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The being, the
space and time |
René Descartes,
French
philosopher of
the eighteenth
century, who
became known for
Cartesian
method which
shows us four
steps to
effectively
reach a
conclusion on
any subject. The
thinker tells us
we must always
analyse, verify,
synthesize and
enumerate all
the
possibilities of
the object under
study. This is
very rational
and very far
from those times
when a blind
belief was
imposed on us
without any
opportunity to
contest it for
we would be
under the
penalty of being
classed as
heretics which
always ended in
torture and
violent deaths
that discredited
the
individuality
created by God.
This encourages
us to seek
calmly a deeper
insight about
life and the
human being.
Life is made up
from the will of
God that creates
the spaces and
times that best
suit the needs
of his children
in their various
evolutionary
stages. Everyone
knows that the
Earth is a
planet that
revolves around
the sun that
warms,
enlightens and
sustains us.
This planet has
its own
aggregations
which are
governed within
the gravitation
laws that govern
their movements.
Earth was built
in order to,
along with other
planets in this
system, to suit
and to attend
the needs of the
varied
communities and
the human
community on it.
So far the great
part of humans
lived ignorant
to this reality.
Concerned about
the survival,
they saw the
days going by,
the nights come
by and
geological
convulsions
taking place,
changing
environments,
and later on,
always analysing
the seismic
effects without,
however, seeking
a spiritual
explanation for
the case. A
large portion of
humanity has
only transcended
themselves to a
purely
horizontal line.
When Thomas
Morus conceived
Utopia,
still in the
Middle Ages, he
was sketching a
time where
everyone in the
future could be
in the world
enriching it
with their own
presences. We
believe as Léon
Denis did that
the purely
Christian
socialism will
have to impose
itself on future
societies,
placing each one
in their place
as great social
contributor and
happy students
growing with
knowledge that
liberates.
There are those
who thinks that
it is just
enough studying
and collecting
titles -
On observing
history in its
whole (including
science and
philosophy) we
note that
throughout the
eras lonely
individuals,
great masters,
grandiose hearts
were here.
Voices that
clamoured in the
human desert, to
warn, to
compose, to make
available, to
associate, to
dissociate the
values that
govern the human
evolution.
During the
cycles that went
on we were all
taken by them.
There is a
predetermined
time by God for
each step of our
learning
processes. There
are those who
think that it is
enough just
studying and
collecting
titles. There
are those who
think that it is
enough just
labouring
tirelessly
offering ones’
hand of labour,
specialized or
not, but a hand
that makes. This
was fine until
now. However,
the new time
arises that
requires new
perspectives.
Good and new
inventions from
each of us. We
know that any
social essence
needs the tripod
where the
institution, its
members and
beneficiaries
need to be in
unison under the
penalty of
projects to fail
or meet their
goals
precariously.
Here are two
cases that call
our attention
too. These are
health and
education,
according to
many, poorly
practiced in
Brazil. Let’s
not go to the
merits but we
move to the
analysis: for a
statement which
we call
"health." For
health we must
unite
institutions to
therapists,
technicians and
administrative
bodies, and also
patients, as
without unity
amongst them,
surely that the
system is
flawed.
Ours is the
time, yes , the
time of
transformations
–
It is not enough
just to create
health centres
and train
therapists and
open doors to
patients . It is
necessary that
all join
together, become
suited and fit
in the main
proposal of a
health project.
Institutions,
managers, their
social and
Christian
responsibilities.
To therapists,
identical needs
allied to
competence,
continuous
studies, ethics
and solidarity
towards those
who can not
afford health
insurance and
are considered
in need of
urgent
assistance and
needs. To
patients, the
position of
becoming doctors
of themselves,
as only then
ultimate cure
materializes
according to
Calderaro, tutor
of Andre Luiz in
the book In
the Greater
World.
Almost always
what one sees is
a transfer of
guilt and
responsibility
that will not
help anyone.
Unfortunately,
it is what goes
on in this world
which ends up
hindering the
process.
Institution,
clinical and
administrative
bodies and
patients need an
ethical
agreement that
makes everyone
happy and which
promotes social
welfare.
The same
reasoning can be
seen in the case
of education.
