Liber Caeli - Chapter 45

Verses

Verse 51

Strange exists only beside familiar.

Verse 52

Without the upright planets, the tilted planet is simply a planet.

Verse 53

Without the citizen, the rebel has no occupation.

Verse 54

Without tradition, innovation has nothing from which to differ.

Verse 55

Therefore opposites borrow their faces from one another.

Verse 56

Do not build a self from being unconventional; the self will then require convention to survive.

Verse 57

The rebel who needs enemies is an employee of the enemy.

Verse 58

The conformist who needs rebels is equally hired.

Verse 59

See the relation and loosen both names.

Verse 60

Uranus is called sudden because the observer experiences a discontinuity.

Verse 61

The event itself may have been preparing in causes too numerous to notice.

Verse 62

Lightning is sudden to the eye, not to the atmosphere.

Verse 63

Awakening is sudden to the story, not necessarily to the conditions that ripened it.

Verse 64

Even emptiness is empty of being a superior position.

Verse 65

A cat enters the meditation hall without belonging to any school.

Verse 66

Nobody can defeat this argument because the cat has already left.