The Message Rediscovered -Book XXVII

BOOK XXVII

	On earth there are priests in charge of celebrating a worship that is no more than the image and shadow of heavenly things. PAUL
	Behold a mystery that I reveal to you; we shall not all die, but we shall all be changed. PAUL

UN IVER ÉTÉ

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All misfortune that strikes us here below is a marvellous opportunity for asceticism to return in God if we know how to accept it cheerfully instead of rejecting it. But many prefer to return to wallow in the mud of the world.

If the blind pride of the organizers of this world and the absurd atrocity of death do not lead us back to God, how can the words of the Book ever be heard by the men exiled in this dark land?

How many can understand that without being scandalized in their spirits and in their hearts of blind and deaf men?

Let us not fall asleep on the little joys of this world, for they pass quickly and the misfortune that follows seems endless.

It is not for us to judge what happens to us. It is up to us only to make use of it without argument, in order to reach God and his salvation as quickly as possible.

Let us be very careful to use immediately all that happens to us for our rescue in God, so that we avoid the rebellion that plunges us into the absurdity of death, and the resignation that makes us stagnate in it.

To attach oneself to the house, the office, the workshop, the barracks or the monastery is all the same thing.

To become accustomed to prison or to become accustomed to the fallen world is the same thing, for the best organization shall not save us from it.

Saints separate and unite things in heaven.
Scholars separate and unite things on earth.

It is most difficult of all to separate and unite the things of heaven with those of the earth. Only the sages achieve it, with the aid of God.

There is no danger in praying so as to receive God's gift, but there is a considerable danger in trying to discover the secret of the Unique One. Many have found there impiety, madness or death.

There shall be many loved ones saved, but there shall be few possessors who will be established in glory and scarcely any experts who will be unified in the unique Splendour.

Let us leave the proud believers who want to lecture others and who think they are automatically saved by the formulas and symbols of their religion, which they stupidly confuse with the living reality of God's gift.

Let us consider their sermons, but let us also consider the mud that covers them from head to foot and we shall understand that they do not preach like the saved, but rather cry out like lost ones. They illustrate, unknowingly, the parable of the blind leading the blind.

Many of those who have seen, heard and touched the Lord have not known his hidden doctrine. How could those who now preach to us through images suspect the living secret that gives life to all of them?

Let these be prudent, humble and timid when lecturing us about the Lord who saves from death; for they themselves are not yet saved or enlightened in God.

The ashes of the impious and the wicked who die anchored in their wickedness and in their denial of God shall be scattered in the six directions or abandoned in the earth, and be forbidden to return among the believers submitted to God.

The ashes of the believers and the charitable ones who die confirmed in their faith and in their love for God shall be brought together so as to be honoured in every home, on the altar of rough stones dedicated to God.

We were looking for the glorious crowning stone in heaven, but the Lord has made us see the humble foundation stone that was at our feet, so that we pick it up in the darkness of death and bring it to the light of life.

10'

Shall we not be grateful to the Lord who looks lovingly at us despite our blackness?
Shall we not be confused at being the object of the fertilizing love of the Highest?
Shall we not be resurrected in glory by the word of life of the All-Powerful One who desires us as supernatural children?

The foundation stone is the most despised because it is dark, but it is the most precious one, for all the others are hidden in it.

11'

Thus, the black people is the most despised, but it is also the best, for it shall make all the others shine in the rediscovered Lord.

The Book is not for those who think they are saved, but for those who want to be saved.

12'

We have not come to give a drink to those who are drowning, nor to give food to those who vomit because of their surplus.

We have not come to give water to those who stupidly think they can quench their thirst by reciting the formula of water and who reject the cup of life.

13'

The Lord discharges us of meticulous obligations so that, having been the most enslaved in death, we become the most free in holy life.

We shall leave our dead resting for four days so that they can resuscitate in particular, after which we shall burn them so that their ashes join the ashes of the ancestors until the great day of general resurrection.

