The Message Rediscovered -Book XIX

BOOK XIX

	Yes, in those days, I shall scatter my Spirit over my sons and my daughters, and they shall prophesy. JESUS
	He who is of God hears the word of God; it is because you are not of God that you do not hear it. JESUS

NUE VITRÉE

THE MIRROR

The prophets have spoken to us of the substance and the essence of God, but we dissect their texts to discover in them history, morals, poetry or divination.
Oh, stupid blindness of the intelligent and the scholars!
Oh, self-satisfied mediocrity of the believers!

Let us not adapt the holy Scriptures to our little thoughts, for in the end everything will go badly for us. Let us rather bend our desires to the word of God so as to enjoy the protection and aid of the All-Powerful One.
"If we cling blindly to our opinions, how will God be able to instruct us in life?"

Who shall know how to trap the life of the Highest?
Who shall know how to mature it and who shall know how to eat it so as to become like it, pure, free and eternal?

They are beautiful thoughts, say superficial people on leafing through the Book, but those who have been instructed think: "These are the locks and the keys of the gate of life."

If we frequent the brutes, the wicked, the shrewd or the impious, we shall become like them. Moreover, if we frequent God and his true friends, we shall also be made in their image and we shall taste the beverage of pure life.

The Book speaks to intuition, to love and to deep memory, and not to men's intelligence, will and superficial reason. "What the Book says is great, but what it induces in each one of us is incommensurable."

The authentic sages and saints attribute to God alone the merit and the praise for everything they do in his NAME.
"Oh, perfect humility of true knowledge!

The science of nature leads to substantial knowledge, and the science of God leads to essential knowledge. He who possesses these two treasures is heir to the eternal and living Lord.

Religion and initiation transmit a precious teaching; it is up to us to resurrect it through our faith, enliven it with our love and manifest it through our knowledge.
"False believers are a thousand times more repulsive than impious brutes."

What will the hypocrites say of him who calls Jesus-Christ his elder brother?
"Silence, then calumny, then persecution if they are allowed; it is the devil who now inspires them since God has left them."

The Book may well conceal the truth, but if our hearts do not participate in it, it is like a useless treasure before which all die of hunger and thirst.

Let us not think: "We shall become rich, then we shall seek God".
But let us rather say: "We shall seek God, then we shall be rich".

Let us not sit at the table before a multitude of complicated dishes and drinks; let us rather prepare a tray with a simple dish and drink such as the bread and wine that satisfied our wise fathers.

As we cannot bear the simple, naked and perfect truth the Lord has to decorate it with foliage and flowers to content us. But he has also put thorns there so as to keep away the superficial and the inconstant.
"The Lord's crown may well poke out an eye of the imprudent and the presumptuous who throw themselves thoughtlessly at his head instead of adoring his holy and perfect feet."

If we are faint-hearted in our quest and if we dread to examine the foundation of all created things, we shall never find nor taste God here below.
"How weak, sad and poor we are when the Lord is absent from us, and look how lively, joyful and fulfilled we are, when he dwells once more in our hearts!"

The Book confirms the holy Scriptures just as a self-sacrificing child answers for his beloved parents.

God became man in the flesh of Adam so that we could become God in the gold of Christ.

"The more we give, the more we shall receive." Thus, enrichment comes from the free circulation of goods, and impoverishment comes from their immobilisation.

He who loves God and his creation shall also be loved by all beings, for by loving we shall save and we shall be saved.

He who hopes to seat himself at the divine banquet should not be surprised at not receiving here below the crumbs that satisfy the passers-by unfamiliar with love.
"Oh, faithfulness at the primary and ultimate hour!"

10'

He who curses the rich and the powerful denies himself ever becoming like them, on pain of being cursed by himself; but he who despises the poor has already condemned himself to the solitude of death.
"Oh, how the secret gift washes the blemish of sin!"

Whoever we are and whatever we do, let us keep our spirit and our heart fixed in God so as not to lose ourselves in the darkness of this world.

