____________________________________________________________ «¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥« ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ *** The Little Worker's Newsletter *** Late Issue of March 2007 Published by CDTTT - The Committee for the Difussion of The Third Testament _________________________ TABLE OF CONTENTS: - First Word - Our True Identity - Family as an Living Organism - The Genesis of the Family Destruction - Last Word ____________________________________________________________ «¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥« ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ - First Word This time, we are going to break our topic in two monthly issues of our little newsletter. The reason? There are some subtopics that stem from the main topic: The Western society's values and the changes that they have gone through in these past decades. In this March's edition, we start by covering what our true identity really is, as well as we take a view upon the family as a living organism, and finally, what was the genesis of the destruction of the family unit in most of the Western societies. In April's edition we will cover the delicate subject of the severe changes in values that afflict our societies and the logistics that were involved in them. Because society is not an event of nature, it is not an element of the Universe: It is man's work. And we all, as part of the human gender, are involved in its causes and effects, we are not alien to its birth, growth and development, whatever its course may be, for good or for worse. It is our concern, it is our thing, and we better keep a good eye on it. ____________________________________________________________ «¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥« ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ - Our True Identity In our spiritual nature, there are no differences among us, we are all equal: Each of us have the same baggage of gifts, virtues, potencies and powers and we all share the same conscience (not to be mistaken with the state of consciousness or awareness which can be individualized by experience). But once we come to dwell in a human life, things change. In fact, they started to change when we were still in a pure spiritual state. "Spiritually you are both the same; no sex or difference exists in the spirit. Not one of you is before the other, but once you are in human flesh, I have first placed man before the woman." "To be a man, for the spirit, is a test to which I submit him. To be a woman, for the spirit, is also restitution." The Third Testament Our free-will led us to take different paces in our evolution and diferent decisions were made that separated us, not only from our Heavenly Father but also from our own brothers in the spiritual realm. We ended up creating styles of life and subworlds that were not our Lord creation, thus lacking of the wisdom and grace that caractherises all divine works. "Your spirit was created for the struggle, for the elevation; he was not created for inertness, for immobility. That is why some spirits have become great, inspired in the Divine love and in the marvels created by God. Among those spirits, there were some who were great in themselves, but insignificant before the infinity of God. They tried, by virtue of their free will, to defy the designs of the Father, descending, by their own volition, upon dwellings and paths created by them which turned them away from the path of perfection, and from the House of the Father. That action was their first downfall, their first disobedience, their first error." "Many spirits returned repentant and submissive, filled with pain, but also with hope, to ask the Father to purify them of those faults." "However, not all returned meek and repentant of their first disobedience, of their first act of pride. No. Many came filled with arrogance or resentment. Others, ashamed and recognizing their guilt, tried to justify their faults before Me, and far from purifying themselves through repentance and making amends, they continued creating, aided by their attributes, a remote life distant from the laws of love of the Father." "Thus, those beings fell into new and unknown orders of life. On becoming aware that they were endowed with prodigious gifts, possessing intelligence and power to create by themselves, and believing they ascended at every step, they began to slowly fall into the abyss. There, they created an artificial existence and allowed the development of violence, selfishness, foolishness, the development of the absurd and spiritual blindness." "And at each step which moved them further away from the path of justice, My voice called out to them saying: "Stop, come back to Me!" My voice vibrated within their conscience, exhorting them to hold back." "You were free and great, but later you became missionaries of your own passions." The Third Testament Ok, so we now know that this material Universe was created so we could find our way back into the divine mansions of love and light. In our journey traced by our own decisions and the exercise of our free will, we even lost our original integrity, hence avoiding us to comply with our gifts and virtues at its fullest. We either exercised reason and logical behaviour or we manifested tenderness, sensivity and compassion, but not both of them at the same time, since as spirits in disobedience we have lost that capacity. Because of this, in our human life we