The entry is not about overall freedom
also called absolute freedom, that The Revelation of Arès
10/10 mentions.
Absolute freedom... Archipeligo with
innumerable islands, Father's Saliva (viii/11, xxx/8)
which covers the Universe. That freedom has been
taken away from Earth by religion and its daughter
politics acting as boards of censors, whose prime concern is
that the people obey them every word. Religion and politics have
arranged things so that everybody believes that God or law
considered as sacred after God has been declared 'dead' have
appointed them to punish the insubordinate. We Arès Pilgrims
cannot give ourselves up to that simplistic approach, which have
prevented all progressive developments for millennia.
The entry just comes down to a freedom which is one of many :
freedom of questioning. We as Arès Pilgrims form the opposite of
a religion. How could we be penitents, that is,
how could we love, forgive, make peace, regain
intelligence of heart and make men absolutely free,
if we silenced those who consider us as questionable by
condemning them, disparaging them or holding them in
contempt?
A short time ago I knew from a Picardy
commenter that "a lot of discords were sadly flourishing on
Youtube about The Revelation of Ares" (221C42) and
likely about the witness to it. As I write this entry I
am not aware of what that commenter meant, but I do not want to
find out details about those "discords", which are inevitable
about the Word of Arès or about me. I do not want absurdly to
stand up for those who protest us, either. I just want to remind
my brothers and sisters of a duty to answer them peacefully,
modestly, respectfully, whenever an answer happens to be necessary
surely not to convince protesters, because it is virtually
impossible to convince them, but to teach it to people
who are observing the meeting and in order to keep alive humility,
that is light.
No one comes out of the night of sin only by blowing out
candles on the grounds that they might not have the right color. A
protester is not necessarily right; he or she is just an error
among the errors which those who try hard to keep their feet on
the simple though rocky path (25/5) of penitence.
A protester is just a specially loud voice, whether it is true
or untrue, a voice of the people (Isaiah 9/1), a voice out of
the depths (Psalm 129 or 130/1) where we all live as sinners.
It is a heartrending scream among all of the heartrending
screams that punctuate human life. The suffering of some people
does not heal the sufferings of others. We as Arès Pilgrims
question much, so it is normal that we are questioned. The world
is one of questioning after all; almost all men see a problem in
this, but in this I can see a great boon.
I mention protester Marguerite Porete, also known as la Porette, a
beguine of the thirteenth century, who wrote the book "The Mirror
of Dashed Simple Souls," who claimed with a strong sense of the
metaphysical dark and exceptional courage that one could both be a
Christian and have no need for the Church. The Church had her
burnt alive on June 1, 1310. Had the Church let Marguerite Porete
challenge her, she would have shown love for the neighbor
according to the Sermon sur on Mount and borne in mind
that dogmata are just shadows, provisional bearings along the live
thought path, because the True is live,
the sword (Matthew 10/34) incessantly fighting hard
against sin. The Church would have made progress in intelligence
(32/5). I could likewise mention Michel Servet rejecting
the contrivance of the trinity, which earned him condamnation to
be burnt alive at the stake, under particularly cruel
circumstances, in Geneva on October 27, 1553, and a lot of other
deniers whom all religions used to torture or kill. Those
atrocious murders have just served to make the night of babarity
and folly even darker.
"In man there are more admirable features than despicable ones";
there is truth in this thought of Albert Camus. We should never
lose sight of the fact that a protester or defamer has his best
and his worst, even though we are offset by his criticism, so we
cannot see that he expresses himself using freedom, that
Life has given him. A protester or defamer is not
necessarily right in the narrow confines of our human
capabilities, but let us weigh the pros and the cons fairly and
even if he is wrong, let us keep him in our love (Matthew
5/44), because he is the Maker's image and likeness
(Genesis 1/26) as well as us, and because the mystery of
contradiction is well beyond the comprehension of a single sinner.
All of men, even those who look like saints, are just
humans that drink from the cup of spiritual exile, that sin
has sent them out to. Therefore, who with remains of intelligence
and through his or her own haze of awareness would not listen to
te protester's voice, whenever it unexpectedly flies from the dark
? Listening is not necessarily agreeing, but listening sometimes
may get something rip through the dark and let pass some odor from
Heaven. Sometimes denigraters and protesters say two or
three helpful points.
