BOOK OF CREATION.
CHAPTER SEVEN: HERTHEW - SON OF THE FIRSTFATHER.
(1) The Book of Beginnings tells us all things began with Varkelfa, therein called Awenkelifa, from whom flows gwinin, the energiser which stabilises all things so they maintain their proper form, and awen which responds to the moulding desires. This is well enough, but men concern themselves more with the beginnings of their race, and ours is rooted in Herthew the Sunfaced, son of the Firstfather.
(2) While Herthew was still young he was expelled from the lushlands where he was born, and he journeyed across the harshlands in the company and keeping of wise Habaris. After many days they came to Krowkasis, cradle land of our race, land of mountains and rivers, which is beside Ardis, and they encamped there in a valley.
With them were retainers and flocks.
(3) Herthew grew to manhood there and always Habaris was at his side, instructing him in all the things he should know. He taught Herthew the Nine essential disciplines of Imain, and the secrets of the three sacred vessels. Herthew learned that there was a place of gloom, where the air was foul and malodorous breezes carried pestilence and poisonous particles. This was the source of all maladies and ailments and of the things which cause putrefaction and decay. This place had been closed off from Earth, for it existed in another realm beyond the ken of mortals; but it had been brought into attunement with Earth when a forbidden act was accomplished. Thus the bodies of mortals became susceptible to influences from the baleful place.
(4) To this and similar parts of the Other world the wicked would be drawn when they passed through the grim gates of death. But Habaris taught a different conception of wickedness, one where lack of effort, indolence and indifference to duty and obligations, the taking of the easy path, were just as wrong as actual deeds of wickedness. He taught that men reach the true goal of life by transmuting lust love into true love. That true victory is gained only over the defeated bodies of their vanquished passions and baser selves. These and many other things were taught by Habaris, but many of his teachings displeased the people of Krowkasis who were then as they were before Herthew's forefather was led away. So Habaris concealed many things from them and taught, by simple tales, things within their understanding. He taught them the mysteries concerning the wheel of the years and divided the year into a Summer half and a Winter half, with a great year circle of fifty-two years, a hundred and four of which was the circle of the Destroyer. He gave them the Laws of Weal and Woe and established the folk feasts of harvest-tide and seeding-tide. He taught them the ritual of Ulisidui.
(5) But Habaris instructed Herthew in the ways of the Otherworld. He taught him concerning the three rays from the central invisible sun, which manifest all things, upholding them in stability of form. Also concerning the Oversoul which filled everything in creation, as the Soulself filled the mortal body. This Soulself, he declared, would develop from mortal sensitivity and feeling transmuted into divine sensitivity and feeling, through suppression of the baser instincts within mortals. It was strengthened by development of feelings of love between man and woman and between these and their kindred; by the appreciation of beauty and devotion to duty; by the development of all qualities that pertain to humans and not to animals.
(6) Herthew learned that the Soulself is quickened by soul substances outflowing from the Godhead. That the strong soul is transformed and moulded to the soul’s desire, but the weak soul is not its own master, it is flabby, unstable and is pulled into a state of distortion by its own vices. In the afterlife there is unbounded joy for the entry of a noble soul, it will glow with splendour and stand out proudly. The mean soul of the wicked is duU- hued, twisted and drab, and, being drawn towards its own compatible state, it shrinks into the dark places. When Herthew had barely crossed the threshold of manhood, black-bearded spearmen began to ravish the borders of Krowkasis, and Idalvar, king of that country, called his fighting men together and when word came to Herthew he prepared to depart. But Habaris bid him stay awhile, for he was unprepared for battle. Then Habaris
prepared a strange fire with stones, unlike any fire seen before, and when it burnt low he plucked out that which is called 'child of the green flame' and he beat it out so it became a blade. This he fitted to a homed handgrip and when it was edged and blooded gave it to Herthew, saying, "Behold, Dislana the Bitterbiter, faithful servant of he who strikes hard and true". Then he made a shield of wicker covered with ox-hide and a cap of hide which came down over the face and neck. So equipped Herthew went to the encampment of Idalvar, taking eight fighting men with him.
(7) In those days men fought with hand-thrown spears and clubs, with flung stones and sticks sharpened by fire and weighted, but they did not close in the battle clash. So when Idalvar saw the battle blade of Herthew, he wondered and it passed his understanding; but when he saw Herthew close on the battleline and the foeman fall before him, he was amazed.