14'

Let him who wishes to participate in the figure of the sacraments among his brothers do so freely, and let him who wishes to participate in them secretly in the Lord also do so freely, without anyone judging the choice of one or the other.

14"

Only the rotting bodies shall be consumed by fire or buried in the earth itself. The holy bodies that remain in a good state shall be carefully conserved until the time of the resurrection.

Let the educating fathers and judges be at least sixty years old, the counselling brothers and guardians at least forty years old, and let the believers who freely choose the light yoke of the Lord be at least twenty years old. However, the Holy Spirit has no age.

15'

The law is now engraved in our hearts and no longer in the stone, for our hearts know what is good and what is bad. Thus, freedom of choice is given to us so that our reward or our punishment are a healthy example for the world that watches us.

We think we run after God, but God still runs much more after us.

16'

Even in the sewer of the world, is he not with us to pull us out of it?

The whites who receive the Book are the first inheritors, but they are not superior to the blacks in anything. Let us consider them all as equal brothers in the love of God, and let us receive them with great affection, but let us not mix them up with each other.

17'

Do not be ashamed of the black colour that God has chosen for you, for it is in that that all the others are hidden. Do you not know that the light came out of the darkness in the beginning, and that in the end shall rest in the golden splendour?

It is because the Book has been refused by the right-thinking ones that the Lord has offered it to simple men. Let us therefore thank the Lord for the gift he grants to us, and let us thank the right-thinking ones who have therefore unknowingly sent it to us.

18'

The Lord's humour is great, and mocks the over-intelligent and the overscholarly in an unheard-of manner.
The peoples that inherit the doctrine of heaven that have become proud have all experienced it in their time.

It is black freedom that shall enlighten the world and it is the black people that shall manifest once again the light of God in the world, for the black age nurtures the heavenly clarity.

19'

It is a promise of the Lord that shall be accomplished before our eyes if we receive his inheritance without hesitation, for he chooses whoever he pleases to make his glory shine on earth.

If we acquire titles, degrees and diplomas of vanity in the world, God shall immediately close our spirit and heart to his grandiose revelation, and he shall leave us to rot in pride and death without help.

20'

Let us run away even more from the impious scholars and intellectuals than from anyone, for they are not content with being dead in spirit and in heart, but also spread around them death in the spirit and in the heart of believers.

God only speaks to simple men who believe in his NAME, and only inspires his children who obey his VOICE.

21'

He who is boastful, even though it may be of the revelation of God, loses the revelation and loses himself.

God keeps a surprise for us that shall be quite sweet for some and quite cruel for others, for God's saved ones shall walk peacefully through the blaze while praising his holy NAME, while the reprobates shall rip each other apart without mercy or forgiveness in the devouring flames of hell.

22'

Let us imagine the powerless rage of the wicked when they realize that rottenness has no hold on the body of the chosen ones any more, while it has redoubled its effectiveness in that which concerns them! The saved shall not even think of laughing on seeing this spectacle, and the reprobates shall not think of crying, so great shall be the amazement of everyone.

Let us carefully preserve our precious faith in the Lord of life and let us keep away from the impious, for on the last day the scholars and the intelligent of the world shall scream under the blows of death.

23'

The simple children of God shall watch them in astonishment, for they themselves shall remain unharmed in the flames of the devouring fire, and misfortune shall never again reach them.

The Christian aristocracy of knowledge was decapitated from the beginning, and the symbols, the people, the rites and the sacraments have substituted the transcendent reality of the divine mystery.

24'

Thus, those who have proudly believed themselves to be the most enlightened have become idolatrous, blind and superstitious without knowing it and, demanding blind faith for all, have placed the light of God once more under the bushel and have deprived themselves of it.

Nonbelievers can be converted and approach the mystery of life so as to be saved, but how can the believers that have shut themselves away in the dead images of God's secret discover the tan-

25'

It is better to know nothing than to half know something and remain obstinately fixed in it, thinking oneself to be instructed about the all. However perfect it may be, the image of a flower has gible reality of the Lord descended from heaven and who saves from death?