Once at the French National Assembly Clémencau evoked : "We
proclaimed the Human Rights, then a little later we put the
guillotine up." But the mighty have put aside their
reluctance to contradict themselves, and respect disappeared
between differing points of view, and calm intelligent
debates came to an end for a long time, immemorial times, before
the French Revolution. Now, spiritual intelligence
(32/5) as well as intellectuel intelligence, peace
and love in debates are necessary, because no human
being on sinful earth is capable of knowing everything,
understanding everything, overcoming everything. When debaters are
unable to inform each other, listen to each other carefully, make
a strong case for each other, the introspective plan is no more
displayed, its pedestal is worn away under their feet; there is a
strong risk of seeing only oppositions and divisions remain. When
the only things between debaters are rough-and-ready
approximations, intuitions more emotional than founded and a
priori reasonings, it is anger or at least strong annoyance that
takes over sooner or later, in short it is obscurity. In such
cases, debates best be stopped.
Freedom is a bone with which all vultures including us
very proud of ourselves provide a constant subject for pecking
and cleaning. Even though The Revelation of Arès
reduces it to Word powder, the bone of absolute freedom
is still nothing but a mythical powder. We Arès Pilgrims are aware
of the pointlessness of discussing a Creator's existence, or Life
(24/3-5), or sin as scourge, or Good
as psychopomp, or the honesty of the witness to them,
and so on, because it is as futile as discussing the fate of the
buried one in a graveyard on a funeral day. That kind of
discussion breaks down human beings under narrow-mindedness. Let's
put out into the deep space like seafarers! Let's take a look at
the great horizons! Let's let our thoughts flight away without
bothering about the protesters, because the generous Word
of Arès says that belief or unbelief leads nowhere, and that only
doing good leads to the Father back through affinity or
homogeneity. Marguerite Porete, also known as la Porette, felt
that affinity, then told about it in unclear medieval French, and
the Church killed her maybe because the Church was afraid not to
understand anything about her rather than it deemed her heretical.
Life's Design for man has been erased. We have not been free
within the absolute meaning of the verse (10/10) of The
Revelation of Arès: My Word like a nimble foal running straight
to its goal free from the harness doctors put on it, free from
the hedges that princes of religion (politics, ideology,
money, etc.) raise in front of it, free from all those who
benefit by breaking it in, and hitching it to their wagon.
The word of Paul of Tarsus is not God's Word,
it is just a book by a man (16/12, 35/12), but he
interests us, because he was an apostle. Says the Epistle to
Romans 7/19, "For what I do is not what I want to do; no, the evil
I do not want to do I keep on doing." Thus Paul deals with the
fundamental problem of human conscience, that of freedom. He knows
that he is not free (10/10), seeing that he cannot do
all the Good he wants to do, but he wants to do the
best. We too want to do so.
Unlike Paul's word my prophetic word is God's Word (i/12,
xxxi/10), but I cannot follow it to the letter, it is the
star towards which I direct myself like a seafarer, but I can
never reach it. At least I want to be free to follow it.
I am not so presomptuous as to identify with absolute Good,
but I want to be free to identify with relative Good.
With that in mind I raise my spiritual freedom, even
tough I am partly deprived of that freedom like every
man subjected to the political system.
Beaumarchais used to trick the absolutistic monarchy. Flaubert
flouted the ethical code of the Second Empire. Oscar Wilde
defended hid right to be. Soljenitsy fought long and
hard against the Soviet totalitarianism. Kundera embodied the
figure of the dissident. Salman Rushdie defied fanaticism.
They were fighters for freedoms, but they just demanded the right
to be themselves. In their quest for freedom there was something
like a one-way direction. We as Arès Pilgrims have understood that
what is at stake is something much greater and that we have to
accept the freedoms of others to gainsay us, because no man on
earth can be clever enough to understand everything, so it is
better not to avoid our naysayers, even if you do not look for
them, for what they claim is not necessarily wrong.
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