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Hermetic sentences extracted from The Message Rediscovered
We present a selection of hermetic sentences extracted from The Message Rediscovered, the Cattiaux's master work, arranged according to the fundamental symbols of the different spiritual traditions in order to generate a new network of meanings in relationship with the art and the symbol. The Message Rediscovered is 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".

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Ancestor, Art, Artist, Beauty, Blessing, Centre, Circle, Colors, Creation, Death, Dew, Elements, Faith, Fall, Fire, Food, Fruit, God, Gold, Goodwill, Heaven, Holy earth, Joy, Knowledge, Ladder, Light, Look, Love, Magnet, Metamorphose, Mother, Mountain, Mud, Name, Nature, Needs, Place, Poetry, Prayer, Purity, Quest, Realization, Redemption, Regeneration, Saint, Salt, Salvation, Science, Stone, Symbol, Temple, Tree, Vision, Water.

THE MESSAGE
REDISCOVERED

Louis Cattiaux

1 VOLUME Format: 6 x 8.46 inches Pages: 448

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02/44. When the symbol is a reality it is impossible to discover it without the aid of God.

15/20. Morality is a barrier and asceticism a parapet. Law is a dyke and rites are a guide. Sacraments are a memento, symbols are eloquent images and the holy books show the way, but the science of God invalidates everything because it surpasses everything.

21/55. Some pursue in secret the quest for God beyond symbols and figures, for they are thirsty for the reality that can be seen, touched and eaten. Who could scold them, and who would dare to exclude them from the universal Church of the most-learned Lord?

22/74. The religious and the believers have ended up confusing the living reality of God with the symbols and the historical figures that veil it, which plunges them into idolatry without their realizing it. «Who is to blame? He who makes God's truth shine, or those who do not receive it?»

24/33. Neither believers nor atheists suspect God's science exists, hidden behind the symbols , writings and figures of revealed religions. Those who believe in it try to appropriate it through cunning and violence. A few of them ask God for it in their heart, and scarcely one or two obtain it in the century.

24/43. The decadence of religions and initiations comes from the fact that the guardians, the believers and the seekers take the symbols , figures and rites to be the mystery itself, whereas they are nothing more than its images and reminders.

25/52. He who possesses the spirit of life condensed in the rutilant blood of the heavenly Saviour identifies the symbols , the people and the rites in the unique truth of life.

27/07. Let us leave the proud believers who want to lecture others and who think they are automatically saved by the formulas and symbols of their religion, which they stupidly confuse with the living reality of God's gift.

34/54. We shall not worship the human figures, the animal figures, the symbols or the images that are here to remind us of the divine mysteries, but they are nothing on their own.

36/13. The most instructed among the students of the wise and holy Scriptures interpret the divine mysteries as symbols of the spiritual renovation of man who has gone astray in this world. How many of those understand that these holy mysteries also describe the corporeal regeneration of the man crucified here below?

37/48. We must say it and repeat it: the most authentic, the most precise and the most accomplished revelation of the mystery of life and of God's salvation is to be found in the known books of God's prophets and in the unknown books of God's sages. Is our religion not a living symbol of the mystery hidden in all times? Do we no longer see it? Do we no longer hear it?

40/16. Many shepherds have goodwill, but they have lost the salt of wisdom, and the most instructed among them no longer know it except through symbols and hearsay, without knowing what it truly is.




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