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BOOK XXXVII

	The multitude of men make themselves useful; I alone am inept, similar to a pariah. I alone am different from other men because I venerate the nourishing Mother. LAO TSE
	The bread of God is that which descends from heaven and which gives life to the world. JESUS

ÉTUVE RIEN

THE BEGINNING

1

He who studies the Book is promised to life, whatever his appearance is in the world.

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He who repels the Book is promised to death, whatever his assurance is in the world.

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When we approach the Lord and his holy truth of life, we shall be turned inside out and shaken like sacks, and all our learning and all our pretension shall fall into the nothingness.

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For the plenitude of the divine revelation demands our total poverty and our entire freedom of spirit and of heart.

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The rebellious spirit and those who follow him prefer to remain in death and perish, rather than submit themselves through obeying to love. Shall we succeed where the Lord has failed? And shall we remain there whence he has withdrawn?

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The wisdom of the world is a game of man's spirit.

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The wisdom of God is a game of natural elements.

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When we begin the quest for God, we shall be imprudent and exposed like birds. When we complete the quest for God, we shall be prudent and hidden like snakes.

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There is a solution to everything for him who has the courage to wait, for everything that is undone on one side is also restored on the other side through the patience of acts of faith.

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Oh, priests of the embodied Lord! Oh, faithful of the beloved Mother! come to the Book of renewal that shall make you penetrate the depths, and that shall lead you to the heights of your religions, where the unique light of the unique Love shines.

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We propose madly the grace and the love of God to you, and we sow unstintingly his truth and his forgiveness. Shall you not rise like holy manna engendered by God? And shall you not fill his arms stretched out towards you?

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The Lord shall fulfil us in our solitude, and we shall drag the peoples in our wake to his dazzling, perfect glory, so that those who belong to him eternally may be returned to his hands: the loved ones of his heart who come to him in their hearts.

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Oh, my God! me, a poor wretch, ignorant and weak among all, you fulfil me beyond all bounds, for it is your marvellous way of mocking me and laughing at me, who bemoans so much your beauty and your goodness buried in the heart of my exiled brothers.

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Oh, friends! the Lord is hidden in you, and he expects from the faith of your intelligence and from the goodwill of your love that you let him become the all-powerful companion who delivers from the hands of death. Shall you not let yourself be brought to the life by the most expert hands of the Unique One?

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We prefer to remain unknown to men on earth and to be recognized by the Lord in heaven; for the glory of the world is a smoke that disperses in the darkness, while the glory of God is a smoke that condenses in the light. Who knows this at present?

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The powerful ones of the world refuse our work and repel the Book, thinking they discourage us by letting us perish; but the Lord fulfils us in secret with his art and with his love, and here we are richer than the richest, and there are those same rich ones more destitute than the most wretched. Oh, miracle of the gift that never runs out!

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Oh, my Lord! your joy invades me like a sea wall that breaks, and here I am swept away, upside down, all my reason foundered and wobbling like a drunkard, scandalizing the right-thinking ones who look at me with scorn. And both of us laugh without even being able to say a word to one another! "One day we shall refuse that which we are offering free at present for all the goods in the world."

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Here we are sick, ageing and leaning more and more towards the tomb, but our soul hopes madly for your help and your favour, oh, Magnanimous One! Who distributes the gold of life to your beloved ones.

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You, the Impeccable and Perfect One, give us back our health, our youth and the immunity of our bodies so that, clothed in your glory, we might praise you in a holy way in your eternity!

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Your humour is not so cruel, Lord of justice, for the hearts of men are closed by their goodwill to explain and organize the world without your love, without your work, without you, and the ashes of the ruins cover their intelligence and swallow up their courage without their tiring of ignoring you.

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God of mad love, you give yourself unstintingly, and we must remain silent and await your great judgement like the impotent and like the poor, carrying your secret that fulfils us beyond all expression. And we already shine with your light, but the darkness does not see it.

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Let us become blind, deaf, dumb and paralytic, so that the Lord of life that sleeps in us might enter his domain, and that we be made to see, hear, speak and work in him, through him and for him, without concerning ourselves with the blind, deaf, howling and agitated world.

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He who knows, possesses and touches God's truth no longer has any systems, any recipes, any explanations or any organizations to propose to anyone, for the possessive knowledge of divine love frees him who attains it beyond all bounds known or unknown.

