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BOOK XV

	The bolts of the earth were closed on me for ever, and you have made my life rise again from the grave, IEVE my God. JONAH
	When men resuscitate, the earth shall become white, united and pure. KORAN

NUÉE REVIT

THE WAY OUT

1

A worker, a good-for-nothing, a peasant, a tramp, a shopkeeper, a wanderer, a thinker, a simple person, a believer, an impious man are the first to have read and loved the Book. Oh, derision on the scholars, on the academics and on the religious officials who have not received it!

1'

How original and simple is the way of God! How secret and exposed to the eyes of all! Yet how noble and common it is! Who shall seize now the primary and ultimate sense of the inspired word?

2

This one is called founder of religion and he does not even understand that of his fathers. That one calls himself a sage and can neither sow nor reap. The other one adopts the title of scholar and he does not know how he subsists and why he dies.

2'

It is because we are too occupied with ourselves and not enough with God that the Lord is no longer heard and is no longer manifested in us.

3

Some are said to be religious and holy because they wear a habit; just as another proclaims himself to be intelligent and courageous because he shows off a diploma or a medal.

3'

The kingdom of the Lord shall come when the seed of God covers all the earth, and no-one shall reach God without passing through the creature of God, which is the excellent creation of the Lord.

4

When we comment on a holy Scripture, a rite or a symbol let us add for the listeners and for ourselves: "Here is one of the numerous interpretations of the One truth. God alone is master of clothing and of nakedness."

4'

He who hears, sees, smells, tastes and feels the truth without veils can do nothing but remain silent and adore in the unique Splendour. He may well appear senseless before all, since he is the only one to be instructed before God.

5

Amen is God's verb manifested, the right side of the All-Powerful One, the executor of the judgements of the Righteous One. He does not argue; he takes action. Bad luck for those who would not have recognized nor received him at the time indicated, for on the day of general judgement they shall be swept away just like the dust is carried along by the equinoctial storm.

5'

Religions may become confused with dead morals, and holy initiations may seem like masquerades; the science of God shall always be reborn from their cold ashes, and the guardians of necropolises shall once again give way to the builders of life. It is the law of renewal of all things.

6

God is the distinguished creator and excellent organizer. He sketches out his work with a luminous touch and completes it with a non-perishable architecture. He is surely unique.

6'

He began his work as though making child's play of it, and he finishes it by showing his excellence and his perfection over all the works of the world. On the day of judgement, the splendour shall be on his saints, but the mockers shall be steeped in consternation and cast into the anarchy of death.

7

Also, the prophets and the sages who glorify themselves in God consider themselves personally incapable and unintelligent before the Lord, for they truly believe, hear, see, feel and taste the unique light. They alone!

7'

Oh, cruel moment in which a portion of ourselves shall rot in nothingness! But the Lord is merciful; he puts off his judgement and pardons our souls gone astray, when our hearts of stone open up to his active grace and to his transforming love.

7"

The sages and saints that possess God in themselves shall once again come out unscathed from the burning cloud, for the Lord God, who is the essence of fire, is incombustible. The evil ones shall be reduced to ashes and shall serve as fertilizer for the new plantation of God.

8

Let us not take the law into our own hands, for we would lose the benefit of our ordeals and we would erase the iniquity of the evil one. Let us refer ourselves to the judgement of the Lord, who knows how to discern deep intentions and distant goals.

8'

It is the goodwill in God that saves us from death, and it is goodwill in ourselves that hurls us into it. In fact, though both are blind, the first is guided however, and becomes receptive and organising, while the second is errant and becomes anarchic and destructive.

9

Let us bless he who has gone astray and the rebel so that we may benefit from his ever-possible conversion. "If we kill the evil ones, how shall we then convert them? And if the evil ones kill us, how shall they be saved?"

9'

One thinks one can make do with evil, but it is always evil that sorts us out. One thinks one can make a pact with death, but it is always death that surprises us.

10

Let us train ourselves to let go of the little things so that when the big things let go of us we remain serene, because we shall be rich in God.

10'

God preferentially grants the enormity of his sons' demand, because it is more in keeping with his magnanimity and his omnipotence.

