This is certainly one of the most enigmatic words
of Jesus, the Christ, yet the least understood and practiced. In the April
edition of the famous German magazine "Stimmen der Zeit", in 1959, appear an
article written by the Jesuit priest Johannes Hirschmann, proving that atomic
war can be lawful, in case it is needed to save Christianity. In the same way
writes the Jesuit priest Gustav Gundlach, who was the spiritual adviser of Pope
Pius XII, saying that atomic war, and even the extirpation of an entire
population is not only lawful, but can even be bound in conscience, if that
population is an impediment to the triumph of Christianity.
What inspires similar monstrosities, officially
approved by the respective church, is the clamorous confusion between
Christianity and Christ. By Christianity, these authors understand a particular
ecclesiastical organization engendered through the centuries by skilled
theologians and properly codified by the hierarchical superiors of that
ecclesiastical society. In order to preserve from destruction this
political-financial-clerical organization, preach these men that is lawful the
destruction of the spirit of Christ, which in any way approved the killing of a
single human being, much less the extinction of many millions of innocents to
save the kingdom of God. How can be saved true Christianity, which is the
kingdom of God, destroying it radically by mass killings?
As you can see, these doctors in ecclesiastical
theology are perfect illiterate in the supreme wisdom of the Sermon on the
Mount, and the Gospel of Christ in general. Mahatma Gandhi, not allowing the death of one single man to
free India, thousand times better he comprehended the spirit of Christ than
these so called "Christians", and he stated the reason why all Western
missionaries who tried to convert him to Christianity, saying: "I accept Christ
and his Gospel, but I do not accept your Christianity".
All practice violence, by the way that all
societies, civil and ecclesiastical, are guided even today by the law of
retaliation established by Moses: "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth".
Incidentally, it seems that an organized society cannot be guided by the spirit
of the Gospel, because any organized society is based on selfishness, approving
violence. Every society has certain statutes, laws, juridical paragraphs that
imply sanction, i.e., violence, punishment for the violators of the legal
statutes of the society.
Since every single society is the product of
intelligence, and intelligence is essentially selfish, therefore cannot exist an
unselfish society, non-violent. If Mahatma Gandhi succeeded in freeing India
with ahimsa (non-violence) was only because he was
surrounded by numerous individuals firmly grounded in the same truth, as
conceived the President Nehru himself, and not because society as such is guided
by the altruistic principle of ahimsa. Every society practice
himsa (violence), otherwise it would destroy itself,
not enforcing its laws; only an individual can practice ahimsa, not rendering
evil for evil, but paying evil with good, loving those who hate him.
"Do not resist evil" is, therefore, an order that
directly targets the individual in the process of being Christ-like. A society,
being fundamentally selfish, can never be Christ-like, although it can call
itself Christian, i.e., a Christianity varnished with selfishness.
No organized society can cease to consider its
"rights" under penalty of committing suicide, it only exists by virtue of its
"rights"; but the right, however, is a form of selfishness, therefore, injustice
and selfishness breeds violence. Only if society abdicates of its "rights", will
right, correct everything making justice, but while it does assert its "rights",
everything is not right.
The opposite of "right" is "justice", which is
virtually identical to love. The "justice", in metaphysical sense is invariably
the "correctness", the “perfect fit", the harmony between the individual and the
Universal, between man and God, between the finite creature and the Infinite
Creator. This justice is the perfect love, as it appears in the "first and
greatest commandment of all", enunciated by Jesus.
On the frontispiece of Santa Maria city Forum, in
Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, are engraved these words by the
jurist-philosopher Cicero: "summum jus summa injuria"
- the supreme right is the supreme injustice. Who calls all his personal rights
acts on behalf of his ego, which is necessarily selfish; but one who practice
justice, acts on behalf of the Cosmic Constitution of the Universe, acts on
behalf of the very soul of the Universe, which is God; acts on behalf of the
cosmic love which is the voice of the Divine Self in man.
