Oahspe

Book of Apollo, Son of Jehovih 1

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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 — not the Greek deity, but a cosmic spiritual being in Oahspe's mythology — 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 — 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 — the world has been peopled and devastated many times — 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.

Book of Apollo, Son of Jehovih 1

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