Part 12: Second and third prophets of 4,000 BC: Po and Brahma

This part is a continuation of Cpenta-armij’s cycle, which started about 6,000 years ago, so from about 4,000 BC to 1,000 BC. After Zarathustra established the first organized religion in the previous cycle, 4 great prophets were raised up during this cycle to be living examples of the Creator that no man could misunderstand. The last part covered Abraham of Arabia and this part will cover Po of China and Brahma of India.

Po of China

Po was destined to “lead them (Zarathustrians) away from the mortal kings, and teach them to know Me as their only King”.

The First Han Dynasty: In the last cycle, Zarathustrianism was firmly established in China and the loo’is worked to maintain many generations of seers and prophets with su’is, so they could see and hear the Voice (the unseen). At one point, there were 16 different tribes of seers and prophets that all followed Zarathustrian law; however, the tribe of Hans “forgot the commandments of God” and their “mighty chieftain, Le Han” revived the Osirian doctrines of 8,000 years prior, took over the central throne of China, abolished the worship of Jehovih and the true God and Lords, tortured and killed followers of Zarathustrian law, and established “The First Han Dynasty” that overspread all of China. Osirian law taught that corporal knowledge stood higher than Ormazdian law, so Han revered knowledge over spirituality and forced knowledge upon his people. The true God of Earth did not intervene because he foresaw that Han would “enrapture the multitudes” with his new doctrines forgetting that these same doctrines were tried thousands of years before (8,000 years before).

Image 1: Po of China

A true prophet, Ze-wing’e, prophesied to Han that lack of prayer and rites and ceremonies would make man conceited, make them live by opinions rather than doctrines, and would bring war and destruction, but Han didn’t listen and as “The First Han Dynasty” overspread China, the followers of Zarathustrian law were tortured and killed.

Po is born: From this same true prophet, Ze-wing’e, the loo’is raised up prophets for 7 generations to bring forth Po. Like Zarathustra, Po was born an iesu, meaning without gender. War had reduced China’s population, so the king outlawed celibacy to increase population, but Po was protected from persecution when his attending God, Yima, led him to marry a barren women with 3 adopted children.

Po was told early in life to follow the doctrine and diet of his forefathers and that he would one day “gather together the scattered tribes of Zarathustrians, the Faithists, and establish them in this great land“. He was told to meet a Governor named Hi Seiang and soon after, Hi Seiang was shown signs and miracles that proved to him that Po was the “Son of God”, that God’s name was Te-in, and that Te-in was “the Father (rab’bah, or bah) over all the living”. Hi Seiang further learned that Po would deliver the chosen out of the bondage of Han and the Han Dynasty. One of the miracles that Hi Seiang witnessed was a voice in a burning bush, which is the same type of burning bush that Moses would see 2,500 years after this time.

Creator – the Great Spirit with 4 different names: Regarding Po’s God being called “Te-in”, mortals in different regions referred to the Great Spirit (aka Creator) by different names “according to the languages, and to the capabilities of mortals to pronounce words”. Therefore, while mortals of China used “Te-in”, mortals or Arabia used “Jehovih”, mortals of India used “Ormazd”, and mortals of America used “Egoquim”.

Po teaches the King’s people the doctrines: Governor Hi Seiang’s kingdom and all the other sub-kingdoms paid taxes and were in allegiance to the Han Dynasty, so it didn’t take much for them to welcome a valid reason to overthrow the Han Dynasty. Hi Seiang gathered the learned men from the other provinces and they willingly learned, through Po, about God (Te-in) and the mysteries of earth and heaven. It was foreseen that the kings of the Han Dynasty would destroy any doctrines that were created, so the doctrines were taught and retained orally: “Word by word learned they the wisdom of God, repeating them over and over, which was called learning by the mouth”.

The laws taught by Po were similar to the laws taught by Zarathustra in the last cycle, detailed in Zarathustrian Laws, but several adjustments were made to meet the specific needs of China. Because China had a low population at the time, the guidelines regarding celibacy were relaxed to apply only to teachers, priests, and priestesses so that those who chose to marry could “multiple and adorn the Earth”.

