Intellectual (?) Intellectualism (?)
Thursday, 09 April 2009 17:46
Reading the Gospels, many times it is possible to presume that the study and the intellectualism are a very great obstacle to approach GOD, what INRI CRISTO has emphasized two thousand years ago by asserting: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs will be the kingdom of GOD” (Matthew c.5 v.3); “I thank you, FATHER, LORD of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the intelligent and have revealed them to infants” (Matthew c.11 v.25).
In a superficial examination, it would be possible to conclude that those who study are finding their own misfortune and that GOD curses (only He would know why) the commonly called “intellectuals”. But the reality is amazingly different: most of times, the intellectual is who self-curses for denaturing the intelligence that GOD has given him with the pride, the arrogance, the prepotency, the vanity, the fantasy… originating from Satan, the prince of darkness spirits.
Otherwise, let us analyze: the intellectual generally considers that he is superior to the other common mortals because he was trained to solve any kind of problems and situations through reasoning. Proceeding by elimination, deduction, demonstration… from a series of possibilities, he finally comes to a conclusion that judges definitive… and irrefutable (otherwise it would make possible the existence of doubts regarding the quality of his intelligence!). This is the common behavior that, in general rule, gives positive results in the earthly realm (and I speak with experience for having learned from the teachers of the Sorbonne, in Paris).
In relation to GOD’s things, the procedure to be followed by intellectuals is very similar, but the result is very different. The intellectual, the most intelligent he may be, almost always forgets that the intelligence he thinks is his own, was the ALMIGHTY who granted him with, and the same intelligence is obviously nothing but a tiny part of the supreme intelligence coming from Him, the LORD of the Universe. And it is right here that the misfortune involves the learned: instead of recognizing with humility that GOD’s reasons and purposes are inaccessible to the human beings – except those for whom He considers relevant to reveal – the obstinate intellectual tries by all means to prove that he is always right. That means: because of his pride, despite of all his earthly limitations, he tries to be the owner of the truth in equality with GOD or even superior to Him! And the punishment is inherent to the sin: the gauge of intellectualism closes the doors of spirituality. GOD despises him, consequently he keeps turning around in circles inside this gauge and the narrow limits of his materialist reasoning, without any hope to access the spiritual world.
Did the intellectual not use the intelligence against himself, but in his own favor, he would understand that the humility – before the Supreme CREATOR or before His servant INRI CRISTO, when we have the opportunity to find him – is the key that, placing the mystical ideal and the faith above the intellectualism, would drive him again to the path that leads to GOD, as INRI CRISTO advised when he was called Jesus: “Whoever does not receive the kingdom of GOD as a little child, will never enter it” (Mark c.10 v.15); “Blessed are the pure hearts, for they shall see GOD” (Matthew c.5 v.8).
Jean de Patmos (disciple and priest of the Kingdom of GOD)
