Habits are bad habits
By: Christian D. Bokoli
Tags: Ideas, Thought, Creation, Self-awareness, God

Observe in birds flying from tree to tree, this is the image of idea upon thought. Notice the peculiar rapidity with which these heavenly gems pass from branch to branch, just as humans pass from one idea to another; sometimes presumptuously pedantic, he finds in this consumption of vital energy that thought is the noblest and most arduous exercise in existence. Its purpose as a bird is to fly in a twittering existence, but to build its nest on a tree. That is to say for man to build his ideas, from all these branches that we collect here and there, like pigeons from the same trees he breathes into. Man lays ideas, materializes them like hummingbirds lay eggs and hatch them. The adret of this mountain is that man does not only reproduce himself, he also drastically transforms, by his divine-animal duality, his environment and his future. Whereas a bird receives only the purest ideas of flying, singing, eating, nesting, drinking and reproducing on its mind; man receives in addition the idea of ​contemplating, of researching, of begging for highness. He hears voices, like in a big forest; sometimes covered with distress, often with wonder. All he has to do therefore is to listen for more than the length of his own fear. He feels and searches, and soon he must find that there is a greater man within himself. He will come one step closer to his Creator, who is infinitely greater. Man must not think. He must receive his ration of thought every day, a natural portion of ideas adaptable to the abilities of his being and meeting healthy needs. Human aspirations are to converge with spiritual laws like love, faith and other virtues. For that is the nature of mankind. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton says of Pisani’s miracle musical gift, in his novel Zanoni, for the soul that conceives art in its truth is but a mirror; to faithfully reflect the image projected on its surface, this mirror must remain soil-free. See, therefore, one could not speak better of the complete functioning of the human brain once it ceases to reason. Because, what is art? Otherwise one the best levels of beauty human mind can reach! And if mind is not properly connected to spirit, man will not practice art. If he does, it would be unconscious and dangerous for his health. Name depression among artists of all levels, you shall know how and why. Why would man sense the necessity of projecting images, words, all of the universe within in the outer for contemplation, for comprehension if he is only animal? What’s the use of opera, dancing and painting but to show off the beauty inside; and who does that if not one expecting acknowledgment.

Thinking is the act of combining in one’s imagination ideas built on sense perceptions through a process called reasoning. Freud especially, again Jung, have developed in the last century a therapy which consists in learning the patterns of one’s senses perceptions in order to heal the most mentally stunned. Dementia is a man startled by his own ideas, transformed into fearful images and subduing his soul. For it takes place on the mind which is the upper part, the ethereal matter, the spirit of the flesh. If this ruler of the flesh, who collects the information necessary for the functioning of the organism, captivates attention or capitalizes the vital energy on the vile, the vile will grow, and vile will fill the whole house. But more and more vile so that there is vileness. Man is and becomes what he desires, wrote Plotinus. The most common meaning of desiring is wishing to acquire, to possess, for oneself (or for others). Man in this momentum thinks about necessary activity, such as food for instance, basic need for the body, in addition to watering the mouth and filling the belly, it warms the body, cheers it up. Beyond gregarious stage, man can pursue endeavors more distant to the absolute mission of learning the inner earth, perceptible spiritually. He is on Earth in order to understand from his soul the channel that leads to His own revelation. This is the goal of all beings. We can see that this goes beyond our routine whose top priorities are running business (do you hear … it runs!), family, birth, school, job, marriage, family, aging, death; and this list goes on excluding some deep calls our souls know and urge us about thus the permanent anxiety and cause of most depression.

However, the less I go, the more I want to tell us that all habits are bad from crib to tomb. Man can experience so much more on this earth, on this plane, than he set out to admire, to tear away, to acquire, to cherish and to keep. He is led astray whereas he could infinitely replace daily habits with instantaneous experience, which has become, as rare as a kind of substitute to nature: chance, luck, have your pick! Because in this low world, humanity pushes very little to enter the center of her being. Mankind only looks too far away to see from the inside what begs to be seen. Its truth. Let’s start from the definitions. And, who is a human? He is a spiritual being endowed with a spiritual identity, that is, with a soul or a consciousness, and appearing in a form of matter, of earth; the body, which is managed from within. He thinks, eats and speaks from the soul, captain in his cockpit. And the certainty that the body ultimately dissolves also swears the person’s continuation. As matter belongs to the earth, the breath remains in the ether. The earth and the air continuing to exist in the universe alone prove that identity also reabsorbs into its natural habitat after dissolution. Its habitat is the realm of consciousness where the idea lives, creating the forms and lives that exist in all earthly kingdoms. Creation is an imperishable continuum. Otherwise everything stops. In order to die, man must kill matter, all the earth as well as the breath that makes up the atmosphere: which goes eternally etherizing to the last blade of its own stratification. Nothing circumscribes the universe since it is One-all. So man, being one in everything, draws from and returns to each source the element he draws from in order to manifest and to reabsorb himself. It follows that there must be a point where the universe touches its primary reality … It is eternity.

A sort of experimentation with the horizon line on the sea of ​​existence. There must be a God, there must be an Author. Now, the human in question here, or simply man — that term includes for us the human species, male and female. The term light refers here to the male, and that of love to the female. Race naturally relates to the animal differentiation that exists between human and beast. During this time man is at the center of the hopes of heaven and earth; quarrels of the spirit and the flesh; such cabals from air, water, earth and fire, all from his call. An intimate voice summoned man a long time ago to aspire to deify. Who is he to aspire to the divine? Man is a soul, that is to say a duplication of his Creator. His fruit, offspring, child. We would say in a common way that he is His diminutive. Therefore remains his soul connected to the source of universal life, to the spirit — breath. The Hebrew term rua’ch translated as air, wind, breath helps understand better the rapprochement between air and the spirit, breath of life. This is by no means a special biblical truth, it is a primer for real human education: that of the spirit upon the soul, as the soul is upon the body for inclusive education and proper human civilization. Make no mistake, we’re in it, always in it. Since we took up residence in this garment, we have only gone out to travel in dreams. Man, we call him a soul because it is the body of identity and keeper of consciousness, including it. The soul is the defining element of man on the map of existence, which goes beyond the space-time context, towards more generous horizons. Commerson calls consciousness the overcoat of the soul. It characterizes, for our guidance, the specificity of being without which we are not. Without the soul, we are not us. No dog acts like me, myself and I. The human soul is the ignition of the conscious I-am, the divine information of existence instilled in man and leading to a precise affirmation of his environment, aware of the apprehension of his gender, his role, his work which makes him require time, health, convenience, and ultimately, eternity to satisfy all the thirst for self-knowledge that carries him. The enigma of man is a body-soul-spirit alignment, as in syzygy, the super moon is a soul better aligned with the body (earth) and the spirit (sun). Let’s not look outside for what is only inside. Man is soul because thought dwells in him. One need not to see thought before acknowledging to them and acting upon them, every single time. Mankind knows. He is aware of existence, of the call. Like an aspiring god, he fixates time in calendars and clocks; like an animal, it colonizes its space; he expands as his consciousness grows. He hopes in the urgency of the now for the fulfillment of his being whose expectation has always known, according to his own perspective, to be real but near; hence his doubts and his discouragements whose fatuity is no longer to prove. We will have to look with our eyes in all that is visible, its part of invisible, this will complete our vision of things and our understanding of our creator, leading to fully comprehend ourselves. That way will lead us to a more promising existence, a better life, of full-glory and harness-free.