Po established a caste system that was quite different than the one Zarathustra introduced 5,000 years before this time, as detailed in Caste system of Zarathustra's time. Instead of focusing on developing expertise in different occupations, Po’s caste system emphasized the raising up (mentorship) of the unlearned and “very poor”. The rich would apportion their riches to benefit the city, the wise and rich would counsel the ignorant, the very young, and the “very poor”. And although “Each and every caste shall remain by itself; all of them are worthy before me, and are all equally my children”. China’s caste system included the following 7 castes for the “chosen”:

  1. prophets
  2. “such as have the highest genealogy”
  3. rab’bahs and priests
  4. nuns
  5. physicians
  6. the rich
  7. the very poor

The Han Dynasty is overthrown: After the former Governor, Hi Seiang, and his group of learned men converted to the doctrines of Po, Hi Seiang entered a compact to overthrow the Han Dynasty. After Han heard about this, he declared war on Hi Seiang’s compact and cruelly destroyed much of the country. Han’s success resulted in over-confidence and he eventually allowed his armies to scatter rather than remain concentrated, which enabled barbarians to take out Han’s armies and Han himself. Hi Seiang became governor again and carried out the following actions:

  • established a council for the 13 kingdoms of China
  • was crowned “King of the Sun”
  • decreed Po’s doctrines into law
  • changed the name of “All Light” to “Te-in”, the name the Chinese would use to refer to the Great Spirit (Creator)
  • stopped all persecution of the Faithists, the followers of Zarathustrian law
  • prohibited idol worship

Po and his attending God, Yima, then traveled all over China “Gathering together the chosen”, “teaching and displaying miraculous things”, and “explaining and practicing the commandments of God (Te-in)”.

Brahma of India

Brahma’s destiny was to deliver the Faithists out of bondage, but what this really meant was to free the true Zarathustrians (aka Faithists) from the oppressive false Zarathustrians, which were the Kings and priests that co-opted Zarathustrian law to justify their self-serving actions. It was also prophesied that “With the coming of Brahma is the end of the I’hin race in Shem (Vind’yu)” (This region was called Shem and then Vind’yu, but we know it as India).

Brahma was born as “Brah”, but “he was called Brahma because of his great wisdom”. Oahspe states that he was born a “su’is with power”, which meant that he had “both voice and power from the Father” and he was the one prophet out of this cycle that was a grade of 99 rather than 95, which meant that he was 99% service to others.

Brahma had to wait to know destiny: Brahma was born with a star above his forehead that only he could see. He could communicate with the star at times and his attending God, Ela-elia, told him, “I am thy star… I am the light that spoke to Zarathustra in the olden time”. Unlike other prophets, Brahma was not told in his youth exactly what he was destined to do. Instead, when he asked, he was told to attain to become one with the Creator in wisdom, goodness, and purity and that he’d eventually be able to answer his own question. Brahma went on to learn abnegation of self and the rites and ceremonies of the ancients from Zarathustrian priests. At one point he thought he should become a priest, but he was told by the Voice to “forsake thy studies, and take thy broad-axe, and go and hew logs… I will come to thee some time, and thou shalt bless the earth”.

Finally after Brahma was grown up, the voice of Ela-elia spoke to him again and told him that He would lead Brahma into another country where he would marry and “settle down for a long season”. Unlike Zarathustra and Po and many of the prophets still to come, Brahma was not born an iesu (without gender) because he was meant to marry and have 7 sons. Brahma questioned this, but was reassured: “In times past I raised up many an iesu… and they were good for their day…”

Brahma would marry Yu-tiv and have 7 sons: Brahma was led to a woman named Yu-tiv, half I’hin, who could also hear and see the Voice, who he was meant to marry. She could even see the star above Brahma’s head, so he was able to tell her that “the Voice of Ormazd cometh to me at times” and that he had been told, “thou shalt take a wife and raise up sevens sons, and I will deliver my edifice (church), unto liberty”. Neither of them wanted to marry and bring children into the world. Both of them were deeply saddened by the “miseries of the earth”, “the sins of the earth”, “the death of little infants’, “the trials of the poor”, “the suffering of the sick”, and the “anguish of the imprisoned”. But the Voice came to them and told them, “dwell ye near together”, so they did, and they became closer and closer and eventually had their first son.

