The Secret of the Creation | Page 2

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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