‘…To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside everything is in parables; so that they may indeed see but not perceive, and may indeed hear but not understand…’
1ι. The liberation of the ego
The ability of the human mind to empathize, inevitably led to the perception of the ‘pure Love’. You can love your enemy as he is the same as you, as his evilness is the same as yours and this has the same non-human universal cause, the lord of the world. This is the final step towards the liberation of ego that conceives the selfless love (LOVE) [1] [2]. The supreme commandment of Christ is ‘love your fellow-man (even enemy) as yourself’ [3], for at this stage the human mind has conceived LOVE as the only texture of the human core [4] .
This love demands action to offer without receiving, ‘enslaving’ willingly our existence in the serving of others, bringing forward the new concept of selfless action that can reach the purest ever idea of SELF-SACRIFICE. Any action should be done as a sacrifice as the only meaning of life is to serve who suffers. Otherwise the world will remain under the control of the lord of the world, without any hope of liberation [5]
The key is now retrieved and consciousness can break the chain of human evil [6] [7]. The path is clear: find the source of evil outside your ego, practice empathy and conceive compassion as the antidote of fear. Addressing compassion to all creatures and all the universe that sustains life, empathizing with everything outside our ego, leads to the conception of LOVE that binds all creatures and the universe [8]. The clue of Ariadne… the fixed point at the entrance of our Labyrinth is, therefore, LOVE (not love).
[1] ‘Descending into the depth of our consciousness’ – step 6: Deeper into our consciousness, deliberated from the panic of fear, we meet the need-free LOVE of everything that exists. We feel the emotion that wants the liberation of Nature from the pain and, through this, the liberation of us. Ego, freely now, considers itself expendable and stops fighting for a temporary relief. Recognizing the vanity of any effort to sustain a less-painful expiring life, consciousness stands against the lord of the world, ignoring his threats. Man lives just to correct the harm, where he can. There is no light that guides consciousness, other than LOVE and this can only be found by descending into the depth of consciousness, realizing the wise but hostile ways of Nature and, finally, by becoming compassion. This latter is the only way to ‘harmonize ourselves with the rhythm of universal consciousness’.
[2] “Surrender yourself. Then you will really care for everything. Love the world like yourself; then you will really care for everything” (Tao Te King 13)
[3] “But I say to you that hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. … And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them. If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.” (Luke 6:27-33)
[4] ‘If it was inevitable to chose whether to be unfair or to suffer injustice, I would rather suffer than be unfair’ (Plato, Gorgias)
[5] “If our actions are deprived of sacrifice, this world of men remains chained by these actions; make your work a sacrifice, liberating yourself from any attachment ….Who eats the remnants of his sacrifice is released from all sins” ((Bhagavad Gita 3:9-12)
[6] “By this knowledge you will never fall again in spiritual ignorance, as though this you will see all existence in your ego and, thus, in Me (Chrisna)” (Bhagavat Gita, 4:35)
[7] “The living Jesus answered and said : "The life of my Father is this : that you receive your soul from the race of understanding mind, and that it ceases to be earthly and becomes understanding through that which I say to you in the course of my discourse, so that you fulfil it and are saved from the archon of this aeon and his persecutions, to which there is no end” (The first book of IEOU, chapter 2)
[8] “I will surround my enemy with thoughts of sympathy and pity that flow out from a mind filled with compassion’’ (The teaching of Buddha, Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai 1966; chpt 1)