{"collection":"Oahspe","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_oah_apollo_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_oah_apollo_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_oah_apollo_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/oah/apollo.htm","summary":"This is an excerpt from *Oahspe: A New Bible* (1882), a 19th-century American spiritualist scripture composed in archaic biblical prose, claiming to be a divine revelation. The narrator is Apollo \u2014 not the Greek deity, but a cosmic spiritual being in Oahspe's mythology \u2014 who recounts being commanded by \"Jehovih\" (the supreme creator) to descend to Earth (\"the red star\") with a hundred million etherean companions to cultivate harmony, symmetry, and music in humanity. The central argument is that spiritual development consists of progressive attunement: first with oneself, then with one's surroundings, then with the cosmos, and finally with Jehovih \u2014 a state of full attainment called Nirvana, in which past and future become transparent. A recurring and distinctive claim is that perceiving God is analogous to having an ear for music: those who deny Jehovih are not intellectually superior but spiritually discordant, incapable of perceiving a harmony that is self-evident to the attuned. The text also insists on cyclical history \u2014 the world has been peopled and devastated many times \u2014 and pushes back against modern self-congratulation, arguing that present civilization's \"enlightenment\" is marginal compared to what it supposes. Spirit is said to grow by giving rather than accumulating, inverting the logic of material existence.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Book of Apollo, Son of Jehovih 1","tradition":"Oahspe","translated_text":null,"word_count":5204}