Again:
institutions,
technicians and
administrative
bodies and
learners need to
be attuned to
the art of
teaching and
learning.
Otherwise, time
will go by and
knowledge will
be left around
the walls of the
classrooms.
Could it really
be that all
these sectors
are fully
engaged in the
art of
education? Is a
student, a
teacher or
school
administrator,
in fact,
glorifying the
every day act of
going to the
institution and
participate in
it with praise
in that space
and time that is
given them here?
It is here that
we justify our
initial idea
that the times
have come when
we must all
participate in
life by offering
the best of us.
This is the
time of changes.
The planet,
life, the
proposals set
forth by God is
all doing their
part, and what
about us, what
are we doing?
Are we waiting
patiently or
unexpectedly for
spaces to be
transformed,
that time passes
and take us
generously to
somewhere we
don’t know,
caring for us
in this ongoing
process of
succession that
offer us more
resources to our
glimpse of blue
horizons time?
The sun of each
day brings us
new proposals -The
Being and Life.
The spaces and
times. Ourselves
in these
contexts. How
are we? How is
our health? How
is our education
process? The
time for
everyone has
come. The world
is a great
school, a great
space
interconnected
in all
latitudes.
Excuses such as:
"I did not know"
or "oh if I
knew” won’t
count. Spiritist
doctrine is
great beacon in
the fog, kind
guide these
scarps, vigorous
retaining prop
stick in these
rocky roads. The
Gospel of Jesus
is the insigne
guide of
consciences that
need to be
increasingly
awakened to,
according to
Descartes,
analyse, verify,
synthesize and
enumerate all
possibilities in
order to
conclude
rightly. How am
I taking care of
my presence on
the planet? I am
firm in my
position as
observer of
every detail,
looking at what
happens around,
drawing useful
conclusions
about my life
and my progress?
Do I still take
pleasure with
the opium that
sends me to
sleep while the
caravans go by
and leave me
behind? Do I
still take part
in the ephemeral
joys of carnal
pleasures while
the soul longs
for advances in
the immortal
planes beyond?
Who am I in this
picture, in this
texture that
life built so
that in it I
would parade as
a winner,
dominating with
gallantry the
spaces and
glorifying the
times? What
about my
hatreds,
resentments and
hurts....What
about my dizzy
desire for money
and power that
will stay here
watching my
coffin towards
the grave? And
my arrogance, my
unfortunate
uproar in
unending
sleepless nights
when I'm young
or think I am
the world and
the world is
only mine? Who
am I? I ask
myself. The sun
of each day
brings us new
proposals. Here
I am like an old
man trying to
find out.
The spiritual
reconstruction
requires urgent
attention -
When Francis of
Assisi
mediumistically
heard Jesus'
command to
rebuild his
church, the
noble spirit
from Umbria
understood in
principle that
he should
physically
rebuild the
little church of
San Damian. Now,
Jesus invites us
all the time to
rebuild our
intimate
churches. Church
means assembly
of the elect, as
translated from
the Greek. We
were elected by
God since He
created us. The
spiritual
rebuilding after
so many unhappy
searches needs
urgent attention
from us. It's
very easy and
common to
congratulate
with our friends
and affections
the festive
moments. The
hard part is to
congratulate
with God every
moment we live,
and live in Him,
move in Him and
exist in Him as
the biblical
message recorded
in Acts,
chapter
seventeen,
twenty-eighth
verse. For what
reason don’t we
want to
understand this?
It's much easier
to eat and
drink, to dress
up and to sleep,
to procreate and
to work everyday
to assume the
posture of many
of those who
came here to
encourage
humanity in its
growth. Were
they saints? We
do not know for
sure, though
many have been
canonized. But
if they were,
for what reason
we have not
become holy and
have not
positioned
ourselves as a
sentinel in any
post to help
everyone at all,
flattening
misplaced
passions,
putting water on
fires, teaching,
learning,
building temples
of pure wisdom?
The invitation
is for everyone.
The table is set
for saints and
publicans,
Pharisees and
Sadducees,
whites, African
descent,
Indians, various
ethnicities.
