The Message Rediscovered -Book XII

BOOK XII

	It is a closed source, a sealed fountain. SOLOMON
	I am everything that has been, everything that is and everything that will be, and no human has ever raised my veil. The fruit I engendered was the sun. INSCRIPTION ON THE PEDIMENT OF THE TEMPLE OF ATHENA, IN SAÏS

NUIT RÊVÉE

THE SOURCE

It is perfect knowledge that demonstrates to us our absolute ignorance.
"He who prejudges God's choice cuts himself off from the love of his Lord."

It is through the pure gratuitousness of our thoughts and our acts that we shall acquire and conserve peace of heart.

Our glory is to let God operate in us without hindrance.
"The intellect is the blazing and whirling sword that prohibits our entrance into the garden of Eden."

Holy love is like a to-ing and froing that links together, and with their divine source, the creatures gone astray in death.

The tree of life is planted in the centre of the garden of paradise, but the tree of the knowledge of good and evil grows straddling the boundary wall.

The sage meditates on the nothing where everything has come from.
He is the guardian of the wisdom issued from heaven and earth.

Man is the middle term of the graduated Universe and the expression of its greatest mystery.

It is in heavenly light that the life of the world resides, but it sometimes acts also in the earthly shadow.

Man was made from the best part of heaven and earth, and if he were cleaned of his filth, he would be seen shining like the stars, the moon and the sun.

The Book teaches us how to come out of death and repose in life, but how many of the believers are passionate about this mystery?

Coercion is something totally alien to God and to the sage, for they inhabit the freedom where there is neither darkness nor death.

The mediocre shall rot in death until they open up in the abandon of grace and in the generosity of love.

Let us control once our agitation and we shall enjoy life in the very middle of the death of the world.

Let us conserve the detachment and joy of holiness, and all shall become easy and simple for us.

The sage is like the precious stone hidden beneath its gangue.

Let our secret virtue be the union with God.

Those in whom there is neither baseness nor mediocrity are repelled and set apart by the world, which thus returns them to God without knowing it.

Let us be rich to the point of no longer possessing anything.
Let us be lovers to the point of being able to give everything.
Let us be faithful to the point of tiring the darkness.

Adaptation to the world is like forgetting God.

10'

Separation and union make the impassive appear.

We shall suffer in the worlds for lengthy times, we shall play in the mother for eternities, but only in God shall we rest forever.

11'

Love began with the primary separation. It shall repose with the ultimate reintegration, in the possessive and uniting knowledge of the Lord of the worlds.

There is a state that is higher than all prayer, which is absence, presence and union. This grade belongs to masters.

12'

Man's heart is like a stone that seals the entrance to God's treasure.

When we feel great fatigue due to the agony of this world, we shall be ready to live in God.

13'

Dissolved in the water of grace and the fire of love, it manifests the holy light where all of them move and some of them repose.

He who has forgotten himself in God remains indifferent to the promises and threats of this world.

14'

The great purification is to love, contemplate, know, possess and repose.

The wisdom of the sage is like an ignorance that knows itself and remains silent.

15'

Silence allows us to hear all and say all, without exciting the incredulity or the anger of the mediocre.

When we have obtained everything in the spirit, the heart and the hands, we shall understand that the only desirable thing is repose in the centre of the centre.

16'

He who does not roar in his heart and who does not shed the tears of desperation in the midst of the death of this world cannot be instructed by God.

Let us consider the instability of the present world and let us turn towards God, before change has broken our particular will and attachments.

17'

Three-times mad, those of you who believe you can organize yourselves definitively in the unsteady mud of this world; the great tide shall erase your works and shall return you to naked humility.

Without the lessons of misfortune and without the failures of this world, how many men would be sunk in death forever?

18'

We must live more and more in the spirit, otherwise we shall remain slaves on foreign land for eternity.

We shall honour God by making the Book known to those who seek a way out of their troubles.

19'

Nothing is more urgent than the search for God, and nothing is more useless than human dispute.

The Book is powerful as fire and conciliatory as water, subtle as air and faithful as earth.

20'

God speaks only to God and is heard only by God.