11

She was a courageous and selfsacrificing wife, then she became rebellious and blind, for she judged the Book as being a useless thing without ever having opened it. Finally she accepted the God's way out of love for us. "Are we not all stupid before God's truth that blinds us?"

11'

Let us not boast about our health, our intelligence, our learning, our beauty, our fortune, our work or our family, for they are loans granted by God that misfortune and death transform rapidly into smoke and are soon converted into ashes.

12

Indeed, we know neither the angels he arouses to guard our ways, nor the demons he authorizes to test our hearts. God delivers those who follow his way without rebelling and forgives those who repent sincerely. Judgement and glory belong to him.

12'

Let us rather boast about our faith in God and in his omnipotence, that shall return to us eternal and pure life if we are found as we must be, that is to say, faithful, pure, simple and loving.

13

An ignorant young man by nature tends to despise all that appears weak, old, abandoned and dead in the world; and his blindness is excusable.

13'

When we become aware of the difficult passage awaiting us, we shall reform our thoughts, our judgements and our acts, and we shall no longer play at imitating the histrion among the senseless ones.

14

But an instructed old man who does not recognize God's Providence and science in action in the Universe and in his heart is as stupid as a petrified stump.

14'

Let, oh Lord, our eyes and ears open before the beginning of the end, or, at least, before the end of the end.

15

God does not force us to reject our parents, wives, children, friends and goods to please him. He asks that we do not attach ourselves blindly to the transient things of this world so as not to be deceived and cruelly ripped apart on the day of separation; for true poverty is in spirit, and true wealth is in God alone.

15'

God does not demand that we do violence to our nature nor that of other beings in order to please him. On the contrary, he asks us to purify it, to allow it to settle and to gently mature it so that he may be fully manifested in us. It is neither violent repression nor forced labour that count for salvation, but rather awakened attention and the persevering quest.

16

Yet no-one can be judged guilty of abandoning the world to go to his Lord, for that is what we shall all have to do in the end.

16'

Just like the people of the world, the saints forget what they possess and deplore what they do not have, but the things concerned are not the same.

17

The sage and the saint concentrate all their attention on the quest for God and seem absent from the ordinary occupations of men.

17'

What appears to you empty appears to us full, and what appears to you full appears to us empty. For the world seems turned inside out for those who see the inside of beings and things.

18

If we could read the Book openly we would be terror-stricken and we would remain rooted to the spot in stupor, then we would run to hide it in the tomb for fear of the impious abusing the divine mystery and profaning the light of God forever. But the Lord has precisely foreseen this, for he is sage amongst sages.

18'

Many brilliant books contain the wisdom of men, but how many enclose the wisdom of God? Many men stutter the holy Scriptures or make blind commentaries about them, but how many hear the word of God directly? How many transcribe it clearly? And how many experience it in their heart here below?

19

Thus, the scholars and the intelligent, the cunning and the greedy remain stupid before the lock and key without being able to open anything. Let us notice how they then affect to denigrate or ridicule that which they were unable to steal or do violence to.

19'

"God seeks madmen to make sages of them. He mocks reasonable people. This is what fails to please all." - It is not learned speakers that we need, but prophets full of the Holy Spirit.

20

Morality is a barrier and asceticism a parapet. Law is a dyke and rites are a guide. Sacraments are a memento, symbols are eloquent images and the holy books show the way, but the science of God invalidates everything because it surpasses everything.

20'

Each time we have read the Book we have learned to behave in God, and we have remembered the way of the Lord. Then, we have blessed his sacred Name and adored his holy Person, hidden in the light of the beginning and the end.

21

Yet who would be so ignorant as to scorn the steps that allow us access to the tabernacle of the Lord of life?

21'

How much more will be learnt those who read the Book and have not written it?

22

If God were to abandon his children, it would be all the worse for God and for us, but the Lord is neither forgetful to himself nor ungrateful to his own.

22'

Ah! how close to God are the poets, the poor and the simple, and how ignorant they are of their proximity!

