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BOOK XVII

	But a vapour rose from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground. MOSES
	For him the precious gift of heaven, the dew. MOSES

ÈVE NUE RIT

JOY

1

How cruelly are the hypocrites mocked by the impious and how ferociously condemned are the impious by the hypocrites! For as neither are the children of God, their destiny is to mutually destroy one another.

1'

True believers do not exhibit themselves, do not judge and do not upset themselves; for, having their spirit constantly fixed on God, they have no time to concern themselves much with the world or its matters.

2

Now the preachers exalt the scholars and their poisons in the holy place to flatter the ignorance of the world and so as not to appear behind the times; for the faith, the love and the science of God seem too puerile and too old-fashioned to them, and they are ashamed of the simplicity of our first fathers.

2'

Satan has taken such a lead that the sanctuaries of God now serve him as benches and propaganda agencies without their knowing. "Oh, compassionate Lord, who shall save us from hell if you do not come rapidly to our help?"

3

Who inspires these shepherds who speak highly to us of the century, the factory, the machine, poison, politics, patriotism, social issues, intelligence, work and men's vanity over and above the knowledge and the love of God? Who inspires these panegyrists of human pride and blindness?

3'

Oh, priests, oh, monks, oh laymen, who still believe in God in your hearts, throw away the leaven of Satan's proud science. Realize that it is useless to want to organize the rottenness of the sin of death here below. Remember the word of the master who said: "The works of the world are bad", and like him do not fear the hate of the world by bearing witness to it before all.

4

The intelligent are annoyed, for they cannot turn the Book inside out as one does with the finger of a glove, and their intelligence is humiliated. Will not Satan whisper to them a miserable explanation, and will he not veil their nothingness with some sordid rags?

4'

The wicked ones shall cover us in filth, as we have covered them with forgiveness, but the Lord shall deliver us forever from the stench of death and the company of evil ones.

5

And then the wicked ones and the hypocrites, will they not come to their help like natural allies?

5'

They shall live forever with her, that infamous and rotting companion, and her devouring fire shall consume them without respite.

5"

When the virginal water bathes us once again, we shall sit up in our tombs, washed of the filth of death, and we shall praise the Lord God with one voice and with one heart.

6

Let us pray to God in a holy way, and he will reveal to us in one way or another the truth of the Book and the authenticity of its inspiration, if we still have any doubts.

6'

He who deals with filth ends up smelling bad, and he who frequents the holy Scriptures ends up transpiring God's perfume.

7

Many thought they were doing the right thing in seeking the death of Jesus, but not one has followed him in resurrection, which is the only justification of the passion of the handsome Lord, and which confirms our deliverance to come.

7'

Let us not desire to become martyrs so that our successors are not tempted to be executioners. "Wickedness is the absence of God; holiness is his assured presence."

8

The great sages and the great saints are their own mould, and they have no need of that of others, for they hear God directly. But it is good and even excellent for the weaker ones to follow the ways traced by the strongest ones.

8'

Uncover yourself prudently, Lord, so that we are not crushed by your glory, but that we live more and more before your splendour, so that your saints dwell in your light and so that your sages reach your most secret core.

9

We have nothing to explain, nothing to demonstrate and above all, no-one to convince; for the love and the peace of the Unique One are enough for our contentment.

9'

All has been said, all is reiterated and all shall be repeated until the Lord's chosen ones have entered the luminous secret of the word of life.

10

The proof of the divine origin of creation is its revolt in the face of death and its innate habituation to life that does not perish.

10'

What destroys us and others is evil. What gives life to us and conserves others in God's freedom is goodness.

11

Let us pray madly to God so as to know the means to our immediate deliverance, or at least to benefit from this deliverance on the day of the great lordly judgement.

11'

He who is sufficiently detached from the world can see all and hear all without disturbance or harm, but he who is not perfectly bared may die, even of God's truth.

12

A rich man can become poor and humble and a criminal can become converted to love, but how could a shrewd one ever become simple? And how might a swine become pure?

12'

Those that are too simple take gilt for gold, and those who are too intelligent reject gold because of the gilt, but all of them eat the filth of sin without knowing it.

13

The latter accumulate rare books and pursue hidden knowledge, but they deny God and the holy Scriptures, which are the only ones that could give them the intelligence of the veiled texts and the key to the buried treasures.

13'

They proudly think they have stolen the secret of creation without asking the creator for it, and their subtle intelligence and their great learning have become like the greatest stupidity there could be, for all of their works are dead and engender death.

