Greetings, dear brothers and sisters of the Light. I’d like to share some insights from Oahspe, based on the framework and chronology in Oahspe’s Book of Es, Daughter of Jehovih. I recommend reading the entire "Book of Es" to fully understand and appreciate its message. Here is the link to a free pdf. OAHSPE_Standard_Edition_for_Screen_Reading.pdf What follows is simply a collection of key points, a brief summary of events and themes found throughout its chapters.
The Book of Es presents a sweeping heavenly history of Earth, its atmospherean heavens, Paradise, and the higher Etherean realms during the centuries surrounding the beginning of the Kosmon Era. Its opening description identifies its scope as extending from approximately four hundred years before Kosmon to the Dawn of Kosmon.
Across Chapters 1–21, the story operates simultaneously on four interconnected levels: corporeal Earth, Guatama (North America), Atmospherea/Paradise, and Etherea. Human history unfolds below while vast heavenly administrations, migrations, conflicts, interventions, and resurrections unfold above.
One principle helps bind the entire narrative together:
“That which applies in My heavens of the earth, shall apply on the earth; that which applies on the earth, shall apply in the heavens of the earth.” - Es 29/1.35
The Book of Es unfolds a single story divided into two parts—what's occurring on the earth and what's occurring in the heavens.
The Beginning: Earth Approaches the Arc of Kosmon
Chapter 1 of the Book of Es introduces the approaching Kosmon Era as Earth passes into the light of the Arc of Kosmon, “rising upward, higher and higher toward dawn,” while Jehovih explains that cosmic cycles and appointed times are overseen by His Etherean Gods and Goddesses. As this new era approaches, humanity is destined to travel throughout the Earth, crossing oceans and breaking down the isolation of nations and continents so that people increasingly recognize the whole Earth as Jehovih’s creation for all His people. Spiritually, Kosmon represents a major transition from the former ages in which Jehovih sent separate revelations, commanding Gods, Saviors, priests, and religious authorities to different peoples. Instead, Jehovih declares that in Kosmon He will address the whole world, speaking to individuals through the light of His wisdom within their own understanding. People are called to pray directly to the Creator, confess their own shortcomings, exercise their own judgment, and replace dependence upon priests, ceremonies, and prescribed prayers with personal righteousness and good works—even helping a brother with one’s own hands rather than merely praying that he be helped. The chapter extends these principles to nations, teaching that peoples characterized by openness, peace, generosity, wisdom, learning, invention, and good works will correspondingly receive the ministry of exalted angels, while isolation and exclusiveness produce spiritual darkness. Finally, Chapter 1 establishes one of the central principles governing the entire Book of Es: “That which applies in My heavens of the earth, shall apply on the earth; that which applies on the earth, shall apply in the heavens of the earth.” The conditions people create through leadership, domination, isolation, brotherhood, love, and harmony therefore continue into the heavens after death. In this way, Chapter 1 serves as the foundation for everything that follows: Earth is entering a new cosmic dawn in which humanity is being prepared for greater freedom, direct relationship with Jehovih, brotherhood among peoples, knowledge of the heavens, personal spiritual responsibility, and a standard based upon righteousness and good works rather than religious profession alone.
Preparing Guatama for the Coming Kosmon Era
Chapter 2 of the Book of Es begins revealing how the approaching Kosmon Era requires a long period of preparation upon the corporeal Earth, particularly in Guatama (North America). Jehovih’s heavenly administration works through the loo’is, whose task is to influence and prepare mortal generations so that, over the course of centuries, people suitable for the coming age will be born upon Earth. The chapter connects this generational work with the future opening and settlement of the western continent, showing that Guatama is being prepared as an important earthly center for the changes associated with Kosmon. The process is not immediate: generations must pass, populations must migrate, and humanity must gradually spread across the Earth. The chapter looks forward to a time when the western continent will become inhabited from east to west and the Earth will effectively become “circumscribed” by human settlement and travel. This becomes an important chronological sign, because Jehovih declares that when these conditions are fulfilled, the beginning of Kosmon will be at hand and the heavens will be opened to mortals. Chapter 2 therefore establishes the earthly and generational foundation for everything that follows: while Earth is cosmically approaching the Arc of Kosmon, the heavenly hosts are simultaneously preparing human family lines, guiding the long development of Guatama, and creating the corporeal conditions necessary for the eventual Dawn of Kosmon, the opening of the heavens, and direct communication between angels and mortals.
The Etherean Mission to Prepare Earth for Kosmon
Chapter 3 of the Book of Es shifts the story into the higher Etherean heavens, where the approaching Kosmon Era becomes the focus of an enormous heavenly mission. The Etherean Gods and Goddesses are informed that Earth is approaching the Arc of Kosmon and that approximately 400 years of preparation remain before the coming Dawn. A great council is convened, and volunteers are called to undertake this long work surrounding Earth and her heavens. Among those responding is Atavia, Goddess of Peronitus, who recalls the earlier work of Aph during the Arc of Noe and offers herself for the 400-year mission, followed by many other high-raised beings. Ultimately, 10 million Etherean volunteers are assembled for the mission, while 50 million additional travelers accompany them and one million musicians participate in the immense heavenly expedition. They embark aboard the great Etherean vessel provided by Litabakathrava, an enormous fire-ship capable of carrying vast populations, and begin their journey toward Earth from the distant Etherean regions. After traveling through the higher heavens, they reach Chinvat, where they survey Earth and its “unruly heavens,” discovering the presence of four false Gods and examining the spiritual grades and conditions surrounding the planet. After completing their measurements, the Etherean mission descends directly toward Paradise, the heavenly kingdom associated with Earth, to begin the centuries-long work required for Kosmon. Chapter 3 therefore establishes the Etherean side of the 400-year preparation: while later chapters will show changes unfolding among mortals and particularly in Guatama, Chapter 3 shows that the approaching Dawn is already being actively prepared from the higher heavens through a vast organized mission of Etherean Gods, Goddesses, hosts, messengers, musicians, and heavenly vessels descending toward Earth and its heavens.
