Religious Studies: Weaknesses Transformed into Strengths

Characteristic Weaknesses Transformed into Strengths: 

Virtues are natural to Man, and when desired, when called upon, when prayed for sincerely, deliberately and needfully induced, their messengers will beckon and their characteristics shall be grafted to our being. The weakness shall be restored into that which it was originally destined to become, as follows:

Bitterness comes from the retaining of falsehoods. Although a genuine sadness may belie a harrowing upset, it is often perpetuated within an individual long after the event by resentments which are unempathetic and exaggerated.

You see, in truth it is not of Man to injure or to cause harm. It is never of Man because it is not of Christ. When events occur that cause pain and hardship they are instigated from the lower realms and criminal only to the condition of ego presently as is – weak and susceptible.

Individuals who come to truth, who embrace both understanding and knowing, inevitably come to Love. In this we can say (and at peace) to those who cause harm, that they know not what they do and therefore we can forgive.

Bitterness, therefore when redeemed, can become this flower of forgiveness which embraces the noble and endearing qualities of those around us, relinquishing the persistent cries for ungivable solace, finding true perspective, even amongst the hardships known.

The enjoyment of disasters and ruin of others is wilfully and intentionally malicious. It still comes under the category of not knowing what one does in respect to the idiotic karmic repercussions which concur because of this ruinistic conjecture.

One could imagine that this trait would tranverse into its opposite – that one could develop some helpful forethought and consideration thereby. This is not the case. What it does eventually become in time is: karmic suffering, followed by bitterness, followed by the resolution found (as above) in forgiveness.

This of course means also the forgiveness of oneself for the ill-will as shown to the others around them as well.

The true Captain of Religion sails the seas with an infinite and commanding calm. He knows the motion of the waters beneath him yet loves the land also, and knows how to walk it. Through the Heavenly Bodies He becomes in the World and through his being in the World he gives to the World and all is well.