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“You shall eat
bread by the sweat of your brow!” It seems clear today that this
sentence never held a curse, but a blessing like so many others.
Work is what gives man dignity it is something that gives proper
meaning to his existence and most of all it is the one thing
that makes him a useful piece in the cogwheel of Creation.
A useful
piece! This is how the human being must behave in God’s great
Loom. As a useful and necessary piece, subject to a continuous
process of refinement, that shapes and lubricates through the
experiences that work provides. He is a piece, naturally small
and limited when compared to the gigantic unit of the universal
cogwheel, but who has an admirable resource of being able to
adjust himself during his useful life, by correcting eventual
mistakes of his material origins and then self-balancing
himself, so that he can contribute towards the harmonious
functioning of the whole mechanism. This, if he, in fact,
wants to adjust himself appropriately to this mechanism,
which is only possible after he is fully aware of himself,
otherwise he will very easily allow himself to deregulate and
even crack under any strong vibration, and end up by becoming a
faulty piece, completely lost inside the immense machine,
instead of an useful one. Therefore it is befitting for man, as
a human piece to proceed with the necessary and continuous
adjustments of adapting himself to his neighboring movement. And
he has to do this while he carries out his activities, because
the cogwheel that maintains everything in movement in Creation
never alters its rhythm under any circumstance, much less shut
down for any reason. Defective pieces that don't want to adapt
at all are simply thrown out of the automatic process.
If it wasn’t
for this gift called work, which always held above it the
responsibility of maintaining the human race in permanent
movement here on Earth, with the intention of keeping his
corporal subsistence and his spiritual improvement, he would
have already annihilated himself a long time ago, even well
before the end of the period granted for his development. He
would have sunk entirely into a deadly indolence, for which, in
fact, he always manifested an indisputable and undisguised
weakness. If life could really be as the majority of people
would like it to be, that is, a “big sweet perpetual nothing”,
stagnation would soon set in and with it disease and death, for
nothing else could happen if movement were to end. For example,
it is neither coincidence nor by chance, the occurrence of so
many apparently premature deaths a short period after the much
desired “conquest” of retirement; in the cases where retirees
really start to fully exercise a profession as leisure paid
administrators. On wanting to “take advantage of” the remainder
of their lives to relax, they unknowingly shorten life once and
for all.
Everything in
the life is movement. Life itself is movement. Permanent,
uninterrupted movement is a continuous balance between giving
and receiving. To stop moving is consciously taking the first
step towards becoming rigid, the initial stage of rigor mortis.
It is the same as carrying out a slow suicide. Therefore,
without movement, without work, nobody can live if one intends
to make use of a healthy and useful life, in consonance with the
Laws of Creation.
But then if
work is so indispensable to human nature, what is the cause for
the millions, in fact, hundreds of millions all over the world
that simply cannot find work? Why is employment, the life pact
of survival between work and capital, production and
consumption, in frank decline almost worldwide? So, what is the
real cause of this global tragedy? What is hidden
behind the diagnoses and above the prognostics of the economists
and sociologists, and why is it not possible to understand it
through intellectual analyses? What has provoked this terrible
social disease, endemic for a few decades and already pandemic
today?
Let us make a
few premises. Without much effort (and exemption) we will have
to recognize that in all life situations wherever any unbalance
appears, the human hand is always present as the catalyst agent.
Always. On all these occasions, there he is dumping sand in the
perfect cogwheels of Creation. Be they natural phenomena or
human relationships, wherever something disturbing appears the
cause is one alone: the disastrous interference of man. He is
the only one that has freewill - a necessary contingency for his
spiritual development - and this also makes him the only one
responsible for all the misfortune, for all the evil that
befalls him, be it in his environment or upon himself, because
he used this gift so he could always decide diametrically
opposite to what was preconized by Who conceived him and granted
him life. Each evil, each tragedy, each disaster always had a
deeper cause, a previous flaw of a spiritual nature that then
provoked the inevitable, ruin, both visibly and materially
perceptible.
