Conócete a Ti Mismo... "Know Thy Self"
The following is the continuation of a work in continuous progress. It is what I call a “cut and paste” document, composed in this case of a series of ideas, thoughts, revelations and words, some of which are my own and others are from various other sources. It is a simple collection of information which is of great importance to me and which gives my life some meaning and purpose. It is not a manifesto or any type of final document claiming to contain the Ultimate Truth. It has grown and changed numerous times since its first words were typed. Based on this I feel that it will continue to grow and change as I, myself have and will continue to do. Following the advice of my Inner Voice, I have decided to share it for reasons that may or may not be obvious.
"All wisdom is plagiarism, only stupidity is original."
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part 2
The Social Self:
Conócete a Ti Mismo...
As stated earlier, in ancient times the collective identity of a group was often associated with a Supreme Creator or Religion. In this case, the Ego or individual identity, is displaced into an orbital position around a Transpersonal Other or Collective Self, a Super Ego. The Ego is the "I" we normally think of as ourselves, who we believe ourselves to be, the part of our psyche, which we identify with our name.
self
self, n. 1. a person or thing considered with respect to complete individuality or separate identity: one’s own self. 2. a person’s nature, character, etc. 3. personal interest. 4. Philos. the subject of experience as contrasted with the object of experience; ego. 5. being the same throughout; uniform. 6. being of one piece or material with the rest.
ego
e.go, n. 1. the “I” or individual identity of any person; a person as thinking, feeling and willing, and distinguishing itself from the selves of others and from objets of its thought. 2. Philos. a. the enduring and conscious element that knows experience. b. Scholasticism. the complete man comprising of both body and soul. 3. Psychoanal. the part of the psychic apparatus that experiences and reacts to the outside world and thus mediates between the primitive drives of the id and the demands of the social physical environment. 4. egotism or self importance. 5. self esteem or self image.
The individual Ego may experience this Transpersonal Other or Super Ego as any kind of group or task to which the individual pledges his or her loyalties, best efforts, and even his or her life. In earlier societies, such group tasks and loyalties are always themselves ultimately subordinate to a Greater Transpersonal Other, which religions of the World call "God."
As we have stated earlier, modern societies have largely turned away from the concept of God, from the effective processes of initiation, from the importance of ritual elders, and even from family, tribe, and nation. Consequently, an individual Ego can no longer reach maturity, the realization of a non-central position within the psyche and in the wider Universe. Nature fills the vacuum modern societies have created with our modern immature Ego, which terribly expands to fill the empty space. Where a powerful Transpersonal Other is missing, the concept of God is replaced by unconscious pretensions to god-hood or egocentric immaturity.
And who or what is God? God is the Creator, the Supreme Intelligence, and the Original Source of everything, the totality of existence, the Beginning and the End. The Unknown. And this Supreme Spirit can been said to contain the following elements or aspects: Life, Love, Truth, Intelligence, Unity, Spirit and Principle.
God
God, n. 1. Supreme Being, the Creator and Ruler of the universe. 2. the Supreme Being considered by the sum of Its attributes. 3. a.k.a. Allah, Jehovah, Yawe, Jah, Olodumare, Nsambi, Bon-Dieu, etc.
Modern Humans suffer from a remarkable lack of introspection. An individual Ego, bloated by dangerously distorted assessments of self, and others around it. Family, friends, lovers, company, nation, and perhaps the entire world, pay the price for its immaturity.
And so, the struggle and fantasy of the inflated Ego makes individuals feel inadequate. They feel frustrated and at some level they feel incomplete. Therefore, they feel a compulsion to attract attention to themselves in this world, whether by infamous deeds or great achievements. An inflated Ego is developed from a distorted expression of Self-Love. It is limited to the love of our lowest form of human nature, our material identity or physical self.
Unchecked by a sense of limits grounded in an powerful Transpersonal Other, corrupt politicians, money-hungry yuppies, domestic abusers, racists, dictators, self-styled fundamentalist, genocidal murderers, irresponsible international corporations, among many others, cause the social and environmental devastation that always accompanies the inflation of the Ego. Unsure of itself, our material identity or physical self fears for its life and horrified, it acts without consideration of others. It attempts to obtain by force what it should obtain by intelligence. It only recognizes material values and acts limited by that point of view.
