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BOOK XXXIII

  The sun visits the army of the stars in the heights of heaven, but all men are earth and ash.

ECCLESIASTICUS


  For not everything can be found in men, the son of man not being immortal.

ECCLESIASTICUS



ÉRIN VÊTUE THE FLOWERS

1 There are many hidden things in the Book for him who reflects. 1' But there is one that contains all the others for him who understands.

2 Who shall reach the final step of the holy pyramid of the divine hierarchy? 2' Who shall be identified with the heavenly stone that crowns it and that finishes it?

3 The Lord God has given us the inspiration for a prodigious and magnificent Book; we are not afraid to say it. 3' For many shall once again hope for God's salvation, and some shall enter his deliverance thanks to it.

4 Those who receive the instruction of the world close themselves off to the instruction of God. 4' And those who give themselves over to the science of the world are lost to the science of God.

5 It is by eating the body of God that we shall be renewed and transformed in the holy life. 5' It is by drinking the blood of God that we shall be raised and enlightened in the glorious life.

6 No force of the darkness that oppresses the world now shall be able to suffocate for ever the revelation of the sons of God. 6' The buried light shall appear one day, and it shall enlighten the judgement of nations, and it shall clothe those who rally round the Lord God.

7 All the good we conceitedly attribute to ourselves is a robbery with respect to God, which first ridicules us, then crushes us, and which we shall finally have to give account of on the day of judgement. 7' God alone merits our adoration, our recognition and our praise. Thus, the saints and the sages hand over to God the slightest homage that reaches them.

8 Supreme intelligence for man is to make God shine in oneself. 8' Who understands this? Who undertakes it? And who manifests it in the world?

9 He who is intelligent frequents the house of God and feeds his servants. 9' Thus, the abundance of heaven flows over him and his own.

10 He who is inspired prays to God in secret and feeds the poor man without letting anyone know. 10' Thus, God attracts him to him and delivers him from death.

11 It is not an insignificant reward, which we hope for from the madness of our love and from our senseless quest in this world. 11' For it is imperishable life, in which hardly anybody believes sincerely and simply any longer.

12 The cunning and the skilful make a good living, and the seekers of God are reduced to begging. 12' What a surprising and disturbing spectacle for the believers who hope for God's salvation!

13 The saints and the believers shall one day rest in the abundance of eternal life praising the holy NAME of God. 13' What a surprising and disturbing spectacle for the impious ones who shall then despair of God's salvation!

14 He who gives nothing of himself or of his good, he who does not help his fellowman... 14' that one curses himself and condemns himself to abandonment, to decline and to death.

15 There is nothing mediocre, nothing narrow and nothing stubborn in the Lord God. 15' There must therefore be no meanness in believers.

16 We seem wretched talking about the glory of God. 16' But we must not become grotesque by talking about him without naturalness.

17 The help we have vainly asked of men shall one day be offered to us by them thousands and thousands of times without our requesting it. 17' But we shall not receive it, for God shall then have replaced it in us through his descending grace and through his ascending love, and our riches shall be infinite.

18 We have begged to receive so as to be able to give; likewise, you shall beg to give so as to be able to receive also, but your gift shall remain in your hands like dead ash. 18' For he who does not receive cannot give, and he who does not give cannot receive either. Let each one, then, help the poor man who fears God, before God enriches him for ever!

19 If we have been unable to earn our living through our work for so long, we are not ashamed of it; the shame is for those who have excluded us and for those who have rejected us without judgement. 19' Artists, who ought to be the most fraternal and charitable of men, have become exclusive and malicious; that is not a good sign, for now nonbelievers dominate among them.

20 What a scandal for all the mediocre who now judge us as mad, when they see the Lord's choice uncovered in that which regards us! 20' What stupor for all the well-off who reject us now, when they see the grace of God overflowing from our hands, and his love shining in our heart!

21 They shall strike their mouth and they shall bite their tongue, for their impious judgements shall crush them and their cries of vexation shall only increase their regrets at having made such a gross mistake. 21' Their prudence, their reason and their judgement shall be spread out at their feet like a heap of rubbish, and their nakedness shall appear before all like a heap of dry bones.

22 The believers have to practice their religion regularly, and the intelligent have to study it patiently. 22' The inspired ones have to penetrate deeply their religion, and the chosen ones have to accomplish it fully.

23 A people in which such a Book can be published is a great people. 23' But a people in which it is received is a far greater people.

24 Shall we be the only one to denounce the rottenness that invades the world and to rise up against the death that shall congeal it for much longer? 24' Shall we be the only one to preach the return to the Lord of life and to show once more the way of salvation for much longer?

25 If we do not penetrate the teachings of our faith, how shall we penetrate the teachings of foreign doctrines? 25' Do we no longer know that all is presented to us under the veil of wise symbols and holy characters?

26 We truly preach in a desert of straying, of vanity and of death. 26' Shall the Spirit of God not come to give life to the bones that we are addressing?

27 Oh miracle of God, many shall assemble and, recovered in their flesh of life, they shall praise his holy NAME, and the desert of men shall become like the garden of Eden. 27' The water of life shall flow from its secret centre and the beauty of the lordly creation shall be reflected in rediscovered immortality.

28 It is not the business of women to scold us, and still less to judge us, as far as our quest for God is concerned. 28' She who caused us to be driven out of the garden of Eden must abstain from opposing our much hoped-for return.

29 Where is the intelligent one inspired by God who shall take in the errant virgin? 29' That one is blessed by God, for he shall see the birth of the king of heaven and his heritage shall never more be taken away from him.