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We have not hoped for or looked for disciples, nor communities, nor churches, for we have remained turned towards God throughout the time of our quest, and if the disciples come, if the communities appear and if the churches spread, it is because we fade away more and more before the Lord who comes all resplendent with God's salvation.

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Thus, our offering shall be more and more agreeable to God, for it shall grow constantly with the souls of the believers who hope for his light of life and who embody his good and inexhaustible heart; for it is God alone that becomes human in us and that makes us divine in him through his grace and through his love.

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Those who ignore God's servant, those who forget him and those who deny him are cut off from God's counsel and from his salvation.

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Those fall into the abyss, for they stupidly cut the bond that links them to the heaven of eternity.

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The community of God's children in each home is subject to God.

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And each holy home is in the community of the Lord God.

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We shall thus pray for our meal: "Thank you Lord, who delivers yourself for our food under the dark veil of earthly creatures. Make our digestion be accomplished perfectly, so that we receive your precious life and reject the poison of death."

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We shall pray thus for the communion: "Thank you Lord, who gives yourself to us for our salvation under the luminous veil of the celestial creature. Make your glorious life shine in us forever, after having annihilated the abomination of the sin of death that maintains us in the mortal agony of exile."

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If you do not know me when I am flighty...

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you shall not find me when I am wise.

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We are ignorant before triumphant scholars. We have gone astray before triumphant imbeciles. We are useless before triumphant workers. We are mad before triumphant reasonable people. We are wretched before the triumphant rich. We are reprobates before the triumphant right-thinking ones. We are lost before the triumphant self-assured ones. We are despicable before the triumphant powerful. We are obscure before the triumphant intelligent. We are buried before the triumphant restless ones. We are ashamed before triumphant hypocrites. We are stupid before the triumphant enlightened ones. We are incapable before triumphant meddlesome people. We are dumb before triumphant speechifiers. We are foolish before the triumphant shrewd. We are cowardly before triumphant heroes. We are deserter before triumphant enlisted ones. We are out of place before the triumphant world. Is it perhaps also because we are truthful and salutary before the children of the triumphant God?

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We shall be treated as parasites in our own families, and we shall suffer the reproaches of the reasonable ones because of our quest for the Lord of life.

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If we are despised, discouraged and bullied in our holy quest, is it not the mark of Satan that diverts us from the way of salvation?

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We shall withdraw from the senseless ones who have nothing but discouragement, reproaches and sarcasm to set against our search for God's salvation, and we shall leave them in the hands of Satan, whom they have chosen as counsellor and teacher, for the very absurdity of their condition does not reveal to them the lamentable state in which they lie dying without hope.

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All that we do for the world gives us no rights over the world, but it increases our duties and our responsibilities towards it.

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All that we do for God subjects all his creation to us and renders us free in it.

20

We have all fallen onto a pile of filth where brutes camp out, and which the most intelligent vainly attempt to organize.

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The saints propose patience and detachment to us with a view to our future deliverance. Only the sages teach us to separate life from death, in order to live again in the freedom of God's children.

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Men ignorant of God propose wonderful recipes to us to arrange the rubbish on which we lie dying. But unfortunately! the rubbish remains what it is, and its odour is unbearable and its taste deadly, despite all the systems through which they skilfully mask it.

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The Lord God has marked out a mysterious and quite obvious way, so that we might all be able to come out of the mud into which we have fallen through disobedience of his holy commandment. He reveals it to his repentant children who do his will and who accomplish his work.

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If the Lord withdraws from us and if we rave in our visions and in our words like the deaf and the blind of the profane world, we shall withdraw into silence and we shall become pupils of the deaf and the blind, who shall teach us humility and prudence through their ignorance and through their temerity.

22'

And if the Lord visits us once again, we shall remain silent and secret so as not to expose ourselves to being publicly contradicted by events that are delayed. And if the Lord induces us to prophesy in the world, we shall resist up to the limits of our strength, in order to be quite sure that it is him that speaks in us, and we ourselves that speak in him.

23

We shall avoid all food that is violently corrupted with infection, all that is manufactured and falsified by men, and all that resists us on not offering itself. Thus, we shall not stupidly increase within us and outside of us the heavy load of death.

