EVOLUTION THROUGH SUFFERING

Suffering is an occurrence in all sectors of finite existence.

At first glance, it appears to be a paradox, and many attributes suffering as an argument against the existence of creative power, the Absolute Thesis, God, the Infinite Power.

If the world of finite beings were a static state and not a dynamic process, the phenomenon of suffering in these existences would be incomprehensible.

But the world of finite beings, as Albert Einstein wrote, is the world of Universal Relativity. Everything is under a permanent fluidic movement for the finite and limited being, where nothing is rigid. And if there is a static being, this being is the Infinite Power.

In the world of finite existences, the paradox of suffering is the more extraordinary of truths because it is the process of evolution. In it, two phenomena occur, debt-suffering and credit-suffering. The first is unhealthy, the result of guilt, error, and the second is healthy, as it is the voluntary affirmation of the process for greater spiritual ascent.

It happens that if there was no suffering in the world of living beings, there would be no guarantee for the conservation of life, species and its integrity. In agony, pain is the great protector of life and the integrity of beings. Every time an organism is harmed in any way, the pain alert appears so that the living being takes the necessary measures to avoid future injuries.

The evolution plan of action itself is also a kind of suffering because it is an ascension plan, and all ascension involves misery, which means healthy suffering, credit-suffering.

If there were no suffering, suffering that protects and suffering for evolution, we don't know what the world of living beings would be like.

In the world of human beings, consciousness and free will appear, which are open doors to unlimited evolution. Still, inseparable from the phenomenon of suffering, voluntary suffering, credit-suffering, also called metaphysical suffering. The more man evolves towards the heights of spiritual consciousness, the more he perceives his process of evolution. Only the man of little consciousness in this evolutionary sector can be satisfied with his state, without feeling the happy dissatisfaction of a higher possibility, for the unhappy satisfaction with himself keeps this man of little consciousness at a level of stagnation.

But the more a man ascends, the more he feels a happy dissatisfaction with his present level and still increases his yearning towards a higher level. His evolutionary process grows in direct proportion to his evolution.

In a more radical evolutionary spurt, the man enters, not exactly into a happy satisfaction, as would be expected, but into a suffering jouissance, happiness at once delighted and dissatisfied. Glad to be in the straight line of his destiny; disappointed, because the awareness of his distance from the Infinite becomes more and more sharp and intense.

If eternal life were a heaven of complete enjoyment, it would not be a higher evolution. But the heaven of man's spiritual awareness is both heaven of joy and suffering, of unsatisfied happiness.

The more a man possesses God, the more he seeks the Deity - and that having and seeking incessantly is his eternal life, his eternal happiness; not a static life, but a dynamic one.

Mathematics wisely says that: the distance between any finite and the Infinite is always infinite.

This search for the Infinite and the uprightness of character are the two poles on which the entire evolution of man revolves: heaven deliciously suffered and painfully enjoyed.

It is known that all entities of high spiritual evolution descend to lower regions to evolve more and more. Paul of Tarsus attributes the descent of Jesus, who, due to his terrestrial incarnation in an environment of low spiritual vibration, and after his voluntary sufferings, “entered his glory” in an evolutionary glory greater than he had before.

As inexperienced people think, this desire to evolve even more has nothing to do with selfishness, but it is the destiny of every creative creature; it is the reason for its own existence.

Nor is it convenient to attribute this descent to the desire to help other creatures existing on lower levels. These spirits do not descend for the purpose of external redemption. They can and must contribute with their message of redemption, but they have descended to their own redemption, to their future self-redemption, that is, to greater self-realization. Everyone who truly loves their neighbour loves himself, which is self-love: to love his neighbour as himself is the wisdom of all the masters of humanity; whoever has no self-love can love nothing.

These enlightened spirits descend to inferior regions to find the necessary resistance indispensable for the next evolutionary step. But, as all plenitude necessarily overflows, the evolution of these spirits redounds to the benefit of inferior beings – supposing that they have openness or receptivity to accept this overflowing of spiritual light, of metaphysical knowledge.

It so happens that many of these inferior beings, among whom an enlightened being appeared, do not have this receptive opening, and these beings then feel this presence as an offence, an insult, a challenge, and they harass it in every way. A pygmy hardly tolerates being eclipsed by the shadow of a giant, as happened with the cosmic genius who was Jesus, crucified, dead and buried by the pygmies of incomprehension.

At this point, the suffering becomes decidedly positive, both for the sufferer and the recipients of the overflow, but these, will have to compensate this overflow, through the debt-suffering, as they did nothing to reverse the annihilation of the positive sufferer.

So great is this mystery that in more than 2000 years of Christianity, the valid reason for the incarnation of Christ in the human person of Jesus is still not comprehended.

The more freed a highly enlightened being finds himself, the more he voluntarily enslaves himself to become more and more liberated, climbing higher into his heaven. Only a few freed avoid voluntary enslavement because they have not yet managed to spell the ABC of evolution and self-liberation.

For highly evolved beings, voluntary suffering is a “soft yoke and light burden” and no longer a “narrow path and a tight gate”, as it is for the newly literate or for the illiterate of ascending evolution.

The man of high spiritual evolution is neither vicious nor virtuous but wise. He no longer avenges offences, like the illiterate, nor does he forgive them, like the newly literate or virtuous, but ignores any offence. The offence factor is ego, vicious or virtuous; ignoring the offence is the Self of wisdom.

Anyone who is still on the horizontal level of the ego is like water, which can become impure, but whoever is on the vertical level of the Self is like the light, which is undefiled by any impurity and does not even allow access to offence.