O CAIBALION, cap. 4 - O Todo - Lúcia Helena Galvão

Good evening everyone! Let's all make a positive and productive discussion. I'm not just going to let the microphone work, but also for you to read the book. Because this is the purpose of a reading group. And you will realize that when you follow, reading, it becomes much more dynamic and productive. Because the doubts you have can be clarified here. It is always open to questions. This is a little different from a conventional lecture. It can be interrupted, doubts can be put. So the idea is that we go deeper together Don't think that because I'm reading

I don't know how many times, I'm not deepening. One day I was scared reading Bhagavad Gita for the tenth time. It was something I had never seen. Or at least I had never understood. So we are deepening together. And I hope you can live this experience with us. So that it is different, at least a little different from a lecture, in the sense of being a more interactive dynamic. And that yields better results for you. I always put this verse at the beginning. It will always be like this. In the fifteen chapters it will be

like this. Because this verse that is quoted in the introduction of this book is a little strophe of five verses. It talks about the purpose of Kaibalion. Kaibalion talks about the seven laws of nature that would have been announced by an Egyptian sage called Hermes Trismegistus. And besides talking about these laws, he talks about our obligation not to let humanity forget these laws. So Kaibalion said, because no one knows where this word comes from, that it had something to do with tradition, with transmitting, similar to Kabbalah, which is the Hebrew word. So this very beautiful

verse, let's read it again. Do not let the flame go out, kept for centuries and centuries in this dark cave, in this sacred temple, supported by pure ministers of love. Do not let this divine flame go out. Do not let this divine flame go out. Do not let this divine flame go out. So this little strophe of five verses is about our obligation to have knowledge, to transmit knowledge. Because this is the best inheritance that we can leave for those we love. And our obligation is to love more and more human beings. Preferably one day

love all humanity. And the best inheritance we can leave for them is knowledge. We have already mentioned this a lot, but it is worth it, as Rede Globo says, it is worth coming again. The material resources for our inheritance are not unfounded, but they are not enough to protect our descendants from an uncertain future. In the midst of a social crisis, a civil war, the apartment does not protect. Self-control, yes. Fraternity, yes. Balance, yes. And it is important to remember this, to remember the Platonic maxim, that the best thing we can do for those we

love is to grow as human beings. And we can do it in our lives, in the future. We think about loving, being just, our things are beautiful and true. But one thing is certain, if you say I want to love, you will love with the power your love has today. If you say I want to be just, you will be just with the power your justice has today. If you say I want to grow, consequently you will love more, you will be just in a more complete way, you will exercise goodness in a more comprehensive

way. So, grow as a human being including the human being, including all the elements that are relevant to a human being. So, if you have to ask something to the genius of the lamp, if you find him out there, ask him to grow as human beings, because it is a good request, I guarantee it to you. You will thank me for this tip. I already told you about a classic called Ramayana, where a living being, a important character in the book, obtains from Brahma the right to ask anything he wants. Imagine you are in front

of a God like Brahma, who in the Indian tradition is the creator, that is, omnipotent, you can ask anything for him. And Vibhishana asks him, do you know what? That my will never be a step, neither to the left nor to the right of the law. Can you imagine a being asking something like that? And then Brahma gets so moved with this request, that he gives to Vibhishana, eternity. Someone who wants nothing more than a pure expression of the law, supplanted time. And our talk today has a lot to do with this endless, endless human

will to overcome time. Today we are going to talk a little bit about nothing more, nothing less than God. And this perception of God that is proportional to the will of man to overcome time, to overcome space, to eternalize. Because the one who thinks very little cannot understand what is very big. What is everything. And we are going to talk about this conception according to the Egyptian tradition, which is also not a joke. So it's a complex talk. I hope I can pass some idea that stays with you, something that makes a difference. I'm going

to tell you something. Maybe this chapter of the Kaibalion, chapter 4, is where you can hear more clearly a differentiation about what is spirit, what is soul. And all traditions talk about this triptych, these three worlds, spirit, soul and body. And in practice we get a little confused to know what it is. Here they will talk about it with a lot of propriety. Maybe better than in any other place that I have read. Well, cover of the book, you already know. I don't know if there is to sell down there, but I hope there is.

You say, ah, there is on the internet. It is possible that there is. But you have a cute book, and you have a lot of money in your pocket, I would rather have the book. I'm still one of those who are in the habit of having books. So it's a book that is worth having in your pocket. One more thing. We know that my hidden intention is to put an encyclopedia in your pocket. I'm coming, I'm going, I'm already in the third. A bigger table of the pocket would be interesting. Buy a tray of your

choice. So, the Kaibalion, the study of hermetic philosophy of the ancient time, of ancient Egypt and of Greece, is the name of the book. But it had to be longer. Ancient Egypt, Greece, Middle Ages, Renaissance. Because this knowledge was very far away. The last time it was more evident was in fact in the Renaissance. But it is a knowledge that is mysterious and valid for any time. Because his intention is to overcome what is temporary, what is temporary. And our chapter today, chapter 4. The Whole. It was about the name that within the hermetic tradition

was given to God. It is exactly this name, the Whole. Being that Hermes Trismegistus, according to Constantine, had a great prudence to put names on God. Because he said that if God is the Whole, any name you give him will limit him. And will restrict him. And his characteristic, by excellence, could not be restricted. Because otherwise it ceases to be the Absolute. So he will deal with this approach. Remember that every time we put in quotes, we are talking about the traditional text of the Kybalion. The comments are not in quotes. It is the criterion

