Title page for The Message Rediscovered, 1956
This section tries to be an introduction to the most important Cattiaux's work, The Message Rediscovered. So, we present the first five Books or chapters from this work and some forewords and introductory writings about The Message Rediscovered, a book
that contains, as his author said, "a tightly initiation and mystique presented in a concentrated form that demands more than a straightforward reading, the words being transcended by the revelation, and the work presenting itself as liquid air that has acquired other extraordinary properties, but which are invisible at first sight"
The verses are arranged in two columns, for there are two men in us, the carnal man and the spiritual one, the left column generally giving the earthly meanings: moral, philosophical and ascetic; the right column giving the heavenly meanings: cosmologic, mystical and initiatory. Sometimes these verses are completed with a third one placed in the middle of the page, bringing together the two others in the alchemic meaning that unites heaven and earth, relating to the mystery of God, of creation and of man.
THE MESSAGE REDISCOVERED
Louis Cattiaux
1 VOLUME
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Pages: 448
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The Message Rediscovered :: Book 5
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The fire did not melt that heavenly food
that resembles frost and is just as fusible.
WISDOM |
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Because that which resisted the destructive
action of the fire melted easily, heated by the slightest ray of sun.
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TRÊVE UNIE |
THE HEAVENLY MOTHER |
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He who has placed
his confidence and love in God can lose or acquire all here below; he no
longer worries about it. |
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The Lord recognises his children by the delirium
of their love, which makes the wisdom of their wish. |
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The superior man
enlightens and gives life to all that approaches him.
The inferior one obscures and kills all that touches him.
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Water purifies the stain of
the world.
Fire makes perfect the virtue of water.
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Let us lead the
warriors before the bones of the dead and ask them: "Place your friends
on the right and your enemies on the left; teach us justice".
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Behind the changes of the world
there remains the eternal essence of life.
Who can recognize it now?
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4. Only God can
re-unite what death has dispersed. He shall place all dead earth outside
and re-unite the suns in his heart.
To him the judgement, the light and the glory.
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The creating fire rested in
the living water, and all was hidden beneath the mantle of dark death. |
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God's envoy experiences
no prudence when the fire of the Lord possesses him. |
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The saint saves the existence
of others by sacrificing his own. |
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God's friend is
completely reserved when the light of heaven is his.19
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The sage helps all men by leading
his life towards perfection. |
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Those who tempt
God lock themselves away in death. |
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The hero kills everyone and
kills himself. |
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Victory is obtained
over the Beast that lives within us and will not yield. |
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What forces God destroys man,
and what humiliates man erases God.
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Let us pray so
that death finds us praising God with true poetry and adoring him with pure
love. |
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He who has obtained the water
of the earth must look for the earth of the water in order to make perfect
the work of the Lord. |
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Perfection would
be to think and act as though the world belonged to us and that we had referred
it back to God.
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The traveller of heaven and
earth weighs heavy in the depths of hell and flies in the highest firmament. |
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Krist,20 invited
to the wedding, went to it without ceremony, and participated in the feast
without flagging.
"The perfection in love, the simplicity in accomplishment."
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Between water and wine there
is a place for the earth's blood, and between mud and wheat there is a place
for the sun's body.
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Meditation kills
the dead and enlightens the living.
Useless discussions lead everyone astray.
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He who possesses gold argues
with no-one to affirm his wealth.
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One can only converse
with God with inner peace, as one can only converse with men with outer
calm. |
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The light of heaven springs
from the great silence of death through the effect of grace and love acting
on it. |
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The thought of
death is no longer a curb on the folly of men, for the world which has become
ignorant and weak rejects this vision with horror or abandons itself to
it passionately and blindly.
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The ignorant one is recognizable
by the boredom, contempt or anger he feels before the natural teaching of
God. |
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Wretchedness, slavery,
illness, old age and death constantly bring us back toward the one reality
that is God. |
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He who does not look away from
the wretched end of everything soon sees the glory of the Lord resplendant. |
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The greatest revolt
against the world should end in the most absolute submission to God.
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The absurdity of misfortune
clearly demonstrates to us the vanity of our judgements and our actions. |
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God only delivers
those who implore him with a furious desire and an insane love
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He who renounces earth and
heaven receives God without hindrance. |
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Saints are hated
by vulgar men, as they are the living examples of what they themselves are
not.
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Gold separates itself from
mud through its own weight, and sometimes through its great lightness. |
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God communicates
his science and instills his love in those he recognizes as his children. |
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The children of love are engendered
by the heavenly fire; that is why they are alive in eternity. |
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The fingers of
the hand are sufficient to count the chosen ones of a time of the earth.