23

That is why we must place our hope in him despite all appearances in this mixed world, until the day of reckoning and the elimination of death.

23'

The feet of humanity are still healthy, but the head is rotten and blind. It is therefore necessary to sow that which is below so that which is above is cured and renewed, just as in the past that which was below was saved and whitened by that which shone above in purity.

24

Everything that Christ said about the Pharisees is still true for the majority of present believers. Oh, derision! Oh, cruelty! Oh, penitence! "Oh derision!" We have rejected the secret of God's science and here we are at present adoring the science of Satan for fear of appearing backward. We have reserved for ourselves the sacrament of knowledge and since that time we have become blind and deaf to the will of God. We are conciliatory with death and transigent with evil for money, and we hate those who denounce it and who do not adapt themselves to it.

24'

"Oh, penitence!" Now, we shall once again enter the dust and we shall end as we began, hiding ourselves below ground, in tombs, in cellars and in abandoned quarries; and we shall once again become a small number before God, for the mediocre and the cowards will have abandoned us, like the dead branches ripped off by the storm. When the chief has crossed the water, we shall know that the time of penitence is about to begin for us. Four figures will be enough to enumerate the survivors of the end, but we shall be like a holy seed that will produce a magnificent fruit before the Lord.

25

"Oh, cruelty!" We have distanced ourselves from the simple ones and paupers, and the latter have even forgotten the Name of God. We have rejected the sages and the saints, and our science and our faith have vanished in reasonable discourse. We have hoisted the flags of nations on the house of God while peoples cut one another's throats, and we proudly wear the decorations of murder. Let us consider from where the warning comes: from an unknown but loved man, from a poor but fulfilled man, from a layman, but linked to God.

25'

It is the Book of the height and the depth that shall unite us in a single body before the Perfect One, for a remainder of each faith and each belief shall be recognized in God and shall fuse in love on coming together with the unique root, and the man of water and fire shall be our guide and our saviour, for the way of God, which is his, shall also be ours on that day. The old stump shall then secretly flourish once more and shall manifest its holy fruit in a reconciled world.

26

Let us recognize the love and humour of the Lord who thus calls us back to the holy order that he established for his friends and for his disciples. For gold shall not save us, nor diplomacy, nor allies, nor moans, but rather our faith, our hope and our charity in action, and above all, knowledge of the omnipotence of God which withdraws from death. Shall we finally understand?

26'

The wicked ones shall see the beatitude of the saints and that shall constitute their greatest torment, for then, hopelessly, love shall be behind them, instead of being in front, as it still is now with hope. "Rediscovered innocence can contemplate everything, for it is only surprised at nothing, judges nothing and profanes nothing."

27

The rebel's revolt is his failure that has hardened him instead of instructing him.

27'

The safeguard of the sage is to run away from the assemblies of men and take delight in the solitude of God.

28

The wicked one's cruelty is his suffering that has closed him instead of opening him.

28'

The sanctification of the saint is to give in extreme poverty and bless in suffering.

29

Everyone's hell is the refusal to accomplish the pact that we have signed with death benevolently.

29'

Faith for the believer is to erase the desolation of death by the sheer force of hoping for the resurrection and the joy of the new life.

30

If we would consider first the apparent or hidden evil that gnaws away at each being here below we would become more attentive to his complaints, more patient with his cries, more compassionate with his weaknesses and more helpful with his pains.

30'

If we first thought of the light of the Lord buried at the bottom of each being, we would bear more easily the contradictions and blindness of his exterior darkness, and we would be confused by our own interior darkening.

31

We are without merit, like small children who can only count on the love of their parents to maintain them. Do we send children to work or to war? Are they hauled before courts or thrown into prison? Are they condemned to torture or to death? Or instead do we keep them carefully in the family bosom for games, for joy, for love and for future life?

31'

To what summit and to what depth can the rebel who submits himself to God not hope to reach? - To what recompense and what gift can the poverty-stricken one who gives himself to the Lord not aspire? - What consolation and what sweetness is not promised to the violent one who seeks the peace of the Unique One? - To what blessing and what union is the abandoned one who has hope in the love of the Perfect One not destined?

