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Let the Wind of penitence sweep away History,
its sins, its scourges, its trials and tribulations,
just as winnowing sweeps away the chaff from the grain!
It looked like everything was for the the best
in the best of all possible materialistic worlds. The French household
capitals doubled in value within thirty years, modern conveniences was
spreading, medicine made giant strides. Unseen was the deployment of
the Asian industry, the work of which was gradually going to substitute
for our work. Unseen was the slow extension of man's lifetime, which
was going to weigh down the welfare costs. Unseen was the global debt,
which was going to set off the current crisis, the trade of (ac)count
money (Rev of Arès ii/10-19, xi/3-4, xxvi/2,
etc.), money which was easy to borrow, but had no real
existence.
The welfare benefits will go into decline, Money, real money, will be
less easy to win or borrow. Jobs will become scarcer: In France in
February there were 80,000 more jobless people and the forecasts for
the future are alarming: there will be 50.000.000 jobless people in the
industrial world within two years, which is very big!
In a country where less and less products are manufactured, because
they are more and more subcontracted in more and more remote countries,
the big bosses are no more than super-agents of public relations
capable of negotiating with Czechs, Poles, Romanians, Chinese, Indians,
Indonesians, etc. As not everyone is skilled at super-communication,
the big bosses demand very high salaries. The Stock Exchange and the
big speculators have become so powerful that they sway all exchange
rates and, in a few months, the oil barrel price increases from $30 to
$150 and then, seemingly defying all logic, decrease from $150 to
$50. Nothing has kept any stable value, as a value is no longer the
commodity— the honest cost of the exploitation and distribution—but the
biggest bundle that can
possibly be unscrupulously made from it at one point.
It is indeed possible to live through impoverishment and problems, but
they currently inform us of the beginning of a collapse the
consequences of which are altogether unpredictable to a human long gone
unable to bear the hazards of History philosophically, because he has
long gone unaware that he can be stronger than History.
The people think they have nothing to fear from a
democratic government, but they fail to realize that the government are
forever legislating and whittling away the people's intelligence, which
has already dwindled to a
flickering candlelight (32/5) on the spiritual side, and liberties, so
that they
will have to become absolutely free
(Rev of Arès 10/10) again some day.
How will they do so? That's the question. At the present time, the
people feel let down and have made themselves their own
daydreams and follie. They will more and more often and to no avail try
to get them come true through all sorts of protests staged by
political, media-conscious thinking
machines which they can't control, at all.
Disappointment can no longer spontaneously
inspire in a despiritualized people good and right intentions like penitence,
forgiveness, love,
spiritual
intelligence. Such qualities can't be raised but by awakening
man's conscience. Which is our mission's purpose.
Disappointment helplessly leads a disappointed people to have evil
temptations, some violent like vengeance
(Rev of Arès 27/9)
on the alleged culprits, revolution and ideological dictatorship, maybe
even war, as well as some individual and peaceful, though no less
detrimental, like the temptation to offload one's disappointment onto
others—by citicizing and/or deserting them—on those whom one thinks are
guilty of a stagnation or a failure, the alleged hopeless immobilists,
incompetents, narrow-minded ones, or petty tyrants, a temptation that
sometimes occurs in our Arès Pilgrims' assemblies, in our
generation of penitent
beginners who still show many of the general population's sins; For
spiritualization, a key to which inevitably difficult fraternization
is, has to start with us.
Man has rejected
spiritual life, which he has considered as demythologized by science
and advances in all social issues and proved to be
incredible therefore. Now, the incredible is going to turn into the
necessary.
I am not delighted
at the news of an economic decline. Man could have recover spiritual
life and not have been lacking in comfortable materialistic life,
because both lives are legitimate. But man has obviously
become unable to develop both of them at the same time, so it makes
good sense to prompt him to develop spiritual life—which is plain Life
(24/3-5) in The Revelation of Arès—
because only it will give him the safest and strongest basis of
happiness.
Man no longer believes in the miracle of socialo-communism which
vanished along with the "Eastern bloc". Now man no longer believes in
the
capitalist or free-market miracle. He understands that both these
miracles have one and the same predator, the
system, that officiates at the top of the financial network, just as he
had officiated at the top of
the collectivist network. It is the system that has to be replaced, Adam's system (Rév of Arès 2/1-5),
but not
materialism, because we ourselves are matter. Our organic matter we
have
to re-spiritualize just as the Creator spiritualized a thinking animal—the
man that slept on the shadow
(Rev of Arès vii/2)—and so made him Adam
in Eden (vii/5), Adam
before the fall (Rev of Arès vii/7-11).
We
have to spread the mission of spiritualization and make it more and
more refined, because religion will never carry it out, since it has
never carried it out for centuries. We will not let men stay forever
unable to understand that the basis of happiness is not the
system and its law, whether leftist or rightist, and not the passive
resignated expectation of Mercy
(Rev of Arès 16/15) and of a post-mortem paradise.
Making the earthly living be conscious that they are cut our for
spiritual life is awfully hard. So remote from it man has become that
the very hypothesis of the spiritual cannot cross but a few minds every
now and then, No doubt, the mission of spiritualization is a
trial. We ask moles
to turn into eagles
(Rev of Arès 23/2). To become eagles? A mole cannot even
see it as absolute utopia, because thinking of utopia is at least
thinking, that's something. A man in the masses does not
think of becoming spiritual any more than turning to a
vegetable or a gas.
Still, this is the challenge the Maker asks us to take up through The Revelation of Arès.
We all are going to be the creators of a changed world (Rév d'Arès 28/7),
if we want to get on. It is easy for religions to
contend that it's sheer utopia and that the best a believer can hope
for is a happy death and eternity. The
Revelation of Arès reminds us that death is just
abnormality caused by the cumulative sin. Man was
created to be inseparable flesh,
mind and soul (Rev of Arès
17/7) on Earth. Man was created for earthly happiness,
which only spiritual Life
(Rev of Arès
24/3-5), the outcome of penitence, can
animate in his living complexity.
May the world change
before the sin of sins
(Rev of Arès 38/2), evil prevailing once and for all,
arises and the world destroys itself!
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