of the book that I repeated here for you in the slides. So this chapter starts with this original section of the Hermetic tradition. Which says the following. About the appearances of the Universe, of Time, of Space and of Mobility, is always covered the substantial reality, the fundamental truth. Let me teach you something. Do not be afraid of words. When we read a passage like this, it is not a very conventional vocabulary. We get scared. Sometimes I'm afraid, for example, to send someone to read Plato. Without preparing him a little before that. Because we get scared

with words. We are used to fast food literature. Everything very chewed, literary McDonald's. So we are a little afraid when words are a little pompous. But if we stop to reflect a little, lose the fear of reflection, you will realize that he is not talking about anything so extraordinary. He is talking about a very basic, very present thing in our lives. That is the fundamental revolt of man against things that pass. Against what is ephemeral, against what is temporary. Now we are sometimes scared with the language. Every classic book has a language with which we

are not very used to. Even because the fundamental reason of this, which you must have already distrusted, is that we suffer today from a mental laziness of giving pity. As my grandmother used to say. It is the origin of physical laziness. We are used to things all very thought out. We are used to having an inertia, to running the software life. Not thinking, not reflecting on life. So when we take a classic book, any book we have read so far, when I read The Prophet of Cana and Gibran, people used to tell me that. I

read this book, I found it so beautiful, but I didn't understand anything. Or I couldn't even read two or three chapters. Because it gives work. Classic books give work. And it's a good job. Because this is the fundamental work of life. To think your own life. But our society, in the terms we have today, gives you the illusion that life is already thought out. It's just you give the play. And run the software life. You are already alive. And you are thought out. This is not true. If there is something that life is not, it

is thought out. We live with enigmas. We live, wake up and sleep with the mystery. Life is not thought out. Human life is a mystery in its vast majority. Very little we unravel from the human condition. So when he says that about the appearances of the universe, of time, of space, of mobility, there is a reality. We will talk about this later. He is saying that there is something that is permanent behind the things that change, change, change, and continue to change. And we get confused about all that. Because our consciousness needs a support point.

To locate and say, this is me, this is reality, this is life. When we look, the scenes are permanently changing around us. And give us the impression of insecurity. The modern human being, especially the contemporary human being, is an insecure. Because he doesn't have a fixed support point where he can support his feet and say, I am. And now the world can turn upside down and the world won't drag me along. He can vent his will, which will not drag me along. I have a support point. And this lack of psychological support point is a

drag for the construction of deep feelings, for the construction of deep reflections. Just as not having good foundations is a drag to build a solid building. Although in Brazil there is a good advantage of not having earthquakes, but anything can drag down a building that is not very solid. Anything can drag down a human being that doesn't have very solid foundations. So he will talk about this permanent anguish of the human being. Don't think that this is bad, this is good. If you have this anguish, I will say, congratulations, welcome to philosophy. Because it's very

boring when the world is in chaos, and you think that life is fine, it's cool, you think that it's flying. Life is in chaos, and it is. That's why you don't recognize chaos. Because any element of need for identity, any fixed element that begins to be born within you will start to complain that life is in chaos. And demand that you find support points. So existential anguish is a sign that you are starting to realize that you exist. Because you can't have existential anguish if you don't exist first. With a certain certainty, with a certain

foundation, with more solid foundations. So he says, the man who observes the transitoryness, everything around him is movable and conditional. The search for substantial reality existed and will exist in all times. So don't lie to me. As much as we study, as much as we delve deeper, at least at our level, maybe in steps later, but at our level, death is still paradoxical. We even apply principles, we can control emotions, better or worse, but it is paradoxical. Because it is a meaningless business. You look at a person who left, her body is there, the objects

are there, the car is there in the garage, the glass in the head, and where is she? What was she who is no longer there? And you look and say, what is the most sacred thing in the world? What is the essence of beings? Suddenly it turns to dust. So it was dust before? And if it wasn't, what was it? And now? Let's say there is someone who doesn't think about it. I doubt it. In the face of the loss of a loved one, everyone thinks. And sometimes in simpler things, when you see a beautiful

moment, you say, will it end? Will a beautiful feeling pass? Sometimes people say, do you remember Vinicius of Morales? That love is infinite while it lasts. So let it pass. If it passes, it is not so deep. It is not so true. Because there is an intuition in us that things that cease to be, they never were. Because what is true does not cease to be neither in time nor in space. There is a book, who knows if it does not enter our list of books that we will read together in the future and that

you will read with me, called The Light of Asia, which is the life of Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha. And there is a certain moment that Buddha, already enlightened, already wise, says, look, throughout the incarnations, the Buddhist belief is a reincarnationist belief, I'm not telling you that this is absolute truth, but I'm quoting Buddhism, throughout the incarnations, I've been looking for what I am today. Because what is in the present has to find roots in the past. And what will be in the future has to be in the present. You have to put your roots in

the present. Because something cannot arise from nothing. You cannot achieve something that is not wanting to germinate from the past, from the farthest. That is, the things that exist have a certain permanence, otherwise they do not exist, they are not real. And we have this distrust in relation to a beautiful moment. In fact, for those who are more externa, who are more connected to this aspect of beauty, beauty is one of the things that most intrigues us. How does beauty pass? Because when you look at something beautiful, a very noble gesture, a moment of beauty

in life, you have the impression that you are facing a piece of God, a piece of eternity. How does it pass? She is playing hide and seek with me. Where did she hide? Where did the beauty go? So we have the intuition of permanence. We live in the middle of the transitory. This contrast between these two planes hurts, bothers, but it is what makes us create consciousness. Because consciousness is born from contrast. So not all pains are so bad. The problem would be to have a question for this to solve. It is a question like

