The Message Rediscovered -Book VIII

BOOK VIII

	The Lord makes the earth produce its medicines, and the sensed man does not scorn them. ECCLESIASTICUS
	And God sent him out of the garden of Eden so that he could cultivate the earth from which he had been taken. MOSES

TRIÉ EN VUE

LOVE

The spiritualization of the body makes appear the water and the air that give us life and sustain us.
The embodiment of the spirit engenders the earth and the fire that sustain and multiply us.
Who shall weigh up the portion of each thing?

Man without woman is like a stone on the dry river bed, and woman without man is like a cloud adrift on the sea.
"Who shall make the union of opposites by means of what is similar?"

Knowledge of the interior man provides enlightenment and the possession of God.
"Who shall be able to walk like a blind man trusting in the sole voice of the Highest?"

"All comes out of God and all goes back into him."
He who knows this no longer pays attention to the world or to himself.

The Father of the world who inhabits the universal Mother is inaccessible to the blemish of the outside darkness.

Therefore, those that always look outwards remain in death.

The holy Mother remains hidden in the centre of the earth or shines in heaven, according to the will of the Father.

Creation may change its form, but it cannot change its Being.

The mortification of the body has to prepare the purification of the spirit and the regeneration of the soul.

He who turns away from the mystery of death shall never know the power and the glory of God.

When the feet are sound, the eyes shall see clearly.

Man descends into the earth and ascends to heaven, in order to know the mysterious totality of his Being.

When the mockers are submerged in the filth of death we shall ask them: "Where have all your witty remarks gone?", and there will be nothing but the howling of beasts in response.

If we cannot be like he who instructs, let us at least strive not to resemble those that lead people astray.
"Lord, free us from the rebellious spirit that eats our heart."

We are all more or less veiled figurations of the Lord. Therefore, no-one shall be able to present himself as being his perfect image, nor as being his absolute shadow.

He who knows the inanity of the visible world smiles at the mirages of water that enlivens it and searches for the stone that supports it.

Only they who have seen the Lord uncovered can teach men and restore their laws, but they do violence to no creature, following the example of God, their father.

The great sages and the great prophets are the shepherds of the immense flocks of men that belong to God.

God is like a sun hidden in the centre of each earth, and like a sun visible in the middle of each heaven.

10'

True wisdom resembles the madness of God, which is the safeguard of life in death.

Luminous nature is the primary and most beautiful manifestation of the Lord.
The pure man is the ultimate and most perfect creation of God and of nature.
Here is the summary of the Universe.

11'

Forty is the number of hope, of stripping away, of transformation and of maturing.
"It is impossible to separate God from present humanity, just as what we ask of heaven is often offered to us by men."

What is the use of denouncing and repressing the errors of others if we are incapable of discovering and correcting our own faults?

12'

He who is intelligent and instructed keeps his knowledge to himself and deeply regrets his ignorance, but he who knows and possesses pure life is already established in the peace of the Perfect One.

No-one can examine himself externally without coming across the obscurity of lie. How could someone know himself internally without finding the true light?

13'

He who pacifies the sea of the world shall rest in the living core of pure gold.
"Oh splendour! oh miracle of water and fire united in One!"

Let us ask God what can be useful to reach him, be it grace, love, knowledge or repose; and let us not occupy ourselves with the means he employs to save us.
The Lord refuses nothing to the believers.

14'

The primary power was in virgin water.
The ultimate power shall be in holy earth.
"The skilful man brings into evidence the light of each thing and of each being."

He who appears abandoned shall produce an inestimable treasure, and the apparently disinherited Being shall reveal himself to be beautiful like a god.
The sweetness of grace and the power of love accomplish all miracles.

15'

Let us not confuse the repose of the Being with the nothingness of the non-being, as the ignorant who make mistakes with words, do because they do not know the secret nature of things. Therefore, many famous intelligent people construct on this error and end up in the desperation of the appearances of the absurd.

He who has the knowledge of God is filled with love for all beings, since he perceives the light that gives life to them from the beginning.

16'

Each son of God who teaches in the world comes back to the Father, magnified immeasurably by the multitude of beings conquered in love.

Corporal man dies with sadness.
Astral man passes with courage.
Spiritual man rejoins God with joy.

17'

Before being able to leap into the divine void one needs to climb for a long time the paths of asceticism, on pain of sinking into the mud of chaos.

True possession is the science of God experienced in the secret of the heart.
Illusory possession is the science of men practised in the world.

18'

The ignorant one speaks of getting rid of evil, the sage is content with separating it and rejecting it, in order to glorify good without hindrance.

The Universe can be known without moving, by identifying oneself with he who contains and gives life to it.