are engaged almost by second nature, in a role playing setting so it could be easier for us to manifest the different virtues according the gender we took in each human life. And for this purpose, our brain and our everyday chemistry, varies from individual to individual. Responses to the same event vary accordingly with the chemical reaction in the brain of a female or the male individual. And those responses, in most of the cases, are automatic: We just not decide anymore how are we going to react to a given event: we simply go for it. Is that true freedom? Is it freedom that we decide to, say, quit smoking only to find out that we just can't do it? Who or what is deciding for us? Was it really freedom of choice that took a man or a woman to make so wrongful 'decisions' that got them into jail, or even worse, to pay them with death as debt to an unforgiving and revengeful social system, as still happens in some places? No, not really. Our unleashed emotional responses are the ones that have taken almost complete control upon our free will. In other words: Our past decisions, remote in some cases when they were made in past lives, or earlier in this very life, are the driving force that moves many of our thoughts, words and actions. And they were responsible too, in a far far away time and place, that we ended being uncapable of manifesting our whole set of virtues and spiritual powers. Furthermore: Neuro reserchears have established that the way our brain works is vastly gender dependant: Study after study had demonstrated the evidence of this; boys and girls brains react in a different way to the same stimuli. For example: It has been known for more than a century, that the length of the index finger relative to the ring finger differs between men and women. More recently, researchers have found a direct correlation between finger lengths and the amount of testosterone that a fetus is exposed to in the womb. The shorter the index finger relative to the ring finger, the higher the amount of prenatal testosterone, and -- as research have now shown --the more likely the individual will be physically and behavourily aggressive throughout his life. These findings seem to reinforce and underline that a large part of our personalities and our traits are determined while we're still in the womb. If you wish, you can confirm these statements in scientific journals: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070413102051.htm Thus, in a gradual manner that begins in the moment we are conceived, we become boys or girls, sons or daughters, brothers or sisters, husband or wives, fathers or mothers. But that is not exactly what we truthfully are; that's just the role that, at one time or another, we do play. So there is the time to us, in one of our lives, to "be" the son or the daughter of a given parents, so we behave like it; perhaps at the same time we arrived in a family of many children and we "are" also the brother or the sister of them. But in another life, we can reincarnate in a different gender and milieu: Once as a man, now as a woman, and reversely. Think on it for a moment: Each of our roles has a function, it serves a purpose. We are performing and acting accordingly to our role, to our function. And for this, we build a personality (from the Greek word meaning 'mask of an actor'), a facade if you will, comprised by a certain language, a certain physical look and a certain behaviour for ourselves. We even rehearse to acquire the most proper way to manifest to the outside world that surrounds us so we cut and comb or hair in a certain specific manner, we choose the garments with which we will cover our body, and so on. We end up constructing a person, a mask... and we reach the point in which we actually convice ourselves to believe in that we "are" that person. But that is just an illusion, it is just an hallucination. That's NOT what we are. Even our names are not indispensable, they are nonessential, temporary items; it does not define us, it just makes us easier to be located. Beyond this present life, beyond our earthly identities past or present, lies the true self of what we really are, our true identity. Our true identity surpasses the momentary roles, since it is beyond time and circunstance: It is our true nature. And that true identity is our spirit. ____________________________________________________________ «¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥« ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ - Family as an Living Organism Many see the family as sort of a clockwork mechanism. Others see it as a mere conjuction of separate individual islands, never forming a continent among them, led only by personal and egotistic interests. Others, do not take family as anything at all... for them, family is merely an accident. But there is a more elevated concept with which civilizations -including the actual one- were created and grew strong, until they collapsed... precisely because the original concept of family was lost or deprecated... Very much in the likeness to what is now going on with Western societies. And that elevated concept was taking family not only as the basic unit of all human development, but also as a living organism. As in all organisms, all parts are important. Only united to the body and functioning within it, each part has a meaning, a purpose. So, what happens when a woman and a man divorce? Are they just that, woman and man, or they became something else before