Le temps, le diable et le bon Dieu

Le temps, le diable et le bon Dieu

Par Michel Frankland

Dans ce quatrième article sur le temps dans les langues, nous étendons notre analyse à une dimension qui semble de prime abord sans relation avec ce sujet.
Il s’agit ici du temps historique. Plus précisément, en ce qu’il met en scène le seul combat de fond, celui qui oppose Satan au plan divin.
Une constante forme la base de notre propos. Le temps de Dieu diffère du temps tel que manipulé par Satan. Le temps de Dieu est progressif. Les heurts qui s’y rencontrent visent à renforcer les créatures. Mais de même que Jésus affirme que son joug est doux à porter et son fardeau léger, ainsi du déroulement du temps dans sa fonction naturelle. Le philosophe chinois Lao Tseu l’a pertinemment exprimé : «La nature ne se presse pas. Pourtant, tout est accompli.» La végétation en constitue le meilleur exemple. Un érable prend des années à pousser. Sa croissance est progressive. Le temps qu’il connote s’avère bénéfique. Le temps est ici un compagnon silencieux et efficace. La langue de ce temps est le silence. Tout comme les mystiques nous répètent que Dieu parle dans le silence. De meme, Charles Stanley :
« God’s voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamor.» Ou alors, autour de l’arbre, la langue symphonique des éléments de la nature : chant des oiseaux, variations du vent dans ses branches, visites d’autres animaux.

Voyons en contrepartie le temps de Satan. Trois exemples viennent en tête : Hitler et Staline. Sous leur règne, le temps est massacré de plusieurs façons. D’abord, le temps se trouve ravalé au service d’une idéologie. Il n’existe plus pour ainsi dire. La langue dictatoriale se réfère à un temps fictif. Chez les marxistes staliniens, c’est LE GRAND SOIR. Chez Hitler, le règne nazi devait s’étendre sur une durée symbolique de 1000 ans.
Ainsi, temps et langue perdent simultanément leur fonction naturelle sous la botte du pouvoir. Car il ne s’agit plus de l’épanouissement de chaque vivant selon son temps intérieur. Si bien que la trinité heureuse du vivant, de sa langue et de son temps disparait, dissoute dans le flot acide et destructeur des dictats des potentats.
Les images mêmes de l’idéologie régnante expriment cette dénaturalisation. La croix gammée est justement une croix quadruplement brisée. La faucille et le marteau pourraient nous laisser croire à un retour aux activités naturelles de la menuiserie et de l’agriculture. Mais l’histoire nous rappelle l’horreur de la collectivisation des terres et du massacre des Koulaks, masses paysannes qui constataient l’évident disfonctionnement de la désappropriation. Bref, ravalé au service de l’idéologie, le temps s’écrase alors sous la langue de la propagande. Les haut-parleurs des discours hitlériens ou des ténors du Grand Soir rappellent les bruits désagréables et haineux qu’on entend dans les corridors des prisons.
Enfin, un dernier trait de la relation temps-langue du mens dictatorial : le temps y est perverti par la langue du mensonge. Les envolées rageuses du racisme SS, les tromperies sur les taux réels de production qui traversaient verticalement toute la hiérarchie bolchévique traduisaient leur plan quinquennal par une langue impérieuse – double massacre du temps naturel et de la langue.
Concluons avec une notion fondamentale, celle du mythe. Chaque civilisation, de même que chaque religion ou philosophie résume son approche par un mythe. Ce concept n’est en soi ni positif ni négatif. Il s’avère positif lorsque temps et langue y trouvent leurs fonctions naturelles, à la foi conforme aux rythmes biologiques, au temps qui porte vers la croissance et à une langue qui traduit ces réalités fondamentales. Mais les mythes dictatoriaux, nous l’avons observé, étouffent temps, rythmes naturels et langue. John Kennedy note que le grand ennemi de la vérité est le mythe persistant, envahissant et irréaliste des dictatures.
Symétriquement, ce que le temps de Satan nous enlève en désorganisant nos ressources intérieures pour mieux nous subvertir, c’est celui, tel que considéré plus haut, où temps et langue du silence se complètent en secret. Silence ? Oui, mais Einstein le nom autrement, et mieux  : «He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.» La langue de Dieu est silence ; son temps, l’éternité. Et le propre du temps humain réside dans la langue silencieuse de la contemplation dans le temps éternel du Père.
Le cinquième article sur le temps et les langues réservera à certains des surprises. Nous nous situerons beaucoup plus proches de nous…
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Argument : le temps divin est interpersonnel, loin du pouvoir, humble et généreux ; le temps de Satan parle de pouvoir : pour soi-même, sans limite ou celui de l’État, également sans limite.