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We shall seek all food that is preserved naturally without rotting, all that is direct and natural, and all that offers itself, coming from the earth and from heaven, so as to increase in us the good odour of life that does not perish. Thus, we shall prepare intelligently the day of resurrection.

24

Éléonore comes to the Book quite young, but the Book shall make her really big. Shall the Lord not cover her with his exquisite perfume? She hears and she sees.

24'

It is a marvellous state to be a child of God, but who can maintain oneself in it here below without weakening and without failing?

25

Our passage here below shall not have been useless if we have succeeded in giving back to humans exiled in the mortal agony of this world the hope of God's salvation and the taste for his immediate quest.

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The Lord shall testify for us in person on the day of the great judgement, and he shall confirm our filial undertaking; and his survivors shall praise us for our fraternal work.

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We have emphasized the death that holds the world in its blind claws, but we have also pointed out the life that constantly renews itself through it.

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We have recalled the terrestrial lock and the heavenly key that open the door of the abode of blessed life, where God's children rejoice for eternity with the joy of the unique Splendour.

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Thus, we have deliberately lost our life in this mixed world, in order to save it in the kingdom of God.

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The simple ones conserve their religion, while waiting to be saved miraculously. The shrewd ones mock their religion, while waiting to be ridiculed by their own systems.

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The mediocre dry out their religion, while waiting to return to dust. The rebels fight their religion, while waiting to be destroyed by their own rebellion.

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The right-thinking ones flatter their religion, while waiting to be praised by it. The nonbelievers scorn their religion, while waiting to deny themselves.

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The skilful ones adorn their religion, while waiting to be crushed by the weight of their complications. The hypocrites corrupt their religion, while waiting to rot in hell.

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The faithful maintain their religion, while waiting to be supported by it. The unfaithful abandon their religion, while waiting to be abandoned by those they invent for themselves.

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The scholars suppress their religion, while waiting to be pulverized by their profane science. The intelligent explain their religion, while waiting to be refuted by absurdity.

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The laity forget their religion, while waiting to lose themselves in the world. The clerics settle down in their religion, while waiting to be established in heaven.

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The saints live their religion, while waiting to taste its spiritual juice. The sages scour their religion, while waiting to find its corporeal substance.

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The Lord forgives us and makes us see his salvation, despite our straying and despite our crimes. What forgiveness and what salvation does the Lord propose, then, to men gone astray in death?

28'

Each one gone astray and each criminal can hope to obtain the forgiveness and the salvation of the Lord, if he asks him for them sincerely and tenaciously. What hope and what consolation do we propose, then, to our human brothers?

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Alas! the chaos of death is not an illusion. Alas! the rebellious spirit is not an illusion. Alas! mortal sin is not an illusion. Alas! the evil that dwells in us is not an illusion. Alas! the mortal agony of the fallen world is not an illusion.

29'

Fortunately, the promised land is not an illusion. Fortunately, the Lord of life is not an illusion. Fortunately, the incarnation of the Living One is not an illusion. Fortunately, the remedy of life is not an illusion. Fortunately, the salvation of the repentant world is not an illusion.

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There shall be a general judgement that shall remunerate each one according to his faith and according to the works of his faith, and all that does not resist the fire shall be reduced to ashes and count for nothing with its author.

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Those who have triumphed in the works of the world shall be terrified and dumb with stupor, and their surprise shall be equalled only by their despair at having been so gravely mistaken.

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The children of God and his saved ones shall be witnesses to the ruin of the shrewd ones and of their final engulfment.

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We shall seek the Lord of wisdom with the patience of a madman, without letting ourselves be distracted by the fallen world and by its worthless works.

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We shall enter the heart of our revealed Scriptures in order to find the hidden pearl, instead of floating on them and running aground in the profane world.

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Neither the proud nor the delirious who adhere to the false doctrines of the world shall be able to receive the intelligence of the Book, nor take hold of it, nor give it as a reference.

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Where are the blacks, where are the whites, where are the yellow ones and where are the red ones that have remained simple and believing, that shall receive the kingdom promised by the Lord and that shall enter his holy heritage?

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We ask for forgiveness three times over of those whom we have offended or harmed during the time of our madness, and we ask God for forgiveness a thousand times over for our offences and for our crimes committed during our straying.

