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Humanity's unrestricted
faith in relation to its cerebral abilities has already been here
for a long time, in fact, for thousands of years, and the successive
successes in gross matter were of excellent service to further
confirm this idea.
What we presently observe is just the coronation of
this process, where the intellect has established itself as the only
reliable support, because science has entirely consecrated the
omnipresent and omniscient “divinity” and judged it its duty to
enforce itself on humanity and to all those who pray to it too, every
time they turn to it to achieve ephemeral and miserly earthly
objectives through intellectual maneuvers.
When the ancient Greeks began to slowly unmask the
laws of celestial mechanics, spiritual development had, for a long
time already been put to one side and it was also considered as
something unimportant, unnecessary, even an obstruction to “human
progress.”
Without a competitor of the same guile, the
intellect strengthened itself increasingly more, unhindered, in fact
at the same velocity as the natural gift of the spiritual humans was
suffering from the effects of atrophy. Each new scientific discovery
announced became a new stone block used in the construction of that
intellectual pyramid of values, which already at that time was
considerably high.
The well know Brazilian scientist, Marcelo Gleiser
on referring to the ancient Greeks and their discoveries, declared the
following in one of his texts: The Dance of the Universe: “Their love
for reason and their faith in using their intellect as a primary
instrument in the search of knowledge formed the fundamental framework
in the scientific study of Nature. We should never be afraid to
inquire or be intimidated by our ignorance.”
And this is precisely the point.
The base on which science supports itself is the
intellect, human reasoning, and it could be no different. If it
intends to analyze and classify physical phenomena, physically
perceptible, the intellect is naturally the best suited for this,
because it is a product of the brain and this organ belongs to the
material body of the human being.
Using reasoning as an instrument, science is in
fact capable of great feats, which nevertheless has to always
remain restricted to the sphere of matter. The results obtained up to
now through the several areas of science are clear examples of
matter’s unquestionable success.
The big mistake occurs when, motivated by these
visible successes, scientists feel that they are equally capable of
examining, with their intellect, restricted to matter, things that are
found outside the sphere of matter. This way they imagine that they
can find answers to the fundamental questions that concern man, such
as: How did the Universe begin? How did life appear? Who are we? Where
do we come from? And, where are we going?
And at every stage on the pyramid of values there
is this same belief of science’s unlimited capacity. Full of hope,
with an ill-disguised pride, as all the classes of the human race
raise their eyes to their idolized scientists, the cream of the human
species that dwell at the top, in the expectation of also obtaining
answers for these extremely crucial questions. And all this takes
place in spite of the fact that they will be unable to understand the
scientists and dominate their hermetic language, however, they eagerly
await the answers in order to appease their own intimate anxiety.
They wait in vain...
It will never be possible for the human intellect
that unconditionally belongs to matter, to solve enigmas whose
solutions are to be found at other levels of creation. To do this
the mobility of the spirit is necessary, something that the
scientists today - with rare and honorable exceptions - don't possess
anymore. And they, who are the majority that neither believes in the
existence of the spirit nor in the Creator, insist on researching
subjects of a spiritual nature with their restricted intellect limited
to Earth. They want to solve the secrets of creation with scales, test
tubes and electronic microscopes, a situation that could even be
comical, if it weren’t so sad.
And in spite of the crystalline logic that exists
in this natural impossibility, of understanding spiritual phenomena
through material means, science can never recognize this limitation,
not because of vanity, but because of its total incapacity to do so.
It is precisely because it believes that the
intellect is the key to everything, that it can solve
everything that the scientists are deprived of the capacity to
marvel at what lies beyond the limits drawn by intellectual knowledge.
For them it is completely impossible to extend their vision beyond
this point. They do not even consider the hypothesis that there is
something that the intellect is not capable of explaining. In fact,
they do not possess the capacity for such discernment anymore.
The disciples of science imagine themselves to be
at the apex of human knowledge, and they allow themselves to be lulled
to sleep, satisfied, in the melody of this illusion. And in reality
that is how it actually is for them. They are in fact at the height
of intellectual knowledge this however is at a very inferior step, way
down below in relation to the knowledge that we could have had of the
immense work of Creation, had we made full use of our spiritual
capacities.
If humanity had not abandoned their spiritual
development so thoughtlessly, everything today would be totally
different. Science today would be the synonym of true knowledge, and
all the important human questions would have been solved already.
Ob.: In the following articles we shall analyze the
answers that science has given in dealing with the fundamental
subjects of human life.
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