Verses



54 – The Hand

5 The Path Begins (The Intuited Path)
4 The Sage (Apparent Knowledge)

Chapters
                 

540) The sage chooses the path and helps sentient beings to follow it, but tells no one of the project.
541) You will have masters, you will have servants. Reject roles: neither at the center, nor at the borders. Dignity does not belong to the ostentatious, nor to those who hide their eyes to avoid seeing Reality.
542) When the feather behind the arrow is crooked, the point does not hit the target. When the feathered tail is straight, the point hits the center of the target. The sage forges the point and prepares it for the impact.
543) Never request prayers for yourself. The power of prayer and the power of faith in God is inversely proportionate to the needs of the ego.
544) The sage says things he has already said during other eras. Time does not change his knowledge, though humanity thinks that something changes.
545) If the Way is what you feel yourself to be, at any level, then your countenance already contains what you will become. Respect yourself, without masks. Those who do not wear masks represent all aspects of nature.
546) You are the temple, the Soul is the altar, the ritual is your life. If you forget this, you will tend to create false temples, false altars and false lives. No one will ever be able to refresh themselves at the Source of Love that you are.
547) A sentient being defines the Way, in order to realize it and make it his own. They lose their awareness of Reality by creating illusion.
548) All definitions are like a spreading mist which prevents you from observing Reality. Those who proceed along the path should seek beyond form and illusion, or they will harvest dreams and lose the Way.
549) You believe to be assisted when you begin to follow the path, but what you bring with you is what you are, what you conquer is what you will become. The journey? It is the journey within yourself! The point of arrival? It is your Soul, the point of departure! The sage? The memory of all paths.