19'

Intelligent men according to the world only end up with doubt, desperation and death; it is the mark of the ignorance in which humanity remains a prisoner.

Knowledge without power is like a seed without water, like a spirit without a body and like the Lord without his creation.

20'

You have been told: "Do not speak against the spirit", and we shall add: "Do not blaspheme against the earth", for you know neither one nor the other in their integral union.

He who seeks God outside himself only finds the confusion of infinite darkness and death.

21'

The great night protects the core of light where the fire revels eternally.

He who takes refuge in God escapes from the hallucinations of the transitory world.

22'

The Lord remains in himself, through himself, for himself.

All mysteries are reduced to a terrifying and admirable reality: "God in us, we in God".

23'

Life in repose leads to repose in life.

He who examines himself in death and in life learns to know God.

24'

The peace of the centre governs the eternal movement of the heavenly wheel.

He who knows the Mother penetrates all worldly things and easily delivers him that he loves.

25'

She will appear naked in the heaven to receive the glory of the beloved sun.

Men indeed wish for light and peace, but on the condition that this neither dissipates their darkness nor hinders their agitation.

26'

Abstention from the tempered poison is characteristic of the holy, but its separation is the work of the sage.

God hides in the darkness of death and manifests himself in the light of life.

27'

With one look the lover penetrated the loved one, and she reproduced the lover.

He who sees him everywhere, who loves him in everything and who manifests him in himself, is truly enlightened.

28'

The sun shall nest in our unveiled souls and we shall be made one in the Unique One.

Perfect knowledge and mastery of oneself cause the end of change.

29'

The terrestrial emerald foretells the lunar diamond and the solar ruby.

Faith is like the certainty of God in ourselves, and knowledge is like the proof of his intimate presence.

30'

The secret darkness nurtures the immortal light of the Perfect One.

He who does not thirst for living water and he who does not take the necessary time to draw it shall never be wise.

31'

The fountain that springs from God's earth gives life to the entire Universe.

To make visible the divine unity hidden beneath the diversity of the world is the work of nature. To incorporate the highest spirit into the basest body and bring them to absolute perfection is the work of art.

32'

Love obeys God and God concedes everything to love, but it is by means of grace that he unties and binds us.

Nature provides us with all that is required for life; it is enough to come to its aid without forcing or destroying anything.

33'

Those who are content with the shadow of the world are quite undemanding towards God.

The sage is the only one able to consider his two faces without recoiling in fright.

34'

Entry into the night is the beginning of enlightenment.

Madmen talk about that which is not or with that which does not concern them; they love no-one and are in disagreement with all men and with themselves.

35'

Speculative learning with regard to possessing knowledge is what a wooden leg is to a healthy limb.

The senseless person gives asylum to the anarchic multitude of hell.
The saint lives in the pacifying unity of God.
The sage loves all, knows all, possesses all and returns all.

36'

All lies in our heart, in our spirit and in our hands.
Few believe it, some sense it and only one experiences it.

He who knows all and he who knows nothing know how to be silent, but he who is half-taught cannot stop himself from speaking.
"Do great works and consider them as nothingness; that is intelligence before God."

37'

"God's truth never coincides with the passions of the world."
One needs an unheard-of boldness in order to listen to the inner voice that always contradicts us, but one needs the courage of an idiot to obey its holy injunctions blindly.

The holy Mother is light as air and changing as water.
The sacred Father is heavy as the earth and immutable as fire.
The union of the four engenders the triple Son, who manifests the prodigious creation of the Unique One.

38'

Those who scorn nature while praising God are like asses laden down with stones that trample the gold along the path. They tire themselves out uselessly and achieve nothing durable.

I have asked the impossible of the Unnamed One, and he has given himself immediately. Yet I have neither merit nor do I possess intelligence, but I love him beyond all reason and all science.

39'

"The astonishment of astonishment.
" The most beautiful title a sage can desire after "son of God" is that of "midwife of souls".

The means to know and to be known is to pray in oneself; it is to bring into evidence the particular seed using the universal water.

40'

Nothingness envelopes the all that remains in oneself.
"The stone, the almond, the germ."

What use can multiple exterior knowledge be to us if we ignore the centre that summarizes it all?

41'

The fire that gives life to the Universe remains hidden in the earth and shines in heaven.

The sage converses with God and argues with no-one.
"Yet how beautiful they are and how they shine, those who rise to preach the truth of God before the lightning flash of the end!"

42'

He who receives God in his heart, in his spirit and in his body is chosen from among the chosen, and walks on the sea of the worlds.

Grace, perseverance and love lead to the knowledge of all things.

43'

It is difficult to see and hear that which exists in oneself.

One begins by loving what one possesses and ends by being possessed by what one loves.