The mediocre think they are afraid of death, but in reality it is life that they fear above all else.

21'

Let us offer a praise to the Unique One every day, so that his joy remains with us.

The art of healing is noble, for it prefigures the art of regeneration, which is holy.

22'

It is more advantageous to be saved by someone simple full of experience than to be killed by a scholar stuffed with science.

No joy and no pain in this world could make us forget the agony of the earth.

23'

Clear-sightedness towards oneself is the most accomplished form of courage.

No-one can change nature, but some know how to purify it and mature it fully.

24'

God is everywhere, but he is found only by those who search for him in the limbos of the world.

Let us consider interior peace and let us remain as absent as possible from this world.

25'

Wisdom is like the union with the living, eternal and free centre.

God makes the worlds move by attracting that which is luminous and repelling that which is obscure.

26'

The sun fertilizes the life that rises and falls. It is like the centre of each world, be it infinitely large or infinitely small.

A little dust tarnishes a mass of gold, and a small defect sometimes masks a great holiness.

27'

Few men taste the beautiful things of the world, and even fewer admire those things that are wise.

There is only one true misfortune here below, which is to be unaware of God and his repose.
"Oh, mysterious and hidden Father!"
"Oh, luminous and living Mother!"
"Oh, radiant and perfect Son!"

28'

Let us take advantage of the slightest respite the world grants us to converse with him who is always attentive inside ourselves.

He who believes he can reach God without knowing man and nature is more ignorant than an earthworm.

29'

All that falls from the heaven accumulates in our souls until the light delivers us from death.

Mediocrity is not to give or receive freely; not to love or increase; to have neither generosity nor gift; to hate greatness, beauty, genius, holiness and purity; to be separated from grace and deprived of love; to think and act basely; to be weak and cowardly in all circumstances of hidden life; to oppress that which is inside and to be crushed by that which is outside.

30'

Unmask yourself, strip yourself down, and the Mother shall appear to you without a veil; but take care that noone adds nor takes away, on pain of clouding the truth that enlightens you and that gives life to you.
"If we could see the world laid open, we would be petrified by the surprise and crushed by the shame of our voluntary exile, for God is the conscience of life, and life is the body of God."

One can be mediocre; one could not boast about it.

31'

All that we accomplish with love is exempt from boredom.

No repose without knowledge.
No knowledge without love.
No love without grace.
No grace without abandonment.

32'

He that fertilizes resides in the sun.
She that nourishes remains in the earth.
She that delivers moves in heaven.
He that unifies reposes in the heart.

The primary light was drawn from the chaos by God and made quintessence in Adam, who did no more than mix this sublime light once more with the exterior darkness of non-being; through curiosity, presumption, vanity and disobedience.

33'

The union of water and earth makes the purity of the Lord's luminous garment appear, and fire manifests the secret virtue of God's treasure.

The new Adam, the true son of God that came, is coming and shall come, separates once more the light from the darkness, through humility, love and obedience to the law of the Unique One.

34'

It is the interior woman and man that we have to bring out of the chaos, through the divine succour of grace that opens and of love that fertilizes.

The first revolt exiled man in the foreign land. The second makes him organize himself comfortably in it. The third makes him give up this world and leads him back to God.

35'

The mortification that prepares for the new life is accomplished in the darkness of faith and in the vacuity of the Being.

The particular will of man only accentuates more and more the failure of his revolt against God.

36'

God does not ask us to please, he asks us to be simple and true.

He who has experienced the humiliation and the sadness of exterior death duly appreciates the joy of life rediscovered and the glory of God recognized.

37'

It is abandon, grace and love that deliver us from the prisons of death and that give us access to the abodes of heaven; but it is possessive knowledge that fixes us in the secret centre.

It is the responsibility of each one of us to arouse God in oneself with one's particular faith, be it patient, sweet, bold, wilful, or even violent; but always animated by the fire of love.

38'

The saint that prays to know his Lord refrains from imagining the place, the moment and the arrangement of the meeting, so as not to hinder the mysterious union of the Unique One.

God may remain deaf to all kinds of prayer, but he could not resist for long the generosity of love.