32

Let us imagine our contradictors and our enemies as they soon shall be, that is to say like the dead: then, we shall no longer feel resentment or hate towards them, for one can only pray for the dead while awaiting the time of their resurrection and of their enlightenment.

32'

They are as ignorant as those who ask for money in order to explain the word they do not understand. At least the latter transmit, unknowingly, science to the children of God, who well know how to recognize it, always identical to itself among all the holy Scriptures.

33

Our gifts are more in keeping with the quest for God than with the conquest of the world, for that which comes from the Unique One must go to the Unique One, as that which comes from the world must return to the world.

33'

Let us not kill ourselves either in work or in pleasure, let us rather kill ourselves while searching for God and his salvation, which are in eternal, evident and hidden life.

34

Failures in the world are the safeguard of those blessed by God, so that they are not distracted from the quest for the Perfect One and that they are not indebted to anyone for anything here below, but on the contrary, that men are their debtors for the revelation of love and of the knowledge of God.

34'

The saints that are currently ignored or rejected shall later be known and sought out, for if the world treats them as nonentities and nothing, they shall be set up as masters by God over those who have ignored them and over their descendants. "That is the Lord's justice that no-one can falsify."

35

Everyone becomes exhausted, and no-one reposes. Everyone hurries, and no-one arrives. Everyone amasses, and no-one profits. Everyone makes an effort, and no-one obtains. Everyone worries, and no-one sees. Everyone explains, and no-one understands. Everyone preaches, and no-one practises. Everyone struggles for life, and no-one saves his own.

35'

If we feel weak: let us help. If we feel rejected: let us welcome. If we consider ourselves poor: let us give. If we suffer: let us relieve. If we are disconsolate: let us comfort. If we are hated: let us bless. If we are tempted: let us pray. If we are alone: let us praise God.

36

Where is the intelligent one who expects all from God and nothing from the world? Where is the ploughman? Where is the reaper? Where is God's fulfilled one? - There where the light of the Perfect One germinates!

36'

Where is the Lover? Where is the Loved One? Where is the Amen? - In our heart of stone, from which we must extract it and manifest it clearly!

37

Let us not wait to be struck down by misfortune, suffering or death to remember the God of our childhood and to speak to him without witnesses and without reserve.

37'

Each one accomplishes here below work that is useful for and pleasant to men and to oneself, but who is the one that secretly puts his hand to the work of God?

38

Our most useful and most admirable works shall be worthless on the day of judgement. Only the love of God, the observance of his law and the practise of his way shall open the gates of life to us without mixture.

38'

Human intelligence and reason are humble servants that must never usurp the place of inspiration and love, which are the masters of God's house.

39

If we could contemplate ourselves after having meditated on the Book, we would be surprised at our own spectacle. How much, in this case, should others not be troubled by these same appearances? Therefore, it is only the spirit of God that unravels, in us and in the world, truth from lies, and it is for this reason that we must ask insistently for the light that illuminated us in the beginning and that shall enlighten us in the end.

39'

The appearances of this world are strangely deceptive and baffle the most experienced, as well as misleading the best prepared. That is why it is preferable to reserve our judgement until such time as all things and all beings are manifested to us without veils or disguises. "Many criticize everything and propagate discouragement and hate. Very few console and offer their aid and their love."

40

"Who could believe, without having seen it, that a contemptible, dark worm transforms itself into a butterfly glowing with light?"

40'

Let us flee from the wicked ones that beget evil, that nourish it in themselves and that spread it in others; and let us seek the advice of those with no interests in the world nor passions in the heart.

41

The light that conceals the Lord is like the clothing and the luminous shadow of the Perfect One, with which we must be covered if we are found to be simple, faithful, loving and pure, as on the final day of creation and as in the first time of our new life.

41'

Once, ten times, a hundred times, the Book will tell us nothing, but we let us believe that the thousandth time it will speak to us a little and that, in the end, it will appear to us too clear and too evident, that is, excessively imprudent.

41"

Thus, if the Book were weighed for us by the weight of our gold, if it were counted by the number of our days and if it were measured by the measure[1] of our blood, it would still be a small thing compared to the Lord's gift. [1] Variant: "quantity" instead of "measure".

