Wednesday 7 July 2010

For the love of Eros!

The world should be loved. It is one whole bunch of eros. Beautiful, sexy,etheral. We are meant to be attracted by this loveliness of the world. That is the starting point to freedom. Yet, it is a great deception, the world, as we see it, is false, zero,literarily nothing, what paradox! The world is the great deception. Eros is never bad, it should be desired but it is as risky as death! Remember it is love, eros is love! This is our mistake: rather than starting from God so as to bring eros to unity we start from ourselves who are also principaly eros! eros + eros = 0 ( nihilism), God(agape) + eros = 1 ( unity). Because we dare approach eros through our efforts, we get severed and it turns us narcists, and the great lie is perpetrated, and we blame eros for everything. If eros is bad, why would God come down to be eros(man)? He , being eros, as a consequence has attracted everything eros and makes them divine, thus food , meat , wine, sex, money, pleasures are divine attributes. but first by an absolute submission of eros to agape can this pleasures be genuinely realised , and we experience the great transformation of eros through filial into agape!

On Career

God loves the world. He prefers the natural to the supernatural. This path of naturalness is the one that leads to authentic growth, for it unleashes all our energy, humanness and creativity. Mary is the symbol of all naturalness, i.e all that is seen. Even though we are often consoled by the divine and miracles, the ultimate victory comes only by work because God has become flesh, that is why the purest miracle is that which is realised amidst the struggles and the events of life.Progress entails taking responsibility of the world and nature, noturing her and making her habitable for posterity. This work , done, in tilling mother earth is ultimately the path towards salvation.The earth is matter, 'severance',and matter must be acted upon so that it can act once more in essence, i.e unity.Work was cursed to be toil through the adamic fault , but work is not to be hated.Through the victory of Christ, work is love. In fact love is a verb, an action word, a doing word.All professionalism and career points to this ultimate aim: love. We must love what we do! This beautiful naturalness has its roots from the supernatural, the source of all naturalness is divine. From the unseen to the seen, our work , thus natural as it should be , should untimately be dependent on the supernatural, it is being controlled from thence. It matters little wether we like what we do or not , what we have to realise is that it is love. Love sometimes transcends feelings....