The Message Rediscovered -Book IX

BOOK IX

	The whole of our work has been made by thee, Lord. ISAIAH
	He shall lift up the stone of the summit amid the acclamations. ZACHARIAH

VUE TRI NÉE

THE ACCOMPLISHMENT

God is like an infinite ocean of living, luminous essence, in which all penetrates and knows itself through love.

Grace and love presage the path to knowledge and repose.

If it pleased God to make himself man, it now rests with man to remake himself God.

I have searched for the truth even in the corruption of the world and I have separated life from death.

The present world is like an intimate mixture of light and darkness.

He who frees his life shall be freed by it.

Created things are unreal in relation to God, but they are real among themselves during the time of their appearance.

The eyes of the spirit perceive easily the obviousness of eternity and the hands of knowledge manifest it effortlessly.

The current world is neither real nor unreal, neither good nor bad.
It is formed by a portion of divine light divided up infinitely in the darkness of non-being.

God subsists eternally inside and outside, without a why or a how. Such is the mystery of eternity.

Here is the fall of Lucifer and the exile of Adam.

Who shall save his soul from the mud? Who shall free it from the prison of death?

The return to God is like the separation with the darkness and like the reunion with the primordial light.

Grace frees effortlessly that which the greatest violence could not reduce over a long time.

Here is the redemption of Adam.

Who shall present the holy virgin to the fertilizing sun?

The saints remain in the mud in order to help their brothers, who are a part of themselves, just as they are a portion of God.

He who exposes himself for others receives a thousand spittles for a flower. That is the law of atonement.
"Who would not expose himself for the Lord of love?"

All knowledge not experienced is null and void, since it has no effect.

10'

The sons of God deliver from misery, from illness, from old age, from doubt and from death. That is the mark that does not deceive.

The fearsome man is he who wants to force people to be happy; then comes he who wants to make them unhappy.

11'

Arguments are ignorances that confront one another in death, and those that argue, phantoms that fight one another in the void.

The polished skull of a dead man reflects the truth to us better than any magic mirror.

12'

Saints can help the entire world, but no-one questions them, and when they speak, no-one listens to them.

All comes from inside. All returns to the interior. All remains in the centre.

13'

The examination of the circular world brings the clear-sighted man back to God.

To live is to communicate with God without hindrance; to die is to be separated from him by filth.

14'

The beauty of genius, the purity of grace and the holiness of love enrage the mediocre to death.

Mental confusion, ineptitude for discerning and choosing, the lack of power of synthesis and clarity are the signs of the mediocrity of vulgar beings.

15'

The holy Mother of God aids pure and generous men, yet the ignorant say: "God doesn’t give us food" for they do not receive what they have been sent, or they receive it with ingratitude.

The light of the sun contains all the other lights; it is like the essence of life.

16'

Even if we were to be as dry as stones, the grace of the Lord would make us germinate up to heaven.

To reduce one's own nature, to purify and to perfect it is to know oneself and become like God.
"We must sow if one day we wish to reap."

17'

He who reaches the Mother remains in joy, and he who penetrates up to the Father fixes himself in peace.

Happiness is to have all and possess nothing; it is to be attached to nothing, not even to oneself; it is to do everything and endure everything for the love of the Unique One.

18'

He who rejoins God can no longer become lost, for the Lord is like a guard for himself and for his own.

We only abandon effectively that which we really possess or that which we can certainly obtain.

19'

When we are broken, purified, emptied and naked we shall see God clearly, and he shall penetrate into us without hindrance.

Thoughts and visions that are either sublime or atrocious must be accepted equally and reduced to the same divine principle by perfect meditation.

20'

He who is advanced no longer prays to God, he praises him; in the end he is silent in him forever.

God teaches those who desire to learn, but only as far as they dare to know, so that no-one perishes.

21'

The believer returns to his source like the buried grain moves towards the light, and this is a great example of heavenly love and earthly faith.

Peace of heart and of spirit is obtained by offering God all that fills us and all that empties us.

22'

We shall gain neither earth nor heaven by crushing other men, but we shall most probably reap the curse of God.

The assembly of the stars is like the luminous sea where God moves between the beginnings and the ends, and where he reposes between the ends and the beginnings.

23'

Sages are neither upset by nor rejoice over the ups and downs of the world, for they know that the Father and the Son remain immutably united in the bosom of the moving Mother.

By giving back everything to God we shall also rid ourselves of ourselves.

