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Caracas 1991
Madrid 2009
When Columbus reached the shores of Venezuela, he witnessed an
extraordinary array of flowers, multicoloured birds and luxurious
vegetation.
He came to the conclusion that he had found the terrestrial Paradise.
What Columbus had seen in the Paria Gulf has not, to this day, lost its
brightness and luxuriance.
Venezuela is indeed a paradise with its natural resources, rivers,
waterfalls, jungles, plains, mountain ranges, beaches that cover more than
half its Caribbean coast as well as a moderate climate, which is on the
average 25 C (77 F) year round.
Columbus was indeed a visionary. Venezuela is considered world-
wide to be a natural paradise. Its climate is undoubtedly the driving factor
in its being considered a privileged place.
Despite the fact that Caracas, Venezuela’s capital, has a chaotic city
life, it is walking distance to a majestic mountain, Mount Avila, with its
jungle environment intact. Yet in the heart of the paradise that is Venezuela,
the sons of man have devised an underworld of immorality and treachery.
The moral fibber of Venezuelan life, along with the ethical values of
its people has been lost. Nevertheless, one can perceive men of exceptional
qualities, like lotus flowers upon a swamp, people sharing a philosophy that
reflects authentic wisdom.
An army of dull-witted individuals are charged with the task of
cutting down, closing doors on and eliminating everything that the
authentic, the wise and the visionary create.
What chances does anything have of growing in the face of such
incompetence, thievery and immoral astuteness?
In the field of education, true masters are cursed and criticized by the
authorities.
In that of medicine, businessmen not only seek out, but are actually
given medical degrees. In general, real experts in their fields are reduced to
positions and conditions they do not deserve. We can see some fellows
putting on sheepskins in an economy run by wolves. They kindly offer their
ideas and their hypocritical commitment to the cause, ending up as
‘saviours of the Venezuelan economy’, so on and so forth.
A detailed analysis of the present situation in Venezuela,
demonstrates the difficulty of resolving social problems by having low
morality and a lack of ethical principles star in this theatre of social life.
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Who is the political leader?
Who is the businessman?
Who is the teacher?
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“Medicine has to be changed “- claim the doctors.
“Politics has to be changed”- cry the politicians.
“Economics has to be changed”- bellow the businessmen.
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The Sown Sower
Latin-American Thought of Unification
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Thank God, it makes no difference if you do accept the Idea
or not. Does a seed ever worry about being planted? The Sower
sows the seed. The seed germinates and buds. However, the Great
Seed remains there, dry and hard, like a plum pit; it is not the one
that suffers from stagnancy. It is the sower that is still a child. The
sower must mature and become a Sower.
At that moment, the Seed will be contemplated and kept
forever. Nobody will ever sow it again.
In a grain of wheat, in a grain of rice, in a grain of corn,
there lies the world and the world is just an Idea. Can you recall
what happened to the grains of wheat once found in an Egyptian
tomb?
After thousand and thousand of years, they were planted and
they germinated. A brief step in time. Almost nothing . . .
Then, the Idea of Unifying the Whole World, not only a
continent will sprout at the right time.
There once was a sower, who always sowed his fields with
the seeds from the harvest. But, one day, God, who happened
along, took him for one of His seeds and planted him in the field
of the world.
The sower gestated, awaited and germinated; that is to say,
he sprouted toward the center of the Earth and raised his head to
the outer world. He was a sown, sprouted, germinated and
elevated sower. All that was left for him to do was to grow, to to
blossom, to dry up and once again to await the harvest. But never
again did God plant him.
The Sown Sower had to sow himself in the fields, which
before he had sowed without having been sown himself and
without ever having sown himself even once.
Now, he, a Sown Sower and later to be Self-Sown Sower,
was a real Sower : he had been sown and it turned out that he also
planted himself to see what it was like to be immolated in one’s
own field ; to gestate in the dark, to sprout, first toward the center
and then up, outward. It was a pleasant sensation.
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After having blossomed, the Sown - Sower, and later to be Self-
Sown Sower, had no need of any more harvests.
He was no longer a sower. He was God himself as well as
the harvest, the seed and the planter.