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Oh, miracle of divine love! The right-thinking ones refuse their forgiveness three times over, but the Lord of compassion grants his at the first request, for he is there like a beggar at the door of our heart, waiting for us to agree to open it to him.

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It is a sinner who speaks, an ordinary man who seeks God in the middle of the inconveniences of the world, with a wretched profession, without the encouragement or the aid of anyone.

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So that the most imprisoned, the most abandoned and the most destitute might take courage and not despair of reaching the hidden kingdom that delivers from all sadness, all misery and all evil.

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We shall not try to fight our persecutors, for we would sink ourselves with them into the stinking mud of death. We shall expose them to the public, we shall pray for them, we shall forgive them, we shall flee them and we shall forget them.

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Let us equally pray to God so that he might deliver us from their persecutions by opening for us the gates of the secret garden where hate and death have no access, for where there is pure life, there is also pure love.

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Those who only seek to organize themselves better and better in this fallen world forget the kingdom promised by God, and sink deeper and deeper into the exile of mortal agony and dispersion where they shall remain for eternity.

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Do we not see the vanity of the goodwill of men and the absurdity of their efforts to organize this mixed world of death? Ah! if the believers had the madness to truly believe, they would use their goodwill in seeking God's salvation, and the reign of the Unique One would be quite close!

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There is great deliverance in becoming like a dead man in the hands of God.

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But there is a far greater one in becoming like a living one in his resplendent heart.

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We must proclaim it openly: Faith, without the hope of God's salvation, is worthless. Humility, without the search for God's salvation, is worthless. Patience, without the practice of God's salvation, is worthless. For they end up in the pit of death, just like unbelief, just like pride and just like violence, in this world inhabited by evil that does not forgive.

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Thus, we do not propose passive resignation before the mortal agony of the world, nor a bestial brutishness before the death that inhabits it, as certain ascetics that have measured the vanity of human works do, but who do not know that God's salvation is the celestial medicine that saves from death and from its procession of infinite worries and despair. Did the prophet not say: "Seek me and live", leaving God to speak?

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All the labels that the sterilizers of life would like to stick on us shall not add anything to nor subtract anything from the formidable proposition of the Book, which addresses all humans endowed by God with the intelligence necessary for the accomplishment of their rescue here below.

39'

Alas! the judgement has begun and the Book has hardly been born in the world, while men refuse the forgiveness and the salvation of God that is proposed to them in the holy Scriptures, while they turn away from their revealed religions, where they see nothing but superstitions and dead morals.

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While the world camouflages more and more hypocritically misfortune and death, but from which no-one truly delivers us.

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Let us search assiduously for the Lord of life, while there is still time for us, for when we collide with the absurd it will be too late. And despite our disguises, we shall find only the false door of drunkenness, or the wall of despair, or the abyss of madness.

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When misfortune and death fall upon us, the fine words and the help of our own shall appear to us empty and useless, for our solitude shall be such that our own thoughts and our own works shall seem to us senseless and worthless.

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Inspiration without action is powerless, and action without inspiration is blind. The two together make the perfection of the human work.

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Art without nature is impotent, and nature without art is blind. The two united make the perfection of the divine work.

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The punishment of the wicked shall be to see that their wicked deeds have served for the salvation of the believers without their realizing it, and that they have not harmed anybody but themselves.

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The reward of God's children shall be to see that their help has served both for their own salvation and for that of those they helped without hope of a reward.

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A verse from the Book shall enlighten the true child of God, while the whole Book shall blind the children of the profane world. It is God's justice that makes each one judge oneself without knowing it.

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A word, a gesture, teach him who houses in oneself the Spirit of God, while all creation teaches nothing to those who rely on their own intelligence. They make fools of themselves and they do not know it!

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The triumphant optimists who want to organize the world while denying the misfortune and death that dwell in it send shivers down our spine, for they have raced in order to reach more quickly the pit from which there is no return, and the crowd of blind men acclaims them and follows their lead, singing a hymn of victory that covers the voice of the prophets sent by God.

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We are pessimists when we recall the vanity of men's efforts to organize themselves and to save themselves in this fallen world, but we are optimists on recalling God's salvation promised to simple and believing men. Alas! how many still believe in the spiritual and corporeal rescue of man exiled here below, when no-one any longer believes in the ancient fall?

