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Brothers in Truth! Retreat within yourselves, just as the hedgehog retreats, showing its hidden being only in solitude, and hiding its apparent being. As God is my witness! It is your hidden being which must appear, whereas it is your apparent being which must disappear.
Brothers in Truth! Shed your skin as does the serpent. Tread your path like an ant, whose steps no one hears...Imbibe poison, so as to stay alive. Love death, so as to remain among the living. Stay always in flight, and do not choose the nest which is apparent, for it is in the nest that birds are captured.