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BOOK XVIII

	Ah! the shepherds are stupid. They have not sought IEVE, also they have not prospered, and their whole flock has been scattered. JEREMIAH
	And I, in my turn, have made you contemptible and vile before all the people, for you have not kept my ways and you take notice of people when applying the law. MALACHI

VIE NEUTRE

THE WAIT

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On that day there will be several of us in one single body and in one single spirit, and the mystery of communion in the bosom of the Unique One shall be revealed to the believers, without them knowing the why or the how of the holy union.

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Wisdom is to repose in peace and observe the renewal of the Lord's creation attentively. Holiness is to remain silent and listen in oneself to the voice of the Unique One.

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It is a great deliverance to be ready to leave this life at any moment, in the hope of the Lord's day.

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It is hard to believe without having seen, and yet who can see without having madly believed the unbelievable?

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Some work like madmen in sinister places to produce the death that shall cripple them, poison them or volatilize them, and they snigger when one speaks to them about hell, for their little intelligence and their derisory pride have blinded them totally.

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Satan is, like ourselves, a hidden and spoilt light; however he tries by all means to attract the souls gone astray here below towards his miserable company, instead of submitting and returning to the purest bosom of divine splendour, as the sages, the saints and the believers in God hope.

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made them deaf to the voice of divine wisdom.

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Who could judge the rebel if not the righteous and clear-sighted Lord? As regards ourselves, it is enough for us to do good and to place our trust in God alone. "Hell is full of fire, machines, stench and cries. Paradise is full of light, flowers, perfumes and songs."

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Nothing for the man rebelling against God. Nothing for the woman rebelling against man. Nothing for the child rebelling against woman. Nothing for the world rebelling against the child.

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The devil never says his name frankly, he prefers to hide behind a false identity or he says "ME".

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I am the essence, I am the substance and I am the knot, says the Lord of the centre.

"The outer layer."

"The almond."

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The believers postulate the divine soul, the saints and the sages incubate it and manifest it here below; but the wicked and the brutes stagnate in the limbo of forgetfulness and dwindle away on the dark periphery.

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Due to their nature divine souls tend to separate from the crust of sin and rejoin their eternal, pure and living centre. "The prophets have come to collect the gold dust dispersed in the mud of this world."

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7. In order to be able to fully taste the beatitude of divine union, we must become indifferent to material goods and as if absent to spiritual gifts. "This is the poverty to the world, and this is the wealth in God."

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The innumerable outer layers of creation attract men much more than the substantial almond enclosed in it. Therefore, many prefer the subtle and superficial explanations that lead them astray in the multiplicity, rather than the concise and deep thought that would centre them in the light of the Unique One.

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If we wanted to develop the teaching of the holy Scriptures systematically we would finally realize that all creation is like the prodigious library of the incarnated word.

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Intelligence has been given to us so that we can ride it and it serves for our deliverance, and not so that it crushes us and enchains us in this mixed world.

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He who begins to see clearly in himself is not really proud of his life in this world; subsequently, he is not even ashamed of it, when he knows the weakness of his condition of incarnated creature in the dark, foul-smelling mud.

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Sin is what engenders in us the stench of misery, of crime, of disease, of decrepitude and of death. "Who can boast about living on the dung heap here below? And who can boast of having purified himself of its bad smell?"

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Who is the greatest among the prisoners of the dark, stinking gaol? - Who is the most estimable among those who rot in the cul-de-sac of death? - Which one is the most known, but which one is the best? - Which one is the most honoured, but which one is the most useful? - Which is the intelligent one, but which one is the saint and which one the sage? - Which one is the saved, and which one is the saviour? - Who serves, and who is truly served?

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He who shares his bread, or he who makes it for everyone? - He who cleans the gaol, or he who organises it? - He who consoles, or he who looks after? - He who prays for the deliverance of all, or he who suffers with the damned? - He who rebels in slavery, or he who installs himself in it? - He who preaches good behaviour, or he who shows the hidden exit? - He who wants to force the locks of death, or he seeks the key that opens all of them?

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The poets and artists sing of lost beauty, but very few know that they are weeping for their repudiated Lord. "Evil IS NOT, but it remains as the casing of that which IS."

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Even when God inspires the wise and holy man, the mystery of creation, that of the fall and that of the regeneration still remain at his size, and the result of his quest is not assured!

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Everyone asks themselves what others will think of it, but no-one ever thinks about what God will say of it.

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The worst temptation is to want to reform and save the world instead of achieving one's own happiness and salvation.