30 The ignorant wicked ones may well mock and deride him. 30' The Lord shall console him in his heart for eternity, and his lot shall never perish.

31 They shall remain exiled in the dark world and they shall tear one another to pieces like ferocious beasts. 31' The chosen one of the Lord God shall live in his glorious sun, and he shall rest in his bosom so-pure.

32 He who refuses to listen to a servant of God, and he who refuses to aid him make the word of God known, cuts himself off from God's blessing and from the help of men. 32' These decline rapidly in the world, as well as their businesses, and they become wretched and ashamed, even though they were rich and glorious.

33 He who reads the Book of the renewal at least once in its entirety is already blessed by God and is no longer an orphan in this world. 33' It is truly difficult to become free in God, that is, without worldly desires and worries, in order to hear God's teaching without obstacle.

34 Those who have withdrawn from the profane world and who pray to God in their hearts by studying the holy Scriptures do not know either their luck or their happiness. Let them praise the Lord who has granted them the grace to search for him here below! 34' The divine appears inhuman, but in that it withdraws from the world, while the demoniac is inhuman in doing violence to it. As for the human in the world, it is a mortal agony maintained at the price of forced labour.

35 The end approaches, and nobody can oppose the darkness that invades the nations any longer, on pain of being destroyed by the impious ones. 35' God shall allow the last enlightened believers to assemble, so that they may be saved from the bursting disaster.

36 Many now doubt their religion, and each one gets out of it in his own way, just as one leaves a house that is in danger of collapsing. 36' Who is the intelligent one that shall plunge himself to the roots of his faith in order to become strengthened in God's revelation?

37 When the intelligent scholars ignore us, we shall rejoice at not being known with them. 37' When the ignorant profane ones mock us, we shall rejoice at not being confused with them.

38 When the blind sectarians reject us, we shall rejoice at not drying up with them. 38' When the impious politicians persecute us, we shall rejoice at not being judged with them.

39 The shrewd now speak in the name of the holy virgin and of God, but it is in order to impose their names and their works of death in the world even better. 39' Thus they unmask themselves by putting themselves before God, for the true believer steps aside before the Lord and before his mysteries.

40 Let us visit the dying and the dead in order to become aware of the vanity of our desires, our worries and our works in the world. 40' Shall an intelligent one then perhaps think of searching for God and his salvation while there is still time?

41 Oh, unfathomable wisdom of the Lord God, that allows us to see that even the impious ones are useful for the salvation of his beloved ones in the world! 41' Who can understand this at present without having come close to the mystery of the Highest?
Oh, who shall baptize the burned desert of death so that the Lord will send his Holy Spirit there?

42 We speak a new language, but we repeat the ancient unique revelation, for nobody invents anything in the ART of God. 42' God's truth may well wear all faces and all plumages; its holy nakedness always remains just as it is.

43 We shall never say enough times to the ignorant conceited ones that the repose of the Being is neither non-being nor, in consequence, nothingness, with which they regularly confuse it. 43' Thus, the seed is not exactly the plant, but it potentially contains all of it, and nobody could confuse it with death without displaying his ignorance.

44 Oh derision! the Book of faith is rejected by the blind and conceited believers who think they know all about the ancient revelation, whereas they are not even established on the outer layer of their Scriptures. 44' The lonely, the ones gone astray, the rebels and the impious shall receive it before them with enthusiasm and gratitude, and they shall inherit the kingdom of God in place of the right-thinking ones mummified in the dead letter of their Scriptures.

45 Is each one not best off just as he is? And does each one not want to live, however diminished he may be? 45' Given that we have to die and abandon everything, what, then, are the riches of the earth and all the work of men for us?

46 Would we not do better to search for the Lord of life, who alone can save us from death, and abandon the vanities of the world that make us waste the little time we are granted here below for resolving the fearsome enigma? 46' Acceptance, solitude and leisure are useful to us above all for seeking the jewel that shall save us from the dispersion of death, for the first delivers us from the cares of the world, the second spares us its worries and the last one gives us the time necessary for the holy quest for life.

47 Believing a thing is good.
Penetrating it is better.
Possessing it is perfect.
47' Oh, my Lord, how shall we obtain the leisure and the peace so necessary to the quest for your holy obviousness?

48 The arts of men may well distract us and console us here below. 48' Only the ART of God can deliver us from the putrefying infamy of deadly sin.

49 Nobody must be mistaken: God's creation is magnificent, it is splendid, it is perfect and it is unique in substance and in essence. 49' For even fallen and mixed with the mud of outside, it is still beautiful and it shows us the way of return to the unique Splendour.

50 It is not sufficient for us to be delivered from death and to be restored as free spirits in God. 50' We desire above all to resurrect again in the glorious body of the Lord of life.

51 An intelligent one wanted to touch the body of immortality of our handsome Lord, and thanks to him we know that it is a palpable reality and not a worthless appearance.
"Satan was rejected for not having rendered homage to the holy and mysterious trinity of Adam."
51' It is thanks to this body of glory that the sons of the Unique One are superior to all God's creatures, even to the angelic spirits, and it is thus that all bow before the glory of Adam and that Satan could not be readmitted to heaven before having adored the holiest body of the resurrected Christ.

51" It is a marvellous secret that we bring to light before all. That will perhaps cause those who have not settled and fallen asleep in the filth of the fallen world to reflect.

  That which I teach is the traditional doctrine, the crowning beam that death does not reach. I apply myself to acting in accordance with the Fathers of the tradition.

LAO TSE


  Why, oh men born from the earth, have you given yourselves over to death, when you have the power to participate in immortality?

HERMES TRISMEGISTUS



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