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BOOK XIV

  Born with a composite body, you are subject to the law of dissolution.

LIE T’ZE


  Dissolution is inherent to all formations; work tirelessly for your deliverance.

BUDDHA



ENIVRE TUE THE PRESENCE

1 When we have been instructed by the Lord, our filth shall horrify us and that of others shall terrify us. Then, we shall pray that our blemish be erased and that everyone's burden be lightened. 1' When we realize that we are blind, deaf and stupid, the fear of God shall no longer be an enigma to us. And when we see his light, the love of the Lord shall enlighten us and shall give life to us forever.

2 We shall observe God's commandments and we shall bring joy, through our secret gifts, to the heart of the poor and the unfortunate. 2' "The grain which is sown dies and is born again to life, but no-one is astonished and no-one admires the miracle of God."

3 "Never despair of God and of oneself ", such is the law of salvation. We must therefore persevere, trust in the Lord and act according to his law for it is the act of faith of the sower and the act of love of heaven and of earth that save us from death. But how many shall penetrate this mystery and how many shall accomplish it before the hour of judgement? 3' The Book is God's and shall return to God, and we, who are of the earth, shall also return to the earth, and noone shall be able to rejoin the Lord without having been washed by his blessing and without having been revived by his Holy Spirit, for that is the judgement so longed for by some and so feared by others.

4 It is through reading and through meditation of the holy books that we maintain and develop in ourselves the sacred fire of the Lord. 4' He who reads the Book to his nearest awakens life in their hearts and makes them germinate before God. In this way nothing shall be lost, for the believers shall be confirmed and the mockers put to the test.

5 Who shall take responsibility for the Book and who shall present it to the believers? The blessing of God flows over them.
"We shall search outside, then we shall search inside."
5' To go to God is not a duty; it is the greatest of pleasures.
"We shall manifest outwardly, but we shall keep inwardly."

6 Perseverance in the practice of divine and natural laws provides immunity and leads to the freedom of pure and holy life. 6' The Lord shall send his showers onto the seed he has hidden in the earth. He shall certainly make it germinate.

7 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". 7' 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.

8 The Lord has sown and we have produced the Book for all men on the earth, for all those who are and for all those who are coming, of all races and of all nations. For all those who have intelligence and who have put their faith in the omnipotence of God. 8' The wisdom of God is veiled by a darkness and by a nameless chaos, but it shines sometimes like a very pure light. The wisdom of man is like a twilight and like a dawn that gravitates between these two poles.

9 And we have not claimed a salary from anyone here below, for the gift of the Living One of eternity shall be our prodigious and real share. 9' Let us remember that the worship of the holy ancestors completes the worship of God, who is the Living One of eternity.
"Let us adore the sun of life and not despise the ashes of the ancestors."

10 God is truly magnanimous, for he delivers us from death. He is truly patient, for he waits for us to return to him. 10' When we can bear the abandonments, the treasons, the reproaches, the mocking, the insults, the blows and death without a murmur, we shall be close to God and his salvation.

11 Let us thus leave aside selfesteem, intelligence, reason, and individual will to go towards the Lord, as the child returns to his mother when he is tired of playing with the muddy water of the stream. 11' Let us limit our cares in the maintenance of incarnate life and we shall have the sufficient time for the quest for the Perfect One.

12 Are we able to read the Book and not praise God in our heart when he inundates us with light? Are we able to receive the unheard-of word and not bless the Lord who offers us the truth that sets free? Are we able to catch a glimpse of the deliverance of death and not cry with joy? 12' We shall magnetize in ourselves the light of the Perfect One for the safeguard and renewal of all creation.
Who can verify this thing right now?
Who can put to the test the truth of the Book here below?
Who can hold in his hand the weight of height?

13 Would we say to the sons of the same Father and the same Mother that one is legitimate and that the other a bastard? Or that one is white and the other is black? Or that he who keeps the patrimony is more worthy than he who recovers old credits? 13' Do we not see that it is the light that illuminates men and the world, and that the stars are nothing but the instruments of its manifestation?
- When the torch goes out, there remains nothing but a half-burned log of dead wood.

