BOOK XIV
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Queuing up for the spectacles of madness, stagnating at the famine counters, jostling at the doorways of death, exhausting oneself in the service of machines, vegetating in holes without light and air, listening to, reading, breathing, drinking and eating death, this is what men currently call "living freely". |
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The further man distances himself from God, the more he must work and fear, accumulate and go without, suffer and doubt, become restless and destroy himself. He that claims to live without the Lord's aid is senseless, he loses his water like a bone that dries up, and no hand of man shall deliver him from the desert and the shadow of death where he agonizes. |
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Men subjected to a life of exile, hunger, cold, pain, illness, decrepitude, doubt, appearance, solitude, desperation and death must help one another to live and hope, but without forgetting, however, to search for the way of divine purity that leads to the place where nobody lacks anything. |
32' |
Those who do not make use of the secret counsel of God and who do not draw directly from his hidden Providence are forced to rely on men's opinion and science to govern themselves, maintain themselves and cure themselves here below. But this is not the truth of the Lord. |
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Those who, on receiving the Book, do not read it, and those who, on having read it, do not respond in their heart, proclaim themselves satisfied in the stinking death of filth. They judge themselves, and their subsequent complaints shall not be received. |
34' |
Love, which is the food of the soul, does not need to be digested like grace and like food, which are the nourishment of the spirit and the body, for it is already like the divine fire: accomplished and perfect. |
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