The False Gods and the Battle Over Earth’s Heavens: The False Gods React to the Etherean Arrival
Chapter 4 of the Book of Es shifts attention to the ruling powers of Earth’s lower heavens as they become aware of the Etherean arrival at Paradise. The appearance of the foreign God and his great airavagna causes concern because the rulers remember that another foreign God had previously descended from the same direction beyond Chinvat, leading them to suspect that the earlier visitor may have been a scout preparing the way for this greater mission. More seriously, they fear that the new arrival may represent an attempt to restore Jehovih’s authority, which they believe they had successfully driven from both Earth and its heavens. Rather than immediately attacking the newcomers, Kabalactes chooses a diplomatic approach and orders Teanvettas to travel to Paradise with a host of one million angels aboard a magnificent arrow-boat. Teanvettas is instructed to greet the newly arrived God, determine who he is and what he intends to accomplish, and invite him to spend a month visiting Kabalactes’ splendid, gem-built heavenly kingdom. The chapter ends with Teanvettas and his million-member host departing in the brilliantly adorned arrow-boat toward Paradise, the seat of Jehovih’s Son. Chapter 4 therefore shows the first major reaction of the established lower-heaven powers to the 400-year Etherean mission introduced in Chapter 3: the higher Ethereans have arrived, the existing rulers recognize that something significant is beginning, and the struggle over the future of Earth and her heavens is starting to take shape.
Alarm in the Heavenly Kingdom of the False Brahma
Chapter 5 of the Book of Es turns to Eta-shong, the heavenly kingdom of Ennochissa, the false but reigning God Brahma, showing that the arrival of the great Etherean mission at Paradise is alarming more than one of Earth’s false heavenly rulers. Like Kabalactes and his council in Chapter 4, Ennochissa and his heavenly administration recognize that a powerful force has arrived from beyond Chinvat and that this movement threatens the existing order of Earth’s lower heavens. The chapter develops the growing uneasiness among the false Gods as they realize that the newcomers are connected with Jehovih and Paradise, meaning that Jehovih’s authority—believed by these rulers to have been displaced—is beginning to reassert itself around Earth. Their concern is especially significant because their kingdoms depend upon dominion over enormous populations of spirits and upon their continuing connections with mortals on Earth. Chapter 5 therefore continues the larger movement begun in Chapters 3–4: the Etherean hosts have crossed Chinvat, surveyed Earth and its unruly heavens, and descended to Paradise, and news of their presence is now spreading through the kingdoms of the false Gods. The chapter shows that the approaching Kosmon transformation is already disturbing the established powers of Atmospherea; before the great confrontations and collapses that occur later in the Book of Es, the false Gods first recognize that a major intervention from the higher Etherean heavens has arrived and that the balance of power surrounding Earth is beginning to change.
The Etherean Mission Begins to Confront the Existing Heavenly Order
Chapter 6 continues the growing reaction throughout Earth’s lower heavens to the arrival of the great Etherean mission at Paradise. By this stage of the Book of Es, the established false heavenly rulers understand that the newcomers have not arrived merely as travelers: their presence is connected with Jehovih and the approaching Kosmon Era, and therefore threatens the system of dominion that the false Gods have established over vast populations of angels and their corresponding mortal followers. The chapter continues to expose the contrast between the magnificent kingdoms, titles, displays of authority, and claims of supremacy maintained by these rulers and the higher authority represented by Jehovih’s Etherean hosts. The false heavenly powers consequently begin considering how they should respond to the activity centered in Paradise, while messengers and representatives move between the different heavenly kingdoms and the newly arrived hosts. Chapter 6 therefore advances the central conflict established in Chapters 3–5: Earth has been reached by a powerful organized mission from the emancipated Etherean heavens, the false Gods recognize that their long-established control of Earth and Atmospherea is being challenged, and the heavenly conditions necessary for the coming Kosmon transformation are beginning to take shape. This is still an early stage of the 400-year mission—the great overthrow of the false kingdoms comes later but the existing heavenly order is already becoming unsettled by the return of Jehovih’s higher administration.
The Alarm in Hapsendi, Kingdom of Looeamong, the False Kriste
Chapter 7 of the Book of Es turns to Hapsendi, the heavenly kingdom of Looeamong, the false Kriste, where the same alarm that has spread through the kingdoms of the other three false Gods now reaches his administration. Hundreds of messengers from Looeamong’s sub-kingdoms report the appearance of the great light that descended to Paradise, causing consternation among his sub-Lords; members of his Holy Council debate how to respond, with some viewing the arrival as a serious threat and others recommending that Looeamong double his standing heavenly armies. Looeamong ultimately orders a magnificent fire-boat carrying one million hosts to be sent to Paradise, with the hosts crowned, adorned with jewels and diadems, and equipped with weapons, shields, and symbols of the bull and lamb. Although Looeamong presents the mission as peaceful—saying he sends “a lamb of peace”—he also sends the spear and sword, revealing that the delegation is prepared for conflict. He appoints Ajudus to command the vessel and instructs him to greet the newly arrived God, offer access to Hapsendi, determine his intentions, and even offer him employment in the resurrection of Looeamong’s subjects. The chapter then reveals the condition underlying the splendor of Looeamong’s kingdom: the fire-boat itself is worked by 400,000 enslaved spirits, including former popes, archbishops, bishops, cardinals, priests, and others who believe they are undergoing two hundred years of purgatorial bondage so that they may eventually approach Looeamong, whom they regard as their highest God and Savior. The chapter ends with Ajudus, the million-member delegation, and these enslaved spirits traveling aboard the magnificent fire-boat toward Paradise, the heavenly seat of God, Jehovih’s Son. Thus, Chapter 7 completes the picture of the four false heavenly powers reacting to the Etherean arrival and prepares directly for Chapter 8, where the narrative returns to God in Paradise and the heavenly mission to Guatama begins to take a much more explicit form.
