____________________________________________________________ «¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥« ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ *** The Little Worker's Newsletter *** Issue of October 2006 Published by CDTTT - The Committee for the Difussion of The Third Testament _________________________ TABLE OF CONTENTS: - First Word - The Conscience - The Consciousness - Final Word ____________________________________________________________ «¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥« ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ - First Word Dearly beloved: I invite you to join me in the exploration of what the conscience is, understanding it as that divine spark that exists within our spirit from the very instant in which we were created. We will next comment about consciousness, which in the divine teachings of the Third Era, has a quite different meaning from what conscience is. This topic is, in my humble opinion, of a great importance, since that by comprehending what the conscience really is, we can then rule our thoughts, words and deeds according to the divine Law. ____________________________________________________________ «¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥« ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ - The Conscience The conscience comes from the latin word "constientia", that itself is a mirror of the Greek word "synteresis", which means, more or less, 'the knowledge inside', or in other words, 'the knowledge within'. The Cambridge Learner's Dictionary describes it as "the part of you that judges the morality of your own actions and makes you feel guilty about bad things that you have done or things you feel responsible for" and the 1913 Webster's dictionary defined conscience 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. For almost every Christian theologian, conscience stands for the moral conscience in which our actions and intentions are registered and which is only fully known to God. Sigmund Freud, called the father of psychoanalsysis, regarded conscience as originating in the superego, which takes its cue from our parents during childhood. According to Freud, the consequence of not obeying our conscience is "guilt," whichm in his theory, can be a factor in the development of neurosis. As per today, classical scientists in the fields of Ethology, Neuroscience and Evolutionary psychology embrace the explanation that conscience is a function of the human brain that evolved to facilitate reciprocal altruism within societies, in a darwinian fashion. As such, for them, it could be instinctive (genetically determined) or learnt. But the quantum mechanics scientists which have explored in what in their jargon is known as "the rabbit hole" (paraphrasing Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in Wonderland'), are now saying that something is the driving force at the very beginning of everything that exists, and they call it conscience. Sounds familiar? But what is, truly, the conscience? Luckily for us, we have the divine teachings of The Third Testament which explain to us, in a very clear way, all things about conscience. The conscience is, to put it in simple words, the perfect science that is, that accompanies us from the begining, that has existed, exists and will exist forever in our essential nature that is our spirit; both conscience and spirit are inseperable. So, when we use the term conscience, we are understanding that it is that perfect knowledge, total and absolute, that lies in our true self which is our spirit. And if, beloved brothers, within our spirit we will always find, perpetual, inseparable, that knowledge which is perfect, total and absolute because it comes directly from God. Being of divine origin, that knowledge, that wisdom could not have enhanced or diminished, nor could it manifest one scale of values today and another one tomorrow. In that knowledge and wisdom there is the Divine Law. Was this known in ancient times? If we look up the word "conscience" in the Old Testament we will not find it as such. Why not? Because the seventy translators of that era who made the Greek version of the Scriptures known as the Septuaginta, and from which almost all the current bibles derive from, had real problems with some of the terms that, even though usual and perfectly understoond in its original Hebrew form, had no equivalent in Greek. To ilustrate this, it is enought to see that for the terms "heart", "mind", "soul" and "spirit", the used only one term, "psychè"; this gave place to numerous confusions in those who only had access to this Greek translation of the ancient writings and had no way of reading this in their original language, Hebrew. But still, some references to 'conscience' in the Old Testament had survived in our modern versions of the Bible, and one of them, perhaps the most powerful, is the one used by Isaiah; somehow, the Hebrew term survived, because the non-Hebrew scholars of that time, thought and believed that by using the name "Emmanuel", Isaiah was referring essentially to the promised Messiah; but the Hebrew word 'Immanuel', in fact literaly means "God is with us". Ezekiel also contains references to that inherent knowledge, that can be deduced since the begining of the Bible. Let us meditate for example in the following: Cain kills, led by jeaolusy, his brother Abel. And the blood spilt in that crime, according to the narrations of the scripture, "crieth unto Me from the ground". In that time, the Law of the Sinai had not yet been promulgated (widespread, published), and Moses had not yet arrived to deliver it in tableys of stone or in any other form. Why then is the blood of Abel reclaimed against Cain? How could he have possibly known that murder is wrong, if there was not a promulgated law? The answer is simple, brothers: That divine law, eternal, is contained - always has been - in the conscience, in that "God with us" which Isaiah talks about. Cain, along with his free will that led him to decide to take the life of his brother, had always within him the conscience, that knowledge which clearly indicated to him the difference between good and evil, between light and darkness, between sin and righteousness. And we must emphasize that none of us posess a particular conscience; you can not "personalize" nor individualize the conscience, because it is divine, and therefore, is omnipresent, universal and immutable. That is why, when someone says "My conscience tells me this", and what their conscience seems to say difers from what his neighbour's conscience tells him, one of them - or both - is calling conscience something that it is not; because the conscience, being unique and divine, will not tell one thing to one and then a different thing to the other. "The conscience is the Divine spark; it is a superior light, and is a strength to aid man not to sin." "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 man before he is born and after he dies. 