The more a man is annoyed with his condition of a beast exiled in the fallen world, the more he is considered by other men as an abnormal and dangerous being, but the more he is resigned to his condition of a slave serving death, the more he is considered here below as a normal and reasonable being.

26'

The worst rebel can be saved if he is instructed and helped in a brotherly way, instead of being repressed and blindly destroyed. And the worst criminal can be converted if he is aided by the gift of the spirit and the heart of men, instead of being exterminated in his rough body.

The courage, ingenuity and work of men may well prolong somewhat their time in the prison of the world, but all of this could not give them back immortality, which is the only thing that really counts.

27'

What we must be concerned with above all is not to struggle against anyone in this world prisoner of darkness, but instead to survive long enough to find the palpable salvation of God, which is the only thing that saves us from death.

The nonbelievers are those that crush their brothers in the world while seeking their own love, their own freedom, their own justice, their own profit and their own assurance.

28'

The believers are those that seek in heaven the love, the freedom, the justice and the gift of God, in order to manifest them on earth for the safeguard of all.

The cruel circumstances that govern us in this world are conditioned by our mortal state. It would be enough for us to acquire the intangible and glorious body of the heavenly Lord so as to be delivered from misfortune forever.

29'

He who examines that which is and not that which he thinks to be is quickly enlightened by God, if he asks him humbly and simply in his heart, for without divine inspiration the very obviousness of life is not perceived here below.

It is just as worthless to lie dying here below before God in despair or in self-satisfaction, in rebellion or in resignation, in success or in failure, for the end is death for everyone.

30'

Only he who seeks and finds the incarnate Lord is no longer worthless before God, for he acquires the divine substance and is no longer subject to the accidents of death that crush the fallen man.

Cursed be the wicked spirits that deceive us, that fetter us and that harm us during the time of our quest! Let them be hurled into hell and let them destroy one another just like they rip us up right now!

31'

Cursed be the philosophers, the intellectuals and the scholars who preach their own systems that lead men to desperation and death! Let them be reduced to dust and scattered in the wind, the cowards and hypocrites that make the saints of God perish and that stifle their voices in the world!

Tepidness, humidity and darkness precede.

32'

Heat, dryness and light finish.

Is the black virgin not the first and most mysterious of all mothers? Is it not she whom God has looked at amorously since the beginning? Is it not she who has given birth to the light that illuminates the world?

33'

Oh, you who have black skin and red heart, shall you not also make the purity of your eye and the whiteness of your light shine in the world ? Shall you not receive the Lord among you in a holy way and shall you not make room for his envoys?

At present, there shall be a black community heirs to the holy foundation stone placed by the anointed one of God, because, for the first time, a Book and a prophet are given to the black peoples in particular, while formerly the divine revelation had been offered to them like a bone which is thrown to the dogs, to make it easier to put the collar of slavery on them.

34'

Shall you not give thanks to the Lord who now takes care to break the bone so as to offer you the nourishing marrow?
Shall you not receive the holy gift of the unique Splendour weeping with joy?
Shall you not kiss piously the Book that places you above the scholars and intelligent of this world?

The Lord does not send you a glorious, rich and powerful man. He sends you a poor, despised and unknown man. Take good note of that so that you never become proud of the message you are given and so that you never lose its living and hidden spirit.
"Keep it in your hearts and shine in God."

35'

Does the Book not revere God's prophets and venerate the sons of God?
Does the Book not proclaim the preciousness of the flesh and the blood of the great King immolated for all on the earth?
Does the Book not make us heirs to the glory of the Lord resurrected in the transcendence of immortal life?

The Lord has bequeathed to us, finally, all the black peoples of the earth. Oh, marvellous Lord! oh, precious inheritance that fulfils us far beyond all hopes!