these to solve. And it does not hurt anything. It does not bother anything. It would be very unpleasant. Does anyone know the story of the princess and the squirrel? I love this story. The princess, summarizing a lot of history, the king put her to sleep in a bed with seven mattresses. Did you hear that in childhood? The princess was sleeping in a bed with seven mattresses. Did you hear that in childhood? Did you hear that in childhood? Did you hear that in childhood? Did you hear that in childhood? The king was looking for the princess

in the morning. That was a test to see if she was a princess. Did you sleep well? He put a grain of rice under seven mattresses. She said, it did not work. With that face, half-asleep. I slept badly. Why? Because there was something in bed that bothered me all night. A grain of rice under seven mattresses. Imagine that! The princess was a philosopher. She slept badly, but she was a philosopher. It's worth it. Behind the appearances of life, which are more than seven mattresses, is traffic, employment, financial problems, problems with neighbors, construction at home, behind

that there is something deep that bothers you. And that, even if life is noisy, thick, sometimes there are seventy mattresses, you do not sleep in the matter. There is something bothering you. What bothers you could be summarized. I need to know what is real in life. And what is a joke. What is serious. And what is a mere movie being passed before my eyes. Deep down, this is the thirst of God. It is the thirst for eternity. This portion of God that we all have, not only right, but even duty, to discover throughout our lives.

So he talks about this human anguish. The search for substantial reality. In all times. You were human. You woke up to the human condition. You will begin to notice the grain of the apple under the mattresses. There is no way. Then the king will say, it is a princess, it is a prince. Do you know why? This is a sign of nobility. That is, philosophy is a sign of nobility. In the sense that it is human nature beginning to manifest itself. And wanting human answers. Not merely survive. But live, as it is said. So continuing,

he will say, throughout history, which is a curious thing, you realize, sometimes some archaeologists talk about thousands of years, where it was expected that man only lived in function of a mere survival. Sometimes, ruins of men of an age, I don't know. Now in South Africa, you know they are discovering a series of skeletons. I really like what they call archaeoanthropology. Their research to discover the first human skeletons in history. This is a fact. They say that for thousands of years, man put a stone on top of the other and worshiped something. That he realized

was superior. That it was lasting. That it was beyond time. Isn't that fantastic? Where have you seen a animal? The lion is running after the deer. Wait a minute, let me put a stone on top of the other and worship it. This does not exist in animal nature. As beautiful as it is, there is no such need. Let me appreciate it here. I'll take another deer, I won't lose this sun and I'll give one to the bull. I'm thinking of a deer. A deer for those who are not religious. That man, who knows how to

put himself not just walking on two legs, but know how to put himself on his knees before something he recognizes as sublime. As beautiful, as lasting. He will say that throughout history there was always this search. And the Hermetists, who were followers of a wise Egyptian called Hermes Trismegistus called this being Dodo. They thought that name was good. tends to generate exclusion. So, I am a follower of God, you are of Zeus, he is of any other god, Scandinavian, Thor. Deep down, they are all the same thing, but as we put a name, it generates

a certain tendency, the projection of our selfishness about this name. And soon it will generate problems. If you put the whole, if you follow something that is not the whole, it has to be inside the whole. It has to be the same thing, because otherwise the whole would not be the whole. If there is something outside of it, it is not the whole, it is a part. The absolute, if there is something outside of it, it is relative. The one, if there is something outside of it, it is two. So, if I deny what you

believe, I am denying what I believe, because I am limiting. If I limit myself to God, He ceases to be. So, based on these reflections, the hermeticists called God the whole. They said it was a good name, because you fight against this ghost that chases the human being throughout history, which is the projection of your selfishness and the things he believes. Soon, as I am the majority, my God is also the majority. If He is the majority, it is a sign that He is not the whole, because there is a minority outside of Him. So,

I already lost my condition of totality. And when I exclude something from God, I exclude something from my life. And soon I will not have fraternity. Soon I will have prejudices. Soon I will have conflicts of all kinds. So, what you adopt as truth in this field, will end up adopting as truth in all fields of your life, and you will have problems of coexistence, of inclusion of new concepts in your life. It can be dogmatic. You will exclude a lot of things from yourself. If you exclude something from God. Do you understand this idea?

It is an inevitable parallelism. So, the whole is a good name. It is a nice name. It was the name that the hermeticists called God. I brought you a concept here, infiltrated, because it is a concept of the myth of the cave of Plato. But it is too useful to understand this idea of ​​hermeticism. You know, fashion in Greece was to go where? It was not for Disney. There was no Disney in Greece. It was Egypt. Fashion in Rome was to go to Greece. It was like that. These great peoples were inspired by those who

came after them, who, I don't know why, because water loads tended to be a little bigger than them. If we think that way, we realize that from the human point of view, humanity has declined a little. Because Greece knew that Egypt was bigger than it. And Rome knew that Greece was bigger than it. So I don't know what happened there, but humanity was disturbed by its concept of human growth. And it started investing in the growth of things, and not in people. So things developed a lot and people stayed behind. Human development slowed down, it

gave up its focus. So Plato, who was an apprentice of these Egyptian knowledge, he said the following, that there is a criterion of reality in each time. He was talking about his time. He said it was like this. Imagine ours. He said that if you took an ancient Egyptian in the middle of the street and asked him what is reality? The spiritual plane or the material plane? He wouldn't have much doubt. And I'm talking about the common Egyptian in the middle of the street, because it was a cultural value. He would say the spiritual plane

is true, the material is an illusion. If you take a current man and ask him the same thing in the middle of the street, if he has the honesty to answer you, what he really thinks, what he really feels, he will tell you, the material plane is real. The spiritual person says, but where is the photo? Where is the proof? Who went there and came back to tell me? There is no proof. So it's an illusion, it's a hypothesis. We know that this is how it is thought. Because the criterion of the modern man, or

