1would be free, and nevertheless it cannot be free, unless it enter anew into itself in going out of the darknesses. Thus the darknesses remain in the first will, and the will reconceived remains in itself in the light.
8. Thus we give you to understand that this world has been created of the tenebrous will ( when the will moved itself ); that the expansion of the will in itself is God; and that the expansion of God is the spirit, who perceived himself in the tenebrous will: now, what was perceived, were the essences; the volcano was the wheel of the affective base which divides itself into seven forms, as one has seen it before, and these seven forms divide themselves anew, each in itself, into an infinity, according to the glance of the spirit.
9. In these seven forms are found the essences of all the essences; and the whole presents great marvels. Now, all our doctrine tends only to this, that we, men, may enter into the holy and luminous marvels. For at the end of this time all shall be manifested, and each thing shall remain in that in which it shall have grown; thus when the substance which contains this thing and which begets it, comes to pass, then there remains but an eternity.
10. Thus then let each observe to what he employs his reason, in order that he may be in great glory in the marvels of God. We know that this world must perish in the fire, and not in a fire of wood or of plant, which could not reduce the
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stones to ashes and to nothing. There shall be made no more any heap of fire to cast this world therein; but the fire of the nature shall enkindle itself in all things, and shall dissolve the body of each thing or what was palpable in it, and shall reduce it to nothing.
2II. For even as all has been contained and created in the fiat, according to the artist who was an agent, or a universal operant in all things, in the seven forms of the nature; who broke nothing when he operated, and cut off nothing when he had operated; but who made that each thing subdivided itself, and remained in the boiling of its essence 5 even so also there shall be no need of crash, of thunders, of flashes, nor of breaking, as the world of Babel teaches it, but each thing shall perish in itself; the boiling of the elements shall cease as a man who dies, and all shall go into its Ether.
i^. And in that moment, before this great edifice perish, and pass into its Ether, shall come the judge of the living and of the dead. Then all men shall see him in his flesh and in their flesh; all the dead shall rise again at his voice, and shall hold themselves before him; there the angelic world shall be discovered; and all the generations of the earth, which shall not be perceived in the body of the Christ, shall howl with sorrow; afterwards one shall separate them into two bands, and the sentence of the Christ shall be pronounced upon all, whether good 5 or wicked: then shall come the lamentations, the tremblings and the cries 3 they shall
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curse themselves; the children shall curse their parents, and the parents their children, and they shall wish never to have had the birth.
3i3. Thus one impious man shall curse the other for having excited him to the impiety; the inferior, his superior who has given him scandal; the laic, his priest who has given him bad examples, and has led him astray by false doctrines 3 the wicked slanderer and blasphemer, shall bite his tongue which has been so murderous to him. He who shall have yielded to his false affective base, shall strike his head against the rocks; the impious man shall hide himself in the crevices, because of the fear of the lord: for there shall be a great terror and a great trembling in the essences, because of the anger and of the severity of the lord, and the anguish shall break the heart. There however there is no means of dying, for the anger is mobilising, and the life of the impious man boils in the anger. Then the impious man shall curse the heaven and the earth which has borne him, the constellation which has conducted him, as well as the hour of his birth. All his soilings shall be before his eyes: he shall see the cause of his terror, and he shall condemn himself; in his shame he shall not dare look upon the just; all his works shall show themselves in his affective base, and shall cry in the essences: Woe to him who has produced them! And they shall accuse him; the tears of all the oppressed shall become burning as the bite of the serpent. He shall desire some softening; but there is no consolation: an eternal despair rises in him, for hell affrights him.
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Our translation, period-faithful. Citable as our translation, never as the source.