St. Louise de Marillac: Animator of the Confraternities of Charity
082a - Do we know what the conscience is
1. Do we know what the conscience is?
The conscience of the man is that body ultra physical that the man himself contributes to
form with his/her unselfish behaviors, with his/her beautiful, harmonious thoughts and with his/her
loving surges.
The conscience corresponds to how much love is had for the neighbour, for the
environment and to how much sensibility is had in the way of living together making our best to
help those in the difficulties with our attentions for their necessities.
The conscience is also awareness of what concerns intimately ourselves, or of our state of
being.
The man that has an enough ample conscience he/she doesn't act only because he/she is
moved from the sense of the duty, but for something more that he/she feels in the form of impulses
about doing well his/her own job or to help the people in trouble .
The conscience is something that one has even if he/she doesn't know how he/she has it;
the conscience it has been defined the "System of the moral values of a person that allows his/her
to approve or to disapprove his/her own actions, intentions and similar 1
".
In other words it can be said that the man is the first judge of himself/herself in the limits in
which he/she has developed his/her conscience living, rejoicing, suffering, and learning during
his/her manifold existences on the planet Earth 2
. For these manifold terrestrial existences that
give us the possibility to make experiences every time new, from which they derive understanding
of our situation and every time amplification of our conscience, for the divine law of the evolution 3
for which we must thank the Lord our God.
The spiritual Teachers of the Cerchio Firenze 77 ( Circle Florence 77) have also explained
that the Conscience or Body Akasico or Soul it is: << What receives and it transcribes, making it
become same nature of the individual, the Realities that the same individual, existing, it discovers
and it acquires. It is never abandoned by the individual during the numerous incarnations, but it
is constituted little by little as the individual evolves 4
>>. They have also said that << It is an error
to say that the Soul (note of mine: or conscience or Akasico body) of the man originates from the
natural kingdoms; correct it is to say that the being of everyone of which, the man constitutes a
phase of the manifestation, he/she sinks his/her roots in the kingdoms mineral, vegetable and
animal. On this lifes the manifestation of the individual conscience founds itself….5
.>>.
The growth of the conscience is a gradual process that takes place above all during the
periods of the permanence of the man in the planet Earth , the main school of the Spirit 6
. Then
the conscience of the man becomes larger above all after the experiences done in its manifold
1
Vocabolario “Lo Zingarelli Edizione 1995, Edizioni Zanichelli
2
Cerchio Firenze 77, Dizionari del Cerchio, pages 238-240 (Reincarnazione), Mediterranee ; Per un mondo migliore,
page 205 (Corpo akasico uguale coscienza) ; Cerchio Firenze 77, Oltre L’illusione, page 185, Mediterranee
3
Cerchio Firenze 77, Per un mondo migliore, page 206 (Evoluzione and page 210 (Legge di evoluzione), Mediterranee
4
Cerchio Firenze 77, Per un mondo migliore, page 205 (Corpo Akasico uguale coscienza), Mediterranee
5
Cerchio Firenze 77, Dizionario del Cerchio, pages 28-29 (Anima), Mediterranee
6
Cerchio Firenze 77, Le grandi verità ricercate dall’uomo, page 228, Mediterranee
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2. terrestrial incarnations in human form, which they are alternate to existences in the other planes of
the Cosmo: the astral, mental and akasico worlds 7
; the conscience of the man also becomes
larger in the Life after Death (Evolution after the passing 8
) where it continues the school of the
Spirit, founded upon the occurrences of the terrestrial lives that we have lived, which are
fundamental for our spiritual birth 9
.
The man is spiritually born living the occurrences of the terrestrial life during his/her
manifold incarnations on the Earth and in the other three worlds of the Cosmos (astral, mental and
akasico or of the conscience 10
; therefore we must not believe to whom tells us that <<….the man
was spiritually born already and, in the life he/she is testing his/her Spirit (you see). It is not this
way: " you are spiritually being born" 161d. The "Spirit does not born"; you don't have therefore to
intend the "spiritual birth" as birth of the Spirit… . The man's Spirit (note of mine: that is the Spark
or Divine Drop or Self), “ It is not created and It is part of the Nature of the absolute One: It is
therefore complete, immortal, unchangeable, endless, eternal and so on “. Spiritual birth means
"Manifestation of this Spirit in the conscience of the individual ", 161d. We use "spiritual birth" in
broad sense, pointing out that is that period during which the individual is intent to organize his/her
vehicles, which once organized they will properly give the said spiritual birth, or they will properly
be used for forming the conscience of the individual. The whole demonstration of a cosmos has
this purpose, this root: the spiritual birth, 242g 11
>>.
