Enemies are often more useful than our friends

sisters of isis wishing sympathy for the devil.

At first i read 'Emimems are often more useful than our friends'

Someone has treated you badly… Even if it is difficult, learn to forgive. Have faith and trust in the power of the beings of light in the invisible world, as they are always ready to give you the means to regain your strength and courage when you work according to their laws. Now, if you think the person who has done wrong to you really deserves to be taught a lesson, speak to these entities. Say, ‘This is what this person has done to me, and now because of them I am suffering, encountering great difficulties’ – and you can even tell them what these are, if you like. ‘So I am asking you to intervene to put right the harm that was done to me.’ In this way you lodge a complaint with heaven as you would with the courts, and then heaven will see what can be done. But in any case, do not try to take revenge yourself. I don’t mean by that that we should abolish judges, courts and punishments, leave criminals alone and wait for divine justice to deal with them one day! No, let the judges and the courts do their work, and let them do it to their best ability, because it is very difficult work. I am simply drawing your attention to a few principles of spiritual life.

In all places and at all times, money and possessions have been a cause of conflict for humans. You only have to see what happens in families – the tragedies there are around issues of inheritance! Envy and greed are what keep not only families but societies and countries in a state of permanent conflict. Yes, the cause of war is always greed. Whatever the reasons given – and often they can even be most noble – the real motive is always to take something from someone (money, land, the earth’s riches), and, obviously, the other is forced to retaliate. There is nothing reprehensible about wanting possessions, but not at the expense of others. And those who are wealthy must not keep everything for themselves but learn to share their wealth. No one is richer than the Lord. His best representative on earth is the sun. The sun is rich to overflowing. Why not imitate it? If you cannot be generous with material riches, which you may not possess, be generous with your spiritual riches – with kindness, understanding, leniency and forgiveness.

The notion that God approaches you or distances himself from you hinders your spiritual evolution. You say to yourself: ‘I have acted badly, I feel abandoned by God; I will wait until he forgives me and comes to me again.’ Well, you can wait for centuries. It is you who must start work immediately. If you expect changes to come from the Lord, if you are content merely to call him to the aid of his wayward child, your illusions will only help prolong your inner malaise. Since it is you who are the cause of these difficulties, correct your mistakes. This is true repentance and will bring you closer to God. To say that God forgives us is an illusion; we are only pardoned when we make reparations. You must divest yourselves of many false notions which have been fostered by religion itself. In all circumstances, work to rise above the clouds in order to rediscover the Divinity within you.

"We are not always rewarded for the good we do, this is true, but that should not be a reason to become discouraged, and what is most important is that we find the right attitude.

Let us say you have done somebody some good, by giving them material help for instance. Then, one day, you find that they did not deserve your help, and you go and tell the whole world how ungrateful they were after all you had done for them and that if you had known ... But why say all these things? If you go and complain to everyone, regretting your good deeds, you destroy the merit of what you did. It had already been recorded up above that you should be rewarded and now, by going round telling everyone that you have been let down, cheated, you erase the good you had done.

Even if the people for whom you did good show themselves ungrateful, turn a blind eye and forgive them. This is how you grow. And anyway, what you have lost here will be given back to you a hundred times over later. Whatever people do to you, do not try to settle your scores. Wait for Heaven to pronounce itself in your favour; it is bound to happen one day."

"Love is a form of injustice. But before learning to manifest this injustice, i.e. love, we must learn to manifest justice. Moses imposed on the Jewish people ruthless laws upholding such principles as 'an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth'. The slightest error had to be punished. There was never any question of leniency or forgiveness. But that was understandable, since humankind was at a degree of evolution where it needed stringent rules. At that time, justice was already considerable progress in itself. But this situation could not last for ever, because God is clement and merciful, and human beings, who were created in His image, had to become clement and merciful like Him. This is why Jesus came to teach forgiveness. If you look at how he behaved with the disgraced and the sinners you see that he transgressed the law of justice by his attitude, but by transgressing the law of justice, he instituted the law of love."

"Because God is so great, he neither concerns himself with the mistakes and malice of human beings, nor does he vary according to their behaviour. Therefore, if you feel worried or rejected because you have behaved badly, do not claim that God has withdrawn or that he has rejected you. Instead, make an effort and rectify your mistakes and you will once again feel close to him.

Above all, do not wait for God to forgive you: he has not condemned you, so he has nothing to forgive you for. No purpose is served by beating your breast and saying, ‘I am a sinner. I am a sinner.’ Since you had the power to create the clouds that deprive you of God’s light, you also have the power to disperse them. Everything depends on you, on your attitude. What good do all the advancements in psychology serve if human beings are not able to analyse these vitally important states they experience, to understand them and correct them?"

"Do not always take justice as a rule of conduct. Always give more than you have to, and forgive those who have done you harm. This is how you will win friends.

Justice was useful in an era when people could not yet accept the teaching of love. The Old Testament speaks only of justice: ‘eye for eye, tooth for tooth’. But if we continue to act in this way today, we stand to lose a great deal, for it will always be justice that we meet. On the other hand, if we work according to the law of love, it is love that will come to pay us a visit.

The law of justice is necessary as a foundation for morality, but it is not sufficient for the establishment on earth of the kingdom of God… ‘and his justice’, this divine justice which is not the justice of human beings. Love is always greater than justice. "

"Justice is not a virtue humans practise spontaneously, which is why when Moses emphasized this virtue he greatly served their progress. Later, Jesus came to teach them love and forgiveness. But should it stop there? No, there is still a further stage to be reached, because forgiveness does not actually solve every problem. If somebody comes and attacks you, are you not allowed to be stronger than them, to seize them by the waist and lift them up and say, 'Well, do you want me to throw you to the ground?' But you don't throw them; you gently place them back on their feet. And they will have understood. Obviously, this is symbolic. What I mean is that you have to be stronger than your enemies and immobilize them with a gesture, a word or a glance. You do not mistreat them; you even help them by giving them a splendid lesson.

To obtain this spiritual power, you must pray, meditate and exercise, taking the sun as your model. Who then can touch you without being burned by the contact with your heat and your light? Enemies will stay away; they will no longer dare to come near you. In the presence of spiritual power, we always have to capitulate. After justice, after love and forgiveness, human beings still have to win true power."

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This was very deep and lovely. And so true.