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diff --git a/21610.txt b/21610.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..42a3a23 --- /dev/null +++ b/21610.txt @@ -0,0 +1,2082 @@ +Project Gutenberg's The Secret of the Creation, by Howard D. Pollyen + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Secret of the Creation + +Author: Howard D. Pollyen + +Release Date: May 25, 2007 [EBook #21610] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SECRET OF THE CREATION *** + + + + +Produced by Kevin Handy, V. L. Simpson, Suzanne Lybarger +and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + Transcriber's Note: Authorial idiosyncracies have been retained. + + +THE + +SECRET OF THE + +CREATION + +_By_ + +DR. HOWARD D. POLLYEN + +This book, the great wonder of the literary +age. + +Contains the first and second chapters of the +secret of the creation. + +The mightiest book ever written on earth +among men. + +Price 25c + + +THE SECRET OF THE CREATION + +_By_ + +DR. HOWARD D. POLLYEN + +THIS BOOK + + The great wonder of the literary age. +Contains the first and second chapters + of the Secret of the Creation. + The most mighty book ever written + on earth among men. + + Also contains songs and poems by Dr. Howard D. Pollyen, + the world's greatest author and writer of all times. + + Author of the deepest and most mystifying + songs--revealing the whole history of the human soul. + + The Secret of the Creation in full will follow this + little book which is but a touch of heaven's torchlight + to the human heart. + + +The Secret of the Creation + +By Dr. Howard D. Pollyen + + * * * * * + + + + +CHAPTER I + +The Creation of the Heavens + + +Jehovah has no beginning. He himself created time, and taught its +principles to the living things he also created, giving to them +comprehension, by which we ascribe, unto the infiniteness of Jehovah a +time and a beginning. + +Before that there were not any man or angels or living creatures of any +form created. When there were no worlds yet formed, nature stood in +three kingdoms. They were Light, Water, and Darkness. + +Then the kingdom of the light strove against the kingdom of darkness, +and the darkness contended with the light. The two elements came +together, each of them a separate unit, contending against the other. +And in their controversy the virtue of the power of each of them became +formed and concentrated into a living being. Their personalities are as +those of men, but their substance is power. The virtue--the +pre-motive--the ruling quorum--the master of all power: The being of +light was much greater than the being of darkness and ruled over him; +therefore was his name Jehovah. The being of darkness hated him with +great envy, thereby was his name Satan. But they were both lonesome; +being alone: Even as light and darkness is obstinate to each other. + +Then Jehovah saw that he was the master of nature, all power being +controlled by his hands. He looked upon the kingdom of the Waters and +saw that their alluvian substance could be divided and congealed into +many kingdoms of minerals, and he decided to create a world. He sent a +current of electricity in its first nature through the face of the +waters and said, "let the minerals be gathered together, each one in its +place in perfect order for the earth; and let the dry land appear above +the face of the waters." And the natural electricity went forth and +returned to and fro, and it was done. + +And Jehovah came and walked upon the world which he had created, and he +called it Heaven. For it was a place upon which he would cause to rest +the substance of life--out of which he had come. And he called to the +kingdom of light and saw that it was an immensity of life. Dividing it +he formed and created minor beings after his own image and in his own +form. And he called them souls. But they were naked, having no substance +for bodies like him. All the face of the heaven was filled with them as +they glittered before their creator in hosts. Some of them were great +and some of them were small; all being different, each one shining +according to the power of its own light. + +Then Jehovah created souls for other living things of all manner of +shapes and forms, great and small--unto the infinite small things until +the substance of life was contained. + +Jehovah set for his created things an order and a procession of life, +creating for them bodies. And they arose up and began to fill all the +face of heaven with songs and music. And thus the Heaven and the hosts +of it were finished. + +And Satan enveighed Jehovah and the things which he had made, for he +knew that there was no power of creating forces in the virtue of +darkness, and that he himself could not create or make any living thing +to stand before him in life. Therefore he hated life and sought with all +his power to destroy the created things of Jehovah. Satan's power went +out as a shadower of darkness towards them. It was the virtue of his own +evil self--his spirit of darkness--which attempted to come upon the +people and the beasts which Jehovah had made, to destroy them. + +But a light went forth from Jehovah as a refuge and a defense. It was +the virtue of his own righteous self--his spirit of perfection--the +embodiment of his almighty mind. The righteousness of his power went +forth and filled all his creation, and shielded and protected all the +living things which he had made from the darkness and evil of Satan. + +The creation teemed with the glory of Jehovah, an unmentionable space, +for there was no time there. Neither were there the aged or dying, for +Satan had not as yet cursed any thing that Jehovah had made. But justice +being the authority of Jehovah, he must be just with Satan also. He +could not prevent Satan from coming upon the earth and walking to and +fro through his creation. Jehovah could be jealous, but not selfish and +unjust. If Satan could persuade any of his creatures to forsake him and +to receive within them the power of his own Satanic spirit, justice said +that they were his and Jehovah should bear the loss. + +But Satan could not withstand the light and glory of Jehovah, for +Jehovah's brilliancy filled the heaven. He dwelt upon a throne in a +temple of power. The throne and temple were living power. Being gathered +together a natural substance which is power, and the pre-motive glory of +all beauty giving life to the living by its power of that which he +chose to array his dwelling place with. The virtue of the colors, the +red and green, azure, onyx, diamond, bedellium, saraf, amber, and all +manner of adornments of beauty, were faded of their virgin colors and +their sereness of glory, were brought forth in the construction of his +temple and throne. So that no being should be able to surpass Jehovah in +glory hence. + +And the temple and the throne in the temple is one living thing of +eternal life, borne by other living things. Where Jehovah wills to go, +the temple also can go. Eternal substance of power like streams of fire, +but more white like the light of diamond issuing toward every point of +the creation as it goes forth in its glory; and there is nothing unseen +or hid from its light. + +In the language and knowledge of man, infinite was the time that Satan +sought before he was able to defile any of the sons and daughters of +Jehovah. But out somewhere in the eternity sin began to steal into the +souls of the sons of the mighty. And they began to hate Jehovah and to +envy his glory in a great dispensation. Satan diminishing them after his +own power until one-third of all the hosts of heaven were defiled with +sin. And they had fallen from their power and from their former glory, +and had strayed away from their father's house; the brightness of their +souls glittering not. Satan had captivated them over into his great +night of despair--and they knew it not, for Satan had always appeared to +them arrayed in glory as if Jehovah, and they supposed that he was able +to continually give them light. But they were cast away from Jehovah, +and there was darkness and violence and despair, for the light of Satan +was as the shadows of a great night. There was no sun and moon and stars +to give them artificial light, for Jehovah is the only light of the +living soul, and his glory is the light of that world. The heaven was +filled with violence and his name was blasphemed with many inventions. +But they repented not from Satan unto Jehovah. Then there was war upon +the face of all the heaven: Michael and Mikrell and Gabriel, and the +millions of the mighty ones of the righteous came before Jehovah in a +council of war. And it was decreed that all the hosts of the wicked +should be slain and cast out of the heaven. And that the face of the +heaven should be cleansed. + +Then one came and stood before Jehovah--one whom he loved greater than +the love which he had for many of his created beings. He being the +excellency of his beginning, his son by love. And he said "Father, if +all these be slain and cast down they remain dead forever. They are +Satan's and he rejoices against thee that he shall ever have them. I go +in their midst and redeem them from Satan that they shall live again. I +shall purchase them from Satan with my own life. I die that