"O living jewels, hidden among the extinguished multitude of blind
men!"
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There is no encouragement here
below for sages and saints.
The persecutions that they endure in the world add to their price before
God.
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Original knowledge
involves an immense temptation for the mortal man.
It is only revealed to those with pure, humble and faithful hearts.
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God is like a treasure buried
in the earth that we trample on, and like a secret hidden in the rain that
falls on our heads. |
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Those who possess
the science remain carefully hidden, except one, who teaches pure men the
way.
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He who possesses love and wisdom
judges nothing and no-one. |
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Let us pray to
God that he allows us meet a true instructor before the day of judgement,
and let us pray to him so that we recognize his envoy when he appears before
us.
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All what is patiently desired
for is easily obtained. It is enough to choose well at the beginning, so
as not to recriminate at the end. |
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Let us give back
to God the praises he bestows on us, since the gifts that motivate them
all come from him.
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Heavenly water engenders the
Universe, which in turn manifests it in holy and perfect stone. |
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It is in misfortune
and at the moment of death that man reveals what is inside him.
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The water alive for eternity
is the singular plural of the visible and invisible worlds. |
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The prayer experienced
for one minute is worth more than the dead lesson pondered on throughout
a whole lifetime.
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The saint that prays to God
in his heart is more efficient than all the armies of the world put together. |
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To preach renunciation
and cling to riches is to condemn oneself to double death.
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He who possesses the secret
fire can acquire and give up all without harm. |
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It is better to
use the things of the world discreetly and praise God for the opportunities
he offers us. |
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The holiness of peoples appears
in the detachment and simplicity of the instructors. |
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He who minds only
his own business avoids gratuitous enemies and blind dispersion. |
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By remaining unknown in the
world, one escapes the malevolence of the mediocre, the envious and the
treacherous.
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He who collaborates
in God's work acquires substantial life and peace forever.
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The sage joins his action to
that of heaven and earth, for he knows the beginning, the middle and the
end of everything down here. |
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He who complains
about men or about God shows his ignorance or his presumption. |
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He who pities men and praises
God demonstrates his love and his knowledge. |
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There is neither
peace nor security for anyone in this world. Misfortune keeps us awake constantly;
it is the instructor of lost men par excellence.
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All that has come from mud
shall return to mud, until the sun takes possession of all the purity in
the world and fixes it in God's new land. |
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Supreme remedies
are often the most bitter to the taste.
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The penetration of the thoughts
of the sages leads the most ordinary of men to God.
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The vulgar man
is like a cork on the raging sea of the world.
He who has the love of God remains firm in all places and on all occasions;
it is the subject of astonishment for those around him.
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The saint helps the multitude
of men, but these can do nothing for or against his advance, for it is the
Lord that wakes us or sends us to sleep as he wishes. |
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The ordeal tempers
the strong and teaches the weak.
It is the law of the world.
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Everything that we send returns
increased to us, and we become what we have chosen to be. |
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He who reaches
the divine truth laughs, cries, admires, praises and blesses eternally. |
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The morning star guides us
to the moon of gentleness and to the sun of strength. |
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The idolatry of
oneself leads to madness in death.
The love of God leads to final wisdom in the impassive life.
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The man who links light to
darkness participates in the total world. |
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By avoiding worldly
competitions, one easily acquires the freedom to pray and to search for
God.
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Let us enforce nothing by violence,
not even the truth, if it would provoke disputes and hate. |
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The ignorant one
tortures nature in every ways and means and in every sphere.
He who is instructed discovers it by one way and in one place.
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Grace and love deliver us from
filth and unite us with God in the secret of the first substance and essence.
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He who discovers
the God's truth smiles even at misfortune and death.
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When we possess the united
truth, not one contradiction or agreement shall make our judgement waver. |
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He who obeys God
displeases vulgar men. |
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God magnetizes his children
until he delivers them from exile before the appointed time. |
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Our joys and our
pains are of no interest to the world; let us offer them to he who receives
his children lovingly, for he is the sum of all the ancestors.
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Holy love is like the to-ing
and fro-ing that links them together, and at their source, men lost in death. |
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If we must speak,
let us praise the perfection of God's works. If we must remain silent, let
us pray to him in our hearts in order to know him better.
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Knowledge is like the reunion
of man with his eternal, living and free origin. |
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The entrance to
science is to observe the world without prejudice and to study how it perpetuates
itself in life and in death.
