cbius, in
his confession, st.ates it to have been n fnhrication of hi~.
rr his seems to be highly probable. for the ignorance and
superstition of th e age was such, that anything in the
shape of a miracle was readily hehe\'c(l. lt i~ po<::sible n
natural phcnoznenon was witnc~~ed 111 the :'hape of a
I'arheli on.
This digression, in regard to Constantine, is t.o show
how con-.pletely he was under the dominntion of the
priests of his day. and th0 hi:'toric grounds there are for
accepting the detailed statrmcn ts nwcle in Oah5pe.
'Vhene\·cr Theological Chrif:tinnity hn:- been nttflcked,
the up peal has ahYnys been marle to it~ ct hi cal sirle, and
because the latter is cvident.ly true, it ha~ been n~~umed
that the other a~pect i~ true al~o; but thi.;:: by no 1neans
follmYs, although it is difficult to 'Cparat(. the two ideas,
because they are in the popular n1incl inextricabl~
blended. But they arc really quite cli:-tinct. Tho ethics
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I.~aper, and are quhe dh:tinrt from all crecclal fonns of
religion. All nations: p eople~, and tongues possess them.

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because they are the outc01ne of the God·consciousness
in n1nn himself, ·who is a part of the universal life of the
Creator. But creeds, and dogma::: , and rites, and per-
fonnances are the inventions of men, useful~ perhaps~ at
times, but always liable to negenerate into perfunctory
ritualisms that lose their meaning. .... and become more or
le~:-; prostituted through the selfishness of men.
The presentation of the Christ a:-: an lDE.\LLY per-
feeL tnan, a God-man or _jian-Gon. and an exhibition of
DI\yl~ ITY IN HU~IANITY, 1s beautiful , and is the
Attic Salt which has preserved the whole theological
!'ystern for so nu:my hundreds of years. So long as this
presentation is made a!' an exemplar for imitation and
proxi1nat.e attainment, it is admirable, and a power for
the reden1pt.ion of 1nan from sin: but it is quite another
thing when the presentation 1~ made according to the
Christian Theologies. In this presentation: which is said
to be the CARDI~AL DOCTRT~E of the Christ.ian
Church, we have a systern of Three Gorl::: n.nd Vicarious
Sacrifice, in which this Ideal of Christ has bad Jesus of
Kazareth tacked on to it, and bP is repre:--ented as haYing
been ~acrificed by crucifixion on Calvary, as a propitiatory
offering for the sins of t.he n·bole \\ orld: and also that
this .Je~us was Jehovih incarnated, in order. that by the
\·iolent destruction of this mortal body, .Tehovih, the
Father within it, might be pacified, and rendered propiti-
ous to poor humanity. The bare idea of it, when analysed,
seBms to he monst.rou~, yet the whole Christian world

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has been so drubbed into the idea that it i:: difficult to

get people to regard things in n rational light.
It is, however, cheering to sec that thh:! monstrous
theological system is breaking down all around, and
hardly any preachers of to-day venture to teach it...c;
'rheology, but content thcin~olves with teaching the
Christian ethics. Long n1ay they go on with this, for
it is trnc, but it would be bet.ter still if they would abandon
their fal8e theologies and endcasour to shov; its falsity,
because the 1ninds of tnen nrc enslaved, for it is 'l'RUTH,
and not error, that must make men free.

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Judgment and the Kosman Era.

To the ordinary Christian 1nind drubbed as it bas
been int{) the idea of one God, though an anthro-
pOlnorphic one; one heaven, though a terribly monotonous
one, and to one hell, though an everlasting one, it is
difficult to understand the oahspian accounts of Gods and
Goddesses innumerable; high-raised rulers over n1yriads
of et.heric kingdo1ns, who were at one time mortal. But
if the n1atter be thought out, it will appear as eminently
reasonable, and the following quotation puts things into
a true light :-"Hear the words of thy God, 0 1nan, I
a1n thy brother: risen from mortality to a holy place in
heaven; profit thou in n1y wisdom, and be admonished
by my love. For, as I am thy elder brother, so shall it
be U"ith thee, to rise also in time to come, and look back
to mortals, and call then1 to the exalted heavens of the
Ahnighty." (Oah., p. 834, v. 2.)
Another puzzle to the o~dinary mind is, as to how
it. is possible for Gods to go wrong, and so by inspiration
drive men in to falsity and n1isconcept.ions, as represent-ed
in the case of Looea1nong. But the answer to this is to
be found in the fact that all the intelligent creatures the
Eternal Father has created are in perfect FREEDOM.
If men and Godti (exalted spirit-men) were not in freedon1,
they could not be held responsible for their actions, nor
could they progress. So, in freed01n, Gods and Goddesses
in the heaYens of the earth, can, and evidently do, go
wrong, because they have not. sufficiently subdued that
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degree. Looeamong', nnlbit.iou led hitu to as::crt a false