they might +live again. Father, make for them another world that they might live +again and have a chance to repent from Satan unto thee. That they in +their great hosts remain not dead--forever dead." And Jehovah said, +"Son, if we make man again in our own image after our glory; again will +man sin, and Satan will have the mastery over him, and there would be +none to inhabit the new world which I create." Then the son said, +"Father, it shall be righteous that you make man again, for I shall go +with him until a day in which I shall meet thee out upon that world and +there again I will pay the price of man's sins, and redeem him from the +power of Satan, that not all of those be lost--forever lost." + +The decree of Jehovah was given that they should live again. Then +Michael, the captain of Jehovah's hosts, went forth and fought against +the Dragon; and the Dragon and his armies fought, but prevailed not; +neither was there any more room found in heaven for Satan and his host. +And the great Dragon--Satan--was cast out of heaven and all his angels +with him. + +And his right to dwell upon the face of heaven was forfeited when his +servants had slain the son of Jehovah. Who also redeemed the souls of +the dead from Satan's power when they had shed the blood of the captain +of salvation. And the heaven was cleansed from sin. Neither could Satan +or any of his servants return. All those who had sinned were forever +cast down. And the decree was set that they should not ascend again into +heaven in the infinite eternity. But those of Jehovah's servants who +loved not their lives in the days of battle and were slain in the war, +if they chose to follow their lost brothers down into the new world, +they from there might ascend again unto their father's house. + +And the waters stood beneath the heavens, and there was no form or void +in their substance. And the darkness prevailed unchanging. Then the +spirit of Jehovah moved upon the face of the waters beholding all +things. And Jehovah said let the light appear upon the face of the deep, +and let the darkness be gathered together in one place beneath the +heaven, and half of its place be given for the light, and it was so. And +Jehovah beheld the light that it was glorious. And he said let the +firmament of electricity divide the waters again beneath the heaven. And +let the substance of the upper part of the waters above the firmament be +gathered together and let the dry land appear. + +And let the waters whose substance have formed the earth be gathered +together, and let the earth and the waters stand in perfectness in their +orders. And let the firmament beneath the heaven of electricity remain +unmovable, and let there be a door as a gateway from the heaven to the +earth remain through the firmament. + +And thus on the first and second space of time which became days Jehovah +formed the earth and laid up veins of the minerals after their kinds in +their places, in perfect order. The mountains rising up high above the +seas, giving to the seas their places of permanency in the lower places +of the earth. In the third day Jehovah created the trees and +vegetation--all manner of trees to eradicate the face of the earth from +its nakedness. He created the seeds in the earth, each seed after its +kind, so it could not change forever from the laws of nature. The fourth +day he created great lights, the sun and moon and stars, and set them in +the firmament above the earth. In abodement of twelve houses. Made to +rule the darkness and to alternate nature, giving life to the things +which were to live in the parts of the earth where there was to be life. + +He made three hundred and sixty-four roads in the firmament above the +earth, and placed the sun and the moon in them. The roads he made in an +oblong shape and joined them together at one place in the East and in +the West, that the sun should make his circuits over the earth and drive +the darkness before him. And that the moon should make her circuits over +the earth to alternate and rule the darkness. And for her aid he made +the stars and set them in their places in the firmament and in the cross +roads which run across the pathways of the sun and moon; setting them in +order in twelve groups. And Jehovah wrote the stars and their pathways +upon the face of the firmament. They tell the story of his creation and +his love for the things he has created. As they move in their concourses +they are constantly spelling out the things which have never been +changed, glittering above the mist of the earth in their work of +perfection. + +And in the midst of the earth he set a magnet joining the heaven and the +earth together that the heaven and the earth should not move out of +their place forever. The magnet in its dimensions is perfectly round--a +tower of bluish mist shining bright like silver--where it stands in its +zone of perpetual darkness; where he made not a light to shine superior +to the darkness. And the magnet revolves around perpetually in its +protraction, carrying the sun and moon and stars in their circuits over +the face of the earth in their roads--in their courses according to +their metallic natures--around in a circuit over the parts of the earth, +where he designed for his things of life to live. Each monitor of the +firmament moving in its own place according to its power with the magnet +of its own nature to do the things it was created to do, until its work +should be finished; then it falls from its place when its course is run, +and is no more. + +And the sun sped on his course driving the darkness before him as it +closed up again behind him. And the morning and the evening were the +fourth day in the beginning of time. And the moon and the stars in their +courses over the earth drew up the metallic substance of the earth and +distilled and gave it to the sun; and he in his great speed cast them +out upon the earth, again in minute atoms, and as they came in contact +with their own primordial atoms which lie upon the earth, and more +densely in the lower parts of the earth, they explode, causing +atmospherical heat; each atom giving forth a yellow flame of light as it +explodes, so minute that one light cannot be distinguished from another +by the sense of man. + +Thus on the fourth day began heat to gender upon the face of the earth, +preventing the ice and snow from overcoming the life of vegetation in +the circuit of life which the creator had decreed upon the plains of +the world. And the sun went forth upon his circuit and came around again +to the place from where he had started, encircling the magnet in the +center of the earth, thus beginning an endless day and an endless night, +perpetually unchanging. His roads were decreed that from hence he should +run from the east to the west upon one line, then from the west to the +east around on another line each day, drawing closer to the magnet on +one side and falling farther away on the other side, creating an endless +summer and an endless winter, and a springtime and a fall perpetually. + +The light of the sun as it came upon its nearest lines to the magnet +where it stood in the center and lowest part of the earth, far enough +distant that his rays could not penetrate into the region of the magnet +and disturb its silence as it stands in its sea of ice and darkness, +while the light of the sun from the outer roads from the magnet was +bounded about by darkness and unchanging ice. And towards the west +Jehovah had set up a great chain of mountains to hold back the light +while the sun was upon his outer roads, that half of the nights might be +long towards the region of the magnet. While to the east he had set up +no great mountains that the light of the sun on its outer roads from +thence might reach across the plains towards the region of the magnet, +that half of the nights might be light and giving glories of light for +half of the time of the years. While in the great white way of life the +continents and islands lay all teeming with glory. + +The large continents having divides of high lands through them, from +which large rivers flow, some towards the outer seas and some of them +flow down towards the lower parts of the earth towards the magnet. Then +the sons of Jehovah and the morning stars sang together and shouted for +joy when they saw the glory of Jehovah's creation. And the morning of +the fifth day began. + +And Jehovah said let the waters and the earth bring forth living +creatures. Things to be in the seas after their kinds, and living +creatures to be upon the earth and in the earth. Things that have life +to live in the dust of the world, and fowl that they may soar above the +earth. And Jehovah and his tribune formed the flesh and bones of fish to +live in the waters, his spirit being in the labor and toil of the day. +He formed great whales and fish of mighty propensities to consume the +substance of life in the waters. And for them he made Leviathan to be +their king and a god over them. And the creatures of the waters were in +the seas and in the rivers and in the earth, everywhere that there is +water, every one after its kind unchangeable. He also made the fowl upon +the earth out of the clay of the earth, every one after its kind, upon +the continents and islands