The Basis of the Ezra Bible

1. In the time of Moses, the people of Arabin'ya
worshiped many Gods and Lords, whose high heavenly
Captain was Osiris. Four chief Gods were under him;
they were: Baal, Ashtaroth, Dagon and Ashdod.
There
were seven and twenty other Gods also, known to
mortals.

2. When the Israelites traveled forth amidst the
different tribes, they were beset to know what Lord
or what God they worshiped, and by what Lord or what
God they were led forth.

3. The Light in wisdom and words came to Moses to say
to the nations, Alas, His Name, whom we worship,
man dare not utter.

4. Within the commune families, were certain signs and
pass-words belonging to the different degrees. There
were also oral rules of life and worship, but these
were kept secret from the multitude, but the
instruction of the commune fathers to the families
was by this method made to harmonize all the people.

5. For general behavior, Moses gave ten commands,
which were not only made public but were incumbent on
the commune fathers to teach orally to their
respective families. The following are the
commandments thus taught, that is to say:

6. I Am the I Am that brought thee out
of Egypt.

7. Thou shalt have no Gods nor Lords but the I
Am.

8. Thou shalt not make any image of the I Am
out of anything that is in heaven above, or on the
earth beneath, or in the waters.

9. Thou shalt not bow down thyself before idols nor
images, nor anything having the form of anything in
heaven, or on the earth, or in the waters.

10. Thou shalt not speak My name in public, for I will
not hold him guiltless that giveth it to idolaters
and lovers of evil.

11. Remember the sacred days and keep them holy. Six
days shalt thou labor; but the seventh day is the
Sa'abbadha.

16. In those days it so happened that one Koetha, an
Egyptian woman, a su'is, went into the lodge at
noon, no person being within the lodge save herself.
Now, whilst she was examining the remnants of
shew-bread and basins, and the candlestick, a Voice
spake to her, saying: Touch not these, they are
sacred. But the woman, knowing it was a spirit,
said: If I tell what I have heard, I will be
accursed; for was it not the multitude of seeresses
that brought the plagues on Egypt?

17. Again the Voice spake, saying: I will give thee
the signs and pass-words of the High Fathers, that
they may also know that thou knowest. Now, thereupon
the Spirit told her the secrets; and he likewise
said: Say thou to Moses, The I Am saith (and
Moses will wonder at thy speech): Behold, these
implements are sacred. Hide thou them by day, for
they who have spirit perception, perceiving them,
will obtain the signs and pass-words.

18. The woman, Koetha, did as commanded, and Moses
commanded workmen to make a tabernacle (a model or
image of a place of worship, a portable temple), and
the sacred implements were kept within said
tabernacle, and this was the corporeal base of the
ark of Bon, a locality in the etherean heaven, by
which the light of the sacred heaven reached the
earth to Moses and his people, in a pillar of cloud
by day and of light by night.

19. The secret ceremonies commanded vegetable diet for
fathers, prophets, seers, and wanonas (trance
subjects), and many of Koetha's people followed their
example. After some years of experience, those who
fasted from flesh murmured, saying: What have we
gained for our sacrifice?

20. So they broke their fasts by hundreds and by
thousands; and there came by their camps numberless
birds, and they caught and killed and ate them
freely; but, being unaccustomed to such diet, they
were taken with fever and died, upward of sixty
thousand of them, men, women and children, and the
place was called Kibrath-Hattaavah, the place of
lusters.

21. In the year 3269 B.K., the Israelites began to
marry with the Canaanites, who were under the control
of Baal.

22. Ashtaroth, whose dominions extended jointly with
Baal over Western and Southern Arabin'ya, sent spirit
emissaries to the handsomest of the women of Canaan,
and by impression led them into the camps of the
Israelites, to tempt the young men, for by these
means did the heathen Gods determine to destroy the
worshipers of the Great Unseen. And many of
the Israelitish young men were tempted by the beauty
of the heathen women and thus took them for wives;
and said wives brought with them their own familiar
spirits, who were slaves to Baal and Ashtaroth.