position. and in hi~ tnadne~s h~ -=t.rovc to upholrl it, and
so institutctl a fnl!-=C sysh:'lll both in heaven and on
earth :-"~ow, therefore, Looeamon~ wa.;; from this time
forth a fnlsc God in the hcan\ns of the earth." (Fro111
the time of his as.:-:umption of the title Kri::te. Oah.,
p. 711, \'. 4.)
But ovc1· and above all the warring clements of im-
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perfect Ruling Angels is the IXFI~ITE HCLER,
JEI-IOVIH, who in I-Iis Infinite \ri~dom bri11gc:: ORDER
out. of CI-L\.OS. 1J1 His perfect order1ng ,,f thing... , wrtJng·
doing eYer brings its ineYitable re~nlt~, and ~o presently
Looeamong, and other fal:-:e Gods, came iuto di~or<let· anu
grief, and "·ere brought to JCDG~IE~'f, and lluly
sentenced. As this has n direct hParing upon the present
condit.ion of the religions world, and the introduction of
this present. Ern of Kos1non. which cormnenced about
1848, it will l1e nece~sary to giYe some considerable atten-
tion to th<' follo\\'ing qnot.ation5 fron1 Oah~pe.
Chapter XYII., in the Book of E:-:. daughter of
Jehovih. gi\·e~ the account of thi~ wonrl~rful trial of the
false Gods ''"ho had been afflicting the earth for thon~anus
of year:3; a proceeding which rendered the new '·K o8mon
Ern'' possible.
"Es ( t.he presiding Godde~s) 5nid: The y ·oice spake
out of the light o\·er the throne of God. saying: Becnu~e
l admonished both earth ancl henreu. ~aying: \\'hoso
setteth np n1ore than the I :\)1, shall be bound; and who5o
hearkeneth unto them. Hnd runneth nfter them, !:ihnll be
hounci unto them. .\nd they hPeded uot ~1 y command-

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ments, but made worshipful other Gods than Me, so shall

they reap the harvest they have sown. Because they
drew the sword t.o establish themselves, they were bound
by the sword. Because they took upon themselves heavenly
kingdoms, I bound them thereunto. Because they pro-
fessed salvation in the nan1es of false Gods, I let them
run their course; and, lo and behold, they have shown no
salvation in heaven or earth. They have built up kingdon1
against kingdom, standing army against standing army.
Verily, they have brought judgment upon the1nselves.
Hear the words of J ehovih, 0 ye false Gods and Goddesses,
who set up heavenly kingdoms against Me. Who slew
hundreds of millions of mortals, in order to make other
names than Mine worshipful on earth and in the heavens
thereof. Ye, who cried out falsely: Behold me: I am the
light and the life: through me is the way of salvation.
Ye, who have used your names to lead mortals and angels
away from t.he Creator; saying of yourselves: Behold n1e,
I am the Lord; I am God; my heavenly place is the
all-highest. Behold, I had spoken in the olden time; and
I said: Whoso aspireth to be king of the earth, or queen,
or emperor, or ruler over a nation or people, and I give
to him his desire, he shall be bound with the people of
his administration. Neither shall he rise to ~1y eman-
cipated heavens, till he hath carried up with him every
soul that he had do1ninion over.
"But he shall be bound unto that people in the first
and second resurrection, until even the lowest of the1n
are raised in wisdom and virtue and good works, suffic-
ient for the grade of Brides and Bridegrooms to ~1y
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"And if a king stretch fort.b his arm to Htb<lue and

