The Message Rediscovered -Book XXXVIII

BOOK XXXVIII

	If this endeavour or this work comes from men, it shall collapse by itself; but if it comes from God, you shall be unable to destroy it. Do not run the risk of fighting against God himself. GAMALIEL
	One must obey God rather than men. PETER

UNE VÉRITÉ

THE END

Our only merit, our only knowledge and our only intelligence is to leave the Lord of life to act as he pleases inside us and outside of us.

Have we not revived the ashes of faith for multitudes? And have we not put the origin of salvation back in sight for a few?

All our laws and all our prohibitions are nothing more than hypocrisy and wickedness if our hearts are not subject to the law of love of the Perfect One.

If someone means to excommunicate us in the name of God or in the name of God's truth...
If someone execrates us or curses us...

we shall ask him if he truly possesses the communion of God, that is, if he sees it, if he feels it and if he tastes it, not in image, but in substantial reality.

The true children of God's word are those who are neither enlisted, nor asleep, nor labelled, nor emasculated, nor reassured, nor accustomed, nor slaves, nor dead in the world.

The true children of God's word are those who remain free, alert, loving, sober and believing, and who seek the all in all things, even in nothing.

Did we not announce accurately and well in advance the fall and the failure of the regime without God?

Did we not warn the sleeping ones of the geological catastrophes that are beginning to torment the world gone astray?

Do we not foresee the cosmic catastrophes that shall follow and that shall shake the rebellious world?

Do we not glimpse, alas! the destruction and fragmentation of the rebellious world through its accursed science?

Oh, my Lord and my God, at least save your loving, obedient children, gather them under your wing, and pass onto them the remains of the impious and the senseless ones who defy you at present!

Oh, my Lord and my God, open the spirit and the heart of your loving and obedient children, so that they might recognize their holiest Mother and Father united in the Saviour and that they might live before you!

Oh, my Lord and my God, open the spirit and the heart of the rebels and fools who stupidly pillage your creation and who mercilessly attack it, before the blow that shall shatter them into the death without return!

If the right-thinking ones complain of not understanding the Book, we shall ask them if they understand the words of their revealed Scriptures better.

If they understood the words of their holy Scriptures, they would also understand the words of the Scripture revealed anew.

Elizabeth was asleep, but the prince wakes her and she shall sing a new canticle. Does she not already read openly from the Book?
"She digs the mine and finds jewels that illuminate."

The sage does violence to no nature, but allows each to fulfil his own as happily as possible on this earth of exile.

Oh, right-thinking ones who introduce yourselves to others as an example of holiness, can you tell us why Jesus preferred the illiterate, the drinkers, the tax collectors, the prostitutes and the thieves to the company of the Pharisees, your old models? Is it not because of the stench that has also become yours at present?

Vanity, hypocrisy and avarice form the stinking and explosive mixture that shall scatter you in the mud of hell, where your place has been marked since the beginning of your triumphant wickedness; for you have put yourselves before God and you have substituted your profane words for his revealed word.

On not speaking of the necessity of worldly things, nor of the urgency of things of this century, the Book shall be neither received nor understood by those who organize themselves in the mortal agony of the world, nor by those who stagnate in it.

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On speaking of the necessity of heavenly things and of the urgency of the eternal thing, the Book shall be received and understood by those who seek the exit from their dark prison and by those who hope for God's salvation.

Which is this Pallandt family gifted with the grace of the Holy Spirit? Does Granny Marthe not also come to the Book after having doubted? And does she not become an apostle of the truth of the Lord embodied in the world?
"She shall be reassured, for she has feared."

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Thérèse, Molly and Marguerite germinate in secret in their hearts, but what blossoming is the Lord not capable of producing before our eyes? They come last, but they shall be in front, and nobody shall be able to shake their faith long matured in secret.
"They shall flow like the springs of the great rivers."

All is illicit and goes to malediction for those who are dying in the oblivion and the absence of God. These are like dead coals and are, unfortunately, legion in the world.

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All is licit and goes to benediction for those who live in the memory and the presence of God. But where are those whose heart shines and warms like the spring sun?

