In 1937, professor Huberto Rohden considered the Brazilian Paul of Tarsus, travelled the vast Amazon region of Brazil, spreading the messages of Jesus’ Gospel through his books, lectures, conferences, meetings and distributing a famous newspaper of his own, the “Cruzada da Boa Imprensa”, which spread the truths contained in the Gospel to the humble local populations.
Years later, that same newspaper, which came to be published in Europe and Africa was banned by the Roman clergy, who did not admit a voice defending the true Gospel, because, for the clergy, the humble image of this Christian practice put at risk the immense wealth and luxury in which the gospel of the clergy lives.
Unfortunately, to this day, the followers of the Catholic church are artificially kept in ignorance of true Christian catholicity and all this adulteration began in the 4th century when the priesthood, from an apostolic ideal, became a lucrative profession, a source of social, political and economic prestige. As long as the priesthood does not reintegrate itself in the spirit of absolute gratuitousness proclaimed by Jesus, pseudo clerical Catholicism will not be replaced by the catholicity of Christ.
Huberto Rohden, after 25 years of priesthood, with almost 100 literary works written and later banned by the clergy decided to abandon the Catholic church and turn to the independent, philosophical and educational-critical thinking of his Christian work in favour of all humanity.
Below, a small excerpt from his objective and a mystical vision of this greatness in nature, taken from his two-volume autobiographical work, “Por Um Ideal”, which is a fascinating journey through the interior of his human dimension, as well as, for the most distant corners of a country full of colours and diversities.
“The stupendous exuberance and dazzle of its flora and fauna, cannot be described in the silent whiteness of a sheet of inert paper and give the reader the exultant and vibrant live epic of the objective reality that is the Amazon rainforest, for who did not see with its own eyes and lived with its soul, this magnificence will never have the exact idea of what this wonderful creation of God is.
Perennial heat, abundant humidity, fertile soil - these are the basic requirements for this Eldorado of plant and animals at the climax of its expansion and vitality. Here, in all its majesty, the distant prehistoric periods of the Mesozoic era still prevail, when conditions on the planet were engaged in this dramatic evolution that marks the transition from adolescence to maturity. Here, the book of Genesis remains open, in full evolution of the second or third “day of creation” ...
Amid these tropical jungles, the desire to be alone forever with God and my soul again invaded me - the voice of my strange mystical selfishness. Why is it that contact with untouched nature inspires us this profound and beneficial inner stillness - the stillness that can, at the same time, turn into harm and intoxicating poison?
Eastern mystics often say that nature reveals and veils over God, and this is deeply true. It reveals it manifests because it is the work of God - veils, hides, for this revelation, is incomplete. In non-human nature, God appears as an impersonal power, which is revealed by the ethical imperative of moral duty. However, God is neither impersonal, as it appears in nature, nor personal, as it appears in human consciousness, but supra-personal, or rather, Omni personal, as it appears in the intimate experience of the great seers and mystics, when “raptured to the third heaven”, they perceive “unspeakable sayings”, as Paul of Tarsus says, after going beyond the zone of the impersonal and the personal and disembarking on the unknown beaches of the Omni personal whose content is “said” to the soul, but cannot be said by the intellect or human lips. To allow oneself to be absorbed and intoxicated by the impersonal fascination of nature is a subtle danger, a mildly deadly poison for man sufficiently sensitive to this seduction, but not yet sufficiently initiated in the unique personality of the divine world ...
Whoever has never experienced, in its subconscious, this vehement suction of the mysterious abysses of non-human nature knows the danger that exists in these intoxicating melodies of the tenebrous Circes of the depths and the fascinating Mermaids of distant islands ... And also knows that these demons of the abysses from unknown worlds only become angels of heavenly heights after man has entered the intense light of the experience of the kingdom of God within himself. For this man the dreadful suction of the whirlwind to the abyss has ceased; nature became friend and ally in his path in demand to the common Creator of both.
I thought of all this and more, in the mysterious gloom that enveloped me among the gigantic trunks and the tallest fronds of this immense cathedral of the Amazonian jungles, the thundering Te-Deum of the waterfall and the discreet melodies of the birds and insects around.”
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