24'

The Living One who penetrates the great water floats and sails effortlessly.

There is nothing men dislike more than the truth about themselves, because both the nakedness of the spirit, like that of the body, is only endured to the advantage of those who are perfect.

25'

It is not enough that God is hidden in us, he also has to shine immeasurably there like the star of our new birth.
"God does not go towards the mediocre, and the mediocre do not go towards God."

The creation of universes is like the experimentation of a part of God by himself.

26'

We pray to be broken and for our lights to be reunited in the love of the Unique One.

There is neither possible instruction nor certain peace for he who occupies himself with the affairs of the world.

27'

The wisest of men could not avoid weeping at the suffering of all beings.

Krist had to drive away the merchants from the temple before being able to make himself heard.
Shall we not also make ourselves empty to hear the voice of the Lord?

28'

If our hearts knew how to commune with God and with men, our lips would remain closed.

Helping those around us to live is an intelligent and prudent way of enriching ourselves.

29'

He who clings to three things, when two are enough and only one is truly necessary, prepares disorder and ruin for all.

All that is destroyed quickly belongs to the world.
All that is immutable belongs to God.

30'

In order to reach essential life, we shall first have to become absent like the dead.

The light comes to us from the stars and returns to the stars, which restore it to God.

31'

The pure and perfect man is the most accomplished point of equilibrium in the Universe.

The mixture of lights makes the infinite diversity of creation and manifests the unity of the creator.

32'

Outside ourselves is still ourselves, for we are a portion of he who contains visible and invisible creation.

Repose alternates with movement in God's work. He who unites these two in one no longer has any passion for the transitory world.

33'

Grace frees all without forcing or destroying anything; that is what we need at the beginning.

Holy water delivers, purifies, elevates and blesses.
God's earth nourishes, unites, fixes and consecrates.
Both work under the direction of the primary and ultimate fire.

34'

The teachings of the sages are in the image of the middle world, where the light subsists beneath a dark crust.
"Let us not argue, let us rather practise until we reach the perfect knowledge of our Art."

God overwhelms obedient love beyond all limit.
- It is baptism in The water of The genesis that gives us the glorious body of pardon.
- It is The mysterious communion of the true blood and true body of the Unique One that communicates to us the divine soul of redemption.
- It is unction with The holy oil of The stone that confirms us in the peace of reconciliation.
- It is The secret blessing of The ultimate marriage that binds us and that multiplies us in the glory of the union.

35'

We no longer have honour, pride, courage or virtue; we are without learning and intelligence; our talents are like smoke, and our strength resembles spilt water. Our piety remains like an empty tin, and our days have become insensitive beneath the ardour of the divine regard. But grace multiplies the secret love that lives in our heart, and we can already taste the gentleness of the transcendental fire.

Man is the main ferment of the regeneration of the world; his action on the earth is comparable to the work of yeast on the whole mass of dough.

36'

Here there is more than a moral and more than an asceticism, more than a philosophy and more than a mysticism. Here is the key to the restitution of man and the world in God.

He who loves men despite their weaknesses shall be loved by God despite his blemishes.

37'

If we obey hate once, it will command a hundred times and remember a thousand.

Who shall be audacious enough to ask the impossible of God?
Who shall be holy enough to obtain it without harm?

38'

The grace of God shall soak us once more, and we shall become like mud before being remade as gold.

Lie, cowardice, betrayal and hate are the specific hallmarks of the weakness of vulgar men.

39'

True love and ultimate knowledge endure all, pardon all and grant all.

The best thing in man and in the world is the simplest thing we find in them.

40'

By rejecting everything that hinders us and everything that complicates our life we shall rapidly reach the desert where God makes himself heard.

Nothing provides as much joy as loving all men in God, after having recognized the Lord in each one of them.
"The only crime is to be separated from God."

41'

We can rapidly reach God by dying to the world and to ourselves, and thus avoiding absurd experiences that go from disguised happiness to quite certain misfortune.

One cannot love God and detest men, but during the whole time of our exile we must fear the former and the latter.

42'

Would that the words of the Book were never a condemnation for believers, but that they increased further, if possible, the glory of God, by making them become children of the great water!

True knowledge is accompanied by modesty and silence.

43'

Let us accept to appear like idiots, poor and useless in order to remain free in God.

When that which is superior abandons that which is inferior, the body decomposes entirely.
However, when that which is superior unites with that which is inferior, the body becomes completely whole again.

