Ecumenism

Seven Faces that Reveal God

Thirty-two years ago, on October 21, I had the honor of inaugurating the Temple of Good Will (TGW) in Brasília (Brazil), with the indispensable help of the people.

Since its opening, the TGW is the most visited place in the country's capital, according to official data from Brasília’s...

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Globalization and pluralism

Religion Does Not Rhyme With Intolerance

What Is Missing in the World for There to Be Peace?

The Four Pillars of Ecumenism

Ecumenism That Overcomes Hatred and Disputes

In an interview I gave to Portuguese journalist Ana Serra about my book Reflexões da Alma [Reflections of the Soul], launched in Portugal by Pergaminho Publishing House in 2008, I said: Educating with Ecumenical Fraternity is a service that requires good ideal, time, and...
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Before It Is Too Late . . .

Ecumenism, as we understand it, means globalization enlightened by Solidarity. We must, therefore, globalize Fraternal Love and spiritualize technology and economics. Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883-1950) wrote in The Theory of...
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Recognizing One’s Own Faults Is a Solution for Crisis

When we long to improve things, we need to identify what is wrong, beginning with our innermost being, because if we do not recognize our faults, how can we correct ourselves? We basically have to stop fooling ourselves, otherwise we may play the leading role in this lamentation from La...
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The Spiritual World Is Not an Abstraction

When I talk about Extraphysical Life, I am referring to the life that continues after the phenomenon called death. The Spiritual World, I like to reiterate, is not something abstract, indefinite. It does exist and is filled with spiritual energy and work. We cannot see it yet due to frequency, an...
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The Noble Destination of a Crystal

June 1, 1989, marks the day on which the Sacred Crystal was placed on the pinnacle of the Temple of Good Will (TGW), one of the Seven Wonders of Brasília (Brazil), a few months before it was inaugurated on October 21. The idea of having a stone at the apex of the monument was in the plans from the...
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Several Degrees of Knowledge

We are all children of the same Father, or of a single planet, as the skeptical line of thinking imagines, for it still does not admit the reality of a Superior Celestial Intelligence. Scientific thinking, however, by virtue of a Reason that is free from dogmas, prejudice, and taboos, will get...
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In Search of Balance

Now, more than ever, the existence of the Divine Solidary Love has become indispensable, because only it is capable of dispelling from the Earth the darkness of crime, poverty, and pain when understood and carried out in all its compassionate, fair and, therefore, effective power, not only in terms...
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Human Beings of Peace

Due to the relevance of their contributions to us, I want to talk to you again about three significant figures of Humanity who are celebrated in early October: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948), on the 2nd; Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail,...
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A Message to Garcia

Some readers who honor me with their patience have requested the presentation of a story told by Elbert Hubbard, which I published in the first volume of O Brasil e o Apocalipse [Brazil and the Apocalypse] (1984). The page is “A Message to Garcia,” an eloquent invitation...
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Temple of Divine Ecumenism

The time is coming when we shall all understand the importance of having a fruitful and fraternal spiritual, social, religious, political, scientific, philosophical, sporting, and so on, interrelationship. This is a survival strategy, which finds its indispensable foundation in the Economics of...
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