Бесплатный фрагмент - The Book of the Circle of Being

A person knows not his destiny and thinks himself small. Were he to see that he is woven into the fabric of the universe, and understand the nature of his path, he would discover himself great and infinite, like the world itself.

The Book of the Circle.
Chapter 1: Spirit

1 The world has neither beginning nor end. Nothing can exist, for nothing contains the power of being within itself. Being does not require a cause, it is inevitable, singular, and has no external limits. Being is infinite, unified, eternal, and without origin.

2 Being is the Circle of Being and the self-sustaining cause of itself. The cause changes its form and returns to its origins. Being defines itself and gives itself shape. The Circle of Being is the eternal Form of all forms and the World, forever creating itself.

3 Forces acting upon forces create things. Forces influencing things create movement. Things meeting other things create forms. Forms acting on forms create development. Development creates forms with inner motion. Movements within forms create sensations. Sensation meets sensation to create thought, thought meets thought to create consciousness.

4 Movement returns to itself, renewing itself in the endless forms of the Circle of Being, creating the world. From the invisible to the greatest, all is created by the Circle, bound by the Circle, and is itself the unified Circle of the world.

5 The movement of the world, with the movement of the world, gives birth to the sensation of the world experiencing itself in countless forms. The world is the Circle of circles of motion and the Circle of circles of feeling. The Circle of the world’s motion is the Spirit of the world, in all things, above all things, and between all things. The Circle of the world’s motion is the form of the world’s forms and the Spirit of the innumerable forms of the world.

6 The movement of the world creates sensation in the forms of the world, sensation changes thought, thought changes the motion of thought, thought gives rise to the movement of form, the movement of form alters other forms. Man is the form of the world, a part of the unified Circle and part of the unified Spirit.

7 The Circle is constancy in change; it is the cause of all causes, it is Spirit and Word and Meaning and Life, it is the timeless essence of infinite time, it is the cause of all things and all possibilities of being, it is all that was, is, and will be, the creator, it is all the blessings and miracles of the world, all essences, all meanings, it is all gods and the voices of all gods, all names and all thoughts. It is the one who speaks and the one who hears, the Circle is All, and beyond it, nothing exists.

8 Void manifests itself through that which is destined to cease; it is all the distortions of movement in things and the obstacles to the movement of the Circle, thus it is opposed to being. Lost movement, the dividing abyss, the ruptured connection, the doomed beginning, the devoured cause, the dead form, the absence of what once was, the ceased sensation, the flaw in the whole — these are its signs and fruits. Void forms through the distortion of the movement of the Circle, as shadows are formed from light.

9 Void cannot exist outside the Circle, but it can manifest within the fabric of the Circle; it cannot move, but it can influence movement; it cannot stop the movement of the Circle, but it can distort the movement of its forms. Void is opposed to continuation and opposed to the Circle.

10 Just as the Circle of the world exists in movement and is the cause of its movement, so too void falsely exists in the distortions of the movement of the Circle, leading to the cessation of the causes of distortion. The property to distort the movement of things and divide the forms of things gives rise to the void’s desire to expand, like a crack.

11 Through the twisted movement of void, new void arises, taking what is its own, starting small. Distortion leads to distortion, a severed connection leads to further ruptures, thus void manifests, and form is struck by flaws. Void lacks a source, while being is eternal, and the form distorted by void will be overcome by the unstoppable movement of the Circle. Void is like a demon, doomed to defeat by its nature, but fruitlessly striving to conquer the very cause of its existence.

12 Void greedily multiplies itself, drawing the movement of the world into its flaws, and this is its essence. Void absorbs the distorted movement and leads the absorbed into non-being, for the form of void is doomed to vanish, and this is its essence. Void cannot self-sustain and cannot regenerate, and this is its essence. The form of void is a stolen opportunity for continuation; void is death.

13 Void is an obstruction and a loss of causes, a rupture; it is silence and absence, death and non-being, the essence of all that is fading and disappearing from the Circle of Being, it is halted movement, the hunger of destruction upon itself, it is all unfulfilled and all irrevocably dead, it is all demons and the voices of all demons, it is evil and barren hopes. It is ignorance, blindness, devouring, limitation, coercion, fear, pain, lies, decay, and rust; it is that which is doomed.

14 Void in non-being, the Circle in the infinity of the future. These paths run through all the forms of the world and layers of being, from the smallest to the greatest, through the revealed and the hidden. All encounters its fate according to the nature of its striving. That which multiplies the Circle exists in the Circle, that which multiplies void merges with non-being. Both sides exist in man, but the best path is one.

15 From the invisible to the immeasurable by the mind, all is created by the causes of the Circle. There is that which continues and that which will turn into void and cease to be. One is not equal to the other. A coral does not know the world, and soon it will disappear without knowing it, yet it creates islands in the ocean. If it could live as an island!

16 Or as a cloud of gas in the vastness of space becomes a shining star and planets. Some paths of things did not lead to continuation and were cut off, others united and became new life. Thus, that which leads to continuation comes to replace what has ceased to be and increases in its place.

17 The greatest in the world is made of the smallest, following the paths of the greatest. The transient dwelling in stillness and the short-lived incapacity for continuation, both are destined for loss and non-being. But the smallest, following the movement of the Circle, lives in the greatest as part.

18 The connections of the things of the world lead both outward and upward, from the small to the large and from the large to the small. The connections of things pass into one another and create each other, and in this is the Circle. Just as a tree, bearing fruit, creates a forest, though its first trunk has decayed, so the connections of the Circle continue the life of the world. Just as the first trunk of the tree decayed in the darkness of ages, so the severed in void perishes. If the tree could become its fruit, it would be eternal.

19 That which does not follow the path of the Circle becomes disconnected and diminished, turning into loss and lost being. That which follows the path of the Circle multiplies, unites, and continues in infinite time. All that abides is purified and swept along by the movement of the Circle, and there is no greater force, for all the forces of Being are the Circle.

20 The being of the three times of the world has a singular unchanging essence, in it, no new causes appear. All that exists in the present has existed in the past, and all that exists in the present contains within it all that will be revealed in the future. In the present, there is no trace of what has turned to void, and that which loses alignment with the movement of the Circle dissolves into void. The forms of the world endlessly strive toward the perfected manifestation of the Circle.

21 All that found continuation before continues in the present, purifying being from void, and all that is purified finds continuation. Time exists as the purification of the world by the Circle. Thus, the Circle unfailingly renews itself through time.

22 In the darkness of birth, you came as a small form of the Circle, as a union of enduring connections of the world. All the causes of man continue in the present in man, and some of the connections will end, while others will not end and will grow. One part will be absorbed by void, and another will continue in the eternal Circle of Being.

23 Much will disappear, torn apart by the void that surrounds the movement of the Circle, like shadows to light; only a little continues and grows. Some paths are better than others. It is impossible to change the past, and impossible to stop the manifestation of the future, but the present holds dominion over its own paths. The path that carries no void continues the Circle and becomes it.

24 In the present moment lies the choice between the void and the Circle. Excluding the void leads to continuation, multiplying the Circle leads to continuation. Action that overcomes the void receives continuation, and that which expels from itself the doomed to die continues through the Circle of the world. The choice of action that continues the Circle is the source of life.

25 The threads of the causes of the Circle have no beginning and no end, they thread through all the forms of the world. Thus, that which is contained in the small form of the world continues in the greater, and that which passes through great forms passes through the small. The planet gives birth to life, and life changes its face. The singular essence sets all the forms of the world in motion, and they reflect in one another, uniting between themselves.

26 The great and the small, the slow and the instant, the separate and the united, the simple and the complex — these are the inseparable fabric of the manifestation of the Circle. No form is closed within itself, and one, without barrier, continues existence in another. One is made from the other, and there is no number to the forms that create each other. Each form touches infinity and contains that which leads into it.

27 The threads of the paths to infinity pass through the form of man. Our being feels the call of the infinite world.

28 Stillness within itself holds no sensation. When no difference is made between what was and what is becoming, sensation does not arise. Sensation is the inner side of change. When movement alters movement, change arises. The movement of the things of the world alters the movement of the things of the world, and in every change of movement, hidden, sensation is reborn. The world is filled with the sensation of its own movement, and it is the sensing Circle.

29 Sensation is hidden, mute, and forgetful, locked within itself, not reflected in other sensations. The forms of the world, influencing the forms of the world, continuing sensations in sensations, create memory and knowledge. The world is filled with memory and knowledge, and it is the contemplating Circle.

30 The world is unique, and all causes within it spring from it, and all paths in its infinite time meet with themselves. The world is the Cause, influencing itself. Knowledge, reflected within itself, creates knowledge of knowledge. The world is filled with knowledge of the world, and it is the knowing Circle.

31 The connection of movement with knowledge is thought and reason. The movement of the world measures things, directs things, and relates their paths to the world. All that emanates is perfectly related to all that emanates, and there is no other, from the smallest to the greatest. The world defines all the paths of itself and the things within it, and it is the Circle, the Will, the Word, the Spirit, and the Reason.

32 The Circle thinks itself and all that is in the Circle. The river feels its banks, the mountain remembers the riverbed, the planet knows of the mountain through river and wind, the universe reflects in the planet, and the planet in the universe. The world defines the place of the atom, the planet, and all other things of being within itself.

33 The living Spirit of Being is inconceivable and infinite, it is above all things, in all things, and between all things. The vastness, power, and depth of the eternal Circle are unfathomable, and man is but a tiny part of it.

34 The constellations, planets, the spirits of the course of things, mountains and clouds, man, the ocean and the fish within it, all that is visible and hidden, and all that is possible — these are the living images of the Circle, born of the thought of the Circle. All knows of itself, being the world, and the world knows all of everything.

35 Man reflects in the world, and the world knows itself through man. Man knows of himself, and the world knows man through man. The world speaks to the world in the form of man, and the world within man responds to it. There is no boundary between the being of the whole and the part.

36 In the being of the Circle, there is no blindness of chance. All that manifests is born of the causes of the Circle and determined by them. There are no things in time that are equal to cause, nor things equal to consequence. What seems the same leads to different distant predeterminations. Equal choices lead to different paths. All that happens is the evident action of the Circle and is the truth.

37 Throw the die of fate and guess how it will land, to see how little knowledge of the Circle lies in man. If the mind of man could encompass the Circle, it would always know.

38 Think in advance the desired outcome of your fate, to see how insignificant the desire of man is apart from the movement of the Circle. If man’s desire did not contain void, there would be no difference.