The inflated Ego keeps us on the run with restlessness, vague apprehensions, psychological complications, an insatiable need for pills, alcohol, tobacco, food, attention, material possessions, etc. In our primitive past, these characteristics may have played an important role and had a important function in our survival and development as human beings. But as mature adults and as higher forms of life, we must grow and leave them behind.
mature
ma.ture, adj. v. 1. complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms. 2. Ripe, as fruit. 3. fully developed in body or mind, as a person. 4. Pertaining to or characteristic of full development. 5. completed, perfected, or elaborated in full. 6. to make mature; ripen. 7. to bring to full development. 8. to complete or perfect. 9. to become mature; ripen, 10. to come to full development. 11. matureness, n. –Syn. 1,3. Aged, grown, adult, ripe.
adult
a.dult, adj. 1. having attained maturity. 2. of, pertaining to, or befitting adults. 3. intended for adults only. 4. a person who has attained maturity.
Free Will
We are all born with free will. This means that we are created with the individual right to choose. How we deal with our free will, is what determines the success of our mission in Life. As individuals, we perform all of our actions out of our own free will and choice, this makes us feel a sort of freedom of action for ourselves. By considering this freedom of action as “absolute” or “unconditional,” we desire total freedom and wish to escape from any restriction. For this reason, we suffer from any prohibition and deprivation inflicted on ourselves. Finally, we feel suffocated and sense failure whenever any restrictions are imposed on us. Therefore, no matter how small the number of social regulations may be, they are against our freedom-seeking nature because they limit us to some extent.
When facing social restrictions, we often think of ourselves as the victims of tyrants, as if society itself were a tyrant, as though our teachers were tyrants, as though we are the victims of some tyrannical state that we ought to rebel against. There is a kind of inherent conflict, incompatibility or opposition between our freedom-seeking nature and social regulations. That is to say that to us, laws are much like chains linked to our feet and we are constantly trying to break them off and set ourselves free from this captivity. This is the greatest danger, which always threatens any society’s order and shakes its foundations.
This freedom-seeking nature is an incomplete or partial expression of our God-like Being, our reflection of the Creator’s image and likeness, which constantly tries to manifest its Infinite Greatness. But, it is an expression through the Ego, which is only a small part of the total psyche or True Self.
We would often like to believe that we are the masters of our own souls. But as long as we are unable to control our moods and emotions, or to be conscious of the infinite secret ways in which unconscious factors affect our thoughts and actions, we are certainly not our own masters. Our True Selves are the Masters of our souls. We are often blind to the fact that, with all of our rationality and capacity, we are still controlled by "powers" that are beyond our conscious control. These "powers" or inner motives spring from a deep source that is not made by consciousness and is not under its control.
Some call these forces "spirits," "demons" and "gods," etc. When they conform to their wishes, some call them "happy hunches" or "creative impulses." When they act against them, some call them "bad luck," or assume there is some scheme or conspiracy against them. But we will often refuse to admit that we are dependent on “powers” that are beyond our control. These “powers” or "forces" have not disappeared, they just have new names and they are as active today as they ever were.
Know thy Self
The True Self of the individual is the internal organizing center, often described as and compared to a "nuclear atom" within our psychic system and it is the source of all the regulatory effects of the individual. I has also been described as the totality of the whole psyche. It is the Divine Spirit within each one of us. This inner organizing center can be defined as an inner guiding factor, which is different from the conscious personality of the individual or Ego. We could also associate it with the concept of the Holy Spirit.
Throughout history, human beings have always been aware of this Divine Presence. It is experienced subjectively, and conveys the feeling that some supra-personal force or Transpersonal Other is actively interfering in a creative way. One sometimes feels as if this subconscious driving force or surge leads the way in accordance to some secret design or Divine Destiny. It is as if "something is looking at me, something that I do not see, but sees me.”
This Transpersonal Other, Divine Spirit or "psychic nucleus" can only fully manifest itself when the Ego gets rid of all purposive and wishful aims and tries to get into a deeper, more basic form of existence. The Ego must be able to listen attentively and submit to the True Self and its inner drive towards growth and progress. It is necessary to give up the utilitarian attitude of conscious planning in order to make way for real inner growth. Our utilitarian notions have to give way in the face of the demands of the unconscious psyche or the True Self.