14 Let us fear the moment of confusion when the Father, the Mother and the Son shall not ratify our blind judgements, the stupefying moment when we shall see only one God there where we would have thought to discern plurality, the cruel time when he who we shall have ignored and rejected shall not recognize us and shall reject us in turn. 14' Will we still keep confusing the tool with the workman for a long time? And will we render a profane worship to the propagators of the Unique One?
- Only he has the right to our homage and our gift.
- His sons, who have returned everything to him, know it well. They proclaim it loudly from the beginning, and not one of them has tried to pass himself off as God.

15 There has been the Book of sacrifices and of rites, the Book of the dead and of the wait, the Book of the way and of water, the Book of fire and of purification. 15' Have we ears to hear the word?
Have we hands to purify the earth?
Have we eyes to see the light?

16 There has been the Book of revelation and of the beginning, the Books of law and of justice, the Books of grace and of love, the Book of judgement and of the end, the Book of sowing and of renewal. 16' Have we nostrils to smell the perfume?
Have we a palate to taste the nectar?
Have we a mouth to kiss the holy stone?

17 There has been the Book of faith and of resurrection, the Book of the secret and of knowledge, the Book of obedience and of imitation. 17' Have we a tongue to praise God?
Have we a body to purify?
Have we a spirit to simplify?
Have we a soul to embody?

18 God sends us now the Book of science and of union and the following one, which is the Book of accomplishment and multiplication. 18' Have we a whole to glorify?
Have we intelligence to manifest the flower and the fruit?

19 But in each one of them, the others are already contained in their entirety, and what one says in secret the other proclaims before all. 19' Have we a love to multiply them?
Have we a wisdom to collect them and make them serve the glory of the All-Powerful One?

20 If we remain so deaf and blind to goodness, let us try our best to also be mute and inert to evil. 20' He who swears by a holy book and rejects the other writings of the prophets denies the members of the Unique One.

21 And if we are so stupid before the creation of God, let us not explain to others the word that we do not understand. 21' It is preferable to reach God whole than to arrive in pieces. Yet it is better to arrive in pieces than not at all.

22 Let us examine the good and the evil that happen to others and to ourselves, and let us praise the Lord for the masterly way in which he teaches the blind and the clear-sighted. 22' Let us strive to be like God, who unites in himself, with fruit, opposites of similar nature.
"God's sages and saints bless the Book that confirms and honours their inspired word."

23 The waves of the sea do not have their own permanent existence, yet the sea exists both in its parts and as a whole. 23' The Absolute is unknowable in its totality, but it is possible to approach it in its parts, which are like images of the whole.

24 Let us work to maintain our lifestyle, let us never work to amass riches. 24' Let us be satisfied with what we possess, and let us realize that it is still highly superfluous.

25 Let us be intelligent about everything that concerns love and good, but let us become idiots about everything that relates to hate and evil. 25' People who boast of their purity are a thousand times more rotten than the sinners they habitually denigrate.

26 Let us flee the illusion of the past and that of the future by establishing ourselves in the divine presence, which is like eternity made present. 26' If you are seeking the world, run after it; but if you desire God, wait for him to come to you.

27 What most infuriates the ill-bred pedants is not being able to integrate the sages and the saints into their flat reason of incurable mediocrity.
"The obscurity of plenitude is not the obscurity of the void, for the light inhabits the first and the darkness populates the second."
27' The sons of God fraternize in the centre of the "unique Marvel", for their teachings are One for those that penetrate the divine word in a holy way, instead of examining it with curiosity from outside.

28 God is not served by constraining men, by torturing beasts and by forcing nature; but rather by loving the uncreated Being through all the created beings and by accomplishing his hidden work. 28' The sages do not invent anything; they simply put men back on the way of light and love that leads to God.
"Who shall purify his body?"
"Who shall simplify his spirit?"
"Who shall embody his soul?"

29 The powerful and the rich are generally against sages and saints because the latter demand freedom for all men and generosity towards all beings.
"It is up to us only to plough, for it is the Lord who makes the holy seed germinate and ripen."
29' There is but one crime before God: to be mediocre and to love nothing freely, not even oneself.
Likewise, there is only one sin: the lack of pure, fragrant and luminous life within us. And there is only one sanction: dark and stinking death that hems us in on all sides.

