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This religiosity and The Revelation of Arès are
poles apart,
but
its
spiritual insurrectionary courage is worth pondering
Pondering
over some people and ideas, that you instinctively would rather flee
from, is a good love and respect for others exercise and even intelligence
exercise.
On this day when the church christendom
celebrate the
Ascension of Jesus drawn up to where the saved man no
longer drinks air (Rev
of Arès
vi/1) I
am going into communion with the Catholics, not into communion of
dogmatisme but of immanence—brother
and sister humans on
both sides of
whatever distinguishes between them—and pondering a point of their
history:
Port-Royal.
Well,
as an Arès Pilgrim forever making efforts to be free (Rev
of Arès
10/10), free from every
prejudice and in continual quest for absolute freedom,
because I
as an existential man am redoing my destiny (Rev of Arès
30/11)
and the world's
destiny (28/7)
I find food for thought in Port-Royal like in any other experience of
faith in search of freedom
in the image and likenes of
the Creator,
that is, indomitable freedom.
Though gone
ever since the 17th century, Port-Royal in
unison with
all those who appeal to universal conscience, which no law
of the rats (Rev of Arès xix/24) will ever subdue, has
endlessly
proclaimed the
absolute
dignity and freedom of man faced with the earthly powers, religious,
political, intellectual, whether past, or present, or
future.
I can just imagine
the habitual protests, "What now? You're pondering over
that
convent Catholic and moreover jansenistic (predestinarian), where faith
lost
its way and was the antipode of The
Revelation of Arès?"
Please
don't judge me rashly! I lament the excess of error, that the
Port-Royal nuns had
made in order to escape the
sins and corruptions of their times and of their own church,
so I protect myself from the temptations of strange radicalism to which
those who have given up all hope of seeing
the
world change
for the better can give in,
and I find a fresh
opportunity
of praising the Father who, in Arès, has reminded men that it's no use
resorting
to theological designs, because only the good deeds—penitence
—save,
but at the same
time I ponder the superb courage displayed by
Port-Royal in
spiritual revolt.
Free to forget about
Port-Royal are
all of those appalled by or uninterested in Port-Royal, but I
personally find it
appropriate to reflect on two basic points:
Port-Royal, the counterexample:
Let's make no mistake,
the Arès Pilgrims's absolute
counterexample is not the Port-Royal nun ; it is Adolf Hitler.
But Port-Royal, what a counterexample of faith! The Port-Royal nuns
used to abide by the Catholic dogmae:
Trinity-God (the god with three heads, Rev of
Arès 23/7),
redeeming through the death of God himself on the cross, the
magisterium of the
church and pope to be reckoned with, etc., beliefs that The
Revelation of Arès alienates us from. But the nuns' error was
even more serious. The Port-Royal nuns believed in the teaching of two
clerics,
Cornelius Jansenius (le brain) et the Saint-Cyran abbot (the brain's
fiery
preacher), who claimed that salvation not only depended on God's
goodwill, but also on some predestination. This is the exact
opposite of the Arès Word's teaching, that reminds us that
salvation of
individuals or mankind only depends on man's goodwill and that any
human has salvation ahead on him or her only by
dint of efforts of penitence which is a
joy to pious people (Rév d'Arès 28/25).
Port-Royal, the example :
Port Royal showed peaceful, though resolute resistance to power
religous and
political. The nuns and their friends set up an example of spiritual
insurrectionary
strength, though they were deprived of any temporal force just
as we
Arès
Pilgrims are, is an example of "opposingness" (The Arès
Pilgrim 1989, p.236) and extreme courage worth pondering.
Port-Royal ended up blotted out from society by the princes,
but not blotted out from men's minds,
if only because it gave sanctuary to characters of outstanding
calibers as well as free great
minds
like Blaise Pascal, the writer of "Thoughts", a book that would keep
on feeding a lot of free believing
hearts until today.
Where Port-Royal failed, because that community of faith was based on a
dry
rigorism, by no means focused on the change
of the world (Rev of Arès 28/7), we will succeed. The Revelation of Arès gets us to start
from a quite different base
spiritual and social: assemblies in
control of themselves (Rev of Arès 8/1), because they are
made up of penitents who do not
expect their own
salvation and the world's salvation from Mercy
and a predestination Law,
but from
themselves by
diligently acting out of love,
forgiveness, peace and warmhearted intelligence
and setting themselves free from all prejudices,
so
enabling themselves to take
a fresh, creative look at man and things.
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