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The verb love
is used sixteen times, but the noun love
only twice in The Revelation of Arès. At
first sight, such a scarcity is strange in a Message
that came from the universe depths and that from end to end quivers
with love
of man. But the scarcity actually is intended to lay stress on
the very strong meaning that love has in The Revelation of Arès:
The verse 7/5 recommends
that mankind should never be reminded of the Will that saves
and
the annihilation
(self-extinction) of the
rebellious souls in threatening tones, but
always in a loving
tone, that is, always in terms of prospects of the revival of
perpetual happiness,
because
the Will that saves just refers to
what was originally willed
by the Creator, that is, a mankind made happy and invulnerable through
spiritual Life,
the
annihilation of the rebellious souls has not a tragic
meaning; it just means that, according to evolution and for millennia
by now, a mankind that has for millennia freely opted for "might is
right" (Rev
of Arès, Adam, 2/1-5) against spiritual Life (24/5)
and kind-hartened intelligence
(32/5) has given birth to offspring devoid of a soul,
so that each
adult individual on earth has to re-create for himself his
or her soul
(Rév of Arès ch.17 & 18) by working up and practicing
goodness.
The verse 25/7 emphasizes that love is wisdom, which
the world needs to gain
happiness, but which is by no means
princes'
wisdom, that is, guile (Rev
of Arès 4/3) to pretend to love the opponents and unpleasant
people so as to make them easier to catch or eliminate.
 Love of the neighbor
is not selective
and so is not instinct love
or tenderness love or attraction love as is parental love, romantic
love or friendship.
It is wisdom love, a
love of
paramount civilizing prospect.
It is wise to love any human,
whether close or distant, whether friendly or belligerent, because
wisdom consists in changing the world for
the better
(Rev of Arès 28/7), seeking for
equity (Rev of Arès 28/10), consolation and peace
(28/15) in every domain. To achieve these ends love
and spiritual intelligence have to offset
intellectual intelligence, the worst forms of which have made
mankind go into decline — contrary to the rationalists' assertions —
like apriorism, legalism, scientism and even ethics, because the
Maker's Word is not made of ethics, but of Love. Such
is the meaning The
Revelation of Arès gives the expression the too
much loving Father (12/7).
The Father just like man never
naturally goes for malevolent creatures naturally. Nonetheless, the
Father wants to see
the jewel of his Creation, Eden, come
back to life and so has to prompt man to change his life (Rev
of Arès 30/11). In all fairness, he cannot withdraw the right
to enter into penitence (Rev of Arès
8/6, 31/2, 33/13)
from anybody on earth. It's a matter of absolutenesss. Just like man's
absolute freedom (Rev of Arès 10/10) the Father's
absolute Love cannot but be
absolutely willed.
"The Pilgrim to Arès 1993-1996" dealt with love at length (p.460).
This
blog 0086 only lays stress on the existential (or existentialist) side
of love,
which necessarily results from a free resolute purpose
of getting out of egocentricity now an inevitability from birth. Except
in some gifted humans, notably some women (see below), love
of the neighbor
has to be chosen,
deliberate, and then gradually improved without losing its way in
passion, which is just suitable for romantic love, because passion
usually borders on disorder which romantic love alone can get up to
without serious accidents. Love of the neighbor is
performed
with moderation (Rév of Arès 7/6, 25/9, etc.) and
the moderation has
been set: You shall love your neighbor as yourself (Leviticus
19/18).
Just as penitence
— striving and struggle to be good — begins with a
decision, and then develops by the practice of goodness, but takes much
time to becoming natural, the love for the repugnant
or dangerous man — the one
whose
lips let pus or the worm come out or conceal the hook (Rev of Arès
xxii/8) —
has to be built up and experienced from scratch.
A believer, when not merely
sheeplike, needs the right concept of truth, but has to gain it with
time,
because truth is not just the wording of the listing of principles, but
results from real life, personal experience. All the more certainly in
the field of love.
A number of women — but not all of women, far from
it — gather
and develop truth, love of the neighbor therefore, in a
relatively short time, because they are maternal, which all of men
ought to be likewise, but they have forgotten about it (Rev
of Arès 2/3).
Consequently, women's
spiritual intelligence is a less
weak candle
than men's (Rev of Arès 32/5).
Most of men have to
be far more existential than women. Deep down they have to pick up the
voice of wisdom, which says that mankind will never gain happiness
without continual problems, or wars, or disease, or death, as long as
it keeps on separating its unpleasant, negative elements from its
pleasant, positive ones, who all together make up the absolute —
the Great Whole — that Eden was once
made and will be made some day anew of.
Love of the neighbor
cares little about the specification and qualifications of the loved
one, since the loved one is everybody. Any individual is as good as any
other individual in the absolute, but it comes as no surprise
that a lot of men will have to make headway for long before getting at
that stage of conception of the world, which verges on the stage of
conception of the early Creation.
The masses, numberless,
brainwhashed by the political hype, which the media keep on relaying,
believe that it is possible to live without love of
the neighbor,
only in the peace of the law, of the social contract, of the
"democratic" debates and of economic realism. The masses can't see
that, just as eating can't go without drinking, living can't go without
spiritually living. Otherwise, it is daydreaming, imagining that codes,
police and civil services will be enough to make the world happy.
Dreams of loveless society are even dangerous dreams. Which is proved
by the fact that the world permanently lives under threat of war.
Tragic evidences of this occurred in the 20th century when two dreadful
wars broke out, during which it was incredibly easy to put uniforms on
millions and send them to kill and even... hate each other. Which is
going on outside of Europe.
Every day the political hype strives
to maintain us in the belief that we cannot live without agreeing with
laws, taxes and other contraints more and more pressing,
because
the powers fear that we could one of these days realize that we do not
need laws, taxes and other constraints, if love of
the neighbor
spreads, and that politics and religion are to disappear then.
Life
can do much more than strive to last and be organized. With
the help of love it
can re-create itself, blossom, fulfill its potential, develop
ceaselessly, privately as well as socially. If you want to grow into
something
far greater than whatever you are forced to be, just put your trust in love! Choose that path
and, even though it is at first unrewarding, uncomfortably gritty
and rocky (Rev of Arès 25/5), follow it
persistently.
As
a result of your love for the neighbor, a different planet
will appear.
I
tell you that christianity will not be an endless failure.
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