The Social Christ

CHAPTER XXVIII

RADICAL CHANGE

Everyone suffers, everyone cries and people now tired of crying and suffering want a radical change.  Poor people… they want everything to change and they organize political parties and raise up flags and new leaders, but things stay the same.  They can change the circumstances but the results are always the same.

“The wind returns again according to his circuits… The thing that has been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done.” [1]

This is the law of Recurrence.  Time is round, and events are repeated, they happen again in their moment and in their time.  The Earth turns around the sun, the seasons happen every year, the hours are repeated, and history repeats itself as well.

The ego always returns in order to repeat the same thing and the past becomes the future.  There is no essential difference between the past and the future.

We are all tired of suffering and we want to change the order of things, but really we can change nothing.  We achieve the modification of circumstances but the results continue being the same.  We can change the cage but the cage is always the cage.  Capitalist cage or communist cage; they are always cages.  In whatever cage we are in we inevitably have to suffer.  We can change nothing radically as long as a radical change has not been made within the individual.

In order to change something, a change within the individual must take place first.  If we want the world to change, it is first necessary that the individual change internally in a radical way.

We are in a vicious circle and the people, the poor people, don’t know it.

People always repeat the same mistakes.  The Volga boatmen rebelled against slavery and now the modern Bolsheviks try to mix the human race with simians, monkeys, chimps, apparently to create a new inferior type of race to do all of the work of human beings.  That is, they want to create a race of slaves.  The enemies of slavery now want a new type of slavery.

One can be erudite and nevertheless be incapable of changing something.  Changing requires different knowledge and also something that one does not possess.

When you are different, everything will be different.  When one changes internally, everything will change.

This matter of changing internally requires comprehension.  It is urgent to deeply study the causes of pain and, once these causes are discovered, to comprehend them in all of the levels of the mind.  Only in this way will we achieve radical change.

If I am cruel the world will be cruel and if I am greedy the world will be greedy, because the individual is the world.  If we want the world to change, first the individual must change.  When the individual has radically changed, it is logical that the world changes, because this world is an extension of the individual.

Anyone who wants to change needs to sacrifice something.  The sacrifices that are needed for radical change are many.  Everyone has something to sacrifice except for those who are definitively lost; those people can’t even be helped anymore.

In order to change it is necessary to know, in order to know it is necessary to learn and in order to learn it is necessary to make great sacrifices.

People really only appreciate that which has cost them a sacrifice.  Radical change without sacrifice is absurd.  All radical change requires sacrifice; that is the law: everything has a cost; nothing is given to us as a gift.  A person can only achieve as much as he has given for it.

There is no other path for achieving radical change.  Conscious Sacrifice is the only path.

Is it perhaps a small thing to sacrifice lust?  Pride?  Laziness?  Gluttony?  Envy?  Anger?  Covetousness, etc.?

Only by the road of sacrifice do we achieve radical change.  History is repeated and the ego always returns to repeat its same errors and its same history.  Everything repeats with the exactitude of a good watch, and changing this order of things is only possible by creating new causes.

If we really want new causes we urgently need supreme sacrifices; this is the only way will we achieve a radical change.  This is the only way we can change this order of things in order to get out of the vicious circle in which we are fatally caught.

The Law of Return and Recurrence is the great secret.  Whoever comes to know this secret opens certain innermost doors in their consciousness.

With the internal change we can use this knowledge in order to know our own purpose.  Really, this secret can only be useful for those who are resolved to radically change.  Unfortunate are those who resign themselves to the state of consciousness in which they live.  It is better to change.  However, every absolute radical change costs dearly.  Radical change is paid with your own life.  The beloved ego, the “I”, the myself, must die so that the Being is born in us.

Only the Being can do.  Only the Being has sufficient innermost power to really change this order of things in which we presently live.

The illusion of the Intellectual Animal is believing that he can do.  In the vicious circle of time, everything is repeated with the exactness of a well-made watch.

Those who know the great secret (the laws of Return and Recurrence) must use it wisely, otherwise it will turn against them and turn inevitably to the abyss of fatality.

Those who come to know the laws of Return and Recurrence know that everything returns and comes and goes, and that events are repeated within the circle of time with the exactness of a stopwatch.

Those who already know the great secret have very few lives ahead of them; possibilities run out as well, and the law of Recurrence has a limit.

Those who know the great secret must use their time well because the laws of Recurrence and Return reach their end.  Unhappy are they who do not know how to take advantage of the great secret.

Those who know the great secret must know that the incessant return to this vale of tears also has an end that can be catastrophic.

The lost are those who descend through the portals of recurrence in lower and lower spirals.  Those degenerated people finally stop being born and are replaced by others who need to come into the world.

Many people want a special method for the dissolution of the beloved ego.  Is there a better didactic than life itself?

In social life with our neighbors we can self-discover ourselves.  In all of our relationships with people our hidden defects pop out, they spontaneously bloom and then we can see them if we want to see them.

The important thing is to analyze our defects when we discover them, and then by means of self-reflection and in-depth meditation, we can investigate the origin of those defects and discover their secret triggers in the different unconscious folds of the mind.

You can be sure, dear reader, that every defect discovered in a complete way inevitably ceases to exist.  This is how we can die from instant to instant.  This is how the Being keeps being born from instant to instant.

Really, only the Being can alter this order of things and create a true and legitimate democracy.