contemporary to be more exact, is sensory. What you touch, what you see, what you prove is real. The senses give reality to things. For the ancient world, the criterion of reality was eternity. The real is what it is not. If it is not, it is like a shadow. It appears and disappears, it appears and disappears because it never was. It is merely a projection of something that is. On a stage of space-time. So it appears and disappears, it is a sign that it never really appeared. It was an illusion. So our criterion of reality today

is very wrong. That's why we don't look for anything that lasts. Because this is not our focus. It is very difficult to find the lasting one looking for it. Without looking, there is no chance. Remember that phrase from Buddha. There are certain things that I have repeated many times, that are well known, but being well known does not mean that it is well understood. Professor Jorge Angel Livraga, who is the founder of New Acropolis, said that man does not live from the things he eats. He lives from the things he assimilates. Which is a parcel

of what he lives. That is, we do not live from the information we receive, but from those that we convert into information. That we assimilate as part of our life. So certain stories are good for us to listen to them. Because it takes a long time to assimilate something. This story says that Ananda, who was a disciple of Buddha, said to him, Master, why don't you share your knowledge with the world? And Buddha laughed and said, Ananda, go to that village and ask what people want most in life. I'm summarizing well, you can see. Ananda

went there, did a public opinion survey, and Bopi came knocking on everyone's door. He came back. Master, the following. Half of the people want to live more. The other half, a quarter, wants to have more money. The other wants to marry the children. The other wants to build a better house. Then Buddha asks, how many want wisdom? Ananda is scared. Look at your statistics. Wisdom, Master? Let me check here. No one wants wisdom. No one said that. But how do you want me to give something to people, if they don't want to receive? No one

wants wisdom, how can I give? So it's very natural that we don't find anything lasting. Do you know why? Because we are not looking for it. That's why. Our society lives on the behalf of the passer-by, and is very fed on that. It is a phenomenon of valuing transitory things, which we call fashion. It gives the impression that when we exchange, we exchange for the best. And in general, no. It changes to different, sometimes even worse. Have you ever had that traumatic experience? There is no one here from my generation, some are. Looking at those

photos from 20, 30 years ago, you with those ridiculous pants, bell mouth. That is, it's coming back, right? Worse is that. At least I don't think we wear that anymore. The newbies may fall, the second time is too much. That is, this phenomenon of transitory, it's not always for the best. It is a change for the change itself. And we think that this is endowed with some value. Incredibly, we are afraid of death. But we are lovers of transitory. Death is a synonym for transitory. Isn't it? It's what ends, goes to another plane, it's different.

Do you want to stay or not? Do you want something fixed or not? Decide, my dear, consciously. But we have these contradictions due to lack of reflection. So, from the classical point of view, the real was the eternal. And this is very hermetic. This has everything to do with Egypt. And it is fundamental for this understanding that we will have today, or will try to have, of what is the whole. The wise, this is an interesting thing, believe that there has been someone, I don't say that it was perfect, people, because perfection is not of

this world, it is a dual world, but that we are closer to a knowledge of human nature as it really is, than the average of today's humanity. If you don't believe that this already existed, you won't be able to put as a reference something that you think doesn't exist. There have been men who were closer to living human nature with a capital N and H than we live today on average. This is a reference, this is a direction. This is important to conceive. Remember that I told you that there was a time when I made

this joke, it was a very useful joke, which was to take everything that was book that appeared to me in front of me, every time someone described me as a wise man, I copied it. Then I put some colored cards on the door of my closet, which was horrible, nothing aesthetic here. But every day when I woke up in the morning, I saw a wise man doing such and such thing, a wise man is like this, a wise man responds like this to life. I needed to fix a life reference, and I needed to bring

this to a concrete reality. I needed to imagine what a wise man is like in the embankment of the bridge of Bragueto, this was important to me. When I get late at work, the JK's door closes, like me, a wise man. I needed to bring these things to my life, I needed to exercise my imagination. This is fundamental, if you don't have a reference, you can't walk to it. So the wise men said that the whole will always be incognizable, that is, a complicated word means impossible to be known. Avoid walking in circles, try to

cover the infinite with the finite mind. You will say, but what a discouraging thing! So everything you said to me, that we are God, is impossible to be known as a whole by the human mind, I'm sorry to say this to you on a Monday night, but it is, you know why? The human mind is a wonderful machine, but it has limitations, it was made to work in the concrete world, and the concrete world is all divided. So it has an operandi mode, which is the following, it puts adjectives in things to understand. If it

is round, if it is square, if it is red, if it is blue, if it is soft, if it is resistant, that's how it knows, through adjectives. And any adjective is a limitation. If it is round, it is not square, if it is soft, it is not existent, if it is blue, it is not red. And when it is not, this is not, it stays on the outside, it becomes two. And then it can no longer be God. And how is the mind going to work with something that is everything at the same time? Try

to imagine this object, this being. It does not work, the mind says, stop, take something out. Otherwise it will not work. It asks you, divide, otherwise it will not work. So the mind will not cover the whole. It is an observation that I always make for you. Because today it is an easy path to determine scientists. Few, most scientists in our historical moment, are very serious and very critical. But there are some who, perhaps because they are not so successful in science, dedicate themselves to speaking ill of God to be successful. And then they will

write books, God does not exist, God is a delirium. And then they will try to prove with mathematical equations that God does not exist. Since when is a mathematical equation able to contain God? This is a child's play. It is the easiest method for success. Criticizing, since you can not build, building gives more work. So this is not serious. Neither trying to define God, nor trying to prove that God does not exist. With the mind and with these wonderful mathematical equations that we have, which are closer to the totality, they are very few. It will