Did the learned masters not also repel the Book as being alien to their revelations, their traditions and their sciences?

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Alas! here we are like an ignorant master among the scholars of the world, and like the lowliest brother among the believers who seek the Lord and his kingdom here below.

The Book is therefore neither flesh nor fish, neither stone nor plant, and nevertheless it is.

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What is, then, the thing that is neither flesh nor fish, neither stone nor plant, and that nevertheless IS?

Might the wretched, the weak, the imbeciles, the afflicted, the abandoned, the desperate and the excommunicated perhaps like to cast a fraternal glance over the Book, so that it at least serves the most disinherited by helping them to bear their mortal agony in this assured and learned world?

15'

How wisely the Lord God brings us back to the mud and the dregs of the world where the pearl promised to his love lies hidden!
Oh, miracle of the true wisdom that deceives the proud ones and the triumphant ones who dominate here below!

Oh, believers! have the heart and the spirit to secretly support the true poor who pray to God in their hearts for their benefactors, if you have the intelligence to seek them and to discover them in the world where they are hidden.

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Let us give in secret, consoling the true poor of God, and let us receive fraternally that which they offer us in return, so that their soul also rejoices at the gift freely granted.

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The hypocrites who give proudly receive their retribution, which is the curse of the bad poor whom they publicly humiliate.

The possession of earthly glory and riches shines and flaunts itself in the profane world.

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The possession of divine glory and goods shines and conceals itself in God's secret.

The Lord instructs us day to day through thousands of meetings, thousands of events and thousands of occasions, if we are sufficiently awake to understand his lessons and sufficiently intelligent to take advantage of them, for even the ashes teach us when our eye is open.

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If a job is repulsive to us or stupefies us, let us have the courage to change it rather than suffer the disgust and brutishness that kill the soul. Prayer and praise to God with bread and water are worth more than mindlessness with a full feeding-trough.

Our faith is not held in an abstract idea, nor in an elusive ideal, nor in the great number of faithful, nor in human works, nor in the goods of this world, nor in profane or religious honours, nor men's sciences, nor in the powers of the ascetics.

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Our faith is held in the certainty of the divine nature embodied in the flesh of the world.
Our faith is nourished by the hope of rediscovering this divine nature buried in the sin of death.
Our faith is brought to life by the effusion of the Holy Spirit that fertilizes the divine nature and thus remakes us as children of God, in the image of God himself.

Holy MOTHER OF GOD, guide our quest and light up our way in the darkness of this world of exile, so that we reach through your grace to the Lord embodied, who shall deliver us from the sin of death where we are in wretched mortal agony!

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Holy MOTHER OF GOD, be so good as to reveal yourself to your loving and candid children, by parting for them alone, with the permission of our Lord God, the dark veil that misleads the wicked and the proud sectarians of the darkened world!

Let us rejoice if the world disappoints us, if it abandons us, if it repels us, if it ruins us, if it starves us, if it hates us, if it bullies us, if it afflicts us, if it strips us bare, if it imprisons us, if it crucifies us, for it is the Lord who gives us a sign to seek his salvation and his way.

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Did we not remain until the end, subject to the duties, the temptations and the persecutions of the profane world, so that nobody could excuse himself from not seeking God and his salvation, whatever his state be here below?
Happy are those that have vanquished the world by fleeing it, and blessed are those that have vanquished the world by enduring it!

He who adores the Lord of life is nourished by the Lord of life; it is a marvel that is natural to him, but few understand it here below.

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The holy books shall seem empty and boring to us at the beginning of our quest, but in the end they are the only ones among all that we shall find precious and fascinating.

My joy overflows like a lively torrent, and the desire for your love is all that subsists in me, for the world is as though drowned by your light that rises from everywhere, oh Lord of resurrection!

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My joy is my agreement with your holy will, oh Lord of invading life! Thus, my joy is your joy, my will is your will, my love is your love, and here I am in you, through you, for you inexpressibly.

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It is a great darkness.

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And it is a great light.

