Sin Will Be The Rest Of Reason

Show interest in grasping with your mind and soul the broad realm of knowledge based on the synchronization of “myself” with “myself more than myself”.

Something in me demanded more of me than others, no matter how hard I resisted. It was a ruthless and unshakable command, but I didn’t know where it came from and I didn’t want to give up. So be it, I thought, let this be my science and thwart all my efforts. By comparison, any other sin I have committed or will commit is nothing but a ridiculous trifle, because I have not done too much harm to anyone by sinning. The sins of the flesh and the senses are nothing but the pleasure of forgetting. A dream of sin, a sleep from which I must wake up bitterly every time to find my guilt. Who knows, maybe the taste for books, the study of the Greek language, the interest in profane science, maybe even Homer and Plato represent for me the same desire to forget and are a more serious sin than the insignificant sins of the flesh and the senses.

Sin is only a word, but for me, from now on, it will only mean the desperate desire to forget at least for a moment my highest knowledge, to forget God in me. Sin is the rest and sleep of the soul, just as the sleep of the body is its rest, because without it the body could not live, being bound to the finite world. That is why man, in his weakness and limitation, could not live without the rest of the soul. From now on, I will not blame anyone for my sins. Let all their sins be forgiven, that is the nature of man. For me, the rest of reason will be sin and sin will be the rest of reason, but the fact that I am aware of this makes me desperate and I will never have peace with myself again. *

Are you able to find your inner peace through the experience of oscillating between the rest of reason and the sin of eating from the fruit of knowledge, so that you deserve to be the same you at all times?

From the above passage, taken from the book “Young Johannes” I learned one thing, that from sin to holiness there is only one step: knowledge. And here one can identify several kinds of knowledge, such as: self-knowledge, knowledge of good, knowledge based on observed facts, knowledge based on discernment (combined with praiseworthy thinking), knowledge based on self-evident data of experience, knowledge based on comparative observation, knowledge based on biblical revelation, knowledge based on emotional experience, which is then fully embedded in the emotional memory of your being.

Because of the knowledge that more and more people were interested in, some spread the idea of sin and subtly and cowardly inserted this into the Bible: “Believe and do not search”. Whereas nowadays, knowledge has gained such momentum that people actually depend on technology much more than on the fear of the words preached to them from the pulpit. I understood this very well, and I understood it better than anyone, because knowledge is indeed the most powerful weapon, and whoever has it leads the whole world.

I, Fântânăru Neculai-Ioan, am one of those for whom knowledge will be fulfilled in concrete, not in abstract. I believe in God through the knowledge I have developed in my writings, with much discernment, with much soul, with much thought, so that I have come to consider myself a good connoisseur of concrete reality, perceiving and expressing spiritual feelings in this way.

My true knowledge is the result of the individual contemplation that the soul addresses to the world of Ideas in the doctrine of a Universal Deity, but also in the doctrine of an individualistic consciousness, for the freedom demanded by the act of thought must bear fruit from everyone’s effort to observe carefully, to invent, to discover, to make a better world with the help of what I have in me.

In order to recognize yourself as a superior person, do you have to prove a knowledge that has the audacity not to recognize its limits?

Something in me demands more from me than others, due to the side of my creative compositional personality, and asks me to express my point of view on the observations I have collected from life experience, deepening more and more the soul side of human behavior, but also my relationship with God.

One word stops me from being my best: ignorance. Only the thoughts and scenarios I make between my two ears and my two eyes can increase my chances of finding myself in the pages of a life that contemplates itself at every moment and that in other lives sees only mirrors.

The very pages of the books I write abound in the charming presence of creative thinking, like a life born of a God who teaches me not to take seriously the sins attributed to me by the desire to know myself above all by knowledge. By comparison with faith, I identify as a righteous man, of great character, good at heart, and even this fact of describing myself highlights the fertile ground of self-knowledge.

Life born before the eyes of God is an infinite source of fullness obtained by virtue of knowledge. In order to know yourself as a superior man, you must prove a knowledge that has the audacity not to recognize its limits, putting in your center of attention the merit of inserting yourself into a world full of superheroes. At the same time, you must consider the merit of stirring yourself up through the introspection caused by that refined dissection of your soul and self seen as an inexhaustible source of creation and revelation.

If for a continuous validation of self-knowledge it is necessary to identify the means necessary for good observation (this is probably a basic component of emotional intelligence), then for the completion of large amounts of emotional and intellectual content there is the difficulty of extensibility of views which make up the essence of a new spirituality.

Leadership is the result of the knowledge you have gained through the power of “yourself” elevated to the relatively positive superlative: “I am always open to the new and I am always above my expectations.”

And I believe one more thing. I believe that the essence of a new spirituality resonates with man’s effort to make his knowledge an intense experience of the important events he goes through during his life, so that he is visible to all those who seek to differentiate themselves from what holds them captive: insecurity in finding people capable of overcoming their passions and ignorance.

Sin Will Be The Rest Of Reason for all those people who believe they can be better than others because of the knowledge taken from the lessons of ascension to absolute power. It is a great pity to know yourself above all, because everyone will look at you with envy and contempt, not necessarily with admiration. But your reason must triumph through the subtlety of erudition, through the subtlety of suggestion, through the subtlety of ideas, and at the same time it must bow to the faith which says: “Nothing is impossible.”

* Note: Mika Waltari - Young Ioannis, Polirom Publishing House, 2020.