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Love Is the Found Link

Love is the supreme definition of Divinity. It is the missing link that creatures seek in the immensity of scientific study, which, in order to make faster progress in the social sphere, has to join with non-fanatical Faith to find this link. For many years now, I have stated that Science (brain, mind) enlightened by Love (Religion, the fraternal heart) elevates human beings to conquer Truth!

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And what else is Love?

Love is the greatest champion of the most difficult battles. It overcomes all suffering. Love is God, and therefore it enhances its comforting actions when the unprotected or our loved ones need help.

Love never asks for itself.

Love offers the support the helpless beg for.

Love discreetly heeds even those appeals that are not overtly expressed.

Love never deserts, because it always helps. It never causes destruction. It brings Peace.

Love never falls ill. It renews itself to heal the sick in body and/or in Soul. It causes no hunger; on the contrary, it provides nourishment.

Love instructs and sets free, because it re-educates and spiritualizes.

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Rabindranath Tagore

Love does not constrain, because it trusts. For this reason, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), the famous Hindu bard and philosopher, and a friend of Gandhi (1869-1948), wrote:

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Gandhi

“Oh God! Your Love sets free, while human love imprisons.”

Love is everything; it is the delight of our existence, since it drives away fear.

When Love is truly itself, it always triumphs, since it never coerces anything or anyone. In the end, Love rules, because Love is God, but also Justice.

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1 The Found Link — Here the author presents an antithesis to the “missing link,” an expression used in 1851 by Charles Lyell (1797-1875), the mentor of Charles Darwin (1809-1882). Better known as the “transitional fossil” in paleontology, it refers to the organism that has the characteristics of both its evolutionary descendants and its predecessors preserved in the fossil record. In the investigation of the evolutionary history of human beings, the search is for the “transitional fossil” between ape and man. Some hominid fossils have been studied, the most famous being Lucy, a specimen of the Australopithecus afarensis species. The search continues, and other hominids have been discovered since Lucy, but it is still not certain that they are the “missing link” of this phylogenetic tree to which we belong.

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.”