(8) No man about the king could understand the making of such weapons, offspring of fire and stone, but Habaris made others and Herthew became the king's right hand man and the first hero of the Noble Race. The king offered Herthew his daughter's hand in marriage, but Herthew declined saying, "The days of my manhood are not yet fulfilled".
(9) When the war-filled days had passed, Herthew withdrew to the place where Habaris made the bright battle blade, and already he had taught the mysteries of their making to others, sealing their mouths with magic. But Herthew was less concerned with the weaponry of war than with the mysteries of life and the battles of the Spirit beset by mortality. So while his workmen drew bright blades from the thunder stones, Habaris taught Herthew and his battle brothers, and these were the things they learned from his mouth.
(10) “Beyond Yah there is an Absolute which no man should try to understand, for it exists and has always existed in a state beyond man's finite comprehension. It is from this Absolute that Yah, The Ultimate in all Perfections, was engendered".
(11) “To create, Yah first visualised in thought, then He produced an outflowing wave of power which, in a manner of speaking, solidified what might be called building stones. The outflowing power also produced the Celestial Hymn which brought the building stones together in harmonious forms. So it is truly said that all creation is the harp of Yah and it responds to His song and manipulations. It is an everlasting unfoldment. The voice of God can also be heard in the voice of His beautiful daughter who endows all growing things with life and beauty". "There is a divine purpose in Creation which may be known only to the few, this knowledge is the key to all unanswered questions. Acquiring it is like the drawing back of heavy curtains which have kept a room in gloomy half light, so all things suddenly became clear and distinct. He who gains this knowledge knows the Grand Secret, the answer to the riddle of the ages, and knows beyond a shadow of a doubt. This divine purpose, and the divine secret concerning it, is called Gwenkelva".
(12) “Apart from Gwenkelva Yah gains nothing from His Creation, except that as a Being possessing infinite love and goodness He must have something to receive the gift of love and respond to it. Even among mortal beings, who is there that could find satisfactory fulfilment in self-love? Also, He needed something wherewith He could contract Himself, some medium wherein He could perform, and this is Creation". "Creation is also, for mortals, the school of life. The training ground for Yah-hood. There are Three Circles of Reality, three realms, three stages of existence. They are: Heaven, where perfection visualised on Earth may be
realised and desires and ideals materialised; where hard-striven-for aspirations are attained; it is the place where all the properly developed spiritual potential latent in man reaches maturity and fulfilment. Earth, the place of training, development and preparation, the testing ground, the battlefield where men discover their true natures when confronted by life's challenges, contests and contentions; where competition and controversy are the rule. It is here that aims and objectives are conceived and thought-out for realisation later in the proper place. It is a starting point, the beginning of the journey; it is here that the proper road must be wisely chosen. Then there is the Realm of the Misty Horizon, the intermediate place, the place of spirits, where those above can commune with those below and where free spirits wander within their limitations".
(13) These things which Habaris taught in those far off days have been rewritten in transmission to accord with our understanding, but it is unwise to voice them in these troublesome days, when words become snares to entrap the unwary.
(14) Now, Idalvar desired to learn the secret of the bright blade engendering thunder stones, but no man who came with Habaris or laboured for him would disclose any part of it, and the king was afraid to put them to the test. So, having thought the matter out the king sent for his daughters and told them what he expected them to do, for he had devised a plan to learn the secret. Then he sent an invitation to Herthew and Habaris. When they arrived at the king's encampment they found a great gathering in their honour and the king's daughters favourably inclined towards them, one smiling upon Herthew and the other upon Habaris who was at the age of hoary headedness. Though at first Habaris was indifferent and wearied her, the king's daughter pandered to him, encouraging even his follies, setting out to charm him with her wit and beauty.
(15) It was no great length of time before her womanly wiles ensnared the heart of Habaris and though he was almost ripe for the surrender of secrets, the damsel's efforts had taxed her and the game became tiresome, so there came an evening when she could not endure his company. In the midst of the merrymaking, when the ale bowls had made many rounds and the sound of song and story was at its height, she slipped away with a young battle man who attended upon her father. Many who sat among the benches saw this and whispered to one another, nodding
knowingly in the directions of Habaris who was not unaware, though he appeared to have drunk to his capacity. Habaris had learned to love the young woman, so he was sorely heart smitten, but within himself he knew the tree of Winter love bears only Winter's fruits. Yet he made excuses to himself for her, thinking perhaps it was
just some girlishness with no more weight than a floating feather, nothing of serious import, for it was true the merrymaking was better suited to the natures of men than the natures of women. Maybe, he thought, it is just an innocent indiscretion.