42

He who weighs up his weakness in this world and his strength in God no longer considers himself worth much here below.

42'

What can the world offer to him who God has already provided with his love? to him who follows his way? to him who accomplishes his work?

43

God does not rejoice in our agony nor in our death in this world. That is why he proposes to us life delivered from suffering and from death forever.

43'

If the holy books are so beautiful and deep, it is because they directly reflect the splendour of the divine light and they speak to us of the unfathomable mystery of God's work.

44

It is the secret revelation of God that makes us enter the dust and that illuminates us at the same time. Thus, he who recognizes his Lord becomes humble among the humble, yet shines like the moon that reflects the light of the sun.

44'

He who is fully aware of his fault before God is precisely he who tries the hardest to erase it. - What shall be, then, the remorse of him who has forgotten himself in the world when the solemn and unforeseen hour strikes for him?

45

A long and solitary task, the indifference and mistrust of everyone, rejections, hostility, poverty, silence and solitude for companions. - Such is the holy work offered to the dead, such is the salary of the dead who do not receive it.

45'

It is not the host that shall be deprived, but in fact the guests that voluntarily abstain. - As regards he who is charged with announcing the feast of the holy union, he shall benefit with his friends from the absentees' part.

46

But of what importance is this for him who has the vision of the astonishing promise of the Perfect One? For his progeny shall be like the stars in the sky, and his children shall populate the holy earth.

46'

Their lot shall be formidable and as though absurd, for outside there will then be hunger, suffering, desperation and death, and no-one shall be able to close the gate of hell, and no-one shall be able to open the gate of heaven.

47

It is apparently logical, for those who perceive no further than their exterior senses, to deny the salvation of God and to plead for the salvation of man through the work of man. "Poor work, poor salvation, a foretaste of hell!"

47'

How can we condemn those who do not hear the Lord's truth, when it has taken us so much effort to penetrate the temple of God and so much time to discover his living heart?

48

Now let us not say: "If we had known the Book, we would have honoured it and made it known to those around us", for many have read and almost all have abstained.

48'

Let us sow the Book as we sow our hearts, so that the seed of God is multiplied in the world and the kingdom of the Perfect One is thus brought forward for all.

49

Let us instead thank God for not being tempted by a common appearance, for he who writes is nothing, but he who dictates is all.

49'

It is enough for the ploughman to plough, for it is God that sows, waters, makes germinate, flower and bear fruit, and multiplies the seed.

50

Not one word of a holy Scripture actually contradicts the word of another holy Scripture. Thus, God appears multiple in people, yet he is unique in action and in repose, as he is the Being par excellence, that is to say the Primary and the Ultimate in everything.

50'

Therefore we need to know all the holy Scriptures and study them until we have discovered the primary and ultimate identity of the inspired word. "To think of God and meditate on his creation is to pray and praise God."

51

It is right now that we must cease to make new enemies, and now that we must reconcile ourselves with our old enemies. It is right now that we must look after and help all the beings of creation. It is now that we must make good the enormous deficit of our acts of love toward the creator and toward his creatures. "Let us take note that what happens to us is precisely what we wish for others or what we make them undergo."

51'

The impious have taken over the doctrine of fraternity that the believers have rejected, and now everyone is fighting instead of converting themselves, be it to patience and sweetness for some, or humility and generosity for others; that is to say, to the love of God for everyone. When many are wounded, stripped and reduced to nothing, will the survivors perhaps recognize the wisdom of God's law and the safeguard of his holy way? Perhaps they will not be greedy nor hateful, having lost everything?

52

Have the poor, the simple, poets, artists and true saints ever cursed and exterminated their kind in the name of the holy Scriptures, or of charity, love, beauty, or in the name of God and of his justice?

52'

Those who secretly help their fellow-being in thought and action receive without delay God's inspiration and the help of humans, but they often do not perceive them.

53

"Sectarians, torturers and criminals are surely not of God."

53'

How can one quarrel with the world and hear the voice of the Lord in oneself or realize the opportunity that is offered?