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 will never mislead, because it is My own light. By chance, did you ever hear it say to you: Kill your brother, or order you to disown your father who engendered you, or the mother who conceived you? Have you heard it advise you to take what is prohibited? No, My children; it has been a good guide, adviser, and judge, because in that conscience, I am." The Third Testament ____________________________________________________________ «¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥« ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ - The Consciousness The consciousness, has to do with our faculty to become aware of thing, to notice everything that happen to us or that what we live. It is not an inspired or given knowledge that is by itself inside of us; it is the contrary: It is simply, information that comes from what we experience, that comes towards us, and that, in order to become consciousness, must be taken in account. To better illustrate the point, we will put as an example what happens when we go to a social meeting. There, as it is expected, we will find several people, among which we will probably start a conversation with one or two of them about a subject of common interest (politics, daily life, the most recent film, etc). Without us needing to decide it, when we focus our attention over what our friend is saying at that moment, it would seem that the sorrounding noises (the music, the voices or the chat of other people, the noise of the cars outside of the house or the apartment, etc.) will pass to a second plain, reaching the point when they will be inaudible... and making the other people apart from our small group, practically invisible. The information, as such, continues to arrive; absolutely all the nearby sounds will arrive to our ears, just like our eyes will receive too all the images and movements in our surrounding area, but what happens? We have no consciousness of other noises or sounds other than those in which we have fixated our attention to; meaning, we do not take notice of the other sounds or noises, and like so, the chatter of a different group other than ours, passes completely ignored by us; it is like if they were not in our reality, and in fact, they are not. And the same happens with their actions and images. It is only when we become aware of them when they become a part of our reality, it is only then when they seem to have begun existing; it is the consciousness the one that acts to convert this perpceptions into information we can process in a consciousness way, meaning by this, taking full notice of it. It is now something acknowledged by the scientists that investigate the human mind, that everything that is captured by our senses reaches the memory, whether we notice it or not; that is, even though our consciousness does not take proper notice, in any case each voice, each sound, each face, each issue, is registered in an unerasable manner by the memory. Did you know that all the numbers of the automobile plates that you have seen in your life are printed in your memory? That the face of each people you have crossed along during your life, also remains there, recorded and unerasable too? Milton Erickson, known as the father of hypnotherapy, proved this repeatedly in a very conclusive way The question here is: Where is that memory? Where does it go when we do not use it or need it? Until recently, in clasic medical science it was taken as a undisputable fact that memory resides in the brain. But more advanced research have arrived that put that in severe doubt: The memory (or memories, because now it is said that in fact we have multiple memories) remains, even when the brain has been damaged or destroyed. The paramount investigations of Dr. Ian Stevenson of the University of Virginia -- http://144000.net/topics/reinscie.htm --, demonstrated that, in new born children, memories of past lives manifest, even creating phobias, thing that took Ian Stevenson to start an open controversy with Freud, to whom he proved that the explanation for many of the conflicts that afflicts people, arises from other past lives, without there even being a posibility of being transmtted via genetic memory. Modern investigations of DNA, has proved the assertions of Dr. Stevenson, backed up by hundred and even thousands of case studies gathered along many years. It is easy then to deduce that the memory does not belong to the brain or the body, and that it exists and continues to be out of the physical universe; rather, it is part of the spirit. And the consciousness that was used while the spirit was in the flesh, is absorbed also by the spirit. This way, we become aware that at the end, everything remains imprinted in our spirit: all things that we had lived through, every experience, sensation or emotion, each image or sound, every single bit of information, etc, etc, etc. Everything, absolutely everything that arrives to the ambit where the spirit lived and developed while he dwelled in the matter, even before birth, remains in the spirit. That is why when we get to face the tribunal of our conscience, before our spiritual eyes all our lives pass with all the details, even the most insignificant or aparently ignored. And I say aparently, because while the material "consciousness" was not aware of it, the memory certainly was. Such is the power and the magnitud of our spirit. "With an instant of profound meditation, you can reach a great level of consciousness, of elevation, of love; with an instant of great preparation, without needing to fall into fanaticism or misticism, and through a life of simpleness, virtue and morality, you can truly go near to the Father, and the Lord will flow through you, and all promises made to His disciples, will be fulfilled through you." The Guardians The "consciousness", like in the case of the party we mentioned before, can be focused on superior things; for example, to take notice, to "see" the presence of God: "The spirit posseses many latent powers and faculties, and through all of them he can contemplate God." "Do not be astonished by this; the matter, as well as the spirit of man, has always been capable of seeing its Lord, but because of the lack of consciousness of itself, has ignored when it has seen Him." "And the matter that in past times has seen the Lord without being aware of it, in future times certainly will see Him and be aware that it has seen Him." The Third Testament And how do we get to use in a magnificent and superior manner the "consciousness"? Well, by focusing, through that "consciousness", into listening and paying close attention to that inner voice, the perfect guide that is the conscience; in other words, focusing our "consciousness" to "see" and listen to God. ____________________________________________________________ «¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥« ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ - Final Word Beloved: Resuming what was mentioned before, we notice that only the conscience, that divine spark that lives in us, is the one that can lead us to the safe path of fulfilling the Law. "Under the conditions in which your existence develops, who would be able to guide your thoughts toward righteousness? Only the Divine light of the conscience, which inspires man to comply with the Law, a light which dwells within the spirit and, through it, manifests itself to the flesh." "The body could live without a spirit, animated only by the material life, but it would not be human. The spirit lacking a conscience could not be guided by itself, nor would it be the superior being who, by means of the conscience, knows the Law, distinguishes good from evil, and receives the Divine revelation."[/cita] Let us then, brothers, use that faculty that we have. to become aware of all things that are truly important, so that by subordinating our reason to our conscience, we might pace ahead in our journey towards perfection". 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