14

Too often we take for ourselves that which is not meant for us, and too frequently we also direct to others that which is not due to them, for we consider the outer part of the world too highly and we neglect the inner part of man.

14'

Let us respond to the accusations, the insults and the persecutions of the world by moving closer and closer to the Lord of life, who purifies us in the blaze of holy solitude and love.

15

The religious and the impious ignore us, scholars and ignorant men despise us, the intelligent and the stupid mock us, workers and the debauched reject us. If a friend recognizes us, it is still superfluous, for our consolation is only in God.

15'

We cannot convert a hypocrite, an impious one, a wicked one or one who has gone astray by pointing out his evil and reproaching him vehemently, but we can improve him by cultivating the good that has remained in him, encouraging him and loving him as he is, however disfigured he may be.

15"

Do we not have to wash a great quantity of earth in order to discover a small emerald?

16

The pleasures of the world disappear for he who gets old, since the diminished body can no longer endure them; but the gentleness of the love of the Unique One increases for the believer, since the soul disengages itself from the ties of the rough body and communicates more and more with its Lord. Therefore, getting old is a sad decadence for some and a sweet enlightenment for others.

16'

Wisdom and holiness in God do not depend on worldly opinions, on general or particular obediences, on figurative rites, on social positions, on patriotism, on the number of wives or children or on the quantity of goods, but rather on knowledge of the primary cause and the ultimate effect.

17

He who draws close to God's truth no longer disputes anything with anyone, for he is too busy trying to remember the forsaken word.

17'

If we are not strong enough to convert the bad company, let us flee from it before it perverts and ruins us completely.

18

To become converted is to turn over in the great water and contemplate the light of heaven face to face.

18'

The report of a blind man will always appear more sensible to other blind men than the description of a clear-sighted one.

19

Would the prophets have deceived us by announcing the resurrection, and Christ himself, would he have cheated us by being the first one to resuscitate? How, then, can believers be distressed at the death of their loved ones?

19'

Let us defend the jewel, but let us not defend the filth that covers it; let us instead resolutely throw it away, taking care however not to throw away the jewel at the same time.

20

Surely they should rejoice in the hope of new life and of their coming meeting with God, if their faith is not worthless and if their love is not dead.

20'

We shall name our hope with faith against all contrary appearance and against all opposing reason, thus eliminating the doubt and fear that kill the soul.

21

Only the ignorant complain and protest here below, for the saints bless in poverty and the sages repose in the very middle of the chaos of the absurd.

21'

Let us practise daily acts of faith, naming the desired thing in a holy way until it is accomplished before our eyes.

22

A little charity is better than great learning. A little love is better than great wealth. A little peace is better than great power. But then, what are the grace, love and knowledge of the Perfect One worth?

22'

When we bless our enemies in a heartfelt way, we shall be close to the Lord, who is the source of the love that springs up. In the meantime, let us strive to bless and love our friends as befits believers in God.

23

When the bad word and the bad blow have been delivered, who can then hold onto them and who can erase them?

23'

The holy Name of God is an allpowerful magic in the mouth of him who truly believes and loves.

24

When we are disgusted with the vanities of the world, we shall come back to the Book, which will give us back the taste for the faith and the peace that are so necessary to the manifestation of divine love.

24'

Each imagined thing seems absurd until it is accomplished in the world, then everyone is surprised; then everyone becomes used to the prodigy, and finally no-one pays attention to it any more.

25

Sobriety, simplicity and charity are the three great doctors of the body, the mind and the soul, but divine love is the only remedy for the sickness of our exiled lives.

25'

By eliminating the doubt of reason through the constant exercise of faith in action, we shall not only manage to disregard contrary appearances, but even to modify them miraculously.

26

We shall act with an absurd faith in wakefulness until we act in the same way in dreams; then, unity shall be accomplished in us.

26'

How could he who is false before men be true before God? And how could he who has abandoned himself to the passions of the world still hear his Lord?

27

How much do men harm their bodies! How much do they torture their spirits and bully their souls! "Let us thank God for the good creature and praise him for the excellent fruit."

27'

By giving up the mirages of the world and devoting himself to the quest for divine unity, the sage avoids many complications, many excesses and many useless pains.

28

They have cunningly and criminally substituted their profane words for the holy words, and now the mediocre blindly follow their countersigns, without even knowing the teaching of the divine master, whose name they give as a reference with impudence.

