The Message Rediscovered -Book XI

BOOK XI

	You are an earth that has not been purified, that has not been washed by the rain. EZEKIEL
	This book has been composed by Isis for his brother Osiris, in order to revive his soul, give life to his body and return vigour and youth to all his divine limbs, so that, finally, he shall be reunited with the Sun, his father. SAHU

RIVE TÉNUE

LIVING EARTH

The maddest man can become wise if God enlightens him, but the sage could not become senseless because it is the Lord who sustains him.

It is better to resemble an idiot praising God than to seem intelligent while denying the obviousness of life.

Work that suits the ignorant and that keeps them in obedience and in order could not be applied to men who have been instructed and who are masters of themselves.

If we do not find God during our wakefulness, we shall not possess him while we are asleep.

Intellectual subtleties are paltry things if we consider the knowledge of the total world.

Let us throw our science into the fire, and at last it shall produce for us something good, like the simplicity of the ashes.

The sage and the madman do not have doubts; however one possesses and the other is possessed.

Let us abandon all useless malice, and God shall appear naked before our dazzled eyes.

Life in God is first sweetness, gladness and liberation, then it becomes lost in the contemplation of the Being without possible analysis.

He who reaches God in spirit and in body is like the quintessence of heaven and earth.

The great revolt is to seek God ceaselessly.
True success is to reach him without returning.

In the hidden place, the luminous jewel currently lives.
"By doing good, evil disappears by itself. By combating evil, one runs the great risk of sinking into it even more."

He who imagines that he does evil or does good according to men, sins because of ignorance.
He who has been instructed arranges things and leaves to God to concern himself with the accomplishment of his work.

There is no law for him who inhabits the law, for he is already the law and love with the Unique One.
"Let the ignorant ones explain nothing, and life shall not be divided any more".

The joy of God is in the union of sages and in the prayer of saints, as it is in the inspiration of artists, in the games of children and in the songs of the whole nature.

He who is truthful is rapidly delivered from the world of the mediocre, for the light separates itself from the darkness that surrounds it.

The Book is dust and ash compared to the living reality of God. However, it gives the means to recognize the source of heaven and earth.

Knowledge frees the sage and faith saves the saint, but it is love that unites them in God.

Morals of sages does not violate natural laws.

10'

It is our hands that prepare the earth, but it is the blessing of the Lord that makes it produce its fruit.

That which flatters the brute may torture the saint, and that which pleases the sage may disgust the vulgar man.

11'

I shall forget those who have not remembered me, says the Unique One.

A life of work, pleasure, repose, suffering, resignation or revolt is not worth a minute devoted to seeking God in oneself.

12'

He who crosses the barrier of liquid fire shall attain the true knowledge of love.

Resignation is like the renunciation of God, for it maintains us in the filth that separates us from him.

13'

Let us return everything to God, and we shall possess the world without damage.

Happiness is where there is neither separation, nor change, nor death.

14'

How could there be repose for the sage while a portion of the Being remains exiled in death?

He who knows where death leads has filled his life well.

15'

God offers light and receives only light.

The good doctor aids nature, and the sage is patient with all men.

16'

It is necessary to make use of the end of everything to know the beginning of everything.

No belief should be made obligatory.
God hates the persecutors and the mediocre.

17'

If you find God, do not proclaim it from the housetops, and above all do not try to convince anyone.

The sage and the madman ignore fear; however, one dominates death and the other is its food.

18'

It is the absurd that delivers us from the prisons of the spirit.

When they want to make heroes of you, you are not far from being dead.

19'

Let loose, before they wrench off.

Misfortune saves those who were being dragged towards death by routine.

20'

It is the excess of love and never self-satisfied mediocrity that brings us back to God.

Sleep, prayer, love, work and drugs make one forget misfortune for a time; but only the knowledge of God delivers us from it forever.

21'

All that man has dragged with him in his fall shall be rehabilitated with him, and creation shall live again appeased in the bosom of the unique Splendour.

To scold a senseless man is to sink him into his madness and gratuitously make an enemy of him.

22'

We shall not strike except out of compassion, and only to instruct when the Lord formally demands it.

To argue with an inferior man is to stoop to his level and lose all chance of being heard.

23'

The Living One goes to the dead to save them, but they stupidly try to kill him, for they do not recognize the light that inhabits the Universe.

He who is truly right never tries to prove it, for he knows that even misfortune itself is not understood.

24'

Holiness is confidence in God, generosity towards all, abundance in everything, joy for oneself.

The bramble and the wicked one are moved aside with a stick; he who puts his hand on it becomes entangled and rips himself up unnecessarily.

25'

Ultimate wisdom is like primary innocence, with the only difference that the one knows itself and the other ignores itself.