People who live or lived in societies with cultures more securely rooted than our own have less trouble understanding this. Simply to fulfill one's Destiny is the greatest human achievement. In order to bring this into Reality, one must surrender consciously to the power of the unconscious, instead of thinking in terms of what one should or shouldn’t do, or of what is generally thought as right or wrong. All activities and obligations which are exclusively related to the material, outer or physical world obstruct and harm the secret divine purpose of the unconscious.
One must give into this powerfully dominating impulse, which surges from the uncontrollable urge towards unique, creative realization. These guiding impulses are a part of a process in which one must repeatedly seek out and find something that is not yet known to anyone else.
*Don't stop in your search until you have found, and when you have found, you'll be confused, and when you are confused you'll be amazed, and then you will reign over All/Everything.
Sometimes we have a strong feeling that we have a special purpose in life, that the Inner Spirit wants something from us and has sent us very special tasks, we are not wrong! We must simply listen, in order to learn what the Inner Totality, the True Self, wants us to do in this life, in the here and now.
Each person has something different to do something that is uniquely his or her own. We are each unique, like our fingerprints. We are each created by a unique design, for a specific purpose, which cannot be fulfilled by anyone else, but ourselves. God’s expressions are infinite. We are each one of those infinite expressions, created with the very essence of the Creator.
*Know the Truth and it shall set you Free.
The Law of Nature is the will of the Creator and the only necessary Truth for Human happiness (welfare and prosperity). It applies to the happiness of the individual, as well as the collective, from the person to the nation and beyond. This Truth is in the spiritual plane and it is in the form expressed at the highest level of existence, therefore it rules all the lower planes. It tells us what to do or not to do and we are unhappy when we loose contact with it.
Finding the inner meaning of life is more important to the individual than anything else. We have not been created simply to serve as game-pieces of circumstance, victims of conditions or puppets moved from side to side by an external will beyond our control. Humans occupy the peak of Creation on Earth; far from being insignificant in the Universe, we are, by the very nature of the power given to us by our Creator, the Supreme Authority designated by God to rule the Earth and all of Creation.
We are endowed with very powers of the Creator because we are “made in its image and likeness.” We are the instruments through which Wisdom, Knowledge, Love, Life and all the power of the Creator Spirit expresses itself in its fullness. Since we are “made in its image and likeness,” we are creators, each of our very own manifestation. Thus the Human Being is not simply a cork floating in the middle of the ocean, thrown from here to there by the waves of the storm. We are creators; everything we are, our life, our world, our circumstances, everything that happens to us is our own creation.
Humans were created in the Creator’s image and we are expected to act as such. To be “like God” means to reflect the image of that Divine Spirit of Creation. We may not comprehend the greatness of our position, and thus we often behave unlike our highest nature and more like beasts. The call to “behave like a Human Being” carries with it a very loaded significance, which reminds us, regardless of, no matter how low we may have fallen, which road we should have taken. The tragedy in Human history is due to the fact that Humans have used their divine gifts for self-destructive ends, even to deny our own Creator, which made us thinking and reasonable beings, in its own image.
Humans are destined to be the image of the Creator in respect to Earth as an estate or dominion. Since no one can exercise sovereignty or reign without subjects, in virtue of the powers derived from the root of having been created in the Creators image, all the living beings on Earth were given to us to rule. We are supposed to be the visible representatives of the Creator in relation to all the creatures, which surround us. This is the nature of our True Self.
Communication with the Unconscious or True or Higher Self eventually reveals a collective or social aspect of the Inner Spirit or the True Self. An individual who consciously surrenders to the power of the Unconscious Psyche or the True Self, listens and follows its demands will eventually find that his or her Divine Destiny is often concerned with his or her interaction with others.
*Love one another and do on to others, as you would have them do on to you.
Humans have been created to live in groups, in society. It is in our nature. We must advance, and we cannot do so individually because no one possesses all the necessary faculties. We must interact with others, and it is through social union that we complement each other to ensure our Welfare and Prosperity.
Like all higher forms of life, human beings are in tune with the living beings around them to a remarkable degree. Independently of our conscious thoughts about other people, we instinctively perceive their happiness, their suffering, and all their positive and negative attributes and values. We are individuals, which means we are indivisible; what affects one affects everyone. As with all inner processes, it is the True Self, which orders and regulates our human relationships, as long as the conscious Ego takes the trouble to truly listen. It is in this way that spiritually, politically and culturally attuned individuals find their way to one another.