30 Let us practice our own rule and let us not worry about our neighbour's, unless it is to borrow what seems useful for obtaining and conserving the peace in God. 30' It is restlessness in the world that makes the temporal hell, and it is repose in God that makes heaven of eternity.
"Who shall give us the bread of heaven and earth? Who shall give us the wine of water and fire? Who shall give us the blood of the Living One of eternity?"

31 The true sage is he who sees the two faces of God and contemplates what is hidden inside. For it is in the union of opposites that the truth of the Unique One appears. 31' The secret of the sages is God and his light placed within reach of the heart and the hand of the man sanctified by love.

32 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.

33 Let us accomplish what is necessary to maintain our earthly lives, but when we have to die, let us offer ourselves joyously and in a saintly way to God, who welcomes, pardons, consoles and renews beyond all limit. 33' We are only really brothers in God, for it is the only place where there is neither separation, darkness, nor death.
Likewise, the revelation of the sons of God can only be heard clearly in hearts purified by love.

34 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.

35 The sages, who know the interior of beings and of things, are moved by the disappearance of those dear to them. How, then, shall ordinary men, who only know the exterior face of the world, not be cruelly ripped apart? 35' Evil has taken shape through man's straying, and part of creation has become lost with him.
Evil shall cease with man's return to his source, and this shall once again magnetize the world to the purity of the Living One of eternity.

36 Glory to the Father who engenders it mysteriously. Praise to the Mother who manifests it clearly. Love to the Son who offers himself to all.
Acknowledgement of the sages who pick it up, raise it and lower it for the salvation of the world, in the land of the living.
36' The sun of God shall gather together the lights gone astray in death, and concentrated life shall manifest the glory of the Unique One for the mysterious communion of sages and saints, in the united body, blood and spirit of the Most-Perfect One.

37 First of all, we shall ask to live in order to learn to praise God. Then we shall ask to die in order to better remain silent in him. 37' Even though they offer us heaven and earth and all creation in between, we would always ask for HIM, HIM, HIM, because he is the seed without which nothing would be.

38 The divine gift of freedom only wants the man who is lost in death to be able to reach the pure, living source through that other divine gift that constitutes the reciprocal magnetization of love. 38' The sons of God possess the Unique One and are possessed by him from this world. In this way, secret love accomplishes for some chosen ones the total gift of the ONE to the One in the One, before the universal separation and judgement.

39 When we weigh the works of our whole life with the minutes that precede death, we shall be terrified by the lightness of the former compared to the weight of the latter. 39' It is only in privation that we shall measure our love for God, for in abundance we would only be able to praise his love for us.

40 By considering ourselves responsible for all the difficulties and all the evils that humiliate us in this world, we shall be delivered from the worry of attributing them to others, and by patiently bearing them we shall soon be delivered from them if we do not abandon the Lord of souls. 40' Silence and fasting effectively absorb the stimuli of impatience and anger, as the love of God and the selfoblivion suffocate the seeds of greed and pride.
"Eternal life is like the fixedness of the fire of conscience among the moving creations of the mother water."

41 He who has handed everything over to God, including himself, no longer has the temptation to do violence to anything in order to reinforce an isolation that he has definitively given up.
"Through his denuded vision and inhuman detachment, the saint is an object of scandal for those who remain subject to appearances and given themselves over to the bonds of this world."
41' It is through assiduous study of the sacred books that the grace and the love of the Lord are awakened in us, and it is through the practice of holy works that they are manifested in the world; therefore, we can only be legitimately proud here below of our goodwill towards everything and everyone.

42 When we are weary of pursuing him with our reason, we shall eventually be obliged to attract him through the folly of our love, on pain of extinguishing ourselves forever in the dead ash and dead water. 42' Where are the well-loved sons always rejected by men and always attracted by love? There where the absurdity of reason shall engender the reason of absurdity. There where the old stump shall flourish again and give its golden fruit.

43 The great pain of the saint here below is to stumble many times over the stupid blindness of the impious as well as against the conceited sectarianism of believers. 43' The love of God could not justify violence towards oneself or towards other creatures.
"It is not a question of repressing passions, which provokes fatal accidents; it is rather a question of removing the opportunity for them to arise."