God in Paradise and the Preparation of Guatama
Chapter 8 of the Book of Es brings the narrative directly to God in Paradise and connects the heavenly preparation for Kosmon with events unfolding in Guatama (North America). Jehovih directs God to provide mortals who will cross the ocean and build up the western continent, so God shifts his immediate efforts away from trying to redeem the four kingdoms of the false Gods and instead works to establish a broader “earth-anchorage” for Jehovih’s kingdom. God sends Melkazad, accompanied by ten thousand angels, to inspire migration toward Guatama; Melkazad and his hosts select Columbo (Columbus) and his crews and inspire them to sail westward across the ocean, resulting in the discovery of the western continent, although Columbus himself does not know that he is under angelic inspiration. Shortly afterward, the great Etherean ship of Litabakathrava arrives at Paradise to assist with preparations for the approaching Kosmon Era, producing three days of celebration among the billion angels of Paradise. Litabakathrava then warns God that Kosmon will not arrive without struggle: several generations of mortals must still be born, and the four false Gods will fight against Jehovih’s work until their kingdoms ultimately fall; nevertheless, he foretells that Jehovih will triumph and that “men and angels shall be free.” Jehovih’s Voice then explains the broader purpose of Kosmon: the Earth, its waters, and its air belong equally to all humanity; peoples of different tribes, races, colors, and physical characteristics are all Jehovih’s children; the barriers separating nations are to open; peoples are to travel among one another, exchange wisdom, and cease condemning others as heathens or pagans; and humanity is no longer to remain bound to the doctrines of particular Gods, Saviors, ancient books, or past revelations, but is to learn to receive inspiration from Jehovih’s heavens. The chapter closes with Litabakathrava and his hosts boarding their enormous otevan, whose photosphere is described as “large as a continent,” and slowly ascending from Paradise while billions watch. Chapter 8 therefore becomes a major turning point in the Book of Es: Guatama is deliberately opened as part of the preparation for Kosmon, higher Ethereans directly assist Paradise, the coming struggle with the four false Gods is foretold, and Jehovih reveals that the approaching era is intended to move humanity and the heavens toward freedom, interaction among peoples, direct heavenly inspiration, peace, and recognition of the common Creator.
The Struggle for Guatama and the Breaking of Religious Control
Chapter 9 of the Book of Es shows the struggle over Guatama (North America) intensifying immediately after Litabakathrava’s enormous Etherean ship departs Paradise. The fire-boats representing the four false Gods arrive too late to meet the Orian Chief, but the delegation of Looeamong, the false Kriste, remains behind and discovers that God has established a new “mortal anchorage” by inspiring Columbo (Columbus) to cross the ocean and reach the western lands. After learning this, Looeamong reacts quickly: he sends a warship containing seven million warring angels to interfere with the mortal work surrounding Columbus, and Oahspe says these angels inspire the rulers of Spain against him, resulting in his imprisonment and the breaking of his inspirational connection with God’s throne. Looeamong then sends his own mortal followers across the ocean and establishes one billion angel warriors in Guatama, attempting to claim the newly opened lands for the false Kriste. Meanwhile, the conflict spreads across both Earth and its heavens. God withdraws protecting angelic hosts from regions where Looeamong’s inquisitions have produced suffering and death, allowing the spirits of those killed to rise in vengeance against Looeamong’s system. Oahspe describes this as opening the way for a division within Looeamong’s doctrines and eventually for the overthrow of his religious authority. Looeamong responds by placing angel emissaries around Roma (Rome) to inspire popes to scourge, imprison, and execute people for heresy in the names of Kriste and the Holy Ghost, creating an environment in which people cannot freely challenge the established doctrines. Eventually mortals rebel against this denial of their “right to think for himself,” becoming Protestants; however, the chapter says these opposing groups are themselves influenced by vengeful spirits and begin persecuting their own opponents. Seeing these conditions, God determines that the time has arrived to inspire the western nations of Uropa (Europe) toward learning, science, philosophy, and western migration. Chapter 9 therefore portrays the opening of Guatama as part of a much larger struggle occurring simultaneously in Corpor and Es: God seeks to prepare the western lands for Jehovih and the approaching Kosmon Era, while Looeamong attempts to extend his earthly and heavenly dominion into the same territory, producing religious conflict, resistance to imposed authority, intellectual awakening, and increasing migration toward the western continent.