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There is only one response to attractive or repulsive temptations and to the absurd of the present world. It is the prayer of the saint, the repose of the sage, or the laugh of the absent one!

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Oh, subtle trap! oh, phantasmagoria of the world of images! It is enough that we are right in God just once for the contradictions and approbations of the world to affect us no longer.

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God's sages and saints are as intelligent as anyone, but they have more confidence in the knowledge and the love of their Lord than in their own particular capacities.

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He who believes in God is like he who no longer believes in anything in this world, but with the difference that the first is joyous, while the second is desperate.

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If we reject the work of a man, so much the worse for him, but if we reject the work of God, so much the worse for us. Therefore, it is better not to know the Lord's word than to refuse it when it is presented to us.

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Look how the hypocrites rear up before the truth and before the simplicity of God's word when they cannot make use of it for their cowardly platitude and for their security of moribund blind men! Worms are definitely more intelligent!

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We can equally take action or rest when we laugh as much at our scholarly works as at our ridiculous disguises.

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It is our absence that permits his presence, and it is our divestment that makes our royalty.

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For the inspired, revelation. For the intelligent, instruction. For the skilled, work. For everyone, education. For hardened brutes and hoodlums, the whip. For informers, death.

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Only the Lord knows the rank and quality of each one of his envoys, and makes them shine in different ways for the teaching of the ignorant, for the safeguard of the believers, for the illumination of the saints and for the resurrection of the sages.

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Who can bite into a juicy fruit without giving thanks to the divine gardener? - Who can contemplate the perfect curve of a woman's breast without praising the magnificent artist? - Who can repose naked on the hot sand without smiling at his Lord?

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Alas! now the worm is in the fruit, the parasite is in the sand, malice is in woman and death dwells in us. - Who shall deliver us from the putrescent foreigner and her infection? - Who shall return to us the total pleasure of life without mixture?

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Who can feel alive and healthy without singing a hymn of love to his creator? And what else, if not, did our father ADAM use to do in the garden of Eden?

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Oh, handsome Lord of compassion, come to us who beg you madly and desperately in our exiled hearts. - Deliver your beloved little children before horror swallows them completely.

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No wicked man shall enter the peace of the Lord, and no shrewd one shall discover the tree of life, for the wicked shall be crushed by their wicked deeds and the shrewd shall be entwined by their tricks. It is the justice of God that bullies no-one, but that gives to each one his own salary.

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He who is attacked by others can find a benevolent defender or even flee or take pity on his executioner, but he who does violence to himself, by who shall he be defended, and by who shall he be delivered? "He who is awake and strong in God seems asleep and weak in the world."

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Creation is like God's imagination coagulated by the word. Repose is like the divine imagination liquefied by the Holy Spirit.

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Life eats life and life unites itself with life; what is irremediable, and what is sad about that?

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True wisdom does not consist in living, like a prudent blind man, a transitory life in this mixed world; instead, it consists in searching for, discovering and eating the life purged of death so as to become like it, immortal and pure.

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The wisdom of men is no more than a forced arrangement with the rottenness of death. - Divine wisdom is the possession of eternal life and deliverance from death.

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The holy and wise books are quite necessary to know the Lord, but a spade and a watering can are not useless in approaching the holy Mother.

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There is a great difference between the intelligence of men and that of God, but few understand that.

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Those who sow love shall be delivered by love. Those who sow hate shall be crushed by hate. With a little patience the thing is easy to check in the world.

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Reality is that which man embodies with sufficient clarity to make it perceptible in the world. - The ideal is that which man does not embody with sufficient power to give it life and body here below.

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He who takes care of his own happiness and his own salvation is not tempted to trouble the world under the fallacious pretext of saving men and of giving them happiness and peace, which in reality for others are called "violence, coercion, slavery, misery, despair and death."

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The only serious occupations here below are not work, pleasure, profit, power or glory, but certainly contempla-

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He who does not do violence to himself is a wise, happy and loved man, for neither is he tempted to force surrounding nature or other creatures.

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True luck is to be sufficiently at repose, sufficiently gratuitous and sufficiently empty to hear God's interior voice and receive his blessing without hindrance.

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Oh, believers in God, recognize the authenticity of the voice that is calling you to earthly regeneration and to heavenly union. "Shall we always approach God and his saints to beg sordidly and never to praise freely?"

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The ignorant ones and the hypocrites present themselves as sad, severe and boring monitors, while God's saints are passionate, joyful and free. The former are as complicated and sinister as the latter are simple and upright.