39'

Deep intention determines the means of accomplishment, be it for good or for evil.

The science of men has brought blood and fire upon the world. What would happen if the science of God were to fall into the hands of the wicked?

40'

Intelligence without love is like a gear without oil which, despite its perfection, ends up grating unbearably.

Even the sage, who knows the perennial nature of the world's support, sometimes cries like a baby at the pain of separations.

41'

The truth possesses a thousand garments, yet it has only one body, one spirit and one soul in the One.

Let us not wait to be stunned by misfortune before turning towards God.

42'

When a temptation becomes too violent, let us offer it to God, who makes everything bearable.

The vanities of the world are of no use here, for it is not a case of being overloaded with memory or puffed up with importance, but rather of being simple and naked as on the last day of creation and on the first day of our birth.

43'

We shall rejoin God's treasure and we shall remain in his splendour and in his peace forever.
"Only holy water can wash us of the dark filth and make us live again in the light of the Lord."

The mediocre in power bring down a people with much more certainty than a coalition of all its enemies would be capable of doing.
"The Lord becomes dark in the shell, but remains luminous in the secret centre of his creation."

44'

He who is at the peak of love and of knowledge is like a vessel full of the nectar of the gods, where all beings quench their thirst; but he who stops halfway on the path to knowledge is like a jug full of ashes that is of no use to anyone.

There where temptation does not exist, there is no combat, nor defeat, nor victory, but rather repose for the chosen ones, stagnation for the mediocre and death for the rebels.

45'

Let us use the goods of this world modestly, so as not to deprive ourselves of what is necessary, on the one hand; and so as not to be excluded from the superabundance of God, on the other.

We need God and his kingdom right now, in order to escape from the vertigo of the abyss opened up in this world.

46'

God is closer to man than to any other earthly body, except for the salt of the earth.

Let us strip down those who recommend misery to us and thrash those who preach resignation, to see if they speak the truth.

47'

It is identification with God that gives perfect omnipotence and gratuitousness.

Let us support those who search for the Unique One so that, on having reached life, they help us to climb the ladder of creation.

48'

He who possesses light in its primary purity is a coadjutor of God.

My Name is like a golden dot in the tabernacle of the ancestors. Who shall make it shine on the earth?, says the Lord. And who shall make it shine in the heaven?, asks the Unique One.

49'

He who does not have the patience of water, the constancy of earth, the subtlety of air and the purity of fire, which separate and unite, shall not enter the glory of the Lord.

There is one thing that God would not be able to do: destroy himself.

50'

Matter. Matrix. Matrass. Mater.
Patria. Part. Pastor. Pater.

He who cannot reach God in ecstasy tries to approach him through vulgar inebriety, for each one tries in his own way to find the repose of the Unique One.

51'

It is in the apparent madness of God that subsists the deep reason of the Universe, just as the spark of fire remains hidden in the uncut stone.

It is characteristic of a saint to lend himself to men and give himself to God.

52'

The study of creation could not do without the love of the creator.

Do to others as you would have done to you, and the dew of the sun shall make all men's earth flower once again.

53'

It is only the purity of childhood, of holiness and of love that can approach God.

The sages shall give up their wisdom in order to become united with God, and the saints shall forget their holiness in order to rejoin the unique clearness.

54'

This world is like a house of madmen, and we shall only get out of it by becoming madder than the maddest, that is to say, wise in God.

The past is like the time of madness.
The present is like the time of ignorance.
The future is like the time of illusion.
Only life in God is like eternal wisdom.

55'

Let us attach ourselves to God from now on, so that when misfortune comes it passes over us like water slides over a duck's back.
"Oh, brilliant truth that erases all blemish of death!"

We must recognize ourselves in all those who suffer and lack assistance, and offer them the water they need for purification and the fire that is essential to union.

56'

The madman kills and disperses that which lives.
The sage vivifies and concentrates that which seems dead.
"One single substance, one single essence.
One single food, one single drink."

All that bores us is precisely that which is useless to us at that moment; that is why each one goes towards that which attracts him most, in order to experience the world to the best advantage.

57'

It is better to stammer the Name of God in our heart than to name him in a learned way through the lips of others.