11'

Let us see to it that our final thought is always in God, so as to purify our visions during the contemplation of wakefulness, during that of sleep and during that of death.

He who adores God in spirit and in deed is assured of not making a mistake here below and elsewhere.

12'

He who seeks God goes to the solitude of nature. He who has found God returns to the society of men.

There is no insurmountable obstacle for he who cultivates goodwill in God, for the terrors of the night vanish before the light of the Perfect One.

13'

Our Lord, who dwells in life, shall not abandon us at the difficult time of separation and deprivation, as long as we shine at least like glow-worms in the night of the world.

If the mediocre can still germinate, it can only be through the warmth of brotherly love. Who would not want to try and save the most disinherited of humans?

14'

Let the sages and saints that have set us on the way to God be blessed forever in the most pure and most living bosom of the unique Splendour!

He who recognizes his faults disarms his enemies and transforms them into allies.

15'

All that we love serves us and frees us. All that we hate escapes us and oppresses us in the end.

God looks for us in spite of ourselves when we hide from him. Why would we not look for him in spite of himself when he shies away from us?

16'

The baptism of water delivers us and purifies us, but the baptism of the Holy Spirit fertilizes us and enlivens us fully.

Legions of ignorant men explain profane wisdom to us. Hordes of scholars impose foreign science on us. Crowds of intelligent men unveil to us the secrets of creation. A multitude of courageous men promise us happiness for tomorrow. Millions of delirious men multiply the madness of all. Thousands of false prophets describe their darkness to us.

17'

And you, poor rebels who are restless, who howl and who curse in the exile of death, you are lent some genius and you do not even have the intelligence to seek in silence and with patience the way out of your dark and icy prison.
You collide with the surface of words and things, and uselessly you throw words and things at the surface of the world.

And we continue, quite flabbergasted by their shouts and their gesticulations, to perish in ignorance and in fear, in doubt and in hatred, in solitude and in despair, in slavery and in misery, in old age and in sickness, for like them we have lost the divine knowledge, and have repudiated God's conscience, believing stupidly that we order the chaos with our derisory intelligence, reason and will.

18'

You are as lacking in perspicacity like your counsellor the devil, who stupidly judged by his appearance the first man that God presented him with. You who glorify hate daily, God has already excluded you from the land of the living, and you shall hate yourselves more and more until the final scattering.
"How brutal and unexpected is the fall of the wicked! And how forgiving is God towards those who return to him freely!"

It is the stench of sin that has led us to the pit. But it is the blessing of God that shall save us from death, and it is the warming love of the Lord that shall confirm us in the splendour of life.

19'

Our fellow-being and ourselves form the same Being and contain the same light. It is a secret of God that very few get close to and that only some chosen ones possess in its entirety, for souls remain different even in the bosom of the Unique One.

It is up to each one of us to seek Christ, to find him and to accommodate him so as to be saved, transformed and made perfect in him.

20'

It is heavenly gold that we must embody (after ridding ourselves of the rottenness of sin), in order to be strengthened in eternal life.

The stupid and the ignorant always want to be right in everything because they rely on themselves or on others.
The sages and the saints easily accept being wrong, for they refer it to God, who knows the foundation of all things exactly.

21'

Let us consult the Lord and obey him in everything if we want to conserve the life, the health, the peace, the honour and the possessions he has granted us here below.
"God's saints radiate love for all his creatures."

Many are filled with good intentions towards the holy Scriptures, but they are equally full of ignorance as regards their essential meaning.

22'

If we possessed a simplicity and a faith capable of experiencing the incredible, we would penetrate the secret of the divine words and we would find the immortality of the garden of God again.

The stars, the moon and the sun shine on the world while the intelligent and the scholars argue and rave about the invisible God who sends life and who attracts it towards himself.

23'

He who is pure, luminous and living does not worry about it, yet he illuminates in the thickness of the night.
"To be and to forget it."

23"

The Spirit of God, by turning back on itself, produces the light.