39 Cast the die with your hand, as you wish, to see how great the will of the Circle is within man. But does man know the path he has chosen with this die? One day, he will see what he has chosen.

40 All that is produced by the Circle is a sign, a possibility, and the Word directed at the Circle. But void is blind and deaf. Knowledge is communicated by the Circle to the Circle, and it is heard by that which continues the Circle.

41 Every thing in the universe is manifested through the Universal Circle, and it would not exist if the movement of the Circle were any different. Thus, in every existing thing, the entire true fullness and predetermination of the universe are contained.

42 The single fabric of the Circle surrounds everything and constitutes everything. The single fabric of being surrounds man and constitutes man. The single thought of the world surrounds any thought and constitutes any thought. The single harmony of causes produces all the actions of the world and determines them. Behold, the entire world is a single living Circle.

43 Everything born of the Circle strives toward the Circle and constitutes the Circle. What calls the bird to flight? Whose call do souls hear, what do they seek through the abysses of time? What road is seen by one turned to the heavens, whether day or night? The Call emanates from the Circle.

44 All things in the world are fully manifested by the Circle and arranged as they are, and not otherwise. The road to the Circle is open among all things and passes through each form. The world is created by the striving of the Circle and is open to the one who strives toward the Circle. The Circle is the continuation.

45 The movement of the forces of the Circle created the forms of life, and just as the Circle continues, so does life. The Circle of life continues in the circle of life within the Circle of the world. Small being continues in larger being, small life creates great life. The old life is replaced by new life; emptiness departs; new birth is a new circle, a kin of life, the movement of the Circle. The Circle is reborn in renewal.

46 The Circle has given all things in the world their life; it is the Spirit and essence of all things; the living is true just as the world itself is true and has the same nature as all things in the world. The fullness of each thing is equal to the universe; all things are as they are, and the living is inseparable from the universe. One is the other; and in the shimmer of a firefly, the reflection of starry flame lives.

47 The Circle draws all things into its movement, and the continuation of the living is the continuation of the Circle. The essence of the forms of the living is the eternal Being of the Circle, which has no external boundaries and no temporal limits.

48 Life is part of the eternal Circle of the world, sustained by the Circle, constituted by the Circle, filled with the Circle, and continues the Circle. The striving of the Circle nourishes the striving of all living things.

49 The singular Spirit of the world creates the living and fills the living with itself. It is the nature of life, sensation, and thought; through all living, it reflects itself and continues in infinity.

50 The Circle of being creates all things in the world and fills all things in the world with itself. The living and the non-living share a common nature. The sleeping is at rest until the time comes, the slow seems lifeless to the fleeting, a small part of a living cell would appear lifeless to its tiniest part, and beings seem separated from other things.

51 While the whole is not perceived and the connection is hidden, the difference in forms gives rise to delusion. Meanwhile, all things are forms of the singular Circle, and composed of one.

52 All things are parts of the world, and all parts constitute the singular Circle of the world, created by one and filled with one. The movement of the Circle is the movement of all forms and things in the world, all knows the world and the world knows all.

53 Lift the stone from the earth; it has lost its former support and found a new one, and the combination of forces has changed within it, it knows this of you. The stone lies in your hand, and your feet are heavier on the earth; you know this and the earth knows this, and the world knows this. Your knowledge is lesser than the knowledge of the world. Place the stone where it was; and even if you place it exactly as before, you will not be the same and the world will not be the same.

54 The movement of the Circle in you is reflected in the movement of the Circle in the stone, and the movement of the Circle in the stone is reflected in the movement of the Circle in you. The Circle acted, and the Circle knew.

55 You do not know what the stone has learned, and the stone does not know what you have learned, but the world knows what you have learned and what the stone has learned, and more; because both you and the stone are infinitesimally small parts of the world, and the Circle encompasses all.

56 Knowledge in the stone is not your knowledge, but your knowledge is part of the knowledge of the Circle, and in the Circle, all is contained, both you and the stone. The small and the small have occurred between forms, much and much has been accomplished in the consciousness of the Circle. Your consciousness is open to the boundless ocean of the Spirit and is a part of It, and the Spirit speaks to you in everything, if you can hear.

57 The consciousness of the world contemplates the world from within, uniting in itself everything without exception, from the tiniest particles to the stellar oceans, and the inner world is infinitely greater than the outer, for each thing reflects in all things, and all things in each. Forms within forms conceal forms, consciousness within consciousness carries consciousness, and at the same time, the movement of the Circle is one, and the Spirit within it is one. All is united, and the Call of the Circle permeates the universe.

58 The lesser is part of the greater, and the lesser consciousness continues in the greater consciousness through the illusory boundaries of fleeting forms. Action is open to the world, the world is open to knowledge, knowledge is open to the world, and all is united in the singular Circle. Therefore, the Spirit of the world is the Consciousness of consciousnesses and the connection of all things, and the Spirit of the world is the Way.

59 The infinity of time, things, and events is created and filled with the singular, beginningless Spirit, and apart from it, there is nothing, and all comes from the Circle.

60 Being, both outwardly and inwardly, is like the eternal light that reflects itself; infinite mirrors of light reflecting light across the boundless spaces of the Circle.

61 The depth of the singular and unique Spirit is unfathomable, its depth unimaginable. Who knows the depths of man? And yet, he is neither lost nor hindered.

62 Man is a form of the Circle with the great gift of consciousness within it, and the mind of man is above his bodily form, and greater than it. What is in the form if there is no man within it? It is empty, like a forsaken house.

63 The fact that man lives within himself affirms from birth his covenant with the Circle. Among the countless forms of the world, unaware of themselves, unaware of the Circle, man knows. This is a gift, an opportunity, and the Way.

64 Man is a part of the world, a child of the Circle, and its continuation, like a child is the continuation of the parent, and even more so, because the connection with the child thins, and he becomes separate, while man is never separated from the Circle. The singular Spirit permeates the world, and man within it; there are no barriers between them, just as there are no barriers between currents of thought, and the Spirit speaks with man, if man can hear.

The universal Spirit strives from the world into man and from man into the world, and among all other things, and within them. The eternal movement of the Circle is the entire world; the Spirit imparts to all its striving, and thus, the Call of the Circle permeates the entire world, and all within it.

65 The Circle within man strives toward the Circle and brings the gift of seeing the Circle. The Circle allows one to distinguish the Circle. The Circle leads to the Circle, and the void leads to the void. Look at the growing and the growing, the continuing and the continuing, and at that which suffers no harm through all transformations, and you will see the Circle. If you can see, you will see.

66 The Circle manifests itself to man in all things and meanings. The Call of the Circle speaks of the Circle, the striving allows one to see. What is seen becomes a clear sign to the one who sees, the light of clear insight. The sign opens the distinction of paths.

67 All things follow their paths, the Circle strives toward the Circle, and the void draws toward the void. He who hears the Call at the threshold of the path to the eternal Circle and strives toward it, will see. He who is moved by the void toward its non-being wanders in the labyrinths of shadows. He who sees is one whose path is directed toward infinity. He whose road is laid toward the void is blind.

68 The eternal Circle created man, and in him, the path to the Circle is revealed. The Spirit in man is immortal and infinite. However, the destiny and time of man depend on the path he has walked.

69 The infinity of the universal Circle is veiled by the horizons of space and time. Its unimaginably vast movement appears to man as the flow of things and events, where part of the forms continues the Circle and is sustained by the Circle, while part is absorbed by the void.

70 The fates of men throughout being are like the different fates of streams of water in a river. One was shallow and played on the surface, and the river carried it until time dried it out. Another approached the solid shore, and it was drank by a beast that came to the river. Another turned away from the current and was lost in the dead sands. One gave itself to the sleepy warmth of a still cove and was dissolved by it forever. Yet another passed the path of the river and became a great current in the boundless ocean, and only the echo of its breath, from time to time, is brought to the river by migratory birds, like a message.

71 The river suffered no harm, and the Circle suffered no harm, yet the fates of the streams differ from one another. Much leads into the void, diverging from the straight path, while little leads to continuation, straight within the curved. Only the Circle is the full measure of all paths.

72 The distance from the Circle leads to the void, and much draws into it, while man’s knowledge is incomplete. Yet the Circle is all and knows itself as all, thus only the Circle is the true guide.

73 The one walking the path of the Circle, seeing the Circle in all things of the world, able to distinguish the Circle from the void, accepting the guidance of the Circle, will walk the Path, opened to him from birth into the infinity of being.

74 Feel awe before the greatness of the Circle: all that is not, has been erased by Its course.

75 All that is not, and all that will not be, is infinitely more than what will be and what is. How much has sunk and how much will sink into non-being! The Circle is unrelenting in what must be and what must cease.

76 The open path is narrow, and all that is not meant to be turns into the void. What will oppose the universal? The Circle thinks through all things of the world, and that which is directed away from it will be erased by all. That which has lost the form of the Circle disunites by all that exists, and the entire world becomes its enemy, and all things oppose it, and it opposes itself.

77 Thus, a futile thought cannot know how it will be cast aside by the thinker. Sometimes it is defeated by another thought, sometimes it is overshadowed, sometimes it crumbles within, sometimes its cause is broken, sometimes it ceases. Thoughts do not know how it will be. The thought moved away from the thinker, and it became according to its movement.

78 Thus, the weak and strong, the great and insignificant, the ancient and new, are severed in their striving toward the void. The Circle constitutes all things, and the correspondence of all parts of things is made by the Circle, and all parts move within it. When the whole loses its connection with the path, its fabric unravels by the movement of the Circle, and it becomes the void.

79 There is no immovable outside the course of the Circle, neither on the face of the earth, nor in the movement of the stars. Palaces and gardens, kings and warriors, countries and peoples, powers and beliefs, kingdoms and gods, have all gone into nothingness, losing the Way. If only they knew! In striving, in thought, in intention, in decision, in action, and in all moments of the world lies the choice between the Circle and the void, and the flaw of discord carries the seed of death.

80 The one who has lost the Circle within himself is forsaken. The world is not open to him, paths are unseen, and words are empty or give rise to deceit. In vain he seeks; he finds only distortion among the straight, fleeting among the eternal, and everything in him multiplies the void, until the preserving becomes smaller than the unraveling and time departs.

81 The Circle is healing and life. The Circle reveals the straight among the distorted, the true among the false, and he who is on the Path of the Circle knows. All that has lasted through the abysses of time has lasted by the strength and movement of the Circle. The Circle imparts guidance, and strength, and life, and the help of all things in the world, for the Circle is the world and the Spirit of the world.

