Having faith is the boldest cosmic adventure in man. It is to close the eyes of the senses and intellect and to launch oneself into the unknown, certain that this immense vacuum of darkness is the plenitude of light, and that this death is integral life, being reborn to all that we ignore. It is to surpass the ego’s horizontality to enter the great vertical of God.
Having faith is a vital and experiential attitude; it is the total submergence of individuality in the immense sea of Divinity; it is the radical renunciation of the tyrannical ego and an integral surrender of the same to the Infinite Spirit.
In the beginning, “believing,” is just an act of goodwill, a naive “wanting to believe.” Nor will it ever ceases to be this “wanting to believe,” until it is fertilized by daily life in perfect harmony with faith. The believer must live as if he already had the experience of God - and it is precisely in this “as if,” that all the torment resides because to walk the path of ethical living before reaching the world of mystical experience - is immensely difficult, it is the martyrdom of each day, it is the “strait is the gate and narrow is the way,” it is the “the eye of the needle”. Transcending the ego before reaching the Self, renouncing Lucifer before meeting Christ - this is a kind of a leap into the abyss or a suspension in a vacuum.
How can man deny horizontal life before affirming the vertical one? It is in the very nature of human psychology not to give up one value before discovering another which is greater or at least equal to the first. Only those who have discovered the “kingdom of heaven that is not of this world” can renounce “all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.”
Having faith is thus identical with possessing something spiritually before having it materially; it is to operate in a dimension beyond all dimensions that profane man knows and loves; it is the death of the ego, which necessarily precedes the birth of the “new creature in Christ.”
He who does not die does not live plentifully - and he who does not have a plentiful life has no faith.
Die to live - this is a great truth! It is not enough to die compulsorily, such as birth, life, and death, but it is necessary to die spontaneously to believe. Only a human being who died voluntarily is a true believer, and in this case, his “believing” and “savouring” it after the voluntary and mystical death of the ego introduces man into eternal life, into a life that has surpassed the precarious birth and death and is a complete living. A life that still knows to be born and die is not plentiful, it is just a pseudo-life or a prolonged agony, a slight moment of light in the darkness. Only a life that sprang from a voluntary death is integral.
This is having faith! It is this faith, which is a piece of vital knowledge, that guarantees eternal life.
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