(16) So when the day came to its fullness and those who had made merry went heavily about their tasks, Habaris approached the king and asked for his daughter's hand in marriage. He said, "Your daughter Klara has delighted me with her winsome ways, she has charmed me with her gaiety and beauty; she has displayed much pleasure in my company, surely I have not misread the signs". The king was not over pleased, for though he greatly desired to know the secret of the bright blade he had not intended giving his daughter's hand to Habaris, but neither did he wish to offend him. Therefore, he was wary in his reply, saying, "It is the custom for any suitor for a high born woman's hand to be himself highborn and worthily battle blooded. Yet such is my affection for you that I would not let even the custom become a bar to this marriage, and you may be a battle blooded man among your
own people. But let us not enter lightly into this thing, for the girl is still young and it would be well if you established yourself favourably with her. She will be a worthy wife indeed, for she is one who is ever ready to learn, one with an enquiring mind. Nothing gives her greater pleasure than the acquisition of knowledge". So the
matter was left.
(17) Now, some days later Idalvar and his retinue, accompanied by Herthew and Habaris, went to the gathering place for folk feasts, some five days journey away. People were accustomed to meeting here every thirteen moons to celebrate the season of fruitfulness, many coming a great distance. Beside the gathering place was the compound of a far-framed seer and warlock called Gwidon, who, in the fullness of the moon on the third night, would prophesy events for the forthcoming year.
(18) Idalvar and those with him presented their gifts and took their places before the compound. Presently, Gwidon came out cloaked in the skins of wild dogs, with a homed crown and skull-headed staff. He seated himself before a small fire into which he threw prescriptions, making a cloud of smoke which completely enveloped him. When this had drifted away he seemed to be asleep, but after a while he lifted his head, then raising himself up he started to prophesy.
(19) He talked awhile of small matters, then told of dangers to the people through enemies who would bear down from the Northlands. He prophesied a great bloodletting, telling people they could be saved by a great war leader, a king knowing the secret of the bright blade, himself a war-wielder of one. He exhorted the people to bestir themselves and prepare, wasting no time in finding their leader.
(20) No man among the people knew the mysteries of the bright blade except Habaris, but he was not a man of battle and Herthew was not high born among them. So, though they talked long they talked in tangles, failing to resolve the issue. It was then decided each should go his own way, but they should meet at the same place again at the next full moon, when Gwidon would be able to help with their decision.
(21) When Idalvar returned to his encampment he was no longer hesitant about the marriage of his daughter, ordering that it should take place forthwith. But he stipulated that Habaris must initiate him and his sons into the mysteries of the bright blade immediately. This being agreed, arrangements for the marriage were put in hand. Habaris and Klara were married and Idalvar and his sons partially initiated into the mysteries of the bright blade, for the king was told it would take some time for the initiation to be completed. So when they next went to the
meeting place, Idalvar was proclaimed the war leader, with his sons to follow according to their ages, should he fall in battle. But Habaris had spoken to Gwidon in secret and matters were so arranged that should the sons of Idalvar fall, then Herthew would become the battle chief.
(22) The king and those with him returned to their home compound where they were to prepare battle men, but Herthew was to go back to the gathering place and there train fighting men in the battle tactics which brought them clashing into the fore.
(23) Now, on their wedding night, when they had retired to their bower, Klara burst into tears and fell weeping with her head on the knees of Habaris, confessing she was not a virgin and had deceived him, begging his forgiveness. Habaris raised her up and said, "Even the wisest of men becomes a fool when his heart blinds him
to reason. The older the fool the bigger the fool". He did not question her regarding love, for he knew she could not love and deceive him, she had given her heart and with it her virginity to another. Yet he made an excuse for her to himself, thinking that she had not willfully deceived him but had acted out of duty to her father. Also, truly loving someone and wishing to demonstrate that love, she necessarily had to sacrifice the happiness and content, the self-respect of her husband-to-be, the choice had been hers to make. It is ever so. Habaris asked if her father had known how things were and she said, "He suspected, for am I not his daughter?" Thus Habaris found himself tied to an unloving wife, for he chose to disregard the custom of the people. He wondered, was she also to be an undutiful and unfaithful one?