36'

Likewise, the Lord has given you, finally, the rediscovered message and prophet. What shall you say of your Lord and what shall you say of your inheritance that fulfil you so magnificently?

The prophet said: "And the light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not received it", but this darkness was like a twilight that ended in the death of the letter. At present, we can say: "And the light shall shine in the darkness and the darkness shall receive it", for this new darkness is like a dawn that prepares itself in the secret of hearts purified and fertilized by God.

37'

A small number of whites spit out again the poison of impious science so as to survive, but a small number of blacks swallow it, and these are already dead for the divine revelation.
Finally, idiocy shall appear a relaxing and desirable thing compared to the reasoning madness of the scholars and the intelligent of the world, who lie dying in their conceited ignorance.

It has to be said: the wicked are those who wish to organize and to save the world through their work or through the work of others. They set themselves up as saviours of men, while they cheerfully bury all mankind.

38'

God truly possesses a marvellous humour, for he hides his secret from the scholars and the intelligent who explain the Universe to us, and he reveals it to the simple children of God who put their confidence in his light of life more than in their own learning.

One day God shall say to the pigs: "Do not throw pearls at men", for men shall have placed themselves below the beasts.

39'

And the earth shall shake out its parasites, and heaven shall dissolve them in the fire of divine wrath.

Let us draw lots for our representatives among those who have sworn obedience to God and loyalty to their brothers in the faith, for the choice of chance is less blind than that of men.

40'

Let us do the same for the help and the offerings destined for the seekers of the Unique One, for in this way, a saint can be helped by God, while otherwise he would always be ignored by men.

A simple person who believes in his heart in the intelligence, the power and the love of God is worth more than all the scholars who believe in their own intelligence, their own learning and in their own superiority in the world.

41'

Let us sing hymns of love to the all-powerful Lord who swims in heaven and in our hearts, so that, even in the midst of our joys and our grief, our faith remains turned towards him who consoles us from all exile and who saves us from all death.

It is the poor who allow the rich to live, and it is those that produce with their hands who allow the merchants to live. The hardened exploiters shall lose their arrogant assurance on the day of reckoning.

42'

If God were to say to us on the day of judgement: "Get away, you are not inscribed in the book of life", we would nevertheless praise his holy Name among the damned and we would sing his praise in the madness of our love that cannot perish.

As an artist, we received unemployment benefit from the capital. But as the author of the Book we have only been given the right to the scorn and silence of the big city and of the entire country.
"The reward of the prophets shall strike the world with stupor."

43'

Our works and our writings have not pleased the scholars, nor the intelligent, nor the merchants of these times, for the impiety of some has coupled with the hypocrisy of the others to engender the judgement that recognizes nothing of that which comes from the children of God.

Have we sought the glory of the world?
Have we tried to dominate anyone here below?
Have we amassed the goods of the earth for our sole use?

44'

We have searched for the only glory of the Lord of life.
We have made ourselves a servant of God and of men.
We have collected the gifts of heaven and we offer them freely to all.

Incapable of earning our living on earth by our labour, how might we earn our heavenly life solely through our own merit if God does not benevolently aid us?

45'

Men have had the goodness to give us a little food out of charity, and God has had the goodness to give us alms and grant us a little light; that is why we consider ourselves privileged and fulfilled in one world and the other.

Let each black nation keep in a holy way the revealed word of God in its heart, and let it carefully preserve the Book of deliverance that has been given to it, as it would preserve a unique talisman on which was written the secret of deliverance from slavery and death.

46'

Depending on whether the NAME of God rises or falls, it is a blessing or a curse; for it has an obverse and a reverse. Thus, the same NAME can produce life or it can make death appear, according to the way in which it is presented to us, and also according to the way we present ourselves to it.

The smallest consoler and liberator in God is worth more than all the great conquerors and organizers of the world. That is what we must never forget.

47'

He who loves God beyond human reason makes shine the divine intelligence that enlightens the worlds and that makes purified hearts shine.

