Three main rapports are possible in the relationships between man and the world. These relationships can be seen as three states of experience with which the Being experiences himself:
- Man confused and lost in the world
- Man rejected and alienated from the world
- Man in the world but not of the world.
We have discussed the first two relationships in the 2nd PART of this writing.
The third relationship is excellently cited in the Gospels with the parable: “I am in the world, but I am not of this world”.
This type of man participates in the life of the world by remembering himself, that is, by keeping alive the consxiousness of his Essence: he is alert and awake; how many times in the Gospels is the word used: Wake up, Stay awake!
The man in the world but not of this world cannot be enclosed in definitions, and therefore should not be confused and labeled with an epithet or another belief. He does not believe and does not adhere to any dogma, he does not follow doctrines or currents of thought to reach the truth; he found the truth by surrendering to Reality. Having found the source, he is beyond duality, he is beyond man; he is no longer of this world but is aware of being in this world.
This man lives without worldly applause, without clamor, without noise, without recipes, he does not need followers or to impart proselytes, he does not impose his truth and does not limit the freedom of others. This man is a disciple of Reality, he is a supporter of what is; within the limits of the possible he welcomes all that is, being himself this limit and this Being. He knows how to perform the act of active thinking; focused and motivated, he watches over and witnesses the living experience of Reality and Life. This man has realized that all that is Real is Being, and that the Consxiousness of his Being is all that is.
Well, this man apparently seems to be veiled by an aura of mystery, he seems to hide an unrevealable secret to men lost in the world and rejected by the world. In truth, this man is not the custodian of any secret, what this man has is a direct experience of the truth that establishes and gives meaning to his Purpose.
Men lost in the world, the so-called good men, are generally the supporters of the morally and ethically correct; how many crowds never ask themselves questions about the reason for their belief and about things, and continue to rely only on social rules and norms to be able to live a life that they say is ‘just’ and ‘dignified’. The new man, albeit with respect, no longer lives by norms and rules that are unjust and limiting for him, because having united interiority and exteriority he has united Heaven and Earth; he carries within himself the Principles of a universal Law commensurate with the will of divine work.
Of course, all this may seem like inapplicable philosophy or the story of the usual nonsense, while the things of the world are showing themselves more and more concrete, it is true. Very hard years await us and a period of notable changes, with even dramatic events: wars, perhaps other collective psychodramas, and who knows what else will be arranged to awaken all of humanity from the torpor of a nightmare of the end of the era. If we do not work on ourselves, and therefore on the change of the dominant paradigm, the lost and rejected men of the world will react to future events as in the past, that is, paying a very high price in terms of destruction, immense suffering and gratuitous suffering.
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are just waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that scares us is, in its deepest essence, something defenseless that wants our love.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
