01/12'. The nurturing mud lies abandoned on the path.

02/9'. A heap of mud contains only one grain of pure gold.

05/18'. Gold separates itself from mud through its own weight, and sometimes through its great lightness.

03/102'. The earth shall once again become like the mud , like life and like gold under the breath of the Highest.

05/11'. Between water and wine there is a place for the blood of the earth, and between mud and wheat there is a place for the body of the sun.

06/21'. They offered the wise expert piles of gold coins, sacks of precious stones. Then fields, cities and armies, and finally the continents and the oceans of the earth, but he only asked for a little mud to prepare his harvest.

18/06'. 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.»

09/38'. The grace of God shall soak us once more, and we shall become like mud before being remade as gold.

28/45'. Oh, holy mud of the abyss despised by the intelligent of the world, it is in you that the precious gold that ennobles the simple children of God is hidden.

21/33'. Let us be wary of the scorned, the weak and the simple, for the Lord often moves and germinates mysteriously in them. «Oh, holy humility! oh, holy mud of the abyss! oh, holy chaos of the beginning!»

23/57. If you have found the unity of the Unique One, tear out the pages of the Book and let them fly away in the wind while humming a joyful song. If not, do not leave them day or night until they penetrate your understanding and until they lead you to the mud that neither wets nor stains anything.

01/65. That which the world despises, that which is rejected by all, that which appears vile and valueless: this is what the sage examines with care. The mud of the abyss, the humility of the earth, the veil of death. «The fundamental stone and the water of resurrection.»