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Jesus’ New Commandment: The Purest Air We Breath

Source: Book “Paiva Netto and the Proclamation of the New Commandment of Jesus – The Heroic Saga of Alziro Zarur (1914-1979) on Earth,” October 2009. | Updated in October 2020.

When I was 18 years old, I wrote down a thought I have presented in my talks and lectures for decades: Love is not the vile expression of desire. It reaches far beyond, above earthly mistakes, while also being a part of human beings, keeping them morally alive. As an unremovable factor of beings, it generates life. Since it is everywhere, it is everything. Therefore, those who do not love cannot consider themselves civilized, neglecting the Law of Spiritual, Human, and Social Solidarity of Jesus, the highest leader on this planet, who said: “Love one another, as I have loved you. Only by this shall all of you be recognized as my disciples.” (The Gospel according to John 13:34 and 35)

Tela: Gebhard Fugel (1863-1939)

Therefore, it is in the realm of the Spirit, rather than between the legs of females and males, that the headquarters of Love can be found.

Human beings—who are much more than sex, stomach, and intellect—are not the end. They represent the beginning of things on Earth. The end is the Eternal Spirit, which, in its turn and beyond the frontiers of this planet, is the starting point of a never-ending evolution. Love is neither old nor new. It is eternal, because it is God.

And just like blood, circulating all over our body, adds oxygen and nutrition to human cells, Love, while reaching the most profound parts of our Spirit, fertilizes it and gives it full life. 

Pedro Periotto

This is how I finished the page I wrote in 1959, which inspires me to conclude that the purest air we breathe is the Love of the New Commandment of Jesus. And what is more: The food that nourishes us (when prepared with affection and away from toxins) is the Highest Love. But if we cannot be fed with toxin-free products, this same Love purifies our nourishment.

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.”