In Order to Live an
Ethical Life,
One Must Abandon Useless
Ideas
Carlos Cardoso Aveline
Carlos Cardoso Aveline
Aggressiveness is a
natural function in the animal kingdom, which includes human beings.
One must examine therefore what is the role to be
played by aggressiveness in the life of students of philosophy who have dedicated
their lives to the ideal of Universal Brotherhood.
The baby who wants to be born must be aggressive
towards the placenta that prevents his getting out from the mother’s body, into
the wider world. The birth of a child is an emblem for the great initiations. A
man who loves his wife will have to use some aggressiveness in order to
manifest his feeling.
In agriculture, aggressiveness is necessary in order
to prepare the soil for planting. After germination, one must aggressively
defend the sprouts, which will be threatened by a number of hostile plants and
weeds. The same applies to the agriculture of spirit, a favorite metaphor in
esoteric philosophy.
For thousands of years, the pioneers of human thought
have accepted no compromise with fraud and falsehood in the religious and
philosophical realms. For this reason they have often been persecuted, put to
death - or else accused of “intolerance”.
On a physical level, too, the nervous system of human
beings needs regular forms of putting aggressiveness into practice. This is
necessary for one’s equilibrium and personal balance. One must have
“non-violent forms of aggressiveness” in playing football or chess, in walking,
in running, in having a sincere talk, and so on.
One’s lower self must constantly agree with some
things and disagree with others. Rubbish
must be expelled from one’s physical organism, as from the house one inhabits.
The air we breathe and use has to be expelled from one’s lungs and body every
few seconds. As we live and learn, wrong
and useless ideas must be left aside all the time.
In esotericism, however, whited sepulchres make
believe they have “no aggressiveness whatsoever”. They pretend that being
spiritual means never saying “no” to anyone, and never challenging mistakes of
others, in order never to be challenged in their own mistakes and their hypocrisy.
Friends of truth follow the law of life and are
sincere. They defend justice by ethical means. Ready to correct their own mistakes, they carefully separate
the wheat and the tares.[1] A calm defense
of truth against various kinds of falsehood expresses their constant feeling of
brotherhood towards all.
NOTE:
[1] New Testament: Matthew 13:24-30.
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An initial version
of the article above was anonymously published in the May 2014 edition of “The Aquarian Theosophist”, pp. 13-14,
under the title “Brotherhood, Love and Aggressiveness”.
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On the role of the esoteric movement in the
ethical awakening of mankind during the 21st century, see the book “The Fire and Light of Theosophical Literature”, by
Carlos Cardoso Aveline.
Published in
2013 by The Aquarian Theosophist,
the volume has 255 pages and can be obtained through Amazon Books.
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