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Jesus and 👤 Ashbina visit Babylon and remark its desolation. Two masters remain in company seven days 📅; then Jesus resumes his homeward journey. Arrives in Nazareth. His mother gives a feast 🍗 in his honor. His brothers are displeased 😞. Jesus tells his mother and aunt the story of his journey 👣.

The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus Christ: Section IX: Teth: Li... | Sacred Texts Archive

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  1. The ruined 📍 Babylon was near, and Jesus and the sage went through her [Babylon] gates and walked among her [Babylon] fallen palaces.
  2. They trod 👣 the streets where Israel once was held in base captivity.
  3. They saw where Judah’s sons and daughters hung their harps upon the willows, and refused to sing 🎤.
  4. They saw where Daniel and the Hebrew children stood as living witnesses of faith.
  5. And Jesus lifted up his hands and said, “Behold the grandeur of the works of man!”
  6. “The king of Babylon destroyed the temple of the Lord in old Jerusalem; he burned the holy city, bound in chains ⛓️ my people and my kin, and brought them here as slaves.”
  7. “But retribution comes; for whatsoever men shall do to other men the righteous Judge will do to them.”
  8. “The sun of Babylon has gone down 🌇; the songs of pleasure will be heard no more within her walls ❌.”
  9. “And every kind of creeping thing 🪱 and unclean bird will, in these ruins, find their home.”
  10. “And in the temple Belus, Jesus, and Ashbina stood in silent thought. 😶”
  11. Then Jesus spoke and said, “Behold this monument of folly and shame.”
  12. “Man tried to shake the very throne of God, and he assayed the build a tower to reach to heave, when, lo, his very speech 🗣️ was snatched away, because in lofty words he boasted of power ⚡.”
  13. “And on these heights the heathen Baal stood - the god wrought out by hands of man.”
  14. “Upon yon altar, birds 🦢 and beasts 🐆, and men 👥, yea children 👶 have been burned 🔥 in awful sacrifice to Baal 👹.”
  15. “But now the gory priests are dead; the very rocks have shuddered and have fallen down; the place is desolate.“
  16. Now, in the plains of Shinar Jesus tarried yet seven days 🛏️, and, with Ashbina, meditated long upon the needs of men 💭, and how the sages could best serve the coming age 🕰️.
  17. Then Jesus went his way, and after many days he cross the Jordan to his native land. At once he sough his home in Nazareth.