I was dead.

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And I live.

Cry, dying ones of the world.

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And then rejoice!

For the grace is still hidden.

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But love already illuminates all the earth.

Let us clap our hands, dance and laugh before the Lord God who sees us.

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For death has been swallowed up by life, and the filth has returned to nothingness.

Come on! let us wake up and hear what is being said to us.

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Let us weep with joy at God's victory that erases our mortal blemish.

Here, a great silence, like the secret frontier of the promised kingdom.

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And then the song of the angels that never ends.

It is a lot of water...

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and it is a little earth.

The deluge of grace...

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prepares the heavenly harvest...

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celebrated in the eternal banquet.

Each one, if he so desires, may express his desire in our sacred plenary meetings, so that if the Lord hears it and approves of it, he is fulfilled.

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He who thus receives a gift from the Lord must also confess it before his brothers and thank the Lord in private, and then praise him with them.

The hypocrites, the right-thinking ones, the blind sectarians and the established profiteers shall reject the Book that denounces them and that they do not penetrate, for they do not have in them the Spirit that inspired it.

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The true believers, the goodhearted religious ones, the simple and the poor of God, shall receive the Book that serves them, for the Spirit that dwells in them shall recognize itself in the Book.

The hypocrites, the dried out ones, the sectarians, the self-assured ones and the triumphant shall answer on the day of judgement for the disgusted, for the repelled, for the revolted, for the desperate and for the crushed; and their astonishment shall be immense on learning that they are responsible for those whom they have aroused through their false behaviour, that is, through their dishonesty, through their greediness, through their cruelty, through their pride and through their criminal blindness.

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Let us strive never to put anyone off from the quest for God's salvation, be it through our exactingness, through our negligence, through our pretension, through our judgement or through our intolerance; let us rather strive to be living examples for all those who do not hear God's voice or hesitate in their heart and above all for those who are revolted at the attitude of the false believers who abound right now in the degenerated world.

If we are not with God, who shall be with us?

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And if we are with God, who shall be against us?

All that does not go to God ends up in absurdity, of which death is the most obvious demonstration.

39'

All that goes to God ends up in the permanence of life, of which the resurrection is the most obvious demonstration.

Let us take the Book to prison, to hospital, to the barracks, where we have the necessary time to become reconciled with God and with his salvation; but let us also take it with us in our free time, and let us associate it with our Sunday recreation, so that the day of the Lord be doubled and even tripled for us.

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The Book replies marvellously to those who know how to question it in the simplicity of their heart. It is cause for astonishment in the believers who remember the forsaken word, and it is cause for admiration in those who hear it a little in the inside.

Have I gone astray by praying to you in the inside, Lord?

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No, my friend, for only those who pray to my appearances to obtain my outer layers go astray.

Have I made a mistake in praising you in the inside, my God?

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No, my child, for only those who praise my creatures giving thanks for the crumbs from my table are mistaken.

Have I lost my way seeking you in the inside, Oh Living One?

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No, my son, for only those who seek me outside to find my inside loose their way.

Why do you leave us in poverty here below, overflowing Lord?

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It is to gratify you better in my kingdom, ungrateful children.

Why do you leave us in sadness here below, compassionate Lord?

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It is to console you better in my kingdom, wicked children.

Why do you leave us in ignorance here below, learned Lord?

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It is to instruct you better in my kingdom, malicious children.

Why do you abandon us here below, loving Lord?

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It is to cherish you better in my kingdom, forgetful children.

Why do you leave us in mortal agony in this fallen world, living Lord?

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It is to revive you better in my kingdom, disobedient children.

Why do you let us perish in death here below, mighty Lord?

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It is to instruct you better through the absurdity of exile, revolted children.

On giving us grace, the Lord encourages all humanity to persevere towards him, for we are entirely covered by sin, our blindness is total and our merit is non-existent in this world darkened by the fall.

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Those who speak of us with pride shall be mistaken, and those who speak of us with scorn shall be equally misled.
The Lord knows us, and we recognize the Lord.