Years from now
when the planet
is renewed, we
shall look at
this strange
time, and
certainly we
will destroy
many videos,
magazines,
newspapers and
books that tell
our misfortunes
of now with paid
in error
jingoism. Shame
will only not
assail us
because we will
be in another
incarnation and
with the
blessing of the
temporary
oblivion. But,
you see, that
only those who
awake now and
walk now while
there is time.
"While there is
light." Those
who definitely
do not accept
the proposals of
Jesus with
certainty will
be moved to
other worlds.
It is time to
reflect, to
build our next
abode -
Many of those
who behave as
social pariahs
now, who draw
their weapons
and frighten the
peaceful part of
society, shall
go to worlds
where the
atrocious wars
still happen it
and will feel
fish out of
water. This is
because the
societies of
those worlds are
unaware of the
ethical and
moral progress
of societies on
Earth. They cry
out desperately,
frightened.
Bullies here
will feel like
little
partridges to
plead mercy
before the claws
of the mighty
primates who
rightly need to
format the ego.
Our useless
beauties will
feel like
fragile
butterflies
flying over
marshes, running
here and there
rather fearful
of predators.
All very fair to
the primitive
worlds, but our
societies are
moving towards
regeneration
world where the
good
predominates and
where people
fraternise,
exchanging
values,
enriching each
other by them.
It is time to
reflect. It is
time to build
our next home.
To where we want
to go here in
some time: days,
months, years,
hours ...We do
not know when
death(discarnation)
will call us to
give accounts.
It is necessary
for us to become
useful,
sociable,
because only
then life will
forward us to
the Gardens of
Eden which are
to be erected in
the world. But
it is not going
to be
paradisiacal
resorts where
the locals will
exchange God for
an apple offered
by the serpent.
It will be the
other things to
be explored
every inch
because that in
everything there
is divine wisdom
expressing
itself. . If
Esau traded the
birthright for a
plate of lentils
and there was
another unwary
who traded the
Gospel of Jesus
for a plate of
mussels. Both
mussels and
lentils, feed
the physical
body which will
not survive. And
the soul, how
can we feed it,
being the
immortal part we
carry?
We are incarnate
beings and we
come from remote
eras –
It is fair to
carry out these
reflections,
after all we are
here to learn to
pray, to
meditate and to
work according
to writer
Martins Peralva.
Let’s enter into
the bath that
God has prepared
for each one of
us and let's
wash while you
can, because the
groom can arrive
at any time and,
if we are
careless brides,
we could end up
not being led by
Him, as well as
explained in the
parable of the
ten virgins.
They were
virgins, but
five of them
faltered. In
which starting
position do I
intend to be
when the groom
(Jesus)
resurface
sovereign in our
souls? As the
vacillating
virgin or as the
careful virgins?
It is worth to
stop the mad
train of
thoughts that go
on speedily in
our minds. They
arise and drag
us without let
us choose if me
must really go
or stay. Let’s
take more care
of these
thoughts, or
better yet, let’
s take care o
four feelings,
as it is from
them that our
thoughts arise.
Let’s us be
understanding
once for all and
intensely live
the really that
we are
reincarnated
beings and we
come from remote
eras. Love a
lot but free the
loved on e. If
you think her or
him is the air
you breathe,
take care of
yourself,
because this is
just a threat
and never true
love. Legitimate
love starts from
the assumption
that I am myself
and you are
yourself and
together we form
a pair who can
walk the
virtuous road of
spiritual
constructions.
Love your
parents, your
brothers, your
work, your life,
for only then
you will, in
fact, becoming
useful to
yourself and to
creation. . And
creation needs
you, especially
your good
examples.
José Herculano
Pires in his
book Existential
Conception of
God, in the
chapter entitled
God in Man,
tells us that we
have in our
human
consciousness
three
fundamental
principles in
our
manifestations
in social terms:
"the idea of God
in man, man’s
longing for
transcendence
and the natural
desire of
good."May we put
ourselves
abreast of this
information and
multiply these
principles
within
ourselves. It is
a starting
point. And the
arrival? Well,
only God can
tell us when we
present
ourselves to
Him, in some
future time;
mature, wise and
virtuous, having
fulfilled our
steps and ready
for Him.
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