Epilogue

Renaissance

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Love and Beauty

I will have spent all this time writing and meditating

on these social, societal, political, economic, human and metaphysical considerations

not so much to talk about them,

but because we have a mission to accomplish,

a mission that touches us all, deep within ourselves,

a mission beyond us all, that surpasses us all:

Love.

We must save Love.

If indeed we were all to perish,

then this unspeakable gift, this priceless faculty would perish with us:

United forever,

eternally and infinitely,

love, beauty,

one and the same entity.

Unspeakable and unbearable,

it hurts so much when love dies.

Don’t you share this infinite pain?

I know you do.

Do you?

We are all sensitive to beauty and love,

aren’t we?

Whoever we are, whether we like it or not, whether we know it or not,

we all aspire, in our own way, to beauty and love.

It is even our dearest desire.

Since the dawn of time,

it is what we have always wanted most,

most deeply, most ecstatically, most passionately.

Love.

The worst crime in this world is to murder universal Love.

From the moment universal love is murdered,

everything can be murdered, tortured, wounded, debased, destroyed, raped.

To murder universal love

is to open the door to all crimes, all genocides, all ecocides, all humanicides,

all the most horrible and appalling nightmares of inhumanity.

Do you realize that?

We have built a world

that makes love an object of contempt and neglect,

at worst a real enemy.

It is so sad and gruesome.

We cannot, you cannot not know how terrible and horrible it is.

As a species, making love an enemy is our greatest crime.

Our first sin, truth be told, our only sin.

The original sin is this one.

For as soon as consciousness came to light in the minds of Homo sapiens,

love was born.

Consciousness and love are linked for eternity.

For all eternity,

we have known love.

For as long as we remember,

love has always existed.

Our worst crime is to deny love

and make an enemy out of it.

Why do you believe Jesus was crucified?

The tree of knowledge is not cursed.

It is knowing that love exists

and not recognising that love is the most sacred thing to embody

that is undoubtedly cursed.

Indeed,

not to recognise that love is the most sacred thing to embody

is to have already crossed that threshold

where there is no longer any point of reference

and where it is easy to get lost in inhumanity.

Our first sin is to not save love.

Our first sin, the source of all errors, wanderings and inhumanities.

Universal harmony.

That is the goal.

In your head,

envisioning universal harmony for the good of all,

is giving universal harmony a chance to finally be born.

Not to do so is to give life and love no chance at all.

Saving love necessarily goes through you, through me,

for them, for her, for him, for you and for us.

Nothing is clearer.

If love is what we all want, deep down inside,

then we can, we must,

then we have nothing better, or more magnificent to do

than save love.

Because without them,

there will be no life, no future, no history to immortalize anyone,

all those who work towards this goal will be heroes and heroines.

You may not see it, probably not,

but if no one does and if no one will be free from the nightmare,

then the nightmare has already begun

and no one will be spared.

The descent into hell has begun.

We can put an end to it.

It is clear.

The time has come.

Please.

Behold.

The effort is infinitesimal.

See the prowess of scientists when they cooperate across borders,

especially in physics and astrophysics,

where observing and discovering the secrets of the universe

requires international collaboration.

Imagine great minds meeting and doing equally well

in metaphysics and politics.

All that is needed is for the 1%

who stand in the way of the necessary transformation

to either surrender to reason or be removed from power,

and then, and only then, will a miracle happen.

Look.

That is all that is required from you.

Set up a positive dynamic and everything else will follow.

This dynamic depends on how we look at and see the world.

Not only is this system unstable and unpredictable,

not only does it bring repeated crises, poverty and dehumanization, malfeasance and death,

in addition and almost above all,

it kills love within us.

If there is a God or a Divinity,

whatever name we give them,

to save Love is the divine mission.

Seeing is all that we lack.

From the innermost to the most universal,

from human to humankind,

if you want to be saved,

see.

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Shine or die

The sun sits in the midst of darkness

and yet it illuminates and gives birth to life and the mind.

Love is an offering.

Love is the light of the soul.

We can refuse it, turn away from it, sack it, destroy it, kill it.

And sink into the darkness of the hell

 that one has created for oneself on this earth.

Or we can love it in return,

make it shine to the end of the universe and give birth to it,

until the end of time.

It is up to humans to choose:

Shine like the sun

or sink into death and oblivion.

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Save our Children

She saved her children from death

in the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah,

and yet because she turned to look back, she was turned into a pillar of salt.

She looked back

and ever since has been frozen in time contemplating the past.

Lingering on an imperfect and yet necessary past

for the budbreak, the ultimate hatching,

she for a moment looked away from the new horizon,

the new indispensable path

for the blossoming of a better and inexorable future

of the only possible paradise.

Instead of concentrating on the future, she focused on the past.

And paid a very high price for it.

For as brief a moment as a glance back in time

to be frozen for evermore or almost is a very high price to pay.

She certainly looks back.

Who could say they are free of the slightest doubt, the slightest regret?

She nevertheless rescues her children.

Martyr of the Revelation,

prisoner for as long as is necessary for a pillar of salt

to yield to time and the elements,

be diluted in the waters and in the air,

and transform herself into an aquatic mermaid,

or into an angel capable of flapping her wings up in the sky,

at the end of time, on Judgment Day,

Lot’s wife shall regain grace.