The Struggle for Religious Liberty in Guatama
Chapter 10 of the Book of Es continues the struggle over Guatama, showing God temporarily withdrawing his angel hosts from the central regions after Looeamong’s warrior angels establish themselves there, allowing their influence to serve as a future testimony of the consequences of the false Kriste’s dominion. The text says these central lands fall under Looeamong’s influence and become characterized by warfare and destruction, while God turns his attention northward toward western Uropa (Europe) and begins inspiring another migration to Guatama—this time specifically “for conscience’ sake.” God declares that these people will settle the northern regions and eventually prosper in peace, virtue, wisdom, learning, and inventions, and his angel hosts inspire mortals to cross the ocean and land at Plymouth Rock, appealing to the Creator for liberty rather than invoking Kriste or the Holy Ghost. Looeamong, however, attempts to prevent Guatama from falling under Jehovih’s influence and orders his angels to obsess the settlers and either possess or ruin them in the names of Kriste and the Holy Ghost. God also inspires Quakers, described as Faithists in heart who reject warfare and contention over religious opinions, to migrate to Guatama and help shape its future toward peace, virtue, and wisdom; yet Looeamong’s angels inspire persecution against them and other Faithists. God permits these persecutions to become part of the historical record so that, in Kosmon, they will serve as testimony concerning the influence of the heavens upon mortals, and the chapter specifically introduces Cotton Mather as part of this historical demonstration of religious intolerance. Chapter 10 therefore presents the settlement of northern Guatama as much more than physical migration: within Oahspe’s framework, it is a contest over freedom of conscience, with God working to establish communities oriented toward Jehovih, peace, learning, and liberty while Looeamong’s hosts attempt to reproduce the old religious control and persecution of Uropa in the western lands.
God Prepares the Great Severing of the False Gods
Chapter 11 of the Book of Es reveals God’s large-scale heavenly strategy for bringing down the kingdoms of the four false Gods while preparing both Earth and its heavens for the ultimate triumph of righteousness. Rather than seeking a sudden victory through violence, God divides his hosts into eleven great divisions—four assigned to Earth and seven to the heavens of Earth—so that the transformation can unfold in a way humanity will later understand. Four chiefs, Eezen, Khan, Ah Cho, and Lakash, are each given one billion angels and stationed in the hadan regions associated with the four false Gods, because God intends eventually to cut off the earthly supplies sustaining the false Brahma, false Buddha, false Kriste, and false God-Gabriel. God warns that more than 300 million spirits who suffered untimely deaths in connection with these systems could rise against their Gods once the severing occurs. Seven additional chiefs with seven billion hosts prepare eleven heavenly kingdoms, roadways, places, and vessels capable of receiving and relocating more than 20 billion drujas, while twelve Etherean Gods and Goddesses are appointed as a special Severing Host, supported by another six billion angels, whose future task will be to cut the false kingdoms off from their earthly sources simultaneously. Meanwhile, internal rebellion begins weakening three of the false Gods when their own emissaries establish independent heavenly kingdoms containing hundreds of millions of enslaved spirits, producing wars within their domains. This internal disorder gives God the opportunity to pursue two major objectives: protecting the Ka’yuans of Chine’ya and, especially, concentrating his energies upon Guatama and its heavens, which he intends to free from Looeamong’s grasp.
The Victims of the Inquisition Join the Work for Guatama
Chapter 12 brings 7,000 angels who had been victims of the inquisitions inspired by Looeamong, the false Kriste, before God’s throne in Paradise. These spirits openly acknowledge that they are still imperfect and struggling toward purification, but they ask God to give them meaningful work in which the distinction between right and wrong is clear; having heard that God intends to establish Guatama free from the dominion of Gods and Saviors, they volunteer to assist in protecting that work against Looeamong’s angels. God receives them as brothers and sisters and teaches that they should serve according to the amount of the Father’s light within them, declaring that they are responsible ultimately to Jehovih. He then reveals what is coming: Looeamong will inspire war both among the mortals of Guatama and among the angels in its heavens, while God’s hosts will inspire the people of Guatama to establish “a government free from the dominion of Gods and Saviors.” God appoints Yotahiza as Lord over those regions and sends the 7,000 former victims to his heavenly station among the colonists of Guatama, where they are given work in justice, truth, and wisdom. Chapter 12 therefore prepares directly for Chapter 13: the long struggle for freedom of conscience in Guatama is about to move from preparation into the establishment of the Republic, after 300 years of work by God’s loo’is preparing the necessary mortal generations.
The Republic Established in Guatama
Chapter 13 brings the centuries-long preparation of Guatama to a major fulfillment with the establishment of the Republic. Oahspe says that for three hundred years God’s loo’is had been preparing mortal generations for this work, eventually producing 1,200 people capable of receiving inspiration from the second resurrection. Among the chief figures named are Paine, Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, Carroll, Hancock, and Washington, who are placed under the guidance of Jehovih’s Lord Yotahiza. Paine is inspired to proclaim principles centered upon one Almighty Creator, immortality of the soul, personal responsibility for one’s deeds, universal human rights, good works as the highest religion, and the natural right of every person to serve the Creator according to individual conscience rather than through kings, priests, churches, Saviors, or sacred writings. These teachings spread throughout Guatama and contribute to the colonies rejecting the divine right of kings. Looeamong recognizes what is happening and sends angel warriors to oppose the movement, producing war simultaneously among mortals on Earth and angels in the heavens of Guatama; the Standard Edition explicitly identifies this with the American Revolution of 1775–1783. During the war, Jehovih’s angel hosts protect and inspire the republican forces, including Washington, until the Republic is established. Afterwards, Jehovih declares that “Liberty to the conscience of mortals is founded on earth,” and the angels who helped accomplish the work are released from the first resurrection and transported upward aboard an avalanza toward higher heavenly plateaus. God nevertheless promises that they will be called back before another hundred years have passed because another work remains: freeing Guatama from enforced ancient doctrines and creeds so that “No God, Lord or Savior shall be enforced in this land.”
