The Book of the Circle of Being

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!