When we have seized the Lord by his golden hair, when he has transformed our miserable thatched cottage into a palace, when he has become our victorious and unfailing companion, then we shall bless, with full knowledge of the facts, the holy Scriptures of all nations and we shall praise God and his work without books and without instructors.

24'

It is easy to reprehend the sinners, to denounce the hypocrites and to overwhelm the impious, but it is difficult to convert them by example and save them through love when one does not visibly know the unity from which they have emerged, and to which they shall return.
"He who knows the mystery of God loves his fellow-being naturally without hesitation and without effort."

The whole creation is offered to us by God; we only have to choose and to sow in order to reap in abundance, be it the works of life or the works of death.

25'

Everywhere there are the scholars who dissect the holy Scriptures, everywhere there are intelligent who desecrate the mysteries of God, and not a single saint who purifies the earthly body, and not a single sage who accomplishes the divine incarnation.

The earth is black and shall become even blacker, then it shall whiten little by little and the stars shall reappear, the innumerable stars, the pure, white moon and the living, golden sun, which shall be the signs of the triumphant incarnation over death.

26'

It is the hand of man that prepares the earth, but it is nature that operates and God that gives life.
"If we constantly love and bless God and his creation, he will in his turn always love and bless us through it."

Let us become benevolent and courteous to our fellow-beings and let us send good thoughts even to our enemies, so that they are converted to God in their heart. For curses can only entrench them in their opinions and in their obscure hatred.
However let us keep away from them until their wickedness has become extinguished.

27'

The wicked come from our lack of goodness, the poor from our lack of charity, the nonbelievers from our lack of faith, the rebels from our lack of obedience, and so on for all the rest. There we have the reason why it is always our fault and never that of others, contrary to what we commonly think.

Oh, derision! The Lord has given us the Book first, and strangers have received it before us, for thinking ourselves intelligent in the world, we have become stupid before God.

28'

The better we come to know our indignity, the more we shall be terrified by the immensity of the Lord's mercy and by the greatness of the gift he grants us.

28"

Who shall wash himself in the fire and in the water so as to become once again pure and white like the salt of life?

If God is badly served, let us distance ourselves from the bad servants, but let us not reject the Lord, like the ignorant ones who crudely judge the inside from outside appearances, do.

29'

He who feels free and rich in God no longer laments his poverty or the slavery of this world, for he already tastes the deposit of eternal life.
"Inebriating promise! Incredible donation!"

We must strive to imitate God, who constrains nothing and no-one in the name of his truth and of his justice, but who matures everything patiently through the sweetness of his grace and of his love.

30'

Goodwill in God delivers us from the constraints of the world, for it allows us to hear the Lord's teaching and gives rise to the action of his hidden Providence.

Men's wisdom is not God's wisdom, for the former looks at the outside while the latter considers the inside.

31'

Water comes from the body, and the body likewise comes from water, and the two unite in the glory of the most perfect Saviour.

Let us not condemn or repel those who have gone astray, for it was not so long ago that we were still among them. Let us instead pray so that they come with us through the delivering grace and through the unifying love of the Highest.

32'

When the Lord visits us, here we are like enlightened gods, but when he leaves us, here we are like stupid beasts. Who can foresee the moment of his coming, and who can predict the time of his departure?

Grace, love and faith engender living works; when they disappear, duty, law and coercion make for dead works.

33'

Our desires are ten thousand things scattered and dead; God's will is a single thing concentrated and alive.

If we bless God and his creation, life shall open up to us and receive us in its bosom. If we curse everything, life shall close itself to us and we shall remain abandoned in death.

34'

Our holy spiritual masters are the instruments of God's blessing. Let us honour them and let us pray to them in the Lord so that they lead us to the holy light of God, which we lack so much here below.

Who shall go up to the end of the Lord's word? Who shall penetrate the luminous truth of the holy writings? Who shall practise the divine science on earth? Who shall enter the kingdom of eternity alive?

35'

Lord, we kiss your sanctified earth, we sow your hidden heart and we preciously reap your incomparable glory that makes us live eternally.