Work is a chain and ball imposed upon the pride and rebellion of the fallen man.
Pain is a bit and a bridle placed on the lies and disobedience of the unfaithful woman.

58'

One must be mad to be proud of a wound, and demented to keep it in the hope of obtaining relief, for it is only the medicine of heaven and earth that delivers us from all evil and from all death.

It is better to become unconscious in the truth than to remain conscious in lies.

59'

The tortuous way is tiring, and the straight way so easy.
"Wisdom does not do violence to anything, yet it discovers everything."

The proud one must not complain, nor cry, nor curse, for he has chosen to live alone in the midst of the darkness of death.

60'

Pure air and bitter herbs make the blood clean.
Detachment and self-oblivion make the soul clear.

It is the faculty of expansiveness, of giving and of love that makes us one with God.

61'

The anarchy of love prepares the Lord's way.

Pride considers that which is outside.
Humility looks into oneself.
Wisdom fixes God.

62'

Without the ordeal, no-one truly knows himself or possesses himself.

Let us pray that we become simple and flexible in the extreme, in order to possess the joy that never ends.

63'

Our safeguard lies in generosity towards all beings and towards ourselves.

It is better to squander in charity than to save for destruction.

64'

Let us begin by giving, so as to receive without sinning.

All that comes from man is human, even that which appears inhuman.

65'

Let us not make ourselves rigid before anything, and we shall not be broken by anything.

All creation is precious before God, since its change makes the salt of life appear.

66'

Man subsists only by his exchanges with God through creation.

Let us first pray with humility and perseverance in the darkness of faith. Then, we shall praise with abandon and gratefulness in the light of love. Finally, we shall adore, with overcoming, and with integration into the unity of knowledge.

67'

He who rebels before the weakness and mislaying of men must strive for holiness, so as to erase in himself that which displeases him so much in others.
"When our dream is like our wakefulness and our wakefulness is like the absence of the world and the presence of God, unity shall be accomplished in us."

The power of man resides in the generosity of justice. That of woman is in the grace of virtue.

68'

He who observes the commandments of his heart can ignore those of ordinary men, for he already surpasses all of them in the love of God.

He who has closed the circle of creation knows that nothing exists outside of the primary and ultimate essence, where the germ of the marvellous creations of eternity reposes.

69'

The equilibrium of opposites is established in the accomplishment of perfect love and in the repose of final knowledge.
"We shall eat the glorious sun and we shall be alive for ever."

Violence may lay the world low for a time, but it could not convince anyone.

70'

When we are afraid for our lives as we are afraid for that of an ant, we shall be close to being instructed.

Creation is like a delirium whose generator barely manages to keep control.

71'

By joining heaven and earth we shall obtain the glory of God.

To be absent does not mean becoming drunk in a vulgar fashion: it means remaining empty of desires so that God can visit us freely.

72'

GRACE that opens.

To accept does not mean lying down and waiting: it means doing well what one must and not considering the result.

73'

LOVE that causes germination.

To be detached does not mean becoming insensitive to creation: it means letting everything come and letting everything go without coercion.

74'

PURITY that enlightens.

To forget oneself does not mean cutting oneself off from the world and humanity: it means merging into them until one is able to love everything and judge nothing.

75'

KNOWLEDGE that unites.

To repose does not mean remaining in death: it means living in God, and not interfering in the running of the world or the affairs of men.

76'

PEACE that balances.

After having lost oneself in God, the greatest joy consists in finding oneself once again in him.
"Who shall present himself pure and complete before the Lord in order to be made one with the Unique One?"

77'

GRATUITOUSNESS that perpetuates.
There are three possible solutions for men here below: To rely only on oneself, as the ignorant ones who have gone astray in the night of the world do. To rely on oneself and on God, as believers that have heard about the light of the beginning do. To rely only on God, as do sages and saints that know or approach the origin and end of al l things.

	Trust in God with all your heart and do not lean on your own intelligence. SOLOMON
	In order to receive the kingdom, the only means is to do nothing for it. While one acts to achieve it, one cannot attain the kingdom. LAO TSE