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Man's greatest error is like the greatest doubt and the greatest timidity towards God, and, inversely, the greatest truth is like the greatest faith and like the greatest familiarity with him.

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He who has worn out the Book begins to live with God. - He who has understood it begins to live in God. - He who has experienced it begins to live God.

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Creation is a secret of God that very few have known or shall know clearly, and this humiliates the intelligent of the world, who cannot manage to penetrate it with their limited intelligence.

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There are also many nonbelievers, but there are very few sons of God ready to manifest the incredible, for where, then, would be the merit of our quest? And how would the hierarchy of the future world be established?

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The true sage is like a little child who follows divine nature and who makes the elements obey him, without being surprised by it at all.

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God has come to rest in man who is pure to enjoy his own creation that is so marvellous and so varied.

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If we fall or if we think we are falling, let us keep our eyes fixed on our handsome Lord of eternity instead of analyzing the mud in which we have been lamentably struggling since the primary fall, for it is neither intelligence nor the intervention of man that separates the true from the false and that saves from death, but rather the grace and the love of the most learned and all-powerful Lord who forgives and who delivers his beloved children.

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Having given up the mud on the outside, my Lord gave me a pearl; having given up the pearl, he offered me a diamond; having given up the diamond, he presented me with a ruby; but as I did not stretch out my hand greedily, he gave himself, and I ate my Beloved One with prudence so as not to die of his great perfection. "Oh, unique savour of the Living One of eternity!"

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Generosity towards others and towards oneself is the best investment that can be made in this world and in the other; let us then give a little of our property before everything is taken away from us, and let us not refuse our help to the humble seekers of God.

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Finally, each one will have to be faced with the good or bad images of his particular faith. Only he who has hoped for God without imagining anything else shall fully enjoy the repose and the freedom of the Unique One.

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Nothing to hope for among the impious and the mediocre. Nothing to hope for either among the intelligent and the scholars of the world. Nothing to do, above all, while in the company of hypocrites and of the wicked.

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Our fellow-being is he who wakes up to the reality of God, and not he who falls asleep in the dream of the Beast. "Who can boast of conversing with his Lord while in bad company?"

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Let us not constantly bother God's wise children with indiscreet and worthless questions; let us, instead, strive to silently perceive the thought of their heart, which shall lead us to the life and the repose of the splendour of the Unique One.

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Who shall lead us to the dwelling of God's sage, and who shall introduce us to him? Who shall show us the holy place, and who shall reveal to us the light that lives in it secretly? Oh, hidden crib! oh, primary and ultimate secret!

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Let us imprudently seek the Living One who can save us from the pit of filth, and let us run away from the dying and the dead who drag us into their imbecilic and satisfied darkness. "How many worldly sages on whom it has been forgotten to stick the label "factitious "!"

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Many are asleep to the point of forgetting themselves in worthless or sinister occupations, and very few are sufficiently awake to seek themselves in the holy books and to find themselves under the veil of mixed creation.

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It is not scholars and thinkers that we need, but rather a single wise expert and a single holy possessor of God's secret.

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Oh, holy light of life that shines in the darkness of the end! How many have seen your salvation? And how many shall see it before the definitive judgement?

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It is not up to us to unveil before all the secret beauty of God's creation, it is up to us only to affirm its existence in the heart of man and of the Universe.

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Oh, fleeting life, the Lord of heaven shall fertilize you and shall fix you in the peace of the holy gold, and your glory shall illuminate the worlds and your virtue shall quench the thirst of the believers of the grandiose Universe!

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How indifferent and light everything becomes to us when we taste the love and freedom of the Unique One, and how everything rips us apart and crushes us when we attach ourselves passionately to the beings and things of the transitory world!

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Let us not be afraid so much of sinning in detail, let us rather be afraid of not loving God and his creatures as we should, and let us dread behaving like satisfied hypocrites in this divided and darkened world.

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Grant us the absence of ourselves, oh Lord, so that we enjoy your holy presence and we find your hidden truth that saves from death.

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Make us hear nothing but your true voice, make us see nothing but your radiant face, make us receive nothing but your vivifying breath, oh, holy and veiled beauty!

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It is not enough to study, we must also understand what we study, and what good is understanding if we do not experience in ourselves the truth of God?

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Prayer and praise are not ends in themselves, but rather the learning of silence in God, which alone instructs us fully.

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Many have become sinister by the sheer force of taking themselves seriously; let us therefore pray to the Lord that he teaches us to laugh at ourselves before the trap of the world closes on us forever.

