Rights of the Soul by Vaklush Tolev
Bulgaria
“And fear not them which kill the body,
but are not able to kill the soul,
but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.”
(Matthew 10:28)
We address the honorable Commission on Human Rights in the United Nations Organization with a proposal to broaden the protective power of the Human rights charter by supplementing a clause for the rights of the soul. The soul should not to be anathematized by any religion, and the civil and criminal code should be freed from the term enemy. Thus the spiritual entirety of man will be saved from insult and destruction.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a voice against а cruelty, incomparable with anything in history. It is a boundless longing in the human soul for peace, prosperity, and freedom. Adopted by the United Nations on 10th December 1948, the Declaration has provided us with a law that protects our right to life, the freedom of speech and conscience, the will for happiness and prosperity and the freedom from fear. The historical memory reminded to mankind the moral ordinances and God’s commandments from most ancient times to the modern constitutional guarantees and international conventions.
However, what remains in oblivion is the protection over the invisible, but real substance – the soul. It is recognized by all religions but condemned and excommunicated with “anathema” when one changes his conviction, denies an opinion or expresses disagreement. The anathema is religious punishment, the hardest personal affliction that destroys human spirituality. The term “enemy” is charged with the same negative energy. “Enemy” is a scar upon the personal soulness and at the same time “enemy” is a social curse! Even more, “anathema” and “enemy” have become an ideology, which feeds social, religious and military conflicts, violating life and historical way of nations.
Jesus Christ said “Love your enemies.” (Mathew 5:44) and the psalmist wrote: “I have said: you are gods” (Psalm 82:6). In the Third Millennium the mankind should accept a new consciousness of the “other”, namely that he is not an “enemy” but he is a “condeitor”, there is no evil, there is non-evolved good.
We suggest a moratorium to be decreed upon the use of these frightful terms – anathema and enemy, by formulating and adopting relevant texts in protection of the rights of the soul.
Save the soul! The protection of the rights of the soul is a culture for future!