Fiction: Old Words For New

Now behold, there was a young woman who had grown into the time of her duty, and had sat at the feet of her parents, which were just, and had taught her in the way that she should go. And the time came that she had grown into her duty, and was called to go into another world, as it were, or in other words a place where never she had walked before.


And her father said unto her, "You are called to serve in the world and be received by whosoever shall receive you, and for this purpose you are a Sent One."

And she was given a name, and was sent, and was filled with power to testify of the things that she had heard and seen. And among those others who were Sent there were words, old words for new things; and her trainer was called "Mother," and another was called "Father." Thus was she born into the world, or so they called it.

And it came to pass that she bore witness of the light that she had been given, bearing witness of no more and no less than this, and it came to pass that she was received by some, and these were taught and blessed, and they too were born again as she, dying and being given new life by water and also by fire, by the laying on of hands; and she was rejected by some, and these remained in their sins, whether great or small, and would not learn. And the greatest of these that would not learn was not so great as the least of them that learned humility, or sought to learn it, and hearkened to the voice of the Spirit.

And it came to pass that her new mother died, and her new father also, and she herself trained many new sent ones, or was a mother to them. And the Spirit of the Lord did call her this way and that, in accordance with the will of the Lord, and she was not received by all, but was received by some, and as many as received her were blessed.

And it came to pass that the woman died, or was released from the time of her service and her sojourn in that place, which they called the world. And she left the world and entered again the presence of her parents. And her father received her, and embraced her with his arms tight around her, and whispered, saying, "This is my beloved daughter, in whom I am well pleased. You were a Sent One into the world, and your duty was performed with honor, and your return was made with honor, and your name is had for good in the book of life, where it shall be had for a gem by he that reads it. Well done: Thou hast been a good and faithful servant unto the Lord thy God, and thou shalt be made ruler over many things."

And it came to pass that she was received into glory and passed from peace to peace, and from life to life, and world to world, until she had received a fullness of peace, and eternal lives, and worlds without end. Amen.

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