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God is free and alive, that is why he also duly understands the absurd humour of death and the astonishing freedom of life. "Long live our Lord the fire that is embodied in our lady water!"

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The religions of tears and of repentance are for the beings who have gone astray in death. The religion of joy and of freedom is for God's children found again in life.

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We shall obtain nothing here below and elsewhere but that which we are able to hear, see and taste without danger of perishing, for the Lord does violence to no-one, not even through the inestimable gift of eternal life.

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Who would have the intelligence to listen within himself to the voice of the Highest, and who would have the wisdom to conform to it? That one would see that the greatest submission to God engenders perfect freedom in this world and in the other.

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Goodwill in God does violence to nothing, not even oneself. Goodwill in oneself does violence to everything, even to God. "Who strips bare the almond and who makes the seed germinate? Is it not the spirit of the all-powerful Lord?"

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The prudent ones who now reject the Scripture shall become the guardians of the precious words. Oh, most subtle humour of the Perfect One, who has the children of heaven's light guarded by the blind!

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True freedom is like a holy madness that knows itself and keeps itself in God. "Who could prevent the children of God from taking up possession of their holy heritage?"

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It took ten years to write the Book; who, then, would refuse to read it for the same time before asking useless questions? "The more we stir up the mud, the murkier it shall become, and the more we let it repose, the more it shall settle naturally."

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In wanting to go directly to the light of life, we run the risk of wearing ourselves out against the glass of human reason and not feeling the draught of divine inspiration that comes from the narrow door, hidden in the shade of our earthly prison.

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Suffering is useful as it makes us disgusted with our exile in this world mixed with death.

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He who knows everything is like he who knows nothing, but with the difference that the former is free, while the latter is a slave.

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Prohibitions, separations, limitations and blind judgements are in our heads and in our hearts before being in our houses and in the world.

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When he who has lived in a holy way on this earth in union with God is asked: "What good have you done?", he shall reply: "Nothing", for only the wicked excuse themselves in the worthless hope of hiding their innumerable crimes.

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It is our silence that allows God to state in us his holy truth, and it is our repose that allows him to accomplish in us his ultimate perfection. "Sobriety, Simplicity, Solitude, Salvation, Saintliness." "Solution, Salt, Sanity, Succour, Sagacity."

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Let us climb the ladder of love and of knowledge without worthless discussions over how to grab hold of the rungs, and without worthless regrets about what we are leaving below.

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Here we are submerged by the scholars and the intelligent of the world, who explain everything to us, but who give us nothing of imperishable life.

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The great man is he who attracts God in his heart, who fixes him in his body and who manifests him in himself and in the world.

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It is not a question here of arguing over words; it is rather a question of finding the God who delivers us from death.

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Let us be sinners who sometimes do good, rather than devout ones who often do bad.

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All that is noble, generous and great frightens the mediocre and arouses their hate. "Only love could still save them."

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No-one could hate those he prays for before God, for they are like the deposit of his victory over death that has dispersed us here below.

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Let us note well that the action of God tends to unite gently, while the action of the devil tends to separate brutally.

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When we reach the permanence of hidden life, we shall bear everything in silence and we shall witness the catastrophes of the absurd with a smile.

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We shall be enlightened by what we have not invented, and we shall be saved by what we have not done. (Strange words for the intelligent and for the scholars of this world.)

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We must love God and his creatures for themselves and for what they really are, and not for ourselves and for what they seem to be. Such is true love.

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The truth scandalizes the ignorant, that is why it remains veiled in the world and is only shown to he who has given up all human passion and judgement.

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The Book is not for the scholars of the world, nor for the satisfied, nor for the agitated, nor for those who have been sold out, nor for the impious, nor for sectarians. Above all it is not for hypocrites.

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Is there no longer anything on earth but men satisfied with their little intelligence and reassured by their miserable reason? Is there no longer anything here below but ruminants of ignorance and those sated with vanity?

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Sunk in the mud, we must wash ourselves daily. Going round in circles, we must persevere in our march towards God. Blind and deaf, we must seek the light of the Perfect One and listen to his holy word.

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Repose, silence, prayer, meditation, self-oblivion are the ways of reaching the divine presence and communion with God, who shall provide us with everything we ask of him.

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Many believe they can fool God, without seeing that it is God who tricks them. "Lamentable blindness, derisory triumph!"

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Let us always add this after having prayed to the generous Lord: "Satisfy my desire, all-powerful Father, if it does not harm me or your children."