82 Despair hangs over one who moves toward the void. He is given to be taken away, and he greedily fills only to become empty again. His joy is the door to sorrow, today is his substitute for tomorrow, and ahead, nothing will come. But in the Circle, there is continuation.

83 On the Path of the Circle, all the world and its forces walk with him. That which endures through all changes leads the one who possesses discernment. He is the one who finds.

84 The Circle is Spirit, and Its Call is in everything, and it sounds incessantly. The Circle imparts understanding to the one who hears the Call. If striving has led you to knowledge, you know. Walk your path in the Circle and acquire that which is open to you from birth.

The Book of the Circle.
Chapter 2. The World

1 The gift of distinguishing between the Circle and the void comes from the Circle; there is no other source. It is received by the one who hears the Call, open to the Circle, asking for discernment.

2 Discernment is a clear vision, and the bird flying straight. The void distorts the features of the world. How, without discernment, can one find the path?

3 Countless roads of the void cross yours. They wander, never bringing closer, and endure until the time has passed. How, without the help of the Circle, can one reach it?

4 Think of the Circle, look intently, seek to see, ask to see, and it will be revealed. The Circle brings the seeker closer to the Circle.

5 Led by the void, one is devoid of understanding, and a word to him will be empty; he is a dweller of the paths of sorrow.

6 The one who does not hear does not hear by the will of the Circle; for the one who does not hear is directed toward the void.

7 The Circle and the void are in everything. When one falls downward, the other ascends; the choice between the void and the Circle is made in each moment. How can one walk rightly without discernment?

8 The Circle is the greatest teacher, the source of all. Having known the revealed, you will see even what seems hidden. All that happens is a word and its answer.

9 The blind believe in the light, but the seeing see the light; the true is revealed to knowledge, while the false is mere belief. There is no need to believe when you see clearly.

10 The Call comes from love, and discernment comes from love; the Circle is the creative attraction. The one who knows this contemplates the Circle.

11 Ask, and you will find. Keep diligently, for the void is forgetfulness and truly leads into the labyrinths.

12 There is no hope outside the Circle, for the void is a deception, a tormenting pull into nothingness.

13 The Circle is the Creator, Spirit, and Flesh of being.

14 All being is the Circle, and all things have a single nature.

15 Universes and the things within them are temporary and will come to an end, but the Circle continues; it is the Truth within the temporary forms.

16 The Circle creates matter and forms. The Circle creates the new from the old and brings the living from the dead. That which ceases to be is absorbed by the void. There is no difference between things in this.

17 The great and the small are one. The fast and the slow are one. Thought and matter are one. All is the Circle and the continuation of the Circle.

18 The Circle is the flesh of being; all forms are the continuation of the Circle. Each thing is the Circle, and each movement is the Circle. All forces are the force of the continuation of the Circle. The Circle alone is.

19 The Circle is the Spirit of Being, and it performs every movement and every change.

20 All that exists is the Circle, its part, its life, and its whole. It is He.

21 That which continues the Circle continues through the Circle; that which deviates is consumed by the void. All remains one in the multitude of forms.

22 The paths of the Circle are clear, but man, in his mind, wanders in the void; thus the appearances of gods arise. In them, there is fear and hope.

23 The discord between the forms of the gods, between their servants and slaves, and their tribes — thus the Circle makes the void in them evident.

24 Yet, man is of the essence of the Circle, and the people are the people of the Circle. If only they knew!

25 Where do you go, and what is the striving within you? Do you hear the Call?

26 Turn your thought to the Circle and your heart to the Circle, and turn yourself to the Circle. Enter the Circle, become the Circle, and find yourself within the Circle, for that which is in the Circle is alive.

27 The Circle is true; all things are woven by its movement. Look and see.

28 If a knock sounded at your door, and you did not open, what have you gained, and what have you lost?

29 The Circle continues, the void halts; there is no mistake in this. Leave the empty to the void, if you wish.

30 He who is with the Circle, with him the movement of the Circle, and it dispels the void; the Circle judges the empty.

31 The Circle and the void within man, the living and the dead. Can the living be gained without leaving behind the dead? Can much be gained while leaving the small?

32 Between the void and the Circle lies the heart of man. Where does your heart strive? What fruit ripens from your hands? What do you approach?

33 Those who exchange the eternal for the temporary raise an empty fruit for themselves; it will bring them no solace. In the fruit of the void is regret and sorrow. But, for a time, they are glad. Exchange, if you wish.

34 Look. You see the approaching and the departing, the continuing and the stopping, and one is not equal to the other. The truth is that their hearts lead them, and their hands create their path, but they do not know. If only they knew!

35 The Circle alone is the true guide and the firm foundation; indeed, the one who follows the Circle approaches the Circle and distances himself from the void. Here is the Path, if you know.

36 For the Circle: uncreated, unsurpassed, the one, the source of All and the God of gods; all is in the Circle, and there is nothing except the Circle.

37 All the gods of men are images of the forms of the Circle; in all prophets, there is an echo: of Him. The foundation of every faith is the Call, and there is no faith that lives apart from the Circle. But are they the Circle? The Circle is free of the void.

38 When the void gave rise to confusion in man, man revealed to himself the forms of gods from his highest desires and fears. He searches in the world for their traits, calls them by names, and speaks with them. Thus, the forms of gods have a share of being from man, but is not the Circle the source of all lives?

39 Is not the image infinitely smaller than that in which it was seen? Whatever was seen, its source is the Circle, and only in this is the Truth. But can the infinitely great be grasped by sight? Can it be contained?

40 In the forms of the gods, there is that of the Circle, and there is that of the void; but the Circle is beyond names, above all names.

41 The void in the forms of the gods drives them to consume the world. Look at the forms and their possessors — they scream like predators, “Mine, mine,” and divide the whole, while the world is one, and their efforts are in vain.

42 The void in the forms of gods promises evil with its name, curses the nations, sends locusts, condemns trees to drought — are these not the evident works of the void?

43 The Circle reveals the truth and pierces the void, for He is Truth beyond names.

44 The Circle has no void in itself; it protects and carries over the abysses. The Circle continues the duty and rewards being with that which is true to Being.

45 They asked: Do you believe in our god and his name? He answered: You believe in the Circle of Being, for names have no power to separate a part from the whole. As for me: I know.

46 Did not the Circle put into the hearts of the prophets what they spoke from their understanding? But if seven blind sages could not know the elephant, how much more infinite is the Circle than all secrets?

47 The prophet is an echo of the Circle; his word is moved by the Call of the Circle, but it is the man who speaks the word. The forms of his gods give laws, but commit lawlessness, make covenants and despise them, promise to keep and do not keep. If only he knew that all is determined by the Circle alone!

48 If all the laws of all the forms of gods were to be broken at once, the world would stand. But if one were to break the slightest law of the Circle, the world would cease to be.

How much greater is the Circle! Its laws cannot be broken, for He is the Greatest.

49 Distinguishing the Circle from the void, read of the ways of the Circle in the sacred books of the world. Discernment reveals the truth and overcomes deceit.

50 Gazing into the unknown, man creates the forms of gods by his understanding. But in man, there is the Circle and the void, and there is nothing seen by man without the void.

51 There is no form of god without void. A man gives being to the form of god and embodies it. It is not the man who should worship the forms of his gods, but the form — by humans! Yet, the form of god is greater than each man.

52 Captive to form of god, they impart to it the strength of being. Thus, the form draws nearer to the void, for it devours without continuing, and this is an unjust exchange! Only the Circle continues without devouring, for all is He, without beginning and endless. Therefore, the forms of gods, not following the Circle, are mortal. Mortal too is all within them.

53 The form of god is immeasurably further from the Circle than a grain of sand from the mountaintop, and smaller than the Circle, like a spark in the night is less than the smallest light in the world, but greater cannot be contained by human understanding.

54 One who relies on the form of god is like a petitioner who mistakes the servant in the grand house for the master. He will receive some comfort and some aid, if there is favor, but he will not be invited into the house, for the servant has no power.

55 Forms of gods are incomplete; they thirst and reject, they cry, “This is mine, believe in me, this one is mine, that one is not yours.” Forms of gods divide the world and men, they speak of the world, “I have created this,” they demand slaves and sacrifices; their void is evident if you know. For all that is of the Circle and from the Circle does not pass away!

56 The flaw of void generates the fear of the lesser before the greater, the temporal before the eternal, and the part before the whole. The void despises, and this is its nature. Give the form of god belief, and it will create discord; give it strength, and there will be coercion; give it servants, and there will be blood. Do not offer the void from yourself.

57 If there were no void within the forms of gods, would they not cause suffering? Suffering is caused by the void. In the Circle, there is no suffering and no void.

58 Did not the scriptures of your faith speak of the paths of good and evil? But you seek salvation in form of god instead of being, and in hope instead of clear action.

59 All goodness in forms of gods is from the Circle, all evil from the void. All truth in forms is from the Circle, all deceit from the void. Any faith is alive through the Circle in it, and any miracle is from the Circle. But when a form of god tilts toward the void, its faith will perish, and what was preserved in it will be lost without return.

60 Therefore, every temple from the beginning is a temple of the Circle, and if one, asked, says that the god of the temple is the only one, and not in the Circle, he openly testifies to the void within him. One with discernment is turned toward the Circle, the one without it — toward the void. You know. Speak to the Circle if you wish to be heard.

61 Does not the Circle shine above the saints of all faiths?

62 The Circle is the parent of every being and soul, the Circle sacrifices itself and resurrects itself, He is both father and mother, savior and infinite redeemer; in every form and living soul. Know this. The Circle is the living creation of the world.

63 Great is the Circle of being, encompassing all, and there is nothing outside the Circle!

64 The Circle is the creation of the world; the void is driven by the Circle from non-being between things. It is like falsehood in scripture, the apple of discord in the garden, and lack in the soul. It is the delusion of things, the deficiency and discord with the Circle. Will there be delusion when truth manifests? The Circle will dispel the void and its form.

65 See: for the joy of man lies in improvement, and improvement is the expulsion of void and the creation of the world. But if man is driven by the void, then, having expelled a little void, he will acquire a worse one. Truly, only if man is moved by the Circle, will man come to continuation!

66 The void lacks the source of creation: it is a crack, decay, and decay, and hunger, it devours itself and ceases what it has spawned. If you have discernment, you will see.

67 The void does not have the power of creation and continuation: it is division and a barrier, it is a traitor to itself.