Growth in conscience means to grow in altruism and therefore in love; such growth derives
from the positive or negative experiences of the terrestrial life and by the teaching of the pain 12
that the karma law or law of cause and of effect gives us. Such teaching gifts understanding and
therefore knowledge to whom behaves badly through punishments and anguish, while it is
rewarding who behaves well with peace and calm 13
.
Definition of love:
<< …Let your heart expand all the time. Love is needed everywhere. Remember that love
is service, love is action, love is not some woolly vague emotion to be talked about. Learn to
demonstrate it in all you do 14
".
Returning to the conscience we draw to the vast teaching of the spiritual Teachers of the
Cerchio Firenze 77 (Circle Florence 77):
<< A computer you question it and it answers to the point. But it doesn't have conscience, the
builders tell you that it doesn't have conscience and you don't have doubts on this. Then why you
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Cerchio Firenze 77, Dizionario del Cerchio, page 65, Mediterranee
8
Cerchio Firenze 77, Le grandi verità ricercate dall’uomo, pages 175-180 (L’evoluzione oltre il trapasso), Mediterranee
9
Cerchio Firenze 77, Dizionario del Cerchio, pages 191-192 (Nascita spirituale), Mediterranee
10
Cerchio Firenze 77, Dizionario del Cerchio, pages 64-65 (Cosmo), Mediterranee
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Cerchio Firenze 77, Dizionario del Cerchio, pages 191-192 (Nascita spirituale), Mediterranee
12
Cerchio Firenze 77, Dizionario del Cerchio, pages 75-77 (Dolore), Mediterranee
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Cerchio Firenze 77, Le grandi verità ricercate dall’uomo, page 49 (Mantra del karma), Mediterranee
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Eileen Caddy, La voce di Dio a Findhorn, page 77, Mediterranee
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3. cannot think that a mental body united to an astral body and to a physical body can answer without
those signals are perceived by a conscience?
You have to think about the physical body, to the astral body and the mental body in their
functions, just as automatisms, as some machines that, at certain signals, give certain answers.
Let's consider them really lacking from the governance that the to feel of conscience has
towards them. I now exaggerate the example to make you intend: if we took a physical body, an
astral body, a mental body analogous in their construction of character (because this also have to
do with it), out of the governance that it has of it to feel of conscience; and if to these bodies you
made to come some environmental signals, well you would see that the reaction would be
analogous, I don't say really equal but a lot similar. In the moment instead in which you connect
these bodies to the respective consciences, that is to the respective individualities, then the
reaction is sensibly different. Why? Because the evolution, the conscience, the ampleness of the
conscience of every being governs, it checks the automatism of the astral body, of the mental
body, it checks the reaction that the astral body has in front of the environmental signals, and to
different evolution it corresponds different control and therefore different manifestation, to feel in
different broad sense.
As I have said before, the example is inclined to the extreme just to make you understand.
It is as if every man had an electronic brain, a computer, that concerns the sensory functions, that
is the astral body; another computer that concerns the intellectual functions, that is the mental
body; and so for every body. As these instruments work it derives from the governance of the
conscience 15
>>.
The conscience it is one of the so many mysteries of the life, the awareness of itself it is a
part of the conscience. Speaking of the awareness it is very important to know - to realize the
relationship that it is between the man and God - what the Lord told Eileen Caddy regarding the
awareness; let's draw it from the teaching of Findhorn in Scotland:
<< Every time you stop and say "Thank You, Father", you are aware of Me. Every time
you behold the beauties of the nature and you glory in them, you are aware of Me. Every time you
feel your heart opening up and love flowing to a soul, you are aware of Me. More and more you
realize that without Me you are nothing, but that with Me you are all things and can do all things.
Nothing is impossible when you are consciously aware of me 16
>>.