54

When celebrating the mysteries of God in a dead language, is it not surprising that we are not heard by believers and no longer listened to by the simple ones? Perhaps this now leaves shepherds and flocks indifferent?

54'

A whole team is necessary to write a book on Satan, and the curious ones rush to admire. A single believer is needed to write a Book on God, and noone moves nor says a word. "Oh, how stupid the intelligent have become by the sheer force of intelligence!"

55

Why do those who profess to teach the law of God, to transmit his word, and even to speak in his name or to represent him here below, why do they ignore the collaborators who are not from their side? Why do they reject poor or independent believers? Why do they treat their colleagues who preach the unique God as competitors, and their faithful as undesirables? God himself, however, judges our hearts and not our situations or our belongings. "Let the holy priests who preach the salvation of God of the end of time be blessed; but let the wise priests who teach God's deliverance from this time of exile be fulfilled!"

55'

Who among us can judge the work of God, and how many know his hidden way? Who among us can prejudge the Lord's choice and decision? We have become like blind men who fight over a false coin, and like deaf men who insult one another for rags. Alas! Those whom we have stupidly abandoned and forgotten shall make us agree. The nonbelievers shall lead us back to the humility of our condition as exiles, for we shall be lying in death, without distinction and without forgiveness, piled up like dead game, dispersed like husk from grain, thrown into the ditch like rotten meat.

56

Who, then, among these advises the Lord on the choice of his envoys, his inspired ones, his chosen ones, his saints and his sages? "We must convert ourselves, that is to say, turn around, and, instead of looking at the outside where the past disperses, contemplate the inside where the eternal Present of life reposes."

56'

Then there shall be no more subtle discussions, derisory priorities or men's salaries, no more scholars and no more sermonizers. Only piles of humble and anonymous bones and the eloquent silence of the open jaws of death. Then shall we understand?

57

Oh Lord, how many hear your voice? How many receive your life-giving shower? How many half open their heart of stone? How many bear fruit before you? How many reach your promised land? How many multiply in you? How many reap your harvest? How many reclothe your life, Oh Lord? "Do not reply right now, so that the stupor and desperation do not knock us to the ground irremediably."

57'

Let us go to those who cry and not to those who rejoice. Let us go to the humble and not to the powerful. Let us go to those who suffer and not to those who dominate. Let us go to those who are lost and not to those who are saved. Let us go to those who are deprived and not to those who have plenty. Let us go to the seed and not to the dried fruit. Let us go to the holy earth and not to the false gold. Let us go to death in order to save our life.

58

All of that is difficult and almost beyond our strength, but let us at least do something for the holy communion of love; and however wretched and pitiful may that thing be, let it nevertheless remain secret and free.

58'

He who seeks God may appear tormented and difficult to mix with, but he who has found God is serene and is patient with all men and with himself, for he no longer leaves the company of the Unique One.

59

Let us choose a free man's profession and let us abandon our disguises. Let us officiate and preach in the language of the country where we happen to find. Let us act so that nothing distinguishes nor separates us from believers, if it is not the virtue and example of holiness.

59'

Let us officiate and preach in the house common to God and men, and let us preach and officiate in the house of the believers that receive us. Let us accept from the poor man and distrust the rich man for our sakes, for it is the poor that we should enrich and not the rich that should corrupt us.

60

Let us stretch out our hand only for ourselves and not for others. It is enough to signal in secret the distress of a faithful one for all to come to his help, if we are as we must be, that is, sanctified by love. - It is better to obey God alone rather than men and the world, as many do now.

60'

It is enough for them that they help directly those that we designate for them in secret or that they themselves discover. Thus, let us not distance ourselves from the simple and the poor and let us not neglect the root of the peoples where the glory of God is hidden. That will be for us the joy of the heart that appears in the fraternity of the humble, the true children of God.

61

Let us, then, be imprudent and gratuitous like true poets. - Let us be free and unworried about our lives like true artists. - Let us be simple and trusting like children of God. - Let us be good and helpful like the ancient Samaritan. - Let us be detached and clear-sighted like the ancient sages. - Let us be attentive and humble like ignorant men who know themselves. - Let us be assured and consoling like God's saved ones. - Let us be inspired and convincing like the prophets filled with the Holy Spirit.

