BOOK XXXV
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Oh, how small is the number of believers!
KORAN
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They are infidels all those whose body is penetrated by impurity.
ZARATHUSTRA
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Oh, our Lord and our God! confirm in heaven our earthly word and vision, as we confirm here below your heavenly holy Name and holy presence. |
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Who would dare to intervene in the profane affairs of men, when not even the Lord God puts the hand to them? Has each one not to believe, to pray, to seek and to find for himself? |
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The faithful pious ones hear of the thing under the veil of the holy Scriptures being talked about, according to their attention and according to their understanding. Those are listeners and are promised the salvation of God. |
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The holy believers in God benefit from the thing thanks to God's chosen ones, according to their charity and their loyalty. Those are helped and saved by God. |
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God's chosen ones receive the thing from the hands of the sons of God, according to their prayers and according to the purity of their life. Those are trustees and keepers of God. |
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The sons of God make the thing with their hands, according to the grace and the love of God, and they communicate it according to his holy will. Those are the experts and possessors of God. |
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Let each one practise his fathers' religion or that of his choice, and let each one penetrate his particular faith before comparing it with that of others. |
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Thus, on penetrating as far as the secret centre, each one shall be unified in the unity of the Unique One and shall become a "Rediscovered Messenger". |
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Some good children sometimes receive from a son of God the thing which is hidden in all times, and they perfect it according to his instructions. |
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But very few wise inquirers obtain from God the grace to discover the origin of the chaos in which the holy light of life is hidden. |
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The former help their fellow-man and remind us in the darkened world of the wise and holy way that saves us from death. |
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The latter generally remain hidden, being content with raising up carriers of light who manifest God's truth in the world. |
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Thus, there are those who hear of the thing being talked about or who see the effects of it. |
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Next, there are those who benefit from the thing without knowing it and without possessing it. |
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Then, there are those who receive the thing and who use it according to God's commandments for the good of the poor and the abandoned. |
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Finally, there are those who with the aid of God know the thing and make it, for their salvation and for that of their own. |
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Who shall attain knowledge of the unique Splendour? |
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And who shall be unified with the Heloym in the unique God? |
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Oh, conceited and stupid rich men! we have begged from you a little bread in exchange for God's riches, and you have rejected us without even looking at what we were offering you! |
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One day, you shall also beg from us a little of heaven's water in exchange for all your earthly riches, but we shall repel you without even glancing at your dung. |
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Those who scorn and reject the poor believers at present shall one day be scorned and rejected by the Lord because of the poverty of their hearts. |
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Let us not think of finding the Lord and then leaving the world. We must first leave the world and we shall then find the Lord. |
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We have visited you from the outside, with remonstrances and recall to the grace, the love and the knowledge of the Lord of life. |
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At present, we visit you from inside, with encouragement and confirmation in the grace, the love and the knowledge of the Lord God. |
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He who does not know how to pray alone must pray with the community of believers, so as to train himself in the individual prayer that springs up at all times and in all places in the joy of divine union. |
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He who knows how to pray alone is self-sufficient, for the Lord is an almighty and perfect companion. However he does not disdain to pray sometimes also with the community of believers in the joy of fraternal union. |
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It is necessary to give in order to receive. |
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And one has to sweat in order to be watered by the sweet dew of heaven. |
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I forgive you your sin which is your sickness, my Lord said to me, so that instead of rising up against my NAME and against my creation, you praise my grace and my love in my eternity. Do you understand, my child, who shouts to your Father? |
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My friends, do not go to the feasts of men, from which one returns with sad heart and weary body. Go and visit the sick and the imprisoned and invite the poor, so that your contentment is perfect and so that the Lord sends you his blessing, which saves from death. |
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The blows we are dealt enlighten us marvellously, but very few understand this, and very few take advantage of it in this world. |
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We shall know for certain that we are close to the Lord when we love all humanity and all creation with the same vigour and with the same heart. |
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We call to our God for help in the prison where we are dying, but he observes us without saying a word and he lets us rip ourselves to shreds on the brambles that invade it. |
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At present, Lord, here we are reconciled with all the beings that have fallen into the mud of sin, without distinction, and our heart is forever united with the hearts of the wretched ones who suffer in Gehenna. |
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Let him who is alive send out cries of joy and gratitude towards the Lord who nourishes the Universe! And let him who suffers ask for forgiveness, so that his sin is lifted from him by the Magnanimous One! |
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Oh, Lord of life! give us health of the body and contentment of the heart, but above all, give us the love of your Being, that is, the insane love that carries us to your holy eternity. |
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You plunge us into Gehenna with the damned, my God, and then you pull us out of it again, so that we understand that we should also visit them and comfort them in your NAME. |
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Your lessons are hard, Lord, and many do not understand them, but for your children it is an endless enrichment. Oh, good Lord! teach us gently and with patience, for this world is wicked and pain dwells in it. |
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One does not pray in hell, one howls there with the accursed ones. Let us understand the lesson, Lord, before we are brutally hurled down there. |
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Clear-sighted Lord, show us those who truly love you, so that we might kiss their hands from which emanates the excellent odour of love and charity. |
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God's good children take advantage of all that happens to them, for they are in accordance with the will of the Father that leads them, while the others, who follow their own will, are blinded and tear themselves apart more and more on the brambles of the mixed world. |
