State
of grace
The
state
of grace… This expression - the expression only or also the
reality? - unfortunately left us for other banks. And this is
infinitely
damage! The best things are thus taken away from us when we do not
believe enough in it any more. They are then recovered superficially
by politics. We lost them since, allured by the surfaces, the divine
depths in us grew blurred. We should find again the savour of
essential things.
The
State of grace is not a theoretical abstraction but a reality with
which you can experiment. When the Spirit in the deepness of yourself
does not cease shouting your divine filiation of grace. When
at the
fine bottom of your soul overflows Agape. This grace is not just to
pass but to remain permanently, electing residence into you. A
'state'... A state of divine meteorology. Like elsewhere weather is
nice, here shines
God'!
At
the extreme opposite of the state of grace there is the state
of nature as
our natural
state. You will have to go back to Hobbes to find it behind the masks
and the transvestites of the 'civilized' ones we claim to be. Just be
lucid on your elementary reflexes dominated by this 'struggle for
life' without which the biological reality could not be. In times
past the 'capital sins' however put them in singular light. Why did
we forget them?
Evacuate
the grace… then frustration proliferates. When we lose the state ofgrace we fall down in the state of nature much more quickly than we
can believe it, delivered to our conscious and more especially to our
unconscious ferocities. With the concern of going out presentable
while despairing ever to find for it the necessary cosmetic.
The
Alliance
exposes the same one to the Other. Because there is only love or
hatred which refuse or agree to recognize, to meet and accept the
other one
in all its otherness or to refuse him. Where lacks the sense of
Alliance the concrete reality is eaten by the idea. Because the idea
is always of the 'same' order as the identity. But the reality always
overflows the 'same' one on the side of the 'other'. And the Other
in the Bible always appears under the species of the person, the
other one of the idea, the other one of the 'eidolos', the other one
of the 'idol'.
Alliance
is experienced through the Exodus. And the Exodus is for meeting the Alive one. Transcending in the Bible is a consequence of the
living Transcendence. Without this transcending reality, 'to
transcend' it is only an abstraction substantivized by ideology.
Through
the Biblical history the personal other
one is
unceasingly provoked to come out of the anonymity of the same one. Thus
the prophet… a disturbing personal 'other' one. Not the rule but
the exception. Not the system but the alive word. Not a centre but
extremes. Not
the mass but a personal singularity.
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