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The Arès Pilgrims are
Christians in the
original existential sense of the word Christian.
Ever since the 4th century the meaning of the
word Christian has sadly
altered. Today it describes a credo that claims eternal salvation as
only given
to the one who confesses that the blood
of Jesus, regarded as God in person, rolled
down the cross (Rev of Arès xxxi/1) to redeem the sinners.
This credo is
questioned by The Revelation of Arès, that
quite differently restores the Core
of Jesus’ prophetic teaching, that is, it is the human, any man or
woman, that
changes his or her life (for the better)(Rev of
Arès 30/11), whatever
he or she may think or believe, that is
saved (36/23) and moreover helps change
the world, i.e., save it (28/7).
 The Truth is, the world has to change (Rev of
Arès 28/7). The
Revelation of Arès develops in full
around this verse particularly striking because the word Truth,
which usually is conceptual and devotional,
unexpectedly refers
to a factual, practical goal: the change (for
the better) as the only way
to salvation, whether personal or
global. Man,
not what you believe in, but what you do saves
you! Which is a dynamic purely and really Christian in the original
sense of
the word.
So we leave religion and have an easy passage into spiritual life,
which is
plain life to an Arès Pilgrim. That life spiritually stronger than
devotion I
felt in my flesh on October 9 for the first time a few minutes after I
had
witnessed the second Theophany, when I left the chapel—now The House of
the
Saint’s Word, the pilgrimage place—and stood outside under the morning
sky and “suddenly
found myself alone in that free natural church which man fortunately
had not
locked and would not lock ever. I sensed that I was the first to enter
that
free pure place of faith” (The Witness’s Accounts, Notes and Thoughts, The
Revelation of Arès ed.1995
“bilingual”,
p.384).
An Arès Pilgrim does not have faith in a credo of a religion,
but he or she has faith in achievement.
For all that his or her faith does not have a lesser
sense of the sacred. Quite oppositely, as he or she strives to achieve
the Better, he or she is aware
of the Creator’s image and likeness
reshaping in himself or herself (Genesis
1/27). It is existential, therefore really Christian faith
in the sense
that Jesus advised men to attain a different existence—different from
the short
and often painful existence that Adam
had opted for (Rev of Arès 2/1-5)—by
putting into practice or achieving love,
forgiveness, peace, complete
liberation of the mind from all
prejudices, to which The Revelation of Arès
adds the practice of spiritual intelligence.
Consequently, what is an Arès Pilgrim?
He or she is a Christian who sees salvation
as a miracle performed by facts, but not performed by words or
devotions, a
miracle like a lot of miracles on earth within every penitent’s
reach, within the reach of any individual, whether a
believer or a nonbeliever, that stops sinning
(Rev of Arès 30/10 = stops lying, judging, prejudging,
hating, envying,
committing violence, etc.) and that achieves
Good as prescribed
by The Revelation of Arès, which
is a
miracle itself.
As salvation is infectious or
diffusive
by nature, because based on love
which by nature is relational, a penitent
is also a penitent harvester. It
is
by means of this harvest that the world
is to change
for the better (Rev of
Arès 28/7). So an Arès Pilgrim’s faith is also highly
apostolic and therefore
genuinely Christian.
The mental acceptance of the Word: The Bible, The Quran, The
Revelation of Arès or some other Scripture, is a recommended
adjuvant or
stimulus to the achievement (Rév of Arès
35/6), but it
is not the achievement in itself.
So
it is definitely obvious that salvation unlike what religion preaches
is not
found through mental acceptance, but is found through achievement
of Good.
It is well-known that what has been called Christianity—a word derived
from Christian in The
Acts of the Apostles 11/26 & 26/28, Peter1 4/16—is
the
opening-up of the biblical faith (until then restricted to the Jewish
people) to
the world after the Creator’s prophet Jesus
had preached to Palestine. Sadly, the incipient pure Christianity
rather soon
got mythicized (dogmatized), regulated, hierarchized, under the
influence of the
then religions and has stayed in that state of more or less mummified
(Rev of Arès xLix/7)
aberration so far. A modern man’s attachment to what is nowadays called
"Christianity"
is the religious mirror of the masses’ attachment to politics, powers
and law,
which explains why The Revelation of Arès
does not distinguish between princes
religious, political, legal, financial, etc., who all together have
kept the
world spiritually dead or at the very least have kept it from living
its Life
(Rev of Arès 24/3-5). The world has to change (28/7) means
has to start leading a spiritual,
Christian
life at last.