That is why we
also already know before hand the only one to blame for the
global crisis of unemployment and ever-increasing poverty. But
this time it is not so easy to see what man did that was so
wrong for things to have gotten to this stage. Thus neither is
it so easy to recognize the spiritual flaw that has brought
about such an unbalance between giving and receiving, to the
point that not so many have the basic necessities for each one’s
own subsistence. It is difficult as we exclusively seek to see
the final effect, the material manifestation of a spiritual
mistake. The so-called economic, sociological causes, and even
the anthropological effects of unemployment are not, in fact,
the true causes, but just effects of a first, larger and far
more encompassing cause, and it is one of a spiritual nature.
The last
foundation to still sustain the thin social peace in which the
rich and poor nations lie together is sinking fast like the
Titanic. The quality of employment has submerged well below the
standard in this post-modern and pre-catastrophic whirlwind of
the present global economy, causing the ballast of excessive
labor supply and the search for profits to be the principal
imbalance. Too many people and too much greed is shoring up
water on all sides...
Profit, profit,
and more profit! This comes first of all! Never before in
history has the First of the Ten Commandments been so criminally
disobeyed, so blatantly belittled, so happily mocked by a
creature as now, carried out by contemporary man. And never has
humanity ever experienced this size of impact, nor such
concentrated disastrous consequences of its desolate passage on
Earth, a bitter harvest that it is obliged to
swallow now as a consequence of its diversified bad sowing, that
is so contrary to the predeterminations of its own Creator. The
economic ruin that we are now experiencing is just one of the
rotten fruit, only one, that we find ourselves forced to swallow
now in the time of the harvest.
Profit as a
means in itself doesn’t generate prosperity, it doesn't bring
about beneficial movement, to the contrary, it only provokes
stagnation all over when generating more profit still in an
absurd illusory spiral of wealth, just like a financial Babel
Tower, whose end won't be so radiant either.
However, such a
convulsive effort in obtaining profit for profits sake is just
an absolute natural consequence of the unrestricted domain of
the human intellect, in detriment to the spirit. As the
intellect is a product of the brain that is nothing more than an
organ of the material body, it is only capable of dealing with
matter and things related to it, due to its very constitution.
Thus, it can never serve as an absolute guide for man, as he is
in fact constituted of the spirit, and for this reason he
possesses much higher incumbencies, not being able to waste his
life only running after earthly values, which are invariably
perishable and ephemeral.
Man, so full of
himself and his uncontrolled intellect, resembles a well-dressed
cavalier, sitting upright on a wild horse that he believes he
has already dominated a long time ago. The cavalier is proud of
his qualities and the pose of his horse, absolutely convinced
that it is submissive to him and always ready to obey his
orders. Then, wanting to show that his horse is capable, he
spurs it with all his force and lets it gallop off alone, with
blinkers and without reins on a chosen path by the animal
itself. Nevertheless, although such a path is full of danger and
leads directly to an abyss, the untamed horse won't stop at all,
once it has started its crazed gallop, and it’ll end up
perishing together with its unfortunate owner. Unfortunate and
quite foolish indeed and it is just as well.
This is exactly
what the intellect does to man when it gains supremacy over his
life, when it is crowned by a person and raised up on a
sovereign’s throne that doesn't befit it, as the throne belongs
to the spirit. The unrestricted domain of the intellect over the
spirit, the preponderance of cold reasoning over the voice of
intuition, is ultimately the deranged driving force of this
uncontrolled race for profit, because of the profit itself. This
is the main cause, the only one, of this insane competition that
will never revert into progress or into well being at all, much
to the contrary. It is a senseless race, disputed amongst
senseless contenders, that only makes the unemployment levels
rise, because the product of work will never be a match for
profit originating from speculation, in the myopic view of the
immediate evaluation of the intellect. It is a greedy race,
completely foolish, where only losers will be crossing the
finish line. |
