I
wish a merry Chrismas
to all my human brethren
whether inclined or disinclined
toward me !
At Chrismas the Arès Pilgrims do not celebrate the birth of a savior.
They
celebrate the births of all of saviors, all of penitents,
who each make their own soul and so
find salvation
and help up the world to
salvation.
What's more, in these times of a beginning crisis
I wish that on Chrismas 2011 people become aware of the realities…
the harsh realities outside which there is no point in penitence.
The Revelation of Arès and the Arès
Pilgrims
do not prompt anybody to dream.
Solzenitsyne said, "When the truth begins to be known, everything will
collapse."
He mentioned the truth about the tyranny and economic failure of USSR,
but it
was prophetic in the general sense of his word, which may apply to the
deceptive truth behind all the powers that lie heavy on our destinies.
The
white king: religion, made us think that
he was preparing salvation for us.
The black king:
politics,
law, finance and technology, made us think that he was preparing the
best
world for us, but we realize that he has not made man better, not given
up war and has been leading us to an enormous
debt.
Now, white
king and black king (are) one thigh, says The Revelation of Arès
(xxxvii/14), so that it joins two evils and implicitly
sets against them two goods: happiness
here below and the
Saint's Heights beyond are one salvation!
We have to be aware that faith and
prayer are
inadequate for salvation, and that materialism is inadequate to build
up the
best world.
It is by being penitent,
that
is,
by loving, forgiving,
making peace,
regaining spiritual intelligence
and becoming free
from all prejudices that we can can bring about real happiness
first
durable
and then eternal on earth.
When society has buried its ideological fervors and
started having
doubts about its religious dream or its materialistic dream, all it has
left is
skepticism, cynicism, contempt of ideals, in short, the coolness that
our
mission has to face up to in streets.
Still,
even if skepticism, cynicism,
contempt for
ideals and indifference, though supposed to be rational, cannot do
anything
but worsen
the situation,
it is under such
hard
apostolic circumstances that
our
mission may have its hour of success!
May Chrismas be the time when the Arès Pilgrims and all goodwill men
think of
their mission out of realism, namely that the world will build material
prosperity
to last as well as justice, happiness and
salvation to last on the
qualities
of the soul, only on them,
on penitence therefore.
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