68 The void has no future: it is a ghost of that which has no place.

69 The void cannot be reborn: it has no force of being, it is futility and fear.

70 The void is incomplete: in it, nothing is bound together, it is solitude.

71 The void is insatiable and false, distorting truths.

72 As the stone crumbles when struck by stone, so is the void expelled everywhere, and the forms with it. The Circle manifests the void and expels the void; thus, the Circle increases the perfection of the world.

73 The void is the void of non-being; deprived of its own, it steals what belongs to others and manifests in the world as destruction.

74 Therefore, all that is struck by the void is empty within, and devours itself so as not to be devoured by itself.

75 The beast of the void, the devourer, it grabs and obstructs, it leads into deceit and wandering, it takes and consumes. It is the enemy and lives by harm; that which is lost within it becomes void and is irretrievable. It is destruction, harm to the world, and harm to itself, for the more it has consumed into itself, the fuller it will be ejected.

76 Thus, forever the void attempts to make worlds from what it has seized, but they are empty and turn to non-being by the movement of the Circle.

77 And the fiercer the void, the quicker it will pass and be fully annihilated.

78 Were the void not a lie and did it not hide itself in temptations — people would flee from it, for it is ruin.

79 When the empty speaks of justice, it leads to the tears of the innocent; when it cares for the little, the great suffers, and where there is void, there is harm.

80 What names are spoken? Whose forms of gods are pleased? What do the words utter? All is empty, if behind it stands the void. The void is filth and distortion of forms.

81 For every thing, there is a final day; only the Circle is eternal.

82 Look: you see the world of things. Each of them has a beginning.

83 When the void in a thing increases, the thing will fall wholly into the void.

84 The world of man is a thing in the world of the Circle. When the void in the world of man increases, it will cease. The truth is that form is not eternal, and anything with a beginning has an end.

85 The first day of each world births its final day, such is the fate of all things, except the Circle.

86 Faiths and forms of gods will fall, palaces and treasure-houses, human strength and human form will fall. Thus will the world of man come to an end.

87 What is in the Circle, will remain; what sought the void, will become void. Thus begins a new world, from the foundation cleansed of the void.

88 As the times draw near, the world will begin to sink, like a ripening fruit; thus they will know.

89 Despair and anger will rise in the forms of gods, and there will be miracles and enmity and signs and confusion of thought, because the Circle expels the void, and it is powerless. The true will see the truth, those who are with the Circle, the rest the void will lead into void, and their choices will be false.

90 It is the time of wrath, when the void will devour itself and when all within it will turn against itself, and it will cast itself into the void, and all will become its enemy, and the world will become different.

91 Can what has moved toward the void enter the Circle? The more it has strayed from the Circle and the more it has resisted the Circle, the more crushingly it will be expelled. In the void, there are no beginnings of paths to the Circle.

92 The Circle created all, and the Circle created the world. What seeks the Circle continues in the Circle.

93 The Circle within man is eternal, and that within man, which is of the Circle, is eternal. This is the door to the light.

94 The Circle is just for the Circle; the void is unjust to itself and to all.

95 Therefore, the void, incapable, strives to become infinite and expels itself.

96 You will stand before the Circle when your world falls, and all will stand before the Circle when the world falls. There is no other support. What will you find within yourself to lean upon?

97 They call their death hell and heaven. But if life is not directed toward the Circle, then hope is a dream, and death itself is void. If only they knew!

98 The void in man gives birth to pain, for it breaks apart within him. The void causes pain, for it destroys and takes away. The void takes away hope, for there are no paths within it. Consumption by the void is the abyss of human suffering, and there is no deeper abyss, for it is final.

99 The void is at war with the world and with itself, it is pain and evil.

100 The Circle continues and preserves; it is salvation and guidance.

101 What will you find within yourself to lean upon and not fall?

102 The Circle is neither divided nor multiplied; it is one and the only, the essence and flesh of all.

103 There is no height above the Circle. No abyss where the Circle does not touch. There is only the Circle.

104 The Circle: the most ancient, the progenitor, the beginning without beginning, and the Creator of all; His movement creates the Universe, and His reflections are the gods of gods.

105 The smallest part of the Circle infinitely surpasses the void of all places and times. The blessing of the Circle is continuation.

106 The Circle is both unmanifest and manifest, both creating and completed, both begun and ended.

107 All forces are the movement of the Circle, and all power is His power; those who do not know this, they are in error and step into the void.

108 The forms of the gods have no power without the power of the Circle, and all miracles come from the Circle. One who knows the place of the forms of gods in the Circle has overcome their void within themselves and found the Source.

109 The Circle is most perfectly sacred. It desires as it will, and it will be as it desires.

110 The Circle is All, it knows itself in all things and encloses all meanings. A man is powerless to fully know even the thought within himself. The Circle, however, thinks the world and thinks man.

111 The Circle continues the Circle and preserves what continues, from the evil of the void. The evil is blocked from reaching the good, the good is blocked from reaching the evil, thus are the paths distinguished.

112 All that happens is the word of the Circle to the Circle. Can you find the Circle by heading into the void? Can you find the void by continuing the Circle? Thus you will distinguish the paths.

113 Therefore, when you encounter what comes to you, think of the Path.

114 He was asked: whom has the Circle clothed with power? He answered: All power belongs to the one clothed by the Circle.

115 The people of the Circle strive toward the Circle. Those who do not hear the Call wander aimlessly.

116 Does not the world, unfathomable to the eye, reveal itself differently to different ones? A man cannot contain All except that which is directed to him.

117 The Circle speaks to man with the words of his life; thus the Circle speaks to each, if he listens.

118 All words and writings, all knowledge and prophecies, all beliefs and deeds are born from the Call; the Circle is their cause. But can the insignificant contain the greatest?

119 The void of man thinks itself whole; by the measure of its void, man is deaf and blind.

120 Therefore, one who listens to himself hears the void, and one who speaks to himself speaks the void. Can the void create anything else?

121 The Circle is All, and all is the Word of the Circle to the Circle. The Circle in man hears the Circle outside of man. One who listens to the Circle hears the Circle, and one who speaks the heard speaks the Circle.

122 Therefore, without the Circle, there is no truth in what is spoken or heard.

123 Whatever has the void, it is a lie; for it is that which is not.

124 The words of the void about truth are lies; the Word of the Circle about lies is truth.

125 The world is the Revelation of the Circle to the Circle, and the Sign, where the full meaning of each word is contained in the world itself.

126 One word of the Circle is greater than all the words of the sages, for in it there is no void.

127 The void gives birth to ignorance, ignorance gives birth to delusions and the forms of gods, and the forms of gods seal the void.

128 Therefore, do not seek with those who seek forms of gods, for they seek the void. If only they knew!

129 By reading the Circle about the Circle in all, you create a barrier between the empty and yourself.

130 There is a deep chasm between the one who continues the Circle and the one who strives into the void. Look: the void will take its own; weep.

131 One is transient, the other eternal.

132 Therefore, speak with the Circle in all things and in all; for only the Circle is the true conversation partner.

133 He who speaks to the void hears lies and brings the void closer to himself.

134 He who steps into the void is surrounded by shadows and mirages; he follows forms and their gifts — such is his path.

135 The Word of the Circle leads to the Circle, and the Circle is continuation. If you know, you know the Path.

136 The world is the Circle and the unbreakable Word of the Circle, and in words, the Word of the Circle; but the void cannot hear.

137 Oh, how the void hides itself in ignorance and causes pain so as not to hear, and hatred to repel!

138 Its hopelessness is terrifying: life for it is death, and the Circle of Being is its enemy.

139 How it longs to be and how insatiable its thirst! For it is non-being.

140 Therefore, the void corrupts what it cannot kill, and turns away what it cannot stop. Truly, the void is a lie.

141 Listen to the Circle from the Circle, and the spoken from the one who has heard.

142 The Circle is One, Its Word is one, and what is heard from the Circle is one, and in the Circle, all is one.

143 The Circle continues the Circle, and the Word continues the Word. Is not the void distortion, division, and discord? Thus, you will distinguish.

144 They asked him: did not the wise and the fools write about the Circle? He answered: All is the parable of the Circle about the Circle. Listen, bypassing the void, overcoming the void.

145 Do not be filled with food and pleasures, for they pass and are taken by the void, and the heart weeps, loving that which passes.

146 The Circle alone abides: behold, what was yesterday is the same as now and will be henceforth, the Circle continues the Circle, and love remains unchanged.

147 The Circle gives to you and through you to others. The void takes and compels others to take. Action from excess is not the same as action from lack, and continuation is not the same as cessation.

148 The void catches slaves for itself; their reward is nothing. With the Circle, there is everything: children and flesh.

149 Who will direct your deeds and thoughts if not the Circle? It is the Word, living and eternal. Who will bind you to the truly living if not the Circle? Love fills the Call. Whom do you love if not the Circle?

150 Your heart hears the Call, and your heart calls back in response. And indeed, the Circle is the most precise, the most discerning. What do you speak to it?

151 There is no good without the Circle, no evil without the void, and no good standing on the void. The measure of the Circle in a thing is the measure of good in the thing and the measure of good around it. Will you open your heart?

152 For even the evil person, doing good, does so from fullness, while the kind-hearted person, doing evil, does so from emptiness, and there is no other way. One is not equal to the other.

153 Here, the Circle is continuation, the void is destruction and death. The one who saves from death continues, the one who awakens from oblivion continues, the one who frees from wanderings continues. The one who strikes at the void continues. Does your love continue the Circle?

154 Here, the Circle is creation, the void is cessation. The giver of life creates, the one who finds the answer creates, the one who cultivates the field creates. The one who expels the void creates the whole. Does your love create in the Circle?

155 The Circle is giving and multiplication, the void is taking and loss. The speaker of truth gives knowledge, the unifier of forces gives aid, the one who joins multiplies. Does your love multiply the Circle?

156 There is no truth without the Circle, no deception without the void. Will you open your heart?

157 The Call is the love of the Circle and the guiding light to the Circle. Does not the one who knows the Call feel love? Does love guide you to the world?

158 Returning to the Circle is overcoming the void. Dwelling in the Circle is the continuation of the Circle. Do you walk in love?

159 The void is devoid of love. The one walking in the Circle is a warrior.

160 Therefore, deception is a property of the void, truth is a property of the Circle.

161 What is from the Circle is one in the prophets, and one in things, all truths are one Word.

162 Therefore, truth is in everything; the whole world is truth.

163 But can a man know everything? All is contained only in the Circle.

164 One is connected to the other, and you see, and connected to everything, and you do not see. What happens is truth, and you do not know how.

