The Message Rediscovered -Book VI

BOOK VI

	For if woman was drawn from man, man is also born of woman, and all comes from God. PAUL
	I reveal myself to you who are married, rather than to a bachelor. ZARATHUSTRA

UNITÉ RÊVE

THE ETERNAL CIRCLE

If we are intelligent, let us pray to God that we become intelligent.

The ignorance of the sage is like the science of God.

He who knows the body, soul and mind, the way in which they separate and how they rejoin, is the only judge among men. However he does not intervene in their quarrels.

Misfortune and death separate all men efficiently, but few complete the work of the great purification.

To die to oneself is to be born to God; few know of this and only a few dare do it.

It is holy water and pure earth that formed the primary amalgam.

Let us imagine all the joys and all the misfortunes in order to shorten the time of our experience and to reach the desired repose more quickly.

Let us first seek abandonment in grace, and all the rest shall flower and ripen at its own pace.

The cross unites the fire and the earth which are in the centre, and the circle unites the air and the water that surround them.

All that goes to heaven leaves from the foot of the cross, and all that goes to earth comes from the highest heaven.

The highest and most useful function of man is to examine the work which contains him in order to recognize God in it, to make him evident and to glorify him in his Being.

The way back leads to our lord the sun and to the sun of Our Lord, who is in the centre of the centre.

This is the true work of enfranchisement.
All the rest is an immense illusion of necessity.

The more intelligent we become in God, the more stupid we shall appear in the world.

Exterior practices cannot raise man up to God on their own, but they prevent him from falling down to the Beast.

There is a great teaching hidden in the sacraments of the Church of Krist. Who shall discover it? Who shall accomplish it? Who shall apply it anew?

The most sublime religions leave men between life and death, because noone seeks to penetrate them and to experience them.

It is the heavenly gold that we need, for the illness of death does not exhaust our desires.

War, epidemics and famine awaken men from their torpor. How few are those that understand the vanity of this world imprisoned by death!

10'

He who possesses in himself the seed of God shall see it germinate in the purity of his liberated soul; but he who does not have this fire shall dry out even when in contact with the water of grace.

It is better to risk madness and death while seeking God in the multiplicity than to rot in this sterile agitation that is the spiritual idleness of the world.

11'

Our reason is the wall that makes us doubt heaven.
The absurd is what makes us abandon exile on earth.

When everything breaks up and collapses in us God shall act in our hearts and the desolation of death shall change into the light of life.

12'

That which descends to the lowest point is the same as that which rises to the highest point, in order to bring together the scattered Universe.

The love and the knowledge of God makes us forget everything that is not him, within and outside of ourselves.

13'

When the desolation and abomination of death have reached their peak, the purity of the holy life shall shine on a reconciled world.

Misfortune keeps man awake even in the midst of death.

14'

We shall smile at our agonies when we have rejoined him who fertilizes life and who concentrates it as far as him.

We see nothing, we understand nothing of what is inside us and outside us.
Grant us, Father of the waters, the intelligence of your laws, the love of yourself and the knowledge of your work.

15'

It is good that youth repels the rottenness of the world.
It is excellent that ripe age considers the two faces of the Universe.
It is holy that the end reaches hidden purity.

One cannot be at the same time arrogant with men and simple before God.

16'

To submit ourselves and return to God is to exchange our dead carrion for the heavenly stone.

By accusing ourselves of the evil that happens and by thanking God for the good that presents itself we are assured of never being wrong.

17'

It is impossible to rejoin God and his grace without passing once more through the darkness crossed on the first separation.

True philosophy is the search for the origin and end of all things.

18'

The holy quest for God is accomplished in the darkness of nature and in the humility of man.

Nature and the ancient sages teach the divine secrets quite openly, but it is God alone who makes them understood.

19'

Knowledge shall proceed inwards on three occasions: water shall appear first, then fire, and finally water and fire shall unite in God.

We have fallen onto foreign land by disobeying our interior life.
We shall return to our source by relinquishing death from outside.
"God has not put a cutlass in one hand and a torch in the other to kill all and burn all here below."

20'

It is our divine freedom that permits us to sink into death or come back towards the light, with no limits other than the reason of the absurd that makes us repent and the madness of love that makes us experts and possessors.

The sage imposes nothing on anyone.
He constantly perfects his science in the contemplation of God, and prudently communicates his teaching to those who are capable of receiving it.

21'

They offered the wise expert piles of gold coins, sacks of precious stones, then fields, cities and armies, and finally the continents and the oceans of the earth, but he only asked for a little mud to prepare his harvest.

