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Let’s take a
look at the
starry heavens
from time to
time. I usually
do this
comforting
exercise which
always give me
back the correct
notion, much of
the absolute
splendour of the
Creation, as
well as of its
mysteries, still
almost as if
completely
unfathomable by
the intellect of
the reincarnated
man. About these
mysteries, there
is also a wiser
and right
perception of
what God is -
the Supreme
Intelligence -
which made
everything
inside and
outside of us,
always and
forever, if so
it is allowed to
us to express in
that way, in
such still
imperfect way, a
verbal
conceptualisation
short of what
the Supreme
Creator of the
Universe is!
We are too small
to understand
and define, with
mere effort of
reasoning, who
conceived and
performed the
whole immensity
of existence in
which we are
consciously
immersed. I do
not hold this
claim. However,
it is known,
according to
what is stated
in Spiritism,
regarding
knowing the
causes by
analysing its
effects. And so,
if we stop to
think lucidly in
the truth of
this assertion,
we will
understand, by
direct
perception, that
the Presence of
God is immanent
- and never, in
any way, is
found distanced
from us, in any
step that may
be!
God is daily
interaction
I notice in
today's
turbulent
contexts on
earth, mankind
too steeped in
lethargic
behavioural
conditioning,
like what
happens to us
when we are
staring at the
TV!
Accommodated
comfortably on
our couches at
night, on
weekends or
during rest
after our daily
activities, we
become
abstracted
mentally from
the concerns and
from every day’s
electrifying
drive to observe
what others do
or interpret!
Be in
documentaries or
movies, soap
operas or
series,
newspapers or
entertainment
programming; we
only watch,
impassively, the
intense movement
of others:
journalists,
actors,
reporters,
scientists
around the world
- directors! We
dedicate,
imperceptibly,
hours and hours
of our time
delegating to
others the
incomparable
taste of
lifetime
achievement!
From co-creation
of the advances
of the immense
network in the
world! And
during the
duration of this
pause time, in
many cases too
long at most
elaborate
reasoning;
exchanged some
comments, have
fun or become
distracted. But
I feel that we,
without even
realizing, cause
this kind of
attitude to
become extended
further in this
technological
age of machines
and attractive
computer, to the
dangerous point
of hypnosis! And
this expands,
too, in the most
unfortunate, to
the territory of
our personal
achievements and
our evolutionary
advancement. To
the dynamics of
our perception
and interaction
with the magic
of the wonderful
Divine reality -
right before,
within and
around us!
Because in this
habit of
delegating too
much power to
others for the
construction of
facts of our
times, we forget
of much that is
up to us to
carry out,
making use of
our talents,
capacity and
sensitivity!
We only watch
and watch! When
not, we practice
our share of
committed
citizenship in
our various
daily work for
the maintenance
of our and our
family’s
livelihoods! And
we are satisfied
with it! But
life is much
more than the
struggle for
material
sustenance! We
forget that the
gift of life, of
finding
ourselves
present here and
now, with
perhaps
unsuspected
talents, not
exploited which
enables us and
invites us to
perform far
beyond, for the
world, of our
fellow men, and
ourselves!
Life is a
process! It is
activity,
creativity, it
is
interactivity!
And, although
some argue that
scientific
advances of
humanity cannot
be draconian and
definitely
labelled as
harmful, since
the way of the
times we live
in, they allow
an
unquestionable
improvement of
this same
interactivity
that is so
necessary to a
globalised orb.
However - and it
can be said
regarding to
almost
everything –
there is the
inconvenient
backdrop of
which the
facilities of
this same
technology also
produce such as
lethargy and
vital inertia.
Nevertheless,
thousands of
people become
accustomed to
not to do,
fulfil, carry
out - but to
watch to be
done! And they
are satisfied in
a very
inconvenient
way, with this
attitude, that
dulls and
paralyses, and
that adds
nothing to them,
in a context of
immense and
indefinite waste
of opportunities
of improvement
for themselves
and the world
itself, and of
the chances of
their own
achievement!
Direct to God...
Long ago, a
reader, who I
noticed to be
feeling
disgusted with
the directions
he had already
scrolled
extensively in
search of the
higher truths of
life in various
religions, wrote
to me asking,
more or less in
these words: for
what reason
should always be
an intermediary
between his
dialogue with
God, once the
history of our
routes in any
way was confined
to only one
earthly life.