The Four False Gods Continue Their Struggle for Earth
Chapter 14 broadens the view from Guatama to the worldwide struggle among the four false Gods, explaining that for approximately three hundred years they had been fighting over territories both in the heavens and upon corporeal Earth. The false Brahma, Ennochissa, struggles over Chine’ya, Vind’yu, and Par’si’e; Kabalactes, the false Buddha, expands his influence into some of the same regions; and Thoth/God-Gabriel, working through the doctrines associated in the text with Mohammed, makes substantial advances against both of them. Meanwhile, Looeamong, the false Kriste, expands through mortal imperial powers, with Oahspe specifically connecting his influence with the East India Company, missionaries, Bibles, military forces, destruction in Vind’yu, and the opium trade imposed upon Chine’ya. Guatama remains an important target as well. Although Looeamong has failed to possess the colonies, he still hopes to regain the country and sends two billion angel warriors against the Algonquin tribes inhabiting the land; Oahspe says his mortal followers subsequently cause the deaths of three million Algonquin men, women, and children. Chapter 14 therefore portrays the centuries preceding Kosmon as a period in which religious, imperial, and military struggles on corporeal Earth correspond with an enormous contest for territories and populations in the heavens of Earth, setting the stage for Jehovih’s intervention in the following chapter.
God Casts Out the Four False Gods
Chapter 15 marks the beginning of the decisive overthrow of the four false heavenly kingdoms as Jehovih announces that “the Kosmon era is near” and that the light of the Arc of Su’is is entering Paradise. God activates the immense operation prepared earlier and sends 12 billion disciplined angels throughout the entire Earth, positioning them among nations, tribes, cities, and countryside while maintaining coordinated lines of light connecting the hosts with God’s throne in Paradise. Their mission is to cut off the earthly supplies sustaining the false Brahma, false Buddha, Gabriel, and false Kriste. God’s hosts therefore move between the drujas and their mortal harvests, severing the connection upon which these lower heavenly kingdoms depend. The consequences are catastrophic for the false Gods: 60 billion deceived angels realize that the beings who claimed to be their Gods and Saviors cannot provide for them, and the populations revolt against their rulers. The four Gods finally confess that they are not the true Brahma, Buddha, God, or Kriste, but their kingdoms collapse into anarchy and the enraged spirits turn against them and their officers. God then leaves Paradise aboard a brilliant “ship of fire” with only 10 million high-grade angels, bearing the proclamation, “THERE IS ONLY ONE GREAT SPIRIT, JEHOVIH.” From the collapsing kingdoms, God rescues 13 billion homeless angels of the higher grades and transports them to organized colonies where they receive education and labor. God explains that resurrection is not achieved merely through prayers or confessions to false Gods, but through developing the talents Jehovih created within each person, working, learning, and becoming capable of association with Jehovih’s exalted angels.
The Hells Are Cleared and the False Gods Are Brought to Judgment
Chapter 16 begins with God now described as master of the whole Earth and her heavens, while the Kosmon Era stands immediately at hand and the light of the Arc has reached his throne. At this crucial moment, Jehovih’s Orian Chiefs from the emancipated heavens arrive, bringing an extraordinary reinforcement of one billion Ethereans into Paradise. Their purpose is directly connected with Kosmon: they are to help clear the hells of the lower heavens and prepare for the “opening [of] the gates of the heavens for the angels to appear to mortals.” Among these Ethereans are Gods and Goddesses who themselves had once participated in persecution and opposition to Jehovih but had subsequently been resurrected and returned as purified and exalted beings. God now sends them to rescue others from the same conditions they once experienced. There remain four great hells, six smaller hells, and fourteen still smaller hells—24 in total. Six billion skilled angel laborers undertake the rescue, and within only 34 days, the hells are broken apart and more than 70 billion angels are delivered and relocated to prepared heavenly plateaus with officers and organizational structures designed to prevent them from falling back into spiritual chaos. The principal false Gods and Goddesses—including Ennochissa, Kabalactes, Gabriel, and Looeamong—are brought before God in Paradise. For the coming judgment, the Holy Councils arrange themselves in a crescent formation, with God’s throne positioned between the horns of the crescent “in order to promote the Voice,” while the false Gods are placed within the circular arena where the heavenly light falls upon them.
Jehovih’s Judgment and the Law of Spiritual Responsibility
Chapter 17 presents Jehovih’s judgment of the false Gods and Goddesses and establishes one of the most important laws of spiritual responsibility in the Book of Es. Jehovih declares that those who established themselves as Gods, claimed to be the way of salvation, led mortals and angels away from the Creator, built kingdoms through warfare, and made their own names worshipful have created their own bondage through their actions. The principle extends far beyond the false Gods: kings, queens, emperors, presidents, governors, legislators, judges, popes, priests, preachers, military commanders, wealthy rulers, and anyone exercising dominion over others become spiritually responsible for those under their influence. A ruler cannot ascend to the emancipated heavens until the people bound to that ruler have themselves been raised sufficiently in wisdom, virtue, and good works; conquest and warfare increase this responsibility rather than releasing the ruler from it. God further teaches that prayers and professions of repentance are of little value compared with good works actually performed to raise others, criticizing religious leaders who preach righteousness while living comfortably without serving those in need. Jehovih then applies this principle specifically to the false Gods: whoever established a worshipful name other than the Creator remains bound to the first resurrection while that name continues to be worshipped, and any God who called people to himself as the source of salvation must remain responsible for those who answered that call. Thus, as long as people continue worshipping Brahma, Buddha, Kriste, or the system built around Mohammed, the corresponding false Gods remain responsible for those followers. They will be permitted to ascend only after they have purified and raised the souls they led into idolatry. Hearing this judgment, the false Gods and Goddesses acknowledge Jehovih’s justice and covenant that they will not seek the higher heavens until they have raised those whom they led astray. The judgment ends not with their destruction, but with their assignment to restorative labor, and they are taken to their appointed places and begin the work of helping redeem the very populations for whom they had made themselves spiritually responsible.