that divorce? Oh yes... they once became a matrimony. And when children arrived, they became a family. So there you have it: A living organism that exists because the union and functions of all their parts. The father, the mother, the son(s) and/or the daugther(s): All of them are fundamental and essential for the well-being of that family. When the father or mother are gone, it is like beheading a live body. Can a body without an undivided whole head survive? Hardly. So again: What happens when a woman and a man divorce? Keep reading, please. ____________________________________________________________ «¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥« ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ - The Genesis of the Family Destruction Part of the hypocresy of our modern societies is to call something with a more 'elegant' and usually deceiving name: It is called an euphemism. Thus, a poor man is no longer a poor man: He is an economically impaired individual. A blind man is not a blind man anymore: He is a visually impaired guy. And the list goes on and on. Nowadays, a home is not destroyed when a divorce happens, no. It is just a 'marital dissolution', or a 'quest for self-realization', often by the woman and sometimes by the man. Others call divorce simply a 'legal separation'. It is not called a tragedy anymore, but just only an 'emotional adjustment' of the parents. In reality, nothing has changed, just the name. Same tragedy, same disaster, just with a brand new word. One of the hardest truths about divorce is that every split –no matter when it occurs– will have lifelong effects on the children caught in the crossfire. A true fact is that while most people (psychologists, sociologists, the media) acknowledge the pain of the children during the parents parting, few of them actually realise that most of the significant insecurities, questions, and doubts of those children may not show up for years, until they seek their own intimate relationships as adults. And is also a fact that millions of adult children of divorce still feel lost, displaced or unwanted, years after the ink has dried on their parents’ divorce decree. Many of them fear abandonment, betrayal or failure in their own marriage. And despite outward successes in other areas, they often doubt their emotional abilities. And most of them get to notice, after years of the event, that their parents divorce, affects them more and more each passing year, not less. "I am speaking to the heart of man, exhorting him toward regeneration, making him understand the damage to the body caused by the vices, and the harm that befalls the spirit. I have said to you that a man who allows himself to be dominated by a vice, has forgotten that the spirit must never be defeated; he has forgotten that the true fortitude consists of destroying evil with virtue. "That man, overwhelmed by the flesh, has denigrated his own self, has lost his self-respect, has descended from his elevated status as a man to that of a poor being, too cowardly to fight. "That man, instead of bringing to his home light, bread and wine, he brings darkness, pain and death. He makes his cross heavier, that of his wife and that of his children and he hinders the spiritual path of all who surround him. "I have spoken to the heart of the woman, mother, and wife, who has been unable to preserve the limpidity within the heart, nor has she been able to give her companion and children the warmth of tenderness and comprehension. "How could men and women elevate their spiritual existence if they have not beforehand corrected the great mistakes that exist in their human life? "My work requires that its disciples know how to give testimony with the limpidity and the truth through the deeds in their lives. "I ask some and the others: Do you have children? Well, you must care for them. If you could, for a moment, contemplate those spirits, you would feel unworthy in calling yourselves their parents. Do not give them bad examples, take care not to cause a scandal in the presence of the children. "I know that in this era, as never before, there exist problems in the bosom of marriages, problems where only one solution is found: become estranged and separated. "If this Humanity would have the necessary notion from the spiritual knowledge, it would not incur mistakes so grave, because it would find in the prayer and spirituality the inspiration to solve the most critical moments and overcome the most difficult ordeals. "Before you continue lamenting your sorrows in the world, stop and meditate a few moments so that you can discover the cause of your afflictions. "I permit you to search until you find the cause of your affliction, so that you can put a stop to it, because it is up to you to prevent the grief from penetrating into your home. "I assure you that not only will you find the reason that causes you to suffer, but at the same time the way to remedy your woes will be revealed to you. My charity will descend upon whoever has learned to pray and meditate, and that charity shall be upon your spirit and on your body like a balm." The Third Testament But the disaster of divorce as a way of life had a clear beginning, a genesis. _________________________ ***How Did All Started*** ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ In Western societies, circa 1940 started the slow destruction of the family unit, destruction that ran along with the massive destruction of lives and nations caused by what we