44 The mediocre bury God in the depths of their death; that is why they hate the freedom of life that manifests the spirit of the Lord so much, and that they label the letter of all the holy Scriptures, thinking they pin down the prophets just as they pin insects in their dusty collections. 44' They try without success to reassure them in their night, but the rottenness of confusion and the dryness of death are their certain heritage.
"Only the saint possesses precise awareness of his past and present straying and responsibility. That is why he cries and searches every day of his life for the light lost by the elderly one."

45 Let him who sees nothing and hears nothing in the Book look and listen in the world; and if he sees nothing and hears nothing in the world, let him look and listen in himself; and if he sees nothing and hears nothing in himself, let him lie down in death; but above all, let him be silent, so as not to drag anyone into his blind and deaf solitude. 45' Sadness comes from the unconscious yearning for free life in God.
Love is born when approaching the beloved source.
Knowledge appears through union with the Impassible.
"We all receive the same love, but we do not all recognize it in the same way nor at the same time."

46 Those who praise God in the secret of their hearts are the only ones admitted into interior creation; all the others are parasites that he tolerates on his skin due to the effect of his infinite mercy. 46' He who is enlightened is called "idle, idiotic and useless", for it is his only justification before "the Peaceful One, the Holy One and the Gratuitous One".

47 We are great neither for the gifts received nor for the privations endured, but only through their overcoming in God. 47' Oh, my secret Lord!, all my progress in you is due to you who accomplishes it in me, and my nakedness remains as my only ornament before your splendour.

48 The ignorant man judges everything rashly because he only perceives the outer layer of the things that maintain him in the apparent chaos of the absurd. The alert man condemns nothing and no-one, but searches for the good that is in each creature and exalts it to the Lord's repose. 48' We were like blind and enraged beasts locked in a narrow and sordid cage, and here we are free and in repose, bathing in the light of the Unique Father and Mother.
"Oh, wonder of the Perfect One! Oh, blessing of the Generous One!" "Oh, love of the Gratuitous One!"

49 Everyone is useful for something or for someone here below, but we seem useless to others and to ourselves. It is therefore to console us that God sometimes agrees to say a little word to us. 49' If we do not empty the body through fasting, the spirit through prayer and the soul through contemplation, how shall the Lord be able to fill us with his presence, which is triple and unique?

50 The most advanced amongst those who pass through this world is he who tolerates the ups and downs of incarnate life without grumbling, and who no longer ever asks this question: how? and why? for the faith that reposes in God's Providence does not question. 50' He who knows the underside of creation is not scandalized by any injustice, does not come up against any appearance and is not moved by any upheaval in the world, for he knows that everything in us and around us conforms to the interior vision.

51 Poets and artists are lovers who do not consent to converse with God without signs and without witnesses, while sages and saints do.
"Oh, extreme bashfulness of holy loves! Oh, sweet light of divine union!"
51' The return of the soul to its source is like the prefiguration of the end of time, for all is accomplished according to a geometric progression; that is to say, with the acceleration of pure bodies rejoining their primordial centre.

52 The reward and the joy of saints and sages is to offer God the thanks, the praise and the love of those who they have removed from death through their teaching, their example and their sacrifice. 52' Madmen work against creation and do it a disservice, but they do not know it. Sages deliver creation and help it to be born, but they know the purpose of their efforts.

53 Let our hidden virtue be the daily frequenting of the Unique One in our self-oblivion. 53' The saint who serves his Lord faithfully shall not be surprised to be served by his Lord.

54 Here below we are constantly in danger of definitive blindness and death, as up there we shall be under the perpetual threat of a solitary eternal life, if we do not fix ourselves in the heart of the Unique One. 54' He who delights in the prison of this world, how shall he discover the freedom of the other world? And he who settles in that plenitude, how shall he enter in the repose of the most secret union?

55 The final poetry of love and of knowledge appears in the silence of God.
"Today I go to everyone, but who welcomes me and who listens to me? Tomorrow everyone shall come to me, but who shall I receive? And who shall I hear?", says the Lord of grace and love.
55' He delivers us from death and then withdraws us from life so that we remain with him in the secret of his secret forever.
"Oh, holiest repose in the centre of the centre!"

