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           *** The Little Worker's Newsletter ***
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   Published by CDTTT-The Committee for the Difussion of
                       The Third Testament
                                    Issue of April 2005


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  TABLE OF CONTENTS:

          - First Word
          - Instinct
          - Free Will
          - Conscience: The Light of God
          - Final Word
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- First Word

It is crucial for us to understand that we, as humans, have
not only a body and a mind but the spirit also, and within
the spirit resides the conscience.

The conscience (not to be confused with the state of
consciousness), is inherent, innate to the spirit. In other
words, it is in the spirit from the very first moment of his
creation.

The word conscience comes from the Latin word "conscientia"
(con-cum: to accompany, to go with; scire: knowledge) and it
is described as the faculty, power, or inward principle which
decides as to the character of one's own actions, purposes,
and affections, warning against and condemning that which is
wrong, and approving and prompting to that which is right;
the moral faculty passing judgment on one's self; the moral
sense over all things.

Consciousness, in the other hand, is that state when one is
aware of things, but not necessarily involving in it the
moral consequences of one's actions, intentions or thoughts.

The human being has instincts, free will and reason, but, who
guides men in the most important aspects of their lives?

Instinct? Free will? Or is there something else?

Let's see.
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- Instinct


          "Humanity, if it were only the instinct
          that would guide all your actions in
          your life, your Father would not have
          had to reveal His Law to you, nor would
          He have had to come as Redeemer to save
          you. However, do not depend on your
          instinct; superior forces govern your
          actions and those forces are in the
          spirit."

Our basic material self, which is our body, is endowed with
instincts, as it happens with all animals. Those instincts
are somewhat useful to us since they take care of the most
simple and basic functions of our body, in order to keep it
well and alive.

But differently from the animals, we humans do not only have
a spirit, but  we have materially evolved so much in our body
and brain that we do not have to be driven by biological
imperatives only. We have reason in us, which separates us
from our irrational animal brothers, but most important is
that we have values, both moral and spiritual, that are by
definition the clear manifestation of superior entity in us:
The spirit.

We understand the spirit as that being which was created to
the image and likeness of our Father; it is eternal,
immaterial, it is an idea. The soul, on the other hand, being
subtle and ethereal as it is, is still material, temporal, it
belongs to this Universe's whole matter's count. Animals,
plants and humans, even rocks and common matter have soul.
Spirit? Only the human being has it.

Everything is subjected to evolution: Souls evolve too, and
we can clearly see the difference, for example, between a
crustacean and a dolphin, or between a worm and a dog or cat.

The spirit is subjected to evolution too; but the conscience
it is not.

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- Free Will

Free will is a gift granted to the spirit by the Father; it
is because we have this spiritual gift, that we distinguish
ourselves from the other spirits since by making our own free
choices, we decide which will be the path we follow, which
the thoughts we originate, whose deeds we perform.

But at the same time that we were endowed with the free will,
our wise Father gave us since the beginning, the conscience.

          "Freedom to act and the light of the
          conscience to distinguish Good from
          evil, are two of the greatest gifts with
          which My love as a Father, endowed your
          spirit. They are in the spirit of man
          before he is born and after he dies."

          "The spirit enjoys the gift of freedom of
          will; a means through which he must earn
          merits to save himself."

          "Who guides, directs or advises the
          spirit during his free journey in order
          to distinguish what is righteous from
          what is unrighteous, and therefore not
          go astray? The conscience."

The conscience does not come and go, it is a unceasing,
perpetual light, an ever-present voice that dictates us what
is right or what is wrong, regardless of age, culture or
whatever our place in the scale of evolution is.

Naturally, we have because of the free will, the option to
listen to that voice or to follow that light... or not.

But, beware! Free will is something that has two elements:
One, the faculty of decision; and two, the faculty to do.
Only when both elements are present we can truly talk of free
will.

Suppose that someone, in full use of his free will, decides
to go to the top 102th floor of the Empire State Building and
throws himself to the vacuum, commiting suicide. So far, his
free will, fully operational, will allow him to do that. And
he starts his fall. Floor 102, 101, 100... you get the
picture.

Then, suddenly, at floor 80, our heroe decides to change his
mind; he decides NOT to commit suicide.

Oooops! Sorry. "No can do"- says his free will to him. -"I
can't carry out that order".

What happened then with free will? Apparently its power has
run out, it simply vanished. Why? Because even having still
present the first element, the faculty to decide, the faculty
to do was exhausted, was depleted, so to speak.

The conscience? Still running high, thank you.

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- Conscience: The Light of God

          "The conscience is the light of God, and
          that light is fire of love which
          consumes all impurity. Behold the fire
          in which the spirit blends anew, to
          arise again full of light."

          "The conscience guides him, and it does
          not separate from him during
          desperation, or in the loss of
          reasoning, or during agony, because it
          is intimately bound to the spirit."

          "The conscience is the Divine spark; it
          is a superior light, and is a strength
          to aid man not to sin."

Ah! The wonderful power of the conscience. With it we can
free ourselves of sin, we can really take our will to heights
that otherwise are unreachable to us.

          "Who do you think has given the spirit
          the illumination of a perfect judge to
          pronounce judgement on himself? The
          conscience, that at the moment of
          justice will seem to you that it shines
          with a clarity never seen before."

          "And it will be the conscience the one to
          say to each one of you what was the
          good, the just, reality and the truth
          which took place on the Earth, and what
          was bad, the false hood and impureness
          sown along your path."

One of the most outstanding properties of the conscience is,
that thanks to its inherent perfection, we can know the
absolute truth in the spirit, as well as the reality on
Earth.

Absolute truth? "There is not such thing as the absolute
truth!" - someone might utter aloud. After all, this is a
very common concept that wise guys always throw to the table
in any discussion about truth and reality (which many times
are not the same).

Well, let me tell you: If someone says that there is not such
a thing as the absolute truth, I might then ask her or him
back: "Really? Not even this one you are saying?"

Catch 22, my brothers and sisters. For if that statement
cannot be, by definition, absolute, then the opposite is
possible. Humm!

Jokes aside, please meditate on the marvelous advantage that
has been given to us, in order to make us see or understand
the truth about everything, by simply following the dictates
of our conscience.

And in this world, plenty of deceiving traps and oscure
ambushes, this is definitively a plus!

  (All quotes taken from excerpts of The Third Testament)

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- Final Word:

Nowadays, surrounded by the wordly noise of our own passions
and of those of the others, it is not always easy to make a
thorough analysis of conscience; many times, it is the
submerged fear of what we will find, the one that avoids us
to enter in that domain of the light and the truth that is
the conscience; and many times, we end listening to
ourselves, with the childish make-believe thought that we can
accomodate the divine law to our personal convenience.

Many confound what is more suitable to us with justice, thus
fooling ourselves badly.

Having this in mind, probably next time we try to analyse our
deeds of the day by the light of the conscience, we get to
advance in our own spiritual improvement, by making us aware
of our mistakes and wrongdoings.

May the peace of the Lord be with all of us.

Your brother in the Lord
The Little Worker


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