Through this process similarly oriented people come together to create groups that go beyond all usual or traditional social and organizational affiliations. Such groups are not in conflict with others, they are merely different and independent. This conscious process redefines all of an individual’s human relationships. Familiar bonds such as kinship or common interests are replaced by a different type of unity, a bond though the Self. Trough these unconscious ties, those who belong together inevitably come together.
Based on studies on the social behavior of the higher forms of life on this Earth, it is a little known fact that small groups or families (from approximately 10 to 50 individuals) create the best possible living conditions for the single individual as well as for the group, and humans seem to be no exemption. Our physical well being, our spiritual psychic health, and our cultural efficiency seem to flourish best in such a social formation. The Self tends to form such small groups by creating sharply defined ties of emotions between certain individuals and feelings of connection or sympathy, or lowest common denominators (LCDs).
El Maestro, Don Pedro Albizu Campos taught us that humans are free by their very nature. Which means we are subject to rights and, as individuals subject to rights, we are free to form families, and with other families develop a society. And that society constitutes a community; a Transpersonal Other or Collective Self. With other communities, we build a free nation, which has its own identity or personality within the world we inhabit. That is the Law of Nature, the living expression of the Truth!
All nations are ultimately the product of not just centuries, but millennia of tradition and evolution, a continuum of the legacy of their ancestors. Many of us have been disconnected from these traditions and societies through the process of enslavement. But the Light continues to shine attracting the lost members of our great family.
*What thou shall hear in thy ear proclaim to other ears from your rooftops. For no one kindles a lamp and sets it under a bushel-basket nor puts it in a hidden place, but rather it is placed upon the lamp-stand so that everyone who comes in and goes out will see its light.
The Human drive to come together in groups which give meaning and purpose to each individual as well as to the group as whole is a biological and spiritual urge which acts for the preservation of the individual, of the group and of the species. It expresses itself as an automatic expression to protect the organism. It may be described as current or flow of energy, a subliminal up-rush to emphasize spiritual intent. It creates a sense of individual and collective identity and purpose, which reinforces and protects the social unit against submergence. It is the urge to survive in Liberty, Happiness and Prosperity.
* from: The Gospel According to Thomas.
Tato
Luz y Progreso
Amor y Caridad
Paz y Justicia
"All wisdom is plagiarism, only stupidity is original."
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part 2
The Social Self:
Conócete a Ti Mismo...
As stated earlier, in ancient times the collective identity of a group was often associated with a Supreme Creator or Religion. In this case, the Ego or individual identity, is displaced into an orbital position around a Transpersonal Other or Collective Self, a Super Ego. The Ego is the "I" we normally think of as ourselves, who we believe ourselves to be, the part of our psyche, which we identify with our name.
self
self, n. 1. a person or thing considered with respect to complete individuality or separate identity: one’s own self. 2. a person’s nature, character, etc. 3. personal interest. 4. Philos. the subject of experience as contrasted with the object of experience; ego. 5. being the same throughout; uniform. 6. being of one piece or material with the rest.
ego
e.go, n. 1. the “I” or individual identity of any person; a person as thinking, feeling and willing, and distinguishing itself from the selves of others and from objets of its thought. 2. Philos. a. the enduring and conscious element that knows experience. b. Scholasticism. the complete man comprising of both body and soul. 3. Psychoanal. the part of the psychic apparatus that experiences and reacts to the outside world and thus mediates between the primitive drives of the id and the demands of the social physical environment. 4. egotism or self importance. 5. self esteem or self image.
The individual Ego may experience this Transpersonal Other or Super Ego as any kind of group or task to which the individual pledges his or her loyalties, best efforts, and even his or her life. In earlier societies, such group tasks and loyalties are always themselves ultimately subordinate to a Greater Transpersonal Other, which religions of the World call "God."
As we have stated earlier, modern societies have largely turned away from the concept of God, from the effective processes of initiation, from the importance of ritual elders, and even from family, tribe, and nation. Consequently, an individual Ego can no longer reach maturity, the realization of a non-central position within the psyche and in the wider Universe. Nature fills the vacuum modern societies have created with our modern immature Ego, which terribly expands to fill the empty space. Where a powerful Transpersonal Other is missing, the concept of God is replaced by unconscious pretensions to god-hood or egocentric immaturity.
