Chastity is
a key concept in this whole story and as I look around in the world, it seems
that this virtue has gone. Except in the behavior of Catholic nuns and Muslim
women with headscarves, who seem to cover their femininity for the outside
world.
Does
chastity actually still consist? Or is it an old-fashioned and outdated
concept?Would You like to comment on this?
My son, don’t you think this is a nice
Christmas Topic?
You asked me for a topic for this Christmas to
be at least reflective on fundamental spiritual values as opposed to the issues
of the day with gifts and dinners. And I have brought you to this topic.
On earth there is much innocence as well and
even though chastity has especially got the meaning of sexual abstinence and
virginity, we will comment on it in the meaning of innocence. We lift it so at
a higher level than the understanding of the people.
In the spiritual world chastity has the meaning
of intactness, I will go into it the next blog.So for now the earthly chastity.
Indeed, it seems that only Catholic nuns,
shaved Buddhist monks, naked Indian sadhus and Muslim women with headscarves do
something about chastity. But they are not alone.
Among all peoples, races, all religions, all
ages and genders there are chaste innocents who refrain from words and actions
concerning sexuality. And there is also a very large group, which admittedly
has sex in the circumstances, but is deep
within recurring again and again to the innocent state.
So, my son, do not look too superficially to
society. Even in the West, where materialism and commercialism do cause that
even men behave erotically, chastity is a living and cherished and powerful virtue.
The earthly chastity represents an inner
attitude of purity and innocence, which if you look carefully is everywhere.Look around and see the innocence everywhere, in thousand forms.
I recall you a few to open your eyes:
- Catholic nuns,
shaved Buddhist monks, naked Indian sadhus and Muslim women with
headscarves so to speak, not as a group but among them there are true pure
ones
- a mother of
children who is "liberated" from sexuality by old age or by the
death of her husband and is regaining her innocence gradually and
acquiring forth the old state of inner virginity
- an oversexed man
who through a combination of experience, a changed attitude and new
insights decides to a conscious celibate
abstinence out of conviction
- and then there is
a chaste moment for still many people, for example a person who stops
smoking, or one following a serious diet, or someone who starts a new life
and leaves the parental home or is going to live in another city or in another
country
- or you, for
example, when you've showered, you just became physically clean, but sometimes
you feel also spiritually reborn, as if you were baptized. That's chastity
as well.
So please do not make chastity too exclusive
and too big and too inaccessible, as is done with God, but get it close in your
life, cherish the moments and rejoice at the next moment of chastity. For even
the most sensuous whore can experience chaste moments.
And look around you and see the chastity alive
and full of power even in the materialistic and sensual societies of our time.
My blessings to you all
*Maria Valtorta, The Poem of the Man-God
No. 364
