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The most
fateful facts in History are not proportionate to their surface areas:
Ancient
Greece very small and sparsely populated put its political, artistic,
philosophical mark on the vast Western civilization, and the very small
Hebrew
people was the root of huge monotheism: Judaism, Christianity, Islam.
Likewise, the move of some generally accepted ideas towards ideas
contributed
by The Revelation of Arès reveals
that it has perceptibly put its mark on the world's life spiritual as
well as
ethical, already, and that it will not leave it at that.
 The Arès Pilgrims however have just formed a
very small bowl of Water, and even
it is not as clear (Rev
of
Arès xLix/6) as it should be, in the dark large lake of
humanity.
Nevertheless, the current stemming from The
Revelation of Arès has a peculiarity: its afference*, in
stark
contrast with the previous great currents' efference*.
In the old days,
prophetical
currents of fateful importance like that grown up from Moses, that
grown up
from Jesus, that grown up from Muhammad and other currents arose and
developed
as local brotherly concentrations, and then scattered definitely later;
they
were efferent.
The prophetical current grown up out of The
Revelation of Arès is opposite. It is afferent, because The
Revelation of Arès was first read
and sort of arose in a public distant and scattered. Bookselling,
postmailing
and lately the Internet have strangely made up a great number of remote
sparse
starting points. A scattering that strangely was by a long way easier
than a
preaching on the spot. A disavantage or an adventage — it's up to us to
decide on it — the
great dispersion of the Arès Pilgrims will be lasting God knows how
much time
before it ends up in important confluences or mergings through reverse
propagation. Hence loneliness for most of us except for a few
minorities, which
here and there are lucky enough to share their active faith.
Penitence, piety and harvesting have
to be practiced in
isolation and happen to be very
difficult to some of us like the ones who live in circles or families
overtly
hostile to their faith. The very loose network made of scattered
isolate
people, by which the Aresian faith began and is still developing,
explains why a
good many Arès Pilgrims have not really sided with me, have understood
the Arès
Word in a different way, in short, do not belong in the small
remnant, that I am sent
to rally (Rev of Arès 24/2).
To the Arès Pilgrims that belongs in the small
remnant isolation is a twofold pain. Not only does it make penitence
and harvesting
hard, but also it is a spiritual anomaly very
paradoxical as regards salvation
that
in The Revelation of Ars, contrary
to
the salvation preached by religion, is fundamentally collective,
because Truth is that the world has to change
(Rev
of Arès 28/7).
The stress put on collective salvation
is not the least of the many characteristics — free
faith (10/10), faith of achievement
(35/6), but not faith of words, of law or of supplication,
the fact that
there are no gloss or dogma (10/10) and
no leader
(16/1),free piety, etc —which resolutely part Aresian faith
from religious faith, Jewish, Christian, Muslim or other.
The lonesome penitent, who
dreams of collective penitence but
cannot experience it in this generation, suffers even more from having
to harvest the penitents
of a world in which the faithful of all religions as
well
as the atheists live out their individualistic convictions
contradictorily in
agglutination.
After all a lot of Arès might well not be suffering from that
paradoxical
isolation as I am suffering myself. I may be overrating the
indissolubility of
the link between the penitent's salvation
and the (human) race's salvation, although
the link corresponds exactly to love for
the neighbor as the only revealed civilization basis. Am I a
man of
extremes because I say to myself every morning, "Son, you won't save
yourself if you don't love the
other men enough to save them"?
I am not suffering from loneliness because of a lack of people around
me — My
wife stays on with me, my children are never very far from me, I do my
shopping
among crowds in the city —.I am not suffering out of fear of isolation—
If I
had to be in complete isolation some day, I would put up with it as a
man that always
takes life well —. I am not suffering in the metaphysical sense — The
Father's Image and likeness (Genesis
1/26-27) live on deep down me.
I am suffering from isolation in the prophetic sense, existentially.
I'm
suffering from being a long way from my brothers and sisters, the Arès
Pilgrims, from being unable to give them all I could give them before I
die,
even though the great majority of them have never felt any need to live
with
me, in times when living along with me was possible, because they
followed a
typically cultural reaction and thought that The
Revelation of Arès and faith alone would do.
I would have liked that we could share our lives so as
to know each other
well and share our efforts with a view to optimum prophetic
effectiveness, if not
in a continuous sharing of efforts, which is impossible, at least as
frequently
and systematically as possible. I had thought of my brothers and
sisters as waterwheel
buckets drawing in turns from me the Water,
the well (b’hair xxvi/7) of which
the
Father had made me. On the idea of a waterwheel (or noria) the "Falcons House" project was based in the 80s.
As the "Falcons House"
couldn’t come into existence", I have since then striven to make up by
writing and publishing all
that I have been unable to give by sharing my life with my brothers’
lives. But
writing leaves only words behind, while the real faith awakened by The
Revelation of Arès calls for actual good,
life of achievement, one of the characteristics that
dissociates us from
religion. A religion, whatever, is a religion of words, while an Arès
Pilgrim’s
faith is real-life faith, one of actual penitence
and harvesting of penitents.
The Arès Pilgrim’s isolation has been made worse by the
disintegration of modern
social life. Nowadays, each individual emotionally, if not actually,
lives separate
from his neighbor and designs his life all by himself. Even if they are
dissatisfied with isolation, which rivalry in the struggle for careers,
for
grants, and television which pins down eyes to the screen help develop,
all of modern
people unconsciously end up considering calamitous individualism
as a piece of progress.
All of powers religious, political, commercial, have encouraged the
modern
man’s capacity for isolation, which enable them to divide and rule
easier and easier. Which after all is said and done is the reason why
my "Falcons House" project could
not get achieved. The scattered atoms cannot yet all by themselves converge on one and the same
human
matter , one body (Genesis 2/24),
deified
(Rev of Arès 2/13). The
brothers,
each of them being still a prisoner of his own ego, did not realize
that we
could never group together as long as they are not free
— they tended to take the opposite view instead —, insomuch
as
being absolutely free (Rev of Arès 10/10)
is the vital act most typical of the Creator, whose image
and likeness is still lying deep down all of them.
But please don’t read those lines as if they were pessimistic. Read
them as
realistic lines! We are being scattered and this is the state and the
afference
that it forces on us with and in which we have to be successful. If we
henceforth do not think considering this reality, we cannot innovate in
anything, find out what has not yet been in History. Isn’t it the way
in which
we will slow down and then stop History, the
Beast (Rev of Arès 22/14)?
N.B.
*:
Afferent is what goes from
peripheral
parts toward a center.
Efferent conversely is what goes from a center
toward
peripheral parts.
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