Each week of the liturgical year, a reading from Second Advent Scripture is delivered as part of the Saturday Communion of Fellowship Service held in the Chapel of the Holy Child. This reading follows the Sacred Calendar of the Church; that is, Prophecies and Revelations that have been received by The Church on sacred dates are recalled in a liturgical context during the appropriate season each year. This reading is delivered by the Officiant of the Communion Service (that is, Bishop Gene Savoy, or occasionally in his stead, Bishop Sean Savoy) just before the final blessings. Each service also includes a reading from the ancient scriptures, prayers, or wisdom sayings of various world religions past and present and is usually thematically related to the Second Advent Reading. This reading is delivered by the Reader right after the announcements that begin the service and is thus the first reading of the service. An audio recording of the reading from Second Advent Scripture delivered on the date above is provided here below together with a transcript of the first reading of the service that day.
SECOND ADVENT PROPHECY AND REVELATION
A Reading from the Prophecy to the Races of Man, Chapter 68: “The Battle for Control of Man” (pp. 439-447)
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ANCIENT SCRIPTURE AND WISDOM SAYINGS
A Reading from the Sermons of Hermes Trismegistus:
[Hermes’ son said to him:] Father, instruct me of Regeneration, either by word of mouth or secretly; for I know not, O Trismegistus, of what Substance, or what Seed, or what Womb a man is thus born.
O Son, this wisdom is to be understood in silence, and the seed is the true Good.
Who sows it, O Father?
The Will of God, O Son.
And what manner of Man is he that is thus born?
Son, things of this kind are not taught, but are by God, when he pleases, brought to remembrance.
Then tell me this, who is the Author and Maker of Regeneration?
The Child of God, one Man by the Will of God.
Now, O Father, you have put me to silence forever, and all my former thoughts have quite left and forsaken me; for I see the greatness and shape of things here below and nothing but falsehood in them all.
O Son, hold your peace, and praise God in silence, and by that means the mercy of God will not cease, or be wanting to us. Therefore, rejoice, my Son, from henceforward, being purged by the powers of God, to the Knowledge of the Truth. For the revelation of God is come to us, and when that came, all ignorance was cast out.
Whoseoever therefore has of Mercy obtained this Generation, which is according to God, he, leaving all bodily sense, knows himself to consist of divine things, and he rejoices, being made by god stable and immutable.
