New alliances and new horizons

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Alliance is a fundamental principle for survival, both human (body) and spiritual (essence). If you do not ally with a specific party, you will inherently create one with another, directly or indirectly. 

The presupposition always accompanies the comprehension of two parties, plus one, which will ultimately become two in its own definition.

Let’s say there are two teams, and someone from one of the teams invites you to be in their team, but you then choose to abstain. As a result, you’ve officially, or unofficially, formed a new party.  Although you decided on a third party in this scenario, overall, the scenario is divided into two: you and the others.

Material and Spiritual Alliances

One important principle for alliances is compromise. But not one that takes advantage of the other. True compromise accompanies equality through specialized skills.

It means that both parties need to recognize their qualities and inabilities. That way they can both attend to the gaps each one creates. Unfortunately, society in general is still far away from reaching material alliances that produce a harmonious, solidary, and altruistic one.

The good thing is that it is possible to reach it through a spiritual approach, which will subsequently affect the material aspect of life. There is much to learn from each other. Brother Paiva teaches that: “The Ecumenical Fraternity is capable of bringing together adversaries and creating solutions to the problems that are suffocating humanity from their paradoxes, because, as I always like to repeat, there really is a lot to learn from each other.”

This reality is within humanity's grip through the choices made.

The responsibility of choosing

We then understand that by making a choice, you have to be concerned with the responsibility of that choice. That is, whatever you choose, even if you think it is the right choice, the inherent repercussion of it is your onus. It’s something you have to accept and “carry your cross” (Jesus, according to Matthew, 16:24).

For example, in a disagreement between two friends, you decided to go for a neutral response.

Now, this neutral response brings two choices that might build up: First, an individual one, where you will have a hard time making it clear, or not. Second, a collective one, where you can extract what is common in both arguments and strive for a balanced position. Regardless, what you decide to say or do, in the end, you have to bear the repercussions of denial.

Power = Frailty

My utmost point is that you cannot escape the duality of life. Even if you consciously believe in exercising power to control the results of your choice. The result will generate frailty in its own existence.

Being responsible is not only knowing the choices you make, but also the ones you cannot make. What, then, can fill that necessary gap? Trust. Faith in the alliances that you make and that exist in another realm beyond the material. In short, it is faith in God, in Christ, in our Holy Mother, and the Spirits of Light–although we must be careful not to tend ourselves to destructive alliances with ignorant spirits. 

All alliances have direct repercussions for the individual and the collective.

Spiritual Alliances of the East

One that we see is highlighted by the Apocalypse of Jesus, according to John 16:12, is the emerging alliance coming from the East: 

— The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, to prepare the way for the kings from the east.

This alliance of kings from the East unfolds not only in political aspects, but also in cultural, religious, and economic ones. In addition to the expansion of Oriental religious traditions (Buddhism and Yoga) to the West, it also influences the East with the habit of rationalizing religion.

In summary, the kings of the East also mean the coming of good aspects of religiosity and spirituality, encouraging us to see the reality of life as an unison between Spirit and matter.

Christianity and its objective of equilibrium

Let us not forget that the Christianity of Christ was born in the Middle East. And even though some may think it doesn’t mean much, we can still realize that it came to promote balance in the world, literally. Uniting the reason of the West with the Spirituality of the East. Think about it.

Which alliance do you want to be part of? Personally, I choose the One from the Good Shepherd (John 10:11), which promotes the balanced relationship of a multitude of Souls devoted to God’s Love (Apocalypse 7:9-10).

— And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to My voice. So there will be One flock, One Shepherd.

Jesus (John 10:16)