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A lot of
trouble and work takes up my time and seem to dull the attention I've
paid to this blog so far.
They
actually do no more than get me to slow down the blog, even though the
news offer plenty of subjects.
Most
of those subjets are not worth the great fuss made about them by
newsmen, who are just sensationalists who sound like the fairground
barkers in my childhood's days.
The economic crisis, for example.
Any sensible person that had observed the world, at all, ever since
1975,
has expected an economy based on indebtedness—and, which is worse,
chain
indebtedness: re-re-loans of
re-loans of loans—to turn into hot air trade. It is or it would be
necessary sooner or later to restore to every thing its real price,
different from the one written in accounts and printed on tags, and to
give back the loans (1,200 billions of Euros as far as the French
government is concerned). This necessary rationalization is or would be
to cost everybody a lot, but the situation is not so
hopeless, since 4,000 billions of Euros to save the banks worldwide
have been found within the space of a month, while 20 billions of Euros
to save the starving humans have barely been found in the space of 10
years.
In any case, it is in no man's interest to see the banks head
for disaster, just as it is in no man's interest to see his local baker
or garage owner be bankrupt because of poor management. We all need
these
trades, even when they are at fault, just as they need us to
survive. Whenever one of us has bought a washing machine, a car,
an apartment, on credit, he or she has been a party to
the banking system just as the state has been by borrowing 1,200
billions of Euros. As you can see, the matter is existential and
enormous, but the real existential crisis is the crisis of man.
 Economywise
the
worst is still in store, but we won't die from it.
The real economic crisis is to come, unbelievably cruel and aberrant,
when the bark eats away
its own tree,
when the roosters kill
the hens to rob from them the poor moss
they have
left, and when therefore man has to face up to the truth, that the falcon
stands for (Rev of Arès xvi/15). Not only does the
Maker's Word forecasts it, but it
is patently obvious.
Let's be serene and strong in spirituall life then, just as Jesus
prepared us to be 2,000 years ago: A
man's life (or ha, Rev of Arès xxxix/5-11) is not
made secure by what he owns (Luke 12/15).
But man can die from the
spiritual crisis.
Before
Jesus appeared and spoke to me, in 1974, I had believed that man was
irreparably wicked
or evil, doomed to eternal damnation, and could not be saved but by the
holy mercy, that religion claims to be authorized to secure for him in
return for his faithfulness to the creeds, the religious laws and
(within
some denominations) the sacraments.
Ever since 1974 The
Revelation of Arès has every day shouted me from this
error and to the direct opposite, and I have talked people out of this
error and into the direct opposite, that is, I have taught that any
human, whether a
believer or an unbeliever, can be saved but only by himself or herself
and merely and in any event by applying love,
forgiveness, peace,
spiritual freedom
and intelligence,
which The Revelation of
Arès encompasses in one active word: penitence.
Penitence that is
no sadness or austerity or severity, but that is joy and
festive mood (Rev of Arès 30/11).
Unfortunately, manhood is not moving towards it. Hence the necessity of
our mission.
This is what I have taught ever since 1974, and as no teaching
may be
really done in love
if the teacher fails to learn from the experiences and thoughts of its
audience, a permanent exchange has to be effected between them. Which
is
why this blog is useful.
The
snag in a blog or its poorness are the very snag in the whole Internet
(or in any publication), that is, it is just made of words and pictures.
Due
to this, the Internet has not taken on the importance and efficiency
usually and wrongly ascribed to it, because History—evolution,
therefore— is not
made of words and pictures, but it is made of facts and actions.
That's where we can find both a certainty and a lesson.
The certainty is that there's no cause for us, Arès Pilgrims—including
the eldest (Rev of Arès
16/1),
the most slandered one—, to remain excessively worried
because we are blackened by denigration and fibs on the Internet or in
publications. This is just the usual scribbling, mostly anonymous, of
racism, prejudice, counter-propaganda, pettiness, sometimes hatred, in
short, of pathetic
people who avenge
themselves for their stitched tongues (Rev of Arès xii/3)
by mimicking the media kass (tinny piano)
(xviii/6). Those people talk a lot of fuss — the
noise —
never borne out by facts. History will acknowledge that we are honest
poeple, whose only mistake is, just as the minstrel used to sing, that
they displease "ordinary people" who "hate anybody that takes a path
different from theirs" ("La Mauvaise Réputation", in English "Bad
Reputation", Georges Brassens).
The lesson that we, Arès Pilgrims,
are given is that we absolutely have to emerge from the words, from
which the disparagers cannot emerge, at all, and we have to develop
action, which
is the best way to deny their disparagement and slander.
This is why I am sorry that I can't
escape from my solitude, I am bound to remain remote from my brothers.
I regret the loneliness which keeps me from seeking and performing
actions shoulder to shoulder with all of them. At least, I can through
this blog encourage my brothers to switch from words to actions,
because words, leaflets, posters, well-dressed windows, present the
public with ideas, but never save anybody. Actions like penitence
and the harvest of penitents
started off twenty-five years ago, which is great, but we have to
develop practical incentive actions.
There are good
reasons, like those shown by The
Revelation of Arès, for men to be pessimistic about the
future, but there are also limits to pessimism.
The
world, mostly rationalistic, which due to the fact it is rationalistic
is expected to be "realistic", I am stunned to see it become more
pessimistic than we are. Just look at the environmentalists! Why can't
they see that back in the days when dinosaurs reigned supreme over the
planet there was every reason to be environmentalist and pessimistic
about the future? However, the planet Earth, the home of man, the
Creator's privileged creature, is still in existence et will remain so
in spite of its new dinosaurs: carbon dioxide, insecticides and global
warming.
When faith and hope are lacking, reason is dwindling. The
Revelation of Arès
doesn't worry about the fast disappearing elephants and gorillas and
the lack of environment-friendly potatoes, but it worries about the
fast
disappearing kindness and love. Love is needed to be salvaged!
We
have to innovate in action.
We
have to inspire man with actions he may feel like trying to take or
copying from our own actions, actions likely to persuade him gradually
that happiness and the future are produced from good, but
not from evil. We have to
demonstrate to man that faith and hope give strength and
clearmindedness, and that love,
forgiveness, peace, spiritual freedom and
intelligence are
the constituents of virtue,
the only lucid process of making a success of life...and of changing
the world (Rév of Arès
28/7).
The Revelation of
Arès
does not meet with approval from humanity, as long as it is circulated
only in words. This is because, as scientist Jean Rostand said, "truth
necessarily sounds like revenge." The harsh words of truth
put off a lot of
people, except a few exceptional people, the rare ones capable of
seeing truth beyond words. Now, the small remnant that
the Father has sent us
to bring together (Rev of Arès 24/1)
is not made up of exceptional people; it is made up of poor chaps, dead
losses and jerks like me and you. It is when the word "revenge", once
used by Rostand, loses its meaning of reprisals—endless
revenge (27/9—and
has the meaning of denial demonstrated and proved, in short, of action
and fact that lead to good and happiness, that our
message gets through to the
world.
It
will be easier and easier to be understood by the world, because there
exist less and less opposed human blocs. Society is becoming a
patchwork. Races, educations, trades, etc. are being more and more
mixed up in the world, which is great evolution, because prejudices and
privileges are gradually vanishing at the same time. No one will ever
be
able to stop the mixing. Which gives us great expectations.
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