And who or what is God? God is the Creator, the Supreme Intelligence, and the Original Source of everything, the totality of existence, the Beginning and the End. The Unknown. And this Supreme Spirit can been said to contain the following elements or aspects: Life, Love, Truth, Intelligence, Unity, Spirit and Principle.
God
God, n. 1. Supreme Being, the Creator and Ruler of the universe. 2. the Supreme Being considered by the sum of Its attributes. 3. a.k.a. Allah, Jehovah, Yawe, Jah, Olodumare, Nsambi, Bon-Dieu, etc.
Modern Humans suffer from a remarkable lack of introspection. An individual Ego, bloated by dangerously distorted assessments of self, and others around it. Family, friends, lovers, company, nation, and perhaps the entire world, pay the price for its immaturity.
And so, the struggle and fantasy of the inflated Ego makes individuals feel inadequate. They feel frustrated and at some level they feel incomplete. Therefore, they feel a compulsion to attract attention to themselves in this world, whether by infamous deeds or great achievements. An inflated Ego is developed from a distorted expression of Self-Love. It is limited to the love of our lowest form of human nature, our material identity or physical self.
Unchecked by a sense of limits grounded in an powerful Transpersonal Other, corrupt politicians, money-hungry yuppies, domestic abusers, racists, dictators, self-styled fundamentalist, genocidal murderers, irresponsible international corporations, among many others, cause the social and environmental devastation that always accompanies the inflation of the Ego. Unsure of itself, our material identity or physical self fears for its life and horrified, it acts without consideration of others. It attempts to obtain by force what it should obtain by intelligence. It only recognizes material values and acts limited by that point of view.
The inflated Ego keeps us on the run with restlessness, vague apprehensions, psychological complications, an insatiable need for pills, alcohol, tobacco, food, attention, material possessions, etc. In our primitive past, these characteristics may have played an important role and had a important function in our survival and development as human beings. But as mature adults and as higher forms of life, we must grow and leave them behind.
mature
ma.ture, adj. v. 1. complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms. 2. Ripe, as fruit. 3. fully developed in body or mind, as a person. 4. Pertaining to or characteristic of full development. 5. completed, perfected, or elaborated in full. 6. to make mature; ripen. 7. to bring to full development. 8. to complete or perfect. 9. to become mature; ripen, 10. to come to full development. 11. matureness, n. –Syn. 1,3. Aged, grown, adult, ripe.
adult
a.dult, adj. 1. having attained maturity. 2. of, pertaining to, or befitting adults. 3. intended for adults only. 4. a person who has attained maturity.
Free Will
We are all born with free will. This means that we are created with the individual right to choose. How we deal with our free will, is what determines the success of our mission in Life. As individuals, we perform all of our actions out of our own free will and choice, this makes us feel a sort of freedom of action for ourselves. By considering this freedom of action as “absolute” or “unconditional,” we desire total freedom and wish to escape from any restriction. For this reason, we suffer from any prohibition and deprivation inflicted on ourselves. Finally, we feel suffocated and sense failure whenever any restrictions are imposed on us. Therefore, no matter how small the number of social regulations may be, they are against our freedom-seeking nature because they limit us to some extent.
When facing social restrictions, we often think of ourselves as the victims of tyrants, as if society itself were a tyrant, as though our teachers were tyrants, as though we are the victims of some tyrannical state that we ought to rebel against. There is a kind of inherent conflict, incompatibility or opposition between our freedom-seeking nature and social regulations. That is to say that to us, laws are much like chains linked to our feet and we are constantly trying to break them off and set ourselves free from this captivity. This is the greatest danger, which always threatens any society’s order and shakes its foundations.
This freedom-seeking nature is an incomplete or partial expression of our God-like Being, our reflection of the Creator’s image and likeness, which constantly tries to manifest its Infinite Greatness. But, it is an expression through the Ego, which is only a small part of the total psyche or True Self.