23. The ark of Bon immediately sent Jerub, an etherean
angel, into the Israelites' camp, giving him two
thousand inspiring spirits to counteract the labors
of Baal and Ashtaroth.

24. Nevertheless, it so came to pass that when the
half-breed children were grown up, having Canaan
mothers, they began to murmur against the peace
policy of the Israelites, saying: As other people
have kings and emperors, why not we? As other people
raise up soldiers, declare war, and go forth
possessing themselves of lands and cattle, why do not
we?

25. For three hundred and ninety-seven years after
going out of Egypt, the Israelites lived without a
corporeal king, or other government, save the
community of fathers; and they attained to the number
of six millions of souls, men, women and children.

26. But in the three hundred and ninety-seventh year,
the Gods Baal and Ashtaroth triumphed, through their
familiar spirits, and caused the Israelites to anoint
a king to rule over them. This king was called Saul,
signifying Of the Lord God. Prior to this the
Israelites acknowledged no God nor Lord, but
covenanted with the Great Spirit, E-O-Ih. The name
had been kept secret with the fathers, and the
commandments were announced from the Great Spirit,
I Am.

27. The familiar spirits now inspired Saul to change
the words of the commandments to the Lord thy
God, as a conciliatory strategem to please the
nations and tribes of people who worshiped Baal,
Dagon, Ashtaroth, Haughak, and other Gods and Lords
of the lower heavens.

28. Thus was substituted Lord God (Land God) for
Jehovih (called sacredly, E-O-Ih), and as the Great
Spirit had been heretofore taught to the Israelites
as an inconceivable entity, Whose Form and Extent
no man could attain to know, so was He now
transformed and declared to be in the form of a man,
and having a residence in the firmament of heaven.
Thus they made the Great Spirit merely an idol; thus
they began the overthrow of the holy doctrines of
Moses.

29. Jerub, the etherean angel in command, sought to
preserve the old tenets, and amongst mortals sought
out one, Samuel, and inspired him to establish a
college of prophets, and this was done at Naioth, and
hither congregated the inspired; and they established
a crescent Tablet, and made prophecies from etherea
for a period of seventy years.

30. Hereupon the Israelites were twain, those of the
king and those of E-O-Ih, the prophets, and these
placed them at a disadvantage before neighboring
tribes and nations. Having sacrificed the name of
the Great Spirit, and made him into a man figure, the
heathen said: What better is their Lord God than our
Lord or our God? and they made war against the
Israelites on all sides; and the latter having
stooped to a corporeal king, went further on and
raised armies of soldiers and went to war.

31. In the four hundred and ninth year after the
departure out of Egypt, the entire Peace Policy and Non-resistance of the Mosaical
Inspiration was overthrown, and the Israelites became
warriors, and even warred against one another.

32. The Israelites not only worshiped the imaginary
idol, Lord God in heaven, but built representatives
of Him in stone and wood, and worshiped them also.

33. And now, one Ahijah, a young man from the college
of prophets, foretold the coming captivity of the
Israelites as a consequence of their idolatry.

34. In the year 2768 B.K., a young man, Elijah, was
raised up from the branch of the college of prophets,
and, under the inspiration of the angel Jerub, went
forth preaching amongst the heathen, preaching not
the Lord God, but Jehovih.

35. Ahab, a king, a worshiper of Baal, said to Elijah:
What better is one God than another, or more
powerful? Are not all Gods but the spirits of men
raised up in heaven?

36. Elijah answered him, saying: I preach neither
Lord nor God, but Jehovih, the Creator, who is Ever
Present and Potent over all things.

37. Ahab said: Then thy Master hath neither eyes nor
ears, knowing nothing, like the wind. He is foolish,
and without intelligent answer to thy prayers.