(24) A woman reserves herself for her husband or she does not, according to her marriage criterion. A woman reserved for marriage is one unlikely to be unfaithful; a woman easily come by before marriage is no less attainable afterwards, for if she says love is the criterion, then she measures by something unstandardised, which
may figuratively vary from one inch to a mile. A man declaring his love may have seduction in mind or a lifetime of protective devotion, the marriage proposal determines the difference and establishes the intent. After the marriage the king showed little concern for Habaris, for he kept Klara's young battle man in his retinue when he should have dispatched him elsewhere. Nor did Klara maintain the restraint and decomm, which dignifies wifehood, except in their outward manifestations, which is no more than a deceptive cyst disguising the polluted love beneath. Thus Habaris bore the shame of belittlement in the eyes of men, for Klara was furtively unfaithful.
(25) Habaris visited Herthew and on his return told the king that he and his sons would now receive their final initiation. So, having made preparation, they set off, accompanied by Klara, to the place of the thunder stones, this being a deeply cleft mountain wherein there was a large cavern from which flowed a river. Entering the cave Habaris told those with him to bide where they were, for only Idalvar, his sons and Klara were to accompany him into the place of initiation, a small cave entered through a long narrow passage closed off by a heavy door and lit by fire already prepared, a fire which burnt tardily with a blue flame.
(26) When a length of time had passed those who waited without grew uneasy, but it was long before they approached the door and when they did their throats were seized, so they were affrighted and fled, and one among them died. Then those who knew the mysteries of the thunder stones came and cleared the way, and all
within the cave were found dead. Habaris did what had to be done, for though it is well for men to conform to the laws of men, there is a super law by which men who are men should live and which sometimes decrees that they must die.
(27) Herthew married the daughter of Idalvar and they had a son who died in his seventh year. Idalvar's daughter died in childbirth. The invaders came and were defeated with a great slaughtering, and Herthew became the first king over all the people of Krowkasis.
COMMENTARY.
A brief description is given us of the beginning in this first paragraph. Learn what you can from it now and in the future. Awenkelifa is another name for Varkelfa. What is ’gwinin’ or for that matter ‘awen’? Whatever they are they stabilise to maintain proper form and respond to the moulding desires. (Very mysterious.) Men, however, are more concerned with the beginning of their race. Into this came Dadam, the Firstfather, (chapter 5 paragraph 19) who brought forth Herthew his son.
Herthew ..was expelled from the lushlands and ..journeyed the harshlands is likely a reference to departing The Garden. Habaris, a wise person, went with him. Much appears to be missed out until they arrive at Krowkasis otherwise known to us now as the Caucasus Mountains. Cradle land of our race refers to the people writing this book: the Egyptians from just after Moses time. They had retainers and flocks. Does this mean they were eating meat? Probably. Not too wise here but there may be another reason even so. (Why would you have them if not for this?) Within the Garden was the Gwinduiva in the Sacred Enclosure which brought forth an elixir in different proportions for Dadam and his family as well as the Children of Yah. We can moreorless imply that this is some sort of vegetable extract which protected from the diseases and disease-ridden land of the meat eating crowd or Yoslings (they who inherit death). Does this seem too simple or over the top? There's a time in the Bible too when the age of people dropped quickly from hundreds of years down to around 100 or less. Was this when mankind started meat eating? Suffice to say, the devil changes and obfuscates so the Truth isn't seen or comprehended. We have the same problems now! Running around. Chaos and confusion rather than resting in Him who loves us - doing His will too!
We can see more about this in paragraph 3 once the spirit of it had crossed from another realm, accomplished and brought into attunement with Earth. Sounds like a farm! What was it that caused putrefaction and decay in another realm (Heaven)? We're talking about something natural here. The devil is into abominations. He wasn't kicked out of Heaven for looking at himself in the mirror. So even so the paths of the Children of Yah and Men are crossing. As already stated many times: doing the things we shouldn't and the things we should do we don't.
Habaris taught a different viewpoint of wickedness. ‘One where lack of effort, indolence and indifference to duty and obligations, the taking of the easy path, were just as wrong as actual deeds of wickedness.’ Ah. Doing the things you should do is the point. This one’s not going away. Note also that resting in Yah isn't the same thing as being lazy. Also, from lust love into true love. Of course, there's an example coming later in the chapter. Victory over the more baser things of life. The Egyptians who are writing this were vanquished by Nibiru at the time of Moshe (Moses) and are looking for answers as to why the Israelis were able to rout and break free. Notwithstanding, these words wouldn't please everyone so simple tales were told that they would understand. So he instituted a Summer half and Winter half to the year; a great year circle of 52 years and the 104 year circle of the Destroyer; Laws of Weal & Woe; folk feasts of harvest- & seeding-time and the ritual of Ulisidui. Weal & Woe sound like wasting work and energy on what's not fruitful. The folk feasts also sound like traditions which in time had at least some history in the Feasts of Yahusha.