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"What is one playing at today in the world?" ask the profane ones curious of the void. And the true believers reply: "We do not know, for the quest for God's salvation prevents us from concerning ourselves with knowing what the world is playing at right now".

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Those who neglect the quest for God's salvation commit a crime towards themselves; but those who persecute the seekers of God's salvation commit a crime against all. Is it not also here, the sin that shall not be forgiven? And are they not also here, the accursed ones that shall be thrown into the exterior darkness?

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your mortal agony in this world, but which do not deliver you from it!

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Oh, reasonable and blind women! do not stupidly oppose the holy quest of your husbands, for you would be cut off from God's salvation right from this world, and your punishment would be irremediable! Help them, rather, with love, so as to participate in their reward and in their rescue.

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Everything serves us if we serve God and his creation uprightly.

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The light shall appear like a dot in the darkness and shall grow until the day of God.

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We must say it and repeat it: the most authentic, the most precise and the most accomplished revelation of the mystery of life and of God's salvation is to be found in the known books of God's prophets and in the unknown books of God's sages. Is our religion not a living symbol of the mystery hidden in all times? Do we no longer see it? Do we no longer hear it?

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The Lord of life may well have become incarnate once universally for the salvation of all, and he may well also return once universally for the judgement of all; but we must know at present that he came from the beginning, that he is coming right now and that he shall still come in private for the salvation of some.

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It is a new and immense revelation that we are making here, so that each believer might take courage and boldly undertake the quest for God's salvation, always present and always possible in this world.

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Alas! here also there shall be many called and few chosen, for the majority of believers prefer to remain lamenting past salvation and in the hope of the salvation to come, rather than undertaking the quest for the present salvation.

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The nonbelievers that attempt to force God's secret, and those that try to violate holy nature, shall be destroyed from within and from without by their own malice and by their own rebellion.

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The believers who hear the word of God and who accomplish it by helping holy nature shall be saved within and without by their own simplicity and by their own obedience.

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God has given each one enough intelligence and enough simplicity to easily accomplish his own rescue here below by penetrating the revealed word.

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Alas! many scorn their share of intelligence and become like brutes before the teaching of the Unique One. Many also scorn their share of simplicity and become like conceited monkeys before the word of God.

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Let us pray so that the terrifying urgency of the quest for God's salvation becomes obvious to us before it is too late to undertake it.

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For hell shall be made of this regret, and even more, of the astounding ease of the salvation that shall have been proposed to us vainly in this world.

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God's salvation is the most experimental science there could be, for it is the science of the God that has created the world and the universes that sur-

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We repeat the enormous revelation because it is incredible: God sends his holiest essence that becomes incarnate in the purest substance of the world round it, and this one does not rave abstractly in the void! for the salvation of all fallen creation. Let him understand who can.

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Let us consider CHRISTMAS. Let us penetrate CHRISTMAS. Let us imitate CHRISTMAS. Let us adore CHRISTMAS. Let us sing CHRISTMAS.

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Without the blessing of God, we are totally powerless to manifest here below the life of the Lord of resurrection.

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The light of God shall first fertilize our interior darkness; then, our darkness shall manifest the light of God.

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The whole of God's creation can participate in God's salvation through the mediation of the sons of God. Thus, animals, vegetables and even minerals can be restored to the glory and the immortality of the Unique One; no-one must be ignorant of this nor forget it.

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Is it not because of the effect of the Almighty's grace that the Book is given to simple men of goodwill in God? And is it not because of the effect of his justice that the Book is rejected and scorned by the wicked, by the shrewd and by the hypocrites?

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Let us rejoice that there are several of us to help one another in the quest for God's salvation, for he who reminds us of it now was alone in rediscovering the ancient path invaded by the brambles of ignorance and oblivion.

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Let us consider the state of him who shows us the path and who separates for us the brambles and thorns that have accumulated through the negligence of the guardians of God's way. Let us consider his footprints that mysteriously mark the route that we must follow.

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If the world ignores us or rejects us, let us not struggle against the world to be acknowledged or accepted by it. Let us turn instead towards the heavenly Father and towards the earthly Mother who shall shower us with the very real goods of life.

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Thus, by ignoring us or by moving us away from the showy goods of profane life, the world saves us from the impasse of death and orients us towards the eternal goods of life without mixture, where the Lord rests with his beloved ones.

