To my Palestinian Friends
Where does the US fit in?
Hamas did what it did October 7, 2023 out of hatred, and Israel has done what it has done ever since out of hatred. The cycle will not end until one or both of you learn how to love the enemies of your conscience. Notice that I did not say just love your enemies. That is what Jesus said. He also said that even if we do not believe in him, we should believe in his works, all of which reveal the need to love our enemies.
I know as Muslims you do not believe in Jesus as the head of your religion, and Jews do not believe in him at all. But neither of you have to in order to learn how to love each other as enemies of your conscience. For you, this means seeing Israel as trying to blind your conscience with hatred, which is foremost what makes them an enemy, for the eyes of hatred cannot see Allah in the heart. If you love them anyway by seeing that they are blind to Allah, thereby not blinding yourselves, you will see the best path to take in this world.
In the world conscience, what does the United States look like in this vision story? Or for that matter, what do ours look like individually? Well, perhaps to your surprise, they are all radiant, a beauty far beyond anything in this universe. And this is true for every vision story since we are all names of light in them. Many of us, however, are partially or fully blind, making every nation-name of light partially blind, divided between those of us who love (agapé) the enemies of our conscience and those who do not. How is this literally seen in our world conscience?
Divided neither by political parties, religion or anything else, we either see as names of light with the principle, do not see at all, or see a little sometimes. For we are agapé light, symbolized in the form of a cubic city made of transparent gold, emanating twelve different iridescent colors from our foundation. It has to be symbolized because there is nothing like us in the universe.
We can form this symbolic vision in our world conscience but then need to allow it to transform into its actual beauty – by loving the enemies of our conscience in it. They are the same agapé light but, being blind, one of the foundational iridescences, jasper, fills their names so we can use this symbolically to avoid trying to envision blindness with darkness. If this sounds strange, think of all the trouble blind hatred has caused due to a disconnect with memory. Forming this with the principle creates a bridge to such memory through our conscience (suneidesis) cleansed with agapé light, able to see through ours and others’ past blindness.
In our national vision story, the unrest in the U.S. right now is working from layers of jasper iridescence passing through each other peacefully with no darkness. But the layers of hatred behind them here, in those blind in the world conscience, cannot pass through each other without weakening the lives of these names of light on earth.