The Message Rediscovered -Book XIII

BOOK XIII

	Accursed be the man who trusts in men! Blessed be the man who trusts in God! JEREMIAH
	Do not extinguish the Spirit, do not despise the prophecies, try all things and retain that which is good. PAUL

VUE... ET RIEN

THE MIDDLE

He who speaks outside continues to be ignorant. He who is silent inside lives with wisdom.

Do not abandon your God and he shall not leave you, and you shall be in one forever.

Identification with God engenders perfect power and freedom.

Enlightenment transfigures he who becomes empty after having searched for a long time.

The conqueror of the three worlds shall repose forever in the translucent sea of the beginning of the beginnings.

I have made an absence of my prayer and a stupor of my praise. Ah! When shall I be able to make a death of my love, so as to become re-established in your imperishable life?

It is the pacification of the whole Being that leads to interior vision and divine union.

Let us cry for being so full of the world and so empty of the Unique One.

It is the contemplation of the primary and ultimate unity that engenders true union and peace.

We are all in God, but few know it and hardly any experience it in this world.

Let us wait for his presence night and day without ever tiring, for when we are ripe we shall fall from ourselves into his arms.

All our thoughts and all our acts are inept or lies. The sage knows it, the saint believes it, the poet sometimes suspects it.

If we truly love God, let us reject all that is not him so that he may manifest himself in us without hindrance. Let us forget sects and sectarians, sciences and scholars, laws and lawyers, homelands and politicians, slaves and masters, and let us serve only our inner peace, taking counsel only from our deep conscience.

The Mother is found in faith and in patience, and she acts immediately. She is the one that delivers and cures. The water from heaven makes the earth germinate, but all remain deaf and blind before the miracle of God, for they think they are more intelligent and wiser than the creator of innumerable worlds.

Let us allow life to come and go, for it is movement and change; he who inhabits it does not vary.

He who becomes hardened in battle, how will he then manage to be penetrated by love?

Let us not be too scrupulous with that which comes to us, so that we are not too scrupulous with that which leaves us.

A thief who gives is closer to God than a righteous man who preserves what he has received.

Not one ignorant person could blaspheme the Name of God, for no-one knows it except he who is already living eternity.

10'

There is nothing tragic in the world, except the idea that we have of the things of the world.

Let us meditate on God and his light when we come out of the night, and let us think of them when going into it so that we do not break the bond between us and him.

11'

Let us love with no other hope than love, knowledge and repose in the peace of the Perfect One.

He plays at frightening us in the world, but when we awake in him, he laughs at our delusions with us.

12'

It is the infinite division into two of the Unique One that makes creation, and it is the re-uniting of the parts that makes repose.

Let us abandon our rights and our possessions and we shall be delivered from our duties and our burdens.

13'

He who says: "God does not exist" asserts the reality of creation.

Let us allow God to speak and act in our place, and let us not worry about the result.

14'

Let us interrogate the Lord in all circumstances and we shall know the truth about everything.

Let us not trust anything and anyone, except God, and we shall not be torn apart by anything and by anyone, for the Lord is the only one that does not disappoint those that give themselves to him.

15'

Let us not ask ourselves questions, let us rather interrogate him. Thus, that which we desire shall not hinder us, but we shall accomplish that which is useful to us.

Teach us the vigorous prayers like the ruts of love.
- Give us the impulses that shall carry our souls beyond the abyss.
- Sing us the NAME that forces open the gates of death.
- Nourish us with the essence dragged along by the living gold.
- Offer us the redemptive sun of our lives gone astray.

16'

When our reason, will and intelligence are annihilated by the length and by the violence of our quest, then innocence, grace and love shall hand over the long-desired secret of the unique Splendour.
"Oh, poor idiot!", it is enough to remain silent and stop being restless for the Perfect One to give life to you once more in your primary perfection.

The worst idleness is to despair of God and of oneself.

17'

Let us explore our heart and we shall be enlightened by our own light.

In vain we try to believe, see and even touch; if we do not possess the eternal Mother and the divine Father we shall never attain the holy Son.

18'

The virtue of the tamed lion prevails over the natural gentleness of the lamb, and the two re-united engender the perfection of the ultimate Lord.

The magnetization of love is communicated to those who are sufficiently pure to let it in. Thus magnetized, they in turn become magnets, and the chain of reintegration that forms in the world merges into God.

19'

Our curiosity for the Lord is a grace that is ignored, but our love for him is a confirmed blessing.
The door and the key.
"Oh, holy light that shines in the mysterious grotto of Adam!"

The extraordinary adventure is not to carry out dangerous actions in foreign countries. It is rather to search for the divine Mother and Father hidden behind the apparent banality of the things of this world.

