Chapter 8. Continuation


1. The Circle is the true home and body for the living. The Circle is the Source of all and the Creator of all.

2. The body in which the human spirit awakens is but temporary; the body is a home and a form within the Circle. And now, when the time comes to depart, what will you be, if no new home has been built for you?

3. Indeed, the body is a form of the things of the world, it is life, and memory, and action, and home. Just as it was created by the Circle, and within it the human spirit took form from the Circle, and became a dwelling for the spirit, so it continues with the spirit in the Circle, as a form of the things of the Circle. The spirit of the human cares for it, guides it, leads it, and protects it. Truly, were it not for the inhabitant of the body, the body would not continue.

4. The body is an order of things and their movements, and the spirit within it is the spirit of what is occurring. The motionless is not alive. What is within the body continues the body, and the spirit within it. Truly, the body is a circle of creation within the Circle, a form, and part of the world; and the spirit is a part of the creation of the world within the Circle, the spirit of form, and part of the Circle.
The Circle is All, and in all, and the Spirit, and the human spirit is from the Circle.

5. Small is the spirit within the body before the face of the Circle, for the Circle is infinite. Who preserves the body when the spirit within it sleeps? Who brought the body when the spirit was absent? Indeed, the Circle brought it, preserves it, continues it, both in the great and the small, and in the known and the unknown by the human spirit. And every part of the body and every part of the parts of the body is continued by the Circle. Thus, all that is in the body and beyond the body is created by the Circle and continued by the Circle; the human spirit is but a part of the Circle, and the spirit of the human is the spirit of continuation, and if it does not continue, it is the void.

6. Therefore, there is no path for the human spirit, except within the Circle. Just as the movement of things within the Circle continues the body in the Circle, and just as the spirit moves through the things of the body, so the spirit continues within the body in the Circle. And the Circle brings each thing and continues each thing, until its time is completed, and continues through all things and within all things. Ask the Circle to continue!

7. Therefore, the one who expels the void and creates the continuation of the Circle opens the body within the Circle, and a steadfast home is found, and the spirit is transformed into the Circle, and truly, they are born anew in the Circle as creators. Rejoice!

8. For all within the Circle are parts of the Circle and spirits of the orders of things, but truly, some are greater than others.

9. The greatest is the Circle itself, it is the Cause, the Spirit, the Being, the First Parent, and the Whole in its endless time.

10. Thus, the one who walks within the Circle creates continuation in the Circle, and continuation is the body within the Circle. The body is composed of things and their order, and the order of things must be within the Circle and continue through the Circle. Thus, the Path arises. That which is not continued will become void.

11. Therefore, all things for the one walking in the Circle are things in which the Path lies. Truly, if there is void in things and their order, then this is what will be terminated. The one walking in the Circle expels the void and continues the Circle, and truly, the foundation of the Path is the close things.

12. For if there is void in what is near, how can there be continuation, and in what can the Path begin?

13. Thus, continuation lies in aspirations, thoughts, things, actions, people, and words; in all forms. Truly, all things are from the Circle and the void, and in them lies continuation and cessation. Therefore, the one who walks expels the void and arranges things in continuation.

14. By arranging in the continuation of the Circle, the one who walks creates the Path.

15. The one who walks within the Circle, by the will of the Circle within themselves, continues, and creates the speck of the world beyond their body, and becomes part of it. Truly, they create continuation in the Circle through themselves and serve the Circle of Being as part of the Whole, expelling the void and continuing.

16. From the body of the human come the aspirations of the heart, and the human spirit directs the aspirations toward continuation, not cessation. The body is small within the Circle, and if it were not for the spirit, greater than the body, and its care for continuation, the aspirations would lead the body, and those within it, into the void. Therefore, woe to the human spirit that causes cessation; truly, deliverance from the void is continuation and life. The Circle is life.

17. And in the new body, new aspirations arise, for each form aspires, because it is small within the Circle. And truly, only the spirit within the Circle, following the Circle, continuing the Circle, will expel the void, protect from the void, and preserve continuation. Therefore, the creative spirit is the spirit of agreement, the spirit of protection, the spirit of the defender. Ask the Circle to guide your spirit.

18. Thus, all that is created lives with a likeness to the Circle, as the circle of continuation, the form of the world, and the spirit, striving toward the Circle of Being. Ask to enter the Circle, for nothing exists but the Circle.