Towards the
past, or
present, or
future, we will
always be! In
the evolutionary
field , within
the dynamics of
eternity,
therefore, we
are compelled to
engage with the
surrounding
facts and with
our own
dilemmas, in
search for
solution of them
that, and in any
way, is hidden
only a stage in
the dialectic of
a stage in the
materiality!
We look to the
heavens, and we
find! There is
much, much more
beyond than this
beautiful blue
planet hovering
in the
orchestration of
the infinite,
and, above all,
beyond us, as we
perceive
ourselves in
this current
minute of
eternity! So -
the reader
questioned - for
what reason do
we refrain, or
become
conditioned to
put ourselves
under a
mandatory
dependency for
intermediaries
between us and
this majestic
dynamics of
Life?!For
whatever reason
does a bank
account, a
priest, a
mediator said
"to be
accredited"
between the own
dignity of
participants of
the storylines
of Creation, and
even our
Creator? The
Author of the
history, of
which we are all
actors and
co-creators?
Why, dear
reader, do we
keep ourselves
sitting in front
of the huge
existential TV,
only seeing,
watching the
performance of
the other
participants who
perform, dare,
create
situations or
opportunities,
or, in other
cases, interpret
beautiful and
inspiring
stories like a
fairy tale as
only artistic
performance is
able to execute
and to enchant
us, offering us
encouragement
and comfort for
handling
electrifying day
to day?But on
our part, for
what reason do
we not transcend
this role of
mere spectators?
Don’t we nor
experience nor
create other
situations of
interaction with
Life, with God,
going in search
of answers and
chances of a
more wise and
right
understanding
and action
within the
storylines
intertwined in
this great
mystery?!
Objective
Perception of
God
We might not be
able anymore at
this point in
human history,
to understand
successfully the
theorical
explanations of
Theology or the
countless
doctrines that
exist in the
institutionalized
religions. My
nature has never
been as such to
cause me to have
anything in
common with
elaborated
terminologies
which go on
about the holy
Trinity, or
about so called
Christian
rituals, in its
authorised
version to the
profane world.
It seems to me
that this kind
of theorical and
verbal net is
exactly in need
of a breath of
Life, in which
we will
eventually find
factual
conscience of
everything, and
model conferring
us certainty and
assurance
through the
simplest
practice! And
therefore,
within our daily
routine, and on
turning
ourselves to the
simplicity of
appreciation of
very own works
of God, we will
obtain through
direct
perception,
something that
is not
comparable in
quality, nor in
terms of
understanding of
the most
consoling and
changing
revelation
within the reach
of our
conscience; that
allows us the
opening of
successive
portals of
spiritual
evolutionary
advancement -
ultimately, our
inexorable fate,
what most
concerns us: God
is not far from
us!
As with
everything
around, with our
friends, loves
and affections,
who are united
to us by a
strong tuning,
an impregnable
instant language
of love, of
mutual interest,
through the
similarities of
purpose,
connected in
this intense
energy network
that interweaves
all components
of the
immeasurable
orchestration of
Life, is God -
the immanent
Cause of all
logic and
maintaining
substance of the
dramas
experienced by
our consciences!
God is Origin,
Effect, in
everything, and
of everything -
solid and
noticeably
Present,
wherever we turn
our steps,
attention,
questions,
thoughts,
intentions and
actions!
It is so obvious
and
straightforward
that - I'm
afraid to say –
through the
extreme intimacy
with Him we
enjoy every
moment of our
days, we
consider the
illusion that
perhaps God does
not exist! That
God is absent,
or,
paradoxically,
that God is
found too far
from the mundane
realities of our
day, in order to
be known, or for
us to establish
a direct
dialogue with
Him! Just as our
sense of smell
when too exposed
to the routine
fragrance of a
relative, which
at some point we
no longer
distinguishes
until, in a
given moment, we
ask for the
reason he/she
does no longer
wears the
habitual
perfume! The
extreme
obviousness of
His Presence,
exposed to our
consciousness
that are
immersed in His
Reality as the
fish in the vast
ocean, suggests
to us, then the
illusion of
silence to our
supplications,
questions, and
our attempts at
dialogue! And
with that, we do
not realize the
simplest, the
clearest, the
most glaring:
the evidence of
His Presence is
found massively
around us! For,
after all, where
everything comes
in its first
cause from?! And
thus, through
everything,
everyone, and
endless
opportunities,
God speaks to us
with unbroken
constancy -
directly and
without
intermediaries!