20'

There are few believers in the world that are truly disgusted by the leprosy that covers them and that poisons them more each day. All that is thought and said about them shall neither add nor take away anything from what they really are.

When the world judges our patience as stupidity, our faith as idiocy and our love as madness, we shall be close to perfection.

21'

Our rebellion against the world corresponds to the condemnation of our own straying, but few know that.

We shall know that we are prepared for the divine quest when we are tired of running away from ourselves, tired of getting passionate, tired of lying to ourselves, tired of becoming lost, tired of rebelling, tired of becoming distracted, of becoming agitated and of scattering ourselves in the world.
Then we shall no longer consider the place we occupy here below, but rather the emptiness or plenitude of our hearts, which is the only thing that matters.

22'

Build your house, cultivate your garden, weave your clothes, sew your shoes, cut your wood, make your bread, bury the dead, water the earth, help the woman to give birth, raise the child.
Turn your hand to these things once and meditate on the beginning and the end of the middle world, in order to know the beginning of the lower world that unites with the perfection of the higher world.
Thus, you shall remember where you came from, you shall understand where Then faith shall be in us like the superabundance of the powers of the divine life that overflows our narrow bounds under the irresistible drive of love.

Few men become worthy of God's gift, which is the freedom of the Being in eternal life, that is why so many creatures struggle or languish in the shackles of death. Let us therefore make of our life a perpetual act of thanksgiving, and let us be aware that all we imagine and name with faith and love is accomplished in heaven and shall soon be manifested on earth.

23'

It is absolutely necessary for the shrewd, the proud and the violent to experience the absurdity of their systems. Unfortunately, this is first done at the expense of the innocent before turning against them. Let us then stop being so intelligent in the world in order to become ever simpler in God.
"The worst deceit is to have clean hands and a dirty heart."

Each of us must bear until the end, and without recriminations, the burden he has chosen by sinking into the exterior darkness. For it is solitary germination that separates the good seed and prepares the fruitful harvest.

24'

When we feel tempted beyond our strength, our intelligence or our love, let us pray in ourselves so that the rebel is subdued and returns to God like a prodigal son taken in and introduced by maternal love.

By hating and condemning those that have gone astray, we sink them into error.
By loving them without judging them, we help them to emerge from the chaos of death.

25'

Let us put into practice the virtues contrary to the vices that we find so repugnant in others. Thus, the visible evil shall help to lead us to the hidden good.

Even those who know that one floats on the sea without moving do not dare to launch themselves naked into God.

26'

First break the barriers inside so as to become one in oneself, and secondly, break those outside so as to become one in the totality of the Being.

Let us act gratuitously as often as possible so as not to fall into the traps of the appearance of numbers and accounts.

27'

Let us try to acquire detachment from temporal forms in order to attain the knowledge of inside, which will allow us to fully enjoy the hidden life.

The extrinsic filth and the intrinsic substance of the Universe are uncreated, infinite and contain he who can only be named by silence. But the forms emanating from the secret centre are created, finite and temporal in the mixed world.

28'

All the waves of creation pass and disappear, but the sea of the great world and he who gives life to it subsists eternally.
"The climax of repose ends in the creative act, the climax of movement leads to regenerative repose."

Let us not be moved by anything, but let us be attentive to all that happens to the world and ourselves, so as to learn to distinguish divine reality from the appearances of mixed creation.

29'

Let us pray to God in ourselves so we recognize the means that permits us to discover the hidden substance beneath the crust of the foreign earth.

If we do not meet the master, let us become the master by releasing our God inside and outside of ourselves.

30'

Let us converse only with our soul, it shall teach us all we wish to know.

Holy love laughs at systems, methods, logics, complications, and even death; for it takes in a single stride madness and reason, darkness and light, to fix itself in the peace of the Unique One.

31'

The loved one submits herself to the lover's desire, and the lover fulfils the desire of she who is loved.
In this way they manifest the unity of perfect love.

Let us not accuse anyone of the difficulties that occur, simply so as not to increase them uselessly.
Let us remain as much as possible in the repose and in the silence of God until we become nothing more but one with the One; thus, we shall easily command the beings and the things of the total world without doing violence to anything.
The sage and the saint are the only ones truly disgusted by the filth of uncleanliness; the former separates it and rejects it here below, the latter waits patiently with it until the time of the general judgement.

32'

Our light separates by itself from the darkness that imprisons it. It is enough for us not to hinder it through our restlessness in the world and our particular will, which are opposed to the secret decanting of the chaos of the abyss; for wisdom is like our intimate union with the primary essence and substance, which form the indestructible basis of the changing creation.
"There is flesh around the stone, but there is much more precious flesh inside the stone, and in this precious flesh there is also a highly secret and very holy stone."