The Fragmentation of the False Heavens and the Sectarian Heavens of Guatama
Chapter 18 of the Book of Es explains what happened after the great false heavenly kingdoms were broken apart: during the preceding three or four hundred years, many officers of the false Gods had separated from their former rulers and established smaller heavenly kingdoms of their own, while their corresponding mortal followers became religious sects on Earth. In Guatama, Oahspe says these drujan Gods and wandering spirits influenced preachers and churches so strongly that hostility developed between Catholics and Protestants, between different Protestant denominations, and between these groups and the Jews. The division on Earth was mirrored directly in the heavens, where Oahspe describes separate Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, and other sectarian heavens; when members of these sects died, their spirits were drawn into the corresponding heavenly communities, where drujan Gods could present themselves as the very Kriste or Savior the deceased expected to encounter—an illustration of the principle, “what is bound on earth, is bound in heaven.” The chapter gives specific examples: Piad establishes the Mormon sect and a corresponding heavenly kingdom while calling himself the “True Kriste”; Lowgannus establishes a Shaker Heaven; and Sayawan, calling himself “The Lord,” establishes what Oahspe describes as a Swedenborg heaven after taking Swedenborg subjectively through portions of the lower heavens. Oahspe says this same fragmentation occurred among the remnants of the kingdoms of the false Brahma and false Buddha, eventually producing thousands of petty heavenly kingdoms throughout Chine’ya, Vind’yu, Arabin’ya, Uropa, and Guatama, with each claiming that its own God or Savior was the true one. The chapter ends with an important sign that this heavenly condition is changing: God declares that when the four heads of the beast are overcome and cast out, the bitter hostility between the religious sects on Earth will begin to diminish and the sects will start speaking more amicably toward one another; Oahspe then simply states, “And it was so.” Thus, Chapter 18 strongly reinforces the principle established earlier in the Book of Es: religious divisions occurring among mortals in Guatama have corresponding structures in the heavens of Earth, and changes in those heavenly structures are subsequently reflected in the relationships between people on Earth.
The Dawn of Kosmon and the Opening of the Gates of Heaven
Chapter 19 marks the formal beginning of the Kosmon Era after the centuries of preparation described throughout the Book of Es. While the Holy Council remains assembled in Paradise, a star-like light appears above God’s throne and Jehovih declares that the false Gods have been cast out, that He is sufficient for His creations, and, “Let this, therefore, be the beginning of the Kosmon era.” The corporeal signs of the approaching era have also been fulfilled: humanity has spread around the Earth, and the western borders of Guatama have become inhabited. Jehovih then commands God to “open the gates of heaven to mortals” so that His angels may meet and speak with humanity. At this moment, the Etherean ambassadress Che’sivi’anathaotes arrives “in a sea of fire,” and her great Etherean ship descends from the higher heavens “as an open ring, to embrace the whole earth.” Jehovih proclaims that He recognizes no distinctions of race, sect, doctrine, or former revelation, declaring, “All people are My people!” As Etherean archangels encircle the heavens of Paradise, God summons the angelic legions responsible for the mortals who had been born and prepared for this work, and the command to open heaven is repeated. The chapter culminates specifically in Rochester, Guatama, where Oahspe says the angels “opened the door in Jehovih’s name, not to be closed again ever, forever!” Chapter 19 therefore represents the convergence of the entire preparation for Kosmon: Etherea descends toward Earth, Paradise opens its gates, prepared angels and mortals are brought together, and direct communication between the heavens and corporeal humanity begins.
The Liberation of the Slaves and the Continuing Work of Kosmon in Guatama
Chapter 20 shows that the opening of the gates of heaven does not complete the work of Kosmon, because corporeal freedom must accompany spiritual freedom. God looks upon Guatama and sees approximately four million people held in slavery, determining that they must be liberated. Heavenly ships are dispatched for Xerxes and Leonidas, each accompanied by approximately one billion angels, and God temporarily withdraws the protecting ashars from certain mortals, leaving them to the influence of drujan darkness as conflict breaks out between the slaveholding and neighboring states—the event the Standard Edition associates with the U.S. Civil War of 1861–1865. The heavenly hosts work through inspiration, dreams, and visions, attempting to bring mortals to understand that the true issue must become righteousness and liberty rather than merely military victory. Eventually the majority turns toward freedom, and Jehovih’s Etherean Ambassadress is sent to Abraham Lincoln in Washington, where angels approach him in dream-like visions concerning emancipation. Because Lincoln seeks external confirmation, the message is subsequently delivered through the entranced seeress Nettie Mainard, after which the text says Lincoln’s eyes are opened and he proclaims freedom to the four million slaves. Xerxes and Leonidas then deploy their vast angelic hosts alongside the opposing armies until Oahspe declares simply, “The slaves were free!” Jehovih identifies Guatama as “the place of the beginning of the Kosmon era” and declares that there shall be no caste among His people. The chapter then broadens the meaning of Kosmon: whereas earlier ages involved separate peoples performing particular missions, the new era moves toward “the combination of all peoples commingled together as one people,” with the chosen characterized not by race or color but by peace, love, wisdom, good works, and recognition of the One Great Spirit. Chapter 20 ultimately defines Kosmon as liberation in both realms, concluding with Jehovih’s declaration: “The past is past; angels and mortals shall be free!”