annex other countries to hi:S own, sufl'cr thou him to do
so, for he is 1nagnifying his bondage for the resurrection
of the low. And thou shalt npply t.hcso rules unto all
earthly rulers, bo they kings, or queens, or emperor~, or
presidents, or governors, or legislatQrs, or judges, or popes,
or priests, or preacher~, or whosoever pre::tHl1('th to rule
oYer, or to lead, or to exact servitude fro1n ot.hers. And the
term of bondage, unto thcrn in the lower heavens, shall
be in proportion t.o the magnitude of their dominions.
But, to who1nsoever at.taineth dominion by the sword,
or extendeth don1inion by the sword, anJ by blood and
death, his bondage shall be a hundred-fold. And who-
soever maintaineth his dominion by standing armies, thou
shalt compute tho nu1nber thereof, and to him and hi:3
high oflicers, the bondage in tho lowest heaven shall be
equal to ten times the nu1nber of soldiers thereof, and
ten times the number of years of t.bc servitude of the
multitude of his artnies. For whosoever taketh frotn :\Iy
people for his own glory, shall render unto ~le the just
value. 'Vhosoe\·er engageth in war, or leadeth in war,
or is a captain, or a general, and causet.h the death of
whom I created alive, ho shall not rise to inherit ~[y
emancipated heaYens as long as there rcmaineth war upon
the earth. But h e shall toil in the lowest hca\'cns of the
earth to educate and raise up tho drujas thereof, which
shall be his labour ( drujn: n. spirit of a very low order).
And whoso hath great riches, and 1nany scrYnnts,
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and yet no ~en·anL:::, but liveth for hiln~etf , thou ~halt

apportion his place in the first resurrect.ion, e\·en accord-
ing to the good he 1night hnve done had he obeyed ~ly
comrrwndment5; and he shall do 111 heaven, what he
neglected to do on earth. And he shall not rise t.o ~ly
emancipated heavens until he hatb appropriated accord-
ing t.o that \Yhich I gave him in to hi::; keeping.
"God said: The words that con1e out of nwu·s 1nouth,
even though they profess prayer~ and repentance, are of
little avail before J ehovih. llut the \\'Orcls that. c01ne out
of good work~ douc unto others to rai~e then1 up, are as
t.he souud of a trumpet. that reachcth beyond the stars.
For, 10 all agel:i of the world, there have been deceivers
and hypocrites, with ten1ples and churthc.~ to worship in,
professing to serve the Creator, but, in fact., ~erving an
idol. And their priests and preacher~ speak good doctrines,
but they practice then1 not, save n lit.tle, as a blind, to
lead the nnlltitude astray. And they live in fine houses,
and fare sun1phtously e\·ery day; and are ski11e(1 in oratory
and in doct.rinal precepts: but they will not go and sern~
the poor, teaching t.hem how tD liYe. Again the ,~oice
spake, saying: J!y judgments are upon tbo~e that profess
J!e, dealing out their pittance to the poor, whil~~ they
themselYc~ live above 'rant. \Yhen such 111en die, and
enter the first resurrection , they shall be handed oYer to
those t.hat are in darknes~, and their bonclage ~hall lJe
I a hundred-fold. For they preached words of righteousness I
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foundation for the kingdom of hypocri~y. Yerily. I give
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ha,·e IJ<·eaJ Jly doctrine~ ~1ncc: thou~aud~ of ycar!l, anll

