An Alchemical Challenge
for Planetary Citizens
Carlos Cardoso Aveline
Carlos Cardoso Aveline
A historical view of Jerusalem city
The Land of Israel
is a magnetic center of fundamental importance to human karma in its present
phase.
It is the main birthplace of
the three basic monotheisms of our civilization. On its soil and in the soul of
its inhabitants a memory is recorded of untold and unutterable wisdom and
ignorance, which comes from remote antiquity.
A sacred city for various religions, Jerusalem has
been a constant focus of war and dissent, and serves as a pretext for cruelties
of which no animal has ever been capable of.
Judaism is the oldest of the three monotheistic
religions. It is also by far the most unjustly attacked religion in the last
2,000 years. Perhaps no other nation has been so hated, for such a long time
and in such a violent way as the Jewish. But human beings get morally
strengthened as they resist unjust persecution: Judaism is today more alive
than ever from the ethical, philosophical and human points of view.
The wisdom tradition of Sinai has an extraordinary
depth. Judaism directly challenges the ethical relativism denounced by Erich
Fromm. It is still an imperfect religion, marked by the struggle between dogmatism
and open-mindedness. It has much to learn. And yet, it flourishes in the
attainment of universal knowledge.
As a country, Israel is an open, democratic, and
utopian place which reflects the creative chaos and the contradictions present
in human soul.
The Middle East includes Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey and
other countries. It is a laboratory which works in high karmic
temperatures.
In it, the lead of political and religious ignorance
slowly becomes the gold of unconditional good will and mutual help. Islam, the
most violent of present-day religions, must cease to despise life or worship
death. Israel has friends among moderate Muslim countries and constitutes a
source of alchemical transmutation for the Middle East as a whole. It also has something to say to all of
mankind.
The Western roots of our civilization are Greek, Roman
and Jewish. The Jewish part of such roots, however, has been denied by
Christian priests, who at the same time adopted the Hebrew Bible for
themselves.
The Jewish Torah has itself older origins, as Helena
Blavatsky shows in her writings. All nations are brothers and sisters, and they
have much to learn from each other, as they accept to share universal wisdom.
The Islamic organizations which preach or practice
violence and anti-Semitism must change their point of view and transform Islam
so that it becomes a religion of peace and love of life.
Jews and Muslims are not intrinsic adversaries. They
are two sister-traditions, in fact. There are Muslims in Israel, just as there
are Jews in Muslim countries.
Whether we are Buddhists, Hindus, Taoists, Jews,
Christians, Atheists or Muslims, we must all walk towards universal brotherhood,
and this must be done with the necessary ethics, firmness and rigour. Mutual
respect among nation-states constitutes an important step towards a planetary commonwealth
of nations.
The feeling of respect for the Jewish state and for
its capital, the city of Jerusalem, is an act of historical justice. Honest citizens
must not protect acts of terrorism, nor wash hands with regard to attitudes of
systematic disrespect for life. It is time now to awaken to the law of reciprocity
and equilibrium.
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The
above article was also published in our blog at “The Times of Israel”.
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Read the
texts “Meditating on Peace in the Middle East”, “Occult
Roots of Religious Violence” and “A Jewish Esoteric School”.
They were written by Carlos Cardoso Aveline and are available at our associated
websites. See also in our websites Albert Einstein’s article “Why Do They
Hate the Jews?”.
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On the role of the esoteric movement in
the ethical awakening of mankind during the 21st century, see the book “The Fire and Light of Theosophical
Literature”, by Carlos Cardoso Aveline.
Published in
2013 by The Aquarian Theosophist,
the volume has 255 pages and can be obtained through Amazon Books.
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