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Division of the Race of Man

The Lord said: As a farmer plants wheat in one field, rice in another and flax in a third, so do I, the Lord, inhabit the earth with the seed of man. Neither shall any wise man say: These things came by chance; that one people just happened to settle in Jaffeth (China), another in Vind‘yu (India), and another in Arabin‘ya [Ham, or Africa plus part of Near East; see –ed.]. Such is the argument of my enemies, says the Lord. Not perceiving the wisdom of my work as it happens [as it is unfolding –ed.], they fail to extend judgment into my plans of thousands of years, and so, stubbornly, shut themselves up in ignorance, saying: There is no God.

For I foresaw the breadth of the earth, and that it should be subdued for the glory of man; and in the early days, I divided my armies with wisdom.

To Ham I allotted the foundation of the migratory tribes of the earth. And of the tribes of Ham, behold, I selected many colors of men; through which I foreordained the name Ham to stand as a living testimony to the end of the world. For I foresaw that the time would come when the nations would look back searching for histories of my peoples, and I erected certain words and signs which would be testimony in the later times of earth.

The tribes of Ham were of all colors (black, white, yellow, copper, red and brown); nevertheless, they were I‘hins (Faithists), having flat nails and short arms, and desiring to acquire knowledge.503 And I brought them to a country of sand fields and with fields of rich pastures interspersed, where lived only a few natives, the dark people, with short hair. Neither did I omit even the hair of the head of man without providing testimony of my word.

I provided testimony504 of the I‘hins in all the divisions of the earth, with long hair belonging to the tribes that worshipped Jehovih, so that man of the Kosmon era might perceive that the land from which they (I‘hin ancestors) sprang is not above the water.

Behold the multiple (Yi-ha) language of the tribes of Shem! Side by side with the tribes of Jaffeth I raised them. And, behold, the latter use the derivation of the Panic language to this day.505

For I gave to the tribes of these two different lands my ten commandments and ten invocations, not to be written, but to be spoken and taught from mouth to ear, to be sacred in the language given.

In which man shall perceive that the same stories of the egg, and of the origin of evil in the world, could not have been communicated by mortals.506

For I locked up enough of the Panic language in Jaffeth as a testimony to be discovered in future years; showing that, unlike Ham and Shem, a mighty nation could retain one language for thousands of years.

For I foresaw that philosophers would try to prove that languages were of mortal origin, and that they would change according to the growth of knowledge among men.

Behold, I gave scriptures to all my people, enjoining507 some to adhere to the text; and, so, I preserved the work of my hand.

The tribes of Ham were previously ordained with characteristics to make them love to emigrate westward; and the tribes of Jaffeth and Shem with characteristics to make them love to stay within their own countries. And the tribes of Guatama were ordained with characteristics to make them love to go eastward. For I set a boundary to the tribes of Guatama, that they would not reach the ocean on the east.508

The Lord said: Having designed Ham for teaching the barbarian world of me and my dominion, I also prepared them so that, through their seed, men and women would have hair neither straight nor short, but long and curled, and red, and white, and brown, by which the genealogy of nations might be traced in future times. ||

Now, nestled in between the three great countries, Jaffeth, Shem and Ham, was located the chief place of the I‘huans, and here they founded a new nation; and the Lord called them Par‘si‘e,509 signifying, warrior Faithists, because he created them as a shield, to guard his chosen, the I‘hins.

The difference between the I‘huans and the Par‘si‘e was that the I‘huans lived scattered about near the I‘hins, but the Par‘si‘e‘ans lived in a nation by themselves.

Nevertheless, they were all of the same blood and kin, being half-breeds between the I‘hins and the native druks; and they were large, and mostly of the color of new copper.

And because the Par‘si‘e were favored by the Lord, the Lord gave them separate laws, and commanded them not to mix with the druks; which commandment they kept for more than a thousand years.

But in course of time, the Par‘si‘e‘ans were tempted by the druks, and fell from their high estate, and they became cannibals.

And the Lord sent the Ghans to travel in search of his people; and lo and behold, ten tribes of the Lord‘s people were lost in the wilderness; and this was the country of the Par‘si‘e‘ans, and that land was filled with wild goats. From which came the name, LAND OF GOATS.

And the lost tribes, not being flesh eaters, were at a loss for food; and they said: Come, let us live on goat‘s milk.

And they lived like this for a long season, taming the goats, and keeping herds of them. And they roved about, driving their herds with them, for which reason they took the name of SHEPHERD KINGS.

And the Lord looked on them with favor, saying: These that call themselves shepherd kings shall have this country. Behold, out of the seed of these people, I will do mighty wonders.510

The Lord said: What man could discover, I, the Lord, left for him to discover; what man could not discover, I, the Lord, taught him.


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