not work, this is childish. Now that means we can not have any concept, in relation to totality? No, because that would be another extreme. Another addiction we have, the addiction of extremes. We are totally in a political position. We did not give, we go totally to another. We have a passion for a person, we did not give, we have hatred. We like it too much, I do not give, I hate it, it's getting me fat, it's hurting me, I do not know what. There is never the middle way. This human radicalism is terrible, because wisdom

is the middle way. The sober, balanced way, that sees things as they are, and not through my passions or repulsions. Because that has more to do with me than with things. So trying to find the middle way means, I do not think reason will totally encompass God, but I think it will give me some good tips. And that will well meet my need for life. And these tips cannot be ignored. How did the hermeticism say this phrase? By the way, before that, there is something interesting that he will say. In addition to those who try

to encompass God with the mind, or try to deny God with the mind, there are those who commit another sin. That is, associating God in an anthropomorphic way and taking it literally. Because that is even a necessity. There is a beautiful book, you can count on his weight on your headboard someday, which is a book called Theophania. It is a book by a mythologist I like a lot, whose name is Walter Otto. In this book he explained the mentality of polytheism. He said, you have to see one aspect of God at a time. This is

pedagogical. The one you need to see most now. So if I have a problem to love, I have my heart blocked, my emotions blocked, it is interesting, if I am a Greek, to understand Aphrodite. If I have difficulty dealing with negative thoughts, with negative emotions, it is interesting, if I am a Greek, to understand Artemis, which is purity. If I have difficulty fighting against the adversities of life, it is interesting to understand Ares, who is the warrior god. But at no time can I think that God is just Ares, is just Aphrodite, is just Artemis,

and starts to fight with you, who thinks God is Apollo. Or with you, who thinks God is Zeus. Because that means, I did not go through this symbolic reality. I put it as a definition in itself. I limited God. If I limit God, I will be fanatic. And this will generate some kind of conflict against those who do not believe that God is exactly the same thing as I believe. It will generate some kind of polarization. So this is the big problem, and do not think that it is only the polytheistic civilizations. Any concept, and

not only religious, sometimes even scientific, sometimes even political. When you dare to think that reality is just that, instead of seeing through it, you will be fanatic. And it will generate a conflict. Any definition is pedagogical. When a 7 or 8 year old boy who is doing primary school thinks that there is nothing more evolved than the four operations, and anyone who says that is a heretic, it would be a crazy stupidity in our head. But we do something very similar. We never understand this, but we do something very similar. We take definitions that are

not bad, they are useful, and we take them as the only one, as the definitive one. So just to conclude this slide, this goddess here is Aditi. Aditi, within the Indian tradition, means without ties, without limits. Do you realize that it is very similar to the whole? You are seeing that the three great gods of the Hindu tradition, Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, are within it. So it is difficult for you to see the tradition of these polytheists that we understand so little today, that behind it there is no unity, behind all the gods. In general,

there is. Plato, when he spoke of his ideal city, he spoke of twelve tribes, which in the center had unity. But if you needed to understand love, you would live in the tribe of Aphrodite. And do you know when I will let you change from there? When you have a good relationship with love. Then I'll see where you change. These are programmed changes, according to the internal change. But they knew that those twelve tribes, that he says, had a center. They had no illusion. The tendency of man to fanaticize and take a part as a

whole, does not depend on polytheistic religions. Sometimes it does not even have to be a religious vision. So he says, be careful, because anthropomorphism can be a presumption of projecting in a divine being your own defects and imperfections. Which totally breaks the moral reference. Because if you have a moral reference, you have a divine being, so full of imperfections, what can't I? What are my moral limits? They do not exist. So it is one of the observations of Hermeticism. You were commenting, I'm seeing more and more congratulations, but you reminded me of something I read,

you were talking about the definition of God, that when God is extreme, he is only God. He stays so far from me, from my human reality, that I end up not communicating with myself and I do not communicate with him, because he is so perfect and I am so conscientious, or maybe not so much, in my limitation, we do not have much identity. So he ends up staying very far from the one who thinks like that. And when God is very human, he stays so human that he stops being God. It is another paradox that

occurs. I agree, it is an interesting view. You need the hero, who is a being full of defects, but has exceptional quality, who has managed to impose his quality on the other elements of his life, but you know he is human. You need intermediaries, so much so that monotheistic traditions sometimes take God and put saints, because it needs intermediaries. But at the same time, you cannot think that the fifth step is the last step. There are many more to come. So all things are integrated and necessary. I agree with you that if you have an

abyss in the middle of the way, it will be difficult. You will think that God is so great, so small, that you cannot walk to him. And you have religious traditions saying that being perfect, like your father in heaven, is perfect. So it is to walk to him. But it is far away. Because you took the intermediate steps. So it gives the impression of an abrupt leap, which will not happen. And it gets to the point of being institutionally misunderstood. Try to go to a Buddhist church and say that you got there because you want

to be like Buddha. And in any other religion. It is strange. Because it is so far away that people do not believe that this is possible. So the intermediaries are necessary. As long as you know what they are. Intermediaries. It is a little of the concept of Platonic justice for those who know. Know what each thing is and know what I am. I am human, I have heroes, I have great beings and I have everything. Everything is in its place, as Plato said, there is no evil in the universe. You can not preside over anything.

