The Message Rediscovered -Book XXX

BOOK XXX

	We shall reduce to dust all that decorates the earth. KORAN
	Let the dust return to the earth according to how it was, and let the spirit return to God who gave it. ECCLESIASTES

VUE TERNIE

THE DARKNESS

How can we think of the Lord and how can we pray to him, praise him and bless him when we are exposed to the recriminations, the screeching, the cries and even the howling of the profane world?

He who can retire to a room or a quiet place, does he know his luck and his happiness?
"Hell is certainly not favourable to prayers."

A small trickle of the great waters hardly reaches us at present, and we lie dying in the world, asking for grace.

One day, we shall swim in the immensity of the heavenly sea, and all shall be given to us in profusion, even before we have asked for it.

All that comes from heaven and is not received by men wanders over the earth and overflows over nature.

The blessing that is not received and absorbed overflows and changes into a curse for the ungrateful ones.

He who is with God has no time to be against anyone.

All word of hate that will be whispered to us, even against the enemies of God, is not God's. That is clear and precise.

It is the spirit of possession, of recrimination, of oppression and of aggression that engenders misery, hate, slavery and misfortune in the world.

God punishes the wicked ones that unjustly take hold of the life of beings and things. Our sight is short, but the judge's memory is inexorable.

Nobody has the right to prosper here below if he does not profess impious atheism or if he does not display a hypocritical faith, for each group concerns itself with its own affairs and despises those of God.

They all bear the initials of the Beast as a mark and as a flag, and they destroy themselves in the end, for they are God's enemies, because they deny him publicly, or betray him in secret.

There is no longer room in the world for the believers of God who adore his holy Name in their hearts.

Their life is parsimoniously measured out for them, and soon it shall be totally questioned.

The believers shall restore the purity of God's Church, and the priests that have remained faithful to God in their hearts shall be with them for the work of resurrection.

The hypocrites and the impious shall be thrown out of God's paradise, and they shall accuse each other and rip each other apart without mercy and without forgiveness in the darkness of exile.

The secret of God is certainly holy, but the Churches that guard it are no longer so, unfortunately!, through the fault of those that constitute them.

Our duty is to denounce the intrusion of earthly affairs in the bosom of God's Churches.

Likewise our duty is to restore these Churches to the primary purity and simplicity, close to the will of God and far away from the passions of the world.

10'

The hypocrites, the half-hearted and the impious shall be driven out, and everything shall be renewed in the Lord of life and truth for the good of his faithful creation.

The passer-by of God opens the holy flask that the old prostitute kept hidden under her rags.

11'

And after taking the first drink, he offers her the flask full of the golden liquor of the Gods.

With the first sip, she becomes young and beautiful once more, and all those who shunned her in horror return to her full of love and respect.

12'

While those who maintained her in her vices and who exploited her shamelessly, fall to the ground under the weight of their iniquities that rebound on them.

With the second swig, the whole body of her beauty shines with the sweet light of God and her rags lie consumed at her feet.

13'

A divine perfume is exhaled from all her splendour and reaches her rediscovered children who inhale the good odour of life.

With the third drink, she sings with the angels the praises of her creator and, veiled by her golden locks, she dances the step of free and holy life with the virgins.

14'

Her children enter the dance and join in with their songs of joy under the loving gaze of the Father, who rejoices in his rediscovered and saved family.

The breath of the Holy Spirit is a breath of life and light that drives out death and its darkness.

15'

It is a breath of love that consoles the humble ones, but it is also a breath of justice that breaks the proud ones.

It is a breath that gives life to believers, but that can be a death blow to the impious, for it is the breath of God that falls and rises, that rests and beats, that blows where it wants, without anyone being able to guess where it comes from nor where it is going.

16'

It is the Spirit of God that does everything in and outside us. Therefore, we must not be proud of anything, for then we attribute to ourselves that which is entrusted to us, but which does not belong to us.
"ART, GLORY and JUDGEMENT belong only to God."

The triumphant imbeciles may well split their sides with laughter on reading the Book of the secret; we must not be offended or annoyed about that.

17'

We must rather laugh with them, for however stupid and pretentious they may be, the different tone of our joy shall soon make them understand that we are not laughing at the same thing as them.

All that the hypocritical pedants might invent and say about the Book, and about us, must not sadden or revolt us.

18'

Whatever the perfidy of their slander and whatever the virulence of their venom, they shall not be able to erase the inspired word of the heart of the believers and they shall not be able to sully us before God.

The two witnesses shall be exposed to the view of all in the public square and shall be guarded by the army rabble just as the Lord was on the cross.

19'

One on his belly and the other on his back, three days and two nights, thus shall be exposed the first who come last.

When they straighten up under the breath of the Holy Spirit, they shall find themselves face to face, one on his knees and the other seated.

20'

So as also to be witnesses for each other to the miracle of God, and so that their praises rise in a single thrust towards the Lord of life and of resurrection.

The terror of the wicked ones shall then reach its height, and their boasting, which triumphed, shall become dumb with fright, for their water shall abandon them and they shall dry out before the eyes of the Highest, who shall reduce them to ashes.

21'

The joy of the believers shall also reach its height and the assurance of their faith shall become senseless, after having weakened in the extreme, for the water of grace shall flow in them abundantly, and the love of the Highest shall establish them in imperishable life.