knuwll UlllO ,YUll oeforc yc <le.,crtcd Jl y kiugdulll.S. lf
~ urh , then, IJc ~Iy juJgancnLs untu nwrtab who ~ern:
ful~e Gocb, how n1uch greater, then, must Lc the penalty
upon the fab:e Gods, wl1o H:t thcnt~ch·c!:) to e~t~Llish
the::;c iniquities? Ilcar ye, then, t.he judgment of
Jehovih :-\\·ho~oovcr hath C!::taLli~hcd the natnc of any
God but the Creator, HIHl n1ade it wor:-:hipful 011 earth
or in h(;aven, shall lJc bound in the tir~t. l'('~urrection till
that name i:, nu lougcr \\Orshipful on earth or iu heaven.
And whate\ er Go{l or Goddess hath ~nid. ColJlC unto me,
ye that arc hea\·ily larlcn, and I will gi\'c you re~t. for
I am the way of salvat.ion, and of light., and of ever-
lasting life, then, that. Uod or Goddess shall be bound in
the first resurrection a::- long a~ n1ortals or ang~b go unto
him or her. Behold, a~ such a God called, and they
answered uu to him, ~o do I g1Ye unt.o both, the nod that
calleth, nnd the subject that runneth unto him. ( F or
1 g1Yc liberty e\·en unto :\line enemie~.) But, when a
~ubject goct.h t-0 a God and saith: Behold, thou ha~t .:;aid:
".hither I ~o, I will call all men unto me. an(l I oclie,·e<.l
in thee-then tha t God ~hall not put him away. \\"hilst
Osiris was wor~hipped, I ga,·t unto Osiri~ (the fah:e).
\Yhil:-,t Ashturoth wa::- "·or::hipped, I ga\·c lllltn her \Vhil~t
Baal was wor~hipped, I gaYc nnto Bnnl. But when any
of these Gods were no longer wor~hipped, behol(l, I ga\·c
t.hcn1 no tnorc subj crt~ . A~ long as nrahmn i:- \\orshipped,
I will gn·c unto him, who 1:: before :\[l. \.:: long as
13ud(lha is \rur~hipped, 1 will gi\·e unto hiut who is before
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w11l give unto hi1n, who is before :\ie. .\s long as :31oham-
medans are upheld on the earth, I will give unto him
who built up .\lohammed. AND \VHE~ ALL OF YOU
HA,TE PUl{,lFIED, AND RAISED UP TIIOS.G \\ IIO
IDOLIZE YO U. IN THAT SA~1E TI11E, \VlLL I
RAISE YOU UP TO HIGHER HEA VE~S ALSO. ..\.nd
now, when the VOICE ceased and all was still, tho false
Gods and Goddesses raised up their heads, and they spake
with one voice, saying: Thou art JL'ST, 0 J ehovih.
UNTO THEE DO I NO'V COVEN..\.NT THAT 1 \\'ILL
SERVE TliEE FOREVER. Neither will I aspire to
rise to higher heavens TILL I HAVE R AISED UP ALL
\VH0:\1 I JIAVE LED ASTRAY. ~1ake n1e strong, 0
Jehovih, in this :l\1Y EVERLASTING COVENANT I
Teach me, 0 Father, the LABOUR I should do, that
Thou shalt be glorified forever!' '
The scene depicted 1s one of absorbing interest,
stupendous in1portance, and world-wide results. It n1arks
the culminating point of a false theological syste1n, fron1
whence it must wane and die out ; and it introduces and
makes possible the new ERA which co1nmenced 60 years
ago. If anyone doubts this let hin1 note that the year
1848 was one of rmnarkable unrest and upheavals in
every way. It was t.be period of inauguration of what is
called ")Iodern Spiritualism."
It is the commencement of that wonderful advance
and expansion in arts, science and literature; of that
freedom of thought and break-up of the old theologies
which has invaded the religious world, and which is
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knorrn that nft..cr thl' judgn1ent r~.-cor~irrl above , tho

spiritual ho~ts thaL were before arrayed against Truth,
are now stronuou~ly working for it; for they pl~dgcd
them::;elves to Jchorih) and haYe to undo all the misc/,itf
their falsity 1LtO'l.l!JltiJ ond they are now at u·ork, for the
record says :-"Thus ended the judgment.. God's marshals
removed the1n to the places allotted for them, and TI-lEY
\YENT TO \YORK."
The ''Kosman Era" is no hypothetical as~nmption.
According to i'Oah~pe," a revelat.ion from the ctheric
world, iL commenced about 1848, after the judgment. of
the false Gods, and their acceptance of the ~entcnce which
compeb t.hcJn to work for the restoration of the all truth,
the UNITY of J chovih, and the rai~ing up of all whom
they had led ast.ray. E\·ideuee of this work and it~ pro-
gress we have in the world to-day, but it mny Le \vell
before closing the~e papers to quote so1ne of Oah~pe's
utterances in regard to it.. The earliest announcement of
it is the following:-"llehold, the seventh era is at hand.
Thy creator commandeth t.hy change from a carn i n1rou~
1nan of contention, to an hcri.Ji\'orou:-: 1nan of peace. The
four heads of the Beast (the four falf:e religious system~)
shall be put away; and war shall bo no n1orc on the
eart.h. Thy armies shall be disbandcrl. And from thi;;
time forth, whosocYer desireth not to w:1r, thou shalt not
ilnpress, for it is the com1nandment of thy Creator.
Neither :;hnlt thou have any God, nor Lord, nor Sa t•iou 1' 1

