Only the
transfigured flesh, that of Jesus in front of me at
Arès in 1974, has a pure utter sight of the Whole. As for the sinful flesh of mine or yours, it
shuts me or you in; it cannot give me or you a pure utter
sight.
Only imagination enables the sinful flesh to picture
the inaccessible.
Now, imagination inseparable from the sinful flesh
is the mainspring of superstition.
This is why superstition is bound to have an active
part in a sinner, but he or she has to make it
minimum. For instance, this minimum prompts him or her to see
God as a vacuum or gap in his or her thought, at best, though
God is no vacuum or gap and fills up the whole space instead,
as he is the Being preeminently. This vacuum in man's thought
is superstitious, therefore, but absolutely
preferable to the bearded old man painted on the Sistine's
ceiling, or the host supposed to be the Church's God, or the
medals of Christopher or the Virgin, or the sign of the cross
or novenas,
You shall do away with all superstitions,
especially those that have stemmed from the malice of princes of
religion, their doctors and clerics (Rev of Arès 21/1). In
my true devotion (35/6) I have indeed done away with the
religious superstition. I have long
sliced through the rope which used to tie me to the world, the
princes of religion... I have shut the doors of the temple...
and then after the Father had put me up like a tower...
and I had made light of vertigo like an eagle (33/2-5), I
have opened the temple to receive the People (33/10) so
they could practice true piety (35/6) in a
nonsuperstitious spirit.
However, even though I have gone over beyond the sun
(xxii/18), this is just a first stage on the very long path
towards the Day (31/8), I keep clopping (limping)
on the bone (xxii/3-18). As I am a sinner, even
if penitence has made me much less sinful than
I was, I have remained lame spiritually, I cannot entirely drive the
idols of the mind (23/8) from my eyes or the heavy
noise in the flesh (xxxii/9) from my ears, for I have been
made of flesh, which sin has made shortsighted
and mortal, and my relation to the invisible Eternal
goes via the senses of the animal that I am transitorily.
Until the Father's Day (Rev of Arès 31/8) none of
humans, whether a penitent or not, will ever be a
perfect image and likeness(Genesis 1/26) of
the Maker, because he in days of old had been created as an
everlasting being, and then he has started walking in the shadow
of Adam, who chose to be master of the earth by
undergoing Job's sores and the grave (2/1).
My flesh is not transfigured like the
one of Jesus who appeared to me in 1974. I cannot make my
spiritual life an absolute ideal, because a lot of rough practical
problems haunt the animal portion of mine. I will think of the
invisible, immeasurable, sublime Being from Whom I have emanated,
the Father, but the idea of Him that my brain forms is just a
minimized, limited, visible sign. My thought is mortal matter like
the Hertzian wave or solar energy, which has a begining and an
end; it has the narrowness of the casket in store for me. When I
am but a soul, what will my thought look like? My flesh
keeps me from being aware of it ; it's the mystery of death.
The other night I had a nightmare: I was sentenced to beheading, I
was bound hand and foot, about to have my head severed and I was
afraid. I awoke in deep anxiety and I thought, "You boy are still
scared of death. You are superstitious, therefore. To be
superstitious is to be disturbed by signs. Now, matter is
nothing but a set of signs, of which death is the preeminent one,
because it hurls you into the matter most reducible to its own
principles."
Those are the principles that science dedicates man to, but The
Revelation of Arès dedicantes man to Life. That
is the problem: it lies in this contrast between two views of
humanity. On the one hand there is the world, a gigantic citadel,
the strength of which we make sure to estimate rightly, and on the
other hand penitence and the will to Be, the
current weakness of which we know well, though we also know its
tremendous capability of increasing. The shadow of the citadel
walls I cannot dodge, because it is formed by my own flesh
and my own fear, but I am a penitent and I have a soul.
My foot is driven (Rev of Atrès xL/1)
into that black shadow, but my soul seeks Life,
the flawless Entity of the Whole, which I can just make out
through a screen streaked with signs. I insatiably keep on looking
for spiritual life night and day at my work desk, on the
Pilgrimage, in bed, and in nature. My thought extends to reach the
heart of the Almighty. I do not try to get the
interiority peculiar to philosophers, but transfiguration
distinctive of good men. I can feel it penetrating within me a
little today, but I will feel it fill me up completely some Day.