The Great Harvest and Ascent into the Higher Etherean Heavens
Chapter 21 concludes the Book of Es with the completion of God’s long administration over Earth and her heavens and a tremendous heavenly harvest and ascent. God is relieved of his arduous work, and his successor and the Lords are crowned so that Earth’s heavenly government can continue under a new administration. The Etherean Chieftainesses, high Gods, and Goddesses then prepare the ceremonial gathering of Jehovih’s Brides and Bridegrooms, representing souls who have progressed sufficiently to enter the Third Resurrection. God and his officers gather 27 billion souls prepared for this advancement, while more than 30 billion lower-grade angels remain in Paradise to witness the event. Following the ceremonies, the Brides and Bridegrooms enter eleven great avalanzas, accompanied by the Etherean hosts who had helped bring forth the birth of Kosmon, along with God, his Lords, and high officers. As two billion es’enaurs and trumpeters sound praises to Jehovih, the Chieftainess gives the signal to arise, and the avalanzas—now explicitly described as “fire-ships”—begin “turning and rising.” More than 40 billion angels ascend aboard the vessels, passing above the pillars of fire and God’s throne and continuing “higher and higher” toward the higher heavens while the hosts remaining in Paradise rejoice below. The final verse says that these billions who had witnessed the birth of the Kosmon Era for the angels and mortals of this world departed for the higher heavens, bringing the Book of Es to its conclusion. Chapter 21 therefore completes the movement begun in Chapter 1: Earth first approaches the light of Kosmon; the heavens and humanity undergo centuries of preparation and transformation; the gates between angels and mortals are opened; and finally the completed spiritual harvest rises from Paradise aboard the great Etherean fire-ships into the higher heavens.
Possible Timeline Tracker: The Book of Es and Earthly History
It is useful to distinguish between dates or events explicitly identified in the Oahspe Standard Edition and the approximate chronology suggested by the Book of Es’ stated 400-year span.
| Approximate Historical Period | Book of Es Development | Earth / Guatama | Atmospherea / Etherea |
|---|---|---|---|
| c. 1449–1450 — Working Starting Point | Earth enters the light of the Arc of Kosmon and begins rising toward the Dawn. | Humanity approaches a period of greater worldwide travel and contact between nations. | The higher heavens begin the long preparation for the coming Kosmon Era. |
| Late 1400s | The western lands become part of the unfolding Kosmon plan. | European voyages begin moving toward Guatama (North America). | The loo’is and heavenly administrations begin preparing mortal family lines for future generations. |
| 1500s–1600s | Migration and generational preparation continue. | European exploration and settlement expand throughout Guatama. | Mortal genealogies are cultivated over successive generations as part of the heavenly preparation. |
| 1620s onward | Liberty of conscience becomes increasingly important to the Kosmon preparation. | Religious migration and colonial communities develop in northern Guatama. | Heavenly forces work toward conditions favorable to future religious and spiritual liberty. |
| 1600s–1700s | Conflict between the great false-God systems intensifies. | Religious, political, and imperial struggles spread across nations and territories. | False Gods compete for earthly territories and the corresponding populations and kingdoms in the lower heavens. |
| 1775–1783 | Guatama moves toward republican government. | American Revolutionary period. | Heavenly conflict over the future of Guatama intensifies as opposing angelic hosts struggle over the continent. |
| Late 1700s | The Republic is established and liberty of conscience gains a political foundation. | Government without compulsory established worship becomes central to Oahspe’s Guatama narrative. | Looeamong continues attempting to regain influence over Guatama and its heavens. |
| Late Pre-Kosmon Period | Jehovih declares that Kosmon is near. | Earth has become increasingly “circumscribed” through travel, settlement, and interaction among peoples. | 12 billion angelic hosts are deployed around Earth to sever the false-God kingdoms from their mortal sources. |
| Immediately Before the Dawn | The great false heavenly kingdoms begin collapsing. | Sectarian and religious hostility still remains among mortals. | Approximately 60 billion spirits revolt against the false Gods, and billions of spirits are rescued and reorganized. |
| Immediately Before the Dawn | Final purification of Earth’s lower heavens takes place. | The prepared mortal generations are now approaching the time of Kosmon. | 1 billion Ethereans arrive; 24 hells are cleared; more than 70 billion spirits are delivered from those conditions. |
| 1849 — Working Dawn Anchor | The Dawn of Kosmon is formally declared. | Rochester, Guatama: Oahspe says the heavenly “door” is opened so angels can communicate with mortals. | Che’sivi’anathaotes descends from the higher heavens; her Etherean ship appears as an open ring embracing the whole Earth, while Etherean archangels encircle Paradise. |
| 1861–1865 | The principle of Kosmon liberty extends into the corporeal affairs of Guatama. | American Civil War and emancipation period. Approximately four million enslaved people become the central issue of Chapter 20. | Xerxes, Leonidas, and vast angelic hosts participate in the heavenly operation associated with liberation and the movement toward freedom. |
| Post–Civil War Phase | Corporeal and spiritual freedom become defining principles of Kosmon. | Jehovih declares “There shall be no caste among My people,” while the text emphasizes the commingling of peoples and freedom beyond race or color. | The Kosmon heavenly administration continues guiding Earth and its atmospherean heavens toward greater liberty and resurrection. |
| Chapter 21 — Final Heavenly Harvest | Great Harvest / Third Resurrection. God completes his administration and a successor is installed. | No additional major corporeal historical event is specified in this final chapter. | 27 billion Brides and Bridegrooms are prepared for Third Resurrection; 11 avalanzas/fire-ships depart Paradise carrying more than 40 billion angels toward the higher Etherean heavens. |
Timeline at a Glance
c. 1449–1450 → Earth approaches the Arc of Kosmon
Late 1400s → Voyages toward Guatama begin
1500s–1600s → Migration and generational preparation
1620s onward → Liberty of conscience develops in Guatama
1600s–1700s → False-God conflicts intensify
1775–1783 → American Revolution / struggle over Guatama
Late 1700s → Republic and liberty of conscience established
Late Pre-Kosmon → False heavenly systems severed and collapse
Immediately Before Dawn → Hells cleared; massive spirit rescue
1849 → Dawn of Kosmon / Rochester / gates of heaven opened
1861–1865 → Civil War / emancipation / expansion of Kosmon liberty
Post-Civil War → No caste; commingling of peoples; spiritual and corporeal freedom
Chapter 21 → Great Harvest / 11 fire-ships / ascent to higher Etherea
The Four Realms Across the Entire Book of Es
Looking across all 21 chapters of the Book of Es, a much larger pattern emerges. The narrative unfolds simultaneously across four interconnected realms—Corporeal Earth, Guatama, Atmospherea/Paradise, and Etherea. Events occurring in one realm repeatedly correspond with developments in the others, reflecting the principle established at the beginning of Es: “That which applies in My heavens of the earth, shall apply on the earth; that which applies on the earth, shall apply in the heavens of the earth.”
