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After leaving the reception house the pilgrim walks along the passageway under the roof (on the right) and enters the lobby, where he takes off his or her shoes or sandals ans puts on a tunic. He or she is lent a tunic if he or she does not have his or her own. Then he passes from the lobby to the hall where the Maker manifested himself in 1977 (The House on the Saint’s Word topped by a belltower on the left) where he prays or meditates.
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june 25, 2007 |
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the Ares pilgrimage (a duplication of #0031us) |
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Every summer in Arès, France (33740, Gironde),
First of all people at the age of free (Rév of Arès 10/10) conscience, who have welcomed the Word (Bible, Quran), who know their recalcitrance, that is, who know good from evil, love from indifference and hatred, forgiveness from the spirit of judgement, (36/16), peace from conflict, spiritual intelligence (32/5) from intellectual intelligence, who have heard the Father's request and converted to The Revelation of Arès, the light that dispels the darkness of religious interpretations, who have decided to stop sinning and enter upon penitence, that is, practice good and not act evil, in short, men of the time to come (Rev of Arès 30/13). But also anybody else, even a nonbeliever, provided that he does not come just out of curiosity, and that his visit makes sense, if he states his respect for The Revelation of Arès, the Bible and the Quran, and states that love of all men and forgiveness of offenses form the key to happiness.
What does a pilgrim come for? For taking the Fire from the very Hand of the Maker, who manifested and spoke The Revelation of Arès on that very place in 1977, and who has never left it (I am here... Rev of Arès XLI/1-8, XLVIII/9). How to take the Fire? Every pilgrim goes about it in whatever way he conceives or feels deep down, provided it is a dignified and discreet one. In general, a pilgrim strikes with his forehead (XLI/4) and kisses (his lip takes... XLVIII/9) the spot, marked with a plain elliptic wooden frame, where the central Light rose and stood on the 1977 theophany days, and then he goes and sits down anywhere in the hall to kindle or rekindle, by praying and/or pondering, every reason he has and his willpower to bring humanity, first of all his own humanity, to recover its spiritual source (Rev of Arès 24/4). Why is every pilgrim advised to take off his or her shoes and put on a tunic (which anybody has no personal tunic can borrow)? One takes one's shoes off just as Moses did where the Maker was to speak to him (Exodus 3/5). The tunic blots out the sexes, the clothes of beautiful or poor quality and the fear of the judgement of others (fear of what makes people giggle or be impatient), which divides and breaks up society (Rev of Arès 10/13-14)? The tunic, which becomes the coot or kitoneth when used as a shroud, is also a reminder that one has to die as long as a small remnant have not defeated sin (28/12).
The Abrahamic religion: judaism, christianity and islam, has changed into noise substituting for God's Word in Jerusalem (Rev of Arès XLVII/2). Hence the Father's moving house to France. The loving Father (Rev of Arès 12/7), however, does not doom religion to hell (For all that don't gather that those men have met perdition... 16/2), but he is harshly critical of it. Notably, religion has distorted the concept of salvation. Religion has preached personal salvation, while in fact it is inseparable from global salvation. Religion has preached salvation as if it was dependent on Heaven's judgment, while in fact it depends only and existentially on man's behavior. Only penitence (practice of Good and refusal to sin) saves and, just as the Father cannot live without his human creature, his son, no penitent gets saved if he or she does not strive (as far as his or her circumstances permit) to save other men, his brothers (Save! Do not judge! Rev of Ares 27/3). Every penitent is a harvester of penitents, as The Revelation of Arès says. The pilgrim deep down undertakes or re-undertakes to awaken spiritual life, that is, Good, in himself as well as in others. A man does not go to Arès to beg for a miracle. Quite the contrary, he goes there to give himself as a miracle, the miracle of his faith in the self-redeeming effort (penitence), which The Revelation of Ares calls on man to make. Any man can be made a God, just as Jesus was, only by setting his steps in the Steps of the Father (Rev of Ares 2/12-13). This spiritual rerooting is turning most necessary in the early 21th century. Problems, which man recently still thought had been left behind after the struggles, wars and hardships of the 20th century, are re-emerging ahead of him, social, political, economical and even only human. The Father came back to speak to men by the end of the 20th century, because he was well aware that perils: rivalry, deception, hatred, violence and war, would be experienced again. The Father came back to remind man that he is the Creator's image (Genesis 1/27) and therefore can generate his own grace, his own miracle, if he wants to. The pilgrim asserts that he wants to.
No, evil will not forever be stronger than Good. No, violence, injustice, domination and despoliation will not stay perpetual. Yes, man will gain perpetual happiness. This is the profound meaning of the Arès Pilgrimage. |
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