We would often like to believe that we are the masters of our own souls. But as long as we are unable to control our moods and emotions, or to be conscious of the infinite secret ways in which unconscious factors affect our thoughts and actions, we are certainly not our own masters. Our True Selves are the Masters of our souls. We are often blind to the fact that, with all of our rationality and capacity, we are still controlled by "powers" that are beyond our conscious control. These "powers" or inner motives spring from a deep source that is not made by consciousness and is not under its control.
Some call these forces "spirits," "demons" and "gods," etc. When they conform to their wishes, some call them "happy hunches" or "creative impulses." When they act against them, some call them "bad luck," or assume there is some scheme or conspiracy against them. But we will often refuse to admit that we are dependent on “powers” that are beyond our control. These “powers” or "forces" have not disappeared, they just have new names and they are as active today as they ever were.
Know thy Self
The True Self of the individual is the internal organizing center, often described as and compared to a "nuclear atom" within our psychic system and it is the source of all the regulatory effects of the individual. I has also been described as the totality of the whole psyche. It is the Divine Spirit within each one of us. This inner organizing center can be defined as an inner guiding factor, which is different from the conscious personality of the individual or Ego. We could also associate it with the concept of the Holy Spirit.
Throughout history, human beings have always been aware of this Divine Presence. It is experienced subjectively, and conveys the feeling that some supra-personal force or Transpersonal Other is actively interfering in a creative way. One sometimes feels as if this subconscious driving force or surge leads the way in accordance to some secret design or Divine Destiny. It is as if "something is looking at me, something that I do not see, but sees me.”
This Transpersonal Other, Divine Spirit or "psychic nucleus" can only fully manifest itself when the Ego gets rid of all purposive and wishful aims and tries to get into a deeper, more basic form of existence. The Ego must be able to listen attentively and submit to the True Self and its inner drive towards growth and progress. It is necessary to give up the utilitarian attitude of conscious planning in order to make way for real inner growth. Our utilitarian notions have to give way in the face of the demands of the unconscious psyche or the True Self.
People who live or lived in societies with cultures more securely rooted than our own have less trouble understanding this. Simply to fulfill one's Destiny is the greatest human achievement. In order to bring this into Reality, one must surrender consciously to the power of the unconscious, instead of thinking in terms of what one should or shouldn’t do, or of what is generally thought as right or wrong. All activities and obligations which are exclusively related to the material, outer or physical world obstruct and harm the secret divine purpose of the unconscious.
One must give into this powerfully dominating impulse, which surges from the uncontrollable urge towards unique, creative realization. These guiding impulses are a part of a process in which one must repeatedly seek out and find something that is not yet known to anyone else.
*Don't stop in your search until you have found, and when you have found, you'll be confused, and when you are confused you'll be amazed, and then you will reign over All/Everything.
Sometimes we have a strong feeling that we have a special purpose in life, that the Inner Spirit wants something from us and has sent us very special tasks, we are not wrong! We must simply listen, in order to learn what the Inner Totality, the True Self, wants us to do in this life, in the here and now.
Each person has something different to do something that is uniquely his or her own. We are each unique, like our fingerprints. We are each created by a unique design, for a specific purpose, which cannot be fulfilled by anyone else, but ourselves. God’s expressions are infinite. We are each one of those infinite expressions, created with the very essence of the Creator.
*Know the Truth and it shall set you Free.
The Law of Nature is the will of the Creator and the only necessary Truth for Human happiness (welfare and prosperity). It applies to the happiness of the individual, as well as the collective, from the person to the nation and beyond. This Truth is in the spiritual plane and it is in the form expressed at the highest level of existence, therefore it rules all the lower planes. It tells us what to do or not to do and we are unhappy when we loose contact with it.
Finding the inner meaning of life is more important to the individual than anything else. We have not been created simply to serve as game-pieces of circumstance, victims of conditions or puppets moved from side to side by an external will beyond our control. Humans occupy the peak of Creation on Earth; far from being insignificant in the Universe, we are, by the very nature of the power given to us by our Creator, the Supreme Authority designated by God to rule the Earth and all of Creation.
We are endowed with very powers of the Creator because we are “made in its image and likeness.” We are the instruments through which Wisdom, Knowledge, Love, Life and all the power of the Creator Spirit expresses itself in its fullness. Since we are “made in its image and likeness,” we are creators, each of our very own manifestation. Thus the Human Being is not simply a cork floating in the middle of the ocean, thrown from here to there by the waves of the storm. We are creators; everything we are, our life, our world, our circumstances, everything that happens to us is our own creation.
