The
Revelation of Arès does not establish any religion ; it
asks man to think himself as another man.
Man, don't think yourself as a subject of princes of
religious religion or political religion or
money religion, etc.
Flee from those dominators and spoilers
(27/9) by penitence (change your way of
life) (30/11). You can climb the Heights of
Good by a lot of paths (25/4-5), between
which you are free (10/10) to choose the one you
want to follow.
Isn't that just like what gives you an impression of
uncertainty, you man forever expecting accurate rules and
detailed instructions!
But all that is formalistic, itemized, situational in the
Scripture is just man's word or book (16/12, 35/12),
which is alienating, simplistic, against love and mercy.
Man, just have the certainty of uncertainty! Uncertainty lets
you have a large space of freedom, it is a strong liberator
and the great booster towards the good change of the
world (28/7).
Seven billion human beings as it is! Civilisation has to change.
On March 18th the pack of the Bordeaux young
missionaries formed a ring round me at L'Eau Forte's, on Montbazon
street. We were talking about points of apostolate, when a scandalisé*
(Rev of Arès 28/3-4) came in from the street. I asked him
to sit down. Straightway he lambasted me. I listened to the
objector attentively in a brotherly way, for I saw him as a
skeptical mocking Frenchman, the type our mission meets in the
street every day. As an inverted Candide of sorts, after spouting
sarcasms, which we forgave him readily, he gave us the opportunity
to go about points of The Revelation of Arès, that we
had seldom talked of, notably uncertainty as the basis of the Arès
Word. At some point one of the young brothers asked in
substance, "Have we to realize all that The Revelation of
Arès says literally ?"
I replied, "Haven't you noted that The Revelation of Arès
doesn't specify anything that you have to realize literally? You
never find in it whatever the Bible calls the law — The Ten
Words (Decalogue), Thora, etc. — The Word of
Arès makes us see suddenly and clearly that the law is
just made of men's initiatives (Rev of Arès 16/12,35/12).The Revelation of Arès is a pure Word from the Creator,
which tells only a direction, that is, you have mainly to change
your life, be a penitent (31/11) incidentally mortify
for the deceased (33/34), pray on the spouses (33/22). But
how to do so ? It doesn't tell. It asks the prophet to
decide upon it with moderation (12/1)."
I added, "This is one of the hard problems against which I came up
for months after Jesus had appeared and spoken to me. In the end I
decided that I would remain under Jésus's teaching,
because the one the Father had sent out to me had been Jesus. So I
started recommending that the Sermon on the Mount would
be the basis of penitence. But uncertainty = latitude.
The uncertainty in which the Word of Arès has wanted to steep its
listeners arrays the indications it gives in undoubted suppleness.
Supposing you had been a Buddhist before you became an Arès
Pilgrim, you could suit Bouddha's sutras to your penitence. The
Father gets us out of religions. He makes the manner of praying
relative, He does not impose a path to anyone on his or
her way to Good, He says paths in the
plural (Rev of Arès 25/5-6). He makes us free
(10/10) believers."
Faith does not make anyone shut onneself off from the world or
internalize the Creator, which mystics amon other people think
they have to do. Faith instead makes people expend their thought
of hope based on Good, outspread (xLii/13)
on the huge space of spiritual freedom, that The Revelation
of Arès has opened up in front of us (10/10).
This is not something easy to account for to people in the street,
because they culturally consider faith as dogmas and rules, but
never as free action. An Arès Pilgrim thinks himself or
herself in a quite different manner, he or she has understood that
God — the Indescribable One Who will describe that little — comes
and integrate with him or her; the image and likeness
(Genesis 1/26) forms in him or her again.; he or she goes
back to the Whole, to Life (24/5) which stretches from
God to him or her.
What the world calls Order, that
a lot of human beings call for, is just illusory: The world is
wars, rivalries, quarrels, conflicts of interests, etc. The
well-ordered world will not be a world of Order, but a world of
Love.
Then, we aim at thinking the relationship between the creature and
the Creator in a quite different way. The penitent
strives for the One Being : Be one within you ! (Rev of Arès
xxiv/1). An Arès Pilgrim claims to be spreading his or her
self within God. That is what rishi Sandilyia said, "Deep down I
am the global Being," so that he went beyond hinduism, achieved
the global Truth, that men can find ine The Revelation of Arès,
and any Word of very high nature. The global Being is
necessarily a loving Being.
Evangelist John's Christ is just the Word that became flesh
(John 1/14), but the Christ according to Master Eckart is
different, he is eternally begotten in the soul, which
makes him closer to The Revelation of Arès's Spirit. A Word
in direct connection with any man that gets it firmly
rooted in his mind. Christian theologians have made Jesus God
incarnate, but in reality love, forgiveness, the fact of
refraining from judging (Matthew 7/1, Rev of Arès
36/16), which make a penitent whoever God
incarnate, a Christ whoever he may be. A penitent
whoever is Me born to Jésus born to Mary (that is, the
Creator's maternal phase, 32/2). In his "Essay on
Indifference" Lamennais reminded readers of the Sanskrit names
given to the Supreme Being, God : Swayambu, Swayambuva,
Vishna-Karma (the Great Laborer), Pradshapati (Lord of Creation),
which he felt essential because the Sanskrit langage is our mother
tongue, that we should study as a fundamental part of comparative
linguistics. Some day Pradshapati had a visit from Indra (king of
the gods) who came to learn the Self. Indra was a dunce and
expelled twice, but he ended up learning that "the Self is a deep
dreamless sleep, so the Self is the immortal universal Being."
Indra said, "Then, O Pradshapati, no human can tell about himself
: I am or It's me!" Pradshapati replied, "You are right." This is
why our flesh, which sin has blinded, can't see God, can't
experience the Whole, so that it lapses into religion or unbelief.
This is why the only certainty that we have had to pull through is
only based on the uncertainty that we may have a soul.Whoever
has ears ought to hear (Matthew 13/9).
However, Pradshapati, Indra, Bouddha are but names and entities
which introduce realities shared by all of humans on the Earth. We
teach neither hinduism, nor buddhism, none of the numberless
religions, but only the simplicity of love, forgiveness,
peace, spiritual intelligence, absolute freedom,
in short, penitence. In other word, we think ourselves
quite otherwise.
* Scandalisé : Some people
have reproached me for failing to translate scandalisé
into English by scandalized man, but there is no English
word to translate scandale in the sense the Gospels give
this word. As proofs of it, "The American Bible" published by
Catholic World Press translates scandale by sin,
"The New American Standard Bible" published by Tyndale House
Publishers translates it by obstacle, "The Jerusalem
Bible" published by Darton, Longman & Todd translates it by stumblig
block. In The Revelation of Arès's 1995 edition I
translated scandalisé by a circumlocution: the man
whom the mighty and merchants, princes and priests, have led to
lose faith and righteousness.