Let us take the necessary time for the quest for God and his salvation, thus blind and deaf greed shall not keep us in the slavery of the world.

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Let us work for what is necessary to us and let us cease when the superfluous appears, for it is a gift from God that must manifest itself naturally.

Let our dwelling remain as unknown as possible to the rich and powerful of the world, let our table put them off by its frugality and its simplicity, and let none of them just walk into it in an inconsiderate way with the insolence that characterizes them!

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Let our house be always open to the simple and the poor of God, let our table be welcoming to their natural fraternity, and let none of them ever have to wait at our door!

Only the ignorant lose their life to become famous, or to make their fortune, or to organize the mud, or to remain slaves, or to become tramps in this world.

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The only necessary thing is sufficient in order to have the superfluous, and the superfluous is sufficient in order to have the only necessary thing.
And the two together are sufficient to have one's life saved.

The greatest intelligence in oneself is like the greatest wisdom in the world and like the greatest madness in God.

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The greatest intelligence in God is like the greatest wisdom in God and the greatest madness in the world.

The intelligent, the scholars, the rebellious and the triumphant who think to reach God's secret without God's consent, remain in the worst blindness, for it is the greatest illusion there could be.

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The conquerors, the financiers, the workers and the organizers who think to establish themselves and prosper in the world without God's help are really mistaken, for it is the greatest disillusion there could be.

The mediocre, the self-assured, the bewildered and the beasts who think to rest and ruminate tranquilly in the world without God's peace remain in the worst drunkenness, for it is the greatest precariousness there could be.

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The hypocrites, the shrewd, the skilful and the sly who think to manage and save themselves in the world without God's blessing have gone astray in the worst form, for it is the greatest deception there could be.

Ah! if we might understand just once the urgency of our rescue, nothing nor nobody would any longer be able to distract us from the quest for God's salvation, and we would break with the world without hesitation and without regret, totally and definitively.

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The words of the prophets are true, true, true. The words of the Lord are alive, alive, alive. But alas! we are foolish, foolish, foolish, for we prefer the perpetual agony of death to the life of God's chosen ones that never ends.

Are the arts not currently diverted, ridiculed and debased by the multitude of mediocre and incapable ones who have invaded and contaminated them shamelessly?

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Is the ART of God not the most mislead, the most ridiculed and the most debased by the mediocre and incapable ones who have invaded and contaminated it in the world?

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The intelligent and the imbeciles have joined together to ridicule the arts of the world and the ART of God, debased by the incapable ones, instead of rejecting the incapable ones and examining the arts proposed to them by the true artists and the true prophets of God.

The thing comes from the inside to the outside, but it also goes from the outside to the inside, and it remains in itself for eternity.

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Things say the word, but the word is not said by things.
Words say the thing, but the thing is not said by words.

The gift of God remains solitary in our heart and in our hands, for this people has become stupid by the sheer force of believing in its own intelligence, and it revels in the works of death, and it repels the work of life that it is offered to it freely.

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We shall withdraw, then, from this nation to which we are sent, but which does not want us, so that our preaching is not the object of scandal or curse for anyone, since it cannot be the object of edification and benediction for anyone in it.

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If the Lord is with this nation, we shall certainly be excluded; but if he is with us, shall this nation not also be excluded? Let the Lord come to an arrangement, then, directly with it, or let him arrange it with its too intelligent and its too shrewd ones, and let our hands be clean of its corrupted and rebellious blood!

Oh, holiest lords of resurrection, sons of God the Eternal One! consider our goodwill and our obedience in this matter, and consider the ill will of the donkeys who refuse the water offered to them with your aid and with God's permission.

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Oh, holiest lords of eternal life and vicars of almighty God! consider the refusal and the malice of these people who conceitedly think they are able to manage alone in the chaos of death, and give us souls capable of receiving God's seed.

We shall not mistreat the impious who are amongst us, but we shall leave them if they are more numerous, or indeed they shall leave us if we are more numerous. And in any case, we shall avoid settling amongst them and we shall avoid their settling amongst us.