Brahma and Yu-tiv

Yu-tiv and Brahma lose faith, have 7th son, and wait some more: While they were raising their children, the Voice of Ormazd did not come to Brahma, yet the angel of Ormazd remained with them and would communicate with them occasionally. Yet after the 6th son, after years of communing only with angels, Yu-tiv began to lose faith that Ormazd would ever come back and “deliver the Faithists out of bondage” through Brahma. And after many years of them both enduring hardships, Yu-tiv began to doubt there was an All Person at all and that there were only the spirits of the dead. She started referring to Ormazd as Eolin, which meant wind: “The Creator is dumb, like the wind; His voice is like the wind, it speaketh nothing”. Brahma stopped speaking about the coming of Ormazd to himself and Yu-tiv and also started using the name Eolin. During this time of “unbelief”, they had their 7th and last son and they called him “Hog, signifying Fact, or without inspiration; an animal that rooteth in the ground”.

Finally when Hog was 3 years old, the voice of Brahma’s attending God, Ela-elia, told Brahma “Be thou faithful another eighteen years! I shall be with thee to the end!” Brahma was delighted by this and Yu-tiv eventually felt hope. Fast forward to Hog’s 21st birthday, the Father (Ormazd) came back to them as a Light and a Voice that everyone in Brahma’s family could see and hear with the exception of Hog. Then Yu-tiv realized that because she was in a state of unbelief when Hog was in her womb, she “put out his eyes and stopped up his ears against Thee” (he didn’t have spiritual eyes and ears).

Ormazd finally reveals their destiny: Ormazd’s Voice returned to tell them, “These things had to be fulfilled”, that Brahma’s entire family were “all so many parts of My work. Even through My angels named ye these sons; according to their names, so will I establish My kingdom”. What this meant was that Brahma was intentionally not born an iesu so that he could marry Yu-tiv and have 7 sons. Yu-tiv and Brahma intentionally lost faith during the conception and pregnancy of Hog so that Hog was born without su’is like a man of “darkness”, an unbeliever. But that no-one should feel sorry for Hog in that he “can only see with earthly eyes, and hear with earthly ears, and can reason only with earthly reason” because his “darkness” “will be made into light that will reach millions”.

The existence of Hog, the unbeliever in the family, would help them “learn to consider the unbelief of mortals, and the impossibility of one man seeing through another man’s eyes”. Through Hog, the family will be shown “the wisdom of disbelief, and its necessity on the earth” and that those that are not born in su’is are “the same flesh and blood” and their spirits are from the same Creator. Through Hog, the family will become more considerate and empathetic to those that cannot see and hear spiritually.

I have witnessed that this purest and best of brothers cannot see spiritually, my soul is mellowed toward all the world… my outstretched arms shall receive the darkest of men.

I perceive through my own sweet mother how the different castes of men are made!

Brahma and Vede write the Veda: Lastly, Brahma attained iesu in his old age and Ormazd revealed to him that his son, who was named Vede by the angels, was born with the “learning and memory” required for him to write down all the words that Ormazd would speak through Brahma (in trance). Brahma and his son, Vede, spent 40 days and “the Veda was completed; the holy words of Brahma were written”. Interestingly, this wasn’t the first time that the name “Vede” played a divine role in India. This overlay, Vede is taught to inhabitants of India , described how 10,000 years prior, India’s early language had become so confusing, India’s Lord at the time taught them a new oral language he called “Vede” for “perfect” to “preserve the genealogy of my chosen”.

Kings and priests abused the Zarathustrian laws: During this time in India, “Things that were revealed to Zarathustra have been lost, but shall be recovered in Brahma”. Oahspe does not specify how many people lived in India at the time, but out of the entire population, only 4,000 men, women, and children were Faithists and “all other nations and tribes of Vind’yu (India) were idolators”. Kings and priests had turned the Zarathustrian commandments upside down. Kings forced priests to interpret the words of the Zarathustrian laws in a round-about way to justify war and raising up the sword and spear in the name of Ormazd to establish kingdoms by “blood and death”.

True Faithists persecuted and oppressed: While the kings and priests co-opted Zarathustrianism, the true Zarathustrians/Faithists became the victims of persecution and oppression: “poor and distressed that worship Me in truth and spirit have learned to hate the words established. For which reason they are persecuted, and bound, and taxes… for the sake of profit, bondage, and evil”. This was the reason why in Brahma’s early days, the voice of Ormazd told him, “thou shalt take a wife and raise up sevens sons, and I will deliver my edifice (church), unto liberty”.

