Comments 161US

English Comments #161US

january 21, 2015 (0161US)
Charlie Hebdo, Cain and Lamech

"We have to decipher what has already been within ourselves in a primary shape,
which others can't decode, in what I call the place of passion"
(Marguerite Duras)

Man, whether active Cain (a terrorist) or passive Cain (people),
has to stop hesitating over the passion of Good or the passion of Evil.
He has to be ahead of them.
("Caïn in torment" by Joao Maximiano Mafra)

Ever since Jesus' visits in 1974 I had constantly read the Bible in the Light of The Revelation of Arès. But even today I keep on opening my eyes more and more over the Bible like Bartimaeus (Mark 10/46 52). In December 2014, being laid up because of an open-heart surgery, and like I was aware of a tragedy just about to occur in Charlie Hebdo's offices and in a kosher supermarket at Vincennes Gate (Paris), I reread Genesis for the umpteenth time in my hospital bedroom and realized that people never read it carefully enough.
So I looked at Genesis 4 with much more piercing eyes ; even though I had read and reread the much talked-about passage. I was aware, but had not sufficiently noticed the fact that not only the Creator had failed to convict Cain and his grandson Lamech of murder, but he had stated that Cain should be avenged sevenfold and Lamech avenged seventy-sevenfold.
What a puzzling contradiction!
Did the Creator show any unfathomable leniency toward the murderers? We might well think so, but The Revelation of Arès advertises the fact that the Creator never sees a criminal situation in the earthly judicial colors, but sees it from the angle of Good destined to conquer Evil through love.
This is why the Creator keeps man free (Rev of Arès 10/10) to agree or disagree with His Genesis Purpose, therefore free to do good or/and do evil (2/1-5), because man is not man if he lacks absolute freedom and he cannot successfully be back to Good once and for all. If man is not absolutely free, he cannot rekindle the image and likeness of the Father (Genesis 1/26 27) inside himself, he cannot enter onto penitence (8/6) in the strict sense of re-creating himself and re-creating the world.

Here is the rabbinical translation of the massoretic material:
4/13 Cain says to the Eternal, "Tremendous is the murder I have committed, so people can't bear with me... See, you ban me today... but can I evade your Face ? I am going to flee... but the first who will encounter me will kill me... 4/15 The Eternal told him, "Yes, but whoever will kill Cain will be punished sevenfold." And the Eternal put a mark on Cain so that he might not be struck by anyone meeting with him… 4/23 Lamech (Cain's grandson) told his wives : "Ada and Silla, listen to me... I have killed a man who had struck me and a young man because of my injury. 4/24 If Cain had to be avenged sevenfold, Lamech will be evenged seventy-sevenfold."
Here is a modern translation of the material (by Emile Osty):
4/13 Cain said to Yawhe, "My punishment is too hard... You have driven me away today... I have to hide. I am a wandering fugitive... and whoever will encounter me will kill me." Yahwe told him : "Well, whoever will kill Cain will be subjected to revenge sevenfold." "And Yahwe put a mark on Cain so that he would not be struck by anyone meeting with him... 4/23 Lamech told his wives,"Ada and Silla, listen to my voice! I have killed a man because of my wound and a child because of my bruise. 4/24 Because sevenfold Cain was avenged, but Lamech will be avenged seventy-sevenfold."

Just listen to the powers, whether political, or military, or religious ; they say, "We have not wanted wars, despoliation, misery, injustice, poverty, death. No, we have not wanted them." In the face of the world's sufferings, love's collapse, all of powers refuse to shoulder responsibility for misfortune. They state that misfortune results from others' actions, but they can't see that they themselves are the others. They claim that they had to stand up for themselves, respond to attacks, fight hard for survival. All men consider themselves as being in self-defence definitively, they think that evil is continuous and unavoidable, injustice and hatred ineluctable, lex talionis (an eye for an eye) dreadful indeed, but the only solution.
For millennia men have brought about storms and storms, have said, "Let's have done with it!" always thinking that the clouds will be be dispelled afterwards, humanity will be remolded and peace prevail and turn permanent. "We don't want to wage war, but we'll go to war, so that we may have done with it," general Moltke, the German Army's head stated in 1914. French Republic President Raymond Poincaré replied to him : "We can't be peaceful, unless we keep ready for war." So men have been continually warring somewhere on earth though weapons or through economy; they for millennia have had each other in a stranglehold, each human group convincingly thinking that they have a right to champion their cause and seeing others as evil and harmful.
So evil has dragged on in evil all over the world from time immemorial. Mankind has got bogged down in endless fits of accusation against each other and have swallowed up lives, riches, respect for other humans so much so that they think it impossible to change course.
Between 85 and 90 per cent of people, whom our missionaries call on to gain love, forgiveness, peace, are skeptical of a possibility that good might replace evil ever. Men and even the worst ones of them : the politicians in whose care they leave their destiny, probably do not want the world's tragedy, but they do not think that it can stop, either. This is the dilemma that we Arès Pilgrims have been called on to solve. But we are going to solve it.
We are aware that we all are responsible for evil and that the solution to evil does not lie in condemnation, punishment and war, because this amounts to condemn ourselves, punish ourselves and wage war againt ourselves endlessly — the endless revenge (Rev of Arès 27/9) —. The solution lies in unconditional love, unconditional forgiveness, unconditional peace, wholeheated intelligence and freedom.
We will stubbornly be busy bringing Good back as long as mankind is doggedly busy not believing in it.

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