But you can not preside over the identity of anything. Because you generate chaos. Including your own identity. Well, then, continuing, take anthropomorphism as explicit and not symbolic is a problem. And so he will continue to talk about a delicate definition. That is religion and philosophy. This in general gives a fight and people tend to generate oppositions that do not go well with each other. And this is the reason why we have to talk about the fact that they do not exist. In fact, today we empty so many words that I already told you that philosophy

is almost an alphabetization in the language of life. Because we emptied the words in general. So he says that religions are extremely necessary and important, but that they are a relationship with everyone expressed in a symbolic way to meet my needs. So I have a relationship with Aphrodite, let's say I am a Greek, an Orphic, I believe in Aphrodite, because she symbolizes love, I relate to her, I know there is something greater than her, but for the needs I have now, she represents well. And so I relate to her. Now you are a philosopher, I

want to see what Aphrodite is, what is behind her. Why does her name come from foam? What does this have to do with it? What does foam symbolically represent for me? Something that floats above the waters, above matter, that reflects the light of the sun, that floats above matter, and that also reflects the sky? What does Aphrodite mean to me? What is the law that she is symbolizing? So that I understand and harmonize myself. This boring questioner receives the name of philosopher. And he can continue to relate to Aphrodite, she is an important symbol to

meet your needs, but at the same time he needs to know what is behind Aphrodite, in terms of law of the universe, of the deep law of the universe, of God extended over the cosmos. To understand it and harmonize consciously with it. So philosophy needs to go beyond the symbol. Religion shows symbols as reflections of God and structuring realities for your life. All right, both are necessary. Now, can they be added to each other? It says they can. Although you do not lose sight that religious symbols are symbols that bring you closer to God. But

they are not symbols that are close to God. They are unique. So if the citizen sees God through Isis, or through Aphrodite, or Demeter, he is fine. As long as this in your life takes you closer to the human ideal. If he is a more just, kinder, more ethical being, by your view of Isis, it means that he is walking to the apex of the pyramid. Remember the idea of the Egyptian pyramid. If you are walking to the apex, as you walk, you are not only closer to the apex. You are closer to the citizen

who is walking on the other side. But who is also going up. If you are moving away from what is walking on the other side, it is a sign that you are going down. This is a geometrically indisputable thing. So a person, you will take a Saint Augustine, to a certain extent, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Thomas of Cambridge, who is a sensational example. And in all other traditions, you will see a Sankaracharya at the Vedanta school, a Hinduist, but perfectly understood those who approached the idea of the whole by another symbolism. And they recognized that they

were growing as human beings. It was fine. I need this symbol. And I understand the universe through it. So I can't give up on it. But I understand that it is a symbol. And if others are becoming just, noble and good, I will not think that someone who goes up through another symbol is an execrated being of truth. Fraternity is a fundamental attribute of those who approach God. Because God is one. So you can't get closer to him and be more separated. That would not make sense. It's like getting closer to music and getting more

out of tune. Or getting closer to medicine and getting more sick. If I approach God and God is one, I have to be more united. To whom? To myself in terms of harmony. And humanity in terms of fraternity. And then you reconcile the two things. You can reconcile. Look what they did. I have great admiration for an author called Teilhard Chardin. He was a religious Christian his whole life. But with a fantastic capacity of fraternity. A capacity to understand other symbols. Fantastic. He lived many years of his life in China. Without any conflict with local

religions. Do you understand that? This is not only possible, as it has happened many times in history. But it happens that the person is a philosopher and understands that all these symbols express, if they are well understood and well lived, a similar reality. So she decides to opt not for one symbol, but for all. It's okay too. You will find philosophers who did not deny religion, but who were not followers of a specific religion. And you will find philosophers who were practitioners of a specific religion. And everything was fine. As long as they understood well

what? What was the religious symbolism? What was the philosophical need? What was the religious need? What was the religious need? What was the philosophical need? Remember, when each thing has the identity that corresponds to it, it is in the right place, there is no reason to have friction. There is friction. Something you did not understand well. It is going down the pyramid, not going up. This is a delicate concept, but Hermetism puts it in a way that I find very interesting. So if you harmonize and become a better human being, it is a sign that

you are understanding it right. If you become attractive, fanatic, disrespectful to others, you do something wrong. Because unity does not usually go well. I took an aspirin and I had more headache than before. Look, it was not the aspirin you took. Because in general, analgesics does not generate pain. It removes the pain. Through your works I will know you. Unity cannot generate division. There is something strange. This is a basic concept in this chapter of today. Although strong and controversial. In our current days, nothing is more obvious. This is a serious problem. It is not

obvious. It is obvious that unity has to generate unity. How so? It is not. It is not obvious that love has to generate fraternity. How so? It is not. Sometimes it is very natural that love generates selfishness. How can it generate? It is something strange. In either or both. He will continue with a phrase by Kybalion. Kybalion continues with a phrase by Kybalion. The one who is the fundamental truth and the substantial reality is out of a true denomination. But the wise man calls it the whole. In its essence, the whole is incognito. But the

witnesses of reason must be hospitably received and treated with respect. This is a phrase by Kybalion. What does this mean? Okay, God is not possible to be known with the mind. But the plots of God that day to day can give me must be treated with respect and must be sought. The moments where I see beauty, where I see harmony, where I see ethics, where I see aesthetics, where I see justice, are moments when the veil of illusion is torn and I see a cell of God. What should you do with that? Take that moment

and put it in a box of preciousness, a box of jewels. I usually call it a box of first spiritual helpers. There is nothing in those moments of crisis when the wind of life catches you by the way. But I saw such and such a thing. So it exists. These things must be preciously sought after and kept. I saw beauty. I saw justice. I saw brotherhood. I saw a cell of God. It is important to be sought after and kept. These are the true fruits of life. Remember those who participated in the cycle of the

