Sunday, March 30, 2014

Reflections on righteousness

Reflections on righteousness:

Use of the right measure improves virtuousness, in stead of sin. Use of wisdom improves good thoughts and power, in stead of slyness and bad thoughts. Use of the virtue freedom gains quality, in stead of loss of quality. Use of mercy urges activity, in stead of passivity. Unconditional mercy and unconditional gracefulness or even charity do not exist. Hope and wisdom concerning you - and in broader sense concerning us all - are the conditions for mercy, grace and good gifts.


The perfect law of freedom is fulfilment of neighbour consciousness and awareness and good gifts to all. Wise words make speech free. Good thoughts make throughts free. Good gifts make markets free. Good deeds make make acts free.


The perfect law of love is pleasing and agreeable to God and obedient to wisdom, with a good conscience, cleanliness, faith, uprightness, frankness and use.

The perfect law of mercy is living virtuously for all. But is there a perfect law of righteousness?

Historicly overseen & predicted, wise righteousness in essence should prevent sin from happening by fathom of good state & good thoughts. Wise righteousness by profactum prevention - even by angels - is in Ecclesiasticus or Wisdom of Jesus Sirach 42: 18-20. Righteousness is a virtue, when - without killing - stopped and prevented any sinner to sin, and learned holy behaviour and give good gifts.
Righteousness as a virtue also avoids mutilation. Righteousness wisely stops & prevents errors from individuals, as well promotes & stimulates behaviour that fulfills virtues up to: justice. Wise righteousness makes itself superfluous after individual and collective selfconvincion for virtuous behaviour. Righteousness is the condition that thou makest as just.

Jesus Christ could and should use wise righteousness. He did not use angels to the rescue, but was mocked, flogged and crucified.   

What is better: dead in heaven or alive in hell? For that living is the meaning of life: the latter. Wise righteousness so does teach you. What is better: the rich more wealthy and the poor more poverty or wise righteousness? For that good gifts are wise and improve: the latter. What is better: mercy or wise righteousness? For that mercy doesn't learn you how to live: the latter. Wise righteousness teach you to live. Power used (not misused!) does contribute to life and is wise righteousness.

The wise righteousness, that profactum (before the fact) prevents, is as walking the second mile. Timely. Use of righteousness, like the use of mercy, urges activity, in stead of passivity. For passivity is in worldly dwelling a postfactum account of "what happened, who did first and who is to blame" at the place of terror. Untimely to stop; as if you walk the first mile.

Wise righteousness is not murder the murderer or torture the torturer, for 'eye for an eye' is the unrighteousness and the injustice. Cruelty is not the salvation and is a vicious circle.

Imprisonment combined with the promotion of virtues is wisely and righteously. Mercy, grace and wisdom accompany the righteousness. If behaviour improves in favour of fulfilment of virtues and life, it will in time meet goodness and closeness. A virtuous circle.

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