If we possess grace and love and if we practise them with everyone, we can ignore law and duty, but if we still do not live in God, law and duty must guide us like the hard, dry cane guides the steps of the blind man.

36'

Prayer and praise that ascend towards God fall back on us in multiplied blessings, just as the good thoughts that we send to the living and to the departed, return to us in the form of unexpected gifts.

A single verse shall enlighten one, while the other shall see nothing in the whole Book.
"There is no why nor how for that which IS."

37'

Look how the word of the Lord makes the believer germinate, and how it hardens the impious one! "Oh, depth! oh, mystery! oh, secret judgement of the Perfect One!"

Let us be those who do not manage themselves, but who have faith in the God who brings order to the chaos.
- Let us be those who demand nothing, but who seek eternal life.
- Let us be those who do not take possession, but who pray to him who showers us with blessings.
- Let us be those who do not envy, but who enjoy the gifts of the God of love.
- Let us be those who do not bustle about, but who work with the God of resurrection.
- Let us be those who do not condemn, but who ask God's forgiveness for everyone.
- Let us be those who do not amass, but who imitate the God of charity.
- Let us be those who do not fight, but who are patient with the God who separates and unites.
- Let us be those who do not kill, but who manifest the life of God by uniting heaven and earth.

38'

The ungrateful and the impious are not close to God, but neither are the flatterers and the hypocrites.
- The debauched and the lazy are not close to God, but neither are the moralists and the workers.
- The ignorant and the stupid are not close to God, but neither are the scholars and the intelligent.
- The rebels and the blasphemers are not close to God, but neither are the resigned and the narrators.
- The sensualists and the spendthrifts are not close to God, but neither are the inhibited and the thrifty.
- The wicked and the furious are not close to God, but neither are the wellintentioned and the snivellers.
- The righteous and the experts are close to God, but so are the charitable and the simple and, above all, those who have goodwill in God.

Let us examine where others are right and where we are wrong. Thus, an agreement shall easily be made by the coming together of similar kinds and the moving apart of opposites.

39'

All that we think, name and do becomes embodied and rushes towards us. Let us, then, pay close attention to our thoughts, to our words and to our actions, so as not to create our own misfortune without knowing it.

Hypocrites, proud men and the wicked destroy themselves mutually and blaspheme the word of God, either by blessing crime or by cursing love, for those who are swollen shall be emptied by the storm, and those who are hardened shall be crushed under the millstone. False brothers against enemy brothers. False devotees against devotees of dead science.

40'

The Lord does not abandon his own, those who love him in their heart and are submissive to the hidden wisdom. The net of misfortune and of extermination shall not close in on them, for the humility of their love and of their knowledge shall pass even through the tight mesh of death.
"How wretched is our love for the Lord, and how nonexistent is our faith in his Providence!"

Many wish to make us believe that they know more than anyone about the mysteries of God, quoting at random the magnificent words of prophets and sages, and interpreting them according to their wretched thoughts of the moment.

41'

Oh, derision! they fight with the light of the holy and wise words, and yet they stagnate in the darkness.
Oh, cruelty! they fight one another with sentences of life, and every day they rot more and more in the dung, for now the deaf lecture us and the blind show us the holy way!

Thus, one moralizes and the other emasculates. The latter dissects and the former stuffs; and they all look like penguins explaining the holy Scripture to other penguins.

42'

It is the practise of God's word and science that shall save us from death, and not our good intentions, our fine words or our great works.

All that we ask with faith and perseverance shall one day be accomplished before our eyes here below.

43'

Let us therefore keep watch attentively over all that enters and all that leaves, so as not to fall into the trap of the deceptive appearances of this world.

Let us do everything to please God and let us endure the blind judgements of the world patiently, without challenge and without profane justification.

44'

The Book shall still be new and present when all the proud productions of the world have returned to nothingness.

Oh, how does the good thought, the good word and the good deed erase the world's sin!
Oh, how does praise, prayer and charity in God deliver the soul of the believer!

