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When a common person
comes across a scientist's discovery about any subject, his reaction
is invariably a mixture of sincere interest, deep respect and
self-imposed humility.
He recoils quietly in a corner, making the greatest
effort possible to understand the scientist's thought. He wants to
drink a little, no matter how much from that spring of wisdom that he
judges as superhuman.
This concept – of the superiority of science and
its pupils before other human mortals – is so ingrained in our
society, that nobody from an inferior cast dares question it. It would
almost be heresy, a subversive attempt of breaking the natural order
of things.
The separating shield between humanity and science,
molded by the latter with arrogance and presumption, that is only
peculiar to it, is careful in rejecting with admirable efficiency any
thought contrary to the established structure of values: scientists at
the top of the pyramid; other segments of the society arranged in
layers in descending order down to the bottom, always housed according
to their intellectual capacities.
As time went by this abstract pyramid of values
demonstrated to be much more solid, very contrary to the mobility of
its members than those social pyramids of different nations. It
persisted throughout the centuries, firm and unshaken, impassive to
the rise and fall of empires, indifferent to governments and political
regimes. This fantastic stability should be credited vaguely to all
the members of this pyramid, of values that never allowed anyone
imagine that its structure could be any different.
That is how, for a very long time, science managed
to force upon humanity many absurd and erroneous ideas, without
finding the slightest resistance coming from the lowest level. To each
scientific dogma proclamation there also followed a collective
compulsory muzzle, in the form of an obscure and unintelligible
language, totally inaccessible to the non-elected.
Only the members of the scientific directory held
the prerogatives and the means to discuss the new dogmas, benevolently
granted to the rest of the world. In international conclaves they
exhibited the then discoveries with stuffy polysyllabic worded
neologisms, indispensable for the recognition and praise from the
other members of the fraternity.
However, at one point both scientists and simple
creatures are equal. Everybody is firmly convinced that science is
capable to supplying answers to the great questions of mankind. The
majority has already accepted this as so...
In reality, very few people realize how limited the
performing field of science actually is. And thus they will appear
childish, even ridiculous, with the pretension of wanting to unmask
the last secrets of the universe this way.
The dogma of scientific infallibility could have
only obtained such a wide and unrestricted acceptance, because
humanity as a whole gave much more value to the intellect than to its
very own spiritual essence.
Proof of this is that the simple mention of the
word spirit already causes a certain indisposition in most
people. Only hearing or reading this word is sufficient for the
intellect to immediately enter into action, trying to make them
believe that they are probably confronting something “very serious.”
The same effect is observed with any other concept
that the intellect cannot assimilate. Subjects legitimately spiritual
today no longer unleash sentiments of happiness and interest, but
instead provoke disinterest and rejection brought on by the people’s
own reasoning, through its customary function of maintaining the
usurper on the throne, at all costs. When under a lot of pressure,
reasoning, collaborates with the increment of fantasy, supplying an
indolent humanity the succedanea for spiritual subjects that it has
neglected: the occult, mysticism, magic and blind faith. And that is
how the spirit continues sleeping peacefully, unaware, without
threatening the tyrannical reign of the brain.
This is the portrait of man today: the spirit being
that is embarrassed of its spiritual origin, enslaved by its own
intellect, the languid creature, lacking any spiritual vivacity,
accepting apathetically the most grotesque religious lies and the most
foolish fantasies of the mystic-occult.
If humanity had watered the garden with its
spiritual aptitudes the same time it was experimenting the fruit from
the tree of knowledge, today Earth would be a paradise.
However, as this did not happen, we have to survive
in a world dilacerated with hate, corrupted by greed, poisoned by envy
and sunk in poverty. This is the world that the intellect has to
offer, when dissociated from the spirit, which is the only thing that
is capable of making the human being... a human.
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