The inspired holy books are the guides of humanity and form the most precious heritage of the ancestors.

22'

They who know the movement and repose of the Being, the darkness and the death of non-being, are the only ones that can teach without ageing and without failing.

Poets sing of the despair of the fallen God, but none of them provides the remedy for the evil that knocks us down. Artists are prodigal in admirable works, but none of them transports us to the living fire.

23'

The purified woman shall deliver man, and he shall lead her to God's repose in the so-heavy sun of the end of time.
"Oh pyramidal beauty of the cornerstone!"

The unique sun cannot be approached without us feeling admiration, love and recognition for him who gives himself so completely to us.

24'

The path that leads to God is sown with terror, desolation and death, which are the outer clothing of unique clarity.

He who is simple with God and with men will be filled to the brim in this world and in the other.

25'

The Art of God is free from all effort and all boredom, for the patience of the Lord is infinite and his love is sweet and perfect.

The highest point of love is to discover God in man and discover fire in water.
The highest point of science is to unite opposites of the same nature up to the concentrated perfection of the solar ruby.

26'

He who helps to save a single man does more than he who tries to console everyone.
"If only we could arrive before our Lord staggering beneath the weight of the harvest and the wine harvest!"

A great deal of time and effort is needed to learn that we know nothing, are capable of nothing, and are nothing for ourselves, but that we know all, are capable of all and are all in God.

27'

He who reaches the Lord no longer knows how to behave himself; it is God that leads him towards the truth hidden in the primary humility, despised by the ignorant and by the scholars of the world.

He who has found God knows that the present world is like stinking mud, and that the world to come will be like perfectly purified earth.

28'

The sage is neither courteous nor rude, he is truthful; that is why few people can bear to hear him.

By using possessions wisely and tolerating the evils of this world we are allowed to collect the water of heaven and to amass the salt of the earth.

29'

The master teaches the disciples, but it is God that gives the intelligence of precious words.

He who does not desperately long for the secret kingdom will sooner or later be crushed by the world without being of benefit to anyone.

30'

All that we ask of God in the sweetness and the violence of love shall be granted us, for it is the key that opens and closes the mysterious treasure of life.

When we discover the astonishing work we shall be overwhelmed by surprise and by admiration, most ashamed of our blemish; and when we obtain grace, love and knowledge we shall be annihilated and transformed in God.

31'

When we have sensed him in our heart, nothing will ever be able to make us forget him. But when we have tasted him in our body, nothing will ever be able to separate us from him, for we shall be in him in spirit, and he shall be in us in act.

The more heaven confers gifts upon us, the greater the opportunity to raise ourselves or to fall becomes.

32'

Let us pray to God in order to know what we must request, before being confused with the dead.

The ignorant one who is silent does just as well as the instructed man who speaks.

33'

He who masters the stimuli of the body, of the heart and of the spirit becomes master of that which is inside and outside.

He who has found God and his love can no longer be forgotten, for God is life, love and union.

34'

Nobody could be born in the light without radically transforming his present condition.

He who persists in the stupid alliance of death remains separated from the Lord for ever.

35'

The narrow door is like a slit at ground level; some find it well, but few men are naked enough to pass through it without hindrance.

Who is God? Who are we?
That is the quest, that is the wisdom and that is the repose.

36'

Psychological analysis makes God appear in the conscience, physical analysis shows him in action in the world.

God is all, man is medium, the shadow is nothing.
"Of course death stinks, and of course life exudes this unforgettable perfume."

37'

Let us not reject that which is good because of that which is bad, but let us separate each thing patiently and praise the best.

All that the light does, the shadow undoes, and all that the latter undoes, the former does again.
Thus, man is like a dead person that lives, and God is like a living one that dies.

38'

Let us apply ourselves to the mysteries of God from the first moment, for purification is painful, becoming perfect takes long and divine union, most secret.

Separation is the beginning of the secret work that leads to God.
Unification is its end.

39'

He who separates himself from filthy things shall find God concentrated in his life.

The son of God can see and understand that which no other could even hear or suspect, for he who has been instructed by the Unique One hears with the ears and sees with the eyes of the Holy Spirit.

40'

Let us leave the stupid to their stupidity and the intelligent to their intelligence, for we shall not pay for them on the day of reckoning; but let us embrace the ancient Mother, in order to be made one with the new-born Father.

All hope, all life, all love and all science are in God alone, and he is always attentive and always alive in us.

41'

He who has separated heaven and earth shall reunite them again and shall multiply them in the perfection of living gold.

