The Book of the Circle of Being

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.