Among the nearly 100 books written by Huberto Rohden, there is a collection of Mysteries of Nature, which comprise four books of a fictional character, mystical, perhaps utopian, but deeply realistic, however paradoxical ... These books expose the mysteries of Nature, in hypothetical dialogues where Rohden interacted with some non-human creatures!
We remind the reader that Rohden, in the years 1945 and 1946, received a scholarship in science at Princeton University, where he could, during this period, meet Albert Einstein, the great mystical scientist, universal, humanist, visionary and pacifist, which from this contact, Rohden wrote the book Einstein, the Enigma of the Universe, which is not a biography of the illustrious Nobel Prize scientist, but an essay on the man Einstein, his philosophical identification, his mystical views and his commitment to exercise silence, stillness and music, which made him further develop the strength of his intuitions.
In this collection, there is a book called “Maja, adventures of a bee”, in which in an intelligent dialogue between Rohden and a bee, they debate and explore the life and society of bees, discovering in them the wonders of instinctive intelligence, which in non-humans is a reflection of the greatness of the Cosmic Intelligence.
It is a dialogue that even seems like a utopia!
Utopia? No ... If this is possible in Nature - why can't it be possible among human beings - the so-called crown of creation? Why do discussions, debates among humans almost always end in controversy, conflicts of interest, rage and wars?
But why bees, the reader would ask?
Because these hymenopterans were an active part of Rohden's life, who in his leisure hours liked to raise bees and work as an amateur joiner. He was a student of Apiology and a profound expert on this fascinating society, even participating in international congresses on the subject.
Rohden's inspiration to translate from the original German and adapt the story in Portuguese originated from the work of Waldemar Bonsels (1880-1952) in his most famous book (Die Biene Maja und ihre Abenteuer), first published in 1912. The work in Portuguese was published in early 1940, with excellent and colourful illustrations, and what impresses and intrigues the author's idea is that, before being a children's publication, as it suggests, it has a profoundly mystical, social and political connotation, showing the unity of all creation and the relationship with the Creator.
From the original book, Bonsels' work received several adaptations worldwide and in different languages ... in toys, films, documentaries, children's magazines, even an opera, video games, cinema and on TV in an animated Japanese production for children, which is still widely broadcasted today!
Below, a short and intelligent dialogue between a bee and a human being!
“- Maja, tell me please what Nature represents for you and your community?
And little Maja, perched among the flowers of a magnificent garden expressed herself in this way before the curious Rohden:
- Nature is a great book that the Creator unfolded before the eyes of a man so that he could read, interpret and comprehend it. In prehistoric times, before he awoke the dormant intellect, there was no enmity between the world of human beings and the world of non-humans. After the awakening of the intellect, the man began to divorce himself from Nature - and with that, a state of belligerence, latent or manifest, which exists between man and his sister Nature, which remains and prevails till today. The intellectualized man is a tyrant, exploiter, including enslaving her, an action that obliges Nature to respond with hostility, implicit or explicit.
At the current level of his evolution, man, in general, considers Nature simply as an object of exploitation for individual profit. For the profane man, the beings of Nature are like the upper- and lower-case letters, of an open book before the eyes of an illiterate man: what he sees is nothing more than a chaos of letters in varied forms, enigmatic, meaningless.
The spiritual man, however, the true initiate has ceased to be illiterate and reads delightfully the great truths conveyed by the upper- and lower-case letters, of all beings of Nature; for him, the world ceased to be opaque and became transparent, and, through material symbols, the initiate spontaneously perceives the spiritual symbolized.
For the spiritual man, Nature is a great devotional book, through which he pays his worship to the Creator, hand in hand with his non-human brothers, in the poetic and deeply true language of one of the most advanced readers of this great book, Francis of Assisi.
The study and meditation of the greatness of the Universe make man serene, broad, happy, humble because it makes him see that he is just an atom in the face of this immeasurable magnitude. Nature makes a man be inspired by a sacred reverence before the majesty of the Infinite Power and intelligence without limits. This man can never again be intimately unhappy, despite all the setbacks in life, once he has realized this great truth.
The contact with Nature, the knowledge of this admirable order and harmony leads to a deeper comprehending of the revelation of God because nobody can deny that the Universe is the manifestation of amazing power, intellect and an aesthetic genius that eclipses all the wonders of art, poetry and beauty that humanity has engendered. All the prodigies of science and technology are, in the final analysis, only timid essays, more or less happy or unhappy attempts to imitate Nature, that magnificent original of the modest copies created by man.”
Man ... know and love the Creator of the world - and you will know and love the Creator's world!
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