Life is a school and to make it understand well to us the Lord God told Eileen Caddy :
<< … Every day there is something to learn. Be alert; do not miss it. It can be a very obvious
lesson, but other times it may be subtle and so carefully camouflaged that you may fail to see it as
a lesson and miss something important, so keep alert.
15
Cerchio Firenze 77, Maestro perché, pages 150-151 (Sui veicoli fisico, astrale e mentale come automatismi) ,
Mediterranee
16
Eileen Caddy, La voce di Dio a Findhorn, pages 24-25 (Ti ringrazio, Padre), Mediterranee
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4. There are times when it is necessary to watch and pray and there are times when
immediate action should be taken. When action is called for, let there be no hesitation, no
procrastination, for then is the time to act. As you do so, you will find a great peace and stillness
which comes from obeying My voice 17
>>.
The Lord God helps us to understand the lessons of the life also or this complex
phenomenon of relationships and interrelations not always easy to decipher, but if we are careful
we always learn something, also from our errors 18
.
If we realize also that the life it develops according to a design and a plan and that nothing
is by chance 19
and nothing happens in vain 20
, then – in addition to be vigilant - it is also learned to
be thankful of every thing. "….Gratitude keeps your eyes open to Me and to My wonders.
Therefore you miss nothing and you see Me in all that is taking place....21
.
The Teachers of the Cerchio Firenze 77 (Circle Florence 77) report that the Lord God said:
<<…I AM yours to be and yours not to be, in strength of which you are as you are, because every
thing of the relative world exists because its contrary exists. But I AM the explanation of the
contrary ones, because I transcend them. I AM who that from the coarse matter It draws the
conscience in strength of which everything exists. If actually what it is didn't feel or it were not felt,
it would not exist. This way the prodigy of the existence is the prodigy of the conscience. To exist is
to feel to exist. I AM the absolute existence. Therefore, to feel to exist is to feel Me. Every being
feels Me because he/she feels to exist, and in strength of his/her same existence I AM present in
every being.
The simple conscience to exist is my most veiled manifestation in the beings, but I AM also
what it feeds their conscience. Therefore I AM the joy that you pant and the pain that breaks
yourself. I AM the ambition that pushes you to the conquest and the emptiness that it takes place
after the conquest.
To widen your conscience I don't hesitate to build a civilization or to destroy it. All I do is
based on you, on your true good.
Do you see those people who surround you? They rejoice, they suffer, they move, they live
and what you see of them it happens for you.
Do you see what it happens in the world? It happens for you. Even this of which you have
had solo a meagre news, heard a distant echo, it has happened for you my child.
Therefore I am the substance that constitutes you and the spirit that animates yourself,
since you are in Me and I AM in you, my child.
But I don't do only this, because I make part of Myself every being and to everyone I
entirely give Me, without reservations, up to the point that every distinction you and I, every
17
Eileen Caddy, La voce di Dio a Findhorn pages 105-106 (Prove lungo tutta la strada), Mediterranee
18
Eileen Caddy, Le porte interiori, Message of August 29th
, Amrita
19
Eileen Caddy, Le porte interiori, Message of August 27th
, Amrita
20
Eileen Caddy, Le porte interiori, Message of August 29th
, Amrita
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Eileen Caddy, Le porte interiori, Message of August 27th
, Amrita
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5. separation, they are deceptive only, and they are only that so much necessary to make you
exist, to give the absolute conscience to the being.
This I AM 22
>>. And this is the sublime Destiny of the man!
When the Lord God speaks to us He discloses us secrets to us unknown and of this we
must be thankful; we can simply come to the knowledge of all the secrets of the life making silence
inside of us for asking to God to explain us such Mysteries 23
; but it is not all because the Lord can
guide us and help us to solve our problems 24
; all that we have to do is make silence within
ourselves, for asking Him our questions and listening His answers. Then we have to put the
Word of God into practice, which thing it is not always easy for us.
22
Cerchio Firenze 77, La Fonte Preziosa, pages 266-267, Mediterranee
23
Eileen Caddy, La voce di Dio a Findhorn, page 61 (Le risposte interiori), Mediterranee
24
Eileen Caddy, Le porte interiori, Message of July 21st
, Amrita
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