BOOK XXII
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You judge with your malice, thinking you can surprise the vigilance of the Lord, but your malice blinds you and leads you to the pit of perdition, and you stupidly snigger when you are spoken to about the upright simplicity that engenders the light of life.
Your reason has become like a mortal poison, and your intelligence is like a scorpion that inoculates itself with its own venom. |
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Now, we speak clearly and nobody listens, but when everyone asks, we shall remain dumb as a stump, and those that scorn us now shall be furious at not obtaining a response, for the danger shall be here and shall oppress them all over, and the anguish of fear shall make them interested in the things they scorned during the time of their impious assurance. |
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Be only yourself, question only yourself, penetrate only yourself, lose yourself only in yourself, find yourself only in yourself, repose only in yourself and you shall approach the Lord of within, who accomplishes all things in you without you. |
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Creation, man, art, are not perfectible, in the sense that they have only gone astray, and that their most perfect accomplishment is only the return to their initial perfection.
"There is something better than seizing the obviousness of life, and that is to participate in its primitive purity." |
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Many are ignorant of God's things, but to crown it all, these ignorant ones now judge and condemn those who have been instructed in the mysteries of the Unique One.
Let us pray that the divine whip leads them back to the silence, to the obedience and to the humility that suit their condition of incurable deaf and blind ones.
"The agitation of the world is so great, Lord, and our voice is so weak that we measure sadly the madness of our preaching." |
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Condemned here below to suffer the hypocrites in the world, in our houses and in our hearts, we aspire more and more to the communion of the saints where God's children shall welcome us kindly, and where nobody shall rise up against us because of our love for the Unique One, but on the contrary, where all shall spontaneously associate themselves with our praises, our blessings and our joy in the Lord of the centre. |
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Come, men of all nations, eat, drink, rejoice and live, for the Book is given to you in preference to that shrewd, wily and impious people, whose intelligence has become the greatest stupidity there can be. |
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Oh, fatherland blessed by God and nourished by the holy Virgin, here you are, you have become like a prostitute who dishonours the family of the living and prefers the stream full of foreign waste to the table of her Lord and master! |
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Let your eyes remain stopped, your ears remain closed, oh, super intelligent ones! and let foreigners eat your bread and drink your wine while mocking you; let them strip you of your heritage and let them share out your riches; let them reduce you to slavery and make you work for nothing on your own land, so that we can hear your wit and so that we can appreciate your subtle jesting about God and about his salvation, about God and about his wrath, if you still dare. |
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If you refuse, that shall be your end. Sapped, broken into pieces, burned to ashes and dispersed by the wind, without return and without forgiveness. Without name, without memory and without prayer forever. But if you rise up from the mud, if you empty your abscesses, if you wash yourself in the water of grace, if you wear the nuptial clothes and if you submit yourself to your magnificent Lord, you shall reflower the first among the nations, as you had been the first to fall; and your light shall light up the world and your peace shall charm all hearts. You shall be called blessed, born of the spirit and of the heart, and you shall reign without violence over the peoples who have become wiser. |
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Oh, city of birth, there you are like a pile of corpses going cold, and your ancient pretension is dying with you. Within your walls nothing can no longer be heard but the noise of cattle ruminating heavily, and one can no longer breathe anything but the odour of the dung that rots in you. The holy Cordon has not saved you from the plague of the mediocre, and the blows have not opened up your understanding. |
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Oh, most spiritual capital, they say you are the most advanced, but it must be understood as though of rotten meat that already transpires the putrefaction of the charnel-house of death. Always saved miraculously, the Lord's patience shall tire one day, and you shall swim in tears and blood, and you shall dry out in the ashes before being renewed through heavenly grace. |
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It is useless to run around in circles and to bustle about left, right and centre in order to avoid having to solve the enigma of life and death that is proposed to us here below, for the enigma subsists, and finally devours those who have been unable to solve it. |
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No more letters, no more numbers, no more locks, no more doors, no more walls, no more prisons, no more tombs and no more deaths for him who finds, who matures and who eats the unity of the Unique One. |
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When we are mortally sad without knowing why, it is because we empty ourselves of the things of the world and do not fill ourselves with those of God.
Indeed, that which is full of world resists God due to its dead weight, and that which is full of God resists the world due to its living weight, while that which is empty of world and of God finds itself unbearably crushed between heaven and earth, which then come together without blessing or fertilization. |
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When we have reached the light of the Unique One, all those who have desires shall see them accomplished and shall swim in the plenitude of God. But those who do not have desires shall see God, shall enter God, and God shall penetrate them, and they shall repose in the void of God, which is the hub of God's plenitude. But that is reserved for a small number of chosen ones, who possess the oil of love and of knowledge. |
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A prostitute who loves for love is better than an irreproachable woman who loves for herself, for the former knows the charity of love and neither judges nor does violence to anything in the name of her shameful love, while the latter knows only the jealousy of greed, and condemns and bullies everything without pity in the name of her devouring love. |
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If there are irreproachable women who love according to the love that is given and not according to that which takes everything, make them known to us, clear-sighted Lord, and give them to us as an inheritance, so that our children are made in your holy resemblance.
"Give us, oh Lord, that which is bone of our bones and flesh of our flesh, according to your holy science." |
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Those who think they can observe with their own strength God's commandments as well as the multitude of men's prohibitions, collapse under the fantastic burden, and crawl miserably in the mud of sin, affecting an air of superiority before those who do not disguise their weaknesses. Therefore, hypocrisy, pride and hardness are born and become fortified, through too much confidence in oneself and not enough faith in God. |
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We must begin by asking for God's help without being too concerned about the state which we find ourselves in, for he himself shall put his house in order if we let him do it in his way, without hindering him with our blind efforts. The observance of his laws shall then become for us light work, instead of being an unbearable burden, and we shall swim naturally in his holiness without effort and without fatigue, like he who floats on the great water. |
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Parents, who do all the work in the house, let little children believe that their aid is indispensable, while the latter do nothing but hinder them and slow them down in their task. And parents even let their children believe they have done all the work by themselves, and the pride of the little children makes the adults smile, knowing full well what chaos the house would fall into if they were not there to keep it in order. |
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Thus, God does all the work in us, and when through our efforts we think we are helping him, we only hinder him and hold him back, but he also smiles paternally and lets us believe we are useful so as not to discourage our nascent goodwill, for when we have grown in the faith and the love of God, we shall be able to help him by listening to his word in our hearts and by manifesting it in the world. |
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Finally, the nonbelievers, seeing nothing but the idolatry of images and of individuals, have rejected everything in a disorderly way, but they have fallen into an even worse idolatry, which is that of matter, which seals them in death without return. For essence, substance and filth are inextricably confused in it, and if they succeed in using the raw matter, however they are not able to separate it in an elemental way, and if they do succeed in separating it, it is with such violence and such scattering that they cannot join it together again in purity, for it has disappeared before their eyes full of malice and profane science. |
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The Lord simplifies the law, and they complicate it inextricably. The Lord walks on water, and they sink into the earth. The Lord gives freely, and they sell even death. The Lord revives gloriously, and they rot ignominiously. The intelligent have become a calamity for the world, for their intelligence is applied to the surface of things, or spins round and round vertiginously without advancing, and when it seeks the inside of things, it is to volatilize them. But in reality it destroys nothing, and it is thus that they sink more and more into the hell that they themselves have created. |
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