CORPOREAL EARTH: Humanity moves from geographically separated nations, peoples, and religious systems toward an increasingly interconnected world characterized by ocean travel, migration, interaction between nations, political transformation, learning, invention, and greater liberty of conscience. Throughout this transition, Es repeatedly shifts the spiritual standard away from religious profession alone and toward personal responsibility, righteousness, brotherhood, freedom, and good works. Humanity's transformation on Earth therefore develops alongside the transformation taking place within Earth's heavens.
GUATAMA: Guatama—identified in the Standard Edition with North America—becomes one of the principal corporeal theaters of the approaching Kosmon Era. The narrative follows the opening of the western continent through exploration and migration, the preparation of generations by the loo'is, the struggle for religious liberty, the establishment of the Republic, and the continuing conflict between heavenly powers seeking influence over the continent. The story eventually reaches Rochester, where the heavenly “door” is opened for communication between angels and mortals, followed by the Civil War and emancipation narrative of Chapter 20. Guatama consequently becomes closely associated with Es' larger movement toward liberty of conscience, freedom from compulsory religious authority, the ending of slavery and caste, and the commingling of peoples in the Kosmon Era.
ATMOSPHEREA / PARADISE: Earth's heavens undergo an equally dramatic transformation. Paradise serves as the central heavenly seat from which God administers the Kosmon preparation, while enormous populations occupy the surrounding atmospherean regions. False Gods maintain kingdoms containing billions of spirits; sectarian heavens develop in correspondence with religious divisions among mortals; drujas and other lower spirits remain connected with corporeal humanity; and conflicts occurring on Earth have corresponding struggles within the heavens. As Kosmon approaches, the false kingdoms are severed from their earthly sources and collapse, rebellious and imprisoned spirits are liberated, 24 hells are cleared, more than 70 billion spirits are delivered, and enormous populations are reorganized into heavenly communities where they can begin progressing toward resurrection. Paradise thus becomes the great administrative center through which Earth's lower heavens are prepared for the Dawn and ultimately for the Harvest.
ETHEREA: Above the atmospherean heavens stands the higher Etherean administration overseeing the greater cycle through which Earth is passing. Etherean Gods, Goddesses, Chieftainesses, Orian Chiefs, archangels, and vast organized hosts descend when intervention is required, often traveling aboard immense heavenly vessels. Their work reaches a climax with the approaching Dawn of Kosmon, when Che’sivi’anathaotes descends from the higher heavens in the great open-ring Etherean vessel that appears to embrace the whole Earth, while the gates of heaven are opened to mortals. Yet the movement of the narrative eventually reverses. After the earthly and heavenly preparation has reached fulfillment, the great Third Resurrection is assembled in Paradise. The Brides and Bridegrooms enter the eleven avalanzas, the Etherean hosts complete their mission, and more than 40 billion angels rise aboard the fire-ships, “higher and higher,” from Paradise toward the higher Etherean heavens.
Taken together, the four realms reveal the underlying movement of the entire Book of Es: Etherea descends, Atmospherea is transformed, Guatama becomes a major earthly center of the Kosmon transition, humanity enters the new era, the heavens are opened, and finally the completed spiritual Harvest ascends from Paradise into the higher heavens. What begins with Earth approaching the light of the Arc of Kosmon ultimately culminates in the Great Harvest and Third Resurrection, bringing the vast cycle of preparation, liberation, heavenly reorganization, and resurrection described throughout Es to its conclusion.
The Central Message of the Book of Es
Within Oahspe’s own framework, the Book of Es presents Kosmon as far more than a date or historical period; it represents a profound transition in the relationship between humanity, the corporeal Earth, its spirit heavens, and the higher realms of Etherea. The old order portrayed throughout the book is characterized by separation among peoples, dependence upon external spiritual authorities, sectarianism, false Gods and Saviors, coercive leadership, and the bondage of both mortals and spirits. As Kosmon approaches, this old structure is progressively dismantled and replaced by a movement toward direct relationship with Jehovih, liberty of conscience, personal spiritual responsibility, righteousness expressed through good works, greater knowledge of the heavens, communication between mortals and angels, brotherhood among peoples, freedom in Corpor, and freedom in Es. Ultimately, however, the purpose of this transformation reaches beyond earthly freedom: it prepares souls for resurrection into the higher heavens. This is why the conclusion of the Book of Es is so fitting. The story does not end with a king conquering the Earth, nor with humanity being commanded to bow before another Savior or earthly religious authority. It ends with a Harvest. Those who have become prepared for the Third Resurrection are gathered as Jehovih’s Brides and Bridegrooms, and eleven great avalanzas—described as fire-ships—turn upward from Paradise carrying billions of resurrected souls toward the higher heavens, while a new heavenly administration remains behind to continue the work of Kosmon upon Earth and throughout its heavens. In this sense, the central movement of the Book of Es is ultimately one of liberation, spiritual maturation, resurrection, and ascent: humanity is being taught to stand in direct relationship with the Creator, while souls who have completed their growth are gathered as the spiritual Harvest and raised from the heavens of Earth into the greater freedom of Etherea.
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