It is the primary and ultimate knowledge that constitutes the teaching of all the holy books.
"Oh, invaluable treasure trampled on by ignorant men!"

26'

Let the believers that love the Book pray in their hearts and say: "Let he who has told us of your grace, your love and your science be inebriated with you for ever, oh Lord!"

Few men perfect themselves in peace, for many become bored and softened by it; and few are taught by misfortune, because almost all of them tense up or become desperate through it.

27'

We play with everything we believe to be, but we shall conserve only that which truly is.
"The incombustible purity."

Who shall free his soul from the foreign land? And who shall make the Lord descend into the holy land?

28'

When the form disappears, the substance of water emerges from the chaos and manifests the essence of the divine fire.

It is through the madness of love that we draw closer to God, and it is through the world's reason that we move away from him.

29'

Let us observe the spectacle of the world till we are on the point of laughing or crying, but let us never participate in it seriously, on pain of losing ourselves in its night.

God lives and moves beyond all human reason.

30'

The smallest experience of God is worth more than all the theologies in the world.

If we wish to reach the Father and receive the promised inheritance, we must first cease to be orphans in the darkness of death, and secondly, fix ourselves in the holy Mother, where love shall mature us.

31'

Love is characterized by confidence and the limitless gift of oneself in the freedom of the Being. But when the slightest constraint appears, love and freedom disappear immediately.

Evil has no intrinsic existence, it appears as the slowing down of whichever portion of life that distances itself from the source of the eternal good, which is God the Being.

32'

A corrective for others and an injustice for oneself: that is how misfortune appears to the ignorant.

Suns die and are born again in the nurturing water and earth.

33'

That which has been separated by fire can only be reunited by it.

Let us not commit ourselves on anyone's behalf. Only God can take on such a burden, for he can deliver us from the nets of death.

34'

Malice has lost us, simplicity shall save us and we shall live once more in the garden of delights.

Too much freedom leads the ignorant one to the slavery of death.

35'

If something annoys us, let us examine whether it is useful to others or to ourselves.

Only he who has come out of death knows the value of repose in rediscovered life.

36'

Oh splendour! Oh life! Oh nucleus! It is you that we adore, oh Eternal One of the eternities!

Let us not violate the limits that God has set us, in order to avoid sinking into a more opaque death.

37'

Let us stand before God like a corpse in the hands of the embalmer who prepares the resurrection.

The end of our rebellion shall be the end of our agitation. We shall one day become tired of misfortune, and we shall remember God, and return to him.

38'

The sages of this world shall humiliate themselves before the simple one who possesses God and his light.

God smiles at men's rebellion, for he knows that they shall return wiser and more loving after their migration into the darkness of death.

39'

He who knows and possesses the truth does not tire himself out trying to be right against anyone.

We can lose ourselves eternally if the absurd does not stop us on the path that leads us astray and if love does not bring us back to our holy origin.

40'

For some, God is a sublime reality.
For others, he seems like an incredible madness.
"The intelligent have rejected the Book, and the scholars of the world have completely failed to understand it."

God punishes no-one; misfortune is merely the effect of us distancing ourselves from the original source.

41'

The truth shines eternally, but its earthly clothing is dark.

He who hands over all his gifts to God reaches divine simplicity, which is like perfect humility.

42'

When we give and receive without a care, we shall be close to God.

Misfortune is illusory in relation to the Being; however, it is what leads man back to his source.

43'

The laws of God and those of nature oppress those that violate them, and deliver those that observe them.

The scholar knows many things, but possesses none of them.
The sage possesses just one and knows all the others.

44'

It is by ascending and descending that we shall discover God's movement and repose.

Let us not take sides for anything or for anyone; let us seek God, who is more urgent than everyone put together.

45'

The sage acts freely because he knows everything is in God.

Man becomes aware in separation, in absence and in return.

46'

We remain united in God, but we are several in the world, according to places and according to times.

It is God who commands and it is the deity that executes.
It is man who sows and it is woman who gives birth.

47'

Just as water was used to form all things, all things shall once more become like water.

We shall never find God by destroying beings and things; in fact we shall divide ourselves and sink further into death.

48'

The children of the Unique One imitate the work of the Father, and already live in peace in the present world.

Skilful dialectics do not lead the experts astray, for the holy light orientates all their thoughts towards the Unique One.

49'

It is the work that provokes arguments, and not the latter that engender the former.

Our faith is like the fragrance and the memory of the invisible sea of the world, where the Perfect One reposes.

50'

The sage and the saint do not tire themselves out admiring and praising God's creation.

The love of God is like the intense memory of our freedom and of our primary unity in the purity of heaven.

