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caremon181 of a law t h a t was lgnomlnlously snatched t?m, Let us puttti8 the d e b l l s o f the events of the p o s t e r t t y UP me &ah spent the fint century w i t h h l s second portsr+Q,--mrr$-tnsâ‚Źmctad It during one hundred and t h l r t y years. He r r l s e d th. mtmr mles dl1 dmm of t h a t p o s t e r i t y accordtng to the law o f the Creator. TIm flmt f8w rrrrr consecrated to t h e Oivlnity. The other three had two cults to operate: one temporal and t e r r e s t r i a l and the other slmptr md s rlturl. The tint of t h i s m t e r i t y csrda the type o f the High P r l e s t urb 8)r p r f r s t ta cam. Ha was, I n h l s qrcrtlty o f s p i r i t u a l Interpret, the #mt c h i e f ot 8nj) kind of d l v f n , aperatlone He I s the f i r s t t o set hand on th. c m s o r rand n k e s the offerlng of the holocaust t o the Creator. He I s th om to mke a t low voice, the r e a t lnvocatton f o r the descent o f the s lrft for the consul matfon o f h g l o u u r t o f expiation and r e c o n c f l t a t on. He Is 8 l w a t t h e a l t a r , and h i s t h m brothers f a l l I n s t r a f g h t 1fgn InrrWlireely trshltwl h i m as p r i n c i p a l assistants t o the great operation IYt the BIvIm cult. That which was npeatetd by Moses, assisted In hfs op.rat9om by Cbron, UP, and Bethsabeel, Aamn has repeated the samt thfng by trktng hls c h l l d m t o a s s i s t him i n h i s works. The same order has been f o t l d In t h e 11 today fn ths temple of Solomon, The church o f C h r i s t represents i t %ti s a c r i f i c e offered on the a l t a r by the hand, the i n t m t and the wrd of tha celebrant who i s assfsted by the f i r s t , second, and thtrd deacons. Veu can see here then t h a t those things come down to us, through the succession o f times, not from the Imagination o f men but from the-Eternal Creator. n e l a s t three sons o f Noah were ordered t o go ta the thw t m w m t r q a l regions distinguished by West, South and W r t h end Inhrbltrd stnclr am hundred f o r t y one years by the f i r s t p o s t e r i t y o f Now; nanrly, Sar, Chon and Japhet. The e l d e r o f the l a s t three went t o the Sauthern part, the second went to the Western part, and the t h i r d went t o tha Northern part. They went, each OM, f n those different part o f the world 4n brder t o perpetuate among t h e i r brothers Bnd t h e i r p o s t e r i t i e s the car@lmIal af the d i v i n e c o l t so t h a t these people do not lose s i g h t m t t r e l y upon the c u l t t h a t the Creator demanded from them. These inen o p e m t d so g m t s p i r l t u r l prodlgles among those people t h a t the l a t t e r s had ne pains ta s u b i t themselves t o the instructions, counsels, and l c i s o ~ i v e n ta t-. However, before elevatlng those peoplz t o the s p l r f t u a te&drii?gs, they had t o be taught the temporal teaching; and t h a t 1s rrlrrt wet dem. The three wise men, wfio came t o i n s t r u c t than, r t t a b 1 i s M unong tha a measure o f ti- t h a t they regulated according to spiritual 4 4 ~ 4 ~ 1 ~ 1 made by t h e i r f i r s t f o u r brothers f o r the four o p c r r t i o n r o f the g r w t d l v i n c c u l t . These three s p i r i t u a l Masters, a f t e m a d s , t8j1htted lor# of the inhabi tants o f those regions f o r the purpose of ~ q b r i n t l q Or in1t i a t l n ~t h w i t h t h e i r respective spiritual sclmc+, Pha)r ccrtpl8hd to these people that, although the night o f darkness was made t o r thr repar ( r e s t ) of the body o f man, i t .was not made f o r the tplrltuml d i v i n e atnor who could not relaaln i n a c t i v e because o f h i s very s p i r l t u r t rwtun. lJhdn these wlse mtn finished t h i s p r e l imlnary p t a p a m t l m a? t h t r dltctplsr , the n e x t s t e p was t o admit them i n t o the work o f the s p i r i t u a l cult. Consequently, they taught them how t o pray, t o asdltr-, ete. They a l ~ taught them the ceremnial t o prepare thamselvar fer the different operations
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