but only thy Creato1·, Jeho·vih! Him only shalt thou

worship henceforth foreYer. I an1 sutlicien t unto ~Iine
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vn..Len ... n e (lwbracing rurporc,l} and sr.nritual t.lungs, it
is called the beginning of the ·' K OS)IO:.\ EHA. '' ( Oah.,
page~ 1 and :l, , .. 1G-2G.)
"And when the inhabitation of t-he earth shall be
completed, anJ the nation E:hall ha,·c e~tabli::;h ed civil
comu1un iuu mvmHl fron1 Ea~t to \Y est, in that same t.iu1e
,I will I bring the earth into the lZQS)lO:X ERA, and ~Iy

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angel amba~~adors, Gods and Goddesses: sh all render up
the recorcl~ of the... e heaven ly kingdon1::-. Through t.hen1
will I rc,·eal tut to u1ortab the creations of ~Iy \Yorlds,
and the hi~tory itnd dmninion of )ly Gous and Lords
I on the earth, even fron1 this day do"·n to the time of
KOS~10N ." (Oah. , p. 14, "· 14-15.)
"And when t.h e~· haYe carri ed )ly name to t h e \Y est
coast of Gnuta1na (Xorth America). and established ~lc,
behold, I will bring the earth into KOS~lO ~; and 1ll y
angel.s sh all descend upon the earth iu eYery quart.er, with
great power.
ct_A nd it ~hall C0111C to pa~~ that the Faithist~ of the
children of 1lo~e::; shall find the Fait.hists of the children
of Chine and t h(l Faithists of the ch ildren of Capilya.
( ~ote :-Chine und Capilya, law-givers~ the former for
China. the lat.ter for India. and they were contemporanc-
ou~ with ~loses, the law-giYer for ff:rael. All were ~I OXO­
THEIST~. h ence, in the language of Oah sp c, FAITH-
ISTS.)
"And all thc~c people sh all cry out in that. day: J.Vo
nod, no /Jrn·d, 110 Swvio1o·. For )I ~~ hand will he upon
Ihe111. an(l t.hcir worrlf: sh all be ~ly words. Bn t th ey will
prorlaint .liP, t1Ic Great Spirit, t.he E ver Ptesent, Jeho1•ih.

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And they ~hall Lccumc tht. v·, r:t of tlu· 1u;dd)· urH.l slwll
establish peace and put anuy u ttr, leading nll peoples in
the way of peace, lo\'e, and nghteou::ne~;,... ( Oah., p. -!68,
V. 13-15.)
•· For to make ready for the K OS~ lO ~ Eft.:\, I \\'ant
not a few, but t.lwu~ands of milhon!; in hean•u and earth,
to inspire ijttch as lire in darkne8s .., ( Oah, p =)8G, \' 1i.)
"An(l it shall come to pa:s~, that wh( 11 the \\" e5krn
Cun tiuc11t i~ inhabited ctern;::o: fron. En~t to \rc::t, all the
catth will be circutu~crib0d with llll'U of \riH1oJU and
learning. ..\nd the year uf thl' l'in·um:--cribing ~hall be
the beginning of KO~.JIOS. \nd the hean~n=-- of the
earth ~hnll be opened, and the angel~ then.·of ~hall dc:'ceud
to the earth. and 111ake them5clvc:-: kuo,,·n to mortal:::
even t.hrough thL·lll \\'hich :our loo'i ..: .. hall ha,·.. . },ora
unto the work.'' ( J>~ychic~. prepared for the work by
a class of angels who~e businc~s it 1~ tD de,·elop l:Uch
meditunistic qualities.)
uBehold. the falH· God~ are cn:-t out, nnd sent unto
their plnccs. ~e\'er lllorc ::hall th('rc he nuy other fals~
God, or Lord, or Saviour, to lead ~Iy p('ople :l\\ ny. . . .
Let this, t-herefore. be the beginnin~ of the K OS.J IO~
ERA. .Jiy people have ::cttlecl the \rhol<' enrth arounci,
from East. to \\"est: the land~ of t.hc we:'tf•rn borcl(•l';o; of
Gaut amn ha\·c become inhabited. (;o , tht'n. )l ,. Go 1,
)Iy Son, open the gnle8 oj he11ro1 unt(} mortal.~. Let .Jiy
an ,qel.~ mrcl thrm. ancl talk 11ilh th rm) far, , to fare . .
Again . the Yoice ~pake out. of the light. :-aying : I know
no cli~tinctiou of n1en. of race~. of ~ect:-:. m· rlodrith·~. or
past reYelat.ions. ..:\11 people are ~l y people! Open the