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He who holds his tongue avoids the most frequent opportunity there is for sinning.

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The man of weight and the lofty woman engender the perfect world.

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The primary freedom and power are similar to leaving of individual conscience and like immersion in the divine conscience, where God takes action and reposes eternally.

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All arguments over words are paltry things with respect to the tangible reality of the embodied Lord that our eyes see, that our hands touch, that our mouth tastes and that our heart secretly shelters.

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True faith in God and in his salvation can only be born and grow in the absolute freedom of individual choice.

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The Father is hidden in the Son, as the Son is hidden in the Mother and as the Mother is hidden in the darkness of our hearts.

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Let us become sufficiently poor and simple so that no-one can rob or humiliate us, or let us become sufficiently rich and instructed so that nobody is capable of impoverishing or of disappointing us.

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If God lives in us and submerges us, we shall also do the works of God like beloved sons overflowing with love. "How much good it does us to listen to our God, and how marvellously his word fertilizes us when we are found to be pure, simple and believing!"

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We need mad generosity and senseless love to forgive and to bless our enemies, but we need holy humility to ask their forgiveness for being right against their hate and against their blindness.

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If God does not pass into us, and if we do not pass into our fellow-being, we shall not be able to receive and transmit the blessing that saves from death. "The wicked punish themselves for their wickedness, rejecting the Lord's help and that of holy and wise men."

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Let each one honour God in the secret tabernacle of his heart and let each one listen to the interior prophet who shall lead him to the Most-Unique One, the Most-Perfect One, the Most-Living One, the Purest One.

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Everything is possible for us, Lord, when you appear in us, but when you withdraw, it is there where we are more impotent and more stupid than the stones of the road.

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Love, beauty and the gift are repugnant to the mediocre and the hypocrites, for they themselves are hateful, ugly and dull, and it is for that reason that they try to soil and suffocate everything that surpasses them.

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It is the Lord who makes us holy and alive forever, but it is we who grant or deny the secret entry of our hearts.

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It is God who marks us for the quest of life, and it is he who leads us to the goal when we are humble, loving and obedient to his law of love. "The union of heaven and earth makes the light of the Perfect One appear."

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The sages and the saints transpire God in spite of themselves, and that is their only source of virtue. "Thus, that which we do is nothing; it is that which God does in us that is everything."

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Our hands are powerless to sort life from death, and the humble knowledge of this truth is the only thing that allows God and nature to accomplish our deliverance here below.

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The holy Name of God is a living and palpable reality that is capable of everything. It is a mystery that very few have known or shall know.

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Let us be pious and believing, let us be simple and patient, let us be sober and peaceable, and let us cultivate the earth of the garden of Eden with the aid of the all-powerful Lord.

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Love penetrates, love gives life, love exalts, love multiplies, love unifies in splendour.

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It is through the purity of grace that we magnetize divine love and that we embody God in ourselves.

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The scholars and the intelligent of the world shall be quite disappointed on reading the Book, and shall say: "I cannot make head nor tail of this", for, precisely, the Book is a circle that guards the soul and that speaks to it inside.

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The word of God first humbles our reason, then secretly communicates its light to the soul, before enlightening the spirit, if we are attentive and persevering in our holy quest.

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Who shall present to the Highest a mirror of love and purity so that he lives again among us in the primary and ultimate splendour?

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Our virgin has conceived under the gaze of the Highest and she has given us a son who has vanquished death and who shall make all his crippled brethren perfect.

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There is no longer chance and there is no longer doubt for him who fixes God in spirit and who houses him in his heart. There are no longer tribulations nor death for him who is one with the Perfect One in his holy light.

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He who has seen the Lord, who has touched him and who has tasted him no longer has faith, fear or hope, for the possession of life enlightens him and enlivens him fully in the experimental certainty of the Unique One.

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If we wish to stay alive, we must magnetize heavenly life within us, so that, in its turn, it attracts us to it, where there is no longer a place for death.

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Who has seen the light of God shine on the land of the dead? - Who has seen the Lord's gold fertilize the land of men? - Who has seen the most-perfect Saviour multiply himself in the land of the living?

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Many have nostalgia and the secret desire for God and are deeply troubled by it and sorry about it, for they do not know to whom their love is addressed.

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It is the sincere love of God and the ardent desire of his knowledge that provoke the conditions of our meeting and our union with the living glorious one.

	What use would it be to a man to win the world if he lost his soul? JESUS
	In everything and above all, repose in God, oh my soul, because he is the eternal repose of the Saints. IMITATION OF J.C.