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The peoples, the families and the individuals who shall deny and lose the revelation of their divine filiation shall stagnate in the life of beasts, shall become the slaves of absurdity and shall disappear in the despair and brutishness of death forever. They shall be taken to be a beginning whereas they shall in fact be an end.

This people believes it has become so intelligent that it even refuses to examine the obviousness of that which is proposed to it. Thus, it has become the most stupid, and its inheritance shall be given to the other peoples that have preserved their faith in God's salvation, and it shall be a slave among them until it has excluded the impious that lead it to degradation, to brutishness and to death.

63'

Worthiness, probity, justice, talent, piety, charity, holiness and wisdom should be considered and placed before wealth, for it is they that make wealth, and not wealth that makes them. Let us not waste our time in becoming famous, rich or powerful in the world, for we would be deceived and excluded in the end. Let us rather train ourselves to seek God's salvation, which gives life to those who find it here below.

If we truly and exclusively search for the unique necessary thing, which is God's salvation and his blessed kingdom, the blind world shall not help us, but quite the contrary, it shall harass and discourage us by every means in its power.

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And if we persevere in the quest for the door, the lock and the key of deliverance, we shall be insulted by the world that shall treat us like idlers, like cowards, like fools and like enemies, and shall finally reduce us to despair and begging so that we have no other recourse but to turn to the Lord of life.

Our quest for the divine treasure requires such an effort and such work for such a long time, night and day, that all the courageous ones and all the workers of the world even give up the idea of undertaking it, and that is why we are seen as idlers and as useless in the eyes of the world, which can neither believe nor understand that God's glory rests in us alone.

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Our quest shall be solitary, long and hard in the darkness of this world, so as to test our faith, our steadfastness and our courage, before we are granted God's gift; we shall have to expect no aid and no counsel from the profane world, but only the aid and the counsel of God and his sons, who live in him forever.

When the implacable wall of absurdity and despair rises up before us in the world, we shall go forward all the same, through the effect of absurd and desperate faith, until we touch the obstacle with our hands and therefore discover, to our immense surprise, that it is a mirage set up by the devil to discourage us from persevering up to the kingdom of God.

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When the marvellous body of the triumphant Lord appears before our bedazzled eyes, we shall stretch out our purified hands sacredly, through the effect of grateful and wild faith, in order to find out, to our immense joy, the tangible reality of the risen glorious one who lives beyond all death.

We come to the Lord in destitution and desolation, but the Lord showers us with his love and his joy that never run out, if we are found clean within and without.

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The Book is a channel, but it is also a bridge. It is a sea, but it is also an arch. It is a wind that blows, but it is also an earthly sun that gives light.

It must indeed be admitted, alas! woman, lost and rebellious by nature, appears radically opposed to the quest for God's salvation, and he who drags her along with him in his quest drags a ball and chain that discourage him and that bruise him to nobody's benefit.

68'

Courageous and blind Marthas are legion in the world. It is they who keep us in our labelled place in death, it is they who organize the chaos without realizing that it always has to be done again, it is they who decorate our prison and who forget that one can come out of it.

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Their work and their dedication are a blessing if they unburden us of worldly cares and if they therefore help us to better devote ourselves to the quest for God's salvation. But if their superficial and contemptible judgement condemns us and plagues us in our holy quest, it is a curse from which we must flee wholeheartedly; for it is better for us to seek life in the desert and live than to be served in the world and die.

The work of men and of the world combines diversity and differences, and that is why it must always be done again, even if it is carefully accomplished thousands and thousands of times.

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The work of God joins unity and uniqueness, and that is why it need never be done again when it is accomplished once entirely by a wise child of God.

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When the smoke rises from the earth and covers the ground as it accumulates, it shall be time for the chosen ones to make their way to the places reserved by God, and it shall be high time for the called ones to remember our warnings, but it shall be too late for the impious ones, who shall collide with one another in the invading darkness.

	And they struck blind the people that were at the entrance to the house, from the smallest to the tallest, and they tired themselves out in vain seeking the door. GENESIS
	Flee to the mountain, for fear that you might perish. GENESIS