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Wisdom has not begun and shall
not end, just like the Unique that it nurtures in its bosom. |
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The more one belongs
to the Being, the more unreal the world becomes. The more one gives oneself
to the world, the more non-existent God seems.
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Love began with the first separation;
it shall come to rest with the final reintegration in the identification
of the total union. |
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The limitation of
desires ensures the freedom and the repose of the intelligent man. |
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Let us pray before God, so
that he may re-engender us in the holiness of the perfect love. |
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The union with
God engenders joy and peace without mixture.
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There is no common ground between
God's work and the science of rebellious men. |
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The strength and
security of the saint is to be ignored by the corrupt world.
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The virtue of each being is
hidden in his seed. |
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The glory of wisdom
is to converse with God and never entrust oneself to impious men.
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The four elements form the
alphabet with which God teaches clear-sighted men. |
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Our plain reason
removes from us the evidence of the divine science.
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God mocks the scholars of the
world in an unheard of fashion.. |
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God possesses the
gift of perfect humour. He laughs at the proud, the cunning and the greedy.
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How many turn away from the
futile agitation of the world?
How many examine the agonies and resurrections of the earth?
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Only he who has
acquired mastery over himself can command other men. |
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The man who possesses the knowledge
of love perpetuates himself eternally. |
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Let us think first
of God, and he shall supply our ordinary and extraordinary needs. |
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Silence, repose and detachment
maintain the sage's energy. |
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The health, riches,
glory and the science of men are smoke soon dissipated by misfortune. |
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The secret of true success
consists of always following the greatest slope of love. |
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True power and
greatness are always accompanied by great tolerance.
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The holy stone crushes only
the impious and the profaners. |
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He who is instructed
considers the world as the veil that covers the living reality of God.
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Behind the changes of the world
moves the holy Mother of men, and in her reposes the mysterious Father.
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If
the world ignores or rejects us, let us turn back toward God, who has always
known and loved us. |
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What difference
subsists between the river and the dewdrop once they have rejoined the primordial
ocean? |
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To be considered
mad, incompetent, lazy or an idiot, and not be distressed by the fact, resembles
wisdom.
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The sage smiles even at death.
He knows that no portion of God can be destroyed. |
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The greatest deficiency
of ordinary men is not to admire, not to love and not to know God.
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He is like the central point
of the purified luminous sphere.
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One cannot save
someone against their will, but one can lose them without their consent.
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Man's fall was caused by the
cold of death.
The assumption of the Mother is free in the heat of love. |
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Intelligence means
using the world as a loan granted by God and giving him thanks for it in
any circumstances.
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Let us accomplish perfectly
what we have decided to do, but let us consider nothing in this world as
definitive. |
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Prudence is accepting
no word without having gone over it a thousand times, and speaking only
of what one knows well. |
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He who fixes the fire inside
the purified earth becomes master of himself and of the total world.
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Great perspicacity
and total rectitude of spirit are required in order to see the world as
it is, and not as we imagine it. |
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Death manifests the renewal
of all things through the life that leaves and re-enters without us knowing
how to seize it and fix it. |
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There is more benefit
and more joy in conversing for one minute with God than in arguing a whole
lifetime with men.
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He who attains God makes perfect
humanity in its entirety, for he thus attracts like a magnet his own substance
buried in the tomb. |
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The reason behind
the existence of all things is God, who has no reason to be.
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The Being always remains the
master of divided creation.
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God has raised
us to be witnesses to his splendour, and to share his glory at the beginning
and at the end of creation. |
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The Holy Spirit makes the pure
soul appear and exalts the clear body.
"Oh holy trinity, admirable sun of grace, of love and of knowledge!"
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It is better to
endure a thousand injustices than to commit one only. |
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To imagine is more unsettling
than to do or to endure. |
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God at the centre
of life.
Life in the middle of death.
Therefore, all is exposed to the view of each of us.
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The mystery of God is a treasure
that one must keep carefully within oneself until the time of the universal
judgement, on pain of being killed by the world or of killing the world. |
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The intelligence
of the water and the possession of the earth make man modest and silent.
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That which is obscure at the
beginning appears luminous at the end. |
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He
who believes in God saves nothing.
He who knows him possesses nothing.
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By withdrawing
from that which is useless, one arrives rapidly at the solitude and the
liberty necessary for the quest for God. |
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It is love that
unites the part with the whole, and it is knowledge that maintains all in
one. |
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The rejection of the passions
of the world is the condition of the divine union.
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One is like moving
water.
The other is like impassible gold.