book In Search of Wisdom, by Sri Ram. At a certain moment he says if you lived an experience that proves that justice exists, that brotherhood exists, that goodness exists, that something positive, human and eternal exists, you build a boat. When life comes and takes your physical body, your consciousness has a boat to sail through eternity. It does not sink. Because it has something solid and true that will shelter your consciousness. And it will receive your consciousness and sail with it through eternity. If you do not have a concept that nothing or no one can steal

from you, there is no cell of God, when you lose your physical body, that is what we call death. Have you built your boat? Where is it? It does not matter what size it is. If you have a boat, you have something guaranteed. And these cells, these woods that build our boat, are the witnesses of reason, of the existence of something real in the back of life. Remember that example that I always tell you, that is too beaten, I can't stand it anymore, but it is very efficient. If you have a boat, the other row

goes, the other one does not, you change the row. You pass the walk, you enter and do not walk anymore. It is like that in the market, in the traffic, everywhere. And you say, what is life trying to tell me with this? Then you reposition yourself, develop more patience, anxiety control, then that stops happening, another situation comes. And you have the ability to know who is the interlocutor who is talking to you in the back of life. Who is too smart to be casual? You can't! There is someone there talking to me and his language

is this. These are the facts of life. I learned to speak his language. And all he tells me, I'm collecting in this box of jewels. These are the witnesses of reason that should not be despised. Is God as a whole? And this life is already capable of feeding my life, is already capable of making me recognize myself. It is already something real in the middle of appearances. It already means something that you have built of true within your life. You found something of the mystery. Because we wake up and sleep with the mystery. It is

necessary to unravel it to some extent. And he will continue saying, the whole is incognito, except for the whole itself. Of course, the unity knows this part. So I will never know unity, because I am not unity. Expansion means and by joining cells, cells, cells, one day you have a tissue, an organ, a body. And he says that one day the consciousness expands until we reach the full. That's why there is an oriental concept that I have a certain care with him, which is the concept of the drop of water that dives into the ocean.

Sometimes people think, I will dissolve myself when I become a sage. No, you will not dissolve yourself, you will expand. Until your drop of water turns into the ocean. So one day our consciousness will be as wide as the whole itself. But for that, in a year, it has to be a little wider than it is today. It means that you have grown. You have to understand a little better the meaning of life in a year than I understand today. It means that I grew up, otherwise I'm not leaving the place. Ah, but I traveled,

I went there, I went there, I went there, I did I don't know what. Okay, this is fun. But from a human point of view, it doesn't mean that you left the place. It's not a sin to have fun. But while you have fun, reflect too. You can learn a lot. In anything you do that is necessary, you can learn a lot. And with that, real time happens. And you move. And you get closer to this whole. Which is the meaning of life. Well, he will talk, I will not read all this for you, don't

worry, that the whole has some characteristics. It is infinite in time and space and in power. It is obvious. If it were infinite in time, there would be a time outside of it. It is a sign that he died and another was born. So there are two whole. That doesn't make sense. It is infinite in space, otherwise it would end and start something else. So there are two. It is infinite in power because there is nothing that subdues it. So this is well contained in the concept of the whole. It is infinite in time, in

space and in power. Okay, I understand that. But what is the consequence of that? That what is limited in time, in space and in power, is not real. Because it is infinite. Because the whole is real. So what is limited is illusion. And when I look for something that inside me is not limited, for example, I believe in justice, despite the world being chaos. And no one takes this faith away from me. This is not limited by reality, it is not limited by facts. It is a whole cell. So this is real. What else is

real in me? Love. I believe that I have to love more than I love and that the solution of the world is love. And no one will convince me otherwise. Look, as the biblical proverb says, never say of this water, I will not drink. Because it is possible for someone to believe otherwise. There are those who believe. It is possible to convince the human being otherwise. No, but no one takes this away from me. I have an experience that allows me to realize that as much as the world is cruel, I still believe that the

world is a reality. That love is a reality. That fraternity is a reality. I'm a little confused, but it's okay. It's okay. I have some real concepts, and life is worth it. Because it's only real what cannot be divided, fragmented, stolen from you. What is divided, fragmented, what passes, was not real. So Vinicius de Moraes' love that is infinite while it lasts, if it stops lasting, it is because it never lasted. It never existed. What was, it never came. It is a mere illusion. The things that remain are real. What remains inside me, I already

have a boat. This is real. Everything that is temporary is illusory. It can even be pedagogical. The row of the bank is illusory, but it teaches you something. It is pedagogical, but it is not real. That is, a pedagogical illusion has a purpose, is part of the rules of the game, and it is very important to find reality. Even because human happiness consists exactly of the amount of reality he found in his life. Continuing, he will say that matter is energy at dense levels of vibration, but matter cannot generate life or mind. I put the

example of the spontaneous generation. You must remember that there was a scientist, Van Helmont, who said that he gathered cloths and dirt, and he said that he was a rat. Remember that? Everyone said that Van Helmont was crazy. Today, no one believes in this anymore. The spontaneous generation, that matter could generate life. Never! Rats will only appear if there was a mother and father of rats, who generated rats. Insects will only appear if there was a mother and father of insects, who put an egg and an insect appeared. Life comes from life, life does not

come from a dirty sheet. This was really a mistake of the concept of spontaneous generation. There is a materialist who believes that the whole universe is matter. But we have in the world life and mind, which are not matter. Matter is not capable of generating life and mind. It does not need spontaneous generation. If you do not put together a lot of bodies and from there comes life, life is something that is beyond merely bodies. So much so that when life is removed, there may be a body that the body decomposes. Isn't that right? You

take life, the body decomposes. Life imposes itself on matter. It is it that shapes matter. The mind, cannot be generated simply because you have bodies. You may have a lot of bodies and have nothing of mind. Neither the mind nor life are products of matter. They are something beyond, something much more subtle. Sometimes our life is so latent, so passive, that it is inserted into this body and is at the mercy of the body. Or our mind is at the mercy of the body. So what your father did, what your mother did, what your grandfather