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gates of heaven; let l\fy angels speak to 1nortals I (Oah.,

Chapt. XIX.)
('Jehovih said: When the world approacheth dan'ha
(dawn of a nmY era of light) in Sabea, the nations shall
be quickened with new light; for ICOSMON cometh out
of the midst. And lVIy et.herean hosts shall press upon
the understanding of n1en, and they shall fill all nations
and kingdo1ns with new discoveries, and inventions, and
books of learning. And n1en shall be conceited of them-
selves above all the ages past., and they shall deny l\le
and quarrel with ~fy nmne, and cast !vic out.. But I will
come upon then1 as a Father, in love and mercy; and ~iy
hosts of heaven shall cause babes and fools to confound
the wise, by signs and n1iracles. My hosts from heaven
shall cause chairs to speak, and inanimate things to walk
and dance. The dead shall reappear to the living, and
t.alk '\Yith them face to face, and eat and drink, and prove

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themselves to be the children of the earth, and make l\iy
kingdoms known. Yea, they shall enc01npass the whole
earth around about with signs and wonders, and set at
naught the philosophy of men, and the idolatries of the
ancients. For both the living and the dead shall know
that I, Jehovih, live and reign over heaven and earth.
This shall be a ne'w era, and it shall be called l{OS:MON,
because it en1braceth the present and all the past. Then
will I reveal ~1yself; and they that deny l\tle shall accept
1\ie; of their own accord will they put away their Lords
and their Gods, and their Savjours; nor shall they 1nore
have idols of Me either on earth or in heaven, for I A11
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Surely, in the light of reason, lti:::lory, the present

condition of the world, and its developments during tho
past. GO years) thoro 1s c\·idencc ~uflicieu tly strong to
warrant any OpCD-lllindcd lllUD to uclierc in the rc\"Cla-
tions uutde in Oahspe; and to lH.:rcci vc that our Loasted
Chri::;tinnity, in its theological a~pect~. is a fnl~c system
and mu::;t pass away. But, nothing that is true can. pas.'l
an·<.ry)· and out of the seething ma:::;:; of cuntcn<ling opinions
will pre~ently anse ''TilE KI~GDO~l OF TilE 1::\-
Fl~l'rE FATllER CPOX EAHTII.'' ll will be a king-
dom of LoYe; its creed so simple that n child can under-
stand it; it will be TilE F.ATIIEHIIOOD OF GOD AXD
'l'I-IE BROTIIERHOOD OF :Jl \N. It is depict~d 1n
the following pa:-=sagc fr0111 Oah., p. 7~8, v. 4-8. :-''Behold,
the tinw drmreth near when the nations of the earth
shall cour:::e around t.hc whole earth in ships, crossing
tho seas and oceans, to all t.he places l createo. And
those that have l>uilt in one place .bhall no longer say:
This is oul' country. For I will no nwre ha\·e the nations
of the earth LOCKED UP unto themselves; nor one
Conf.incnt ~eclusivo to one people; nor one ocean, nor
sea! nor port, nor ri \·er, for any nation or tribe of men.
"They shall know that the whole earth is ~line, and
all the waters of the earth, and the air of the firmament.;
and that I created them for all :\Iy people to receive
them and enjoy them unt.o ~line own glory. They shall
throw open their places, and :::ay to one another: \r elcon1e,
my brother, wheresoever J ehovih pron1ptcth thee to
dwell, be it ~o with thee, and I will give unto thee also."
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tianit.y, aucl of the rea~on~ un<l ntothocl~ of its fnlsification,
the little book callN1 ''Origins of Christianity '' will be of
<... <

