In The
Revelation of
Arès the word happiness
is rare.
Actually, happiness
is
everywhere in it.
It is the invisible air that its reader
breathes.
Just as the
universe is in an astronomical telescope, happiness is the
Great Whole
to which
the Word brings us.
Why change the
world
(Rev of Arès 28/7), if the action does not end up at happiness?
Happiness
is
the Reason
why our faith is active.
The word happy is still rarer in The Revelation of Arès. At the verse
(28/15-22) it
describes one and the same type of believer, the man or woman who keeps
on
unfailingly with penitence under
the
hard circumstances, which the beatitudes mention: scandal, poverty,
servitude, hunger
and injustice, whilst retaining virtue, love, peace, generosity at
sharing.
At the verse (9/6) happiness means
intimate
bless
between husband and wife; at (37/9)
it
means happiness kept in
grief ; at
(xxvi/12) it means happiness kept
in
hardships.
It is just at the verse (36/23) that happiness
has an absolute meaning: Happiness
is
not weighed in time, but in eternity. That is the whole
point; there is no
need of development. Absolute eternal happiness
was what I was thinking of when entitling this entry happiness.
The world has continuously used the word happiness
since time immemorial in all possible forms, even extreme ones. The
Frenchtelevision channel M6 presented a show called "I’ve decided
that I’ll be
happy" on January 31 and told that they would soon present
another show
called "Happiness can be learned." Not
prostitution, but happiness
trading in my opinion is the oldest job in the world.
Modern philosopher Vincent Cespedes, the author of "I love
you, another love
policy" protests against the "happinessism
wranglers" ;
he actually does not do anything but be akin to all those who for
millennia have
claimed that happiness is just a question of training or formulae, or
of escape
from realities, or a matter of elation or euphoria.
Another
modern
philosopher Pascal
Bruckner writes in an antinomical way, "I love life too much, so I
don’t want to
be happy," which does not mean anything, but permits him to publish a
maxim
which makes him different. In short, people on earth can only talk
through their
hats of happiness either relative or momentary.
We Arès Pilgrims do not refuse to accept times of happiness in our
earthly
lives, but we aim to absolute eternal happiness
in its beginnings which the joyful
festive times of penitence
give
us (Rev of Arès 30/10-11), thereby
we
puzzle those who can see happiness only as momentary exhilarations or
raptures unrelated
to penitence, which they see as
something sad while we see it as joyful.
As penitence
makes us happy, we have been somewhere else
already.
We know that the path
upwards
to
absolute happiness is not the way
of
the seekers after earthly happiness. Actually, we accept earthly
happiness as
well as absolute happiness, but we do not mistake one for another.
We are aware that absolute happines, that
which Adam lived through in the Garden of Eden, is
not weighed in time but in eternity (Rev of Arès 36/23), it
is Life totally free from worries,
diseases, aging and death.
Life beyond
life.
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