I can hear the stone,
says the Father (Rev of
Arès xxiv/6)
The mission has to hear the world.
 I
have not lost interest in my blog. As proof of
it just look at this new entry. I have been less diligent in addressing
the
commentaty page for some time, because I have been overloaded with
tasks, some
of which unexpected like my assistance to a mission in the South.
The nitty-gritty of a local mission I
admit engulfs part of my
timetable and
energy, but my general mission gains spiritual benefit from it.
While taking up encounters with the man in the street I 81years old
have realized
how much his psyche and values had changed. Adaptation is called for at
every
stage of spiritual, apostolic life like at every stage of everyday life.
We my brothers, sisters and I harvesting
on that Mediterranean Field can
only
take a new look at ourselves by thinking much, thinking together with
the man
in the street whenever he comes to listen to us speak of The
Revelation of Arès.
Can I pass on to the other the unusual unpleasant
necessity of penitence, if i do not
open my ears and
heart to him as much as I open my mouth ? Whoever speaks about
so hard an
issue, but does not listen, cannot be heard, because The
Revelation of Arès is a deconstruction of religion, so that
it
at first sounds like it cancelled all necessity for membership. Now, it
does
not deny the Christian ideal of an apostolic college, the small remnant (24/1), because penitents
cannot act for themselves and the world if they are not in consistency
shared,
collective. There is no doubt but The
Revelation of Arès is deconstruction, but it does not
abolish faith, it turns
faith to values non-dogmatic, but selfsacralizing, the joy
and festive spirit of personal tranfiguration or penitence (Rev of Arès 30/11), which
alone redeems and saves, and which requires all the more mutual help
and selfdiscipline
because it is free (10/10) and is
not
given from outside, not given by religion, not given as an
« undeserved
grace ». This change of life (30/11,
another term for penitence) is
born out
of man’s nature and innards such as they express themselves before ever
man is penitent and which will not
be different
after he decides to be penitent. This
is why a missionary listens to the man expressing himself, that
he or she has
addressed to.
To begin with our call to men is expressed by the kerygma of The Revelation of Arès, the line of Truth to follow to find the
Source and the Life (Rev of Arès 24/4-5),
change our lives (30/13) and change the world (28/7) :
What « We Believe, »
why and how we expect salvation
from
it here below and in the beyond and even beyond History.
But the line of Truth, which is
basic,
is rarely enough to awaken a dormant penitent
and harvester. In the modern world, crisscrossed
by all possible sorts of ideas like by barren
rockslides, the sleep of the potential penitents
and harvesters is so deep and
composite that in a way it is mineral (Rev
of Arès 14/1). The line of Truth
has to be extended by a line of intelligence
(35/5) arduous and long, that of a stone
cutter. We have to cut out a new Arès Pilgrim from the rock
in which he stood dormant, so that the Father can use him or
her for the world’s redeeming.
I am an awoken one, an awakener and sculptor of souls all rolled into
one.
First, the man in the street, whom we call
on to know us and follow us is a block totally uninterested
in our kerygma.
Unfortunately he may remain so interminably. But he may open his mouth
and it’s
a great moment. Letting his thought stream
he gives us the opportunity to answer him. We like the Father have to hear the stone (Rev of Arès xxiv/6-9)
then. Never pretend to hear
politely,
but always hear well, that is,
understand, free from all of
prejudices. Let’s answer with total respect for the personal
experiences and feelings
and all of their variants, ellipses, mismatches, even if you have to hear everything subject to thinking and
checking.
A mission which would continuously match the kerygma against the
numberless
variations of the Truth would fail
to
be intelligent (Rev of Arès 32/5). It
would be religious. Now, we are not a religion. We are spiritual
liberators (10/10), we liberate all
sorts of humans
over all sorts of cultural ethical fields. Consequently, our mission is
not
only one of transmission of ideas, as genuine as they can be since they
have
originated from the Creator, but it is a field of rewarding brooding
for
missionaries as well as their audience.
The missionary’s arduousness does not lie in the trouble and effort to
eradicate
all that his listener believes and does so as to make him or her an
Arès
Pilgrim, because an Arès Pilgrim is not necessarily a believer that has
cut all
his or her roots. The arduousness lies in a patient pursuit of the
links, all
that can link the listener’s moral legacy and different behavior with
the achievement of Good,
that is, actual penitence.
Man is miserable, suffers and dies, each religion
contends, because this is
the irreversible human condition , and man can only gain charity and
comfort in
this world and salvation in the next world through the faith and piety
prescribed by it. No, The Revelation of Arès
retorts, man is miserable because he has created evil and because evil
blindly hits
the innocent and the wicked; faith and piety—a creed, a prayer, a cult
timetable — do not save in themselves ; victory over evil and
darkness is
not virtual, but in Good achieved (Rev of
Arès 35/6), it makes itself a reality from penitent
to penitent. This
is why we begun from the start, 1974, and have ever since continued
missionizing to gather together a small remnant of penitents
(24/1), bound to extend from generation to generation.
Salvation results from a
living
action which develops or even invents itself, as it were, from hour to
hour,
because man and evil are not quits only because man has believed and
prayed.
« No one has ever been given full Truth.
Besides, what on earth would we do with it ? Argue about it
endlessly
without understanding it, with our tongues
stitched (xii/3 ? » I wrote in
« We Believe, We Do Not
Believe » (The Revelation of Arès, ad.1995, p.723). In other
words, there
is no such thing as an accessible truth which moreover could save by
the mere
fact that man believes in it. There is only an accessible salvatory penitence, that saves by
itself ;
there are only love, forgiveness, peace, spiritual intelligence and the fact of being free from all prejudices, that save. In
that action possible.
Only in that
combined action the possible lies.
Action,
therefore evolution. To my brothers
and those who come and listen to me I say, « Your faith is
progressive and
so is your penitence. What’s
important is never to despair of being good
and trying to gather good men
together. Only despair, despondency, is
impiety (Rév of Arès 13/8). »
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