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Many of the saints themselves have neither seen nor touched the Lord embodied in this world; but they are blessed, for they have believed without seeing or feeling, and their reward finally shines in heaven.

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Very few among the saints themselves have seen and touched the Lord embodied in this world; but they are blessed, for they have believed before seeing and feeling, and their reward already shines on earth.

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The malice of the wicked allows them to deceive and to steal from men for a time, but it shall never allow them to deceive nor to steal from God, be it only for a second. That is totally assured.

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The stupidity of the shrewd ones permits them to mock the revelation of God's salvation and to oppose it, but it shall never permit them to benefit from it, not even for a second. That is totally certain.

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The impious and the dead overflowing with energy to deny the revelation of the sons of God and to obstinately oppose God's salvation collapse lamentably when misfortune brushes them with its dark wing and when sickness overcomes them for a short while.

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All their strength is made up of the negation of divine life and of the rejection of God's salvation that are proposed to them here below. Thus, they are like rags when the devil abandons them, for divine life is withdrawn from them, and they are like puppets emptied of all substance that lie dying, abandoned by all.

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Let us run away from people that are sinister, dull, lacking enthusiasm and encouragement, for they are certainly not God's, and we shall not succeed in rousing them, while they shall know quite well how to drive us to despair and to drag us down into their blind and deaf mortal agony.

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Let us seek our brothers in the faith and in the hope of God's salvation, and let us talk to them of the holy Mysteries that justify our daily quest, and let us rejoice together at the enormity of God's promise that justifies our present hope and enthusiasm.

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Let us run away from the world and its multiple cares, for the struggle to have the right to die there in misery is too exhausting and too distracting from the quest for God's salvation, which is all that truly matters.

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Let us withdraw into the peace and solitude of our holy communities, so as to be able to concentrate all our attention on the quest for God's salvation. When we have found it, we shall be able to return to the world, if it suits us.

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The fallen world is, in reality, the filth under which is hidden the true world that we must rediscover and magnify in God.

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We preach the earthly heaven and the heavenly earth, and not the disembodied heaven nor the exiled earth, as do the extremists who separate, but who do not know how to unite.

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We desire the united kingdom, the complete kingdom, the kingdom of God.

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One thing is certain: if we believe ourselves more intelligent than God, and if we think we are above his envoys, we have gone astray and are lost without remission in the exile of death.

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Is it not our revealer, our founder, who proposes to us, with God's permission, the heavenly medicine that is the Saviour miraculously embodied for the salvation of God's children?

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We are all lost in this mixed world of death, and our end is written in the ordure that dwells in us.

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Thus, if anyway we are lost, what do we risk by devoting our little reprieve of life to seeking God's salvation, which alone can save us from the dispersion of death?

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Is it not our founder who tells us these surprising, overwhelming and stupefying words: "All this is present before your eyes and within reach of your hands, every day of your life. Keep watch, then, in order to see, and pray in order to know, before being swallowed up by death"?

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You think you are seeing what we are and you rejoice in it for us and for you. "If you do not know me in my baseness..."

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But we see what we are not, and we are saddened by it for you and for us. "you shall not find me in my nobleness."

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He who contemplates his Lord and who humbly calls him to his aid in all circumstances is more holy than all humanity that tries courageously to reform itself and to organize itself in the world without managing to do so.

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We must not exhaust ourselves struggling uselessly against ourselves nor against the world, but must rather seek without respite God and his salvation, which shall deliver us from the mortal agony of death perpetually maintained here below.

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The Book was written with the inspiration of the Spirit. The author is as ignorant and as unprovided for on completing it as he was on beginning it.

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Perhaps all is dark? Perhaps all is light? Perhaps all is light and dark? God alone knows!

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The quest for God and his salvation is quite long and quite disappointing, and men prefer to rely reasonably on the work of their hands to subsist and to organize themselves here below. For one must be mad to believe in God and in his salvation, and one must be insane to seek them in this world. And yet they are here waiting for us! Is everything not clearly taught in our sublime and profound revealed religion?

	Do they know the mysteries of Nature? Nevertheless, they write. KORAN
	Those who know Nature do not try to express it in words, and those who try to do so show that they do not know it. CHUANG TZU