Who calls for his "rights" acts on behalf of his
ego, which is a supporter of violence.
Who calls for "justice" acts on behalf of his
Self, which is not a supporter of violence.
"Do not resist evil" is, therefore, an appeal to
the Divine Self in man, and not to his human ego.
There is a strange mathematics in the Mosaic
law: it supposes that an act of violence can be neutralized by another. If
someone pulls me out an eye or break a tooth, and if I pay back with the same
act of violence, we are even. In reality, however, we are not even, neither
that person nor I, because a negative act from someone plus my negative act
results the double negative, which means, both my abuser and I paying back, we
created two evils in the world; and as the second offense requires a third, from
his part, and this calls for a fourth offense from my part, and so on, in a
continuous "chain reaction" - of course we both offenders are worsening the
world, increasingly filling it with negative and more negative.
Against this false mathematics of Moses, Jesus
opposes the true mathematics, entirely logical and rational, stating that the
negative (evil) is only neutralized by the positive (good), and that the only
way to evolve the world and humanity is the process of:
1)- not to resist evil;
2)- to oppose evil doing good.
My positive opposing the negative of my offender
neutralizes the negative, and the result is zero; but if I oppose to the
negative of the offender not only one positive (one good), but many - say 10, in
this case I not only neutralized the negative (evil) of my offender, but added a
positive surplus, i.e., enriching humanity with positive goods.
Gandhi - precisely because he was a mahatma,
"great soul" – comprehended and practiced this admirably spiritual mathematics
of the Gospel, giving the non-resistance act, the Sanskrit name of ahimsa, and
the benevolent policy towards the offender the name
satyagraha (attachment to the truth), or love, cosmic
justice, to the point that immediately after being shot and killed, his last
words were for to the offender be acquitted. But he was hanged!
For someone to practice this non-violence and
benevolence behaviour, has to undergo through a profound mystical experience of
his own true nature, and not to be identified with his physical-mental-emotional
ego.
Faith is the way for all greatness.
The lack of faith opens way to all
insolvencies.
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Note:
The Emperor Justinian and Roman jurist, wrote:
"SUMMUM JUS SUMA INJURIA" - the supreme right is the supreme
injustice.
Weird! The right is declared as justice inside
out.
Rohden explains the truth of these words, that:
The right is the synonymous of selfishness and falsehood, and justice is the
antonymous of love and truth, that the right is the opposite of
justice.
Right is the Antichrist policy, justice is the
philosophy of Christ.
In the first century Pilate and Caiaphas embodied
the right; and Christ represented justice.
But these days, it happens that in right the
defendant can lie and make false testimony in court since it can prove it - even
when the evidence is false. The right has nothing to do with truth that is the
subject of religion and philosophy.
And no judge assumes that the litigant's
statement is an expression of truth; since it complies with the article such,
the paragraph such of the penal code. Who lies better, gains the
cause.
Many times the judge condemns an innocent because
he found evidence against him. Other times he does not condemn the culprit
because it found no evidence, for the words "de intimis non curat
praetor" - from intimate things of consciousness does not mind the
magistrate - as these intimate things, only to God to mind and know... and with
this, the justice of the inexorable laws of the universe is made... Cause and
Effect, and not the precarious "justice" of humans.
And Rohden also states that: "What is most
painful in all this is that two thousand years of the so-called Christianity,
have been unable to create a Christian mentality, or rather Christ-like in
matters of jurisprudence; our Christianity failed to reconcile the right
(human), with justice (divine) and to give the right a basis in truth. The
"Roman Rights" continues to be the basis of our jurisprudence; the right of
Roman paganism that every lawyer has to study and take as a rule of his
profession, is diametrically opposed to Christ's message.
"You shall know the truth and the truth shall
make you free"
In the United States the Bible is presented in
the court room with an oath saying, "I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth,
only the truth..."
In most cases... pure lies and hypocrisy!
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