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Humility is to remember always that we are in unstable equilibrium on the edge of the abyss, where suffering, madness and death float. |
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When we have become poor to the point of feeling like guests in our own homes, we shall be free and at peace everywhere in the world. |
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If we do not measure the suffering of the fallen world, how shall we come to know our exile? And if we do not measure the joy of divine life, how shall we come to know the meaning of our rescue? |
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Our sons and our daughters shall repopulate the earth lost by Adam, and their praises to God shall resound up to the highest heavens. |
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One day, our joy and our repose shall be in God alone, for God is our joy and our repose for eternity. |
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The Book is not meant to be read in an accelerated world. It is destined for the survivors, for the time of their convalescence among the smoking ruins. |
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Have we not preached up to the very end in a desert of bones? Would the Lord not at present want to transform it into a perfumed garden resplendent with life? |
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You mix us with the damned and you withdraw yourself from us so that we can measure our nothingness. We are really not proud of ourselves here below, Lord. |
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As soon as suffering takes hold of us, all our prayers become choked in the gulps of pain, and our intelligence is swallowed up in the howling of the Beast. |
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If you abandon us, Lord, we are lost, for we cannot even shout for your help, so great has our weakness become. |
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Do not hand us over to evil, handsome Lord of life, but deliver us before our hearts are marked by the doubt that kills the soul. |
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The best way to pray to God and to serve him here below is to attend to the abandoned sick, to visit the prisoners without families, to help the poor, the widows and the orphans in need. |
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Is there a prayer more magnificent to the Highest than the fraternal mutual aid of charity? And are there surer first fruits of our union in the unique Love? |
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Oh, believers in the unique Father! do not wait for the wretched to hold out their hands. |
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Look for them and help them, for many no longer have the courage nor the strength to come up to you. |
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One single visit to the abandoned ones in prisons, hospitals or slums is worth more than a whole life of edifying prayers in worldly churches. |
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God sets aside a terrible surprise for the hypocrites who pray publicly and do evil in secret. |
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The Lord brutally expels his beloved ones from the places of vanity where the beautiful words resound in the void of the hearts. |
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Because he prefers them there where charity actively consoles suffering and wretched men. |
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When God abandons us, it is in order to make us measure the infinite of our weakness and of our nothingness. |
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Thus, the intelligent learn that they are nothing without him. |
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An impious man who help his human brothers is closer to God than a believer who prays publicly without doing anything for anyone. |
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Thus, he who loves and respects God's creation already walks on the holy way that leads to the life that does not perish. |
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Is the Book not for the ones gone astray who search in tears for the path of life, rather than for the believers who have settled into the death of this world? |
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When the merciful Lord wakes us up with kicks it is not as a joke, but rather because we are not where we should be, and because we do not do what has to be done. |
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The end of the wicked shall be a teaching for those who believe in their hearts and for those who see with their eyes. |
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Because of the hypocrites, priority for the Book is withdrawn from the right-thinking ones and given to those who receive it without a spirit of murder or exclusiveness. |
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He who bites the hand that feeds him and who raises him to spiritual life is cursed, and his memory shall be anathema among his own like that of a Judas. |
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Bound from top to toe in the black sack, broken into pieces, reduced to ashes and scattered in the six directions, such will be the fate of the persecutors of God's prophets. |
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How shall we escape without your help, Lord of heaven, from the brutishness of the necessities of life exiled on earth? |
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This world is a terrifying battle of rough beasts that does not suit God's peace-loving children. |
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The sons of God possess nothing in this perishable world, for their kingdom is in the beloved sun. |
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Therefore, they preach to us the detachment from the terrestrial world and the return to the celestial world, where life is not contaminated by death. |
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Man is ingenious in organizing himself on this earth of exile, but he cannot emerge from it without the aid of God. |
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Truly, the kingdom of God is not of this world, which is why the sons of God appear errant and poor on the earth. |
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Begging is demeaning for him who seeks the world, but it is the noblest state for him who seeks God. |
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A single earth, a single sea, a single fire, a single word, a single God. |
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Good Lord of charity, deliver us from this world where everything is sordidly bought, sold or exchanged. |
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Receive us in the generous life of your holy love that never runs out. |
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No, this is not a Book for the satiated ones of the world that have settled down permanently in the cesspool of death. |
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It is a Book for the hungry ones from heaven that tearfully look for their lost fatherland. |
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What a face the self-assured ones of this world shall pull when they are asked on the day of judgement: "Have you read the Book of deliverance that was proposed to you in particular?" |
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They shall be told: Return to the stinking mud in which you revelled, and to the readings that sunk you in it and that you preferred to any other. |
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One needs the gift of genius to practise the fine arts in this world. |
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And one has to have an angelic gift to pray and praise the Lord of heaven and earth. |
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But one has to have a divine gift to practise the great ART of the Almighty here below. |
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One always has to kill in order to live here below. Therefore, we consider this world to be bad, and we do not want to settle into crime. |
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On the day of the restitution of all things, God's chosen ones shall eat the holy dew of heaven, and the damned shall only have the rottenness of hell as food. |
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The impious, who rely only on themselves, seem more courageous and more resistant to evil than those of us who believe in the Lord and who wait for his salvation day and night.
