Chapter 4

Master's words about himself

'I will not leave you as orphans.' (John's Gospel 14-18.)

Here are some words that the Master gave about himself to the close friends who followed him :

- 'I am bound to say what I am not.'

- 'I forbid you to say who I am.'

- 'I did not follow the same way as women and men, that is why I deserve no credit. Little am I, I am the least, I am the oldest.'

- 'I am the oldest and the youngest.'

- 'I am the great sower but no seed has yet sprouted.'

- 'I have been all over the world to push those that didn't march.'

- 'The beings who will have known me and who will not do anything about it will commit suicide at a certain point.'

- 'I will always be with you and not ahead of you.'

- 'I am beside you. You are at my home as at yours, but when I am at yours I am at my home.'

- 'God is my witness that you will not go to Heaven without seeing me again.'

- 'If you get lost, I will fetch you wherever you will be, even into the jaws of great Hell.'

- 'You will not get through if you do not love above all.'

- 'I will always be with you on the sole condition that you only speak of others in their absence as when the person is present.'

- 'Do not worry, I will always be on the other side of the curtain.'

- 'You will be united with me, if you help one another, by even anticipating the requests of those that dare not make them to you.'

- 'I received the power to command. Should a storm at sea threaten, I may calm down the sea by telling it, in the name of Heaven, to calm down.' (13/02/1897)

- 'I declare to you that I have a rank that allows me to forgive sins.'

- 'My guardian angel is God. That’s why your guardian angels can’t see mine. I am the only one to have no guardian angel.'

- 'Many among you think that I am Jesus or akin to Himself. Don’t believe it; I am the Shepherd’s dog and the least amidst you.' (21/07/1894)

- 'I am older than you all; you have to believe what I tell you (15/01/1901). Why do you doubt? It is in my power to raise the curtain which separates this world from the other one and to give you proofs.'

- 'I say to you that I am not from Earth. I rarely came here; but I remember all my past lives.'

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Isn't there one of these sentences that you have just read which reminds you of a well-known parable from the Gospel?

Above all, DON'T PRAY to the Master, it is not his will as he said one day,
'No, don't address me in your requests, directly ask for Heaven, I shall hear better.' (L'Arbresle, August 1899)

He said it again and again, only : 'God, Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary.'.

Sédir said in "Answers from Master Philippe", 'I had already seen, in 1902, Saint Peter and Saint Paul the Apostles appear on his command for a minute in the yard of the house in rue Tête d'Or.'

...So what will you do? Never forget the Master's word, 'I forbid you to say who I am.'