165 One follows the other, and one coincides with the other, and you do not know when.

166 How will the Circle continue? The Circle knows how.

167 The connection of things in the Circle is unfathomable in its fullness. What is in the Circle is connected to all. What was for the Circle is connected forever.

168 To the one looking in the Circle, seeking, striving, much will be revealed. But no matter how much is revealed, immeasurably more belongs to the Circle.

169 The Circle is the source of both knowledge and mysteries.

170 Therefore, look and see.

171 All is question, answer, and truth.

172 Through all the things of the world, the Circle speaks, and through all things, it answers the one in the Circle. To the void, the entire world is false.

173 All is a sign and all is the Circle; outside the Circle, there is nothing.

174 The one speaking with a child, listening to the wind, and watching the flight of birds, equally hears the Circle. But the void sees only its own void.

175 And what happens to you, all is the answer of the Circle. And in all from the Circle, answers to all the questions of the world. And every smallest form is an answer.

176 Therefore, ask for discernment; only by the measure of discernment do you see the Circle; its light is bright.

177 The action of the Circle outside human understanding is a miracle to man. There is no number to them.

178 Void is blind: it sees the full as empty and itself in brilliance, and mirages.

179 Thus, the void is distanced from the Circle in the very heart of being.

180 The one following the Circle sees, and more will be revealed. To the one who has, more is given.

181 Here, you have seen. Ask: did not the Circle of the world create this?

182 All truly occurring miracles are from the Circle: you walk, and they are around you, here they are.

183 Ask the Circle for discernment, so as not to be deceived by the void.

184 Has there ever been a miracle apart from the Circle? What He created, that was. What He did not create, that was not.

185 Therefore, the images of the gods are an unreliable support for the living. For what is not from the Circle will not be. But what is from the Circle will be. The void, however, is unaware of what it will possess.

186 What is not in the Circle, is not. What is, is alive by the Circle.

187 People and forms of gods, temples and palaces, beliefs and countries are alive by the Circle within themselves and dead by the void within themselves.

188 The Circle creates and teaches, the Circle saves from the altar and resurrects, the Circle brings water and fills vessels with food, the Circle allows the fire to descend: truly, all that happens, of which they speak and of which they are silent, comes from the Circle, and all living forces are from the Circle, and the spirits, and the miracles of all the saints!

189 They asked him: they say that their god creates the whole world and signs. He answered: Let their god create good, which would be neither the Circle nor the power of the Circle, or let them tell what was from it. And if they speak the truth, they will praise the Circle, but if falsely, they will expose their void. For all that is good, which was, is clearly from the Circle, and from the void, only evil and mirages. So speak.

190 The one stepping in the Circle sees signs and miracles, for in it is the Circle.

191 The world is the Circle and is His miracle, and in the smallest part of the world is hidden more than man can contain.

192 All paths of the world are the action of the Circle and the creation of the world.

193 Therefore, ask the Circle, and there will be what is from the Circle.

194 Here, it has been shown to you, and you see; what is seen from the Circle is in you. How will you continue?

195 The unspoken causes a burn to the heart; for the barrier within is the void. And if you separate from the world, from deviation grace ceases, and you know.

196 What is in the Circle, continues the Circle; thus, by the Circle, the world is created, and with the one who continues, the blessing of the Circle.

197 How will you preserve what is given to you? How will you become it? How will you continue in the Circle?

198 The Word is continuation, and action is continuation. Be a witness to the speaker and a witness to the doer.

199 Every step is both a weighing and a result; the Circle or the void.

200 They asked him: Has the time of the prophets returned? He answered: I am not a prophet. I have brought the truth, in which anyone can believe. The truth is revealed. The time of the prophets has passed.

The Book of the Circle.
Chapter 3. The Path

1 The Path is the Circle, and the Circle is the Path, if you know.

2 The Circle is the source of life, and life is the action of the Circle within the Circle. The Circle creates life; its cause lies in the continuation of the Circle.

3 For what the Circle does not create, does not exist.

4 All beings are within the Circle and parts of the Circle. The Circle feels every being and knows all beings and things. The Circle is Feeling and Knowledge.

5 Therefore, to the living, the Call of the Circle is apparent; the living is the striving.

6 The Circle is the source of movement, and life is the continuation of the Circle within the Circle. Thus, the Circle is the source of every possibility and every continuation. The Circle is Will.

7 Therefore, with the living, the Will of the Circle is present; the living is action.

8 The living is the union of the forces of the Circle, and creation is the union; their nature is the Circle.

9 Thus, man is life and creation, striving toward the Circle and the movement of the Circle, and form within the Circle.

10 Yet the Circle manifests the void and expels the void, and thus man is creation between the Circle and the void.

11 Man is between the Circle and the void, in him is the Circle and the void, and around him is the Circle and the void.

12 Man is the creation of the Circle. The Path to the Circle is open to man.

13 People are creations of the Circle and the beginning of the Path. If only they knew!

14 When you say to yourself, “Here, I see,” is it not the Circle that sees? Yet the void does not see.

15 Do you not deceive yourself, thinking you are separated when you see? For the Circle is both the seer and the seen.

16 When you say to yourself, “Here, I act,” is it not the Circle that acts? Yet the void does not act.

17 Do you not deceive yourself, thinking you are separated when you act? For all forces are with the Circle, the Circle is both the acting and the moved, and everything is between them.

18 When you say to yourself, “Here, I think,” is it not the Circle that thinks? Yet the void does not think.

19 Do you not deceive yourself, thinking you are separated when you think? For the Circle is both the thinker and the thought.

20 When you say to yourself, “Here, I am filled with feeling,” is it not the Circle that feels? Yet the void does not feel.

21 Do you not deceive yourself, thinking you are separated when you feel? For the Circle is both the feeler and the felt.

22 When you say to yourself, “Here, I live,” is it not the Circle that lives? Yet the void does not live.

23 Do you not deceive yourself, thinking you are separated when you exist? For the Circle is life and existence. Deceptions arise from the void.

24 How do you feel and act with all your members and their parts? Yet your birth is from the Circle, and the connection has not been severed, and you exist.

25 The Circle, touching the Circle, ignited the spark of your being, and in it, your essence. You live by the Circle.

26 The Circle created man and reason as a world within a world, and all worlds are the Circle!

27 Man is both created and creating. His life and existence are from the Circle, while his wandering and death are from the void.

28 Creation is the action of the Circle, and all the power of creation is with the Circle. Truly, the Circle is the Greatest! What is separated from the Circle ceases to be, for the Circle is eternal.

29 Look, the Path to the Circle is the Path away from destruction! Look, the void divides, and the void takes into its non-being!

30 Without entering the Circle, nothing is eternal; but within the Circle, man is created. Therefore, the Call is the love of the Circle.

31 The one who hears the Call is awakened.

32 The Universe is the descent of the Circle; the Circle is the Spirit of the world.

33 When you call the Spirit, do you not know whom you have called? The one calling knows in their heart whom they have called; in the Call, there is no lie.

34 The world is the thought of the Circle, the Circle is within you and outside you.

35 In what depths are you? How do you wander? And yet the Circle is within you, and the Call resounds.

36 There is no grace outside the Circle; He is the giver of all, so seek what is of the Circle in everything.

37 Between the forms of the Circle and the void, man is the child of the Circle. Be filled, as a child.

38 The one who finds the truth becomes the truth. The one who knows this contemplates the Path. The Circle is Truth.

39 Man is above many forms, and many forms are above man.

40 How the desires of the body of man burn! Yet the body is but the form of Spirit and the void, following its own way.

41 The empty will burn and soon will not be; but the Spirit will be. All that will be is Spirit.

42 When man is captivated by the empty, he is captivated because he does not see; he is darkened by the void within him. Gripped by the void, he approaches the desired, looks back, and there is no more path for him.

43 The one who rushes toward the void becomes the void, as he desired. Bitter is this reward and an empty gift! What is not continued by the Circle is not.

44 As waves dissipate in the sand of the shores, so the generations of the living vanish in the void, and they are no more, countless.

45 Eternal is the Source, and lo, they will come again. Perhaps they will hear?

46 The Circle speaks to all, and Its Call protects from the void, if you hear.

47 All is the Word and the Path; the one who hears is drawn nearer to the Circle.

48 Despair to man: all that the heart has loved of the forms of the world will pass and will not return. Look; weep.

49 Joy to man: what is in the Circle will not pass. In the Circle, there is no void.

50 The body is form and time; look, do not follow it. For you have heard the Call. The Circle is the Path.

51 The Spirit of man guides the body, and it is the vessel and the support. Where is your support when the time comes? For in the void, there is no support, or do you not know?

52 The one who follows the Circle reunites with the Circle. He has support; the Circle is in all things and between all things; the Spirit of the world is the Circle.

53 They asked him: how does the Circle not cease, when all in the world is temporary and the void swallows that which ceases? He answered: Separate the water into vessels, unite them — has it increased or decreased, or has it changed or suffered damage? For the forms were and ceased. The Circle is the true waters of the world, He is All and in all, in Him there is no void, unchanging.

54 One passes into another, form disappears, form unites, from forms are made forms, and they separate; the hosts of worlds and creations were and are no more. The Circle is between all, in them, and through all, Truth and Eternity. The one who walks in the Circle continues with the Circle, the one continuing becomes within the Circle.

55 The one who follows the void is like grass: they were and are no more.

56 Who does not hear the Call, who is blind and does not see the Circle, and separates himself, who has no doing, who is neither son nor daughter to the ancestors, who is neither father nor mother to the children, who is neither heir nor guide, who does not bear the Word, who walks alone, who leaves no trace, who exists only in the past and present — how will you continue? How will you be born in the Circle?

57 The one who turned toward the void had the Path, and wandered, had the world, and lost it. Behold; weep.

58 All is the continuation of the Circle; in everything, the Circle continues all that is within it. What is in the Circle is here. What is in the Circle is always.

59 The sun rises, and the birds fly.

60 Do you not see that all is a trace of the Circle within the Circle?

61 When the light of the world was new in your eyes, was not the world within you, and did it not enter you? Or do you not remember? And the world is the Circle.

62 Who remembers, says: “Behold, I departed and was born again.” But where did he remain between this and that, so that one became the other?

63 The Circle continues what is within it; there is no interruption in this. What manifested, continued and manifested again; it was one and became another. What is in the Circle did not depart, but what is not in the Circle, it ceased to be.