Teaching came more easy to Herthew. Habaris was more like one who disciples to him than one who tells tales because they need it lighter as they know less. The central invisible sun with its three rays! The Oversoul filling everything in Creation and the Soulself filling the mortal body. As he learnt, we are both spiritual and natural. We develop mortal sensitivity changed into divine sensitivity as His Presence fills our lives going forward. Then through feelings of love and devotion between man and woman an appreciation to duty. Something that humans not animals understand. With those deadened by the ritual and dogma of religion this more personal approach is both educational and up-lifting. We're aiming to “see” the totality of our lives, death and purpose. Learning to reach through life, avoiding repeated pitfalls towards success in goals and purpose including the increase of awareness, self-control and moral constraint, watering the flowers of virtue and pulling out the weeds of vice and suffering.
The Soulself is instructed in soul substances coming from Yah. The strong soul is transformed. The weak one is unstable tossed by its own vices. Do we glow with splendour or shrink into the dark places? So was Herthew with the teachings of Habaris. When spearmen started to attack Krowkasis, Herthew only just into adulthood prepared to leave with king Idalvar and the fighting men but was advised to stay back as he was unprepared for battle. Habaris made for him what sounds like a sword. (The technique for making would probably stretch the imagination of modern day metal workers.) King Idalvar’s curiosity was stirred by it when he saw it being used on the battlefield. Most importantly it worked. Where did Habaris gain this knowledge from? Yah, of course, showing that His purposes aren't lost in battle. Of course, we know from previous He's not Yah of nations, battles or even people but of souls and purposes of Eternity shown here through Herthew. Isn't there also a similarity to Goliath and the fighting Philistines many generations to the future? Summoning the top fighter of the Israelis to a sword fight but David (also approaching adulthood) in his day also had the wisdom of Yah knowing how to beat him.
Consequently, this is why neither King Idalvar or those with him could discern the making of the ‘offspring of fire and stone.’ Habaris made others for those joined with Herthew. Herthew, however, was more concerned with ‘the mysteries of life and the battles of the Spirit.’
Yah (or Yahuah giving Him His full title) is the Absolute. Before the Creation and the beginning everything was Perfection because there was only Him - the Ultimate in all Perfections. Mankind (or Man) cannot understand because it's beyond his finite comprehension.
So Yah created by first visualising in thought. Then with an outflowing wave of power in effect solidified building stones. This power produced the Celestial Hymn (Wow!) bringing forth the stones in harmonious forms. So the Creation is the harp of Yah responding to His song and manipulations. Also, in the voice of His beautiful daughter He fills all growing things with life and beauty. Only a few understand this for whom knowledge is the key to unanswered questions. Like drawing back heavy curtains from a room in gloomy half light makes things clear and distinct. Within the divine purpose and the divine secret concerning it the answer to the riddle of the ages is known beyond a shadow of a doubt and the name is Gwenkelva. Look at the description above well for it gives the secret.
Yah gains nothing from Creation but Gwenkelva except as a Being of Infinite Love He can pass it on and see others respond to it. Who even among mortals could respond to his own love? So He needed somewhere He could perform that being within Creation. For mortals this is the school of life. A training ground for Yah-hood. The Three Circles of Reality called:
Heaven: where desires and ideals appear; hard-driven-for aspirations are reached; spiritual potential reach maturity and fulfilment.
Earth: place of training, development and preparation; battlefield where true natures are confronted by life's challenges; aims and objectives are conceived and thought-out; a starting point, where the proper road must be wisely chosen.
And:
Realm of the Misty Horizon: then there's this, the intermediate place, the place of spirits, where above can commune with those below; where free spirits wander within their limitations".
So these things are written to accord with our understanding. It is wise to work out how to say them or not according to the days we live in. The words may become snares to the unwary.
King Idalvar sought to know the secret of the bright blade. (Was this because it shone in the sun?) He hatched a plan! (Nothing good ever comes of such things!) So he invited Habaris & Herthew to his encampment where they found a gathering in their honour and his daughters favourably disposed towards them. Subsequently, Habaris became ‘weary‘ with too much drinking. He was still in control of himself, though, and being smitten with Klara asked the king for her hand in marriage. It wasn't what the king had had in mind (never is) and would take time for a relationship to develop first but he consented to it. She is ever ready to learn, has an enquiring mind and takes pleasure in the acquisition of knowledge. In the spirit realm of the Three Circles of Reality this doesn't look good or have a reality about it. A wrong path seems to have been taken. We will see later in the chapter how things go.