When we know how to remain absent from ourselves to the point at which God can fill us entirely, all will be possible to us without effort and without difficulty.

33'

When we have pacified and clarified the inside, the outside shall obey us in the same way and shall seem equally lucid to us.

Let us consider in ourselves and in all beings the buried image of the Lord, so as to love everything according to the reality of life, instead of hating according to the appearances of death.

34'

With their intimate praise, the saints produce a harmony that delights all creation, but with their secret operation the sages collaborate in the reintegration of the Universe in God.

A thousand little simplifications of a thousand little problems make a life full of light.

35'

Love towards all beings engenders clear-sightedness and peace for oneself.

True perspicacity is to discover God beneath his clothing of light after having discovered life under its shroud of darkness.

36'

When we believe we have seen him, we shall only have caught a glimpse of the shadow of his robes, and when we think we have touched him, we shall only have brushed against the dust of his footsteps.

We shall obtain from the Lord everything we ask of him. Let us therefore be very careful about what we choose, so as not to remain ridiculously inferior to the gift of God.

37'

He who penetrates knowledge risks death, madness or blindness, but if he emerges again unscathed, protected by love, God establishes him in his eternity and in his royalty.

Ignorance is like strength outside and weakness inside. Holiness is like weakness outside and strength inside. Wisdom is like strength inside and outside, and sometimes also like weakness outside and inside; that is to say, like God in the holy ignorance of love, which is kept or lost according to his will.
"Oh, mystery of the Unique One's choice and gift!"

38'

He who reads until the end the Book of opposites and knows how to unite them in the unique, double, quadruple and octuple NAME, shall seem wise to the wise men, holy to the holy and foolish to the fools.
Thus, many have lectured magnificently on God, on his attributes and his creation, but how many have glimpsed the hem of his robe, and how many have kissed his footprints? But how many, then, have contemplated the splendour of his body, and how many - what astonishment! - have savoured the delights of his heart?

When we see our enemy depressed and asking for help, let us rush to his help, for it is a unique occasion that is offered to us to make a friend of him. In the meantime, let us pray in ourselves for his conversion, and therefore he will soon leave us in peace.

39'

The curse of God is like ignoring or returning his blessing. Thus, it is never he who condemns, but rather us, who remain stupidly and proudly buried in the solitude of death.

When we have separated, classified, labelled and stuffed everything, we shall have to reunite and unify everything in life, on pain of remaining sealed in the letter and the multiplicity of death.

40'

He who can unite with the penetration of the spirit the impulse of the heart and the purity of life, shall know neither doubt, despair nor death; for God shall allow him to drink at the source of the living.

In this world, there is nothing but clothing that isolates us and possessions that shackle us. For this reason we need to become naked and poor, so as to penetrate unhindered the bosom of the eternal Mother, where the living secret of the Unique One reposes.

41'

We all have the same light, but it is more or less veiled and slowed down according to the thickness of the dark outer layers that separate us from the primary magnet. But incarnate life decants and enlightens the attentive and reposed man.

The most direct and naked love gives peace. The simplest and best prepared food gives health. The humblest and most unified knowledge gives wealth.

42'

Let us abstain from dreaming of the world in the world and through the world if we wish to touch the truth of the Unique One.
"There is no universal void. There is nothing but a total fullness, but it is a translucent fullness that makes us believe in the void."

If each one of us simplified ourselves without waiting for our neighbour to begin, all humanity would soon shine with beauty and holiness.

43'

To meditate is to cook the body and the spirit gently to the glorification of the soul.

He who opens himself up entirely to love is no longer subject to the teaching of the absurd.

44'

Those who know how to separate but have never learned how to unite shall never repose in the unity of the hidden essence.

All created things serve as vehicles for returning up to the source or for distancing oneself from it. Let us abandon them with good grace at each stage of the divine journey.

45'

It is only in solitude, in the middle of misfortune and at the time of death that we shall measure the certainty of our faith and the purity of our love in God.

The intelligence of bodily food and that of spiritual food is not simply to choose well that which suits us, but also to reject that which does not suit us, so as to conserve in ourselves only that balsam that maintains and makes the body and the spirit perfect, until the glorification of the soul in the marvellous Lord.

46'

It is gentle and long meditation that turns all things fixed and perfect, for it separates at the beginning to unite better at the end. In this way, we shall see One in everything and Everything in One when we become simple and naked.
The goodwill in God uses as well as possible all that presents itself, but desires nothing.
It is like highly sustained attention amid the most perfect quietness.

