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on the fire, and the smoke will arise and then one shall speak, and 

 so therewith wall it conjoin itself and go on high. It is equally good, 

 it is just the same, if one in person stand there in the place whence 

 one will direct the Word; only that far will it be able to be done in 

 the days that are to come." (Persons will not go up any more in 

 the smoke.) 



Now at that time he said, "So then I will now tell you two that I 

 wall now make stars to be fixed in different places on the visible sky. 

 So then that will start from this tune (place), and next in order, in 

 the future, one who will fulfill his or her duty (matter), one who will 

 always have been an upright person and who will not have been 

 guilty of any evil, when such an one will exhaust the number of days 

 allotted them here, when such an one will depart hence, that will be 

 possible that they who will be looking up to the sky from the earth 

 here present shall still be able to see them again, and that even to 

 that extent that when one shall arrive there that one will mingle 

 himself or herself with the stars present there in many places. So 

 then so long as the earth shall continue to exist will they (stars) thus 

 continue to increase in numbers. And in the ne.xt place, the time 

 will come when no one will be alive on the earth who will be able to 

 count, m full, the number of stars present on the visible sky. So 

 then I will make one that shall be the first. That shall be the first 

 one on which they who have human bodies will look, also they who 

 have animal bodies. To some of the game animals, too, will it thus 

 come to pass, that if it so be that they will be able to accomplish 

 their duty (matter) here upon the earth, that shall be possible that 

 they will become visible too as stars fixed to the sky." 



Now at that time he departed and went there to the place where 

 He-Holds-the-Earth-bj'-His-Hands ^' has his lodge. Wlien he arrived 

 there he said, "That is the only reason that I have come here, and 

 that is that there is still one thing which I still will have to make 

 here on the earth. Verily I am troubled to know what thing, pre- 

 sumably, should be done of the two matters that I have been con- 

 sidering. One is that I am thinking that, perhaps, I should make a 

 new star which shall be called He-the-Day-Bringer (The Morning 

 Star)." The other is that I think that perhaps I should appoint thee 

 to be the one whom they should name He-the-Day-Bringer (The 

 Morning Star). And the reason that I have desired that this shoidd 

 come to pass is that verily no one here upon the earth has ever yet 

 seen thee. So then that would cause it that now thou shouldst show 

 thyself, that one should see thee there in the place where again 

 forms itself the daylight that will cause the earth again to be light. 

 And the reason that it shall continue thus to be is that thou didst 



See note on p. 610. 



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