Habaris thus became a part of Idalvar and his retinue. At the appointed time of the year (every thirteen moons) they would attend the folk feasts celebrating the season of fruitfulness. Here, at the gathering, the far-framed seer and warlock Gwidon would prophecy the year’s coming events.
All would sit waiting. Then he came clothed in the skins of wild dogs, sat behind a small fire into which he threw ‘prescriptions.’ After the smoke blew away he seemed asleep but eventually stirred and started prophesying.
He talked of small matters. Then, enemies coming down from the Northlands. A great bloodletting. A people saved by a great war leader. A king knowing the secret of the bright blade. He told the people to waste no time in finding the leader.
Habaris wasn't a war leader and Herthew not high born. They became entangled in their thinking not answering the questions. So they agreed to meet next full moon and ask Gwidon to help.
Idalvar returned from the gathering ready to give his daughter’s hand in marriage as long as Habaris initiated them into the mysteries of the bright blade. This being agreed and preparations for the marriage were put in hand, the two-part initiation proceeded. Meanwhile, Idalvar was to be named war leader with his sons to follow. They went to the meeting place of Gwidon to tell this but Habaris had met him in secret to arrange for Herthew to become leader if the sons of Idalvar fell. So battle men were prepared by both Idalvar and Herthew.
On their wedding night, Klara came weeping with her head on Habaris’ knees. She wasn't a virgin, had deceived him and begged forgiveness. He said: ‘Even the wisest of men becomes a fool when his heart blinds him to reason. The older the fool the bigger the fool." He didn't question over love. She couldn't love and deceive. Maybe she didn't wilfully deceive but married out of duty to her father. He asked if her father knew. She replied he suspected. (He's my father.) So Habaris was tied to an unloving wife because he disregarded the custom of the people. Was she to be undutiful and unfaithful too? Herthew appeared wiser at this time not getting married. He is later, however, to marry Gwineva the cuckoo child. We will read about this and its implications in the next chapter.
All women reserve themselves or they don't according to their marriage criteria. One reserved is unlikely to be unfaithful. If she's easy to come by before is likely still to be attainable after. If love is the criterion it is something unstandardised (or not the norm) which may vary in definition according to the person. Is it seduction or a lifetime of protective devotion? With this case in point, Idalvar showed little concern for Habaris keeping the man of Klara’s other devotion in his battle retinue instead of posting elsewhere. Nor did Klara show a dignified wifehood other than outward appearance being unfaithful though hidden. This is a deceptive cyst which, though, can be discerned if watched closely. So he was belittled in the eyes of men.
Habaris visited Herthew and then prepared the king and his sons for the final initiation. Klara came with them. They thus went to the place of the thunder stones, a deeply cleft mountain with a deep cavern from where a river flowed. What does cleft mean? It means split, divided, or partially divided into two. (Does it sound a bit ominous? As in life so in nature.) Those with Habaris were told to wait as the rest of them went down a narrow passage closed by a heavy door wherein was lit by a blue flame already prepared.
After much time those outside became uneasy and after waiting longer entered and being affrighted they fled with one dying. Then, those who knew the secrets within cleared the way and found all within dead. Habaris did what had to be done. Men have to conform to the laws of men. Those, however, who know there is a super law by which men who are men should live sometimes decrees that they must die.
Herthew married the other daughter of Idalvar. The son died in his seventh year. The daughter died in childbirth. The invaders came and were defeated with a great slaughtering as foretold by Gwidon. Herthew became the first king over all the people of Krowkasis.
The last two paragraphs are encapsulated in two Scriptures, one from the New Testament and one from the Old. They are:
Revelation 13:10. “Whoever leads into captivity will himself go into captivity; if anyone slays with the sword, with the sword must he be slain. Herein is [the call for] the patience and the faith and fidelity of the saints (God’s people).”
Jeremiah 43:11. “And he shall come and smite the land of Egypt, giving such as are [destined] for death, to death, and such as are [destined] for captivity, to captivity, and such as are [destined] for the sword, to the sword.”
The world is spiritual. These things are meant to happen even if through a human’s eyes and senses they seem wrong. Yah is watching over His people too. Their way is easier than the Children of Man but even so they prosper too. And even so, My children come to Me as children.