{"collection":"Oahspe","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_oah_div2_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_oah_div2_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_oah_div2_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/div2.htm","summary":"This is an excerpt from the *Oahspe Bible* (1882), an American spiritualist scripture attributed to automatic writing, presenting itself as revealed cosmological law in an archaic biblical register. Its central concern is defining \"Divan law\" \u2014 the governing code of a divine council (the Diva) that administers both heavenly and earthly affairs \u2014 by distinguishing it from what the Creator alone performs: originating life, sustaining the physical cosmos, and providing basic human drives. Divan law's domain is moral and social governance: guiding souls toward light, appointing mortal rulers, establishing rites, regulating marriage and baptism, and managing the fate of wayward spirits (\"drujas\") who cling to earth after death. The text also narrates the heavenly reign of a God named Hoab, who oversees a vast spiritual harvest of sixteen billion souls but laments that Zarathustrian celibacy is depopulating the earth. A notably distinctive claim runs throughout: written language and legal codes inevitably decay, so true justice must rest on an internalized \"higher law\" rather than literal words \u2014 a warning the text projects forward as prophecy of future civilizational corruption. The work grafts Zoroastrian figures (Ormazd, Zarathustra, the rab'bah) onto a multi-tiered angelic bureaucracy unique to its own 19th-century American spiritualist cosmology.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Book of Divinity 2","tradition":"Oahspe","translated_text":null,"word_count":2869}