Chapter 19 For thirty years of His life on earth, The Word was silent before the people. For fifty centuries the world had waited for the word that its Maker would speak. And finally, with the people before Him, on a sloping meadow overlooking a lake, the Word spoke His word, the Way revealed His way. And He Who had taken the lowest place, spoke to His creatures of lowliness, saying: "Blessed are the meek, the poor in Spirit, blessed are you who weep now." He Who had come not seeking praise, said: "Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you." These were the first words that the Word spoke to mankind, being meek, being Himself reviled, and weeping with those who weep. Chapter 30 "Behold," says the Way, "the hour is coming, yea, has now come, that you shall be scattered, each to his own, and shall leave me alone, because the Father is with me." The Way is alone in the Garden, long ago, in the beginning, he had been abandoned by man in the Garden: Man had turned away from Him, departing from the primal Simplicity, fragmenting his nature, scattering himself in thoughts, imaginations and desires. Man had not been willing to stay with Him, and now, His darkest moment, as He weeps in the Garden, so that His sweat falls to the ground as great drops of blood. Man has abandoned Him again, scattering himself, not willing to watch with Him one hour. As a man, the Way was left alone, but as the Word, He was never alone. Dwelling eternally with the Mind and the Breath. He willed to be alone as a man, so that man would no longer be alone. He willed to stand, watch as a man, so that man, who preferred to sleep, would at last awaken. Chapter 20 When the silent Way spoke, He revealed Himself as the invisible One, whose traces the Ancient Sage had glimpsed five centuries before, in the groaning earth. For the Ancient Sage, follower of the Way, had said: "He who has little shall receive in abundance, but he who has much shall be confused." And the Way, when He became flesh, said: "Blessed are you who hunger now, for you shall be filled. But woe unto you who are rich! For you have received your consolation. Woe unto you who are full! For you shall hunger." The Ancient Sage, follower of the Way, had said: "Superior virtue is unconscious of its virtue, hence it is virtuous." And the Way, when He becomes flesh, said: "When you do a merciful deed, let not your left had know what your right hand is doing." The Ancient Sage, follower of the Way, had said: "In order to be above the people, the sage must serve them as if he were lower that them. In order to guide them, he must put himself behind them." And the Way, when He became flesh, said: "If anyone desires to be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all." The Ancient Sage, follower of the Way, had said: "The Way of Heaven is to take from those who have too much, and give to those who do not have enough." And the Way, when He became flesh, said to those who hoarded their spirit riches: "My Kingdom shall be taken from you and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof (America)." The Ancient Sage, follower of the Way, had said: "When gold and jade fill your hall, you will not be able to keep them safe." And the Way, when He became flesh, said: "Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, when thieves break in and steal." The Ancient Sage, follower of the Way, had said: "One's own self or material goods, which has more worth?" And the Way, when He became flesh, said: "For what is a man profited if he gain he whole world and loses his own soul?" The Ancient Sage, follower of the Way, had said: "The flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. It is because the sage does not content that no one in the world can content against him." And the Way, when He became flesh, said: "Resist not evil, but whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if anyone wants to sue you at the law, and take away your tunic, let him have your cloak too." The Ancient Sage, follower of the Way, had said: "The violent man shall die a violent death. I consider this as my chief teaching." And the Way, when He became flesh, said: "All who take the sword shall perish by the sword." The Ancient Sage, follower of the Way, had said: "The most massive tree grows from a sprout; The highest building rises from a pile of earth: A journey of a thousand miles (thousand sages, thousand ganesha or thousand points) begins with a step." And the Way, when He became flesh, said: "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field: Which indeed is the least of all seeds, but when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches." The Ancient Sage, follower of the Way, had said: "Magnify the small, increase the few. All great things under heaven start from the small." And the Way, when He became flesh, said: "The Kingdom of Heaven is like leaven, which a Woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole is leavened." The Ancient Sage, follower the Way, had said: "Heaven's net is broad, with big meshes." And the Way, when He becomes flesh, said: "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered some of every kind." The Ancient Sage, follower of the Way, had said: "The Way clothes and feeds the ten thousand things (10 thousand Indras and vedas)." And the Way, when He became flesh, said: "Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: "They toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these." The Ancient Sage, follower of the Way, had said: "Returning is the movement of the Way, but its function is weakness." And the Way, when He became flesh, said: "My strength is made perfect in weakness." The Ancient Sage, follower of the Way, had said: "There was something undefined yet complete in itself, born before heaven and earth. I do not know its name (soul-mate)." And the Way, when He became flesh, said: "I who speak unto you am He."