great selTi<'o. It \ras published in An1erica almost con· c

temporaneously with Oahspe. \\That Oahspe states in
globo thi~ little book gives in some detai), hy confe~sions .~
of t-he actual perpetrators of the frauds. These rnen I.
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(spirit-n1en) were most reluetant.ly brought. to confession c
by t.he lntc Professor Faraday and a band of enlightened
spirits who gave them~elYes to t.he work. Unwilling as
they "·ere to come, yet t.he confessions have liberated them
frmn their bondage, and they arc nm\· progressi\'e and
thankful for t.heir release. The writer of these page3
published n n ..:\ u:-;tralinn edition of the book ~ and it can
be obtained fro111 Colo's Book Arcade, in .Jlelbourne.
Sydney, and Adelaide.
'Vc give Professor Faraday's in traduction to the
book, so that readers mny haye son1e idea of its scope
and purpose, nnd also of the re1iabilit.\· of the cmninuni-
cations, in a general \ray :-"In presenting t.his work I
am aware that I am courting criticis1n frOJn many of my
old friends and pupils: for what I h ere give, relative to

I the subject of Christianity, is different. from what I

believed and taught in 1ny earthly life.
uThe task of unYeiling the secr ets of past ages is
not agreeable to 1ne. But. before hu1nanity can e1nerge
to a truthful plane of religions thought., the real basis
of r eligious ideas must be understood.
((\\''ere it possible to ignore the effects of religious
error upon the rnental .Jevelopmen t of t.he individual, I
should not feel it my duty to assi~t. in this department;

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lJut iu the .. ph·it., a~ well a~ thl• eurthly ::thtr·, religiou:-

error:-: nrc cn.'r nnt.agoni:-:ing truth.
'·Because iu this age tlw :<o-enllcd Chri::t inu religion
clait11~ to Itn,·c the supreme j11I'i:-:uiction m·cr the minus
of mort.nl!-- in nll things pertaining to ~piritua l truth, I
htn-c in\'ile<l t.hc ~pirit.s "ho lin~d pn t, r to. and uflr~r,
the ndYent of the Christian religion, to ttnNLl'el t.he
mystety'which surrounds 1ls nrigin.
''Jlnny of t.heir stat-ements were nr·\\' to me. aud "ill
be new to the world. Thnt thP-y are truthful 1 han~ no
clou utI nlthuugh SOBle of t hell I may hn \'(! been SOlliC\\' hat
n1oditicd by translation.
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I hn,·e gi\'en them as they were gi,·en to 1ne, nnd
hope t.hey mny aid the mincl~ itl enrtl1 life to form a
correct op1nion as to the Yaluc of the religion which has
supplaute<l ancient Greek and Homan Pagnnistu in the
ho1ne of its nativity.
ll~Iy ~tudies as a che1nist and philo~opher have
brought. me in communication with the philosophic minds
of past nges, nnd in my previous work~ upon the nature
of the soul I ha,·e had their co-operation and in\'nluable
judgment.
uB~· their request., I act n~ the tram-mittel' of these
con1nnu1 icnt.ion~, my office being to correctly itnpre~s the
earthly medium, so that the fact~ which clenl \\'ith the
subject under considerntion shu 11 lw correctly ~t.ated.
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'Thc~c communications belong to the philosophical
department. of Spiritualism, and nrc not. designed a.;; te~t~
of identity. .:\s that clepartnl<'ll t hns been proYicled for
by another me<lium, lee yi1·r, to the C'htistian z~.:orld that

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which it has long de.sired} viz., tntthful infor1nation -about

II the source of its beliefs concerning a future life.

~1. F...t~RADAY, Feb. 20, 1883."
l~ote.-1L Faraday passed away in 1867. The date
given with this preface would be about 16 years after
his entrance into the life of the spirit. The 1nedium
through who1n Faraday operated is a private gentle1nan,
still living, but wishes to remain incogrzit~. He is, how-
ever, known as "The Faraday !vieclium."-J.N.J.

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