Poetic art produces
ineffable effects on the
reader. And poetic
license promotes the
sublimation of terms far
beyond their primitive
senses. But there is to
be careful with the
denotative and
connotative contents so
as not to lose control
of the doctrinal
content. In this step,
certain pantheism haunts
the reader.
"Jesus told us that we
should shine our light.
Emmanuel tells us that
'the lesson of Jesus
must be applied in all
conditions, every day'
"(Guaraci de Lima
Silveira, in the article
cited).
"You are the light of
the world. (...) This is
how your light should
shine before men, that
they may see good works
and glorify your Father
who is in heaven."
(Matthew 5:14-16).
Light manifests itself
through good works. And
good works are able to
convert many, so that
they glorify God. It is
understood that the acts
are the true builders.
It is not the words,
except the comforters;
It is not the
propaganda, the
divulgation, except
those that touch the
heart.
"Then the act of
evangelizing passes
through theological,
philosophical and
scientific principles.
Theological by a
necessity that the
creature feels at a
certain moment of its
evolution to connect
definitively to the
Creator hence the effort
of change. Philosophical
because it needs to
acquire knowledge to
operate this change in
itself and scientific as
an empirical element
necessary for the
consolidation of the
experience." (Guaraci de
Lima Silveira)
The education of the bad
inclinations is a
process of
evangelization, in which
changes of behavior
seeking the sublimation
of the feelings. The
effort to educate is
necessarily through
neural reproducibility,
creating pathways of
reprogramming the brain.
The brain structure is
plastic and subject to
change, as the author
says. It is no longer a
rigid structure, as the
older scientists
thought. It is subject
to sensitive
reprocessing. The force
of the will is able to
modify the cerebral
configurations. In this
way, the effort to
change the course of
what we have been has an
effective reality, and
results in the desired
sublimation.
"We change our brains
and organisms according
to what we want. It is
always good that we
remember the words of
Jesus when he told us
that God is just and
gives each one according
to his works." (Guaraci
de Lima Silveira)
The wishes! These are
determining forces of
our mental economy. We
are what we want, and
the discoveries of
neuroscience reaffirm
this, demonstrating that
brain plastic is
determined by the
desiring structure.
Thus, we must recognize
that, far beyond the
factual reality, other
facts remain as real,
although underlying to
the reality of brain
chemistry.
"Jesus: 'I and the
Father are One." (John
10:30)
As much as we have the
pleasure and respect for
the Johannine readings,
and we are astonished by
its mysticism, we must
separate the tares from
the wheat. This
assertion attributed to
Jesus differs from the
whole content of the
"Son of Man." It is
responsible for the
dogma of the trinity, a
characteristic
formulation of John, and
deserves to be
considered, but not
sanctioned by the
simplicity of the
Spiritist doctrine.
In fact, the "we are
one" passage in John's
phrase can only be
understood as the
expression that Jesus
and the Creator thought
in the same way and
maintained an absolute
affinity for what they
said and did, since no
one is to ignore that,
at another time, Jesus
told one of his
interlocutors:
"Why do you call me
good? There is none good
but one, which is God.
If you want to enter
into life, keep the
commandments." (Matthew
19:17, Luke 18:19 and
Mark 10:18)