"They reject the revelation that they have been unable to penetrate either by cunning or by violence." |
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On the day of the terrible judgement, there shall no longer be enemies or friends, but only the wretched who shall have freely chosen the stinking mud of hell, and blessed who shall have just as freely chosen the pure and sweetsmelling life that never runs out. |
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Let our faith in the almightiness of God be blind and idiotic, so that it becomes clear-sighted and spiritual through the incarnation of the divine word that delivers us from the darkness of death. |
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Those who receive the word of life participate in the grace of God that delivers from the slavery of the world. No servile work shall be imposed on them and death itself shall be cast far away from them, for their lot is the free and imperishable life in which the Lord of eternity dwells. |
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The wickedness of those who call themselves God's faithful has become such that true believers no longer cross the threshold of sacred places, and the abandoned reject God as derisory or as an intolerable millstone. |
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There is a horrendous rottenness among the right-thinking ones and there is a hardened death among the atheists, but the worst wickedness is indeed in the self-satisfied hypocrites. |
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Some say of our preaching: "It is too beautiful to be true", for death that was introduced into the world because of them hides from them at present the pure and sweet-smelling life that does not end. |
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Counterfeit resides everywhere in the world, and every day we have to take care not to confuse it with the truth of the wise and holy word that is the only thing that saves us from death. |
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Where is the intelligent one who prostrates himself before the Lord of heaven and who receives his most holy and living blessing? |
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Where is the inspired one that prepares the holy tabernacle in which the unique Splendour of life shall rest? |
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There is already a group of those cut off through faith and love in the world. |
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And there is already a group of those chosen through faith and through love in God. |
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Many people who show intelligence and courage in the affairs of the world reveal themselves to be stupid and impotent in the affairs of God. |
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The judgements they rashly make about one and the other do nothing but display their conceited ignorance. |
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Our worst enemies are not outside, but indeed among us, like wolves dressed in sheep's clothing. |
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For those, there shall be neither the forgiveness of men nor the forgiveness of God, for traitors and hypocrites are vomited by heaven and by earth. |
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They say they are God's faithful, but they violate his commandments every day. |
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They claim to be right-thinking, but they say and do evil every day of their lives. |
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They say they are disciples of the Lord, but they settle down in the world on the backs of the wretched. |
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All of them are already cursed and excluded from God's salvation, for they make the divine Name odious to the weak and the small. |
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Let us run away as if from the pest from those who rip their friends to shreds, for tomorrow we shall also be torn apart by their poisoned and wicked tongues. |
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If we do not pray for the wicked, who shall come to their help to bring them out of their wickedness? |
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Shall the Lord and all God's wise prophets not kiss us on the lips like one of their own who has proclaimed and manifested the truth of God in the world? |
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Have those not also been slandered, rejected, oppressed and unjustly fought against by the hypocrites set up in the world under the cover of God's name? |
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Those who bury the word of God instead of making it circulate in the world shall be frustrated in the end, for they shall not reap anything, and shall even lose the hidden deposit. |
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The Lord of heaven fights victoriously against the rottenness of death, and his sages are the experts of his love, and his saints are the distributors of his grace. |
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We must not reply to malicious gossip with malicious gossip, for it is already quite enough that the wickedness of the wicked crushes them in the end without us adding anything to it. |
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It is enough for us to pray for the conversion of the wicked, without judging and without condemning, before the great day of reckoning that is the only responsibility of the Lord of justice and forgiveness. |
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At present, those who still preach the truth of God and who transmit his word of life no longer believe in the almightiness of the word that is radiant in heaven. |
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How shall they bring the dying back to life, if they themselves are dying, and how shall they resurrect the dead, if they remain in death? |
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God has not subjected man to beasts, and above all not to dogs. |
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The dogs that threaten man shall be beaten, and those that bite him shall be slaughtered. |
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We must never despair in the darkness of our quest for the Lord of life. |
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For we are close to his holy light, but we do not know the day or the hour of its manifestation. |
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The work of the Lord is imperishable, while the works of men disappear like smoke. |
