1 Thessalonians 5: 16
"Rejoice ever more."
Πάντοτε χαίρετε
Pantote cairete.
God is Infinite Love, therefore the Grace of God - despite all the evil in the humans (and despite the necessary finitude of...the finite !) - unceasingly flows unto the world. Myriads of Angels mysteriously help the world without intermission.
The laws of Nature cannot of course be violated by such Help, because such a violation would destroy the whole nature, nor can the Angels reach the heart of those who want to deny the Truth, but subtle Miracles surround us all the time and the Wonder of the Creation, the Miracle of the Creation in this split second, is all around us. We can build a "wall" in our spirit not to see the Immense Light that floods the world, but the Light is here.
Nihilism has spread the poison that consists of looking at the world without wonderment, but if we reach the true silence inside ourselves (that true silence from which all music stems !) we can suddenly wake up and see. We can see the world as if we had never seen it, and wake up to the Wonder of the Gift of being.
If we can reach the Wonder, we will perceive the flutter of the Wings of the Angels.
The smallest blade of grass is the roaring and thundering proclamation of the immense majesty of the Creation in the Light of God.
We often forget this Truth because our minds and our hearts are full of chatter, but when we remember the Truth we can understand that God doesn't ever abandon us and that God is all around us and with us, if we listen.
Rabbi Moshe Cordovero (Ramak) (1522-1570) admonishes us not to make a deadly mistake when he says:
"God is all the reality, but all the reality is not God"
But this sentence is not only an admonishment, it's also a powerful visionary proclamation of the Truth: God is all the reality !
(The nihilists of course will immediately attack this sentence by blathering about evil, but evil is not any "reality", evil is the LACK of justice and righteousness - you can find the best discussion of this point in Saint Anselm's De Veritate (On Truth), in the De Concordia (On Harmony), etc.)
God is all the reality !
Pantote cairete ! "Rejoice ever more."
Think about the roaring, thundering, radiant Creation of every"thing" in this split second !
The Infinite Love of God follows the flight of the yellow jacket, swims with the bass, digs deep with the root, flies with the planets, walks with the ant, plays an organ at a fair, rolls with the eighteen-wheeler, sleeps with the granite, dances with the seas, circles in the paradoxical not-space of the black holes, thinks with the mathematician, slumbers with the baby... universes upon universes of infinite facts and stories ... upon universes upon universes ...
Then some people say that God is "invisible" . "God is invisible" ? In the middle of a roaring radiant multibillion-years Gift of infinite Life, is God invisible ? What do these people smoke ? The problem is that the gates of the soul are locked, and devilish ironsmiths have worked for a really long time to lock them tight. Devilish lies lock the doors of our soul: lies that whisper..."all that is...came from nothing ! the nothing created something !"
"Nothing created something" ? And the nihilists even dare call themselves "free thinkers" ? "Thinkers" ?
The sheer nothing can give birth to something, anything ?
Let's reject these idiocies.
Let's open the doors of our soul.
Let's stay in the river of Light.
We are with God and in God and safe forever.
And if we keep the gates of our soul open the Infinite Love of God will be allowed to reach us.
Let's open the gates of the soul to the Immense Love of God, let's allow the Myriads of Angels and the Depth of the Grace to reach us and to bless us !
Allowing the Love of God to reach us must be our main task : this could probably be the best interpretation of the strategic verse in Genesis 44:10 ("as per your words, so it will be"). In fact if we say NO to the truth we will indeed raise a wall in front of the Light, and the wall will inevitably cast a shadow, in which we will live.
If we don't understand that the Infinite Love of God unceasingly flows unto the world, we will not be able to understand WHY the Scripture says: "as per your words, so it will be". Doesn't that sentence sound like acknowledging that the humans have an unlimited power ? No, such "new age" reading is an heresy, it's a straying from the Way of the Sacred Tradition.
Instead, that verse says that we will live in the darkness if we choose to close the gates of our souls to the Infinite Love of God. The Light of the Love of God flows unto the world, and denying this truth hinders the Light and casts a shadow. And we must be aware of this. That's the teaching of that verse.
No doubt, even when we dwell in the Wonder and in the Awe for the Infinite Love of God, evils will still be able to reach us, but they will not be able to reach our spirit.
And this in turn will give us a strong advantage against evil !
Undoubtedly, evil coming from human hearts has a great power, but the Power of the Infinite Love of God is Immense and Myriads of Angels will help our spirit if we remain in the Light of the Truth. They can give our spirit a force that can overcome and redeem sorrow, tragedy, and horror with the Light of the Eternal Life and of the Eternal Joy.