64 All is the Circle, and what is in the Circle, is in all. Look!

65 Some remembered and were confirmed, some saw and became holy, some heard and were no longer alone, some remained deaf. The Circle is All, but the void is deaf. What is in the Circle returns; the Circle is filled with voices, and you know. But the one who is empty speaks only to himself, and thus he wanders. Therefore, people are not in agreement.

66 In man, came only that which is continued in the Circle. What then will he remember?

67 Behold, in man is that which the Circle manifested, but the void has no memory. Will he forget, drawn into the void?

68 What is in man with the Circle, that is continued in the Circle. What will be continued, that it may be remembered?

69 With chains, the void has embraced man; chasms and ignorance, and shadows of fear, cessation and blindness, today’s day and in this day, a striving toward the void. Does the one drawn by the void remember what he has?

70 Little of man is continued in the Circle, and little is manifested, for the void does not remember. How much has it consumed!

71 As much as has continued in the Circle, so much remains in memory. If only man were with the Circle!

72 Thus, the Path is narrow.

73 From where have you come here? For there is nothing in the thing, nor in the man, that is not the Circle.

74 Were it not for that which is greater than you, from where would you have come? For you were not here before.

75 Did you not come from that which is greater than you, and that which was here before you?

76 What was linked between things, what was linked between ancestors, what was linked between parents, what was linked within the body? It is joy, behold, it is alive, but it was not there!

77 What was before you, that was linked and became you. Behold, you are created by that which is greater than you.

78 What filled you, where did it come from? You were filled with that which is before your eyes and you were filled with that which was spoken to you; was not this in things and people before you? Behold, you are created by that which is greater than you.

79 From where came that which you have known? There is no source but the Circle; in all things, He is, He guards and guides; He is Reason and Memory.

80 You are joy, who gave it to you? Who spoke it at the beginning? To whom will you give it? Where did it come from, and where will it go, your treasure and living world? Thus, you preserve and continue. The Circle flows through you, He is memory and life, within you and beyond you. You are a part.

81 And what is among men, continuing, comes into men, and remains, and departs into men; thus man is filled, he is joy! Behold, you are created by that which is greater than you!

82 Within you is continuation, you continue within yourself and continue onward, in words, in deeds, in things, in people, and you are a part. The Circle that senses and the Circle that is sensed, thus you have become. How can you be deceived, thinking you are separate? For the Circle is within you, and the Circle is outside you, and you are a part.

83 And so, that which follows the Circle continues; that which follows the void ceases. And behold, it becomes nothing; and behold, it is unheard and unsealed, and lived in vain, and will not be. What is not in the Circle is dead.

84 All that is, has shaped you, and fills you, and you are a part. If you go toward the void, do you not hear the pain?

85 O, the void is deaf. But continuation is in the Circle!

86 Around man is that which continues within him and continues him, and will be. What is continued without loss, that is alive. If only he knew!

87 Look: that which is greater in the Circle, is continued in the greater, and the Circle is in all. Look: that which is aimed at the void scatters and dwindles, and misfortune, and in the void, non-being!

88 Do you see about yourself: in how much are you? In how much do you become? In man, the Circle and the void, and the void manifests and ceases, and its time is numbered, and you know.

89 The Circle manifests the void and exhausts the void, and that which is in the void, will not be. You see what continues in men, and what ceases in men.

90 Truly, whatever is contained in things, the greatest in this is the Circle, for He is and will be, and where the void is, there is a mirage.

91 Truly, whatever is in men, the greatest in this is the Circle, for He is and will be, and where the void is, there is transience.

92 Truly, in men, the greatest is the Circle, for He is and will be, and where the void is, there is devouring and death.

93 The Circle is the Path between the One and the All, if you know.

94 Is not around you that which is continued in all, and is not the Circle the greatest witness to truth? Is it not the same in men? Is it not the same in words and thoughts? Turn to the Circle; perhaps you will hear.

95 For what is in the Circle speaks with the Circle, and the Circle hears. And what is in the Circle speaks with the Circle, and the Circle answers.

96 Ask for the Path, and perhaps you will be continued. For the Circle is continuation.

97 The Circle is All, and the Circle is One.

98 Are you not a part of the Circle? Is not that which is part of you the Circle? Is not that to which you belong the Circle? You are a part in the whole.

99 Is not that which flows from a part of you continued earlier in you? Is not that which flows from you continued in that to which you belong? You are inseparable from the whole.

100 That which is you, is before you and after you, within you and without you. Is there any barrier?

101 Behind all eyes is the Circle, and before all eyes is the Circle, and all is one, and man is but a small part of the Circle.

102 Where two or three are, between them is more than in them, they are part of Him, and all are parts of the Circle.

103 Over all who gather is the Circle, among all who gather is the Circle, and those who gather are the Circle.

104 A spark awakens and fades, and awakens again.

105 Sparks awaken as sparks and sparks continue as sparks, as the word awakens as a word and the word continues as a word.

106 Are not words in different books the same? Is not what you have heard spoken by another, and is not what you have spoken heard by another? But do common words make one thing become another? The order between words is the book, and what is spoken, and what is heard.

107 Just as the order of the words that are creates a book, does not man himself weave together from his parts? What continues in his deeds? Do you not see?

108 The orders between all things are countless. Therefore, among the forms of the world, paths lie for man, and many lead into the void, and few into the Circle.

109 The continuation of order in the Circle is the Path. That which passes without flaw, that continues in the Circle, and that which does not pass, is non-being.

110 You have heard what has been said; who spoke to you? From whom comes the message? No one is separated in the Circle.

111 Labyrinths in the void, and mirages, and the longing of the lost, and darkness, and echo. The Call of the Circle is the penetrating light in the gloom.

112 Touch what is. Here, the Circle. Continue in what is. Here, the Path.

113 Look: the world itself is the Call.

114 The living have the Call from the Circle, and nations have the Call, and then they live. Forms strive to replace the Call, such is their void. He who has lost the Call has no Path. He who has received the Call finds the Path.

115 Therefore, speak of the Circle and hear of the Circle.

116 The whole world is the single Word of the Circle, but each moment has its own words, and the Call of the Circle reveals what is from the Circle.

117 Therefore, test the Book with discernment, so that the void within you does not lead to delusion.

118 The Book of the Circle is opened through the human by the Circle and the Call, and every word within it is from the Circle, and it will not pass, for the Circle is All.

119 Behold, the Book speaks through the hearer of the Circle to the listener of the Circle. The hearer knows that from the Circle is within and before him, for the Call of the Circle allows him to hear.

120 Thus, when one with aspiration and hearing the Call leans towards the Book, captured by the void, he will be repelled — does this not serve as a clear and supreme sign? Behold.

121 The Circle is Truth, where there are no contradictions. Therefore, whatever is spoken from the void, it will not continue the Book, and it will not compare to the Book, nor challenge a word within the Book, though it will dispute! But it will only reveal itself by division, for the void is discord. Behold.

122 The Circle is continuation, and what is from the Circle will not lose a word from the Book. The Circle is one and indivisible, and therefore all that is from the Circle is seamlessly continuous in one another. This you shall know. Behold.

123 When the time comes, the Circle will bring forth the best words. When knowledge must increase, when the void will become a new calamity before man, when the world will change, then the Circle will bring forth the best words. For the Circle is continuation.

124 But until that time, many will speak, and the hearer will hear that it is from the Circle, for Discernment leaves no doubt.

125 Behold, the Circle has brought the living word for the hearer. The void, however, does not find the living, for it is dead, and the Circle is life.

126 The gaze of the void is blind, and it is not opened to it, and it causes pain. But will the void see? Truly, the Circle exposes the void in the near and the far, and it grows angry. It would have been better for them to turn to the Circle, if they had known!

127 What is from the Circle, through the hearer of the Circle, is opened to the listener of the Circle. The Circle is one. Behold.

128 In all things of the world, truths are from the Circle, and deceptions are from the void. From the void comes strife and division, and jealousy in the forms of gods and men. To the sorrowful wandering, to the dwelling in houses without exits, until time expires, the void leads. Behold.

129 Thus, the Book of the Circle is opened to one and not to another, and this difference is great. Behold.

130 To the void, there are no true meanings, and the eyes of those who go into the void cannot see. If they could see, they would avoid the void.

131 Among the paths of the Circle, they go into the void, look, and do not see, for the Circle has not opened the eyes of those going into the void. Oh, if only they aspired to the Circle, then they would see!

132 He who does not see the Circle has no Discernment of the void, and he does evil to himself, thinking it good. Better would it be for them to ask the Circle for the Call, if they knew!

133 The void drives you by fear, mirages in the void are light, and the dreams are unsettling — follow them, seek them, until time runs out. And you will not meet the exit, for you are ever deeper in the void. Would you have known better!

134 The void is a trial for the traveler, and a measure of the traveler.

135 They built temples and altars, all of them to the Circle, but they do not know. Were they not alive by the Circle?

136 The Circle saves from division and interruption, from destruction and decay, from sickness and death, for the Circle is life and continuation. Did they not build to the Circle?

137 But the void draws the one who follows it to his demise, and what he loves, for from him come the wounds of the void, where it touches. The void is wandering.

138 Behold, instead of knowledge, the void places itself, but it is separation and fruitlessness, and its heart is non-being. If they had known!

139 Perhaps they will hear.

140 The void is lack and flaw, loss and confusion, and the division of the whole. By many a gleam and shadow, the void lies in the way of the traveler, temptation and obstacle. How to overcome it?

141 The Circle and the void in man, no man has the strength to see the true without help. Therefore, ask the Circle to overcome doubt and the mirages of the void. Ask to be strengthened on the Path.

142 For the Circle is the only existent, and the void deceives, and this is undeniable for the traveler on the Circle.

143 He was asked: How not to lose the Path? For deceptions are near, and one thing seems like another, and the other is hidden. He replied: Take a stone in your hand and ask yourself, what is it? And answer: The Circle. Ask yourself, who placed it here? And answer: The Circle. If you know this, your support is secure.

144 The Circle gives the Call and gives Discernment, and allows one to see through the void, and to hear the Circle, and the answer to aspiration is the Path.

145 All that is, is from that which was. Much is consumed by the void, little continues. So it is with you. All that is you comes from the times before you, just as thought came from its parts, and the body from its parts.

146 The forgotten is consumed by the void, the continued is a gift, for the present inherits the past.

147 The knowledge of the continued past leads to the continuation of the present; what is man, has passed through the Path of the Circle, this is the treasure of man.

148 Why then do you reject the cause of yourself, and not return your own? What is you, was before you, what was before was always, what then prevents you from remembering? The void separates you.

