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.