where it should live; and gave to them an +order of life as the things of the waters, the female delivering the +substance of flesh in an egg; and by the process of heat the shell +becoming expanded and then the spirit of the fowl entering into the +substance through the expanded pores of the shell, forming flesh to +itself, while containing knowledge of the world. As soon as its flesh is +strong enough it mines a passage for itself through the shell and takes +its flesh into the world. And Jehovah made the beasts out of the earth +after their kinds, in their forms upon the islands and continents where +they should live. And the Tribune formed all manner of beasts, both +great and small, out of the earth. They formed their flesh and bones and +cast their souls in them. And they arose up in life a pair of them of +every kind, in every part of the earth where the decree had gone forth +that they should live. And they made beasts after the form of man, and +in his appearance of many sizes and shapes, walking upon their two feet +with two hands to handle things as a man. And they were of many colors, +some black and brown and yellow striped, white and spotted and striped +with all manner of colors. And they were upon the face of the earth and +in the waters. + +And Jehovah and his Tribune made huge beasts great in power and form, to +dwell upon parts of the earth. The unicorn was larger than the elephant. +He had horns as the horns of a bull. He was mighty in strength and was a +ferocious beast. Mazaroth was much larger than the unicorn; he was a +beast of the rivers, of the swamps, and glades. Arcturus was a roving +beast of the plains; he went in droves in his day. His army stood on the +plains in the shade of the mountains as a cluster of little hills +crouched, beneath the trees. He heeded not the battle cry of man in his +ways. Magathuren was a roving beast of the smooth parts of the earth; he +could not pass up or down a steep incline or step over anything above +his knees. He had a straight horn with which he lifted the trunks of +fallen trees and things out of his way, as he passed to and fro over the +earth. Behemoth was also a beast of the plains; he was the largest beast +which Jehovah made to dwell upon the dry land of the earth. But he was +not like Leviathan, the king or the pride of the deep. And there were +also great beasts made to dwell in the seas as well as upon the earth; +until the substance, of life was contained. And there went up a mist +from the waters of the earth, and rain fell upon the dry land, bringing +forth food for the living things which were made. But as yet Jehovah had +not made man upon the earth. + + + + +CHAPTER II + +The Race of Man + + +And Jehovah created a vineyard upon the high lands, from whose mountains +flowed away four rivers. Being parted in four ways from the vineyard. +The first and second are those which encompass the land of Havilah and +Ethiopia, and flow into the Caspian Sea. The third and fourth are the +Euphrates and Hiddekel which flow into the Persian gulf. And in the +sixth day Jehovah said let us make man in our own image after our +likeness in our similitude. And he formed the body of man out of the +clay of the earth, with his hands and with his spirit he made him after +his own form and likeness. Then he called one of the rebellious souls +which had been cast out of Heaven and he cast the soul into the body +which he had made, and the body arose up with the vigor of life, and +became an active soul before Jehovah, its creator. And he called his +name Adam, because he had made him out of the red clay of the heights, +and man was red after the appearance of Jehovah. And Jehovah caused all +of the beasts to pass before Adam. And Adam gave names to them after +their kinds. And he called the beast which had hands and feet and stood +upright as himself, Serpent. And Jehovah placed Adam in the vineyard to +live, and gave to him the serpent to be his servant, in the garden of +rest which he so named Eden. And Jehovah returned about and refrained +from his work on the seventh day, and sanctified it as a day of rest. +And Adam dwelt alone in Eden. And he was lonesome. But after a time +Jehovah returned with his hosts, and he said it is not good for Adam to +dwell thus alone. I will now make for man his mother. And she shall be +wiser and mightier than he in wisdom, and shall be his counselor, and a +light to rule over him that his days be many in the earth. + +And Jehovah caused a sleep to come over Adam, and he took out one of his +ribs with the flesh of the bone, and closed up the flesh of Adam. And +out of it he made the body of a child,--leaving Adam twelve ribs on one +side and eleven on the other side. But the ribs of the child were even +twelve on both sides. And Jehovah placed within her a soul and gave her +to Adam, and he knew that she had been made of his flesh, and he called +her Woman. And also shall her name be Eve, because she is the beginning +of the mothers of man. + +And there was a tree which Jehovah had planted in the garden of Eden. As +if a hundred feet to the first limb, and the leaves of the tree hung to +the ground--touching the ground on all sides, "Broad and strong like +rubber, yet with velvet softness. Beneath this tree was the home of Adam +and Eve." Beneath the downy fragrant leaves they were shielded from all +heat and cold. And the eagles and the fowl of the air run into the +branches of the tree in time of storm. Here in this sublimeness Eve grew +up with Adam, and the Serpent was their servant. + +The Trees of the vineyard brought forth every thing which was good for +food. There were trees which bare fruits large and shining as gold, +fruits of all manner colors as a field of stars in glory. A river run +through the Garden. Crystal waters rifting over fields of beautiful +stones. The bedellium and onyx stones and much gold abounding in and +about the waters. And on one side of the river stood a tree which bare +fruit twelve times in the year, whose substance would cause one to live +forever. It was the tree of life. None that eat of its fruit should +ever die. From month to month and from year to year it had power to +renew life perpetually. And on the other side of the river stood a tree +which had power to make one wise. It was a tree of knowledge, one whose +fruit would intoxicate and revitalize,--speeding up the action of life, +causing one to think rapidly, and to see with a clearer vision. Setting +the vitalities in a key where they must wear out, bringing forth the +order of death. This tree was called the tree of Knowledge of Good and +Evil, because its power was the division between man and sin. He could +eat of the tree of life and realize the power and nature of life in all +its glory. But he could not realize the nature and effect of death and +sorrow until he should eat of the fruit of the tree of death, and become +intoxicated with the mania of its devastating forces. And for this cause +Jehovah commanded Adam that he should not eat of the fruit of the tree +of death or come near it. + +But the command was not given to Eve, for she was but a child--left in +Adam's keeping. And they dwelt in glory in their home beneath the wings +of the tree in the vineyard. And they were naked 'But knew it not.' +Satan was upon earth, and envied them in their salvation, but he could +not come near the vineyard, neither could he tempt them to sin. For they +were redeemed, and Satan could not break the decree. But when Eve was +grown the servant walked to and fro beyond the templed paradise, and sat +with Satan by a pool. And Satan taught the servant how that it could +become free from its masters. Then she hastened back and came again into +the vineyard. And Eve stood by the tree of death admiring its beauty. +And the servant came and said to her, "has Jehovah said that you shall +not eat of every tree in this garden?" And Eve said, "we may eat of the +fruit of every tree but this tree, which stands in the midst of the +garden we shall not eat of it, neither shall we touch it lest we die." +And the servant said, "you shall not surely die,--For the Creator he +knows that in the day you eat of the fruit of this tree your eyes shall +be open and you shall become wise like before the fall--as gods knowing +the effect of good and evil." + +And when she saw that the tree was good for food and excellent in +beauty, she commanded the servant and she brought to her the fruit and +she ate of it. Then she was enlightened and was as another woman. Then +she with her own hands brought of the fruit to Adam, and when he saw its +power upon her he also ate of the fruit, and the mind of them both were +enlightened, and the mist was removed from over their souls; and they +knew that they were not as the beast, but were naked. And they sewed +leaves together for clothes and dwelt in great fear. + +And it was so that in the evening time of a day they heard the voice of +Jehovah as he walked through the garden. And they fled from their temple +and hid themselves from his presence among the trees, and were not where +they were wanted to be found. And Jehovah called unto Adam and said, +"where are you Adam?" And Adam said I heard you talking in the garden +and I was afraid, and I hid myself because I was naked. + +And