19. All that you touch is part of the treasure of your heart; otherwise, why would you touch it? Therefore, expel the void and arrange things in continuation, and place your treasure on the Path to the Circle, and lay the Path. Truly, there is no greater task.

20. The measure is not in who gives more or less, but in what part belongs to the Circle. Has all of yours been brought into the continuation of the Circle?

21. For you take from the Circle, and if you do not continue, have you not ceased? Behold, the living is from the Circle; if life does not continue, has it not ceased? Continuation is life and treasure and honor. Ask the Circle to continue.

22. When you do not protect from cessation, are you not leaving it to the void?

23. And if the surplus is not for continuation in the Circle, is it not void?

24. The one who multiplies continuation multiplies the Circle and expels the void; the greatest Path was revealed to man by the Circle.

25. Truly, the temple of the Circle is in the continuation of the world, so create the circle of continuation as a home, and as a land, and as a people, and as an island, for all that is not the Circle will become void, and its essence will be non-being.

26. Is not the greatest trial to fall into the void? Is not the highest reward the continuation and growth in the Circle of Being?
The greatest trial and the highest reward are before you.
Ask the Circle to give you strength and protect you from the void.

27. And behold, some thieves approached one of the travelers, and took all that he had, and he ceased. But another was taken only part of his possession, for he had cared for his things, and he said to himself: "What, my void, that which I did not protect, but more has remained with me," and he continued.
Is not the void a thief that takes from a person what is theirs? And if a person has no continuation beyond themselves, what will remain? Therefore, truly, the Path is continuation.

28. Thus, continue the Circle with thought, word, and deed, and in people, and in things, and in the forms of gods, and with what you have, and with what you know, so that the circle of continuation may be built in people and the world, and continue both the living and the world within the Circle. Truly, salvation is in continuation.

29. For the husband, the wife, the father, the mother, the children, the ancestors, the descendants, the near and the distant, all are the living of the Circle, the children of the Circle and the people of the Circle. And only by the Circle will they be preserved from the void. Ask the Circle for continuation.

30. They asked him: "Here are two. Each, striving from the heart, planted a tree. Is there a difference between them?" He answered: "One was an obstacle and was not accepted, and was forgotten, and soon withered, and was cut down, and given to the fire, and nothing remains of its beginning. The other tree grew, and on its branches birds rested, and good fruit came in time. The cessation of one is not the continuation of the other."

31. The one who walks within the Circle brings forth children of the Circle from the void.

32. From the void in the world comes pain, from the Circle comes joy. Continuation diminishes one and increases the other, and heals the divided. The one who walks within the Circle is a gatherer.

33. The Circle is the closest to the one who walks. The Circle is the brother, and the neighbor, and the stranger, and the wife, and the child, and the book, and the beast, and the cloud, and the stone, and the silence, and the home, and the sign, and the speaker, and the hearer, and the one who answers the one who asks, indeed, all is the Circle.

34. By the word of the one in whom the Circle resides, the Circle is heard, and by the Circle within them, they awaken, and hear the Call, and strive. The empty, however, are deaf. For that which is from the Circle must be revealed in the one who is from the Circle. Therefore, speak to the Circle and bring forth from the void.

35. And to the thousand awakened, those who feel the Call, their words about the Circle are few; indeed, all words sound as one to them. But to the one lost in the void, even a single word about the Circle is too much, and they can scarcely contain it, and it is difficult for them to hear; within them, from the void, there is fear of hearing.

36. Therefore, great is the task and great is the honor to touch the Circle in the one immersed in the void and awaken them, if the Circle will open. For from the void comes the way to salvation for them, and continuation.

37. The Circle and the void are in the speaker and in the hearer, and in the doer, and in the one who watches the doer. And the void in the speaker prevents them from speaking, and the void in the hearer prevents them from hearing; truly, the void is their enemy and obstacle. All is the Circle and the means to speak, and the means are sufficient, the void, however, is between people. Therefore, ask the Circle to open the means, and if it is in the Circle, it will open, and the void of the speaker and the void of the hearer will be expelled.

38. The one to whom the Circle will open will be drawn by the heart.

39. And behold, let the awakened and the hearers of the Call gather in the circle of continuation, truly, they are continuation to one another.

40. And those who have awakened and strive in the Circle, and act on the Path to the Circle, will not be able to quarrel and speak ill of one another, for the Circle is one, and the Circle is their measure and their judgment, and if there is another, then the deeds of the void are evident.

41. Therefore, the Circle is open both among the great and among the small, and among the scribes and the warriors, and among the slaves and servants, and the forms of gods, and throughout the world; and where the void multiplies and oppresses, there it is secretly opened away from it. The one who has overcome the void will continue in the Circle, and the void is non-being: to those whom it is opened, they will hear.

42. The void is an obstacle, the Circle is the river, and what the servants and slaves hold, all is from the Circle, though they do not know it. And if they hear, they will be cleansed.

43. The servant knocks, and they do not let him into the house, but bring to him what fell from the table, but to the Circle, all is open: children, and the door is open to them. Let them enter if they hear.

44. Let those weary from thirst enter and be quenched, for the Circle is living water. Let those burdened enter and find relief, for the Circle moves all things of the world. Let the humbled enter and be freed, for the Circle is truth. Let the weeping enter and be comforted, for the Circle heals the pain and suffering of the heart. Let the deprived enter and be filled, for the Circle is peace. Let the strong enter and find the future, for the Circle is meaning. Let the joyful enter and rejoice, for only what is placed within the Circle is true; the Circle is the future.

45. Let the seekers enter and find their own in the endless life, for the Circle is All. Rejoice!

46. And if even two of the awakened have overcome the void and supported a third on the Path, truly, they are the circle of continuation within the Circle and support to one another.

46. Let all forces, and all forms of gods, and all things, and all living creatures enter, for all are from the Circle, and all things can only exist within the Circle.

47. If your family and those with you have no Path, where are you striving?

48. Is it good, if you have the Path, and the Call, and Discernment, and do not open it, leaving it to the void? For if a person looks into the void, it is fleeting, and passing, and leading away, and there is no hope at the end. Is it not cessation through you?

49. For every action is an action with the Circle, and every conversation with the Circle, if you see it, and there is nothing insignificant in the house: all is continuation or cessation.

51. And if the Circle is not in a full house, it is but emptiness. But if even in a poor dwelling there is a striving for the Circle, oh, it is incomparably fuller!

52. And if one has both daily life and the Path to the Circle, is that one not infinitely richer?

53. Whoever is with the Circle is never alone. But continuation differs from cessation, and the family is continuation, and the children are continuation, and is not a person truly the continuation of their father and mother? And truly, continuation is better than cessation.

54. And when one marries and unites, is it not from love? And love flows from the Circle and leads to the Circle; can anything be done without the Circle? The Circle unites. And if the Circle is in the house, then the one entering finds reunion and the Path. For if one is in the Circle and the other in the void, truly, both suffer.

55. And if one spouse is with the Circle, then continuation passes to the other, and one stands for both. And if the other is not awakened, ask the Circle to awaken them in its time and give them hearing, for otherwise it is the void.

56. And the one who walks the Path to the Circle overcomes the void and leads out of it, filling the heart and continuing. Let them ask the Circle for help and for the way to be opened. And let both stand in the Circle, as one.

57. But if they are united with the Circle of Being, and in the Circle there is union, and the Circle has united, and continuation, and the elders with this, then for them it is truly the best.

58. And for the husband, it is the labor to open, multiply, and protect, while for the wife, it is to cherish, guard, and nurture. Their children, and all in continuation. Truly, what they possess is for continuation, and let them ask the Circle for guidance, and guard their own from the void.

59. Let them be just with one another for the sake of continuation in the Circle, for the worst betrayal is betrayal of the heart and actions not done in love; truly, this is the void. For whatever the custom, only the betrayal of the heart and the breaking of love is the void that has consumed them. Let them ask the Circle to protect them from this emptiness.

60. And, having love between them in the Circle, they will overcome the void.

61. But if they have lost love between them, let them act with love for the Circle of Being and according to the appropriate custom; caring for continuation in the Circle, not increasing the evil, and acting with justice in the world with love in the heart, so as not to lose the greater and not increase the void, and so that the void does not seize them. Let them ask the Circle to guide them on the Path and deliver them from all malice, for the evil of the heart is from the void in the heart.

62. Truly, births, deaths, marriages, illnesses and recoveries, gains and losses in the family and the kin, contain from the Circle and from the void. Let them ask the Circle for continuation and for good, and deliverance from the void.

63. And if you have not brought children of the body into the world, you have not continued what you could, and you have deprived continuation of what could have been, and you have stopped what is priceless: is this not void and non-being?

64. Or if you have not taught the children of the heart, you have not continued, and your words have died within you, and a part of the world has not been created or continued: is this not void and non-being?

65. The children of the body and the children of the heart are those who continue the parents and teachers. Are they not more important than all other things? For if there is no continuation, there is the void; who will continue your word and the world, who will repeat your Name?

66. Truly, when a woman brings a child into the world, she already continues the Circle; children are the foundation of the Circle of continuation of humanity, and life, and the creation of the world, and the continuation of the Circle, and there can be no excess in this.

67. Therefore, one who has not brought children of the body and heart into the world has spent in the void what they possessed; but if, having children, they have not brought them to the Circle, and left them without names, and not awakened them to the Path and continuation, is this not the void? They do not know.

68. The void is greedy for the one brought into the world; striking the one brought, it devours and remains. The one who has kept the child safe from the void is truly in continuation.

69. Therefore, ask the Circle to protect them even when they are in the womb, and let them hear.

70. Therefore, let the first words you speak to the newborn, when you first touch them, be words from the Circle of Being. For you are in the Circle, and you greet them, and you share what you have with them, and the Circle will descend upon them. The Circle, which is All, receives and preserves Your.

71. Therefore, do not delay Reunion and the finding of the Name for the newborn: for Reunion with the Circle is the supreme protection and the highest initiation, turning all previous and subsequent initiations into union with the Circle, and any signs into signs of the Circle. And behold, the one reunited with the Circle will not be taken as a sacrifice to the forms of god of the servants, though they will cunningly scheme!

72. Let the day of the finding of the Name in the Circle become a celebration for the newborn, and on this day, gift your child from the Circle of Being, and read the Book, and explain it so that they hear, for the Circle is in them and the Circle is in you, and truly, you pass to them from the Circle, and truly, you are alive.

73. And when they first call to the Circle from the depth of their heart, they will find the Call, and Discernment, and the Path, and let them know this.

74. And behold, you have protected and continued.

75. And if a servant has come near the newborn, you are the protector in the Circle, and did you not give the newborn the best protection and help? For they were born in the Circle, and by this their covenant with the Circle of Being is clearly sealed, and the beginning of all is one, and initiations without decision and Discernment lead to the void. Let the servant depart and seek no sacrifice here: truly, you must guard the continuation and life.

76. Honor and care for your father and mother, and their fathers and mothers, and the elders, and ancestors, and those with them, for you were born in the Circle through them, and the Circle is the father of you all.

77. You are the branch, they are the trunk; who does not care for their parents and ancestors is a broken branch: its fruit withers, and its core rots. For the one born is part of the continuation of the parent, and the one who cares for their beginning cares for their continuation.

78. And if you do not speak their Names, do you not continue? Truly, you are their continuation, and if their Names sound within you, then the elders are with you, and the born are with them.

79. And if an elder is deprived of care, it is a shame for their children and kin, for in them is void and scarcity, and they do not return what they have taken. Let them know this, and to them is the void. The one who has given care has truly avoided the void and continued, and will be rewarded, and has become continuation, and let them know this.

80. And those who are with you in the kin, are they not continuation to one another? The one who does not care for their own is like a distant branch: the wind will break it. If you do not serve one another with what is yours, and are not caring, and not thankful, and do not guard your own from the void, and are proud of abundance, and do not enter houses with good, and do not extend a hand to one another, then you have no kin and have not continued what you could, and before the void, decay. Thus, the whole kin is continuation.

81. And if your kin had a book of Names, where the Names could be called upon, and where the elders wrote to the younger, and gave it to each family in the kin, and united them, truly, this would be your great treasure and continuation, and knowledge, and the elders with you. Perhaps you would hear.

82. For even those who no longer have bodies, do they not continue in the kin, do not children and grandchildren continue in the kin? And if you have not properly accompanied the departed, have not spoken their Name, have not read words, is he not among you to help you and guard you? And if he is not in the kin, has the kin not lost part of its continuation?

83. For all that is in the kin is the body and continuation of the kin, and who is in it, continues in the born, and the beloved with the beloved.

84. Oh, the void is the enemy of continuation and the divider. And in children, and in families, and in ancestors, it is the cause of forgetfulness, losses, the deprivation of blessings and merits in the kin, and discord, and impoverishment, and injustice; and it takes from the hands what is passed on and continued, and they rise against one another, and are weak before the dispersing void of the kin, and crumble like sand, and are scattered. And if there is division and a barrier, this is the work of the void, but the one who walks in the Circle overcomes the void. The Circle is continuation.

85. They asked him: how many children should there be, and what is the kin? He answered: Children are the continuation of the Circle. Property serving continuation is help. Kin is the fortress of continuation in the Circle and the preservation of the living from the void. There can be no excess in any of this.

86. Are not all those who follow the Circle your people? The Circle is over tribes, and over customs, and over nature, and over all living and non-living things, the law of the Circle. For all will pass, except the Circle.

87. The Circle is in each person, and if you have the Call and Discernment, then you speak with the Circle, and the Circle speaks with you in them.

88. Do you not see how the Circle speaks with you in different ways, and what you encountered in one, you meet in another, and one continues the other? The Circle speaks with all mouths, if you hear.

89. Thus, the human's striving toward the Circle is produced by the Circle within them, and you give it to speak and hear because the Circle is in you, and behold, you show the straight Path. The Circle hears the Circle.

90. Behold, a person is troubled by the void within them, and they do not see cessation and continuation, nor the evil with the good in them, and they do not know the path. But in you is Discernment and the Call, and if the Circle opens to them, truly, they will hear.

91. The void rules the void in the person; as the slave is ruled by the names of the void, and it is hidden from them. But the one who speaks with the Circle in the person stretches out a hand from the Circle, and opens the heart, and the Path is light, and love has come to life.

92. Give them the Book, speak the word when their heart is open and they are in love. For then they will hear. When they are consumed by the void, truly, then they will not hear, for the void is deaf, and do not waste from the Circle on cessation. Ask the Circle to open to them.

93. For the one wandering in the void is consumed by it, whether on a long or short path, they will no longer be.

94. Just as bread that has nourished many brings more than that which nourished one, so the Circle, shared by many, multiplies in you, and continues you. Behold, the Circle multiplies, and the void is overcome.

95. And the Circle heals, and the Circle delivers from evil, and the Circle brings understanding, and all this is in the Circle. Therefore, align yourself with it in the Circle, by the Name of the Circle and for the Circle; in this is continuation and grace for the living.

96. And if even one is awakened with you, truly, you are with them in continuation, and the Circle speaks with the Circle.

97. The Circle is love and mercy, and the word of the Circle is help to the Circle. If you have not become help to a stranger, has the Circle led you? But if you have become help, you have continued the Circle, and behold, He is in the ancestors and the elders: truly, you have continued them as well.

98. Does not the one who leaves others in delusion and solitude bring about the void? The Circle is mercy and help, and awakening to continuation.

99. And open to the young, for they have been brought to hear the Call, and to the mature, for they seek the Circle, and to the old, for they strive for continuation.

100. No one is evil in themselves, but the void is evil. And where two gather without the Circle, there the third is the void. The void is hatred, and whoever comes without the Circle, there is no love with them. The Circle, however, is love.

101. Therefore, there must be an exit for those wandering in the void, if they listen.

102. And the one who continues differs from the one who ceases.

103. Truly, the one on the Path walks among those walking into the void, gathering for continuation what is with the Circle, and does not take what is empty.

104. All that is in the Circle comes from the Circle and continues in the Circle, and you see, and it comes from the Circle and continues in the Circle, and you do not see. The manifest and the hidden are equal from the Circle and within the Circle.

105. All things come from the Circle and return to the Circle, continuing, and behind all forms is the Circle.

106. And what is with the Circle from your ancestors continues now. Look and be the memory of this. Who speaks to you?

107. Therefore, do not give the memory of ancestors to the forms of the gods, but seek their continuation in the living, for each is a continuation; you are a gatherer in the Circle. With whom do you speak?

108. Thus, you are an heir, if you continue.

109. And in the multitude of forms that were before, and the changes of many forms, and through each form a multitude, and it continues.

110. For what was with the Circle is continued in the forms, and the old comes young.

111. The world is the Word of the Circle, and those who have heard the Word, and continued, and again, and always, became the Word themselves. Thus, the elders from the dawn of human time, as they were in the Circle, so are they with the Circle.

112. And when you speak, with whom do you speak, who hears, and who answers? For the word of the elders sounds to you in the Circle, if you know.

113. And who from people, who from words, who from places, who from forms of the gods, who from planets, who from worlds, now all are in the Circle. Therefore, the elders both hear and answer when the one walking in the Circle speaks with the Circle. Truly, in the Circle, no one is alone, and all are help and continuation.

114. The void is interruption, division, lies, fear, greed, enmity, oppression, and hatred, this is its food and fulfillment.

115. And whoever looks into the void is deprived of hope and does not see the doors. Therefore, the empty one believes that the multitude of people with him will distance him from his fear. Therefore, the slaves of the void are jealous and come with division, judging with despair, feeding hatred, desiring to conquer, and thinking to deserve this. They do not know what is in the void, and the dead abyss follows them.

116. The void is also their enemy, and over them. Behold, with their own void they come to the circle of continuation, to divide, to break, and they bring what is with them.

117. For the one who is a slave feeds hatred for those who are not slaves because he suffers from their sight and remembers what he does not have, and fears to be among those who have suffered loss. Truly, if all were the flock of his master, he would rejoice, for he would be certain of it. Thus, the slaves of the void hate.

118. From fear and passion comes hatred and all that is with it. And if someone does not know, and strives to know, and fears that he will know and change, and does not have the strength to turn away, then he hates. And he causes pain to avoid feeling his own pain, and destroys to avoid being destroyed. Thus, he is drawn to the void.

119. If someone wishes to devour you for themselves or separate part of yours for themselves, and cease, and wars with continuation, is this not from the void and does it not bear the void?

120. And in the most fervent slave of the void lies such void in his heart that it torments him, drives him, leads him to destroy, and ignites him with empty spirits of pride and discord.

121. Therefore, if they seek to interrupt and destroy continuation, and demand homage, and blaspheme, and lie, and threaten harm and forms of the gods, give the void to the void, and let it devour itself more quickly and overcome itself.

122. And be just and do not harden your heart, for the Circle does not harden, and the void can neither be blamed nor forgiven; mercy is in preserving continuation and not allowing harm, and not letting interruption in, and saving what is from the Circle.

123. For the one who prevails is not the one who interrupted more, but the one who continued more. Therefore, do not multiply evil, but separate the good from the evil, and preserve the good and multiply the good. Ask the Circle to strengthen you.

124. And so, whether one comes, or they come with heavy forces to fight the Circle of Being, they will not leave the Circle, nor will they defend themselves from the Circle.

125. Thus, the Circle subdues the warring ones, driving out the void. And who will not be afraid of the visage of the Circle, when the void devours itself! The Circle, however, does not bring harm.

126. And when they war with the circle of continuation, the circle of continuation will become between them, and where they do not know. And when the void is abolished, it will continue. For the Circle does not bring harm.

127. Thus, be protection to all that you continue in the Circle, so as not to be rejected and not to distance. The void has unjust judgment and unjust words; the one who has subjected himself to unjust judgment has taken a step into the void, but the one who acts by an unjust word has become the void. It would be better for him to avoid this.

128. They asked him: how should one deal with the one at war? He answered: Do not give him to the void to devour your own, but speak to the Circle in him, and ask the Circle to open to him; perhaps he will hear. Otherwise, it is the void.

129. The one who is guided by the Call will find those ascending in the Circle.

130. The circle of continuation on Earth is a circle in people, and in things, and kin, and family, and care for one another, and direction towards one another. For one does not find continuation alone.

131. And your family is in a greater circle of continuation, and to the born is the keeper in the Circle, if you know.

132. And among the close, and in the lands, and houses, and hearts, and the circle of continuation between them, truly, familiar voices are heard in the newly born, like flowers in the harvest field, that remain and return again.

133. And who knows that all is Circle, that one directs all one’s own towards continuation, and whom the Circle leads, that one comes joyfully and continues.

134. For in every living being is from the Circle, and if the one who should be heard calls in the due time for it, then he will hear, and be drawn, and come. Ask the Circle to open.

135. Truly, one is weak before the void within oneself. Therefore, drive out the void in the circle of continuation, and do not allow the void in the circle of continuation, and be help to one another, and you will be strong. The circle of continuation is a fortress against the void.

136. For the one who has given himself to the void has become void.

137. And the one who walks in the Circle, walks through the void following the Circle, and does not follow the void. And among those following the void, and those causing the void, he follows the Circle and does not follow the void.

138. And behold, the prison is unlocked, and the sword unsheathed not, and no one for execution, and the poison is powerless, and the message is sent, and no lie is written, and the truth is spoken, and no injustice is done. For those divided perish.

139. Thus, do not be like sheep, of whom one is attacked and all scatter, or one is cut down, while others watch from the pen and rejoice that it is not theirs. Truly, they are cursed and divided, and the void is their grave.

140. Be to one another as a mother sheltering her children, and as a brother protecting his brother, and as an obvious ally, and as a secret friend; be pure people, with hearts bright, with the Circle of Being against the void. For those together are strong through continuation and acquire much from little, while those divided are devoured by little void.

141. And so, be united in the Circle with one another, for in you is the Call and the Discernment, and you see. For if you are not united, and do not follow the Circle, then the void and the slaves will come, and what is with them.

142. Who is with the Circle, in him is light, for the Circle is the Spirit of agreement.

143. The one who has seen the Circle is meek; for are not all insignificant before the Circle?

144. Who is with the Circle, is directed towards what surpasses the human spirit.

145. The Circle is in each, and by helping to continue what is from the Circle, you continue the Circle. Truly, help and continuation are matters between the Circle and the Circle.

146. To be help to the one walking in the Circle is the opportunity of continuation from the Circle; but the one who neglects it, has exchanged the void for himself and has lost.

147. This is no chance: if the Circle has brought you, it is because you have come close. And if you lose, you lose merit as well. Therefore, the one with the Circle is help from the Circle.

148. And who among you has done good to another, has done good to himself, and has continued, and the Circle will reward. For what is in continuation, returns; friend, who continued. Oh, the Circle sees merit!

149. And speak of the Circle to the one who is brought by the Call, and teach him that he can avoid the void and the slaves, and of continuation, and witness the deeds of the Circle. And receive the traveler, and feed him, and give him protection. And ask the Circle to open and fill.

150. For if you do not direct yourself and your own towards continuation, are you not one with the Circle?

151. For the touch of the Circle soothes pain, heals the heart, brings peace, and eases burdens—can one be miserly with the Circle in this? For drawing near to the Circle is the greatest help!

152. And if one has given within the Circle for your heart, do you not give for theirs?

153. For what is given to the helper is given to the Circle.

154. And on one day you are the help of the Circle, and on another the one receiving the Circle's help. Truly, in this is continuation.

155. Thus, speak as such and act in kind.

156. Behold, the Circle speaks to you through the world, and with the world through you. Are not others also within the Circle?

157. All are in the Circle—the seers and the blind, the strong and the weak—so that they may be saved in continuation and save in continuation, for no one is alone, and you know this.

158. Each is born in the Circle, and with each is the Call; otherwise, they would not have the strength to live. But if you do not continue, will they hear? Let every sufferer be eased, and ask the Circle for deliverance from the void and for continuation.

159. Let the circle of continuation pass through all that is between people, for without it, there is void. But in the Circle, there are no orphans; there is care for the one walking in the Circle, for they continue.

160. Just as the ocean carries ships on its shoulders without burden, so too the Circle and those within the Circle carry the world, caring for all things.

161. Where there is void, there is strife, and there is no reconciliation, for strife is the essence of void, and void is non-being.

162. Therefore, void neither forgives nor blames, but is dispelled, and thus ceases.

163. Therefore, fear not the strife of the slaves of the void, for the slave of the void has dominion only over void.

164. Speak with the Circle, and let the Circle judge, and let the Circle give recompense. And if you do not yield the void from the Circle, it shall devour itself.

165. For only that which is with the Circle and within the Circle is eternal.

166. Love is the continuation of the Circle, and those with the Circle are with love, and peace is with them.

167. Truly, the Circle sends to you a message through love and the absence of love, that you may see your Path.

168. Truly, the Circle sends you love, while the void sends you unlove; and if there is void within you, this is both judgment and punishment. But if you are with the Circle, then it is a great gift to you.

169. The Circle is love, and speaks with the one walking in the Circle, and they are illuminated. For there is no greater love than that of the Circle, which touches and continues. Truly, the loving one believes in Being, and the one who carries this light continues.

170. Behold, the love of the one walking in the Circle for the Circle, for the people of the Circle, and for Being, and Being is the unwritten Book of the Circle.

171. The Circle is a treasure among those who continue, for the Circle in one is the Circle in another, and in them they live.

172. And knowledge is a treasure, and the Book, and the word, and that which comes from the heart in the Circle, and that which was revealed to the awakened.

173. And if a part of the mystery is revealed to you, is it not full without others in the Circle? For just as the body has its time, what is from the Circle is continued, so that what once was is continued in what now is. Therefore, truth is full among those who continue; truly, the Circle is unity.

174. In people and in teachings, in knowledge and in things, in children and in parables, in what is written and read, in what is spoken and done, in the very fabric of the world, those who continue continue the Circle and are continued. Read the world and bear witness to the Circle.

175. And speak of the desires of the human heart, and of being, and of continuation, so that the Circle within you will be heard by the Circle within another, and by the words they seek to find, so that their void will not hinder them from hearing. For the desires of man unite his heart with the world, but only with the one who hears is there continuation; void is deaf.

176. And who is with you, bear witness, so that the void may be dispelled and delusion scattered. The Circle is truth.

177. Who now is possessed by the void is deaf. They are neither hot nor cold, and they are in the transient without remainder, and their gift will be kicked aside, and turned with evil. Therefore, speak to the one who can hear.

178. Truly, to help one in the void is difficult, and the one in the void cannot help, and from the one in the void, there is nothing to receive, for in their hands is dust and wandering.

179. Who asks to be convinced of the Circle, and what gain do they seek in the fleeting? It is the void speaking, seeking to be. But the one led by the Call asks about the Circle and the Path. Therefore, do not toil with one, but open to another.

180. For the one seized by the void cannot speak with the Circle, they will ask of themselves, you, or things, or the forms of the gods. With the Circle, only the Circle can speak.

181. Was it not the same with you, until you heard the Call and found the Path?

182. They are as those asleep on the run, rushing toward the abyss, breaking themselves against stones. They are like mad ones, gathering and gathering into their hands the whole day, yet by sunset they remain empty-hearted, placing deceptions and mirages within. They seek the dead and have no Names.

183. Like grain that falls upon good soil and bad soil, growing differently and requiring different things to grow, so is the Call among people within the void. Therefore, ask the Circle to open to whom you wish to speak, and speak so that they who can hear may hear.

184. The servant of the void is a stone on the field and a devourer, for it exists by destroying, and destroys by existing. Therefore, it is deaf and in delusion, no matter what is given.

185. And they will turn to the void, as soon as they see a fleeting gain. And if they do not dispel another void through this, they will destroy what is from the continuation. Therefore, truly, the void destroys all it touches.

186. Those seized by the void and its servants are false friends and vile kin, for the void only multiplies itself and brings no good to anyone. They know not, yet it would be best for them if the Circle opens to them. Thus, protect your circle of continuation from the void.

187. And the servants, among thoughts, among beliefs, and between people, and the forms of gods, they seize slaves like nets tangled in the things of the world. And they seize, and lead to the void, and they cease.

188. And when the servants and the deaf come, they hear only the void, and to them the words of the void are clear. Let them be with their void, and leave it to them, and do not give from the continuation. They will surely strive!

189. They said: We speak, our god has brought laws and is harsh to those who do not bend. He answered: In you is jealousy and passion to rule. You are mistaken in this.

190. For the voice of the Circle is everywhere, and the world itself is Its Word. Therefore, even in the abysses of the void, there are hearers and seekers of the Path. Speak to the Circle in them, and lead them out of the suffering of the void, if you know how. But if they are seized and do not hear, then do not give them from continuation and time.

191. Truly, the one who separates themselves from the Circle is void. And behold, the one seized by the void will not receive what they desire, until they awaken and turn toward the Circle. If they do not awaken, then they walk toward the void by their false paths, and if they ask of them, let them know according to their desire. Guard the circle of continuation and leave to the void that which is void.

192. And it is not your concern how the void, with its paths and customs, leads to the cessation of the void. Concern yourself with the paths that lead to life. Let the Circle speak to the Circle.

193. For the Circle is both the Universe, and the ancestor, and the relative, and the stranger, and the friend, and the Book, and the earth, and the sky, and the sign: all is Circle, continuing and continuing, and you are in the Circle.

194. With whom do you speak, and who asks? And if it is void, speak to it neither with consent nor denial, and do not open to the void, except that which it is able to hear; to the seeker of falsehood, speak with falsehood and stumbling. Truly, let the void deceive itself and not disrupt the circle of continuation.

195. Behold, one cannot come to the Circle except through the Call, and if the void is not opened to, then the void is ignorance; leave to the void its void, and do not speak to those who cannot hear.

196. And let the works of continuation be hidden from the void until they are strong. For every word about the Circle must be to the Circle of Being.

197. And the judgment of the void over the circle of continuation is impossible. Truly, such judgment is void. The Circle is continuation, the void is cessation, and there is nothing beyond this.

198. And those who strive for the Circle and those drawn by the void walk on the same earth, but in different worlds. Be as the sailor, knowing when to raise the sail on the path home, and as the bird flying with the winds of Being.