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A short
vacation with family,
late August-early September 2011:
Let's build up our strengths for the coming apostolic year!
Lately I
gave my body a two weeks' rest, the
sort
of rest I had not taken for a long, very long time, but my mind
and soul
never at
rest are continuously in service with the Father and the mission that I
accepted
to fulfill in 1974.
Here are a few notes froms my late summer reading:
An extract from a statement by materialistic hard-liners, sad and
unrealistic:
"Education
has to be regarded as (first of all) serviceable
for economy. [In this perspective] governments shall contemplate
education as a
process extending from man's cradle to his grave […] Ther's no time to
lose."
Report "Education and Expertise in Europe"
(European panel of
industrialists)
Two
extracts from good men's thoughts, reassuring and realistic:
"Today
people are busy killing God. This is a full time job."
Christian Bobin, "La Présence Pure"(Pure
Presence)
"As for the Western civilisations' men and women, the reform of life is
the base
onto which all others reforms have to converge. The reform of life
should also
irrigate all other reforms. We have believed that we are civilized
while
barbarism has taking hold of us through selfishness, greed, resentment,
contempt, anger,
hatred."
Edgar Morin, "La Voie" (The Path)
Sociologist as well as
philosopher
Edgar Morin is not a believer, I
think, and his
plan for mankind is not in every respect, far from it, suitable for the
world's change such as I think it
should be, but as for the point of his thought mentioned above, I think
that it
is correctly relevant to The Revelation
of Arès. Needed is "reforming life", conquering
"selfishness, greed, resentment, contempt, anger,
hatred.", says he. We'd rather say, Needed is penitence, that is,
reviving love,
forgiveness, peace, spiritual intelligence and
freedom, but both these
concepts lie in the same Core..
Not only is the system that rules the world put to a
severe test, but it begins
dying a slow death.
It has actually been dying imperceptibly for a long
time,
but now the death throes are observable. Even politicians, who do their
utmost
to reassure us, cannot ignore the situation. Let’s mention public debts
among
many causes of the system’s devitalization. It’s been ages since the
so-called
rich nations were able to afford to grant the advances, subsidies,
jobs,
pensions, etc., that their politicians have promised in order to be
elected or
re-elected. Most of the promises that have been kept have been financed
by
borrowing. Hence
gigantic
public debts.
The
capitalist system is going to decompose, try to recompose, live through
the
fluctuations
of a very slow terminal phase — very slow, because the supply to
populations is
a continuous necessity —, but it will end up disappearing. The
communist system
disappeared all of a sudden, but strangely for the same reason: It is
impossible that one live unendingly beyond one’s means, whether one is
USSR,
or USA,
or EC in which Germany is the only nation seemingly capable of coming
through
for the time being. In
other
words, all is not materialistically possible, even if man wills himself
to get
it.
Money
sorts out only the foam of life; it slides over the essential. This is
why,
even though it is necessary, it is volatile. The
Revelation of Arès says in substance that only a strong soul
can sort all out thoroughly.
Paradoxically,
the more important money and material
goods the more profound ignorance of man’s wonderful free capabilities
for
happiness. Would love, courage, enthusiasm, faith have completely
deserted man?
No,
the time of the sin of sins (Rev of Arès
38/2) has not come.
The Father would not have dictated The
Revelation of Arès, if he had
considered man as unable to find the
paths to Eden. Only the Father
has put
us in charge of awakening man from his long-time somnambulic walk along
the
materialistic rationalistic roads which will gradually become
impassable and lead
him subconsciously to a precipice remote though steep, if he
does not
veer off
them and take the side paths.
Man is getting to understand that by following the footsteps of the
political
and rationilistic leaders he has gone astray.
Yes, but to decide from
that that
he’d better set his steps in the Creator’s
steps (Rev of Arès n2/12)… That’s where we likewise have to
wonder if we
have raised our voices loud enough to sound action stations to millions
of
somnambulists’ ears.
The Father, who has Wisdom, has worked out that a small
remnant of penitents
will be enough to achieve that
colossal
task. Even then we have to muster and develop that small
remnant!
Brothers
work hard! Let the year 2011-2012 be a great
year of
mission! We are not left on our own. Our paths
are rocky, but the Father is going along with us
there (Rév d'Arès 25/5) and salvation
is in store for us at their very end.
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