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%INTEGRATIVE VIRTUES MUTUAL LIGHT REVELATION 970413
Integrative virtues are seen in each other's light,
and help those people who respect the integrative virtues
to see themselves in each other's light, and in the light
of the integrative virtues.
Integrative virtues do not serve to place themselves
(or any special people who respect the integrative
virtues) above any others in exclusive ways.
Integrative virtues are not seen in isolation as
special, and do not help any people to be seen in
isolation as special.
Integrative virtues are often seen as embedded in
paradoxes and ambiguity---because each one often reveals
the limitations of other ones so that none Lords it over
any other one in coercive ways.
Integrative virtues cannot be embedded in integrative
ways within unqualified commandments, proscriptions,
prescriptions, or demands.
If we are compulsive about being honest in telling
all we know---without humility, gentleness and sympathetic
consideration---we are likely to do great harm.
If we are compulsive in seeking perfection in
ourselves and others---without honest consideration of
human limitations---we likely to do great harm.
If we are compulsive in trying to save others in
keeping with our conception of salvation---without respect
for the diverse forms of personal and communal integrity
which God has created---we are likely to do great harm.
If we are compulsive in our preoccupations with the
distinctions between what acts are good and what acts are
evil---without respect for how the acts flow from
alienative or integrative human relationships---we are
likely to great harm.
Compulsive preoccupation with any one aspect of being
whole with integrity as children within God's whole
family---is likely to lead us to do great harm. Such
specialization is usually harmful and unworthy of respect,
and unworthy of support.
Integrative virtues do not call upon us to be
preoccupied with issues of control in any special or
exclusive way.
To understand each of the integrative virtues we need
to see each one in relation to each other; in relation to
others in pairs, and in relationship to constellations of
others as far as human vision, intelligence and
understanding permit. We need to respect ambiguity and
paradoxes in the light of numerous combinations of
integrative virtues and the holy diversity which God
created within the whole of creation.
The great commandments are best understood in the
light of each other and in the light of diverse human
experiences and perceptions of the meanings of human
experiences, perceptions and understandings.
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