28'

Those in charge of souls have abandoned the harvest of life for the harvest of death. Both the deceivers and the deceived shall be rejected, and there will be stupefaction, tears and a frightful desperation like the mire of the swamp where they shall be relegated with the wicked.

29

How to believe when injustice and death undermine us? - How to bless when misery and despair crush us? - How to be virtuous when we lack everything, and how to be detached when the world oppresses us?

29'

Holiness is truly a test of endurance and strength that very few men can tolerate without succumbing. "To seem this or to seem that, to be here or elsewhere, what does it matter to him who has forgotten himself in God?"

30

It is better to deal with a thousand nonbelievers than with a single blind and ignorant sectarian.

30'

To take oneself seriously and to believe in one's own intelligence here below, is that not the worst ignorance?

31

Many claim to have the exclusive monopoly on God, and consequently, each one excommunicates his neighbour in the name of the grace, love and knowledge he clearly does not possess.

31'

Let us not allow ourselves to be marked, numbered, led or exploited like cattle. Let us respond to the oppressors with the sobriety, with the simplicity, with the charity of our lives, and let us propose to them the freedom of believers in the bosom of the Unique One.

32

Let us not flaunt diplomas, decorations, titles or grades, nor any other disguise to delude the world and ourselves. Let us rather remain in God's truth that is enough for everything.

32'

Let us prepare neither speeches nor sermons of men. Let us speak of God only when the Holy Spirit inspires us, or let us humbly remain silent so as not to be found boring or untruthful.

33

The wicked who call themselves religious have simply swapped their natural impiety for social hypocrisy, and their wickedness has multiplied itself within them, poisoning them irremediably.

33'

The pretension of some false believers is only equalled by their lamentable blindness. How cruel their disillusionment will be when the truth of the Highest appears! How much will they regret their worthless judgements, and how much will they weep for their absent love!

34

Those who obey the law externally are right in doing so. Those who live the love of the Perfect One in their heart do even more so.

34'

Who would dare to expose himself to risk like a dog before all? And who could converse in public about love with the Beloved One?

35

Those who experience defeat or fear feel great resentment as a result, and exercise great vengeance, and those who surrender to the passions of the world are lost according to God.

35'

He who threatens disappears suddenly before being able to strike, and he who promises slips away before giving anything. "Only the promises of the Lord are accomplished with certainty."

36

How secure they think they are, the mediocre who live only for themselves! - How skilful they think they are, those who frustrate their brothers! - How intelligent they think they are, those who dominate the unfortunate! - How strong they think they are, those who crush the weak! - Oh believers, consider the end of those who say "ME" and never "GOD".

36'

Oh, how successful have been the powerful and the shrewd! - Oh, how proud are the intelligent and the well-off! - Oh, how self-assured are the herds of the mediocre and the hypocrites! The earth is half-open to receive them and they do not realize, for their selfcontentment blinds them, and all of them go into the pit from which there is no return.

37

How will they manage in the quagmire of death? - How will they falsify justice in eternal darkness? - How will they seize the best portion for themselves in the pit of filth? - How will they be able to be astute and mendacious among the unchained demons? - How will they be able to be ferocious and pitiless amid wild beasts? - How will they digest in peace in the slaughterhouses of hell?

37'

Oh, believers in God! change your way of living now that you still have time and seek relentlessly the keys that open the doors to the abode of life, of joy, of love and of peace. Abandon your cumbersome baggage to the greedy ones, and ask the Lord of love and knowledge for the way and for the viaticum, like lost and repentant children, for we must ask of God, who is all-powerful to satisfy us with the unheard of, the incredible and the enormous.

38

We do not bend life to our laws; it is life that adjusts itself to our laws and that persists in spite of them.

38'

Happy is he who recognizes his incapacity and his uselessness here below, for he is not afraid of begging God for his life daily!

39

Oh Lord, forgive the ignorant, the ones gone astray and all the repentant sinners, but strike the hypocrites who publicly fake piety and virtue and who are full of hate, deceit and pride.

39'

It is not a question of being pleasing and kind to the wicked and the hypocrites. It is rather a question of fleeing from them when we meet them and of then avoiding them at all costs.

40

Those who only count on their learning, their intelligence, their courage or on their skill here below condemn themselves unknowingly to forced labour forever, and all their effort remains useless and sterile before God. "Our fathers who received the Holy Spirit, were not mad, and what they teach is the truth."

