Baptism leads us to the very origin of things which breaks off the yoke created by original sin and opens forth life according to its original purpose thus revealing to us, what I call the Grand Positivity Of Existence: life amidst its journey back and forth is moving forward and forward only. Experience is positive within its forward and expansive mode. This is mercy.
So, what
about justice? Justice is the ability to live and balance the journey back and
forth within the right perspective. And it takes wisdom to do this, as this is
the arena of the head.
But what
really creates drive and gives a positive motion to life experience is the ‘entropic’
force of the heart. The heart is what introduces mercy, and mercy is what moves
experiences from the personal actions of the Journey Forth onto the impersonal
experience of the Grand Positivity of Existence.
Christ has
not come to abolish the law but to complete it. That is, He continually reduces
the goriness out of the Journey Back and introduces and expands the
blissfulness from the Journey Forth, from which arises transitendedness, which
contributes to the cumulative experience of the Grand Positivity of
Existence.
Christ
brought justice to the domain of mercy on the cross as he captures the origin
of the source of baptism and the remnant of justice, all onto the domain of
mercy in his heart. Mercy consumes
justice at that point when blood and water gushed forth from his heart, the
abode of mercy. Not from his head, which satisfies divine justice.
The factor
of the origin is important. That is the attempt of John the Baptist to return humanity
to water, which is the source of land and every organism. This water is what
finds a new source and dimension from the heart of Christ after it has been
renewed and purified. through his passion.
Natural water
is dualistic. It is mercy and justice, life and death, Journey Forth, and Journey
Back. But the blood and water which gushes from the heart of Christ is the
source of the new life because it has satisfied divine justice and has
introduced the Grand Positivity of Experience, which is life. His heart is the source of life, and vitality,
the source of the real water, which has a primordial marriage with the Holy
Spirit, and births positivity into being.
I do not
believe anyone who is baptized can be eternally condemned, in the strictest term
of the word. The baptized person has already been set on a positive trajectory that
is indelible. The real entropy is mercy, and no sin can blot out this
experience. Mercy is the ultimate power of existence, which forces everything
into subjection, once we enter through the source, which is baptism.
The
Eucharist regulates this journey and orientates it toward this Grand Positivity, while
we are in this realm of existence. And this can be a struggle, while on earth
but it is a positive struggle that is far easier, than when we depart. This is
why the last viaticum does help in facing this final epic, which succumbs us
permanently to the force of entropy, which ultimately is love and mercy, and
positive.
What then
happens to the baptized person who is not on the right positive trajectory of mercy?
He is condemned. But the real force of the cosmos, this mercy input through
grace in baptism, will say no. You can't fight entropy. And for a Christian, mercy
is the Grand Positivity Of Existence, the continuous giving of being
towards movement.
The struggle
henceforth may be a million times more than what is experienced on earth, because
of a wilful non-alignment to reality. An experience that may lead into the
abyss of the rabbit hole of gravity, but that which has been input from the
inception, at baptism, born from the heart of Christ the source, is indelible
and it always wins.
If you are
accustomed to the gaze of entropy as death out of a reluctance to give and let
go in this realm, then this creates intense suffering in the next. The
individual will become utterly helpless, and only if you have the love of those
from this realm, who are ready to love, Let go and be merciful to act on your
behalf, would you be able to escape.
But how
could a baptized Christian be condemned eternally? Even when the suffering is
great and the person is helpless? What happens
to the baptized? The Christ in him is indelible and does not die. It ultimately
comes to the rescue of the soul, albeit through intense suffering.
I believe
purgatory, perhaps long periods of purgatory, Intense and stressful, may be a
lot of an unrepented baptized Christian, but ultimately, mercy from baptism
will say no. Mercy wins.
Faith is the
ultimate virtue and faith even as tiny as a mustard seed can thrive beyond
proportion. If it is the faith of your Father that has brought you to baptism,
still, it doesn't die. Because it is an indelible mark and the faith of our fathers
still lives still.
What we
should work for, and strive for, with every being of our soul, then, is to get
the entire world baptized. Faith and morals are needed. But a single desire to
be baptized, either by the person or any of his household, is enough reason to
plant the seed of baptism, which lasts to the very last, and beyond, because it
doesn't die.
Let us go
then, in the midst of our present-day secularism and religious pluralism to get
everyone to believe and be baptized. Don't look for an extensive belief, a
simple gesture is enough.
The barriers
to baptism are overly complicated in our age. Let us break this barrier and
baptize the entire world