Humans were created in the Creator’s image and we are expected to act as such. To be “like God” means to reflect the image of that Divine Spirit of Creation. We may not comprehend the greatness of our position, and thus we often behave unlike our highest nature and more like beasts. The call to “behave like a Human Being” carries with it a very loaded significance, which reminds us, regardless of, no matter how low we may have fallen, which road we should have taken. The tragedy in Human history is due to the fact that Humans have used their divine gifts for self-destructive ends, even to deny our own Creator, which made us thinking and reasonable beings, in its own image.
Humans are destined to be the image of the Creator in respect to Earth as an estate or dominion. Since no one can exercise sovereignty or reign without subjects, in virtue of the powers derived from the root of having been created in the Creators image, all the living beings on Earth were given to us to rule. We are supposed to be the visible representatives of the Creator in relation to all the creatures, which surround us. This is the nature of our True Self.
Communication with the Unconscious or True or Higher Self eventually reveals a collective or social aspect of the Inner Spirit or the True Self. An individual who consciously surrenders to the power of the Unconscious Psyche or the True Self, listens and follows its demands will eventually find that his or her Divine Destiny is often concerned with his or her interaction with others.
*Love one another and do on to others, as you would have them do on to you.
Humans have been created to live in groups, in society. It is in our nature. We must advance, and we cannot do so individually because no one possesses all the necessary faculties. We must interact with others, and it is through social union that we complement each other to ensure our Welfare and Prosperity.
Like all higher forms of life, human beings are in tune with the living beings around them to a remarkable degree. Independently of our conscious thoughts about other people, we instinctively perceive their happiness, their suffering, and all their positive and negative attributes and values. We are individuals, which means we are indivisible; what affects one affects everyone. As with all inner processes, it is the True Self, which orders and regulates our human relationships, as long as the conscious Ego takes the trouble to truly listen. It is in this way that spiritually, politically and culturally attuned individuals find their way to one another.
Through this process similarly oriented people come together to create groups that go beyond all usual or traditional social and organizational affiliations. Such groups are not in conflict with others, they are merely different and independent. This conscious process redefines all of an individual’s human relationships. Familiar bonds such as kinship or common interests are replaced by a different type of unity, a bond though the Self. Trough these unconscious ties, those who belong together inevitably come together.
Based on studies on the social behavior of the higher forms of life on this Earth, it is a little known fact that small groups or families (from approximately 10 to 50 individuals) create the best possible living conditions for the single individual as well as for the group, and humans seem to be no exemption. Our physical well being, our spiritual psychic health, and our cultural efficiency seem to flourish best in such a social formation. The Self tends to form such small groups by creating sharply defined ties of emotions between certain individuals and feelings of connection or sympathy, or lowest common denominators (LCDs).
El Maestro, Don Pedro Albizu Campos taught us that humans are free by their very nature. Which means we are subject to rights and, as individuals subject to rights, we are free to form families, and with other families develop a society. And that society constitutes a community; a Transpersonal Other or Collective Self. With other communities, we build a free nation, which has its own identity or personality within the world we inhabit. That is the Law of Nature, the living expression of the Truth!
All nations are ultimately the product of not just centuries, but millennia of tradition and evolution, a continuum of the legacy of their ancestors. Many of us have been disconnected from these traditions and societies through the process of enslavement. But the Light continues to shine attracting the lost members of our great family.
*What thou shall hear in thy ear proclaim to other ears from your rooftops. For no one kindles a lamp and sets it under a bushel-basket nor puts it in a hidden place, but rather it is placed upon the lamp-stand so that everyone who comes in and goes out will see its light.
The Human drive to come together in groups which give meaning and purpose to each individual as well as to the group as whole is a biological and spiritual urge which acts for the preservation of the individual, of the group and of the species. It expresses itself as an automatic expression to protect the organism. It may be described as current or flow of energy, a subliminal up-rush to emphasize spiritual intent. It creates a sense of individual and collective identity and purpose, which reinforces and protects the social unit against submergence. It is the urge to survive in Liberty, Happiness and Prosperity.
* from: The Gospel According to Thomas.
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Luz y Progreso
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Paz y Justicia
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