Jehovah said who told you that you was naked? Have you eaten of the +tree which I commanded thee not to eat? And he said the woman which you +gave me she gave me of the fruit of the tree and I did eat. And Jehovah +said unto Eve, what have you done. And she said the serpent bewitched me +and I did eat. And Jehovah said to the serpent, because you have done +this thing you are cursed beyond everything which I have created. Upon +your belly you shall travel, and you shall not henceforth eat. In this, +that you have caused my children to sin in the process of eating. + +The dust shall be your food, and I shall put envy between your race and +the race of the woman. And she shall bruise your head, and you shall +bruise her heel. And the serpent fell upon the earth before Jehovah, and +her arms and legs became into one straight body. And he took her teeth +out of her mouth so that she should not masticate food. But he left in +her mouth the imprints of her teeth, which is yet to be seen in the +mouth of the serpent. And he placed great crooked fangs in her mouth and +filled them with poison. If she should masticate food her own poison +would destroy her life. + +But she was given power to reach forth and to inject the poison of her +fangs into the flesh of man and other living things--to destroy their +lives. Then he parted her tongue in two parts, and upon the end of each +probescue he tied a small round knot, that is the knot which is yet to +be seen on the ends of the serpent's tongue unto this day. + +And according to the decree were all the serpents changed, in the +process of nature. That they should not again speak with the voice of +man. But their knowledge was not veiled. And while they cannot speak to +man; yet while in contact they show their tongues and say with +unmistakable signs "by my speech I cause thee to fall." This is the life +of the serpent who through envy was finally bound in hell. And to Eve, +he said, "I will greatly multiply sorrow upon thee. With your children +you shall be distressed. And man shall set thee at naught, and curse his +days--defying and bearing rule over thee. And your desire shall be to +your man." + +And unto Adam he said "because you have eaten of the tree which I +commanded thee not to eat, cursed is the fruit of the ground for your +sake. They shall come forth in thistles and thorns before thee. And you +shall turn unto the herbs of the field for food, and shall spend your +days in toil, eating of the vintage in sorrow, until you return unto the +ground from which you was taken. Dust you are and unto the dust you +shall return." And he drove Adam and Eve out of paradise, and left an +angel to keep the vineyard, from whose sword issued a stream of power +like fire as he turned about every way upon the plains. + +And Adam and Eve went out a little ways from Edon northward towards the +Caspian Sea, and set up for themselves a place of abode, and soon began +to till the earth. And Eve became the mother of children. Her first born +son she called Node, and she bare him also a sister and called her name +Midre. And Node went forth with his sister to the Eastward of Edon. And +in time there built a city, which was called the City of Nod. But Node +was a man of sin. + +And again Eve bare Havilah, and his sister Zillah. But he also was a man +of sin. And he dwelt to the west, and proclaimed a land which was called +the land of Havilah. And again Eve bare Cain, and she said he is a man +to serve Jehovah. And she bare also his brother Abul, one to seek the +will of Jehovah. And Adah and her brothers and sisters were also born +unto the house of Adam. + +And Cain and Abul sought to worship Jehovah. And Abul offered of the +noblest of his sheep as a sacrifice to Jehovah, and Jehovah was well +pleased with his offering. And then Cain offered of the finest of his +fruit of his harvest. And Jehovah had no respect for his sacrifice, +saying, "why bring of the things before me which I have defamed. +Redemption shall be found alone in the blood of that which I have not +cursed." Then Cain was very wroth, and Jehovah said unto him repent; +but he would not. + +And in process of time as he talked with Abul in a field he arose up +against him and slew him. And the soul of Abul cried unto Jehovah from +the earth. And he said to Cain the voice of your brother's soul cries +unto me from the ground. And now are you cursed in the blessings of the +earth which has received your brother's blood by your hand. When you +till the soil it shall not yield unto you her strength. A fugitive and a +vagabond shall you be in the earth. And Cain repented and said, "my +punishment is greater than I can bear; you have driven me out from among +the people, and from your face I shall be hid; and it shall come to pass +that if any one should find me that they shall slay me." + +And Jehovah said to the people, whosoever slays Cain, "Vengeance shall +be taken upon him seven fold." And he set a mark upon Cain's forehead of +many colors. And Cain went from the presence of Jehovah and dwelt in the +land of Nod. And in time he became the father of a generation. But his +days were evil and sullen, and when he was aged a lad slew him with an +arrow. + + * * * * * + + +A Praise of Memory + + The north winds howled across the rockies, with a blasting chill. + The people wandered through the snow drifts, while the stars shone + cold and still. + + There was no place on earth to rest then; no place for the children + to lie. + But Mosier watched throughout the hosts, that none of them should die. + + Through the desert lone and dreary; through the cold, drifting sands, + The people fled from the hosts of Satan, from the wrath of wicked man. + + The spirit of Jehovah gleams across the heaven, a light for every man; + Showing white the road that leads to Zion, shining bright in every + land. + + Watching in a city by the river, praising in music and in song, + Waiting for the train of Zion, Mosier with his hosts of angels comes + speeding on. + + Ring you bells, for the station of Zion; let the music sound out over + the land. + Mosier with his hosts of the angels comes to earth to reign with man. + + * * * * * + + +A High Praise + + The Lord of these hills is king of the plains, too, and he rules the + starry blue. + He is coming to earth with the children of men to reign the ages + through. + + Over the hills of silvered blue, over the fields of gold and gray. + The angels shall march in songs of high praise, through the great + white way. + + When the forests and the orchards are all prepared, and the flowers + are in full bloom + There will be no time for the shadows of doubt, we praise in eternal + noon. + + The children shall sing on the mountain high; the aged shall pray in + the plains. + While Jesus, with his high spirit of power, over the hosts shall + reign. + + The thistle and the thorns and the weeds shall bear its foods of a + valiant worth. + There shall be no hunger or tears of the poor, for the Lord he feeds + the whole earth. + + We will plant the rose on the mountain high, the lily in the plain, + In songs with flowers we will greet our king, when he with the saints + shall come to earth to reign. + + The oak and the chestnut and the pine shall bloom, filling the world + with light. + Mosier Alleuher's great son has banished sin's long dark night. + + Or if this mortal shall fade or the bones be laid in the clay, + This spirit shall fly away on the wings of his power, to the realms of + that blessed day. + + * * * * * + + +A High Priest + +O great Alleuher just for a while--only for a while it shall + be, we will take our harps and fly away on the wings of + your power, and soon return to thee. From out over the + earth in tears tonight and from over the cloud-mist + seas. + +A soul has been born tonight in the hills of Bethany, + shining in the light of thee, O Alleuher, glittering in + the image of thee. We will take our harps and sing + praise to thee, for the glorious gift of love to the + world for your memory. + +We see your glory asleep with the children down there; the + lily of the valley, the rose of Sharon shall bare. Peace + and good will in its season to the world of despair; + while we watch and praise the Ancient of Days above the + cloud-strewn air. + +O great Alleuher, a new light has been made to shine for + tonight, revealing his love in the deeds of his might. + Answering to that light that shall arise from Calvary, + shining to the world for ever shall be, out over the + earth and the cloud-mist seas. + +We will take our harps and sing praise to thee, for the + children of the earth and the marines of the sea. For + the shepherds of the hills dwelling in light descending + from thee. In the songs that arise from the high hills, + in the music of the valleys and the seas. + + * * * * * + + +A High Praise + +Praise Him Ye Hosts + +Mosier's spirit searches through the mist of the evening, + through the night times of gloom; through the morning in + its rising; through the brightness of noon. And I know + wherever I be, as his spirit searches through the + shadows, that he sees me. + +Through the rivers and the oceans, through the starry plains + of time; through the hosts of the living, Mosier + searches men's minds. And I know that wherever I be, as + his spirit searches through the shadows, that he sees + me. + +Through the heavens and its hosts, through the nations that + war; blending the minds of the whole creation, he comes + seeking on this living shore. And I know wherever I be, + as his spirit searches through the shadows, that he sees + me. + + +A High Praise--Victory + + One day a great train pulled out from mount Zion, for a destiny well + known. + Three passengers stepped on board, and the train moved onward for + Jehovah's great throne. + + For ages and ages the saints have been waiting for the returning of + that train. + When Jehovah shall lift the curse of sin from the nations, in sending + his son to reign. + + We will meet King Jesus out upon the great highway, in songs of high + praise. + In the light of his spirit, dwelling in rest forever, given by the + Ancient of Days. + + They have been making up the great train of Zion, through the ages she + stands by. + Soon the hosts of our Father's glory shall come sweeping through the + sky. + + The great conductor is standing in the depot, by the gates of praise + he stands by. + Waiting for the saints of the whole creation, to be ready to receive + his train from the sky. + + The music sounds out over the nations, the bells are ringing on every + sea. + I am going to march with the saints to Zion, while the bells are + tolling for me. + + * * * * * + + +A Praise--The Rivers + + I wrought not these miracles by any zest of mine. + The angels keep watch over the rivers, that float down by the steeps + of time. + + He wrote with his hand upon the marble, the songs of Zion's chimes. + The angels watch through the stillness until the morning time. + + He said, "I will not forsake thee or leave thee in despair alone. + The angels and my spirit shall guard upon the rivers, all those that + are my own." + + We believed him when he descended, and the mountain smoked with his + mighty power. + The music rang out over the hosts, as sang heaven's mighty choir. + + We believe him now while ascending up the steeps of time. + With the angels close by the rivers, that lead up to the heights of + Zion. + + You cannot believe him except his spirit makes himself known unto thee. + Or even in all your wisdom you will sail upon the unknown sea. + + * * * * * + + +Praise Alleuher Ye Saints + + We thank thee, O Great Alleuher, for a redeemer; one who taught us of + your way. + That we should walk in the light of Zion 'till we enter one eternal + day. + + That we should know from the hills of Zion, Alleuher in beauty has + shone forth. + He made our low way in the sin's dark valley shine more brighter than + any day. + + He came to the King of all the nations, King supreme, grand and true, + He gave to the people the spirit of salvation to make the soul anew. + + This to us the spirit whispers, music more than we mortals sing. + To our hearts ring the bells of heaven, we are the children of that + great king. + + * * * * * + + +A High Praise + + We thank thee, O Great Alleuher, for a prophet, one to teach us in + this day. + All glitt'ring in thy truth of light, shining along our misty way. + + We whose minds are sealed over, and are driven far away, + Come seeking unto Zion's light in the evening time of day. + + The Lord of hosts in these mountains, O his gracious power, + Comes scatt'ring the aged long night, he is our refuge in every hour. + + * * * * * + + +A High Praise--The Judgment + + Light, great light, Alleuher's high spirit, that shines above the day, + Searching the souls of the living things, calling his children from + sin away. + I will not grow weary in the times, which others may fear. + + He shall return at the end of each year. + I will wait for his glory shining through all creation unto my spirit + to appear. + + My soul sings by the rivers millions of songs of thee. + All through the ages thou hast truly been with me, guarding my spirit + from sin's reveries. + + * * * * * + + I see out in the fields of memory, a light which gleams across the + night of mist to me. + By its rays I walk as in times of past along by the shores of the old, + old sea. + + I have found no mystic treasure hidden in the mines of long ago. + He has kept for me a light in heaven's window, burning bright in its + intrinsic glow. + + I see by the gleam of the yesterdays, the things of today's revene. + I see the lane that leads over the river of tomorrow's bridged stream. + + My treasure has never been hidden, or cast away by the hand of wroth. + But kept a gift of mercy, burnished bright from the dust of moth. + + I walked for a day by Shilo's river, out in the land; I compassed the + rays of Eden, + And harked to listen at the call of Zion upon the golden strands. + + I pass from ages unto ages, I am a child of time. + I cannot return or choose the wrath that I would gather, as I pass by + the gates of my own mind. + + If I pass over the divide, the world shall see the things that Jehovah + lent to me. + That great light for which his son once died on Calvary. + + That I might sift the sheltered sands, and gather out the gold; + Strewn by the mystic hand of him, back in the days of old. + + Through the hills and upon the desert, as a mighty obelisk stands, + We gather out the wreaths of beauty, cast for the life of man. + + The hosts stand in the distance, to observe the things that we do. + As our ridged furrows in the gray light come trailing through. + + As I wrought with my comrades, I saw some jewels glitter in the sands; + Ling'ring in the dust of time, to be brought within demand. + + The soul is always waiting, and the heart is always true; + Where the workmen seek to gather, from the dust beneath the azure + lights of blue. + + * * * * * + + +A High Praise + +We are marching toward that city, in the great trend of mind. We see our +friends gathering from over the ranges, stepping by the hours of time. +We are ascending the heights from the rivers, Lord plant our feet in thy +Zion. + +In the spirit in which we are calling, so shall the answer be. Each +deed and day shall be answered, as our souls cry to thee. We are moving +in the light of your spirit; Lord, plant our feet in thy Zion. + +Lord, let us pay for our ways, in the days of our time. For unto life we +shall gather from over the ranges, proven by the powers of mind. Let us +ascend the heights from the rivers; Lord, plant our feet in thy Zion. + +Soon our sorrows are ended, soon our woes shall cease. Our days for us +shall be brighter on through the ages, ascending the hills of peace. +Lord, shall we arise beyond these sorrows? Lord, plant our feet in thy +Zion. + + * * * * * + + +A Praise--Speed + +Some one is watching at the windows tonight, as onward through the +valleys and over the rocks of white, the gleaming wheels they speed with +might; calling the stars at the approach of night; concealing them away +with the speed of light. + +I do not know what my title holds, because the way has been long; +through the orchards and by the waste lands swifter than the shadows of +the dawn. But the angel who watches through the train of time hurries +all on board along. + +The shadows of the evening that enclose upon the fleeting sunlight are +swiftly turned away; as out of the night time the speeding wheels they +sway, before the gloom that's left approaching into the light of day. + +Music rings above the hill tops, from the canyons that we passed by; +while sweeping beneath the light of heaven, that beckons from the +windows in the sky. Soon within the harbor the speeding monitor shall +lie; then shall be the answer to the soul which shall never die. + + * * * * * + + +A Praise--Reason + + Here lie the brave and valiant-hearted, strewn by the pathway of the + noble race. + These are our kindred whose souls linger near their dwelling place. + + Here lie the stars which have fallen, from the altar of the race. + Their light still on our memories gleam, bright before our face. + + These are of our people, their souls are still upon the breeze. + Death cannot them destroy, or blot out their secret memories. + + Some of them were old and faded, and others were of the age of the + bloom, + That grows upon the lilies, and fades before the rays of noon. + + But out in the mist they are waiting to greet us, and we shall + welcome + them once more. + Beneath the sun that shines in stillness, upon this living shore. + + The battlements are faded, and the swords are laid aside, + And he has come with his saints to reign through the ages, over the + human tide. + + +A Meditation--Life + +I see the people out on the plains--from the distance they call to me. +Come and march with us for a day, and be one of the people of the +plains. Floating along with the winds that blow--the great human sea. + +I love the sage and the vintage that grow, and the oaks that stand in +chains. I love the music sung with the wings of the dust through the +fields of chaffing grains, shadowed beneath the azure light of the +hill's refrains. + +Move, you angels of speed, across the white serenes. You rocks of earth +stand still. You seas that lash with a turbulent rage shall all obey my +will. I will watch by the things that strive and love, till all the +earth be filled. + +You teeming hosts a' moving on--I love the things of life. You serene +glories of