Acton : le pouvoir corrompt ; le …

3 tentations de Jésus : tourne autour du pouvoir.
Le temps divin cherche la vérité au fond de soi, dans la subjectivité (Goethe : sens de ses limites)

We are all of us made by war, twisted and warped by war, but we seem to forget it.
– Doris Lessing

Celui qui veut être l’ami des choses de ce monde se rend ennemi de Dieu (Jc 4,4)
The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
– Herbert Kaufman

Be resolute in your goals, but flexible in your tactics. There are times that call for repetition and perseverance ; and there are times that require new ways of thinking and doing. The challenge is knowing one from the other.
– Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
– Chinese Proverb
Life is pretty simple : You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works.
– Leonardo da Vinci
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
– The Buddha

Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God’s grace.
And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God’s grace.
– Anonymous
The will of God will never take you
to where the grace of God will not protect you.
– Anonymous

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
– Abraham Lincoln

. History is a vast early warning system.
– Norman Cousins

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
– Winston Churchill
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
– Helen Keller
. Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
– Marianne Williamson
There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.
– Maya Angelou

. I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
– Abraham Lincoln
. Love is not a mere sentiment. Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
– Rabindranath Tagore

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
– John F. Kennedy (35th President of the United States)
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
– Confucius
. The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Speak when you are angry — and you will make the best speech you’ll ever regret.
– Laurence J. Peter
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
– Leonardo da Vinci
The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps,
is because man is disunited with himself.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
. Society is a masked ball, where everyone hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.- Ralph Waldo Emerson
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.- William Shakespeare
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
– Eric Hoffe
Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
– Mother Teresa
The full measure of a man is not to be found in the man himself, but in the colors and textures that come alive in others because of him.
– Albert Schweitzer
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
– George Eliot
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
– Albert Einstein
That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth.
– Paul Tsongas
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
– Nelson Henderson
God’s voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamor.
– Charles Stanley
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
– Oscar Wilde

Life in abundance comes only through great love.
– Elbert Hubbard

Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
don Miguel Ruiz

Forgiveness … is the finishing of old business that allows us to experience the present, free of contamination from the past.
– Joan Borysenko
It is neither wealth nor splendor ; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
– Thomas Jefferson
He who angers you conquers you.
– Elizabeth Kenny
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
– John Dryden
A true friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
– Anonymous
Who forces time is pushed back by time ; who yields to time finds time on his side.
– The Talmud

Don’t fight against time. Develop a comfort and friendship with time. Time enjoyed is never time wasted.
– Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. Desmond Tutu

. Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
– The Buddha

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity
are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
– Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You don’t have the power to make life « fair, » but you do have the power to make life joyful.
– Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
– Lao Tzu

Labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people.
– Michael Graves.
Sunday : the time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
– Sydney Harris
Take rest ; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.
– Ovid
Death is not extinguishing the light ;it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
– Rabindranath Tagore

We take refuge in pride because we are afraid to tell the truth to ourselves.
– Kakuzo Okakura
Miracles are the natural way of the Universe – our only job is to move our doubting minds aside and let the miracles flow.
– Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Everything is a miracle, not just the beautiful and lovely things.
– Anonymous
The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another. Thomas Merton (American Catholic writer and monk 1915-1968)

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward.
What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.
– Nancy Friday

Ingratitude often hides behind a mask of independence or self-sufficiency.
An assertion of being « self-made » is a rejection of God, one’s ancestors, and society.
– Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What you think of me is none of my business.
– Terry Cole-Whittaker
If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.
– Henry Ford
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don’t say.
– Anonymous
. Most people do not listen with the intent to understand ; they listen with the intent to reply.
– Stephen R. Covey 
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.
– Anonymous
Those we love don’t go away, They walk beside us every day, Unseen, unheard, but always near. Still loved, still missed and very dear.
– Anonymous
790. Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
– Rabindranath Tagore
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
– Helen Keller