Only The One Who Acquired It With The Sweat Of His Brow Maintains His Fortune
Look beyond the “borders of the earth” to discover your inner greatness, taking as a landmark the experience of transforming matter through the renewal of the mind.
“I am not one for too great inheritances”, Alfred Nobel once said in a circle of his brothers and nephews. Life shows us that those who inherited great riches never knew how to make good use of them. They lived a lazy life, fell into disarray, and ended up in degeneration, ruin, and death. Large fortunes, earned by inheritance rather than labor, are disastrous for those who inherit them. They lose all energy, all life power, any drive for endeavor and creation.
We humans have gained our power by fighting hard against hostile nature. Poverty is not good either, it weakens man, humiliates him and leaves him prey to all diseases and sins. The offspring should be left with only a small part of their parental wealth, as much as is needed to begin to strive themselves, to make their own way in life. Only the one who acquired it with the sweat of his brow maintains his fortune.
He was only 63 years old. At the opening of the will it was seen that the scientist had surpassed his first thought: to leave a prize to be given, every five years, as a reward for the most humanitarian work. He had left his huge fortune of over 30 million gold crowns for the good of all mankind. He had thought not only of eradicating wars between peoples, but also of their technical, scientific progress. Throughout his life he had often confessed his belief that the cause of all wars must be sought in the sufferings and misery of too many millions. Removing poverty removes the most important cause of misunderstandings between people. And poverty can only be eradicated through the advancement of technology and the spread of science.”
Can you reach a maximum spiritual dimension by capitalizing on the scientific potential of “transforming matter into spirit” to produce a revelation of something previously unknown?
What I would like to say in the following could be called philosophical comments on the realistic observation of the great scientist Alfred Nobel. I will add a few personal remarks to push the idea that whoever has a fortune, without having had any success in terms of discovery and creation, will never be able to call himself a scientist, so he will not be able to make the transition from the naive stage of knowledge to the scientific-revealing dimension in which understanding arises as a result of a process of revealing something previously unknown.
Money will not help you learn a culture or imagine the transformation of matter into spirit and spirit into creative energy.
The scientist shows his strength in the circumstances of a difficult, often tumultuous life, where the depth and size of the scientific potential appear as a kind of compromise between comfort and off-road, a compromise between different interests and principles. They give priority to some over others. The time has come to think that, for the time being, there are few technical issues that can make the difference between being good and being brilliant, especially considering the many failures one has to go through before becoming a scholar.
Looking around, most people are looking for financial stability, trying to secure their pension money. Others, seemingly higher in rights, proudly display their emphasis on pure opulence and magical exuberance, and with such good taste I might add: expensive cars, expensive exotic vacations, expensive momentary pleasures. But are any of those incredible discoveries, brilliant inventions, that will change the world hidden in their souls?
To produce a revelation of something once unknown can mean giving shape to an almost paradoxical idea: a successful combination of the rigor of an approach that captures a common transcendental and the fruit of mystical thinking.
In fact, science is an experience of transforming matter by renewing the mind. It is a living experience of effective spiritual fulfillment, translated into the Bible: “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust devour them, and where thieves break in and steal; gather your riches in heavens, where they are not devoured by moth and rust, and where thieves cannot get them: for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”
The only “treasures in heaven” are not the gold or precious stones that the earth shelters. These are from the earth, they are only used on earth and they also end up in the earth, in one form or another.
But the true treasures of heaven are the result of the action of the mind: creation, discovery, and invention. It is not for nothing that the biblical cross is the result of the interaction of our mind, soul, environment, and biological being, in different individual proportions.
So, in conclusion, I will let James Allen’s words say it all: “Only bold thinking, when combined with determination, becomes a creative force. Even the weakest soul who knows his weakness, if he believes in the truth that power can be developed only by effort and exercise, and if he begins his efforts immediately, and if he adds effort upon effort, patience upon patience, then he will continually develop and eventually gain divine power.”
To produce a living experience of effective spiritual fulfillment means to bring the act of creation to the level of discovery, not an imposed act, but an act constituted in the presence of that strong impetus given only by passion.
Only The One Who Acquired It With The Sweat Of His Brow Maintains His Fortune, especially if we take into account the saying that the man who does not know God is a failure in spite of all his successes.
So let us consider that only those who embrace science (the act of creation, the process of discovery, and the passion for invention) will be able to gain that living experience of effective spiritual fulfillment, even at the cost of God’s countless failures given to test his faith.
* Note: Drumes, Mihail - Stories about the brave, Ion Creanga Publishing House, 1989.