the sun's meridian gleam across the extending plains of +white; that love and live in the dust of the earth, beneath the sun's +great light. + +Move you children with the speed of fire; I love those wings that sing +in their strength, and might. Haste the speed of the soul that the +living mind be right, you things that live in the light of the day--I +hate the things of night. + +Gather on the plains like clouds all spectered with black and gray. The +things of speed shall dwell sublime, though the things that wait shall +pass away. I shall call to those of my own in the midst of the sea; I +shall wait for those that pray. + +There is a light that shines with those that tell of the speed and +power. Of the soul that hastens to the things of right in the days of +their fleeting hours. Of the things that live in the love of light you +people that is of power. + + * * * * * + + +A Meditation--Our Praise + +Mosier of the ages hear the children when they cry. Out on the plains +they pray. Hold aright the storms that sweep over, bear the tempest far +away. The chief of Jehovah's tribune--his hosts above the azure lights +of gray. His spirit searches over the plains through all the souls of +day. + +We have a refuge in the light of the first morning, made brighter by the +noon. Unfolding from Zion's harbor unto all the saints upon the +spectered earth is strewn. Jehovah's gift descending through the gloom. +A great rock that was cut out above the earth, but not with hands was +hewn. + +Then by the river of Zion all his saints shall meet once more. The +angels in their salvation shall set his children then before. When the +king descends to welcome his hosts upon that living shore, in one speech +all voices of earth his high praises shall sing while crossing over. + +This is when the afterwhile has become the present, and the day to come +is just now. When those who hasten to be saved before his throne they +bow. The tears of grief shall be no more for ever. The call comes forth +to know just how. You saints shall answer with the light of life sealed +on every ransomed brow. + + * * * * * + + +A Praise--A Charge to The Spirits + +Blow! O blow on the rocks of time you silent winds divine. Glitter on +the mountain heights you rifting specters bright. Marching on you hosts +of the senless quite. Out in that day of every soul that's neither dark +or light. + +Know you your place and name and who it is you be. It is the hand of a +higher one leads thee through eternity. A price was paid, its value +true, back in the ages one day; as onward through the shadows gleam the +vampires wing their way. + +The tiny feet disturb not the dewdrops, as on the rose of Sharrion's +breast they lie. You lights upon the stillness, you unseen passers by. +How old are you thou tiny might that never has been still? Before the +mountains were brought forth or the sands were in the hills. + +With you let not sorrow, grief or pain, as in your house of clay which +you oft regain. It is not yours to demand to give forth or to say. But +it is of him who paid the price back in an ancient day. By him who +created us of nature, to walk in nature's way. Haste you spirits of +silence and tell me what you know; you lights against the walls like +shadows of the snow. + +I am not with thee; you make me hate you in my dreams. Except thy feet +have been dipped beneath the fountain streams; or have fallen with +Lebannon's cedar from the heights of boze. And grown up again in the +springtime with the seed of Sharrion's rose. And been judged in the +dewdrops by the morning star. And been tested by Judah's lion with all +his might and power. + +Come then, you messengers of love, and gladness, and speak when I am not +awar. In the silence of the night time when turmoils and strife are +o'er. Pass over the starry valleys where maidens slumber beneath the +shades of time. They shall be mothers without sin sublime. Forget not +the pine upon the mountain or the vine that droops from the wall. Tender +as the orchard bloom that lingers till the day of fall. + +Why make you sin of the things that are sacred? Did Mosier tell you so? +To change the heart of nature for things that would not grow. It was +Satan who stood about the city with his host of fiends, and accused the +highest saints of Jehovah of the vilest sins. Cease not then in your +trend of events, you travellers weep no more. For the workman of +Nazareth he has bridged the river o'er. + + * * * * * + + +A High Praise--Salvation + + The sorrows of the living in tears that are shed, + Are oftimes calmed by the silent speech of those that are dead. + + Some of them have been gone for many years. + Ministering souls of Mosier in the great vineyard of careers. + + Shadows of the soul's despair, are banished by the host of the saints + of the air. + Mosier's saints as they linger near. + + Mosier, with his saints, shall return to reign some day. + By the spirit of his light over all his people of the great white way. + + +A High Praise + + King Simon he was a rich man, in land and silver and gold. + In sheep and cattle and wealth untold. + He also worshiped Jehovah; this was that king Simon in the days of old. + + Every year he came to Zion to sacrifice--his cattle all arrayed in the + finest of gold. + Great respect he had for Jehovah, moving on in the laws of light in + the things he was told. + + He said to his bearers at dawn, "Let us arise and away. + There is a sacrifice in Zion and I want to be there to pray." + Perhaps he will respect these mites of ours before his altar we convey. + + There was sorrow in Zion, the heavens were all faded and gray. + Jehovah had hid his face from the children of the world, and taken his + spirit away. + His son, assailed with their wrath, sang beneath the diheftie in the + gates of the city that day. + + They cried, "yonder comes that Nigger in his silken chariot of gold. + Come down you king, or we will crucify you and your fold." + But tears of sorrow for one among man, only revealed the thoughts of + his soul. + + He picked up the diheftie and away, and laid it down on Calvary, + Then said to his bearers, "Send those sheep and cattle away--in the + wilds let them go free. + For Jehovah's own son in this city of tears has ended such things for + me." + + +A High Praise + + Some one is watching over the earth that is still; some one rules over + the fringed hills. + O you wonders of life praise him who rules over our changing wills. + + I watched those stars in the distances; there are some that falter and + fall. + I see them glitter for an instant through the azure ways, and are not + found at all. + + Does the soul have need of things? Come, then, and ask of me. + I will tell you where the fallen stars are found--in the treasure of + the prince of Galilee. + + The brilliant stars of a billion lights are seen to fade and pass away, + as they wander through the haze of gray. + Out of the darkness of the night into the light of day. + + Who is that glittering above Eden's light, with the prayers of the + saints scattering the night? + Changing the stars in their courses so bright; teaching the speeding + sun to shed his light. + + Whatever the soul desires that shall it ask of me. I, who arose from + the dead on Calvary. + Holding the earth in its place aright; ruling the seas with his + powerful might. + + O you transcities on the hills of white; for thee changing the time + into days and nights. + If the soul shall cry, the prince shall hear the Lord whose high + spirit is always near. + + He cares for you as a father would; as a chickadee in the garden + protects her brood. + Who is he that holds creation in its perfect mood? + He is almighty, yet you can help him; you can if you would. + + What does your work profit? Why labor as one great? Does the Lord + have need of you? + As the saints believe in his greatness, these are the things the Lord + will do. + + * * * * * + + +A High Praise + +Alleuher with sin I am done, I believe on your son, I am saved by the +love of the sanctified one. + +What more can he say, than to me he has said? Showing mercy to the +sinner, and raising the dead. + +If Jairus had not believed, surely he would not have seen the salvation +of Mosier, his power supreme. + +The children came to seek him. O how they loved him then, O praise his +high spirit that is given to men. + +Yonder comes then that woman, a sinner to her people to say, "Mosier +rests by our city, it is time that we pray." + +O how the children love him, because that he is ever true. His kingdom +is with power, all the ages through. + + * * * * * + + +A High Praise + +King Mosier traveled through the land. He healed the sick, both of the +rich and poor. He cast his spirit upon those in sorrow, and their +sorrows were no more. + +King Mosier went down to the pool of Solomon, where the sick were lying +upon the shore. He bid them arise, be on the way, and their diseases +were no more. + +King Mosier went down to Bethany, where the dead were waiting in the +tomb. O, death fell from its throne, and delivered up his own, to this +power of Mosier that's known. + + * * * * * + + +A Praise + + There is a beautiful sea called memory. Many ships come sailing to + me through the whole day, + From over the beautiful sea of memory. + The deep wide sea, the