61'

Let us sow, then, and we shall live in the abundance of the Lord. "There are among us more sleepers than dead, more prudent ones than cowards, more timid ones than hypocrites." Let us wake up, then, before death put us completely to sleep. Let us read again the sacred books and let us practise the holy way like imprudent ones and like God's madmen, for we are here to warn, to help, to excuse, to console, to pardon, and certainly not to insult, to denounce, to judge, to condemn nor, above all, to execute our fellow-being.

62

Let us not worry too much about how we shall live, for God shall provide through inspiration and help if we ask it of him with trust, for he watches over, he inspires and he supports his children on all occasions.

62'

Our God is a God that is eaten, that is drunk, that communicates life, that sustains it, that frees it and that restores it in its admirable primacy. He is a God that gives himself to save in us that which subsists of life gone astray in death.

63

He also allows them to be tempted very often so that they become firmer on his way. Thus, it is best to remain in the trust of the Perfect One without asking ourselves useless questions about the world.

63'

Thus, possessing in ourselves God's deposit, we must open ourselves to his blessing and to his love so as to be delivered from the exile of death and so as to be made one with the Unique One.

64

It is therefore recommended to pray, to praise and to remain silent while waiting for the revelation to become clear and perceptible to us, for it is in our heart that God's mystery resides, and it is he himself who accomplishes our deliverance within us.

64'

We must expect everything from natural sowing, germination and ripening; and we must fear everything to do with the constraint, the impatience and the violence of well-intentioned ignorant ones.

65

Let us wake up with the Book so as to begin our day with a salutary thought. - Let us move around with the noble tool so as to work usefully in between our futile occupations. - Let us fall asleep with the message so as to have it before our eyes on the day of judgement.

65'

All shall see God's judgement. - Many shall live off the truth of the Unique One. - A small number shall live in the heart of the Lord. - Some shall contemplate the secret work of the Perfect One. - But how many shall know the mystery of the origins and of the ends that make the eternity of eternities?

66

Thus, we shall be able to verify point by point the prodigious work of the Highest, the truth of his law and the excellence of his way.

66'

Oh, mortal terror of the unveiled secret! Who shall resist the vertigo of knowledge and love united in One?

67

We are overcome by the beauty of the Lord's work, we remain stupid before its depth and we are dumb before his greatness. - Some sneer to keep their composure, the majority pretend to ignore it so as not to discover their blindness. The hole that shall receive them is already half-open, but even that does not instruct them.

67'

How admirable is his prudence, and how mad is his audacity! - How impenetrable is his science, and how his love shines! - How subtle is his grace, and how faithful is his heart! - How dark is his way, and how luminous is his salvation! - How merciful are his blows, and how perfect is his peace!

68

Re-make the mud.

68'

And cook it.

69

We shall search for the work of the Highest like a curious thing and like a game without importance. Then we shall study the work of the Unique One with a scholarly assurance and with a sharpened awareness. Finally, we shall be caught in the trap of the Perfect One without knowing how it has happened, and we shall be just as likely to be calling for help in the mysterious darkness as savouring the repose of his divine love.

69'

We shall no longer cry from desperation and suffering, we shall cry for joy and for recognition, and yet this will be the same water and the same salt; but the heart will have opened under the shower of the Lord, and the spirit will have been lit up by the miracle of God.

70

But the Lord is merciful with his dreadful children; in the end he shall let them see his salvation and his glory so that they live before him forever.

70'

Oh, how mysterious, how assured, how powerful, how transforming and how salvatory is the way of the great Healer!

70"

It is through a wise judgement of God that the brute and the impious trample underfoot the pearls of his crown, and that the shrewd and the greedy cannot see them in the mud where they are hidden here below.

	All things are resolved in fire and fire is condensed in all things, just as goods are converted into gold and gold into goods. HERACLITUS
	All shall be judged and devoured by the fire that shall strike. HERACLITUS