45'

He who gave us Being can also take it all back from us and give it all to us again.
Who can believe this in his heart before having seen it with his own eyes?

What shall be the ridicule of all those who shall have explained to us the word of God without having understood it themselves? And what shall be their assurance before the manifested obviousness on the last day?

46'

He who has sown good seed waits confidently for harvest time. (Let us not think we can easily penetrate the inspired word of God if it has not itself first penetrated us.)

The nonbelievers have named us "happy man", for the Lord's love has made us shine even before the blind!

47'

The Lord's temple is his grace within our heart, and the sacrifice is his love for us and our love for him.

They will want to affiliate us to churches, sects or secret societies to explain the inexplicable, for even the believers no longer believe that God is still capable of speaking directly to his children.

48'

We are not looking for slaves, sectarians or sheep, we are looking for men and women capable of living in a free and holy way in God. For the time of flocks is over, and the time of freedom is coming.

The wisdom of God is the freedom and abundance of life offered freely to simple and upright men.
The wisdom of the world is the noise and vanity of the hollow words which the blind reassure themselves with in their night.

49'

The atheist thinks he will survive through his work and his intelligence.
The religious one thinks he will save himself through his hope and resignation.
Hardly one or two sages per century work the miracle of God here below and enter eternity alive.
(Their number is exaggerated on purpose.)

It would be better never to have been born rather than to despise the life we have been given by God, and that we have stupidly darkened.

50'

God's reason is beyond the absurd, the reason of men always remains this side of it.

Not a cent and the reprobation of everyone in exchange for the naked truth.
Money and the aid of the whole world in exchange for the disguised lie.

51'

To be fulfilled by God and to live ignored by the world, and not to be fulfilled by the world and to live ignored by God.

The brutes at least provide the repose for the spirit, while the hypocrites destroy faith, and the delirious communicate the madness of the devil. Happy is he who finds a believer in God and who converses with him about the Unique One; and blessed is he who reaches one of God's saints and who listens to him speak of the Lord of love.
Blissfully happy, most of all, is he who discovers one of God's sages and remains in his divine silence.

52'

Lord, teach us the humility of your holy quest, place a heavy weight on our back and earth in our mouth until we consider the stump from which we were taken, and until your blessing delivers us from the stench of sin and the darkness of death.
Lord, out of compassion, make us be silent and explain nothing profanely and vainly to anyone.

Satan is there to lose the wicked, but he is equally there to send back to God those souls enlightened by love and knowledge.

53'

There is nothing obscure nor hidden in God's love, but in his science all is depth and mystery.

Do we know by any chance who this little child dying before us right now of the plague is?
Is it not the tight-fisted old employer who made a quarter of the town perish from misery?
Who judges God's justice here with the piercing sight of a mole?
Who condemns the wisdom of the Highest with the unshakeable assurance of a log?

54'

Oh, misfortune! The blind have set themselves up as strict judges and the deaf have become merciless executioners. Therefore, faith and charity have grown distant, and misfortune and confusion have now reached their peak in a world disfigured by sin, hate and fear.
"Who can firmly believe in the protection of the Unique One? And who can desperately hope for his holy gift?"

Oh, how subtle is the devil, what a reasoner he is, and how well informed he is about the world!
Oh, how the deceiver disguises himself, how he worms his way in and how skilful he is at trapping God's creatures!

55'

Let us be magnets of life and not magnets of death, and let us know that all that we think takes shape in us and around us and is fed by our words and our acts.

Well-named tempter, how well you test us in the blaze of envy and of pride!
You say "ME", but we reply "GOD".
Oh, enemy, who shall save us from the vertigo of your darkened face, if it is not the love of our brilliant Lord who is so pure?

56'

Therefore, let us pay close attention to what we think and what we say, for if it is good, good shall appear, and if it is evil, likewise evil shall come.
"It is only God's love that truly fulfils and satisfies us. All else quickly disappoints and bores us.
But it is also his holy science that saves us from death here below."