On how many
occasions we
cannot observe
this beautiful
reality, if we
got rid of
intellectual and
rational
complications of
the limiting
materiality, to
understand the
higher truth of
the subtler
optical of this
same perception,
both external
and internal?
Rescue of
simplicity
There was once,
in the early
days, a purer,
simpler, more
authentic
version of early
Christianity, -
Catharism
(1), which
was the main
target of the
most horrendous
and authentic
genocide
massacre carried
out by the
fierce dogmatism
of the Catholic
Church, thirsty
for merely
temporal power,
in the late
Middle Ages.
Catharism was
devoid of
rituals, of
pompous or
incomprehensible
preaching to the
common man, of
dogma or
prejudice, and
it was more
suitable to a
perception of
the reality of
God among us!
Its followers -
men and women -
were active and
participants of
a doctrine lived
in a practice
more common to
daily routine!
They carried out
healing
accomplishments
through laying
on of hands, as
with passes
(2)
currently
practiced by
mediums in the
strongholds of
spiritist
training and
understanding.
And they spoke
directly to God,
dispensing with
middlemen!
They knew that
the great
existential
truth of
humanity was a
gradual
evolution
towards
progressive
levels of
illumination of
consciousness,
through their
reincarnations.
And they saw
Jesus, more
accurately, as a
spirit of
sublime
spiritual scale,
far above the
common humanity,
and therefore,
as the unequal
spiritual and
human leader, as
there have not
been, up to
today, an equal
one in the
storylines of
all peoples of
Earth - not as a
Single Son of
God!
They voluntarily
stripped
themselves off
the slavery of
materialistic
achievements of
the secular
world, which is
unhealthy for
the spirit; and
dedicated
themselves to,
to live
according to a
practical
recognition of
the spiritual
priorities of
their existence,
that to all of
us always most
matters, to the
construction of
a gift that
redeems a past,
in a wise
construction of
a better future.
They did not
become lost for
being so caught
up in
hierarchies
struggles for
power and
dominance which
were rooted, as
it still happens
today, in
disputes over
possession of
egotistical
unwary souls,
under various
religions
practice based
on the dogmatic
imposition of
intermediaries
between men
granted between
so called common
men and God!
God is a
constant
friend...
Dear reader: as
we simply
reincarnate
incessantly
moving between
dimensions and
worlds, making
contact and
intimacy with
countless
beings, within
the extensions
of the universe,
let’s we keep in
mind that in
this
immeasurable
vital process,
the gradual
understanding of
everything
happen to us on
the border
between the
spiritual
intuitive
insight and the
more direct of
the concrete
facts while we
are in the
material plane,
or in definite
continuity of
all, after our
passing to other
stages which are
richer of living
experiences in
other sectors of
the infinite.
And let us not
forget that this
wise, sovereign
mixture,
everything and
everyone is more
definitive proof
that God is
close, very
close - in fact,
too close, to
talk, to answer
all the
questions, all
the dilemmas and
questions of
route, with
simple language
- however,
perhaps so
simple that it
escapes from us
due to the vices
exaggerated
development of
reasoning which
is conditioning
of the greatly
restricted and
insufficient
material
parameters!!
God, being in us
and outside of
us, in a
inextricable
Whole, speaks to
us through what
magnetize
constantly with
our own
intentions and
attitudes of
each minute. So
God does nothing
more than reveal
himself through
His unfailing
mercy, giving us
unrivalled
wealth of its
external
expression to
our sensory
perception,
which is still
sleepy and
lethargic - and
to the spirit
who is always
immersed in
nature in his
sublime and
definitive
midst, the
consoling Truth
from which, as
we do to our own
children, His
answers to us
will always be
the best that we
need to advance
in the right way
towards the
happiness that
everyone is
doomed to! But
also counting on
our active
participation in
the immense
drama of
Creation!
Never the stone
- but the bread!
(1) Catharism
was a Christian
movement which
began in middle
of the year 1100
in southern
Europe which
found its
essence in the
south of France,
in the region
known as Albi.
Therefore, many
sources use the
term Albigensian
to refer to
Cathars.
(2) Passes:
laying of hands
on healing
technique used
in spiritist
centres.
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