{"collection":"oah","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/oah/boi2.htm","path":"oah/boi2.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/oah/boi2.htm","text":"2. Neither am I accountable whether it be well made, or well preserved.\n3. And if I can not make one new thought nor idea, then, indeed are all my thoughts and ideas Jehovih's, given to me by inspiration, either directly by Jehovih, or by His creations.\n4. Neither, then, am I accountable for my thoughts, nor ideas, nor behavior, whether they be good or bad. Verily, then, I am not responsible for anything, neither what I am, nor what I do, nor for what becometh of me. I am but an automation; I, myself, am nothing.\n5. 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 to thee, and for thy peace and happiness, both in this world and the next.\n6. Liberty I gave thee as to what thou shouldst eat, and shouldst wear to cover thyself, and where thou shouldst abide.\n7. I gave thee liberty to build thy house in thine own way; but, behold, such liberty I gave not to the bird, as to her nest, nor to the beaver, nor to the ant, nor to any other living creature.\n8. Liberty I gave thee as to whether thou should eat herbs or flesh. But such liberty I gave not to any other living creature.\n9. To the sheep and the horse I said: Eat ye of herbs; to the tiger and lion: Eat ye of flesh.\n10. To thee I gave liberty to make thyself carnivorous, or herbivorous, or omnivorous.\n11. Whatsoever thou didst put in thy mouth, and it united with thy blood, and entered thy body, behold, it was by My labor and by My power it was accomplished.\n12. Verily was I thy workman.\n13. All that thou didst in the matter was to choose. Thou wert, in that respect, the master, and I thy servant. And, behold, I made not the servant responsible for the master's behavior.\n14. Because thou madst thyself carnivorous, the fault is thine own. I placed before thee the herbivorous animals and the carnivorous animals; and I gave thee eyes to look upon them as to their behavior, whether ferocious and destructive, or peaceful, patient and docile.\n15. And I spake unto thy soul, saying: Look, judge for thyself as to what thou shalt eat; behold the order of My creations and the result upon all My living creatures.\n16. Hence, thou art accountable unto thyself, and responsible unto all the world for having made thy corporeal body as thou hast.\n17. Even so, in regard to thy spirit, thy soul, thy mind, thy ideas and thy thoughts, I gave thee liberty in the same way.\n18. I gave thee liberty to receive thy inspiration from drunkards and harlots and fighters; or from men of wisdom, or the innocence of childhood, or the virtue of a virgin.\n19. Or from a city of corruption, or from the country, with pure air and trees, and flowers and mountains and valleys.\n20. And I spake unto thy soul, saying: Choose thou what thou wilt to be the inspiration of thy mind and spirit and soul; behold, I, thy Creator, am thy servant to impregnate thee with thoughts and ideas and disposition. All thou hast to do, is to choose.\n21. Yea, I said: I will even take thee to whichever place and condition thou mayst choose.\n22. And, now, because I gave unto thee this extreme liberty, and thou hast chosen, behold, thou art accountable unto thyself for thine every thought and idea; and for thy spirit and soul, and in thy behavior thou art responsible to all the world.\n23. With liberty I bestowed responsibility also.\n24. I am the Power, the Light and the Life.\n25. In one thing, chiefly, thou art not an automaton, and that is thine own entity, thine own self, thine own whatsoever thou art.\n26. Thyself I gave to thyself, and even at the zero of thy entity, I said unto thee: Go thou, make thyself. All other animals I created perfectly with Mine own hands, but to thee I gave liberty to make thyself, even as thou hast. Yea, even in this, I said: Choose thou, and I will do for thee thy labor Myself.\n27. So that, choice and liberty were the sum total which I gave to thee.\n28. Now, therefore, O man, as I gave choice and liberty unto thee, so shalt thou give the same unto thy neighbor and associate.\n29. Without these, there is no responsibility; with these, all responsibility.\n30. Choose thou thine own food, and thine own raiment and thine house; and choose thou the place, and provide thou the way for whatever inspiration thou mayst, still thou shalt be responsible in all; and the result shall be to thee according to thine own choice, whether thou fawn upon satan, or emulate thy Creator.\n2. The northern line of the sun shall be the end of the year, and it shall be called the last day of the old year, saith Jehovih.\n3. And the first day thereafter, when the sun starteth on his southern course, shall be the beginning of the year, and it shall be called the new year's day.