great high sea, + My beautiful sea of memory. + + My beautiful ships on the great high sea. + Some are aged like, and hazed in the light of gray. + Others are as the roses that bloom in May. + Come sailing to me along by the shore through the whole day. + + Deeds of kindness that are written + As the stars over the deep blue sea. Sailing along those that love me. + My beautiful ships the light of the mind. + Sailing out of the yesterdays to me. + Over the deep wide sea, the great high sea, + My beautiful sea of memory. + + * * * * * + + +A High Praise + +I sing of the great king who reigns in a city far above the star strewn +blue. He is master and king over all creation, over the heaven and its +angels, and the earth with its people, too. + +There is a story true as the ages are old, sung by all the children of +nature, calling the ancient times unto the present fold. Singing all the +children of the great king these anthems as the ages roll. + +High as the heavens above the earth, so high are his ways. Just children +speaking of things in deeds and plays. Jehovah is higher, the great +creator, he who gave one for the salvation of our days. + + * * * * * + + +A High Praise + +Over the rampage of the ages wild, came the voice of Mosier to me. As +the sighing winds blow over the mountains and orchard valleys, ye +stealthy lights that gleam upon the seas; most assuredly have you been +born again. Have your souls been reclaimed by my spirit--I who holds +that light of Calverie. Do you know me for yourself and not by another? +are the souls that are known of me. + +From the surging streams of the northland sealed, of the blue that +shines across the earth revealed; unto all you souls that pray. Do you +hear my voice in harmonies as the vespers play? As the sighing winds +pass over the mountains most assuredly have you been, reclaimed by me. I +have a torchlight descending from my father's throne. I who bare the +sorrows of the world alone. + +Is sorrow and pain turned to joy before thee; do you love death as the +others love life. Is there no secret sin with thee, as with them of +unjust strife? I am your strength in this way, I keep for you the +eternal treasure of love and life. My father and I have made ourselves +known unto thee, you saints of light; most assuredly as the sighing +winds pass over the mountains you rest beyond the night. + + +A Praise--The Answer + + Long ago we left the city of sorrow, for a city which is yet to come. + We sought the way that leads to Zion, and Jerusalem our home. + + Mosier has gone from this world of sorrow, to prepare for us an eternal + home. + And in the highway he has walked before us, he will ever care for + his own. + + With the new song we shall praise him ever, in that city he has gone + to prepare. + When we enter the hilleued hills of Zion, O why not come and go with + us there? + + Some people wonder why we are sincere ever; some people wonder why we + are true. + But to us Mosier is a real friend ever, and he is our glorious king, + too. + + +Memory + + As I wrought in the fields of time one day, + I passed through the valley of beauty, of things that were hidden away. + To the east and to the west and to all the horizon + There were hills and mountains of blue, and gold, and gray. + + There were clear rivers glist'ning over rocks that were crystal white. + There were flowers that bloomed in the shade of a thousand lights. + There were stars that shone from the heaven, writing in the silent + speech of the night. + + A people had lived there in that valley one day. + They had sung and laughed and some times would cry or pray. + As I or you live in the trend of this song that ends in the close of + the day. + + * * * * * + + +A Praise--In Memory of Keturah + + She was once upon earth, but now she sings through the fields of the + stars. + She once knew distress, hunger and tears. + But now they feed her at Alleuher's own table through the centuries + and years. + + She is a servant of Mosier up there. With the host of the angels and + the saints of the air. + O Alleuher's great tribune watching over the earth and its hosts of + tears. + + I heard her voice from the plains of the stars talking to the world + with the fire of speed. + O Alleuher, the angels unfolding the glories of heaven to me, + And I rise with the hosts' glad refrain above the earth and the sea. + + * * * * * + + +A Praise--The Answer + + When through this orchard life we cease to wander; when comes the close + of the years. + Let us cross over the river and rest in the beautiful valley beyond + the shadows of tears. + + Shall we gather by the river, just out yonder? + Shall we meet somewhere after a while? + As the evening draws nearer, upon the long road as we wander, greeted + by our redeemer's smile. + + If I should see the glories of the saints up yonder, and should hear + their glad refrain, + All glittering over the world, His hosts upon higher plains, I shall + know I am one of his train. + + We will watch their ways from the still mountains. The days of man + on earth we know. + Changing as the drifting snow, till the Redeemer calls together the + souls from sorrow here below. + + * * * * * + + +A High Praise + + From Samaria to Shilo Jesus walked along one day. + A great host came praising him through the way. + A blind man was Barnabas, who heard some one say, + "It is Jesus the prophet of Galilee--unto whom the people praise and + pray." + This we say to you that you may be content, and in your place to stay. + + Then Barnabas said to his friend, a man who also could not see: + "I'll tell you I think this prophet is nowise of Galilee. + But Jehovah's own son, who has come to earth that such as we may see." + The light shines from our father's throne to the living man, out over + the earth and the seas. + + Then he cried, "O Mosier, you son in the house of David, show mercy + unto such as we be." + Then Mosier said, "you that callest unto me speak in truth clear and + plain. + For behold I go up to Judah and there for the world to be slain. + That I should arise from the dead today, in my father's glory to + reign." + + * * * * * + + +A Praise + + Strive not to make lies your refuge, it is the fire of sorrow and woe. + Let not satan deceive you as along the way you go. + If you have not the truth of Mosier with you, life truly is in vain. + It will turn to sorrow as in the revelrie you seek for honor and fame. + + You cannot hide behind falsehood, for investment behind the screen. + It will turn to vexation, all your deeds are plainly seen. + Your might soon fades in the swelling vortex as brown changes the + green. + And when you can strive no longer, Satan's falsehoods hover over the + scene. + + But if you should have the spirit of Mosier with you and have him for + your friend today, + He will give you high life and glory, you will have a good time all + the way. + Then when the old house begins to shatter, brighter is life's star + above the day. + The angels linger near to bear the ransomed soul away. + + * * * * * + + +A Praise--The Kingdom + + Over the eastern star Shilo's light will shine. + Through the many that is dimly burning ascends high the light of Zion. + + He to reign for a thousand years, the seas the rocks obey. + Preparing the world for his father's throne, through all the souls to + him that pray. + + The saints with him to reign for a thousand years, the rest of the + dead is a long time gone. + The angels with him shall reign, the great infinite throng. + + When the souls and the hills are all prepared; when the seas are + overcome, + The kingdom of all creation he delivers up as an obedient son. + + * * * * * + + +The Song of the Serpent + +We went to Calvary and stood just away. The prince of glory + was there, in the hands of the people, who crucified him + that day: Out on Judah's green hills, arrayed in the + light of white and gray. + +We went to watch through the ages, the things that the + wicked would do. The works of the evil all the way + through. They have crucified his saints in all nations + of the earth. All of his saints that were true. + +From the gates above Zion the Lord shall descend. His fiery + wheels flaming with power--scattering the wicked of men. + Who have slaughtered his saints in prisons of horrid + death; whosoever were known among them. + +A billion angels at his right, intermingling with + others--the saints of might. Who has ascended from + death, enthroned with his light. Those that were burned + in the fire by the wicked, to spite. Comes inclosing the + evil in their eternal dark night. + +The voice of the serpent,--that whispers from the mire of + the sea. Or that sigh of the evil, from the dust + ascending before thee. Each soul is still weeping--each + heart in sorrow alone. Or that mind of the living that + fell from his great throne. + +What joy thought the evil, that wandered in sorrow's broad + trend. My soul has heard a wailing, as the song of the + serpent by men. O souls what ail thee, its envy's dark + cloud broader than the earth, and deeper than the sea. + Spread over the spirits--their wicked melee. + +They were a war of those that danced, in the trend of + sorrow's vulgar wail. As the serpent held them by the + hand, they knew that they were inshrouded in the evil + dark