The
issue is
tremendous. Just the same, I shall try not to mutilate the essential
points.
Lately on the tv screen I watched "The Ten
Commandments" by Robert Dornhell. This new filming of the
Biblical text is more interesting than the famous "The Ten
Commandments" by Cecil B. DeMille (1956) which was bombastic,
too Hollywood-style. In particular, Dornhell’s film has made me see
more clearly than ever what utterly fails in the story of Moses and
the Exodus: love.
Apart from the emotional love, thought up
by the
scriptwriter, of the Egyptian princess and her son of royal blood for
adoptive little Moses, nothing shows any sign of love in the Exodus.
Not only did those backward crude slaves lack a clear notion of
freedom, but they did not perceive God’s Love, were no loving
people themselves; they were unable to live up to and then tell the
Exodus from that point of view. This is why the Exodus ended up stuck
for a very long time into the rut of synagogues, churches, mosques,
so God in 1974 and 1977 should come back to appeal men for penitence,
which is not remorse and selfpunishment, but creation, transcendence,
love!
 Let love, redeeming love,
pervade the world
some day
at last!
It’s up to us Arès Pilgrims to achieve the
freeing, the
Exodus, through what it should have unfolded: through Love from On
High matching love here below. Moses’ Exodus failed.
It was through
a desert just the roaming of moaners, who sometimes were even heathen and
violent,
but never loving. Hence the bloody conquest of Canaan and
then the whole politico-religious History for three thousand years
until now..
In a book the title of which has slipped my mind
Milan
Kundera recalled opponents of Communism meeting on the sly in
Czechoslovakia, but he admitted that those days of heartwarming
complicity had just one mainspring: misfortune; they actually
concealed essential disagreements philosophical or ethical; nothing
between those anticommunists was based on love ever.
When
would
The Revelation of Arès burst open the lid of the pot
where
all that brings men into conflict has boiled for millennia, our
foulsmelling hotchpotch of wicked individualistic humans whose pride,
selfishness, jealousy and stupidity have forever clashed with each
other?
I have taught that
there are three redeeming
loves: Evangelical love — unquestioning love of the neighbor —,
romantic love — great generating fusion, beginnings of Eden —,
parental love which prepares the generations that will change
the
world (Rev of Arès 28/7). It is
particularly in the
nuptials (Rev of Arès 33/21+) that we magnify the
high,
creative, spiritual, human values of these three loves.
Oh
Jesus
himself was moderately optimistic about love: I have not come
to
bring concord, but the sword (or the struggle). I
have come to
turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a
daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man’s enemies will be
the members of his own household (Matthew 10/34). Did he have
doubts as to love? He didn’t, but he knew that love had been lost
very long, so it woul be very hard to regain. He was aware that
frames of mind deceptively called loves had become widespread and
would be used as pretextes to those who would put Jesus forward only
to give their sins a halo of uprightness. As we do not live in those
far-off days, we do not know what such loves were then, but there are
other modernized deceptive loves nowadays:
Modern life is
filled
with deceptive loves: shortlived urges, moralisms and spiritualisms
that cannot lift humans up to the Saint’s Heights.
The
deceptive loves have led men to a lot of failures among which we can
mention the spate of divorces which taint and complicate modern
society, love for country which has fathered a sea of victims and
ruins, and the love for humanity called humanitarian aid, that is but
the well-calibrated well-localized help, from which the officials
religious, political, right-thinking and the trumpeting associations
derive moral benefice and simultaneously make out other unobtrusive
charities to be fishy sectarian self-interested motives.
What
is the difference between the three redeeming loves and the other
loves? The other loves cannot lead anybody to Life (Rev of
Arès
24/5), cannot give cause for that which is the fundamental
requirement of real love, that is, the final dispelling of
selfishnes, the capability of full communion wither others, the
global restoration of all interpersonal links, the sharing of the
universal frailty of humanity.
Note that it is usual to
wonder at
and never be critical of some of the other loves. For instance,
mytical love which develops indifference towards all that is not its
purpose: God; mystical love is often absolute selfishness. For
instance again, some motherly loves however high may be the regard
for them, because they are actually powerfully fixed on their own
offspring with the exclusion of all other children. Love of country
generates hatred for enemies and some humanitarian loves make nothing
but an arbitrary selection of the assited ones and the non-assisted
ones — With regard to this I have never understood why helping
people at the other end of the planet costs fortunes and we do
nothing to improve the lot of prisoners in our own prisons some of
them are squalid pigsties —. Immoderation whatever between the
loving and the loved, all that cripples the loving with ulterior
motives, miscalculations and ideologies destoys people’s trust in
love.
Sexual love can receive a special award.
To us Arès
Pilgrims sex is the munificience exceptionnally intense that The
Revelation of Arès calls the joys reserved for
spouses (Rev
of Arès 2/3, 9/7), but
that
turns into a very harmful act in adultery, which God rejects
vehemently (9/6,12/8, 26/11, etc.). Adultery
shatters the existential basis of fundamental happiness
(Rev of Arès 36/23, xxvi/12) which requires respect of
commitments and effort to overcome weaknesses. Spouses
have to
see to keep sexual bliss in faithfulness as a condition of Life,
because real sexuality gives up animality and gets carried away as an
act of re-creation.
Love is only love when it
vindicates,
justifies and saves the human being a the image
and
likeness of
the Father.
Love is sacrifice
of selfishness,
selfishness as the cornerstone of the citadel
by
which Adam’s race has been able to resist the Creator so far.
Note
that the selfish one is not the man or woman who likes himelf or
herself, attaches high importance and special dignity to himself or
herself, for the Word does not forbid anybody to think that he or she
has qualities and capabilities. What can a man give in
exchange
for his life (or soul) ? (Matthiew 16/26) said Jesus to let
people understand that they have to remain conscious of their own
lives’ merits and never lose trust in themselves. The selfish one
is the person that refuses help, prejudiceless thinking, forgiveness,
contribution, to others. The worst selfish person is the one that
does so under cover of ethics and social principles. Today private
life mimics political selfishness which has become
mind-boggling.
Quite differently, the man of love will
transfer
the center of his life out of the limits of the individualism which
modern life sees as a conquest of freedom, but which is not. To be
free (Rev of Arès 10/10) absolutely
is to be able to live at the same time for oneself and for
the
others, love one’s family and the world without borders, without
the barrier of nationalities, without any law but the law of
conscience to tell good from evil.
The
first draft of this entry was three times as long as this. I had to
shorten it. The left-over material of the text may at some places
give the impression of being short of love for the other loves... of me
lacking for love full stop. I remind that evangelical
love
consists in loving all, even the enemy (Matthew 5/44),
but not
accepting all. How to harmonize all, however? For the time being are
you flabbergasted? Please don’t be so! The problem is very hard and
we Arès Pilgrims have to solve it, but we will solve it.
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