did, you will do the same. It is a game in the hands of circumstances. But this does not mean that you do not have the possibility to impose yourself on circumstances. It means that you were passive and gave up this possibility. Because whoever wanted to turn the game, turned. And the mind is the one that imposes itself on the body and not the other way around. So the body is a receptacle, that you have a handful of life and mind in there. But life and mind are not synonymous with body. Matter is not capable of

generating neither mind nor life. The laboratory generates life? It does not. It generates a combination of elements that can generate chemical elements, but life is a mystery. To generate mind in the laboratory? They will not tell me that a computer is the same as the mind, but you know that this is crazy. Creativity, ingenuity, aesthetics. What is the Macintosh that will do this? It does not exist. The mind and life are absolutely original things and are not identified with the matter. Would you like to say something? Part is reality. The part is part. Being part

makes part of the whole. We'll see that in a moment. It's the last slide. Part is also reality. It is reality when it has inside of itself, consciously, the participation of the whole. We'll see that in a moment. It's the last slide. And then the question of our limitation, also has this discernment of the dimension of the body. The dimension of the body. The difference between the perfect whole and thus understood within your limitation, but also the reality of living the limitation itself. As you said yourself, this is pedagogical and necessary. The steps we just

talked about. You can never disregard the step that is in front of you. You can only consider it as the last. In fact, psychologically, the last is not very good, and the only one, sometimes. In pedagogy, you have to look at the last, because it discourages you. It is better to look at the step in front of you. Especially when you are not with that physical performance. Look at the step in front of you, but don't think it is the only one. So, continuing, because our time is very tight, the whole is not energy or

mechanical force and blind. This is the theory of chance. So the mechanics of the universe works alone. It's like believing that a program is wonderful, but there was no programmer who created this software. Imagine the word Windows, our dear little window. It was born because they were combining, I don't know what, in the virtual plane, and one hour Windows came out. But there was no programmer, this does not exist. The universe is intelligent and organized at a level much higher than Windows. So, logically, there is a programmer, there is a subtle intelligence that generated this

concrete organization that we see. The universe being the result of chance is an absurd statistical improbability. It is said that chance is one of the greatest alienations of man. That is, behind matter there is a subtle intelligence. There is mind and there is life. Life and mind were not born from a mere conjugation of material factors. On the contrary, they generated the material factors. Just as the programmer generated the software, and not the other way around. And he will conclude by saying something very beautiful. The whole is very much above life and mind, as we

know it. Imprisoned and limited by energy and matter. That is, the whole is not a prisoner of matter, he is the creator of matter. And then he will make that definition that I told you that I think is very beautiful. The whole is infinitely living, which the sages call Spirit. So Spirit would be synonymous with infinitely living. Then comes the example that I told you that I think is very good to explain Spirit, Soul and Body. Which is not a concept Egyptian, it is an Indian concept. But it fits with a glove, which is the

history of the Sutratma. Imagine the following, the necklace of pearls. Some are tired of knowing this example. I give many times. Each little pearl is a living being. Imagine a little pearl like this. Which is totally facing out, to its surface, to its brightness, to shine more than the other pearls of that necklace. One day this pearl suffered from an existential crisis. And decided to find its essence, something more lasting. As she is only used to see what she is materially, that is, the pearl, when she looks inside, she finds an emptiness. She can not

recognize the thread. The thread is of another nature. But as she concentrates and seeks, this inner emptiness, at a certain moment, will be filled with a vision. She will see that little piece of thread that passes through her. And she will say, I found my essence. Now I am a complete being. At a certain moment, she will look at the other pearls of the necklace and will say, how I would like them to find their essence too. Each one must have an essence like me. I would like them to find it to become complete beings.

What is the conclusion of the story of the little pearl? One day she will realize that that little thread that passes inside her, does not pass only inside her. It is the same that passes through all the pearls of the necklace. There are not many, it is one. What she saw was an episode of the thread. The moment it passes inside her. Now understand, the pearl, the body, the little piece of the thread that passes through her, that animates her, that moves her, the soul and the thread as a whole, the spirit. Do you understand

this idea? Spiritually we would not be much, we would be one. That is why growing spiritually is approaching unity. The little piece of thread that animates you, that passes through you, the soul, the thread as a whole, the spirit. If you grow spiritually, you do not see the part of the thread that passes inside you. You see the thread as a whole, that unites you to all beings and is one. That is why for them the idea of ​​God is so appropriate, as a synonym of the whole. Growing spiritually is to realize not a little

piece, but a thread as a whole. That passes through all the things, all the beings of the universe. And makes sense, justifies and directs all the beings of the universe. And from this vision of God as a whole, is that the laws of Kybalion will be structured. That is why this chapter is placed at the beginning. So that we understand what comes around. That are the seven laws organizing the universe. But this concept, this image, if you keep it, you will never be confused when talking about spirit, soul and body. And spiritual growth means unity,

fraternity, harmony, balance. Because you unify even inside you. Anything else means that you are going down the pyramid. Anything else is not the effect that is expected of someone who is walking to unity. The more you get closer to unity, the more similar you become to it. Both inside and outside. By your works, I will know you. This is our vision of today, of Kybalion. I invite you next week, here, at this same time, a little shorter than today, I hope. But we will see the first law. The law of mentalism. The universe is mental.

Chapter 5. Obviously, since I am a person of faith, I know you will arrive here having read. Right? And the microphone did not fail. You see that I am doubly well. And the universe is mental. I know you will arrive here having read. And the universe is mental.