Woman has set man at odds with the whole world; however, she will reconcile him with God.

42'

When we have found the refuge of the Mother, we will have to seek the impassible repose of the Father.

He who stands in the last rank does not have to fight against those who long to be in the first few, and the way out will be much easier for him in the end.

43'

We must descend the ladder of creation before being able to go back up to God and fix ourselves in him.

He who reaches the Being is the only one to savour peace in the midst of the world gone mad.

44'

True repose is in the centre of the light where the most perfect Lord dwells.

Each one will answer for himself on the day of judgement. Why bother ourselves with the faults of our neighbours and why neglect our own?

45'

The Book shall separate many men in the world, for some shall be confirmed in life, and others shall be sunk into death.

It is at the moment when we believe ourselves to be strong that we discover our weakness; it is when we think we have arrived that we realize we have never left.

46'

He who does not descend voluntarily into the great water will be thrown into it some day and will drown miserably.

He who repels men must not be surprised if he is not helped by them, and he who withdraws from God must not complain if he is abandoned by all.

47'

Misfortune and corruption shall separate purity from mud, and each thing shall come together in its own sphere, either to be exalted or to be rejected.

Wisdom enables one to acquire and lose all without being disturbed. It possesses a great hidden power.

48'

True rebellion against this world is only made known by God, who renders it mute and patient in the extreme.

We can get on with all men without speaking.
We can quarrel with our best friend through a single word.

49'

If the first man to come allows his light to appear, he would teach like a god and shine like a star.

The enlightened man loves God to the point of forgetting himself in him.
The blinded man admires himself to the point of no longer recognizing himself in anything.

50'

Having received his God, he was clothed in the primary splendour and participated in his glorious body in the eternal feast of the Father and the Mother.

By judging men wrongly we most probably deprive ourselves of everything good that they have preserved.

51'

It is God's grace that delivers us from death and that washes us of all our blemishes.

Man, sown in the world, cannot germinate without the aid of grace and love that have remained free.

52'

Who shall set free the springs of water? Who shall make the holy earth germinate? Who shall harvest the Lord's Providence?

The intelligent and instructed man makes a prudent use of the fire and water that is necessary for life.

53'

He assembles opposites with weight and measure, for a lot of heaven is needed to mix with a little earth.

The sage knows that God accomplishes all his works without effort, and that we carry out our own with great difficulty.

54'

The sage venerates equally the beginning, the middle and the end of the fertilizing work of heaven and earth.

The saint accepts living and dying without recriminating, in order to better understand the secret teaching of the Lord.

55'

We know that everything changes, except the immutable that moves the Universe.

The prodigious man is he who loves God, he who discovers him within himself and he who becomes one with the Perfect One.
Thus, the saint acts in this world as though nothing were separated by the death of sin.

56'

To speak of God, to love God, to know God and to possess God are distinct things. The first builds, the second excites, the third instructs, the last frees and leads to repose for ever.

Prayer is the perfect art of communication with God. It leads to love that consoles, to knowledge that enlightens and to the union that saves.

57'

The queen of the Universe is weak and soft like life; however she destroys all that is strong and hard like death.

It is dangerous to abandon the world without having experienced it, because temptation still endures.

58'

In order to have it all, it is first necessary to know how to do without everything, and then to abandon it all when one has obtained all things.

It is risky to experience the world before abandoning it, for the risk of losing oneself in it is great.

59'

When we know ourselves fully, we shall understand that we no longer possess anything, not even ourselves.

It is prudent to possess all and abandon all in spirit, so as not to be surprised by the event.

60'

To search outside oneself is to divide oneself up indefinitely in death; to search within oneself is to increase infinitely until the unity of essential life.

It is holy to consider the good and the evil carefully before undertaking anything, and it is wise not to force the fire when one has chosen well.

61'

The sage is in accordance with the unique content of all things; he wears the visible world like a temporary garment.

Too many people claim to teach us the hidden meaning of the Scriptures when it is clear they do not enjoy the blessings provided by such knowledge, for the works of life must confirm the wise and holy words, just as creation manifests the virtue of divine verb.
"If we are ignorant, let us study the holy books and if we think we have been instructed, let us become simple in God."

62'

Many scholars think they reveal to us the secret of beings and things, but none are capable of communicating to us the light of heaven, the only thing that matters, being the truth and the life of God.
"They argue and fight stupidly over the shell, but the wise possessor keeps himself apart from the confusion of empty words and savours the almond in secret."

	In order to re-establish piety, I am born in different ages. KRISHNA
	To neglect the root and look after the branches is impossible. KHONG T’ZE