Brahma and his family established communities of Vedans: Brahma and his family were told by their attending God, Ela-elia, to “Go now, and preach my gospel unto whosoever will hear”. Brahma, 6 of his 7 sons, and his wife, Yu-tiv, preached by day and “exhibited the spirits of the dead by night”. Hog stood by his family, helping in any way that he could, and his philosophy was that “These things may be true, and if they be true, it is well. If they be not true, still the believing of them, by the populace… they cease from evil, and they practice good fellowship. Therefore, I will stand by my father to the end.”

And these two men, the Faithist and the unbeliever, do mostly all the good that is done in the world; the one labors at the top of the hill, calling upward; the other labors at the bottom of the hill, pushing upward.

City by city they visited and “the multitude came out of the city to hear him, and many returned not; but remained with Brahma and his sons in their camp”. With the creation of the Veda and the preachings of Brahma and his family, a new name came about for the people on the Earth that learned from Brahma. “Though they were Faithists in fact”, their neighbors called them Vedans and some called them Brahmins. When there were 6,820 people gathered, just like Abraham did in Arabia, Brahma led the people to “the waste lands, such as the kings’ people desire not”, in the valleys and mountains of Roam, and he established families of tens, hundreds, and thousands, and appointed each of them a “head father” (rab’bah).

The first King joins Brahma: As the number of Vedans continued to grow, “men of learning came not to Brahma; neither came the priests, nor kings, nor magicians, nor consulters of oracles”; however, a captain-general by the name of King Syaythaha was the first King to approach Brahma. He sent gold, silver, and copper to Brahma to “give (him) the blessing of heaven!” Brahma returned the gifts along with a message to, “Deal thou with thy Creator now with men”. The King recognized the wisdom, but still felt rebuked, Ormazd allowed “satan” (selfishness) to possess the King for a bit, and the King set out to destroy Brahma and his people.

The King assembled an army and consulted an oracle for the “best mode of success” not knowing that an angel of God had possessed the oracle. The King was told, “He who hath become one with Ormazd is mightier than an army”. He was further told to exchange his crown and golden robes for the clothing of a druk, he and the druk would lead the army into Brahma’s region and for anyone that prostrates themselves (bows) before the druk dressed as a King and dismisses the King dressed as a druk, the King can feel justified in destroying them for they have proven to be a hypocrite.

After the King killed the first hypocrite man, Brahma brought him back to life and as a result of the King witnessing such a miracle, he devoted the rest of his life to service, gave up his kingdom, and he and his people joined Brahma’s people. This is when Brahma solidified that they would call themselves “Vedans”, which meant Truth-followers, rather than Brahmins.

The Rab’bah would memorize the Veda: By the time of Brahma, the majority of India’s inhabitants spoke a confused language due to “many meanings for every spoken and written word”, but the “men of learning” and the kings of India all spoke a language called “All-ao”, which signified “Out of all that is good”. Brahma’s attending God, Ela-elia, foresaw how easy it would be for the leaders to once again corrupt and co-opt the doctrines Brahma would teach, so Brahma’s 6 sons were told to establish schools for the chosen, teach the scriptures by word of mouth, and anyone who desired to become a rab’bah would have to learn to repeat every word of the Veda by heart so that “in after ages, if the plates and the books of my holy religion are destroyed by war, it mattereth not. The substance of thy labors shall live.”

Vedan communities established all over India: Brahma, Yu-tiv, and Hog were then instructed to travel from place to place for 2 years. They first helped their people establish 7 cities and 30 villages in a region called Haraoyo that had been uninhabited for hundreds of years. They then departed Haraoyo with 7 disciples and went wherever the angels of Ormazd had them go to “preach and explain the Veda, carrying one book with them”. When they had accumulated 7,000 new followers, the angel directed them to the plains of Cpenta-armaiti, which “became known over all the world from that time after”. Lastly, Brahma established 1,000 more followers in the mountains of T’cararativirwoh. By then, Yu-tiv was old and weakening quickly, so Brahma and Hog were told to take her back to the mountains of Roam.