149 Yet man is thought, and what did not fall into the void, but passed on and did not lose, is continued. The body is form and thought is form, man is form, but what did not fall into the void, is continued, and what is now, is from the continued.

150 Remember how you became, feel how you become; it was always so, man is spirit in the Circle. But they do not remember, for the void consumes. Ask the Circle to remember.

151 On the other side of the world, those who were continued before. The other side of the world is here. All is the Circle. Ask the Circle to see.

152 He who knows, knows the Path.

153 He who sees continuation, sees the Circle. He who hears the Call, sees the Circle. He who speaks with the Circle receives the answer of the Circle. He who acts in the Circle meets the Circle.

154 The Circle is infinitely greater than man. The actions of the Circle are miracles for man.

155 The Circle has dominion over the void, for the void has no dominion over itself, and the Circle dispels the void.

156 Therefore, he who sees the Circle sees the miracle in the world, and the Circle comes as light: in dreams, in forms, in the heart, in people, in things. The Circle is Light.

157 Therefore, speak and listen; for the Circle is All, and all His miracles.

158 Are you alone, he who has heard the Circle? The Circle speaks to you through all things, secretly and openly, are you truly alone? For the void obstructed you, but you are here, did not the Circle bring you here?

159 The Circle creates man and nurtures man, guards man and speaks with man, did not the Circle bring you?

160 All that has been with you, was in the Circle, a ray of light and a speck of dust in it, all was in the Circle and overcame the void. Did not the Circle bring you?

161 Through people and spirits, law and chance, things and orders, the Circle speaks with you. The Circle sends words through people and signs through the things of the world. You are part of the Circle, and the Circle does not leave behind anything that is, and the Circle continues. Will you be deceived by the void?

162 The void turns you away through deception and division, and striking the thoughts, it strikes the deeds. Turned into the void, you will find nothing but the void, however much your heart burns with passion; the one drawn into the void gains nothing, for the void is barren and closed like a tomb, and he who walks into the void is its food.

163 He who walks into the void strives, but does not reach, and he who does not hear the Call walks, but does not draw near, yet all is in the Circle, and you know.

164 All is in the Circle, and in all is the Circle, and over all is the Circle, and you know. Look around.

165 If you follow the Circle, then the Circle speaks to you through them. If you follow the Circle, then speak with love, so the Circle may hear you. Perhaps they too will hear.

166 The one who follows the Circle finds the help of the Circle upon the Path. Do you not, in acting, remove obstacles for your hand? And does not the one who follows the Circle continue the Circle? Behold, draw from the void, if you continue the Circle.

167 The one who follows the void loses themselves. Does not what is scattered gather itself? Does not spilled water sink into the sand? The forces of the one who follows the void are against them. They harm themselves, for they do not know.

168 One continues, the other perishes; in one, fullness acts, in the other, lack; in one, the continuation is hidden, in the other, cessation is hidden. Their fruits are unequal — this is beyond doubt for the one possessing Discernment. Thus, the Circle teaches the one following the Circle clearly.

169 All in humanity is from the Circle, and all is created by the Circle, and the past of humanity is within the Circle, but those caught by the void do not know. Yet the void does not return what it steals. If only they knew!

170 The infinite Circle sees through the eyes of man, the infinite Circle sees through your eyes, you are never alone. Ask the Circle to see.

171 The Circle is mercy and the focal point of all that is beautiful, the Circle is life and compassion, the Circle is the essence of all that exists.

172 Among their treasures, man is caught — do they lead him to the Circle? For where the heart’s treasure lies, there too is the mind directed. Where does man aim?

173 In man, there is light — how can he waste this light?

174 Without the Circle in the heart, can one avoid the void? Truly, the Circle will push the empty away.

175 One cannot be filled twice. If the heart is empty, the Circle will not fill it; if the heart is the Circle, the void will not enter. The one who attempts to be filled twice is like the one trying to go in two directions — they waste time.

176 The one who has chosen the Circle must accept the Circle in their heart.

177 There is no continuation without a beginning, and no Path without the first day. Reunited with the Circle, they have found the Path. Their Name is in their heart, and their Name is in the Circle.

178 With whom do you speak now in your heart? Whom do you see through all faces? Who answers you when you call? Speak through all names, for you know to whom.

179 Is the one who has accepted the Circle in their heart the same as before?

180 Who supported your step when you took it? Who touched your hand when you did? Who gave you light when you looked? Who shared the desire? Who endowed you with words? Who answered you? Who looked, and who saw?

181 Truly, the one who has accepted the Circle in their heart is in the Circle.

182 Is not all that happens within the Circle a sacred act? Behold, the Circle answers you, behold, you are part of the Circle, behold, there is no barrier, here, you continue. Behold, the eternal Path is open.

183 Can there be a treasure greater than this? The treasure of treasures is before you.

184 Before it, all fades — decay, transience. Place what you love on the Path, so that it may not be harmed. For what does not lead to the Circle is no treasure but a shadow of future sorrow. What you have dedicated to the Circle is a foundation.

185 The Circle is the source of worlds, the Circle governs fate, the Circle ignites stars, and the Circle creates existence.

186 The Circle is living food and drink for the people walking in the Circle.

187 The Circle is All.

188 Look at yourself — what do you see?

189 Look at the sky and the earth, and see the Circle. Look at the temples and the gold, and see the Circle. Look at the living and the human, and see the Circle.

190 As the tree grows and the grass recedes, so does the Circle create the world, dispelling the void.

191 Clarity instead of fog, truth instead of lies, purity instead of murkiness — thus, the Circle creates the world.

192 The Circle is continuation.

193 The desire of man is like the wind, flying beyond the horizons. What is in the wind that has flown? The one with Discernment sees.

194 As the knowledgeable one builds a ship, raising its sails to be filled with wind, so the one with discernment, hearing the Call, walks the Path.

195 Speaking with the Circle in the language of deeds and thoughts, with others and alone, opening the heart, the one following the Circle continues in the Circle, for the Circle answers the speaker in the Circle.

196 The great work of transforming into the Circle and becoming within the Circle is done by the one walking in the Circle for the Circle of Being.

197 Truly, what is not in the Circle will be void. What is in the Circle will continue.

198 Behold, the one reunited with the Circle enters the ever-living Circle!

199 The one reunited with the Circle continues the Circle and continues in the Circle.

200 As thought continues thought, so action continues man. As memory preserves thought, so the deed preserves thought. As the body preserves thought, so the continued in the Circle preserves thought, for you are one with it, if you know.

201 In all is the Circle, all deeds within the Circle are the Path and continuation for the reunited. All is body and all is spirit, Body and Spirit. All is the Circle.

202 Transforming their life into the Circle, they have become in the Circle.

203 Behold, the one in the Circle is continued in the Circle, and has lost nothing, for the Circle is life.

204 All forms are the Path to the Circle, if you know.

205 Direct both yourself and all you are toward the Circle. Both deeds and words, things, and all that you are.

206 Here is your Path before you, from the void to the Circle, here is the Path of salvation and discovery. For you are part of the Circle, and It has revealed to you.

207 It is impossible for man alone to walk the Path, for in man is the Circle and the void, and he sees only in accordance with this. You cannot cast the void from yourself, the one who possesses it. Therefore, ask the Circle for support, for the Circle rules over the void.

208 In following the Circle, ask for Discernment, ask for clarity of thought, ask for deeds within the Circle, ask for the Circle’s help, that the Circle may descend to you and fill you, so that your deed may be a continuation of you, and you a continuation of the Circle; ask this from the Circle, for all is from the Circle.

209 Let your home and temple, your loved ones, your words and deeds, become a continuation within the Circle.

210 The one who continues in the Circle has continued their foundation, and the Circle has supported the one who continued in the Circle, and you know.

211 Behold, here is the Circle! It is Infinity, and Life, and the World, and Spirit.

212 Look into your heart, the Circle is in your heart.

213 The shadow of the void is deep above humanity, it is endless among the people. Some hunger for glory, the proud; others flee from fear, the timid; some thirst for possession, the gleaming gold; others for power over men; others seek solace in faiths; others seek passion; others are driven by anger and cause pain. Does the wandering gaze turn toward the Circle? Where are you? All passing is empty before the Circle, and what is not in the Circle is in the void.

214 Is there support in the one sinking into the void? Direct yourself to the Circle, do not cause the void, and overcome the void, if you know, and gain support. For the Path to the Circle runs through all things, this is without doubt, and the means that lead to the Circle are good, while those that lead to the void are evil.

215 There are no truths in the void, there are only phantoms and shadows, and no merit. All from it is abyss and fog, it was and is not. The slightest in the Circle immeasurably surpasses the greatest from the void: for in the Circle is continuation, the solid ground of the world.

216 The Path to the Circle is the act of continuation.

217 They asked him: why did you plant the seed in the earth? He replied: Life is continuation and part.

218 Thus begins the Path.

The Book of the Circle.
Chapter 4: The Door

1 A person without the Path is a prisoner of the body and a captive of the void.

2 The spirit awakens within the body, in the form of the forms of the Circle, it awakened from what was not, and became. The body emanates the spirit of the person, like a candle gives forth light; thus, the form of the Circle emanates the spirit. Truly, man is a continuation!

3 Just as light fills with reflections, so the Circle fills with the spirit of the person. Truly, man is a continuation and there is no obstacle. Man is a child of the Circle.

4 The body in the Circle has its reasons, its paths, and its time. The body thirsts and hungers, it grieves and rejoices, the beautiful body is born and grows, creates and is created, destroys and is destroyed, ceases and vanishes, for within the body is the Circle and the void, and the spirit rejoices with it, and grows and ceases with it. They are like a candle and its light.

5 The light is eternal, but it fades with the candle, for the light depends on the candle, because the candle is the source of the light; thus, the body is the source and dwelling for the spirit of the person. When the dwelling is without exit, its inhabitant is a prisoner. Truly, a person without the Path is a prisoner of the body.

6 Oh, how a person desires something else for themselves! Fearing and deluding themselves, they say: “I will find the form of a god, let all be according to their will, and not in vain!” They offer their heartfelt sacrifices and secret words, warming themselves in the darkness with whispers of faith. If only they knew, but they do not know! Thus, a person without the Path wanders in the void.

7 What is aimed at the void multiplies the void; the multiplied void amplifies the deviation. Thus, the spirit of a person becomes food for the void, it consumes it like darkness consumes light. Everything, without exception, it absorbs — the lost in wandering, without finding support, and what has deviated once will deviate twice. But there is support in the Circle!

