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The Jacobins, the Guillotine, and the Forgotten Fraternity

Source: A Reflection of Goodwill taken from the interview given by Paiva Netto to Portuguese journalist Ana Serra about his book Reflexões da Alma [Reflections of the Soul], which was published in Portugal by Editora Pergaminho in 2008.

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When answering Portuguese journalist Ana Serra, on September 19, 2008, about what my purpose was in writing Reflexões da Alma [Reflections of the Soul] and having it launched in Portugal, I said that at first it was for my friends who asked me to publish some of my experiences in Brazil, Portugal, and other parts of the world throughout these years. They have been recounted during work meetings, speeches, talks, in my writings, and in the electronic media. I have modestly tried to share these experiences by printing in letters some of the lessons that are placed before all who want to learn something that the spiritual and earthly existence always has to offer us.

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We need to understand that a decisive change must first take place within our Soul. The main key to success in the third millennium is to take care of the Spirit and to reform human beings. Consequently, everything will be perfected, having as its beacon of light the so-often neglected Universal Fraternity, which is mentioned in last place in the ideological triad of the French Revolution―1st Liberty, 2nd Equality, and 3rd Fraternity. Therefore, seemly forgotten, resulting in what we know: after beheading those whom they considered to be opponents, the Jacobins began to guillotine each other. Not even the uncontained Robespierre (1758-1794) escaped. Terror attracts terror, when not super-terror. The famous French poet Victor Hugo (1802-1885), perhaps writing on the subject, said that instead of blood, what should be shed for fertilizing the field where people’s future germinates are ideas.

Exactly!

José de Paiva Netto (1941-2025), a writer, journalist, radio broadcaster, educator, composer, poet, the President Emeritus and Consolidator of the Legion of Good Will, and Spiritual Leader of the Religion of God, of the Christ, and of the Holy Spirit. He was an effective member of the Brazilian Press Association (ABI) and the Brazilian International Press Association (ABI-Inter), a member of the National Federation of Journalists (FENAJ), the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the Union of Professional Journalists of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the Union of Writers of Rio de Janeiro, the Radio Broadcasters Union of Rio de Janeiro, the Brazilian Union of Composers (UBC), and the Academy of Letters of Central Brazil. He became an internationally recognized author in the defense of human rights and in his concepts of Ecumenical Citizenship and Ecumenical Spirituality, which, in his own words, represent “the cradle of the most generous values that are born of the Soul, the dwelling of emotions and of reasoning enlightened by intuition; the atmosphere that embraces everything that transcends the ordinary field of matter and comes from elevated human sensitivity, such as Truth, Justice, Mercy, Ethics, Honesty, Generosity, and Fraternal Love. In short, the mathematical constant that harmonizes the equation of spiritual, moral, mental, and human existence. Now, without the understanding that we exist on two planes―not only on the physical plane―it will be difficult to build a Society that is truly Ecumenical, Altruistic, and Solidary, since we would still be ignoring that the knowledge of Superior Spirituality elevates the character of creatures and, consequently, leads to the construction of the Planetary Citizenship.”