I am bound to drift through something that lies beyond me, my
thought has been wheeling and screeching (Rev of Arès 13/1)
in the great mystery of my spiritual life, which I have willed
to have — so that we may do Your Will (12/4) —. Some Day
I will beyond my present fleshrecover
Life (24/5) in another flesh
like that of Jesus who came and spoke to me in 1974. I am going
towards another matter, that is called resurrection in
our current language with insufficient inadequate words. For the
time being, however, I can just flutter, I can't go far, I do what
I have to do, even so. My crutches are made of my own matter ; I
give it some strength, even though I have been wandering in a
non-disposable unavoidable rest of superstition inherent
to my flesh, my senses, all the organs of my huge weakness.
But the latter is taken into account in The Revelation of
Arès's Design (36/5). Religion, whatever, separates the individual from mankind as
a body ; it promises salvation only to the individual who is a
model according to its rules. Quite different is The
Revelation of Arès's prospect : The individual is penitent
and saved but in the view to saving mankind :
Truth is that the world has to change (Rev of Arès 28/7).
Sometimes religion dogmatizes with Hebrew growls and hoarsening
about Yhwh Sabaoth (God of Armies) and His People's triumph, that
of Israel Children. Sometimes it dogmatizes about the Cross
supposed to redeems sins, the saints and angels on the stained
glass windows to the music of organs. Sometimes it dogmatizes
about the Pillars of Islam and sharia, which when venerated and
completed might give the faithful a paradise made of green
cushions and crystal springs along with the service of huris with
beautiful eyes. I just mention a few triumphant superstitions,
which reduce Life to crude fairylike materialities. So
religions carve out big popular reputations for themselves, they
make the impossible coherent, while in fact the possible after
death is just a simplistic participation in the Light,
something very plain, which religion considers as dull and
non-attractive.
Whatever siperstition I have left, is just
bits and pieces of those huge superstitions and it does not keep
me from progressing in penitence towards salvation,
but it has still some influence in me, albeit I ward it off
The fact remains that God does
not give me Good; I am the one who builds it up for
myself.
A penitent strives to come near the transfiguration, but
he cannot get rid of his heavy flesh (Rev of Arès xxxii/9). I
have reminded above that he cannot form an exact idea of the
Father ; he can only imagine Him. When he sees God in nature, he
sees Him as a poet sees Him; he can't see the Truth. The
absolute Truth is not like mathematics, it escapes the sinner
and his fleshly brain.
God came to me in 1977. He was surrounded by the visible and the
resonant, glimmering and jingle in the air, the light flowing down
the walls, explosions in the roofstructure and the stick of light,
because I a sinner was unable to perceive Him
differently. But, except for the Word that He dictated to me and
that has made up the second part of The Revelation of Arès, no
thing of that supernatural show was an expression of God's deep
reality.I was just able to experiment God but by a superstition
of sorts, materialistic signs, the only ideographical subterfuge I
could use to perceive Him.
Which just shows that even though I have got rid of the crude main
superstitions, I need some representational intervention
to find the Father. The intervention of my thought at least. Would
it take me to gaze at myself in a mirror to see God? I have to be
honest. What is God's in my face? What is God's in the nature
which surrounds me, feeds me, delights me? I can just understand
Him just as the pilgrims to Emmaus understood that they
had shared a meal with the prophet that has risen from the
dead (Luke 24/31) after he was gone. I am altogether
conscious that I am just imaginative, at best resourceful, I am superstitious
really. I cannot entirely brush aside superstition
I can only turn down excessive religious superstition.
Religous superstition is adoration for the matter,
books, relics, symbols, codes which have made salvation
legalist proceedings : Like rite, like reward. Like breach of
rite, like punishment. Excessive superstition is
forgetting that God is first of all Love.
How can we, if not through penitence, evade the
Orwellian world, where lies are the truth, where rationalism and
law are religions, where appearance is reality? Leading the
world to change is imperative (Rev of Arès 28/7).