know as World War II. As you surely are aware of, that conflict was a wear-out war. It devoured lives and material things while demanding more aand more troops and weapons in a rate never seen before. Because of this, the older men in power who ruled then nations clashing in that gargantuan warfare, had the imperious need to maintain the supplies for their armies, both in human lives of their young countrymen and in weaponry, in such gigantic proportions so they can overwhelm the enemy and win that war. After a few months of the break of hostilities, huge quantities of men were already sent to the battlefields, but in a very short time, due to huge casualties, younger and fresher new men were needed to replace the dead and the wounded. This posed a problem to the strategists and politicians: How to keep the factories for the material supplies (ammunition, tanks, uniforms, rifles, machine guns, etc.) running, while the labor force was sent to the front? So they took the decision of hiring, massively and abruptly, all the women in their countries, taking them away from their children, their home and their family. The mass media, through a carefully planned propaganda, made the job of persuading them that their patriotic duty was to fill the place of their absent husbands. For the first time, the role of the women was no longer as spouse and mother: They were workers, just as they husbands and sons before them. The resulting scenario was disastrous: The father, away at war and the mother, absent because of the hours of intense labor which was required for them, and the children, unattended and without the guidance of their parents. The grand mothers and grand fathers - usually from the mother side- had to act as replacements for the parents, and that created the first generation of children not raised by their own parents. At the same time, the mothers, taking the place of the husband in the factory line, suddenly begun to receive the money that once he was supposed to earn, only that it wasn't the 100% of the wages that the husband used to perceive, but the skimmed 60% or less instead, abusive practice that continues up to this day. After years of 'women's lib', they still receive less money for the same effort and the same job. This, of course, openned the greedy appetite for more and more profits of the large corporations that by then, already had control of most of the mass media and the economy of those nations. I suggest that you watch the interesting video documentary concerning these events, made by the BBC of London (the link should be a single line... if broken in two lines by your email software, please paste them back together): http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2637635365191428174&q=century+of+self&hl=en As a pernicious side effect that was wrongfully labeled by the mass media -dominated by the interests of large corporations- as "women's liberation" (although before, that label was abducted by the mischievousness of a tobacco corporation), appeared the infamous "Ladie's Bar", places where many times women went often after collecting their pittance, mostly on Satuday nights, to relax drinking, smoking and dancing with younger folks that were not already drafted by the armed forces. Many of these young men turned into prostitution (the stats from that era show this clearly), and the deprivation of many women morals, push the society as a whole to enter in a downfall whose results we are witnessing today: The divorce rate is an staggering 70% of all marriages in many countries that follow that 'cultural shift', adultery is almost socially accepted in many places, the absence of parental control over their children is almost a social custom, etc. And also, along came the change in values, change which was for the worse, not for the best. ____________________________________________________________ «¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥« ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ - Last Word Dearly beloved: Please, reflect upon what we have discussed previously in this edition of our newsletter. Perhaps there are some things that you may have never considered, or probably you disagree or feel trouble with our analysis. And that is the idea: To put all of us to think, to medidate and to ponder profoundly in the meaning of what we have written here. And please, try to connect the subtopics that we already have covered in this month's edition with the ones that are included in our coming April issue, where we shall include the timeline of the profound shift and changes in moral values of Western societies. May the peace of my Father be with all my brothers Your brother in the Lord The Little Worker ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ - Past Topics ** The Gifts Within Part XVI http://www.144000.net/newindex/topics/0/the_gifts_within_part_xvi.htm ** Doctrine, Not Religion http://www.144000.net/newindex/topics/0/doctrine_not_religion.htm ** The Gifts Within Part X http://www.144000.net/newindex/topics/0/the_gifts_within_part_x.htm ************************************************************* Join as an spiritual volunteer to the Spiritual Corps of Workers http://www.144000.net/cuerpo/ ************************************************************* PASS THE WORD: If you find this humble newsletter interesting enough, feel free to copy it and send it to your friends, family and colleagues... and why not? 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