Towards a Better World

Towards a Better World #22

Sunday 6 December 2020

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FORGIVING ONESELF

While regret can prevent us from repeating a mistake, guilt often leads to resentment towards oneself and chains us to the Age of suffering (the Iron Age). [1] Thus, “knowing how to forgive oneself is the first true and sincere step into the true Light that a soul can take…”

Those who wish to move towards this liberation will find help in particular in the “Key to forgiving oneself” (La Révolution du monde des vivants et des morts, p. 253), of which here is an extract:

Say mentally, then aloud, as if we were speaking to another self:

“I forgive you the harm done in a moment of confusion and ignorance.

I forgive you all bad thoughts and cancel all their effects.

I forgive you all unkind words and cancel all their effects.

I forgive you all malicious actions and cancel all their effects.

May you, O my soul, henceforth conform in every respect to the law of Evolution,

accept the Golden Age and take into the depths of yourself the ideal of unity, love and truth.”

By gradually emerging from stagnation in remorse, we can move towards the serenity that opens the heart and mind.

“A soul that has forgiven itself will be like a cup suddenly emptied of the past

and ready to receive the highest Energies, the most beautiful Lights that heaven can create and send down.“

(L’Aumisme, la Doctrine de l’Age d’Or, p. 62)

[1] See post no. 10, “Choosing the future”.

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