40'

Let us note carefully how the ignorant and impious ones systematically reject all that could help them, take care of them, console them and save them, for their ignorance and their rejection of God hinder the aid of the holy men and the aid of the Lord's Providence.

41

Prove this to us, make us see that, say the nonbelievers with the conceited pretension of idlers who want to know everything without searching for anything.

41'

How susceptible are the conceited, how vexed they are at not understanding the obviousness, how much they punish themselves for being pedantic and ignorant!

42

Not even a miracle would be able to satisfy them, while the spectacle of the grain germinating illuminates the spirit of the believer.

42'

How could we free those who voluntarily lock themselves in spiritual coarseness and in the worship of themselves?

43

It is not the clothes that make the sage, nor the beard that makes the prophet, but only the inspiration of the Lord who visits his living ones in secret, as he wishes and when it pleases him.

43'

He who does not try to pass himself off as something that he is not, and who even accepts being taken as something other than he is, already has great peace.

44

Could a handful of nonbelieving scribes or hypocrites bury the talent of God forever? Will not the believers one day publish the testimony of their eyes, their ears and their hearts?

44'

We shall recognize the hypocrites and the impious ones in that both shall remain silent when they are invited to speak spontaneously of the Lord of life. "Always saddening and always sinister like dead people."

45

The money of the wicked burns like hell, for their wickedness is attached to it like a bad smell is attached to filth.

45'

But the field transforms the manure into harvest, and God's grace transfigures sin into light of life.

46

Everyone has a profession, a job or a pension that allows them to live and prosper. Only he who has devoted himself to the quest for and the praise of the Highest receives no salary here below. But is his reward not already visible in heaven, and is it not inscribed on the land of the saints?

46'

He who has endured poverty and abandonment without weakening, for the glory of his Lord, shall one day be showered with the riches of the Universe and given the task of distributing the manna of life to the charitable and faithful believers.

47

Many rich men say: "We do not care about money", and their life is filled with contemptible base acts and plundering to acquire it.

47'

How could he who possesses divine freedom and love, still forget his Lord to run after the wind and death in the world?

48

Others boast of their good works and, under the cover of charity, make the wretched work for half of the salary that is their due. How seriously they greet one another at the entrances to God's temples, and how joyously they feast in infamous places!

48'

Those who are well-off, oh, how pleasant, how fair and how orderly do they find the world, how satisfied are they with their superstitions, their vanities and their hypocrisies, and how well installed do they feel in their putrefying sewer!

49

Oh, how humble when faced with money are those who make a livelihood begging the rich, how supple are their backs, and how ready are their hands to bless before the triumphant hydra!

49'

If the salary of the hypocrites and the wicked is hell, what will be the punishment of those who encourage them and bless them in the name of the Lord of love and justice?

50

How accommodating are they with the crimes of the winners, how resigned are they before the injustice that crushes the unfortunate, and how patient are they with the despair of the abandoned ones!

50'

No believer can think of this without his hair standing on end in terror. "The pure man is the only one who does not bow and scrape before money, and that is the rare and precious sign among all."

51

The sages no longer guide nations, because they seem too ignorant in this world. And the saints no longer inspire the churches, because they do not appear "right-thinking" enough.

51'

If the gifted occupied the places that correspond to them here below, what would become of the multitude of the mediocre and failures who bustle about in their useless ventures?

52

Some play at being sages and reply only by nodding their head gravely and subtly stealing away, but most often it is to hide their ignorance, their powerlessness and their platitude of incurable mediocre men.

52'

Others speak highly of the bestial life they enjoy at present, and mock the spiritual life they ignore. Instead of saying humbly: "We see nothing", they state proudly: "There is nothing".

53

Each one remakes his small experience of a blind man and each one proposes his little system of a dying one, without noticing the immensity of God's creation and without suspecting the presence of the uniting doctrine of the masters.

53'

Let us not break our head over the Book; instead, let us break our heart over it, so that our precious soul germinates and fructifies before God in the secret of the beginning and end of all things.

54

It is a security for everyone to refuse to introduce and to maintain death in oneself and in others, whatever is the motive put forward by the merchants of death.

54'

No faith, no help, no medicament, no food, no assurance should be imposed by force on anyone on the fallacious pretext of saving him.

55

There is no chance for the believers, chance is for those who remain voluntarily astray in the quagmire of dark and stinking death.

55'

The wicked are the instruments of the destruction of the impious ones, just as the saints are the instruments of deliverance of the believers.

