The Book of the Circle of Being
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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.