Starting up spiritual life in the world, downgrading and disintegrating
the general
ideas, that’s what makes the Arès Pilgrims’ condition hard, that’s what
makes
their mission puzzling to themselves as well as to the masses which
they
evangelize, all crowded together at a still pagan concept of man and
the “order”.
But a change very hazardous for
Jesus
and his disciples, which eventually failed in an old society
compulsively superstitious
and violent, may end up successful in modern society, even if
narrow-minded. This
is probably one of the reasons why Wisdom
came back to earth in 1974-1977.
Any human being, even the plainest, the humblest, can have a share in
the high
flying miracle, the return (Rev of Arès
i/1) of the initial Christian spirit. No need to be steeped
in piety. Anybody
can resuscitate as a spiritual being by acting penitent
and help resuscitate the spiritual cemetery by harvesting
penitents and so can find salvation
and sacred glory (Rev of Arès 37/9) as
well. Our faith has to be a creative
movement in the image of the
Creator
perpetually in movement (Rev of Arès
xxii/10-12), a continuous movement of the mind
and soul towards
Good in a society that thinks it is very
go-ahead, but that we have to set free from the mesmerizing fear to
give up its
“reasons”. There is no faith alive but free
(Rev of Arès 10/10) from every a priori assumption and
prejudice, which was
typical of the real, plain Christianity of Jesus— The Jesus
transfigured in the
flesh who appeared and spoke to me in 1974, the Good
one or Yuhshoo whom
the Father in person mentioned in 1977, the
Jesus of Mark, Matthew and Luke once their books are
purified by the Fire (Rev of Arès xLi/1-10)
of The Revelation of Arès (The
Jesus of John and
Paul is not recognized by
The Revelation of Arès 16/12, 35/12).
Real Christianity is the Path to Salvation
the groundwork of which was
done by Abraham; it later on developed through ups and downs, sometimes
in
shame sometimes in honor, and then reached its climax in The
Sermon on the Mount (Matthew ch.5 à 7), which would have
been infeasible
if Abraham had immobilized and smothered its faith under a religion.
Really, man and God have a passion for each other, but
not through a credo
that declares that Jesus would be God incarnate sacrificed as a ransom for a multitude (Mark 10/45,
Matthew20/28) and supposed
to save all of the men who confess this dogma. Any victim of the
earthly powers
is, wherever and whenever, given as a
ransom for all of the men who reconcile themselves to peace
through submission
and silence. This kind of sacrifice has never saved anybody and the
earth keeps
on turning carrying evil. Good will
substitute for evil on earth and,
as
an extraordinary result, in the universe and man will be eternally saved through the all simple, all
Christian fact of being good and
refusing to be evil.
Salvation, either salvation of the individual that dies
today or salvation of the world on
the distant Day when the Light of Good
will endlessly spread over everything (Rev of Arès 31/8) is
not dependent on the Creator, but on a conjunction of the creature and
Creator.
The guests invited to the final great
feast (Matthew 22/1-10, Luke 14/15-24), perhaps whole mankind
in the end (Rev of Arès 31/12),
will not be passive
guests of Mercy, but the very cooks that will have prepared it.
Our humanity is a large household who have hung old
magnificent
religious paintings from their walls, but who have never achieved
the ideals they have made iconic. Can we see love
of the neighbor, forgiveness of all offenses, peace on earth,
absolute
spiritual and civil freedom, as
globally admitted and practiced? No, we can’t. All that or almost all
that
remains to be achieved. The Arès
Pilgrim is the man or woman that offers to join the ranks of the
Christians reported
missing ever since the very beginnings of Christianity, but still alive
in
men’s hearts as well as in the global expectations.
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