Yu-tiv dies and appears before her family: Before Yu-tiv’s death, she blessed all of her sons and for Hog, she recognized that he had “been a very God in all thy ways” even though he did not believe in Ormazd, heaven, or angels. He was “good for goodness’ sake; wise for wisdom’s sake; happy in finding a way to master all unhappiness!” She then died, they put her in a white robe, and began the funeral rites. Brahma was instructed to follow specific funeral rites for Yu-tiv that enabled her to appear before her family on the 4th day. She shared with them how the funeral rites corresponded to her experience entering the spirit world (aka the Earth’s first-resurrection heaven).

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The funeral rites for Yu-tiv included the burial of her body on the 4th day and then they “sat in the sacred circle and sang and prayed for her soul to go on to Nirvana (paradise)” (Nirvana/paradise is another name for the etherea, the higher heavens beyond Earth’s atmosphere). During the sacred circle, “the soul of Yu-tiv” appeared in the middle of the circle like “an angel in white”.

On the day of her death, Brahma told his family to “sing no songs; pray in silence only. Let her soul be in quiet with Ormazd” and on this day, for Yu-tiv, she said, “Out from the head of the corporeal body the spirit is born; and angels stand around; on a spirit blanket receive they the spirit of the dead. One day, in quiet, they keep the spirit, teaching it to reconcile and understand.”

On the second day after Yu-tiv’s death, Brahma told his family to pray in whispers the best good deeds of the dead and Yu-tiv said that on this day, “the spirit heareth the prayers of the earth-people coming upward”. 

On the third day, Brahma told his family to “Burst forth a song of praise to Ormazd” and talk about the virtues of the dead. Yu-tiv said that on the third day “the spirit understandeth death and birth of spirit” and this is the day the soul enters the first-resurrection heaven (Earth’s lowest atmospheric heaven). 

On the fourth day, Brahma told his family, “bid the dead arise and go onward, upward” in song and prayer. This is also the day they buried Yu-tiv’s body. Yu-tiv said that on the fourth day when they sang “O Goddess, arise from the dead!”, her spirit was free from the Earth, “resting in the arms of Gods and Goddesses, who had come from on high to receive me”. 

The fourth day is also the day that Yu-tiv appeared to her family in the center of the sacred circle. She added that on the fifth day, for the holy, the second resurrection begins. She said, “After the fifth day call ye me not back again! My labor lieth yonder! I must build houses for you all… If it be his (Ormazd) will for me to return to you at times, I will return.” 

After this last communication, Yu-tiv’s soul “rose upward in a sea of fire” and “the love of great Brahma was too much for him!” and he died as well. Brahma’s sons, while still in the sacred circle for their mother, saw and heard “The angel of God” tell them to assemble those dearest to Brahma and it wasn’t long before 10,000 people made their way to them. The angel gave the sons different instructions for the funeral rites of Brahma. They buried Brahma’s body beside Yu-tiv’s on the third day, then for 2 days, they sat at his grave 3 times per day, 1 hour each time, “singing and praying for the soul of Brahma”.

Brahma and Yu-tiv appear before the community: On the evening of the second day, the graves of both Brahma and Yu-tiv opened, their bodies came forth “with their flesh and bones and their burial robes”, so that even Hog could see them. Brahma told his family and the people that the first belief is to believe in the spirit surviving the corporeal body, the second belief is to learn the All Person, and then comes faith. Hog responded that he now believed the first belief, but in regard to an All Person, he could not understand. Brahma told him that just like he and his mother had proven themselves to him, “in due season will Ormazd reveal Himself unto thee”. Brahma and Yu-tiv then “rose up in the sea of fire” and their graves were left open with the bodies gone.

To conclude Oahpse’s coverage of the prophet Brahma, Oahspe states that Brahma was told in his youth by his attending God, Ela-elia, that in the age of kosmon, which started in 1848, 6,000 years after Brahma’s time, people would know and understand what was achieved by Abram, Po, Brahma, and Eawahtah (covered in the next part). Specifically, people would know that God “walked the earth with these, teaching and speaking through them, yet none of these were idolized by men. For the nations of the earth, in the time of these four men, comprehended that they were not Gods, but men through whom, and to whom, I, even God, had spoken.”

Go to Part 13, Fifth great prophet of 4,000 BC, Eawahtah, of America…