Oahspe

Book of Divinity 3

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This is an excerpt from *Oahspe: A New Bible* (1882), an American spiritualist scripture dictated via automatic writing by dentist John Ballou Newbrough, presented as a channeled revelation in the tradition of 19th-century religious innovation. The passage narrates a cosmic schism in which a powerful Lord named Ahura (also called Ctusk) breaks from the heavenly hierarchy presided over by God and the supreme deity Jehovih, declaring himself "Ahura'Mazda, the All Sufficient High God" and amassing a rival kingdom of billions of souls in the lower heavens. The central dramatic exchange is a prolonged theological argument between God and Ahura: God pleads for Ahura's return, offering personal sacrifice; Ahura counters that he no longer believes in an "All Person" (a supreme divine consciousness), only in a hierarchy of powerful but finite gods. Jehovih intervenes to tell God to stop arguing, predicting that Ahura's ambition will ultimately enslave him rather than liberate him — a spiritual analog to the corrupting logic of earthly wealth. The text's distinctive claim is its syncretic mythology, explicitly weaving Zoroastrian names (Ahura Mazda, Ormazd) into a cosmology where they represent a *fallen* angelic figure, inverting the Persian religious tradition. It frames sectarian religious division on earth — particularly in ancient India ("Vindyu") and China ("Jaffeth") — as the direct result of competing heavenly factions manipulating mortal worship.

Book of Divinity 3

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