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Fifth Level of Awareness

An Ethic for our Environment: Becoming a Saint Today

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Page 1: An Ethic for our Environment: Becoming a Saint Today

Fifth Level of Awareness

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Replace the tension within us with a holy relaxation.Replace the turbulence within us with a sacred

calm.Replace the anxiety within us with a quiet

confidence.Replace the fear within us with a strong faith.Replace the bitterness within us with the sweetness

of grace.Replace the darkness within us with a gentle light. Replace the coldness within us with a loving

warmth.Replace the night within us with your light.Replace the winter within us with your spring.

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Straighten our crookedness. Fill our emptiness.Dull the edge of our pride. Sharpen the edge of

our humility.Light the fire our love. Quench the flames of

our lust.Let us see ourselves as you see us, that we

may see you as you have promised and be fortunate according to your word.

Blessed are the pure of heart, for they shall God.

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Any relation between the Christian aspiration – call to sainthood and ecology

How does an “Energy Based Theology” inform the Christian quest for holiness – for sainthood.

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Holiness – wholeness – sainthood – perfection.

Holistic: i.e. not only the head or the tale but the whole.

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The others are: 1. A of existing energies, (six forms: Physical, Human,

Uncreated E of God, E of the Holy Angel, E of the saints, of the devil) that filled our environment (environment not reducible to ecology)

2. A that our environment is an E nexus, a synergism of synergies.

3. A of E in our evolving environment; an evolution ad-intra synergy (Trinity) and ad-extra synergy ( Creation).

4. A of the environmentenvironmental crisis : incumbent dangers posed by the ozone crisis, AIDS and New Age Movement ( a solution-problem).

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A of our “responsibility” : becoming saints today.

A 3 step method ( scholasticism at work?)“1. What does it mean to become a saint

today? 2.Why is so difficult to become a saint today in our environment? 3. How do we become a saint today, then, in our environment?” 122.

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1. Becoming a Saint Today: one Environment, one salvation

2. why it is difficult to become a saint today

3. How to become a St today in our Env. • Through the practice of theological and

cardinal virtues• Through the intensification of virtues

through prayer

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Saint: one who has served heroicallyheroically God and the neighbors. But in the present, “any true good Christian.” I.e. “How to be a saint today?” equals to “how to be a truly a truly good Christiangood Christian today?”

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Heaven: a Dream Home or Family for all energies and personal energy-beings, sanctified, familizedfamilized, energized by God’s Uncreated Energies

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Hell: a pit for various energies and personal energy beings, forever unsanctifiableunsanctifiable, unfamilizable unfamilizable

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No to ‘fragmentation’ and dualism; yes to “holism” “No longer can we remain in a dualist worldview…[] we have only one salvation , one restoration, one healing, one transformation, one transfiguration, one HeavenizationHeavenization, one FamilizationFamilization, one sanctification, one divinization, or one Divine EnergizationEnergization in our one and only one cosmos, universe, milieu, or environment.” 122.

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1. Environment penetrated with diabolic Energies “bathing in” contaminated environment

2. Pervert subhuman energies: “we get hit everywhere and from everywhere.” (Theology of Hope!!!)

3. Depletion and dissipation of Saintly Energies 4.4. OstracizationOstracization of Angelic energies5. “Abuse” of the Material Energies (consumerism)6. Inactivation of the Divine Uncreated Energies7. Disorientation of our ordinary human energies.

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Through the practice of Theological virtues:

Faith Hope Charity

Cardinal virtues : Prudence Justice Temperance Fortitude

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Through the Intensification of the virtues through prayer; that is to activate dormant UDE.

Two kinds of activations: Individual collective.

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Constant Repentance - Daily Shower - Freeing ourselves from diabolic oppression

Fast food (brief prayer, ejaculatory prayers) - Fasting Taking Divine Energy Rich Food (Holy communion)

Developing a deep authentic Developing a deep authentic relationship with God relationship with God Adoration - Rosary - Getting the right personal education or knowledge of the Truth

Work a little less, pray a little more (充電 ).

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Continuing education Collective Prayer meetings Develop an authentic friendship with

other Christians ( ecumenism). Communion with the Holy Angels and

Saints (how?)。 Eucharist as way to unite our

suffering energies with Christ.

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Qi Theology: an effort to reconnect theology and spirituality; to close the gap of a too abstractive way of theologizing.

Sainthood: a universal call. “Be holy as your heavenly Father is Holy.” An imitation of the HF in whose image and likeness humans are created.

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A tendency to privatize the call: it is not only a Christian call; it is valid for non-Christians alike. In John Hick’s theory of pluralism (sainthood not necessarily related to Jesus Christ). Moreover, there are so called “Pagan Saints of the OT” Abraham, Moses, Elijah, etc.

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The awareness of our environment requires extended criteria for sainthood.

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Awareness of new waves of theologies, of expression of the quest for sainthood. Movies: ecological movies (Avatar, An

inconvenient Truth, Addicted to Plastic, the Last Mountain, the Lorax, etc.

Books: TV programs and channels (The Planet,

National Geographic, Disovery…

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The New and the old and the Old and the New…

An evolving understanding of “Environment” – from Environment as a Nexus of Energies to Environment as “Ecology.”