November 16, 2016 (0179US) penitent's change and peace
Just
as I was told : "Justice and conscience (#178)
are not consistent with each other" and I had to reply,
"Yes, they are, they result from each other," I am going
to be told : "Change is nothing like peace."
I will reply : "Change and peace are
going together."
Descartes said : "I think, therefore I
am." I add : "I think, indeed, but I am a bundle of nerves
driven by strong atavisms. So I cannot change my life
(Rev of Arès 30/11), unless I continuously struggle
against my nature. My brothers et sisters
do likewise in order to grow as men of the coming
time (30/13). Changing requires suffering
(37/9) and courage (6/1). Therefore, peace
is not in my hand (xix/6)."
The world turned into a jungle after Adam had chosen
an evil way of life (Rév d'Arès 2/1-5), so I am
but a wildcat striving to tame itself. "I
did not come to bring peace, but a sword," said
Jesus (Matthew 10/34, Luke 12/51) to call to
mind the penitent's inner struggle. My facade
of peace, although it is a big victory over my nature, as
it is, is the result of a continuous struggle inside me.
My peace is seldom serenity, it is seldom something I can
call peace. Only the Father is a Saint (Rev of Arès 12/4). No
human being is. To be a penitent, that is, to
love all men, forgive all offenses, make
one's peace with everybody, have spirituel intelligence,
make oneself free from all prejudices, is
not a natural thing for a man to do, because he is frail,
emotional, suspicious, but he has the ability to live
contradicting his own nature, so that peace may
some day become the Peace just as day
will become the Day (33/8). "Changing?
That's impossible!" those who think that rationalism is
intelligence exclaim. They say, "It's in the nature of
humans that they feed so as to live, they die, they breed,
they can love but also hate each other and whoever hates
can't love. Each human has an inchangeable complex
nature." They say also, "People spread ideas to change the
world, but nature decides in the end," or they state,
"After all why change? I am what I am, because I belong to
my own life, and because there's every reason that I
exist. So I'm going on my way."
Now, changing is possible, because the Creator
says, "Truth is that the world has to change (Rev of
Arès 28/7). Why would He call on man to change
his own life and by changing his own life
to change the world, if it were impossible?
We have to set our change deep down and our peace
deep down to work jointly. We all have been born as humans
subjected to our own natures as well as violent, even
though the times when nature and violence tear open the
customary veil of courtesy vary from human to human much.
"Nonviolence whenever it is active consists of benevolence
towards all that is living; it is pure love," said Gandhi,
who meant that when it comes to giving up violence not
only you have to give up physical violence, but also
violence in all of its possible ways like
authoritarianism, quarrel, anger whether outside or inside
oneself. To manage it you need to build up the will to
cancel evil out — so that we may do Your Will (Rev of
Arès 12/4) —. We all have dual personalities, we
are benevolent frank people as well as liars, thieves,
murderers — "I am the brother of all murderers on earth. I
have never killed anybody, only because I have never been
under circumstances when I might have killed," said Gandhi
again —. Even when we do not sin for real, because of a
lack of circumstances to rouse sin, we have to stay aware
that sin is always within the range of possibility.
Therefore you have to stay watchful, and, moreover, you
will always find watchfulness as something likely to
disrupt your inner peace.
War does not agree with peace, but lawsuits do not agree
with peace either. Submission to law or a lot of
circumstances of life in society are bad for peace and our
seeming submission to them is but a kind of state of inner
rebellion chained up and silent. Which brings us to know
that a penitent's leading difficulty is not the
fact that he accepts love, forgiveness, peace, spiritual
intelligence and sbolute freedom as
principles, it is the fact that he has to set them going
in the depths of himself where opposite temptations make
his blood boil, because he has to resist temptations in
silence and resistance is no peace, even when he does not
suffer a fit of nerves, or he is not scary, or he turns
down the same old want to do battle.
Thanks to freedom, the liberty of being, we resist sin
and make ourselves have peace. Not because a colt
is mad, but because it is wise, it is what a free
penitent turns to be when it sets itself free
from the harness and runs away from the doctors
(Rev of Arès 10/10) of religion, politics, law,
money, culture and rationalism. It flees from dualism,
which religious monotheism has imagined and since then
claimed that God's realm is heavenly, but not earthly, and
which has split the unity of God and man. The spiritual,
the pure non-dualistic spiritual — God and man as one
being who pulls each Other's Arm (Rev of Arès xxxi/15)
— has disappeared, as it were, seeing that only few
real spiritual people are still living on earth and I hope
we belong among them. The religious as well as political
exchange values have triumphed by betraying Jesus' genius,
that was the very non-duality. Man is not the servant of
religion or politics, whatever, he is just the Image
and Likeness of the Creator in his depths (Genesis
1/26-27).
When entering unto penitence you declare
ontological war on yourself in your depths. Two identity
powers fight each other inside you; Good and
Evil, which both are specific characteristics of man. the
Peace of Good and the peace of Evil,
one word (peace) but two concepts. The small human units
will be founded on man's very close watch on both of them,
so that only Good might prevail.
This is why
Living up to mosaism (#176) will be changing by
permanenttly forsaking religion and politics.
Living up to anarkhia (#177) will be changing by
permanently substituting powers for managers.
Living up to justice and conscience (#178) will
be changing by permamently giving up law and et
setting faults under the watchful eyes of love,
forgiveness, spiritual intelligence and
absolute freedom.
For careful ! religion, politics, powers and law will for
long (Rev of Arès 22/14) keep on living in some
dark cupboard of the mind. Man is made of flesh, mind and soul (Rev of Arès
17/7), but let's not forget that these
constituents are continually diverging from each other.
The flesh is animal, the soul is
angelical and the mind, which connects them, is
the throne of man's hypocrisy. They cannot coexist and
uphold inner peace, unless penitence
is constantly striving to persist.
Until the Father's Day dawns, nothing will be
definitely gained — the Beast will live on below
the horizon (22/14) —. Even in the best
situation, that is, living together in small units, there
will be collective happiness and innner peace
only if people never stop being penitent.