Sky (or heaven?)
What is
transcience - active consciousness of transcendency
By Cacildo Marques, Sao Paulo.
Literally, transcience means "moving
to besides the knowledge". It is possible to add the adjective
"immanent", in order that the person has an clearer idea of the
term's construction. Moving to besides the immanent knowledge, or to the knowledge
circumscribed to the biological cycle of an individual, is for what the persons
must look to be imbued of transcience.
SOCIETY. From the 7000 year B.C., with the beginning of the agriculture
and other advancements, or even before that, certain individuals inside their
villages started to speculate on the transcendence of the visible space and of
the vital blow of each one. Almost the totality of the human beings was keeping
on leading its daily life cutting firewood, hunting, fishing, gathering fruits,
planting cereals and repairing the vegetal covering of his dwellings, without
being preoccupying by the post-mortem. Thought, feeling, memory and will, all
these attributes seemed to be lost in the end of the biological time of each
one. But the appearance of those who were dying was, at least in the first
hours, that of someone who was sleeping a very deep sleep, so deep that the
person had not any more the cardiac beat. Therefore, in several cultures, already
around the year 5000 B.C., the mightiest individuals had their bodies embalmed
and mummified, waiting for a possible resurrection.
RETURN. Many centuries went by and no
mummified monarch returned to life. So, during this time a new conception of post-mortality
was developed, from two great expectations: a) the resurrection does not depend
on the preservation of the body, because it happens by the vital blow, the
specter, does not by the matter; b) since the resurrection does not depend on
expensive treatment on the corpse, since it is spectral, it is accessible not
only to aristocrats, but to all of the individuals who will get ready for it.
JUDGEMENT.
The ancients concluded also, after centuries of speculation, that the specter
of the followers of the belief in the resurrection would have a future moment
for reapparition, in which those who carried out the recommendations of the wise
men would return, in the entirety of their specter. This moment was defined
like the "day of the judgement". This "day" can be an
instant, time of a flash of lightning, but it can be also a normal day of 24
hours, one year, one century or an era. The very prepared persons resurge some
weeks or months after their death. For the simple persons, the majority, a much
bigger period is necessary. Therefore the ancients "saw" that there
would be this "day".
PATHS. There are two roads that lead to
the conscience of the necessity of the transcience: the "doctrinal
faith" and the "magistral epiphany". In the first case, the
person received education of somebody else and trusted piously. In the second
case, in which the fact can be put upon the first one or not, the information
was received by an experience of personal "meeting", at moment that
can last a small fraction of second or a little more, after the person have
become a master ("magister") of himself.
DIMENSION. Those who deny the
transcendence up to the end know that the size of their life, in terms of
longevity, is measured by the time of immanent life, the time of physical life.
They measure the extension of the life of others with the same measure, and
with great reason. Now those who start
to practice the transcience find out the feeling that the duration of their
existence acquires new size, exceeding the time of the physical life for
centuries in front, in an extension that is able to have a limit, but that
perhaps comes to be interminable.
FINITUDE. A certain girl in a given day
appeared horrified after a conversation with an intellectual woman who guaranteed
her that there is no possibility of transcendence of the soul, calling herself
convinced of that, when the body is dying, nothing any more can exist for the
individual. The horror of the young girl, imbued of "doctrinal
faith", can be explained since she has not perceived that the natural
condition of the human being is the belief in the immanentism. Those who deny
the religious doctrine received in the childhood - negation which, depending on
the origin of the doctrine, is justified fully -, and do not embrace another
faith, are restoring, without realizing, the perceptive "status quo",
the natural condition, which is previous to an animism. That young girl did not
know also that these citizens are in much more comfortable and worthy situation
than those who embraced the extremist religious fundamentalism.
LIBERATION. For immense most of the
persons, the entry in practice of the transcience happens through the religion.
However, they are a certain number of intellectuals, of militant atheists,
which identifies the religion with the Pandora's box, on basis of historical
registers and in the tragic events that the world experiences from 1979, with
the restoration of the theocratic government in Persia, re-baptized like Iran. The
anachronism of the regime of the ayatollahs is, however, more obvious when we notice
that little more of a decade before the western world was freed finally of the
darkness of the confessional State. The Church of Rome finished, in 1965, the
council that decided on the retreat of the clerics of the environment of the
partidary professional politics and the action of the secular governments, of
States of national ones, which, by much time, should be secular, but that, for
this, were depending on piece of new administrative philosophy been signed in
the Church. Yes, the theocratic tyranny, which caused historical tragedies,
exists under theocratic governments. Under the principle of the separation
State-religion, the religion was freed. In the countries where this standard is
in force, the conquest of the transcience by the hands of the religion started
to be something healthy, on the contrary of what the atheist militants judge. As
for the States taken today by theocratic regimes, the advice that we should
have given to its people is that they escape. We will welcome with open arms
the immigrants who come from these places, unless they arrive like agents of
this disgrace that is the expansion of the theocracy.
TRAINING. For those whom already accepted
the idea of transcendentality, transcience will be the self-training for the existence
after the death. If the individual survives many years and he dies without
having practiced the transcience, he will not be able to enjoy the
quasi-conscience of those who were let the life after prepare themselves
carefully for the continuity. From he whom did not practice the transcience is
not possible to wait that the specter comes to wake, because it can be that he
does not come to enjoy any piece of conscience after the death of the body.
Cacildo Marques, MAR*2015
