BOOK XXIV
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Oh, my Lord, do you not hear the ignorant shepherds who, in order to flatter the mediocre and the hypocrites, acclaim the profane science and its mercenary scholars in the holy place?
Violence, ignorance and vanity have invaded their hands, their spirits and their hearts, and here are those that lead astray and corrupt the flocks entrusted to their safe-keeping. destroy your holy and precious images. Oh come! holy Lord, with your whip and your crosier, with your cane and your sword, with your winnowing basket that sifts and separates the wheat from the chaff. |
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If there are still intelligent and inspired men of God in the Churches, these shall examine their Scriptures up to the secret foundation where the immovable and imperishable stone established by God, established of God, established in God shines. These shall read the Book attentively, and the praise from their hearts shall rise towards the Highest like the pure flame of the holy offering. These shall denounce without fear the accursed science that does violence to (This is the verse of the meeting and of the warning, which shall be repeated three times.) nature, beings and things, and that sells death at a high price to all. These shall recall the science of God that does violence to nothing and nobody and that gives life freely to all. |
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Let us receive with humility, but also with effusiveness and love, those who come to ask us for information about God and about his salvation, and let us recommend to them the assiduous reading of the wise and holy Scriptures, instead of rebuffing them with boring sermons and arrogant opinions. |
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Servant of God, friend of God, children of God, lover of God are enviable, true, unique and secret titles. All the rest are, by comparison, like the titles of an ex-convict, of which there is nothing to be proud. |
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Neither believers nor atheists suspect God's science exists, hidden behind the symbols, writings and figures of revealed religions. Those who believe in it try to appropriate it through cunning and violence.
A few of them ask God for it in their heart, and scarcely one or two obtain it in the century. |
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The master, on visiting the disciple's dwelling, broke everything except a bottle, then burned everything he could burn except the holy Scriptures, then extinguished the ashes with water except for a half-burnt stick. Finally, he opened all the windows, except that which faced north, and then he left for the south without a word. |
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Since filth, rottenness, slavery, suffering, lying and death are inextricably linked to this world, what else can we expect but the absurd on wanting to organise ourselves in it, on wanting to dominate in it, or on accepting to decay in it or waiting to perish in it, even though it be in a holy way? |
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Is not the only effective solution to seek solely the salvation of life, transmitted by the Lord descended from heaven and embodied among us for our reintegration in eternal and pure life? Is it not said: "Seek first the kingdom of God and its correct use, and all the rest shall be given to you in addition"? |
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Let us unite a small number of chosen ones by the heart and let us promise before God: help, love and fidelity in this exiled world. Thus, the Lord in person shall bless our ventures and shall guide our quest.
"If we are struck down, let us return to God, and if we are fulfilled, let us bound towards him." |
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If we do not search for God's salvation with constancy, with perseverance, with stubbornness, with stupidity, with frenzy, we shall obtain nothing but the outer layer of holy things. "Should we not beg the world to obtain a portion of the dead things that it sells so dearly to everyone?" |
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