\n4. These are My times of the end and the beginning of a year, which I created; and I made the earth and the sun as My written testimony thereof.\n5. And I blessed and sanctified the old year's day and the new year's day, and I appointed them to be holy days, that men might remember the order and the system of My works.\n6. And I said unto man: From one new year's day until the succeeding one shall be called one year, for it is one completed oscillation of the earth, and of her revolution in the orbit where I placed her.\n7. Therefore, what thou hast completed within a year shall be remembered by thee, that thou mayst judge thyself therein.\n8. And, on the old year's day, thou shalt render up in full forgiveness in all things against all people.\n9. And with the setting of the sun on that day, thou shalt be purged of all animosity and claims against every man, woman and child, in all the world.\n10. And thou shalt make acknowledgement of this in words and songs and prayers, and in tokens, of no intrinsic value, to whomsoever thou shalt have offended during the past year.\n11. Tae said: For which reason the old year's day shall be named, the Most Holy Sabbath Day. Behold, it is in accord with His heavenly kingdoms. And it shall be with thee a day of spiritual communion, and of praise to Jehovih and His creations; with music and oratory, and ceremonies, and processions of thy youth, orderly and well disciplined.\n12. And, on the new year's day, thou shalt rejoice and sing and dance; mingling together, old and young, even as the old year and the new year are joined together, side by side.\n13. The seventh day of the new year shall be thy next sabbath day, and it shall be a day of rest and of spiritual communion and praise to Jehovih and His creations, with singing and oratory.\n14. So also shall every seventh day be a sabbath day; for which reason seven days shall be one week, being six days for labor, and one for rest and worship.\n15. For this hath been proven in all the world to be good for man.\n16. These, then, shall be the moon's days (months):\n17. The first new moon's day after new year's day shall be the beginning of the first month; and the completion of the fourth quarter of the moon shall be the completion of the first month, and it shall be named, First month.\n18. The next four quarters of the moon shall be the second month, and it shall be named, Second month.\n19. And the next completed four quarters of the moon shall be named, Third month. And so on, to the completion of the year.\n20. Such, then, shall be the month in any and every year, for these are the moon's times as Jehovih created them.\n21. Neither shall it matter or not whether the months overlap a new year's day; as they are created and moved by the Almighty, even so shall man compute and register them.\n22. (For example, a new year's day may come upon the twentieth day of the Twelfth moon or on another moon's day, still, as they fall, so shall they be numbered in truth.)\n23. As the moon's time differeth to different continents, so shall the months' times of the inhabitants of different continents be locally unto them.\n24. But, in the intercourse between different nations on different continents, the month times shall not be enumerated.\n25. But, in all such cases, the year and the days thereof shall be named.\n26. (As, for example, the seventieth year and the ninety-sixth day.)\n27. And it shall come to pass that the sabbath days all around the world shall be the same day unto all people, even with the travel of the sun.\n28. Whereby, Jehovih's heavenly kingdoms shall be in concert with mortals, as to times and seasons in all things.\n1. As Jehovih, through His God, bequeathed to the children of Guatama a government unfettered by the name of God or Lord or Savior, so Jehovih sanctified the day of the ratification and the signing and sealing of His compact (American Constitution), as the Day of the Holy Seal.\n2. And the sign thereof He made, A hand holding a quill.\n3. Which shall be the master's sign of salutation in the lodge on the day and evening commemorating the same.\n4. And Jehovih made the answer to the master's sign, The holding up (by the member of the lodge) of a piece of paper, signifying, Constitution.\n5. Therefore it was said: The master saluted on the sign, Day of the Holy Seal, and the lodge answered in the sign, Constitution.\n6. And Jehovih said: Remember this day, and keep it holy, to the end of the world, for hereat was the beginning of the liberty of man!\n1. As Jehovih, through His God, pulled aside the veil of heaven, saying:\n2. Let My angels forth; together shall converse the living and the dead.\n3. So santified He the day when the angels of heaven were made known to mortals. (March 31, 1848.)\n4. And He gave the sign, A hand holding aside a veil, signifying, Heaven Unveiled, as the master's sign in the lodge on the day and evening commemorating the same.