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The glorious Universe shall
be born from the union of man and woman. |
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The divine will
is not violent, and its perfection is never hurried.
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The former opens the earth
until the centre of hell.
The latter raises the light up to heaven.
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The most dangerous
madness is to force to live those who do not wish to live, and to teach
those who do not ask to be taught.
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Everything that constrains
man is repugnant to God. |
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The law of making
perfect is accomplished in the ordeal, the most excellent of which is the
life incarnate.
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From movement to rest and from
rest to movement there is nothing but the time of God's judgement. |
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He who is most
spat on without wiping himself is declared the winner on earth and in heaven.
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He who has mastered the passions
sees the light of the Perfect gleam through the night of the world. |
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Few men are capable
of bearing victoriously the ordeal of humiliation.
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The masters use the subtlety
of grace to make the faithfulness of love appear. |
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He who puts himself
to the test and humiliates himself voluntarily wards off misfortune and
shame.
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The secret victory over the
world is made perfect in the solitude of God.
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Success isolates
man from his earthly companions.
Defeat returns him to the common mass, but he who reaches God is never alone
again.
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The destiny of men is written
in the stars and is reabsorbed by them; but he who fixes his life in God
escapes the alternatives of destiny. |
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The victorious
one carries the light of the world.
The vanquished one remains shamefully in the shadow.
"Who shall receive the glorious, living crown from the hands of the
Lord of justice?"
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He who explains has not understood.
He who has understood searches for the water of earth and heaven.
He who has the water of earth and heaven sows the sun on it.
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The function of
heaven and of earth is to lower that which is high and raise that which
is low to accomplish God's work. |
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The perfection of heavenly
gold manifests the glory and the power of God in his purified creation.
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One can destroy
everything in the world, except the origin of the world. |
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He hides in the dark, stiff
mud.
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All that which
is extraordinary and beautiful is accomplished in the solitude of divine
creation.
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Forced labour engenders only
sadness and death. |
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To leave God is
to fall into the multiplicity of death. To re-enter God is to be born again
in the unity of life.
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He who seeks to please or displease
men shall never penetrate as far as God. |
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The man who is instructed
searches for the content of everything and helps the changes of the world.
The ignorant man perceives only the outer layer of things and opposes the
transformations of nature.
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God's friends are not loved
by the world, just as the friends of the world are not loved by God; nevertheless,
all of them subsist in the hand of the divine connoisseur.
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He who truly admires
and loves God has but one desire: to return to him.
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Those who argue about God are
not in him. |
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He who has rejoined
the Mother and the Father is no longer disturbed by the appearances of the
world.
He uses the things of the earth with detachment and submits with indifference
to the needs of a life incarnate.
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By considering the beings and
the things without desire, one sees what they really are, and he who humiliates
no-one shall know the freedom and the repose of God.
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The imprisoned
soul cannot escape the desolation of death without the aid of its spring
that has remained living and free.
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The moving multitude of stars
fulfills its destiny in the fixedness of the ultimate sun.
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God can deliver
our life from the mud that hems it in on all sides and that stifles it to
death.
Only he can fecundate it and lead it to the perfection of an infinite generation.
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To extract the perfume and
reject the poison.
To reduce earth to water and turn water into earth again.
To cook heaven and earth21 until the birth of the most perfect sun.
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Meditation unbinds
the spirit, frees the soul and purifies the body of the saints, but it terrifies
and kills vulgar men.
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He who floats in the world
like wood drifting on the river soon bathes in the divine ocean. |
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Let us not reject
the most minute lesson of misfortune, for fear of immediately receiving
a greater one.
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To work on knowing oneself is
to help the whole of humanity to be re-born. |
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Misfortune does
not follow for long he who faces up to it and smiles on it without coercion,
for the constancy of love erases our blemishes and relieves us from the
burdens of death. |
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By abstaining from the works
of death and participating in those of life, we reduce the sum of misfortune
necessary for our instruction.
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The search for God
engenders such passion and provides such hapiness that all the troubles
of the world seem erased.
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Let us avoid the mediocre that
speak to us of God, for the dead are not qualified to present the Living
One.
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God's science wears
a terrifying mask in order to ward off faint-hearted men.
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The perfume of the rose hides
beneath the stench of death.
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The evidence of
the creation and the mystery of the sages' teaching cannot be understood
without the aid of God.
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The water that comes out of
the earth engenders the sun of the resurrection through the power of the
fertilizing love of the Most High. |
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Who, then, could give back life to a
dead thing by returning movement to it?
LAO TSE
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They die before having known Wisdom.
JOB
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