38. Elijah said: Summon thou thy priests, and thy
high priests, who have power through Baal and
Ashtaroth and Dagon, and they and their Gods shall
try in a tournament against Jehovih.

39. Ahab caused the tournament to take place, and when
the priests and high priests of Baal had spread the
sacrifice they repeated their invocations for a
miracle to prove the power of Baal and the other
Gods; but lo and behold, Jerub, the etherean angel,
with ten thousand spirits to assist him, prevented
any sign or miracle being accomplished by the
familiar spirits of Baal and Ashtaroth.

40. And now Elijah stretched forth his hand unto
Jehovih, saying: If it be Thy will, O Father, give
these people a sign of Thy Power!

41. And Jerub and his etherean host of angels, caused a
flame of fire to descend on the altar and consume the
sacrifice. The people feared, and many fell down,
exclaiming, Jehovih is mighty! Jehovih is mighty!

42. When the tournament was ended, Elijah went upon
Mount Carmel, and prayed for rain, and Jerub, with ten
thousand times ten thousand angels, brought the winds
from the north and south and east and west, and the
moisture in the air above was converted into rain,
and thus the long drouth was ended.

43. In the year 2635 B.K., the college of prophecy
raised up Jonah, and Amos, and Hosea.

44. In the year 2574 B.K., the kingdoms of Israel
perished, and they became a scattered people, and
fell into bondage again.

45. 2439 years before kosmon, Manasseth, son of
Hezekiah, established idol worship, and, by law,
abolished the worship of Jehovih. He caused the
prophet Isaah to be sawn in twain; and the judgment
was, because he worshiped Jehovih.

46. For three hundred years following, the only
Faithists amongst the Israelites were the prophets,
and the followers of the prophets, who had never
affiliated with those of the kingdoms and armies.

47. The Faithists proper were a small minority, and
scattered in many lands. The rest, who were called
Jews, lived under written laws and ceremonies, which
were compiled and established by Ezra, in Jerusalem, which
combination of books was called the Bible, and was
completed in the year 2344 B.K.

48. From that time forward, the Jews became worshipers
of the Lord and the God, but the scattered tribes of
the Faithists still held to the Great Spirit,
Jehovih, keeping their service secret. These latter
were without sin, doing no war nor resistance of evil
against evil, but returning good for evil, and loving
one another as one's self.

49. From the Faithist branch sprang the Asenean
(Essenean, or Es'eans) Association, cultivating
prophecy and purity of spirit. For further light,
read of Pharaoh in the lower heavens, and the
migration of the East Indian Gods westward, in another
part of Oahspe.

50. The angels of Jehovih now dwelt with the Aseneans,
who were the true Israelites in fact. Though many of
the Jews also professed Jehovih under the name of God
and Lord God.

51. In three hundred and fifty years after this
Jehovih raised up from the Aseneans, one Joshu, an
iesu, in Nazareth. Joshu re-established Jehovih, and
restored many of the lost rites and ceremonies.

52. In the thirty-sixth year of Joshu's age he was
stoned to death in Jerusalem by the Jews that
worshiped the heathen Gods.

53. Forty years after Joshu's death, a false God,
Looeamong, with millions of angel emissaries,
obsessed the inhabitants of all those countries and
plunged them into war and anarchy.

57. Looeamong, the false God, now changed his name and
falsely called himself Christ, which is the Ahamic
word for knowledge. And he raised up tribes of
mortal warriors, who called themselves Christians,
who are warriors to this day.

58. The doctrine of these warriors was, that knowledge,
which implieth general education, was the best
preventative against crime and misery. Neither
understood any man in those days that the word Christ
had any reference to a man or person. Now, from the
time of Moses to Ezra, there was an interval of four
hundred years, in which the Jews had no written
record.

59. The age of the Ezra Bible is not, therefore, from
the time of Moses, but from the time of Ezra, 2344
years B.K.