56 When we have understood with our head, we shall be like dead in life. When we have felt with our heart, we shall be like the living in death. But when we have touched with our hands and tasted with our mouths, we shall be like gods in the Unique One. 56' To be possessed by the multitude of the Universal is to be mad. To be possessed by the Uniqueness of the One is to be holy. To possess the Unity of the Unique One is to be wise.
But to penetrate the plenitude of vacuum is to be God with God.

57 He who adores God in his heart, loves humanity in the world and respects all living beings, justifies all present creation, because he is already the only one justified before God. 57' If we were to free that which is hidden in man, we would become like the Lord of light, and we would bless all humanity and creation in the very midst of the darkness of death.

58 He sings himself in every one of his poets.
He announces himself in every one of his prophets.
He plays with himself in every one of his children.
He praises himself in every one of his believers.
He loves himself in every one of his saints.
He knows himself in every one of his sages.
He shines in every one of his sons.
58' Let us penetrate the apparent folly of the teaching of the saints and sages and let us consider their deep intention, which is the gathering of all beings in God. In this way, we will be able to laugh at all that happens as we laugh at a farce that is as continuous as it is illusory, until all ceases to reassure us and frighten us here below and elsewhere.

59 We shall only obtain greater slavery by running away from ourselves more and more, whereas we shall reach the freedom of the Unique One by patiently forgetting ourselves. 59' He passes into us, we pass into him, and here we are fertilized and renewed through the sole merit of our death in him and his birth in us.

60 Intellectual knowledge that does not lead to unifying love and to the transforming possession of the Lord, is as illusory as the reflection of the moon in a glass of stirred water. 60' What is the use of all our marvellous work if we neither discover nor incorporate the Unique Splendour of sanctified life? What is the use of the magnificent speeches on the light of God if we do not see it and if we do not eat it in a holy way?

61 The power of God can only be granted to him who has abandoned all demonstration, all competition, all approval, all possession and all vengeance; that is to say, he who has given up himself. 61' When we contemplate him in wonder, what can we ask of him but him, nothing but him, always him?
For, who is the expert who would not wish to contemplate the splendour and live in it?

62 Those who read the Book and do not choose in their heart the love of and the quest for the Perfect One are more excluded than those who bustle about blindly in the world without an inkling of the truth of the Unique One. 62' Only God offers us love without disappointment, because it is always greater than our own gift.
"The Living One shall bear witness to the truth of the Book before everyone, but few men possess the eyes of the spirit that permit them to approach the obviousness of life bared open."

63 True sages and saints magnetize all men of goodwill to God, and that is why they are the only sons and faithful servants of their Lord. 63' He who does not know how to extract his life from heaven and earth knows nothing of God, possesses nothing of God, is nothing in God.

64 He who is no longer moved by the grimaces of death, sees the smile of the unique brightness shining everywhere. 64' Let us prepare the earth, let us be simple, let us be confident, let us be patient, let us remain in peace, and God shall make us see his salvation.

65 NO. NO. The beginning 65' YES. YES. YES.
YES.
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NO.
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The middle YES.
NO.
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YES.
YES.
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YES. YES. YES. The end NO. NO.

66 If you love me and you seek me with all your spirit, with all your soul and with all your body, I shall put a spirit of discord between you and the world so that no strange consolation diverts you from my righteous way; your dear ones shall hate and reject you, you shall be odious to them and they shall be unbearable to you and opposed to everything, says the hidden Lord; even your wife shall rise up against you, and your children shall make fun of you because of me.
Cruel words for the ignorant world; perfect and holy love for him who knows, for when we have found him, all shall be given back to us according to our desire and much more besides.
66' Let those who teach the mysteries of God that they only know through hearsay be humble and timid, and let those who have experienced them in their hearts and who have held them in their living hands remain hidden.

OH - YOU - ME - US - ONE WHO IS - THROUGH ONESELF - IN ONESELF - FOR ONESELF - ALWAYS - LOVER - LOVED ONE - LOVE - AMEN.

  All books not based on the holy Scriptures have come from the hand of man and shall perish.

LAWS OF MANOU


  Every true word, whoever its author, is spoken by the Holy Spirit.

ST. AMBROSE



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