58. Grace

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To "see" by our universal self-intellect, knowing ourselves make it possible to realize that Christianity, as a tradition, and salvation, as adherence to the tradition, is a lifelong task and not a gift. Similarly, faith and grace are not gifts, but tasks. In the relationship between the two, faith contains grace, help from the One and Only, so grace arises from faith. Grace means renunciation, practicing humility, peace, serenity, piety, kindness (gentleness), forgiveness, which can only be achieved with spiritual superiority, with faith that originates from the universal self. An example of understanding grace is found in the case of Job, who declared: "The One gave, and the One took away; blessed be the name of the Lord." Grace can also be understood as action through non-action, when our individual self does not act within us, but our universal self does. 

On Pentecost, there was nothing other than the manifestation of the ability and knowledge, the universality of the sacred soul, which is capable of revealing the universal self. This was the restoration when it did not matter what language one spoke, which nation they belonged to, or where they came from, because everyone understood, accepted each other, and understood the universal revelation. The modern Christianity, which sees itself as universal – unlike early traditional Christianity – should fulfil its task of teaching this universality. Ideally, such universal communities would make up the people of the One’s House, who are true and normal (not Pharisees). But there is no ideal case. 

As already mentioned, man is part of the Trinity; without him, neither the world, nor salvation, nor resurrection, nor the sacred soul flowing from grace, or the life received as a gift from grace, has any meaning. The people of the One’s House are made up of those true and normal people who have accepted the constant grace and love flowing from the One, regardless of language, gender, or geographical affiliation. We live by One’s grace, with grace, and for grace, so that we too practice grace toward others. We are here by grace. 

Those who are comfortable do not know grace. Those who are comfortable and whose individual self dominates their universal self have original/ancestral sin, while others do not. If religion declares that everyone is sinful, meaning everyone has an individual self, then it is correct. This dogma forms the basis of equality within religion. But it must also be said that if we manage to overcome our individual self, or our ancestral sin, we are no longer equal, but are in the freedom and order of the One. This would be everyone’s task. It is not equality that makes a human community or nation happy and liveable, but rather the difference between the people within it. 

Similarly, the peoples of the world will not be happier by being equal to another people, but by being different. Religious dogmas and psychology meet in the individual self. Since for them the universal self, deification, does not exist, they have left humanity in confusion and abandonment for centuries. What neither one says: solve it if you can, because I cannot help you. Faith, love, and grace are also needed to renounce ignorance (sin in Christian terms), which can only be complete renunciation. There is no "either-or" situation, one cannot renounce halfway, nor be half-pure. One cannot be half-deified. Complete renunciation means liberation from ignorance and the individual self.