Shall we not be shrewder than those who exploit us and bully us?
Shall we not receive for ourselves the Book that they scornfully fling away from themselves?

48'

The word of God can save us from the slavery and death in which we lie dying, just as it can hurl into them the hypocrites and impious ones who overwhelm us with their impious assurance and self-importance.

It is a miracle of God that we have been able to write the Book at such a moment without dying of hunger and without being thrown out onto the street; for sure, those who have helped us shall have their material and spiritual reward in this world and in the other.
How small their number is! And how great it shall become!

49'

Subjecting ourselves in advance to the judgement of God, to the judgement of the sons of God, to the judgement of the friends of God and to the judgement of the prophets of God, we cannot fear the judgement of the intelligent of the world, nor that of the powerful of the world, nor that of the scholars of the world, nor that of the hypocrites and ignorant ones who bury us at present.

Let us honour the language of the Book and let us conserve it in remembrance of the gift that has reached us through it. Let us also honour the students of the Book and let us help them in remembrance of him through whom the message has come to us.

50'

The fault consists in leaving the seekers of God in abandonment and destitution. But the crime consists in forcing them into the works of the world on the hypocritical pretext of utilizing them or saving them.

Lanza is right, at the beginning of the Book, when he claims that there is only a small number of starving people who seek the truth in the world.

51'

Alas! we are indeed nothing more than a handful before God, and we do not even know one another in order to help each other in our quest.

Whatever his value, his talent and his usefulness, the man who is alone is condemned by man's society to perish, for being weak, mediocre and cowardly by nature, these people can only live in flocks where everything is exchanged sordidly and where nothing is given freely.

52'

That which appears advantageous in the world is not so before God. Thus, the man who is alone is loved and saved by God, while he is despised and rejected by the world; meanwhile, the flocks of self-assured and skilful ones go satisfied with their success to the slaughterhouses of death.

52"

However, the married man is doubly blessed by God.

The shrewd and the intelligent ones of the world who have placed their trust in their astuteness and their skill shall one day be scattered in the darkness of death and shall cry in vain for help in the abomination and the desolation that shall be their lot forever.
They shall no longer rejoice as they do now.

53'

The lonely ones who seek their Lord here below shall one day be reunited in the lap of God, and shall recognize one another, congratulate one another and embrace one another weeping with joy, for then all shall be given to them freely in the eternity of the love of the Perfect One, and their joy shall be endless.
They shall no longer cry as they do now.

By frequenting the world we shall reap the salary of the world, which is death.

54'

Let us frequent God and we shall receive the salary of God, which is saved life.

Oh, Lord, why are there so many men indifferent to your grace who establish themselves in the agony of the world? And why are there so few children who look for you with love and with overcoming in eternal life?

55'

Because, says the Lord, I desire for each one of my cherished ones a multitude of slaves to serve him. And just as I have chosen my saved ones because they have chosen themselves, also I have condemned the reprobates because they have also condemned themselves.

Shall those to whom we have given all not offer us the bread and wine necessary for the earthly representation of the communion of God's sages and saints in heaven?

56'

"My love is not blind and my justice is not shaky, says the Lord, and one never goes without the other."

We were not born into a rich family and no-one has instructed us in the mysteries of God. We have had to dis-

57'

We did not write the Book in the peace and security of a holy retreat. We wrote it from beginning to end in the cover all by ourselves the wise and holy Scriptures, and we have had to study them in poverty and in abandonment, so that no-one should think himself forgotten, whatever his state here below.

	We honour the royal splendour that restores the world, rendering it immortal, ageless, incorruptible, without infection, always alive, always prosperous, in possession of power at will, so that the dead are resurrected and there comes the immortality of the living being who restores the world as it pleases him. ZARATHUSTRA
	Oh, radiant one high up in heaven! Allow me to reach the height of heaven for eternity... All faces light up with joy on seeing you... Your brilliance is without equal. THE EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD