How to read The Rediscovered Message

The Rediscovered Message is not a collection of thoughts produced by human wisdom; nor is it a literary work among the hundreds that appear every day in the publishing world. No, it is quite a different book. It is dedicated, as its inspired author states on the very first page,

To the glory of God and at the service of men who shall read with the eyes of the spirit and of the heart the signs inscribed in the flesh of the world .

Emmanuel d'Hooghvorst, one of the main commentators on The Rediscovered Message , wrote, in his Le Fil de Pénélope , the following on Poetry:

Of all forms of art, poetry is certainly is the most worthy of admiration down here, for its material is the noblest of human functions: the Word. Poetry, true poetry, is the same thing as prophecy. The Ancients had no doubt that poets were possessed by a divine being: the Muse. Without muses there were no poets. The rhythmic terms of poetry were those of an incarnate god. The god of poetry was Apollo himself, head of the Muses' choir and source of all prophecy or mantic word. (p. 98)

This is why the British translators, on rendering the text into English, have adhered strictly to the precise meaning of the French words.

Thus, in verse 40 of book I:

«He who is learned (instruit)… » became «He who has been instructed … : the word does not have to be understood in the sense of university teaching, but rather in the sense of a divine teaching, that is, of the one who has been instructed by divine Light, which hermetic philosophers call «The Light of Nature.» One of these philosophers, Thomas Vaughan, alias Eugenius Philalethes, wrote in the treatise Lumen de Lumine :

I wrote only what God confirmed for my eyes alone, and that He can prove before the world in general. I have seen His secret Light, His candle is my teacher.

This is the true instruction to which The Rediscovered Message refers, for example, in book I, verse 2:

Pure men reach God without the aid of clerics or scholars since they are already saints in the Lord, who instructs as he wants, when he wants and where he wants.

«Pure men»: it could be said, are those that have been made holy by divine initiation, but they are certainly very few in number.

Let us also consider verse 3' of book XIX:

The Book speaks to intuition, to love and to deep memory, and not to men's intelligence, will and superficial reason. «What the Book says is great, but what it induces in each one of us is incommensurable.»

What we are concerned with here is revelation, rather than literature. The first twelve books, published in 1946, represent the quintessence of Louis Cattiaux's Message . The verses are short and concentrated in the extreme, and this is why their hermetic meaning is more difficult to penetrate.

From book XIII onwards, the poetic aroma becomes more perceptible. Some extracts taken at random provide examples of this. Let us consider book XXVIII, verse 14, book XXXVIII, verses 24 to 34'', or book XXXV, verses 74 to 79''.

Let us not break our head over the Book; instead, let us break our heart over it, so that our precious soul germinates and fructifies before God in the secret of the beginning and end of all things. (XVII, 53').