The Father-God is the NAME of God unexpressed in the secret of the Water-God.

22'

God is hidden in his NAME.

The Water-God is the NAME of God which falls and rises in oneself.

23'

And his NAME is life.

The Spirit-God is the NAME of God which moves in all directions over the Water-God.

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And his NAME is alive.

The Body-God is the NAME of God which manifests and fixes itself in the Water-God.

25'

And his NAME feeds on life.

25"

Thus, God is he who IS, through that which he IS, in that which he IS, for that which he IS.

With God, here we are above everything. Without God, here we are below everything.

26'

The thing is easy to verify in and around us.

It is God's favours that make the proud one blind and futile.

27'

The gifts of God are what give the intelligent one the measure of his poverty in everything.

Thus, the conceited ignorant one attributes the derisory glory of the world to himself.

28'

Thus, the believer who has been instructed attributes to God alone the glory of all creation.

We can love God with all our heart and remain turned towards him as much as possible in this restless and greedy world.

29'

Though that will not mean we shall obtain the material help that would deliver us from the tyrannical worry of earning or begging our daily subsistence.

Therefore, the spiritual frequenting of the Unique One fills us with spiritual joy, but leaves us in material destitution.

30'

It is only the spiritual and substantial possession of the Lord of abundance that shall fulfil us in heaven and on earth.

Many receive the intellectual gifts of the world.

31'

And a large number receive the material goods of the world.

Only a few receive the spiritual gifts of God.

32'

And barely one or two receive the palpable goods of God.

Riches without the sun of God are a curse that engenders misery and desolation.

33'

Poverty with the sun of God is a blessing that engenders riches and joy.

Who can approach the cup of immortality?

34'

And who can wet his lips with the divine beverage?

Who possesses the nectar of the immortals?

35'

And who knows the origin of the wine of God?

The nonbeliever relies only on himself in this world, but the believer above all relies on God in heaven.

36'

When one curses, the other blesses for the same reason. That is a sign we must note well.

Thus, the saints bless the brimming floods of heavenly grace that fulfil them, while the impious ones curse the overflow they have not received and that swallows them up.

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Likewise, the saints bless the fire of heavenly love that matures them and consolidates them, while the impious curse the superabundance of love that they have not lodged and that consumes them.

One must be deeply sunk into the bestial state to feel good in the stench of death that dwells in us and oozes from everywhere.

38'

How can one remain there at ease? How can one settle there comfortably? How can one rest there peacefully? How can one cling on there frantically?

Is it not because of the divine inheritance that subsists miraculously in us beneath the ignominy of the foreign filth?

39'

Would we not do better to separate these two, in the holy contemplation of God, rather than mixing them more and more in the worthless restlessness of the world?

He who praises the Lord for all he receives and for all that leaves him, for all that happens to him and for all that does not happen to him, is truly enlightened by God and his deliverance from the exile of death is assured.

40'

Who shall give us the intelligence to judge no more with our blind eyes, and who shall give us the prudence to recriminate no more with our imbecilic tongues? Who shall give us the intelligence to draw our life from heaven, and who shall give us the patience to ripen it on earth?

Everyone fights over words, over ideas, over pre-eminences or over goods, which are like the shadows of the thing, instead of seeking the thing that is the sole substantial reality of the Being that rests in his bosom and that gives life to him.

41'

Holy men designate the thing under a multitude of names and figures, but the thing is unique and remains just as it is in its virginity or in its maternity, and manifests its holiest and most secret centre, which is the Lord of life.

It is not sufficient to think we do good; it is absolutely necessary for us to do good in order to be saved.

42'

It is not necessary to explain life and its movement; it is sufficient to possess life and the golden unity it conceals.

Knowing all the names of water or bathing in the great water are two quite different things.

43'

Knowing all the properties of gold or possessing the treasure of life are also two quite different things.

Those who speak to us of the thing and who do not have it would do well to step aside humbly.

44'

Those who keep silent about the thing and who possess it, would do well to show themselves prudently.

44"

Alas! it is just the opposite that happens, so blind is our pretension and so envious are our hearts.

It is our pretentious self-satisfaction that closes the doors of love and knowledge to us.

45'

And it is our impious wickedness that distances us from the chosen ones of God who transmit the word of life.

It is rest that lies in movement and that gives life to it.

46'

Just as it is the essence that is in substance and that makes forms emanate in it.

We have believed in our intelligence, in our work, in our will and in our learning in this world, but now here we are at your feet, holy and perfect Lord.

47'

Like dying men, stripped of everything, who founder in the great night, your gracious light and your precious love are our only hope in this lamentable state.

All our misdeeds and all our crimes in the world are insignificant before our repudiation and our forgetting of God.

48'

That is why the Lord forgives completely those who return to him with a repentant and broken heart, which melts in the tears of rediscovered holy love.

Day of darkness and despair, all shall seem lost to us, and we shall be as though annihilated by grief.

49'

It is then that the light of the Perfect One shall break through the great night, and his day shall shine on his saved ones forever.

Oh, the cries of pain, oh, the heartrending lamentations of those who shall have freely chosen to settle in the darkness of outside!

50'

Oh, the cries of joy, oh, the loving praises of those who shall have chosen in their heart to fix themselves in the light of within!

	He joins with his dust, oh, how pure he is! LAO TSE
	He accomplishes his work by breathing into him a portion of his spirit. KORAN