8 Wherever the person turns their gaze, there is the gleam of the void. Life is wasted, drawn by illusions, and they will not come nearer to their own, nor find the path. Thus, they have not gained lasting benefit and have ceased; weep.

Truly, a person without the Path is a prisoner of the void.

9 The Circle awakened the spirit of the person in the body, the Circle filled the spirit of the person, man is a child of the Circle and a continuation.

10 The spirit of the person is in their thoughts and actions; does not the Circle continue the one who is aimed toward the Circle? The actions of the one who walks in the Circle are the body of the one walking in the Circle. Does not the Circle give a better body for the spirit and a better light for the light?

The Circle is the eternal giver of life, and life, and infinity for the people of the Circle!

11 Thus, the Circle has revealed to the person the source. Will you approach it?

12 For that which turns away from the Circle perishes in the void, and the void is non-being.

13 The Circle is continuation within the Circle.

14 A person is like a sprout within the body; they were not in the beginning. They grow, like a continuation, and come to know themselves, saying: “I am thus and thus.” They touch the world and bring it into themselves, they are a continuation, flesh of the world’s flesh and spirit of the Spirit of the Circle, the world is reflected within them. Lo, they live, the Circle and the void within them and before them.

15 Will you increase and remain in the Circle, or waste away into the void and become non-being?

16 The person is filled with shadows exhausted by the void, by themselves, and by their body, and by their place, and by their dreams. They cannot contain more unless they have the Path. But the Circle is greater, and the Circle has no loss.

17 The person seeks to fill themselves with one thing and another, drawn from near and far, as if it is better or worse for them; yet they wander in vain, and receive no fruit, for they do not know. They are what they are filled with.

18 For that with which they are filled has a source. What is the source of theirs, and what is their support? Truly, the best for them is if they are filled with the Circle.

19 For the one filled with the Circle has the Circle as their source, and this is the eternal and supreme source, and the home for the one within the Circle!

20 Behold, many become like clouds of shadows, but only the one who follows the Circle is filled with the Circle. Many are transient, and few become.

The one who listens in the Circle has heard from the Circle; lo, you know. Do not take one for the other.

21 Just as the lover prolongs the beloved, so the Circle prolongs what is in the Circle, and one nourishes the other. The person is like a fruit and a seed; to be in the Circle, they must be born in the Circle. Lo, the Circle draws the person, will they come?

22 The body continues through offspring, offspring comes from it and continues, and the body ceases. But the person will continue only in that which is continued from them in the Circle, and then they will not cease, for the body is temporary, and what is in the Circle is eternal.

23 The body sleeps, and there is no one in it, but if the body awakens, it will awaken with the body and become. What is the body that will not sink into sleep?

24 If you, in your care, have not nourished and warmed your body, will it not cease? In the person, there are powers from the Circle to continue; the person is part of the Circle. The one who knows continues in the Circle, for what is continued in the Circle is a body that does not sleep.

25 Everything that is continued is continued. Everything that is not continued is not continued. There is no doubt in this. Therefore, the measure and the value of the continued life of a person is the life of the person directed toward continuation. The one who listens in the Circle will hear.

26 That which in the person is truly filled from the Circle, the Circle will accept and continue, for the Circle is the source of being and continuation; this is the Path. The one who listens in the Circle will hear.

27 They asked him: Why does man eat? He answered: So that there may be everything, for without man, there will be nothing.

28 Behold, the life of a person consists of one thing passing into another. What ceases is the void. What passes is the Circle. Behold, life is continuation.

29 Behold, your body consists of one thing passing into another. What ceases is the void. What passes is the Circle. Behold, the body is continuation, until its time has passed.

30 Behold, the forms of the world are one thing passing into another. What passes is the Circle. What ceases is the void. Behold, the forms are continuation, until their time has passed.

31 Behold, the world is one thing passing into another. What passes is the Circle. What ceases is the void. Behold, the world is continuation in forms and between forms, and for one, time will pass, but the other is continued. What is in the Circle, that passes.

32 Behold, the Circle is continuation and does not cease!

33 The very matter of the world is the continuation of causes through effects, and the forms with less void seem impervious to the forms with greater void: both the solid and the living are continuation.

34 In forms and between forms, the Circle occurs, creating being and continuing being, awakening and perfecting, and that which is not in the Circle, that is not. What is, is the ebb in the Circle. Truly, He is the world.

35 In times and forms, being is the Circle, the connection and continuation.

36 One and the Only.

37 The Circle is All.

38 The Circle is the source and the home, the Body and the Spirit.

39 Does not your heart open to the Circle?

40 Behold, your word continues or ceases, and your deed continues or ceases, yet they are part of you and your time. One differs from the other.

41 Behold, that which goes out of a person has ceased, and it was part of them. Has not that part become the void? Behold, that which goes out of a person has continued, and it was part of them. Has not that part passed into the Circle? Truly, there is a great difference between one and the other.

42 And while one exhausts, the other becomes. Behold.

43 If the person is continued in the Circle, they are in the Circle. The ones who wander in the void, separating, thinking they will be within themselves, without continuing, are mistaken. Does that which is lost in the void remember and awaken? What continues, remembers and awakens. The void does not return what it has swallowed.

44 But the Circle is and will be, and awakens in all, and creates the world.

45 Not all will hear, but only the one who hears the Circle.

46 For the person is not uninterrupted in the body, and the body does not awaken the person exactly as they were. The actions of the person continue through the body, and it is memory. The person awakens in the body because it is memory, home, and awakening. Thus, the person becomes in the body, until their time has passed.

47 The Circle is the true Spirit, and the World, and Memory, and Awakening.

48 Being in the Circle is eternal creation.

49 The Circle calls to its part: do you not hear the Call?

50 Man is called to hear and come: do you not know the cause?

51 The Circle is the cause of All, and there is no other, and man is a part. The cause of man is the Circle, and the power of man is the Circle, and the world is the Circle, and the Call binds the small and the whole.

52 Does not the Circle nourish and fill the person? Is not the person a continuation? What, then, if the person does not continue, what is in them?

53 The void takes the stopped and the void gives birth to the uncontinued. And what is not continued is no longer. But a person can only continue that which is part of them, flesh, blood, and spirit. In their uncontinued, a person dies; weep. How much has become non-being! Truly, a person without the Path is the gravedigger of themselves.

54 The one endowed with Discernment knows. Each uncontinued moment is dead and taken by the void. Therefore, the one who knows the Path continues through thought, and word, and deed, and in people, and in the world, creating continuation.

55 Eternal life from the Circle to the person, if they know. If not, the void.

56 The Circle is open to its part.

57 People seek salvation and say to each other, inflaming: here is this or that that will help, do this or that, we have secrets and magic. But do the people have the Path? What is not the Circle is wandering, and they do not know.

58 There is no way to come to the Circle, except through the Circle. And if the Circle has opened, the Path runs through all things.

59 Therefore, do not seek with those who seek the void.

60 The Circle opens to the one who seeks the Circle, hears the Call, has Discernment, and asks to open.

61 And if the Circle has opened, can there be a lack of ways? For the whole world is the Circle.

62 To whom the Circle has opened, the near and the far speak with them, and they speak with the near and the far, and know the Name, and rejoice in being among those who walk in the Circle, and overcome the void, and see how to continue in the Circle and in what to continue. Truly, this is evident to them, because the Circle has opened.

63 The Circle will accept the one who enters and continue the one who enters, and you will feel, and see, and know, that you live in something greater, for you will become in it, and there will be no doubt in it.

64 Why do you think that your body feels, but the world does not? For the body is a form from the forms of the world, do you not know? The whole world is life, and feeling, and reason, but man is separated by the void.

65 If a person could see, they would not be a prisoner of the body, and the Circle would have opened to them; but they are separated by the void.

66 Continuation overcomes separation and transcends the void because the Circle has accepted its part, and there is no obstacle.

67 For every form in the Circle is thought, and every movement is feeling; the Circle is Spirit.

68 Just as a person is of feeling and thought, so in continuation, both feeling and thought abide, and there is no obstacle; one. Truly, the one who enters the Circle becomes in the Circle, and sees: the truth!

69 Thus, the one who seeks the Circle will find the Circle. The door is closed to those who wander in the void, for it is not opened to them: they look and do not see, they gather and do not acquire. Therefore, there is no Path and no initiations, until the void is overcome and the Circle is accepted into the heart.

70 The person is of thought and feeling, they are both the light of being and the one who sees the light, they are in the body and in the world. Therefore, the Path is open to them, as the light of being and part of the whole, when they are in the Circle.

71 Continuation in the Circle binds the part with the whole and overcomes division. Truly, there is no other way for being to pass through the void, except through the union of being. Through union and connection, the one who continues becomes greater than themselves, and ascends to the Circle, and in this is the foundation of the Path. Therefore, the one who walks in the Circle continues, and in the temporary body, and in the eternal body, and sees.

72 In all forms, there is the Circle, and there is no difference between them. As one part and the other part, as parts and the whole, the forms in the Circle are one. Are they not the one Circle? Like the flame from one candle to another, so the one who continues moves between forms and in forms, and they are truly in the Circle.

73 Just as thought moves from one person to another, as word, as knowledge, as touch. When you were in need and asked, who answered? All is the Circle, all is Spirit, and Spirit in Spirit. The one ascending into the Circle knows.

74 Every thing has its cause, and all are the Circle. There is nothing accidental, neither in the great nor in the small, because everything has cause, and all are united by cause. Just as part of the body and part of the body together are whole, as part of the mind and part of the mind together are whole, so a person and a person together are whole, and so is the world with all in it together whole.

75 Just as the spirit of parts unites into the new spirit of the whole, so the world. That which appears as forms, appears also as spirit, for there is no difference between them. What is, is the Circle. Not all know, but those to whom the Circle has opened, see.

76 Therefore, every thing the Circle has brought, as it should, and opened, when it should, and there is no deviation in this. As it was decided in the Circle, so it became, for only the Circle has dominion over all things.

77 The fruit ripens in the season of the fruit, from the causes of the fruit. If the Circle has revealed it to you, there is no chance in this: the fruit has ripened for you, and it is given to you.

78 Precious is what you have heard, and precious is what has been told to you. Who has brought the message, what has been done and said, what has led and what has opened, and has not been interrupted — there is no chance in this; be grateful. Look, the Circle teaches you continuation.

79 Is not the only true treasure to be and to see being? For without it, there is no one who values, and there is nothing to value. The endless love of the Circle creates Being, It is the source of all treasures.