51'

The fulfilment of the wish depends on the accuracy of the image conceived, on the power of the projection of desire and on the patient regularity of prayer.

The light of our hearts screams at God through the darkness of the body that imprisons it, and the Father delivers she who has gone astray, and the Son appears in the splendour of the union.

52'

There is a great beauty and a great virtue in the Lord's work; that is why he keeps working on it and does not reject it.

The ignorant one does not know the ancient teachings and muddles up the present truth.

53'

There is intelligence in recognizing the origin of the misfortune that knocks us to the ground.

When the sterile tree cannot be restored, fire renders it to nurturing ashes and to fertilizing water.

54'

The only perfection is ascent, descent and repose.

No-one shall convince he who says no, except for the absurdity of this no, become evident in death.

55'

Holiness is like a curse for those who have seen it, heard it and not recognized it.

I have admired the luminous patience of life and I have praised him who matures it until God's repose.

56'

The intelligence of water and the memory of earth form the body-spirit of the Universe, but it is the love of fire that confers on it the living soul.

Let us apply ourselves to becoming immense, in order to receive God in his totality.

57'

There is nothing to understand there where everything must be felt.

True knowledge implies possession, absorption and transmutation.

58'

It is divine nature that consoles us, heals us, instructs us and saves us.

He who has allowed everything to come and go can usefully turn towards God, for he is already in him.

59'

The blessing of God shall flow over him who is naked, and the grace that is inside and outside shall form one single water.

The friends of God are powerful, yet they appear like worms. They possess all things and they are treated as if they are wretched. They live with wisdom, and the world believes they are mad. They overflow with love and they appear hard.

60'

The most complete expression of love is generosity and patience towards all the beings of creation.
In the example of the Lord whom we eat and who eats us, the sage shows the light of life to the beings gone astray in death.

The best thought, the most beautiful action are those that bring us closest to divine gratuitousness.

61'

Acceptance, detachment and self-oblivion are the perfection of love in God.

The love of God is the beginning of knowledge, and his possession is the end of science.

62'

The first duty is to make God appear in oneself; the second is to contribute to manifesting him in others.

Shyness is almost always a pride that does not name itself.
Who shall beg the Highest for his life?

63'

He who has delivered himself from the will to do good and the fear of doing evil is close to the freedom of God.

He who restrains himself is a sage, but he who bullies himself is a madman.

64'

The saint that wishes to go to God must free himself from the bonds of sin and from those of virtue.

All masters have been called proud by those who could not follow them, but they smile without replying, for they know that they have forgotten themselves in God for ever.

65'

Let us observe the dead of this world to understand to which senseless dream their ignorance of God resembles.

It is grace that delivers, it is love that unites, it is knowledge that perfects and it is union that provides repose.

66'

Wisdom has not begun and shall never end. In it love is manifested in unity.

When the mouth moves, let us listen to the words of the heart, and we shall know the truth about those who speak to us.

67'

The weak one who says yes and who never acts accumulates the scorn of men and separates himself from God, since the rotten plank is of no use to either water or fire.

The world's obligations seem of very little urgency to him who seeks God.

68'

He who is instructed asks God.
He who is not asks men.

Few men have been favoured with possessive knowledge here below, since few saints among the best are capable of acquiring divine power without adversely affecting themselves and others.

69'

To be possessed by God is to be holy.
To possess God is to be wise.
But to penetrate God is to be senseless and become like God, who is the primary and ultimate sense.

When we reach God, let us not omit to hand over everything to him; if not, we shall lose him immediately.

70'

Our love and our knowledge shall fuse in the divine union, and living repose shall be our eternal reward.

Language may change, the spirit of the Book shall not age, for it teaches the beginning and the end of apparent and hidden creation.

71'

The Book is for the most subtle and the most slow-witted, for it partakes of heaven and earth. Each one shall draw from it according to his capacity.

To vanquish the world by fighting it or by fleeing it, is the apparent alternative offered to all, if we wish to avoid being crushed, torn apart and bogged down.
However, the sage knows a third solution that delivers us from all evil, servitude and ignorance, for it is that which patiently separates life from death within us.

72'

The perfection of the manifested One emanates from the union of the golden jewel and the luminous lotus, which emerged through the power of the divine breath from the dark and hidden chaos.
"The last-born is the cherished child of the Father and of the Mother, and the beloved brother of great souls."

	Senseless one, that which you sow does not come back to life if it does not first die...The body is sowed corruptible, it resurrects incorruptible, it is sowed contemptible, it resurrects glorious; it is sowed infirm, it resurrects full of strength. It is sowed as animal body, it resurrects as spiritual body. PAUL
	That which is below is like that which is above, and that which is above is like that which is below, in order to create the miracle of a single thing. HERMES TRISMEGISTUS