Inhumanity Breeds Inhumanity
In my book Jesus e a Cidadania do Espírito [Jesus and the Citizenship of the Spirit] (2019), I wrote:
Inhumanity breeds inhumanity. That, in short, explains the current state of our planet. However, with the richness of our Spirits, we can build a more admirable tomorrow. Yet no reform will be lasting without a sense of Charity, respect for human beings, and virtuous leadership acting within the Soul. For this to truly happen, we must be integrated into God, who is Love (First Epistle of John 4:16), and therefore, Charity. It was precisely the Beloved Disciple who warned us in his First Epistle 3:17-18: “If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the Love of God be in that person? Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.”
Without this measure—and perseverance in it, as Jesus teaches us—we would hardly know where to begin fixing what we have damaged over the millennia. The true integration into God and His Law, as expressed by the Divine Master in His New Commandment, is the reform that still awaits its beginning. Jesus said: “A New Commandment I give you: Love one another, as I have loved you. Only by this shall all of you be recognized as my disciples, if you have the same Love for one another. This is my Commandment: that you love one another as I have loved you. There is no greater Love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. Therefore, as the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Remain in my Love.” (The Gospel according to John 13:34–35; 15:12–13, and 9)
The Soul’s Supreme Power
Charity is the proof of the Soul’s supreme power in building better times (both spiritually and materially) for nations and their people—the Citizens of the Spirit. There is no greater inspiration for good politics than Charity, followed by Justice allied with Goodness. Absurd?! Time will prove otherwise. In fact, it is already becoming evident at the dawn of the Politics of God—the Politics for the Eternal Spirit of human beings. What remains is for the multitudes to finally learn to perceive this reality and to develop a sense of Compassion. Thus, as the ages go by, the world will abandon the illness that has plagued it for millennia: its lack of attention to the power of Fraternal Love, the “basic principle of Being, a life-generating force that is everywhere and is everything.”
Avicenna
The Persian polymath Avicenna (c. 980–1037)—also known as Ibn Sīnā, one of the brilliant thinkers of the Islamic Golden Age—recognized that all things originate in this Universal Feeling, as he described in his Treatise on Love:
“Every single being loves the Absolute Good with an inborn love, and that the Absolute Good manifests Itself to all those that love It. However, the capacity of the latter to receive this manifestation differs in degree, and so does the connection they have with It. . . .
“If it could happen that the Absolute Good did not manifest Itself, nothing could be obtained from It, and if nothing were obtained from It, nothing could exist. Thus, there can be nothing if Its manifestation is not present, since it is the cause of all existence.”
Alexis de Tocqueville
On the sublime act of giving oneself to others and its impact on society, the French political thinker Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859) stated: “Individual charity devotes itself to the greatest miseries, it seeks out misfortune without publicity, and it silently and spontaneously repairs the damage. . . . It can produce only useful results. . . . It alleviates many miseries without breeding others.”
These words from the author of Democracy in America points us back to the ancient statute left by Jesus, the Heavenly Provider, to all Citizens of the Spirit:
“2 So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.
“3 But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing.”
(The Gospel according to Matthew 6:2-3)
When human beings truly love, they establish perfect harmony with the Laws of Love and Justice left to the world by the Heavenly Father. The creature returns to the bosom of their Creator. Centuries may pass, but this indescribable glory of Divine Ecumenism—the social-spiritual connection between us and God—will one day be fulfilled.
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