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Time works for the sage, while it destroys the senseless one. |
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Is he who praises God in his heart not worth more than those who work in the profane world? |
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And is he who captures his blessing not worth more than those who make themselves rich with mortal goods? |
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One day, God shall inform us in person, but then it shall be too late to reform our judgement and to change our behaviour in the world. |
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Do we not see that the Lord always warns us in time? Shall we not come out at present of the quagmire of our worries and from the trap of our worldly occupations? |
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What do the judgements of the world matter, since it is not the world that shall judge us in the end? |
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He who walks with God in God's way does not worry about being approved of by the world. |
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Those who organize themselves richly and comfortably in the world in order to preach the kingdom of God are hypocrites who prefer to have the shadow rather than to hope for its light. |
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There is only one temple of God, that is the heart of man. All the rest is like a disguise that satisfies only the blind and incurable mediocre. |
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Those who preach the way of the Lord and who set themselves up in the world before installing themselves in God are hypocrites who deceive simple men and who satisfy only the mediocre. |
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He who loves does not display the word "love" above his door to justify himself before the world, and he who gives does not write the word "charity" in order to make his bounty public before all. |
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When we see the great words of love and charity shamelessly displayed in the world, we shall know we are looking at businesses that aim for our freedom and our purse. |
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The Lord, who possessed and was the palpable truth of God, asked for nothing of nobody, he gave everything to everyone, and he gave himself beyond measure. |
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The spiritual ones shall be overcome before God's tribunal and they shall be struck dumb with astonishment. |
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Only the operative ones shall praise the Almighty without being amazed at anything. |
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What a surprise for those who preach the word of God without knowing its ultimate meaning, when they see with their own eyes and when they feel with their hands the truth of the Unique One! |
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We should preach God's truth, but without superiority and without arrogance, for only a few chosen ones know it spiritually, and extremely few sons of God possess it corporeally. |
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He who eats the simulacrum of God remains in the death of the world, that is something that is easy to verify. |
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He who eats God in body and in spirit becomes like God. That is something that does not deceive either. |
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It is our good thoughts of love and our holy repose that open our spirit to the mysteries of God's word, and not scholarly lectures amid the crowds of dying mediocre. |
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God's truth goes secretly to those who love it and who seek it in their hearts. Those truths that attack the world through publicity stunts can never be God's truth. |
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Good taste and beauty are no more expensive than vulgarity and ugliness. As for the truth of God, it is free for everyone. |
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If the beauty of the world eludes us, how shall the beauty of him who made it ever become perceptible to us? |
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What are they doing, but just what are they doing, all those who sleep in the world? |
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But where, then, are the watchmen of God? |
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What are they doing, but just what are they doing, all those who bustle about in the world? |
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But where, then, are the seekers of the Unique One? |
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Shall we always waste our life looking for the world that abandons us in the end? |
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And shall we risk nothing in the quest for the unique Splendour that fulfils us for eternity? |
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Oh, you who hope for God's salvation, wake up in the world! |
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And seek the secret light of the words of life, instead of being content with their clothes of shade. |
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Neither the morals of the world nor its licentiousness shall deliver us from death. |
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Only the incarnate love of the Perfect One that reigns in heaven. |
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The science of God knows no progress, for it is perfect from the beginning. |
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And his light illuminates the believer who harmonizes heaven and earth. |
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The immensity of the divine promise goes beyond the spirit of men and gives God's saints vertigo. |
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Oh, who shall believe the unbelievable, and who shall receive in his heart the magnificent gift of God? |
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Those who, rebellious to God and to his envoys, try to differentiate between them, believing in some and repudiating the mission of others, create for themselves an arbitrary religion.
KORAN
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They travelled the paths and they brought together all those they found, wicked and good, and the wedding room was filled with guests.
JESUS
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