Man has such powers that
he can transmit good or evil to his environment. These
matters are very delicate. Great care is needed. We need
to see everything in a positive frame of mind. We mustn’t
think anything evil about others. Even a simple glance or
a sigh influences those around us. And even the slightest
anger or indignation does harm.
We need to have goodness and love in our soul and to transmit these things. We need to be careful not to harbour any resentment against those who harm us, but rather to pray for them with love. Whatever any of our fellow men does, we should never think evil of him. We need always to have thoughts of love and always to think good of others. Look at Saint Stephen the first martyr. He prayed, Lord, do not hold this sin against them. We need to do the same.
We need to have goodness and love in our soul and to transmit these things. We need to be careful not to harbour any resentment against those who harm us, but rather to pray for them with love. Whatever any of our fellow men does, we should never think evil of him. We need always to have thoughts of love and always to think good of others. Look at Saint Stephen the first martyr. He prayed, Lord, do not hold this sin against them. We need to do the same.
We should never think
about someone that God will send him some evil or that God
will punish him for his sin. This thought brings about
very great evil, without our being aware of it. We often
feel indignation and say to someone: ‘Have you no fear of
God’s justice, are you not afraid of God’s punishment?’ Or
else we say,‘God will punish you for what you’ve done,’
or,‘O God, do not bring evil on that person for what he
did to me’; or, ‘May that person not suffer the same
thing.’
In all these cases, we
have a deep desire within us for the other person to be
punished. Instead of confessing our anger over his error,
we present our indignation in a different way, and we
allegedly pray to God for him. In reality, however, in
this way we are cursing our brother. And if, instead of
praying, we say, ‘May God repay you for the evil you have
done to me,’ then once again we are wishing for God to
punish him. Even when we say,‘All very well, God is
witness,’ the disposition of our soul works in a
mysterious way and influences the soul of our fellow man
so that he suffers evil.
When we speak evil about
someone, an evil power proceeds from within us and is
transmitted to the other person, just as the voice is
transmitted on sound waves, and in point of fact the other
person suffers evil. It is something like the bewitchment
of the evil eye, when someone has evil thoughts about
others. This occurs through our own indignation. We
transmit our evil in a mystical way. It is not God who
provokes evil, but rather people’s wickedness. God does
not punish, but our own evil disposition is transmitted to
the soul of the other in a mysterious way and does evil.
Christ never wishes evil. On the contrary, He commands,
Bless those who curse you…
…
Within us there is a part
of the soul called the ‘moralist’. This ‘moralist’, when
it sees someone going astray, is roused to indignation,
even though very often the person who judges has strayed
in the same way. He does not, however, take this as an
occasion to condemn himself, but the other person. This is
not what God wants. Christ says in the Gospel: You, then,
that teach others, will you not teach yourself? While you
preach against stealing, do you steal? It may be that we
do not steal, but we commit murder; we reproach the other
person and not ourselves. We say, for example: ‘You should
have done that and you didn’t do it. So see now what’s
happened to you!’ When we think of evil, then it can
actually happen. In a mysterious and hidden manner we
diminish the power of the other person to move towards
what is good, and we do him harm. We can become the
occasion for him to fall ill, to lose his job or his
property. In this way we do harm, not only to our neighbor, but also to ourselves, because we distance
ourselves from the grace of God. And then we pray and our
prayers are not heard. We ‘ask and do not receive’. Why?
Have we ever thought of this? ‘Because we ask wrongly.’ We
need to find a way to heal the tendency within us to feel
and think evil about others.
It’s possible for someone
to say,‘The way that person is behaving, he will be
punished by God,’ and to believe that he is saying this
without evil intent. It is not a simple thing, however, to
discern whether he has or does not have evil intent. It
does not appear clearly. What is hidden in our soul and
how that can exercise influence on people and things is a
very secret matter.
The same is not true if we
say with a sense of awe that another person is not living
well and that we should pray for God to help him and grant
him repentance; that is, neither do we say, nor deep down
do we desire that God will punish him for what he does. In
this case not only do we not do harm to our neighbor, but
we do him good. When someone prays for his neighbor, a
good force proceeds from him and heals, strengthens and
revives him. It is a mystery how this force leaves us.
But, in truth, the person who has good within him radiates
this good power to others, mystically and gently. He sends
light to his neighbor and this creates a shield around
him and protects him from evil. When we possess a good
disposition towards others and pray, then we heal our
fellows and we help ‘them progress towards God.
Do you see what happens?
With the Spirit of God we all become incapable of every
sin. We are made incapable because Christ dwells within
us. We are henceforth capable only of good. Thus we will
acquire the grace of God and become possessed by God. If
we abandon ourselves to the love of Christ, then all will
be overturned, all will be transfigured, all will be
transformed, all will be transubstantiated. Anger,
resentment, jealousy, indignation, censure, ingratitude,
melancholy and depression will all become love, joy,
longing, divine eros. Paradise!
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