vale. But "lo, lo," cried the company, "you shall + not from us depart, for even the soul that shall fail." + +Your door that stands closed, as a storm that darkens the + noon. O soul of envy atroped senility that bloom. O you + mind of the wicked, the close of the day has arriven so + soon. No deeds of mercy, no work was begun, for in the + heart of the wicked, the race was never run. + +You saints as the eagle from the heavens that cry. You + mountains of love all glorious and white ascending so + high. O beautiful souls, Mosier's hosts, in all creation + stand by. Watching over the earth and its hosts, no mind + of the living can die. + +O beautiful songs from the great throne that be. To the mind + of all living--yet heard only by thee. The hosts of the + heaven as the winds or the waves of the sea. Giving to + every soul who has understanding and a portion of light + for me. + +Alleuher is not mocked by the race, or the evil within. Not + by those who have fallen and rage, you terrors of sin: + He keeps his city and its hosts of the earth and the + air. The hours of the evil shall approach, but none of + them shall come there, to that beautiful Zion, that city + so fair. + +Alleuher holds the order of life. All things in their hosts + and zones. A power is with them, for they are his own. A + lion and an eagle and a bull and the image of a man + living in his glory, and bearing to and fro his great + throne. His spirit descending through the hosts, the + souls of all men is known. His salvation for his saints, + his glory in order is shown. + +Through the gates above Zion the hosts pass by, ascending + and descending by the silvering portals. Upon that + beautiful road he has built through the sky. All the + earth is full of his glory as the wind, his power is + nigh. His saints walk in his strength. There is no + death, there is none of his hosts that ever die. + + * * * * * + + +A Meditation--The Afterwhile + +1. In the twilight I wandered by the old home place, and I saw it lie in +wreck; all was vanity and despair. I sought for the things that belonged +to my childhood days, but none of them were there. + +2. The old apple tree which stood by the gate, had aged and fallen +almost away. Its branches were drooped and crisp with time, through +which I used to chase in games of play. + +3. I looked away to the old house which stood midst the terrace blue. I +thought of the days of my childhood ways, but storm and drear had +changed things to an age of bronzed hue. + +4. My old rose was gone which stood by the doorway, resting its hands +against the wall. And seemed to watch me as I would fleet across the +terrace, as if to guard against my fall. + +5. I went to look through the garden of the days of long ago, and I saw +that my brook lay mired and neglected, which so proudly through its +vintage once did flow. + +6. My old oak, too, had fallen which stood by the garden wall; crowned +with azure gray like the light of fall. Casting its shadows across our +brook, it was so strong, so mighty, and tall. + +7. My cherry trees and the peaches, too, were gone, some hand had cast +them aside. And the lilies and the magnolias and all the orchard +beauties of my childhood pride. + +8. There were only tiny fragments of our ships which in the rustic brook +still yet did lie. When since so short a time when our gay sails and +flags upon its waters did fly. + +9. There had been a great rain out upon the hills, and our brook had +become a mighty sea. Then we went with our ships to explore unknown +lands, Julie, and Anna, and Me. + +10. We set our ships in order and gave up our brave young lives to +fate. We proudly manned our sails from the old elm tree down to the +lower gate. + +11. The tide rose high and turbulent and cast our ships upon a foreign +shore. And we took charge of that land in order as by our swords and +crowns we swore. + +12. A bull screamed in the distance upon the bronzed hills. The cattle +were coming home across the fringed rills. As in haste our ships we +sought to fill, with trophies of that vintage land for our conquest to +tell. + +13. When we heard the voice of our Mother calling from over the mighty +sea: "Come home, children, come home," she called across the river, "for +Julie, and Anna, and Me." + +14. I stood in the evening shadows with my head bare and gray. And as I +looked through the evening twilight I saw my orchard beauties +transplanted upon a hill to the leeward just away. + +15. My old Oak was there, and the apple trees, and the peaches and the +pretty things that bloom in red and rone. And I thought I heard the +voice of our old rose still calling my children, "Come home, come home." + + * * * * * + + +The Victory of Love + + Early in the morning--in the morning of life. + Resting while the flowers unfolding to soothe the burning day of + strife. + Fleeting hands lingering nearer, pressing down the folds of my shade. + A heart of gold ye diamond light transparent, to my soul such love + is made. + + I must rise and be ascending, while the flowers are in full bloom. + Through the fields be swiftly passing, the fleeting hours of noon. + I shall gather while praising on the lyre, a few wreaths are strewn. + That I shall rest through the evening, for the night shall triumph + soon. + + I shall ascend beyond the evening, to a field of light that is shown. + With hearts like gold ye love transparent, before a great white throne. + There again it shall be morning, for he made that day of rest you see. + Calling those fleeting hands come hither; those that love, are loved + by me. + + * * * * * + + +A High Praise--by Thomas Alvin Edison, the Great Apostle + + I abjure thee by the living God that the truth be found in thee. + For the soul of man also needs light, wandering through eternity. + + The living God he reigns in all the earth and watches on man's ways. + He demands in him that we believe serving through our evil days. + + Mosier Alleuher's great son has shown the beautiful way + With light for the living mind of man from the haze of these + cloud-strewn days. + + We shall serve the living God, ministering saints of the air. + Or be driven from his beautiful light to the dark'ning realms of + despair. + + The living mind hastens to prepare desperately at the closing our here. + Something with which to join the high hosts watching over the earth + up there. + + Behold, I show the great mystery to thee, for the Lord shall make it + fair. + Ye minds shall soon depart from the earth, to join the Lord in the air. + + The soul's refuge is found in life that praises here. + All glory to the Lord on high who brought great joy and salvation near. + + Ye thunders in darkness lash with rage, the Lord is not in them found. + But in peace with his saints over the beautiful world his spirit is + bound. + + O arise ye hosts of the earth, it's in high praises by thee. + That the Lord shall banish the tears of grief from the great human sea. + + Music and great joy descending from his throne in praises with thee. + It's not far from there by the saints of the air to all the souls + that be. + + While the tempest rages wild or the seas roll back from the shore. + He will lead his saints through sorrow 'till all their trials are o'er. + + * * * * * + + +A Meditation--The Shadows + + Darkness mingles midst the tall green pines that shadow the face of + the whole brown earth. + Doubt and despair is the fate that we share, all the days of life + from the time of one's birth. + + O, see the pretty moths whose wings have been broken, and they cannot + rise with the songs of the breeze. + In silence they weep all alone, midst the shadows of the dense dark + trees. + + O, see, the proud souls that weep alone, midst the shadows of the + world's despair. + Their wings all shrouded with that glory which were theirs, above in + the light of the clear bright air. + + O, see the pretty things that have come from afar; all appareled in + the raiments of the homeland gay. + Marching in the path of the soul's refining, pretty things which tarry + in passing through the shadowed ways. + + O, look away to the eagle's heights, see the ever green cedars how they + cling in every towering ledge. + From the tall rocks so white and serene, come stealthily down to the + river's edge. + + O, see, there are enduring souls that never change; who rest secure on + higher plains in every clime and age. + Along by the rivers and above the shadows in every life that's made, + From the tiny urchin to the mighty sage. + + O, see, there are violets which stand close by the rivers, chaft by + the rain and dew. + But others are strewn all along upon the mountain sides of blue. + + There is some one always waiting--some one with a soul that is always + true, + Down by the rivers or upon the mountain sides in the same state as I + or you. + + O, see, there are souls that have no glory, weeping beneath the mist + of gloom. + Their power is faded, before the time of noon. + It is the creator that exalts things which are his own, + In temperaments and harmony within each of their own zone. + No soul shall be reinstated by its power and might alone. + + + PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's The Secret of the Creation, by Howard D. 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