44'

The accumulation of exterior work is a prey offered to misfortune. The accumulation of interior love is a treasure that saves one from death.

He who makes himself obeyed without speaking is worthy of power, for he communicates through the heart and commands through the spirit.

45'

Blessed be the masters who lead us to the secret root of fire. Their memory shall be perpetuated in grateful hearts.

All that is not deeply felt, arduously desired and animated by faith is null and without effect.

46'

Oh, flowing fire that dissolves and coagulates, our Lord that fertilizes!

The world is a balance between life and death; it is the expression of the greatest visible mystery.

47'

Nature is buried deep in the earth and placed high in heaven, but there is a particular place where it is more hidden and more evident than anywhere else.

Therefore, good and evil form the totality which only silence can name.
"It is useless to try and fight against Satan; it is better to pray for his conversion and for our own."

48'

Here there is a great ruin for the shrewd ones, but also a great recompense for simple and detached hearts.

Death resembles the immobility of darkness in the cold.
Life is like the movement of light in the warmth.
The world is a mixture that subsists through desire and through change in eternity.

49'

He who has stripped the world of its clothing of illusion smiles at the supreme good that appears in the centre of the moving immensity of life.
"And no-one has been the victim of violence, not even oneself!"

The love of God leads to terrestrial repulsion and to heavenly attraction. Thus, God and man unite in a certain medium, which constitutes the mystery of heaven and earth.

50'

He who wishes to reach God must abandon all the prejudices of the world and all the certainties of human reason, in order to follow nothing but the enlightening nature hidden in the darkness of primordial creation.

To be God is to be one with oneself in the totality of Being, inside and outside.

51'

The culmination of all, which is the possession of all, ends in the renunciation of all, which is the depth of all.

Divine will is accomplished from inside out, and is made perfect from the outside in.

52'

Water comes out of the earth and returns to the earth in order to separate the clean from the unclean.

Thus, God frees without destroying and makes perfect without forcing.
He commands and everything obeys him.
He appears and everything smiles at him.
He reposes and everything re-enters him.

53'

The grace and the love of God are manifested mysteriously by the failures we suffer in the world, and his fearsome judgement practises surprisingly through the successes he permits us here below.

All deliverance and all perfection are therefore accomplished in the heart of man through the ministry of God's grace and love, and not brutally on bodies through the coercion of individuals.

54'

God's fire edifies life. Man's fire consumes it. Nevertheless, the gentleness of the latter can manifest the virtue of the former.

In order for man to be filled with God he needs to empty himself of all terrestrial foulness that obscures him.
It is then that the union is accomplished immediately.

55'

The sage in God is like an ignorant man among the multitude of scholars, yet he is the only one who knows the beginning and the end of all things.

Vulgar men pretend to be proud of the work that is imposed on them and of that which they give themselves, in order to mask the spiritual poverty that overwhelms them. They are deceived and deceive the ignorant.
"Only the precious blood of the heavenly and earthly Son can deliver us from the ancient poison brought into the present world by the woman gone astray."

56'

The sage glories only in being in God; that is to say, he rests and is silent as often as possible, for the union of men in God can only be accomplished on the holy mountain in the unity of restful silence.

Misery, disease, old age, doubt and death should cast us into the arms of he who proposes wealth, health, youth, knowledge and life to us.

57'

Few men truly detest the evil that is in death, and very few seek the good that is with life.

God manifests himself to man when he is desired, loved and recognized by the latter, in the silence of union: "It is there where the void of the spirit engenders the plenitude of the soul".

58'

Let us reject all that is complicated and all that is uncomfortable so as not to multiply the temptations that take us away from the Unique One.

Everything is possible for the believer; nothing is successful for he who doubts.

59'

They stand before creation like beasts before a bolted door that no hand is able to manoeuvre.

The fact of being God and man is beyond all science, because it is the most complete experimentation of the all in the all.

60'

He who wishes to be great in life must become imperceptible in the world and stop existing in death.

Divine action is proportional to the purity of the creature, which is acquired through mortification; that is to say, through the water of grace and through the fire of love.

61'

Holy Mother who appears amid the distress of the world, grant us deliverance and oblivion from our ills.

The letter is very little when one considers the spirit that enlightens it and the soul that gives life to it.

62'

Ignorance crawls over the earth's crust, knowledge penetrates to the centre of the sea of the great world.

Eternal life is the coming out of oneself and going back into God. "The luminous Mother is the substance of all that lives. The shining Father is the essence of all that moves."

63'

The saint may seem an idiot and the sage may appear strayed, but neither one nor the other are ever mediocre in the world and in God.

	Only he who is not exclusively occupied with the struggle for existence can wisely appreciate life. LAO TSE
	Those who understand me are rare, that is without doubt the measure of my value. LAO TSE