He who pursues the things of the world is quite disappointed at the end of his pursuit, but he who looks for nothing dries up in his sad mediocrity.

57'

He who tirelessly seeks God and his truth has an opportunity to find them here below and the holy assurance of approaching them in heaven.

Let us confide in the Lord, who shall erase our pain and who shall multiply our joy, and let us not confide in the world, which shall envy our joy and reject our grief.

58'

If we love God in humanity and in nature, God will also love us in men and through all his creation.

After everything has been consumed, grace, justice, simplicity, obedience, forgiveness and love shall germinate once again and our God shall repose visibly in his saints, and all those that are saved shall give one another the kiss of peace on an earth whitened and reconciled by resurrection.

59'

The Book could be spun out infinitely; is enough that it has made us touch the sacred root of the beginning and had a glimpse of the holy light of the Perfect One, for the Lord in person shall be the living word of the end for his sages and his saints.

The essential and substantial world shall be separated from the excremental world, and the former shall be glorified with God's saints, while the latter shall be thrown out with the rebels and the wicked.

60'

In the crepuscular beginning of the end, the stars shall come together to form, with the sun, the moon and the saints, the earth of the living fertilized by God, and that shall be then the dark medium of the end.

We shall find God neither through the speculations of our intelligence nor through the work of our hands. We shall find God only by imitating God, for the sowing of our death prepares the harvest of our life.

61'

Then, the light shall return little by little and the queen and the king of heaven shall appear in the divine splendour, and there will be the brilliant end of the end, announced and blessed by the Lord God's prophets.

Our reason, our courage and our work are powerless to open the gates of life for us if divine blessing and inspiration do not accompany them.

62'

The Lord opens up understanding for him who is docile to his voice, and everything turns out for him effortlessly, but he blinds the senseless one who listens only to his own counsel, and leads him to his perdition.

Why work hard and why fight ferociously to obtain life's shadow when the Lord generously offers us divine reality that never runs out?

63'

Do not force the Desired One, my friend, for if she is to come to you, she will appear by herself.
The Lord knows what he is doing, and you still do not know it.

It is good to offer a present to the spiritual master, but which is the intelligent disciple that shall send him a good thought of love?

64'

He who blesses God and his saints in his heart makes part of the Unique One's vestments shine visibly.

Let us be like orphans seeking their Lord feverishly day and night, and then let us become like empty wineskins waiting to be filled with the heavenly nectar.

65'

A living person is forgiven everything, except for being present among the dying ones of this world.
"Oh, holiest sacrifice of the sons of the Unique One!"

We have fallen into the pit of filth and we have swallowed the dark rubbish.
Who shall deliver us now from the stench of the sin that submerges us on all sides?
Who shall cure us of the virulent poison that eats our hearts out and that extinguishes our spirit?
Who shall separate the sanies from the living God?

66'

Oh, miraculous Lord, open our hearts to your holy dew and come and live in us once more in the primary splendour; if not, we are lost forever and no-one shall feel sorry for us in our disconsolate lament here below.
"Wash us, rain of the heavens, and sow us, glorious sun."

It is of course our idiotic presumption that prevents us from recognizing the grandiose work of the Lord of life and light, and it is of course our attentive and holy humility that permits us to discover it in the world.

67'

First, we shall admire the works of men while we are sleeping; then, we shall admire the works of nature when we begin to see clearly. Finally, we shall admire those of God when we are fully awake.

The sin and the fall is to have eaten the poisoned fruit from the dual tree, to have absorbed the living substance with the dead filth and to continue to do so.

68'

Regeneration and redemption is to discover and to eat the pure fruit of the unique tree that shall expel from us the stench, the darkness and the fatal inertia of death.

	There will be a reunion of saved ones, as IEVE has said. JOEL
	Search for God, you all so humble ones of the country who have practised his law. Make search for justice, for humility. Perhaps you will be protected on the day of God's wrath. ZEPHANIAH