56

The world gives its approval only to professional destroyers and poisoners, to criminals and brutes by trade, to licensed oppressors and thieves; and the names of the saints and the righteous are replaced everywhere by those of the wicked ones.

56'

Those who sow prepare the resurrection, and those who pray make God's blessing descend. Therefore, the most useful and the most estimable of all men appear the most useless and the most contemptible in the blind and deaf world.

57

The quantity of believers is not of importance before God, it is only their quality that counts. Therefore, those who do not shine in the night shall not reach the light of the primary splendour.

57'

How joyful and vivifying are God's saints, and how sinister and mortal are the wicked! "He who has replaced his intelligence with the love of God and of men is a master."

58

Perfect freedom means to have no needs and no desires. "That which scandalizes hypocrites does not even surprise God's saint; as for the sage, it is enough for him to consider attentively what he possesses for him to feel fulfilled."

58'

First of all, the Holy Spirit shall join the body to revive it; then, the divine soul shall unite these two in splendour to glorify them in the bosom of the magnificent Lord.

59

The devil cannot be opposed to God as an equal, for he is still a part of the whole that works without knowing it in the hierarchical purification of dispersed creation.

59'

Abundance and peace descend on God's saints, while desolation and misfortune fall on the wicked. Thus, all are taught in different ways here below, but appearances are deceptive.

60

The holy Scriptures are not stupid, and the Churches are not idiotic, for what they teach is preferable for man and what they prohibit is dangerous to him. Experience demonstrates it clearly, for intelligence is not enough here to protect oneself from the effects of the primordial sin. Obey the laws of God, that is the intelligence that enlightens and saves!

60'

Those who travel by ship fully clothed, must not despise those who swim naked in the great water; and the latter must not mock those who are taken in small boats. For many of the former become shipwrecked and some of the latter are devoured by the beasts of the sea before being able to reach the goal.

61

Sobriety, simplicity and the careful study of the holy Scriptures are the safeguard of God's wise investigator. "How much do warm climates and peaceful places facilitate the quest for the Lord of truth!"

61'

As regards those who remain in the foreign land, they destroy themselves mutually and are separated from essential life for as long as their voluntary exile lasts. "The wicked are sometimes the tools of God without anyone suspecting it."

62

It is our bad thoughts, our bad words and our bad actions that allow the demons of misfortune, of despair and of death, and above all, the imprudent curiosity of our first parents to enter us.

62'

It is our good thoughts, our good words and our good actions that save us from the infamous mixture and from putrefying death. But above all it is God's love that enlightens us and purifies us of the ancient poison.

63

If Satan were to place the love of God above his own intelligence and his own esteem just once he would be saved and reintegrated in the living unity of the Unique One.

63'

For us, it is not a question of convincing the world, it is rather a question of helping men of goodwill, as our handsome Lord did by showing the way out of mitigated hell.

64

How skilled are the wicked ones at tearing apart and destroying, and how poor they are at encouraging and helping!

64'

Raw roots, coarse bread and clear water with the peace of the Lord, rather than all the riches of the earth with the poisonous rage of the wicked!

65

Those who have supported the destructive works of Satan, be it for the taste of lucre or because of a natural bent, should not have recriminations at the time of the settling of accounts, for no-one shall have made them to increase the disorder of death.

65'

Many bark after the Jews through incitation or through jealousy, unaware that it is they who transmitted to us the light of God inherited from the land of Egypt, and who were deprived of it because of their bad behaviour, as occurs with us at the moment.

66

The justice of the Lord shall be minute and implacable for the wicked ones and the hypocrites, let us be assured of it, and let us tremble at the thought of being counted among them to our great astonishment.

66'

Misfortune strikes the rebels and the impious hard, but the Lord's forgiveness and blessing descend in abundance on the generous and on the believers.

67

The sages have penetrated and revealed the mystery of the fall and of the restoration of man and of all creation in God. However, for the believers it is more a matter of saving oneself than of understanding and explaining the divine secret.

67'

True philosophy does not rest on the frenzied subtleties of the spirit, nor on rigid moral principles, nor on the meticulous observance of rites, but rather on knowledge of the content at the core of all things.

67"

Here below, all is like the moving shadow of the unique divine reality.

	There is diversity of gifts, but it is the same Spirit; diversity of ministries, but it is the same Lord; diversity of operations, but it is the same God who operates everything in everyone. PAUL
	Your judgement is the light that will rise up. HOSEA