44'

Water shall sustain us when we have abandoned all earth, and fire shall consolidate us up to the holy island of love and knowledge.

There is no-one as free as a sage, and no-one as occupied as a madman.

45'

It is beyond prayers, in the repose of the spirit, that God shall manifest his glory in us.

One needs to beg and deceive men in order to conserve the right to agonize in this world, while it is enough to pray and to love God in order to obtain eternal life.

46'

A single word, a single deed can set even the most deeply buried man on the way to reconciliation and deliverance.
"Let us never want to be in the right with respect to anyone; let us communicate the truth only to those who love it."

Everything that seems indispensable and urgent at present to us shall appear useless and empty at the time of death.

47'

The reason and the madness of the world are rapidly erased before the wisdom of God that penetrates everything.

From now on let us practise abandoning all and turning towards God, before all deserts us and turns against us.

48'

There is only one separation, only one solitude and only one death that are fearsome, which are the absence of God and the oblivion of his love.

He who knows his solitude before God experiences no apprehension at the time of death.
The dewdrop is like the sea that produces it and collects it.

49'

The will of God consists in leading man back to the perfection of his own person. "He propels himself through the word, he reposes through silence."

Men's madness consists in seeking the infinite in death.
The wisdom of God resides in the examination of the unity of life. Thus, the learned man is he who questions his Lord, who hears his reply and who shapes his life accordingly.

50'

The Unnamed One could not eliminate evil, that night that surrounds him and hides him, just as he could not create good, that light that clothes him and guards him; but he can mix or separate the exterior light and darkness, for the knowledge of the powers and of the limits of his Being and his non-being.

Wretchedness and wealth are equally opposed to the search for God and to the peace of the soul.

51'

There are several ways that lead to holiness; but there is only one that leads to wisdom.

Prayer is like a secret conversation between the created God and the non-created God, that is to say, like the bond of love that unites the finite with the infinite, and that allows the totality to know itself in One.

52'

We know that we are approaching God when we are magnificently sup-

Art consists in making the supernatural hidden in the natural appear.

53'

In all he undertakes, the sage counts only on God and on himself.

The more the sky is seen from below, the more beautiful and profound it appears.
Thus, in humiliation and in misfortune one can often perceive God better than amid the pleasures and the glory of the world.

54'

God ponders over his way in the great night of man; that is why faith must accompany until the end he who accomplishes his work, since purification is done first inside, then it appears outside and shines fully in the union.

Nature provides the nourishment, and it is the internal fire that digests and transmutes it.
He who claims to do it better is nothing but a presumptuous ignorant.

55'

Man becomes his own instructor, his own judge and his own saviour when he penetrates to the secret centre of his heart.

The sage's teaching displeases vulgar men, because it shows up the end of each being and the shadow of each thing.

56'

If we are resolved to grow in God, nothing bad shall hold us back in this world.

The best vengeance is to pray to God to teach our enemies just as he teaches us.

57'

There is but one universal life, which is like a game of shadows and lights on the moving surface of the waters of the abyss.

The disgust for the world and the repentance for our straying form the ordinary path for the return to God.

58'

The proud spirit shall sink even further and remain sealed in the dead earth and in the dead water.

Grace and love subsequently accompany the seeker on the royal route of the chosen ones.

59'

There is only one knowledge, one union and one repose that are true, which are in the accomplished fixity of heavenly fire.

No-one asks us to free grace.
No-one implores us to perfect love.
No-one requires us to unveil the union.
No-one summons us to manifest the Unique One.
If we do any of these things, let it be done freely and at our own risk and peril, for the love of the believers.

60'

The origin of life and death must be kept secret, so that the divine majesty cannot be profaned by the first one that comes along, as already happened once in Adam.
"Oh beneficial pain of exile!"
"Oh multiplying virtue of the sun!"
"Oh sublime accomplishment of the innocence that knows!"

Many shall benefit from the light of the Lord on the great day of the reunion, and the saints shall live in his sun on the day of the accomplishment. Yet there shall only be a few sages who shall know the secret origin of the all and of the nothing.

61'

The spirit is hidden in the body, and the soul manifests itself through the separation and through the union of both in the eternity of the Unique One.

	God has chosen the vile things of the world and the most scorned, those that are not, in order to reduce to nothingness those that are, so that no-one glorifies himself before God. PAUL
	He who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all originate from the same Father. PAUL