Thursday, 23 September 2021

THE TRAGEDY OF THE INTELLECTUALIZED ANIMAL

Heinrich Heine, the famous German poet of "Lorelei," said that he could not solve a doubt: whether Earth is a hospital or a madhouse of humans; but perhaps this doubt does not exist, for most of humanity is both hospital and mental institution; physical, psychological and emotional sufferers inhabit the Earth.

Buddha said that man's life is essentially suffering - and suffering comes from guilt.

All dramas and dilemmas of human life come from the guilt that manifests itself in various ways. The responsibility lies in the fact that man did not develop the "divine breath" of his superior condition as a human but only intensified the "serpent's hiss," i.e., his intellectualized animality.

If man were like other animals, he would not have guilt. If man were spiritualized, he would not be guilty. Since man is potentially a spiritual being, but at the historical moment is only dynamically intellectual, he is guilty. For who can perform good deeds, and who can and should and does not, create debt - and every debt generates suffering. Suffering is the reaction of cosmic laws against the guilty debtor.

The great guilt of humanity is that it is only intellectualized, instead of also being spiritualized, in a general communion among all its members. The difference between intellectual man and spiritual man lies in the guilt of humanity of all times and countries. This guilt will persist until man properly spiritualizes himself, realizing the image and likeness of his Creator.

In many ways, humans suffer this tragedy of hypertrophy of intelligence and atrophy of spirituality, which is manifested by possessiveness, aggression, sexuality, illness, and so on.

--- First tragedy: Possessiveness.

Nonhumans have no sense of ownership. They only have a slight sense of temporary possession; they defend their nest, food, cave, and restricted territory, especially at breeding; but they ignore property. The bee protects its hive because it needs to survive, but all other bees and insects have the right to seize nectar everywhere as they wish.

The man, for his part, goes to the notary's office, produces an official document and declares that this is mine alone and mine forever and ever, expanding his property indefinitely, exploits his fellow men, and whenever possible seizes the property of others.

That is why all spiritual master's demand from their disciples the renunciation of earthly goods, to have only the possessions necessary for a modest and comfortable life, including the enjoyment of others.

--- Second tragedy: Aggressiveness.

This possessiveness craze of the intellectualized animal triggered boundless aggression. Animals have different tools to defend themselves: claws, teeth, horns, and other means. But human intelligence has perfected these natural weapons in the form of artificial weapons, including mass destruction, enabling the destruction of thousands of their fellow men within seconds without being seen by their victims. The natural defensive degenerated into an unlimited offensive. Lately, man's aggressiveness has come to a monstrous form: powerful nations manufacture and sell the most modern weapons to those at war, proving that the death industry is more profitable than all life industries. The "Satan's excrement," as Giovanni Papini, an Italian philosopher and writer, called money, is the supreme god of these intellectualized beasts.

All true spiritual masters forbid any form of aggression.

--- Third tragedy: Sexuality.

Nonhumans have a few months a year, usually in spring, when they gather for breeding; they live almost oblivious to the sexual heat for the rest of the year. But man, lives in the heat all year round, usually with no intention of procreation, just for personal pleasure.

When a man is excessively libidinous, he is labelled "bestial" - but this is a cruel insult against wild beasts; none of them is as "bestial" as certain civilized men.

Spiritual Masters have never opposed the use of sex, but they warn against excessive lust.

--- Fourth tragedy: Diseases.

As Heine says, the tampering of natural laws by possessiveness, aggression, and sexuality has transformed humanity into a vast hospital and mental institution. Doctors say, and statistics prove that at least 90% of society suffers from physical, psychological and emotional illness.

Hippocrates called the father of medicine said to his patients: "Let your food be your medicine." Nowadays, it is no longer possible to recommend this to civilized man: our foods are often as poisonous as our medicines. In the service of greed, months before planting, our farmers poison the soil with chemical fertilizers. And after the sprout, they systematically poison the plants with pesticides, which are absorbed by the plants and contaminate the human body.

--- Fifth Tragedy: Alcoholism, Smoking and Drug addiction.

These addictions of the ego degrade man materially, mentally and morally - but they are tolerated, and even favoured, by almost every government in the world, because alcohol, tobacco, and drugs pay the highest taxes - and governments need this money; drugs, in addition to subsidizing corruption, destroy the soul of the user and those who sell them.

Thus, Satan is officially nourished because governments need this "excrement" for the sake of humankind – to such absurdity comes the intellectualized man in continuing to feed his dramas and dilemmas, evils and follies he creates and thereby making it difficult to solve. 

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