A reflection in the imminence of Easter(s) celebrations

Seven times the face of the One.

"Wherever you turn, you will see only the face of G-d" (Sufi maxim)

Francis of Assisi, Rumi, The Holy AR”I, Zarathustra, Muhyiddin Ibn’Arabi, Moshe Ben Maimon, Meister Eckhart.

I have been reading, writing and studying since I was 3 years old. When I reached the threshold of 60 I realized that all Religions were revealed by Prophets, that is, channelers of the presence and contents of the One Being that concern us as humans in the unfolding and fulfilment of Creation in relation to this planet.

After that, the revelations were organized, systematized and dogmatized in the form of competing Religions by bureaucratic autocrats who created a static form of singular belief imposed on all those who adhere to them. Universal Religions, such as Islam and Christianity, Tribal Religions such as Judaism and Druze.

All revealed religions, however, have irrepressibly developed despite all the various Holy Offices, Rabbinates and Caliphates, free mystical traditions that resume the search for prophecy and are based on the vow that mystics make to use themselves as channels for the Word. Which is the only practicable way, since G-d is a Word and not a Subjectivity.

I have chosen these 7 historically existed people, because they are mystical philosophers of the Western theomonist tradition spread in Europe, the Mediterranean, the Levant and the Middle East.

It is noteworthy that each of them feels like an expression inextricably linked to the contents of the Religion to which they belong. And it is true, certainly, true. Nonetheless, when we deal with their writings, their actions and their quotes, we discover that they are largely similar, and often even interchangeable.

This is not just my idea, but much earlier and in a much deeper way than mine, an observation that was expressed by Mohandas K. Gandhi, known as the Mahatma, as a corollary to the testimony of his education as a child. Mystical philosophers faithful to themselves and to the One, all resemble each other more, much more than they resemble, in the end, the rest of the followers of their respective revealed religions.

I could have chosen others, more modern and contemporary, such as the Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Schneerson, Father Thomas Merton, Dedebaba Imran Khan, Shoghi Effendi, the charismatic leader of the Baha'i movement. This is not the point, there is an incredible mystical continuity that spans the centuries.

I do not believe that this reality can be forced by configuring the concept of "Perennial Philosophy" that with noble naivety Aldous Huxley formulated in 1946, also as a form of antidote for humanity against the radical evil that produced realities such as Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Nonetheless, philosophical mysticism is a cultural and spiritual dimension of fundamental importance in the history and destinies of Humanity, despite how small the number of people who choose to follow this path has always been.

I deeply adhere to the Seekers of Unity project of my friend Tzvi Slavin, a young ChaBaD kabbalist and prodigious philosopher of encyclopedic knowledge on mysticism.

Humanity has no chance of rectifying this world by directing it to its perfection and to the complete realization of its meaning, if we continue to keep separate, indeed, opposed, what in the One is, has been and always will be one, since before the creation of the light that illuminates the worlds.

Shalom

Tzuriel Trevi

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