Pantote cairete ! "rejoice ever more ! "
"Rejoice ever more."
Πάντοτε χαίρετε
Pantote cairete.
God is Infinite Love, therefore the Grace of God - despite all the evil in the humans (and despite the necessary finitude of...the finite !) - unceasingly flows unto the world. Myriads of Angels mysteriously help the world without intermission.
The laws of Nature cannot of course be violated by such Help, because such a violation would destroy the whole nature, nor can the Angels reach the heart of those who want to deny the Truth, but subtle Miracles surround us all the time and the Wonder of the Creation, the Miracle of the Creation in this split second, is all around us. We can build a "wall" in our spirit not to see the Immense Light that floods the world, but the Light is here.
Nihilism has spread the poison that consists of looking at the world without wonderment, but if we reach the true silence inside ourselves (that true silence from which all music stems !) we can suddenly wake up and see. We can see the world as if we had never seen it, and wake up to the Wonder of the Gift of being.
If we can reach the Wonder, we will perceive the flutter of the Wings of the Angels.
The smallest blade of grass is the roaring and thundering proclamation of the immense majesty of the Creation in the Light of God.
We often forget this Truth because our minds and our hearts are full of chatter, but when we remember the Truth we can understand that God doesn't ever abandon us and that God is all around us and with us, if we listen.
Rabbi Moshe Cordovero (Ramak) (1522-1570) admonishes us not to make a deadly mistake when he says:
"God is all the reality, but all the reality is not God"
But this sentence is not only an admonishment, it's also a powerful visionary proclamation of the Truth: God is all the reality !
(The nihilists of course will immediately attack this sentence by blathering about evil, but evil is not any "reality", evil is the LACK of justice and righteousness - you can find the best discussion of this point in Saint Anselm's De Veritate (On Truth), in the De Concordia (On Harmony), etc.)
God is all the reality !
Pantote cairete ! "Rejoice ever more."
Think about the roaring, thundering, radiant Creation of every"thing" in this split second !
The Infinite Love of God follows the flight of the yellow jacket, swims with the bass, digs deep with the root, flies with the planets, walks with the ant, plays an organ at a fair, rolls with the eighteen-wheeler, sleeps with the granite, dances with the seas, circles in the paradoxical not-space of the black holes, thinks with the mathematician, slumbers with the baby... universes upon universes of infinite facts and stories ... upon universes upon universes ...
Then some people say that God is "invisible" . "God is invisible" ? In the middle of a roaring radiant multibillion-years Gift of infinite Life, is God invisible ? What do these people smoke ? The problem is that the gates of the soul are locked, and devilish ironsmiths have worked for a really long time to lock them tight. Devilish lies lock the doors of our soul: lies that whisper..."all that is...came from nothing ! the nothing created something !"
"Nothing created something" ? And the nihilists even dare call themselves "free thinkers" ? "Thinkers" ?
The sheer nothing can give birth to something, anything ?
Let's reject these idiocies.
Let's open the doors of our soul.
Let's stay in the river of Light.
We are with God and in God and safe forever.
And if we keep the gates of our soul open the Infinite Love of God will be allowed to reach us.
Let's open the gates of the soul to the Immense Love of God, let's allow the Myriads of Angels and the Depth of the Grace to reach us and to bless us !
Allowing the Love of God to reach us must be our main task : this could probably be the best interpretation of the strategic verse in Genesis 44:10 ("as per your words, so it will be"). In fact if we say NO to the truth we will indeed raise a wall in front of the Light, and the wall will inevitably cast a shadow, in which we will live.
If we don't understand that the Infinite Love of God unceasingly flows unto the world, we will not be able to understand WHY the Scripture says: "as per your words, so it will be". Doesn't that sentence sound like acknowledging that the humans have an unlimited power ? No, such "new age" reading is an heresy, it's a straying from the Way of the Sacred Tradition.
Instead, that verse says that we will live in the darkness if we choose to close the gates of our souls to the Infinite Love of God. The Light of the Love of God flows unto the world, and denying this truth hinders the Light and casts a shadow. And we must be aware of this. That's the teaching of that verse.
No doubt, even when we dwell in the Wonder and in the Awe for the Infinite Love of God, evils will still be able to reach us, but they will not be able to reach our spirit.
And this in turn will give us a strong advantage against evil !
Undoubtedly, evil coming from human hearts has a great power, but the Power of the Infinite Love of God is Immense and Myriads of Angels will help our spirit if we remain in the Light of the Truth. They can give our spirit a force that can overcome and redeem sorrow, tragedy, and horror with the Light of the Eternal Life and of the Eternal Joy.
Pantote cairete ! "rejoice ever more ! "