\n5. And Jehovih gave to the members of the lodge to answer in the sign, Three Clappings, signifying, Endless Joy!\n6. And Jehovih said: Remember this day, and keep it holy, to the end of the world. For, without books and without arguments, behold, I have proven unto you the immortality of the soul of man!\n1. As Jehovih, through His God, delivered into freedom Guatama's slaves, and, thus, to general slavery dealt the final blow, so Jehovih blessed that day, and sanctified it.\n2. And He gave to man, as the master's sign in the lodge, A hand pointing toward a pen, signifying, I have proved this mightier than the sword.\n3. And Jehovih gave to the members in the lodge to answer in the sign, Clasped hands, and looking upward, signifying, In Thy Praise, Jehovih!\n4. Jehovih said: Remember the day of proclamation of freedom, for it is My day, which I bequeath unto you as a day of freedom in all righteous jollification, which ye shall keep every year, and commemorate, to the end of the world.\n1. Beside the above, Jehovih gave one more holy day, Kosmon Day, which He also commanded to be kept in commemoration of another matter, which Jehovih commanded to be secret with the Faithists for a certain period of time, the which time hath not expired to this day. Therefore, the day of kosmon is still a secret with the Faithists.\n2. And Jehovih said: That mortals and angels may live and labor in concert, behold, I have given certain days, whereby large congregations on earth may be met by My organic heavens, in re-union, mortals and angels, for the happiness of both, and for the glory of My works.\n3. Now, behold also, as by My Presence I inspire thee, when thou laborest with Me, and thou art doing righteously, and with purity and love, so also is it with thee, in regard to My angels.\n4. When thou makest and keepest thy corporeal body pure and clean, My angels, who are pure and clean, come to thee to aid thee, and to enlighten thee.\n5. And when thou puttest away all unclean thoughts and all unselfish desires, and seekest to obtain wisdom, and to learn how best thou canst help thy fellow-man, behold, My angels of light and wisdom come to thee, and, by virtue of their presence, which thou seest not, they inspire thy soul in the light of thy Creator.\n6. Man hath said: I will not be a seer, or a prophet, nor a su'is, nor sar'gis; verily, I will not have angels with me to teach me, or to give me any light or knowledge under the sun.\n7. Whatever I can attain, it shall be mine own. Wiser is it for me to obtain to know, and to do things of myself, than have angels come and give to me, or manifest through me.\n8. Verily, I will not be used, by man nor angel, for it would be prostituting my flesh and my spirit to others.\n9. Behold, my body was given to me for mine own use and profit, to establish and develop mine own soul unto eternal happiness in individuality.\n10. Alike unto all people is My Presence, saith Jehovih. I am unto the just and the unjust; I am everywhere, both, in darkness and in light.\n11. Because thou art in darkness, thou beholdest not Me.\n12. Because thou art imperfect in flesh and spirit, thou deniest Me.\n13. Because thou art confounded with inharmony, thou believest not in Me.\n14. He, who hath not an ear for music, discovereth not a tune; even as he that is discordant denieth My Person.\n15. To the pure there is no selfishness, neither for earthly things, nor for their own flesh and spirit.\n16. A pure man is as a clear glass; he can see out of himself, and, so, perceive My angels and Me.\n17. Through the pure man, pure angels can see mortality as well as spirituality. Their presence inspireth him to understand all things.\n18. As much with the man that is not a seer, or a su'is, are the angels, as with those that are seer, or su'is, or sar'gis.\n19. Because thou seest not, nor hearest angels, only proveth thy darkness, but proveth not the absence of angels.\n20. To the dark, come the dark; with the dark, abide the dark, both, angels and mortals.\n21. More is the man of darkness ruled by angels, than is the man of light.\n22. Behold, I created thee not to fill any place in all the world for thine own self's sake.\n23. Neither gave I thy flesh nor thy spirit to be thine only.\n24. These, also, shalt thou relinquish, saying: To Thee, O Jehovih, I give all; my flesh, my spirit, mind, and all my service; to be Thine forever.\n25. Thou shalt say: Appropriate Thou me, soul and body, in whatsoever way Thou canst, that I may do the most good unto others, mortals and angels.\n26. Until thou attainest this, thou shalt not hear My Voice, nor see My Hand.\n27. As I gave away Myself, and thus created all things, so shalt thou follow in My footsteps, in order to become one with Me.\n28. Herein lieth the secret of wisdom, truth, love and power, time without end.\nEnd of Book of Inspiration.","title":"Book of Inspiration","type":"page"}