She gives us a lesson to remember.

By saving us,

will she be saved a second time,

like a resurrection?

Let us learn the lesson and never look back.

Let us no longer focus on the mistakes of the past.

Let’s focus on the present and the future

to know where we need to go

and where it’s safe and fruitful to set foot.

We who are so quick to judge and condemn,

will we ourselves, like Lot and his wife,

know how to save our own children?

Even if it meant sacrificing ourselves or

being turned into statues of salt?

Will we know how to be touched by grace?

Will we know how to be worthy of living?

The past is the past,

nothing can change it.

The only power we have over Time

is over the future and the present.

The time of competition and revenge

is childish and outdated.

For every living species,

there is a time when it must evolve

or disappear from the surface of the Earth.

The time of competition and violence

belongs to the adolescence of Humanity.

The time of madness and barbarism

must forever belong to the past.

Today is the time to grow and evolve.

Today is the time

for maturity, wisdom, reconciliation and cooperation.

Imagine the difference in effectiveness

if all the energy and resources we use to compete and fight

were used to work together towards the great rescue of humanity.

Imagine for a moment how much we would gain.

It is not quantifiable.

It is immeasurable.

All the harmful effects of our universal competition

would be transformed into positive, magical, unimaginable effects.

These positive effects would feed on themselves

to give birth to a magic, to an ineffable dynamic,

as fertile and fruitful, as miraculous, as inexorable

as life and the world are.

Take a moment to see what you have before your eyes.

Imagine

if all the natural, human, financial, economic, legal, capitalist resources

we invest in order to engage in universal competition,

which both ruins us and destroys our only planet

were used in favor of generalized cooperation,

all we would gain.

Imagine

if all resources and energies were used

to live in harmony on the only planet we have,

the only planet that shelters us and gives us life,

the one and only planet that gives us everything that keeps us alive,

then the results would be gigantic.

See.

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Light reflections

To know where we are going,

we sometimes have to stop and look.

At an intersection,

to look, to check signs, a compass, a GPS, or get a sense of direction,

we must stop for a while to look around and contemplate,

especially if we have never visited this place before.

Take this moment to see.

The biggest wall is darkness.

If darkness is the wall,

seeing the light is seeing that the wall does not exist.

If darkness is the wall,

seeing the light is tearing down the wall.

Seeing and light are the same.

They are mirrors of each other.

The more I see,

the more I see what there is to see.

The more I see,

the more light I see.

The more I see the light,

the more I see.

Seeing the light

is giving birth to light

as much as being a child of the light.

No one escapes the shadow and the light.

Seeing is putting light where there is darkness,

putting certainty where there is doubt,

putting confidence and joy where there is despair and fear,

putting beauty where there is ugliness.

Light transcends everything.

See it.

It shines before you.

It shines out everywhere.

We only have to marvel at it to bathe in it and embody it.

The reflection of light is light.

Light always illuminates the shadow.

It cannot be otherwise.

The miracle is total, absolute.

What is offered to us is immeasurable.

As long as there is life, what is possible is infinite.

The only condition:

universal cooperation.

If we do not open our eyes and our minds

to the spirit of universal wisdom,

we will die.

It cannot be otherwise.

To be or not to be,

that is the question.

See the mystery of life,

of the universe, of the earth, of the spirit.

See the miracle of life,

of the universe, of the earth, of the spirit.

See and be amazed.

Be dazzled

and dazzle in turn.

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At any moment on Earth,

the sun rises…

As every morning at any time over the whole earth the sun rises

and forever manages to overcome darkness,

so that light triumphs over darkness and obscurantism,

so that life and harmony, justice and truth, joy and serenity prevail, 

the army of the sages must rise

to save humankind.

It cannot be otherwise.

Nothing is closer to divine grace than universal harmony.

The mission is universal.

The mission is divine.

Nothing can save

this already divided and fractured world, in almost permanent conflict

than the universal uprising of all those

who have faith in the Universal.

For only the Universal can save the world.

To save the nation, to save the people, to save the world,

such is humanity’s ultimate goal,

such is humanity’s destiny.

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The absolute

Aren’t we all looking for absolute happiness?

Isn’t absolute happiness what we are all looking for?

The absolute.

Such is the promise of the Universal.

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Heaven and Infinity

According to Hindu mystic culture,

the soul is created to go on a nearly endless journey

so the soul finds infinity.

When it makes way for infinity,

it enters paradise.

When humanity experiences infinity,

the earth will become a paradise.

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Now and forever

In this era of converging crises, there are great doubts and questions,

in this era of collapse of civilization and the living,

there has never been a better time to apply real solutions

and finally go in the right direction.

Between the tiny and infinity,

if, in addition to global ecological and climatic disasters,

the insurrection of the living also manifests itself

in the form of new viruses and new pandemics,

so be it.

Has Judgment Day finally come?

Keeping on denying what stares us in the face

is now a thing of the past.

Summoned to answer for its acts and all their consequences,

summoned to assume its responsibilities,

faced up with itself, its own limits, its own inconsistencies,

will humanity emerge victorious?

Not only humble, great or beautiful,

but only itself?

Human.

From prehistory to the present day,

there has never been a better time than now

for humanity to finally come into the world.

To be or not to be.

Never has that been so much the question.

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