Editorial Avenue : No. 14, 15th November 2024
« Little butterflies of a moment,
Invisible marionettes,
Who fly so swiftly
From Punchinello to nothingness,
Tell me then what you are. »
Voltaire (1778), Adieux à la vie
Before beginning this month’s editorial, we invite you to take a moment to think about a difficult period of your life. Perhaps this is still a painful event that surfaces in your memory, one you’d rather not revisit. But in deeper reflection, when you did go through that moment, you may have chosen to "think" and invoke your belief in an almighty God, or perhaps you sought comfort from a person who held significant authority in your life—someone who, symbolically, represented that omnipotence. Today, we are specifically focused on the relationships we share with our loved ones or those who hold a special place in our hearts. The mourning tied to such a loss—whether through end of a life or emotional distancing—is a form of grief that unfolds over time. Either we gradually forget the importance that person held in our lives, or we learn to cope with their absence and continue on building our own future. In either case, you underwent a process that shaped the energy relating to this event. Everything in our current universe belongs to distinct, natural patterns that simply go with the flow. These patterns are, of course, divided into themes, characteristics, and essences. Grief is an essence that helps us keep the psyche breathing while we attempt to understand what is truly happening in our own lives at that very moment. Grief thus becomes a complementary and essential element of love, compassion, and ethical behavior toward others, as it also serves as a guide and compass through life’s tribulations. Despite the pain that it causes, grief ultimately heals, helps us grow and mature, and brings us back to the essential: true love never dies.
In the same way, God’s energy is a pattern with a specific structure that fulfills the roles for which it was originally designed. From this perspective, divine energy propels us forward while infusing love and light into everything it touches. It’s an energy with a unique identity, one that humanity doesn’t necessarily grasp, hence the construction, in our minds, of God’s form. We imagined God, and thus God became. But when grief comes, we sadly realise that thinking of God does not necessarily mean God’s presence in our moments of vulnerability. Does this imply the non-existence of God, or rather symbolise an inability of the divine pattern to stray from its intended path? It is neither. We simply are having a fundamentally human reaction: blaming the “divine being” symbolically, or our concept of God, rather than trying to understand the workings of a divine hierarchy and the various institutional departments that serve to uphold law and order in our lives. However, this does not imply that suffering, loss, misery, and the other difficulties in life should be endured without divine support or resolution.
What we are attempting to present to you is that your mental representation of the divine may have been influenced by an obscure scenarist, whose identity has not yet revealed itself to your consciousness, and who projected a pattern of divine absence rather than presence. This is the open secret of humanity. Could this then adequately answer your question about the lack of protection and divine intervention in the painful experiences you’ve lived through? The essence of humanity is one of love and mercy toward others. We are not made for depravity, the degradation of our lands, and the endless wars against our brothers and sisters; but if a foreign pattern were to emerge and push us toward the precipice, it’s highly possible that your immediate reaction would be a call to trauma and its cavalry, namely insensitivity, victimisation, and anxiety. This brings us back to a crucial point: the realm of darkness is accumulating human puppets that it can control and it creates a great divide that no one currently knows how to bridge. However, we cannot place all of the blame on the shoulders humanity, as the veils of illusion have obscured your eyes for decades. Awareness is thus equally necessary for us to move toward the universe of Good rather than toward the destruction of the sacred on Earth. This would be the difference between censoring your governance rather than censoring the evil that secretly corrodes it, criticising the helper who comes to your aid rather than criticising the organisational policies that tie their hands, blaming God rather than blaming the one who has alienated us from God. The purpose of our editorial is not to sow doubt about what protects you daily and ensures your mental well-being. But it certainly aims to guide you toward other avenues of reflection on the nature and reality of your existence.
It is certain that today’s readers will raise questions about the plurality of religions on Earth and therefore the differing conceptions of God. But have you ever pondered this intriguing question: if there is only one God for all, why are we so different culturally? Could it be various ways of perceiving His presence versus His absence, or do we come from unique worlds where each representation has received the vote of its people? In your view, is spiritual thought an intermediary between your human world and the concept of God, or is it a fusion between humanity and divinity? Could we even speak of a pattern of the humanisation of God? Our role, or distinct energy pattern, is not to provide an absolute answer to this array of questions but rather to invite you to reflect more deeply on the nature and purpose underpinning your existence in the plurality of viewpoints and experiences of others. For yes, the Other also exists. The other exists within us just as we exist within them. We do not necessarily consider the other’s structure, and yet the other also became. The benefit of having a shared identity with one’s people is the immediate answer to many of the questions raised above. Your nation reveals the pattern to which you belong to and the energy that accompanies you daily. Once again though, patterns subdivide into other aspects such as masculinity, femininity, virtue, wisdom, humility, and so on. These patterns serve as both a guide and a compass on your existential maps, but they alone cannot represent the true omnipotence of the one who is at the source of the beginning of time and creation. We therefore urge you not to widen this division but rather to discover the best way to draw closer to one another as a true humanity, stemming from true divinity.
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