46"

"The chosen ones shall ascend to live in the sun of life. The reprobates shall descend to live in the dead stone." This is not a fable.

The peace of the sage is like the unification of the three worlds; it is a particular reintegration of the creation; it is the repose of the forms in the centre of the pacified essence, and not their destruction.

47'

If we are disturbed by the world it is because we are no longer in God. In fact, nothing could bully him who bathes in the light of the beginning and the end of time.

Those who through love and through knowledge teach the way back to the Unique One are sages among saints, but those who penetrate the Lord's secret through the silence of adoration are saints among sages.
In this way, the goods of the earth through earthly affairs, the goods of heaven through heavenly commerce, but God through God alone.

48'

The words of the Book are nothing;
it is the palpable light of the Unique One that is all. When we possess it in our head, in our heart and in our hands, we shall no longer need the teaching, the consolation, the work, nor the care of anyone, for it is the Lord in person that shall be in us and that shall make us live in him.

There is the Being, there is the act, and there is repose, and there are all those who try to explain one or the other because they are not in that unity that is self-sufficient.

49'

It is the verb that diversifies the primary substance, and it is silence that unifies it again. Thus, art that gives form to matter is a noble function of man because it brings him closer to his creator.

In creation, all is loans and restitutions. Thus, after having returned our bodies to earth and our spirits to heaven, in the end we shall also have to give back our souls to God, who shall reunite everything for purity or for filth, on the judgement day.

50'

It is God that creates and gives life to the forms, and it is nature that maintains and multiplies them until it is time for them to return to their initial source.

All mysteries are contained in the sweat of the earth and the dew of heaven.

51'

The divine bird makes its nest in the dust of men's earth.

Only the sage does not wear a disguise, neither outside nor inside, for he knows that the mantle of shadow protects the light of the Lord naturally.

52'

The birth of the world is like the expansion of the Unique One. The end of creation shall be like the repose of the ONE.

It is the divine fire that manifests the holy light and propels the forms in life, and when something goes astray in death, it is still he that delivers from it.

53'

Men's works have become a tremendous temptation for those who do not realize that they only conceal death.

Every priest, every chief, every judge, every legislator must experience the human condition of the most humble in order to know the needs of each one, so as to keep alive love, justice and peace among the children of men.

54'

In the beginning, our indiscreet curiosity cost us the freedom of heaven; at present, our exterior science could well deprive us of the life that is left to us in this world.
"The Lord reserves his greatest gifts for those of his children who laughingly tolerate the failures of the world."

The madness of wisdom and holiness is to no longer take seriously the mirages of the world; it is to accept being spat on and say thank you because you have been washed, and to receive blows with gratitude because they open; it is to respect the mud and nail your sandals with gold; it is to smile at the absurd and teach others to cry over it. It is to sense, beyond all reason, perfect freedom and absolute repose in the luminous bosom of the Unique One.

55'

Although we accept personal injustices, insults and annoyances it does not prevent us from replying to those that are directed to the weak and the holy.
"The tempter and the tempted shall meet one day in that which tempts, as the lover and the loved one shall finally subsist in the Amen."
"We only hear the echo of your voice, we only perceive the reflection of your brightness, and here we are totally bewildered, totally blinded and without strength before your greatness."

It is our God that we must release inside, and not pray to that of others outside.
"The centre of the centre."

56'

Let us learn to do good with our heart, then with our spirit and finally with our hands; and let us remain silent and in repose until the time of union.

Let us thank and praise God in all circumstances, and he shall thus deliver us from the evils of the filth and shower us with heavenly and earthly goods. This is certain.

57'

When something annoys us here below, let us check if our desire is still in God. Thus, we shall return to the right path instead of struggling uselessly in the swamps of death.

We must never lose sight of the permanence of the essence of creation, so as not to be led astray by the ascending and descending forms of the transitory world.

58'

He who pacifies and decants the interior sea shall repose forever in the peace of the Lord's light.
"By correcting the sourness of humours, we also correct the sourness of the spirit."

It is life mixed with the non-being from outside that constitutes suffering, for the pure substance of the beginnings is still eternal pleasure in oneself.

59'

That which is not, is that which cannot be transformed in oneself, through oneself, for oneself. Nothingness, darkness and exterior death.

The smallest abandonment of our particular will is like the first pledge of our heavenly coronation.

60'

Let us not become restless over nothing, for then even death would no longer be able to calm us.

	He who falls on this stone shall be broken, and whom it falls on shall be crushed. JESUS
	All follow their own path, each according to his profit, from the first to the last. ISAIAH