Angels inspire mankind to create the same things that exist in heaven down on Earth: Because the unseen world has dominion over the seen world, when the atmospheric heavens above are in sync with the corporeal divisions below, the “inspiration of the angels set man to imitating the affairs of heaven”. In both heaven and on Earth at this time, there were schools, colleges, nurseries, and hospitals; there were factories for silk, linen, cotton, paper, leather and glass making; and there were factories for smelting iron, copper, silver, and gold.
New heaven created for non-practicing Faithists: The first initiative was the establishment of a new heavenly plateau, Me-de, by the Diva. The Diva appointed A-chung-le, “an angel of a thousand years in the colleges of Jehovih”, as sub-God of Me-de and upon this new assignment, he was given the new name and title, Anubi, mediator and judge of grades. Me-de was for the spirits of non-practicing Faithists, so people who believed in the All Person, followed Divan law, but did not belong to a Faithist community nor practiced Faithist rites and ceremonies. They were considered “them that believe”, that “profess faith in the Great Person, Jehovih”, but are “without practice” and “have lived isolate”. Upon death, their spirits were not yet “fifth grade in the es’ean world”, so from this point forward, they went to the new heavenly kingdom of Me-de, governed by Me-de-ci law, rather than mixed in with the drujas of hada.
Anubi uses “degrees of Anubi” to convert non-Faithists to Faithism: The second initiative involved the “degrees of Anubi”, which at the time, comprised the “greatest knowledge of the earth”. This information was previously known only by the I’hin, so Anubi was able to convert “tens of thousands” of the kings’ people to Faithism due to their desire and willingness to learn the degrees of Anubi.
The degrees of Anubi included how to acquire the information necessary to “build a palace or a temple, or an aqueduct or a canal, or a ship or any great affair”. This meant that anytime a king or the kings’ people wanted to build something of this nature, they “were obliged to employ Faithists of the fifth degree to superintend the work”, so this is how/why the kings’ people were willing to learn the degrees, which in turn converted them to Faithism.
Teaching non-Faithists rites of Anubi was a success: Anubi sent out “tens of thousands of angels into all regions of the earth” so that by inspiration or otherwise, he could establish the rites of Anubi with the kings’ people. The endeavor was a success, even kings were converted to Faithism. Oahspe adds that even the Maichung of China and the Effins of India converted. For a time, “there were no suffering poor in all the world. The Faithists had gathered them all up and made brethren out of them; and the contributions to the Faithists by the kings’ people rendered all the people comfortable.”
- First degree (open to anyone who desired to learn heavenly things)
- taught in dark chambers by the voices of angels clothed in sar’gis
- mysteries of spirit communion
- how to sit in circles and crescents
- the 4 dark corners and 4 bright sides
- how to ascertain a spirit’s grade
- how to keep away evil spirits and attract righteous spirits
- how to develop su’is an sar’gis (clairvoyance and clairaudience)
- secrets of falling water
- application of lotions to the skin to make poundings and rappings
- second degree (this degree and higher are open only to Faithists)
- taught by “people of the Great Spirit and His secret names”
- about His holy high heavens, where all is rest and happiness forever
- one must live 1 year with the poorest of the poor, soliciting alms, reserving only the poorest of things for himself
- third degree
- dominions of the Gods and the Lords, where they are located, and their irrespective labors in heaven
- names of the Gods or Gods, Lord or Lords, and the Divan laws
- words of salutation
- anthems
- prayers
- the praise
- positions of utterance
- orders of marching
- to write sacred names
- secret of begetting pure offspring
- the key to the 2 preceding degrees
- fourth degree
- arrangement of the heavens
- places of the sun and stars and moon
- places and grades of the unseen worlds
- localities of the lower and higher heavens
- places and dominions of false Lords and false Gods
- places in hada, and of hells and knots
- nature of familiar spirits, fetals, and both harmless and destructive vampires that live in swine and cattle
- the key to the place of the north star
- position of the Earth’s vortex
- vortices that move the corporeal worlds and hold them in place
- rules for building temples and pyramids, with their spirit chambers
- fifth degree (the “degree of prophecy”, requires proficiency in preceding degrees and rab’bah/priest recommendation from the initiating college of prophecy)
- angels came in sar’gis and taught these things orally to the initiated mortals
- secret of life in the flesh
- power of will and how to use it far and near
- how to rule over others without their knowing it
- cast spells
- enter the prophetic state
- estimate numbers without counting
- find the weight of things without weighing
- find the power of a capstan before it is made
- the lever and screw
- find the friction of things before they were moved to know the power required
The O-yra deployed to inspire and protect Faithists: The third initiative was that after the 4 prophets, Abraham/Po/Brahma/Eawahtah, and their etherean assistants left the Earth, 4 high-raised atmospherean angels were sent to Earth in their stead to “sojourn on the earth with the Faithists as inspiring spirits and protectors”. The section,
O-yra, the High Heaven (O) going to (y) earth (ra)
For the first time, Oahspe mentions a group of angels called the O-yra and it provides a glimpse into the inner workings of the spirit world for the well-protected people (angelically protected). The O-yra was comprised of 4 angels that oversaw 10,000 angels called “attendants”. These attendants were all above the grade of 80 (percentage of service to others) and from the colleges of Craoshivi, Earth’s highest heavenly kingdom. Since these angels were from the colleges, participation in the O-yra was probably part of their training.
The name “O-yra” meant the High Heaven (O) going to (y) earth (ra), so O-y-ra. These 4 angels and their 10,000 attendants sojourned on Earth with Faithists as inspiring spirits and protectors. They inspired mortals in rites and ceremonies, prayers, psalms, sacred dances, spoke to their spirits when they slept, and led them to happy marriages that created offspring capable of the Voice. Senior attendants resided with chief rab’bah, “first in rank” attendants resided with ordinary rab’bah, and the rest of the attendants resided with the multitudes of Faithist mortals.
describes the O-yra and at the same time, provides a closer look at the inner workings of the spirit world.
Mortals taught lost arts and sciences: The fourth initiative was implemented because it was determined that mortals needed to be retaught the arts and sciences that were first given to humanity back in Osiris’ cycle, about 8,000 years prior, which had since been lost on Earth. See the section,
Mortals taught lost arts and sciences
For the non-Faithists, the people that remained the “kings’ people”, many of them were rich and lived in large cities while the Faithists were mostly poor and “inhabited far-apart regions”. While the Faithists derived most of their knowledge, not from books, but “from the angels of the Lords” about “perfecting the soul”, the kings’ people learned from “books and instruments for measuring the stars, and moon, and the sun” and about mostly “earth matters, and … the gratification of self”.
It was determined that mortals needed to be retaught subjects that were originally taught back in Osiris’ cycle, so about 8,000 years prior, which had since been lost on the Earth. Oahspe explains that “spirits of thousands of years previous were brought back to the earth, to reveal to mortals the lost arts and sciences” and “by virtue of their presence spake unto the souls of men, and made them understand”. They were taught how to “spin and weave finely”, about the seasons, the times of the earth, the moon, and sun, and stars.
, for how “spirits of thousands of years previous” did the teaching.