Vials of Passion : From Wrath to Love
Tough Love!
The greek word that we derive the vials of “wrath” from (in Revelation) actually means dynamic or tense passion.
Tough love is a modern expression that goes to the root of our actual need. Unlike the dogmatic tone of our modern materialized Christianity when they employ the term ‘righteousness’ as a vague expression, those on the street who use the phrase to “keep it real” point to a much more accurate meaning of righteousness–which means reality in the highest sense.
“We cannot sacrifice something unless we have first possessed it. Anger can be overcome only by someone who has experienced it first within himself. Instead of trying to evade such emotions, we must transmute them in ourselves. By transmuting anger, we rise from the Sentient Soul, where noble anger can flame out, to the Intellectual Soul and the Consciousness Soul, where love and the power to give blessing are born.”
“Transmuted anger is love in action. That is what we learn from reality. Anger in moderation has the mission of leading human beings to love; we can call it the teacher of love. And not in vain do we call the undefined power that flows from the wisdom of the world and shows itself in the righting of wrongs the “wrath of God”, in contrast to God's love”
“When a flood of anger sweeps through the soul of an individual, his Ego, striving for self-expression, finds itself enchained; so was the Promethean Ego chained to a rock.”
“Anger weakens us; truth strengthens us.”
Rudolph Steiner