Tabla de contenidos para April 2019 en PEARL

The snow recedes to higher altitudes; unruly weather conditions usher in spring. Coping with the seasonal changes everywhere serves to keep the inhabitants on the alert and to develop themselves in adaptation to their environment, so as to assure survival. For example, the tiny, seemingly innocuous snow flakes that weave a stunning blanket over the landscape in winter can amass into immensely devastating avalanches. What is more, there is a simple lesson of history that is recurrent through all the ages of humanity; that civilisation is unquestionably brittle and failing to grasp this reality time after time, age after age, is the deadly conceit of human reason. The power at the disposal of Mother Nature exceedingly supersedes the concerted resistance of the whole of mankind. Yes, while we can ameliorate…

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.Michel de Montaigne The word ‘law’ has various meanings, from the principles behind mathematical formulae to the concepts of ‘Natural Law’ and categories of jurisprudence. The Law of the Will of the Creator penetrates the entire Creation like nerve strands. Everything forms and is upheld in the Primordial Law, which is not restricted to established or limited forms, but enfolds in abilities, becoming manifest in material and spiritual world events. Science cannot exist without laws and we could not come to understand the spiritual without knowing the laws that govern it. We have the capacity to recognise the Will of God. Emissaries have incarnated at all times among various cultures and communities in…

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No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high.Virginia Woolf As night closed in on the third evening, Kohlhaas slipped with his little cohort into the castle. They mowed down the toll collector and the gatekeeper, who were standing at the gate chatting, and entered the castle. They set fire to all the outbuildings within the castle walls, and these suddenly crackled in flames. Herse hurried up the winding staircase to the castellan’s tower quarters. Here he found the castellan and the steward, sitting half-dressed at cards, and pounced on them slashing and stabbing.…

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.Ralph Waldo Emerson It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.bell hooks Last night, as I watched an episode of the television mini-drama ‘Designated Survivor’, I was struck by the sincere conviction attributed to the Navy Seal characters who gladly missed important family engagements and risked their lives to undertake a most dangerous mission. When thanked for their service, all responded that they saw it as their duty, performed in loyalty to their country. No doubt, one could easily dismiss these movie lines as having been written for dramatic effect. But I sometimes wonder…