I am the light, John 12:46

In the Bible there are many mentions to the light. The teaching of the lamp in Mark 4: 21-23 and Luke 8:16-18; the parable of the lamp in Luke 11:33-36, the healing of a man born blind John 9.
In Metaphysics the light, the truth, the good belongs to the genre of the being instead the darkness, the lie to the genre of non-being. It is logical to attribute to the divine that which belongs to the first genre, that is, to what it is.
The light represents the knowledge that iluminates internally all men.Knowledge should be not hidden. Ignorance is a form of oppression.
The light as perfection of God can be interpreted also as eternal life, nobody can walk in darkness.
Also the light is related with the truth:"But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light", John 3:21
At last in the Bible the light is related with the idea of Gnosis, the ilumination by the grace of God, the ilumination as gift of God: "Everyone will be salted with fire" Mark 9:49.

"But seek his Kingdom, and these things will be given to you as well", Luke 12:31

Jesus, teach to us the mysteries of the Kingdom. The expression:"But seek his kingdom, and these things will be given to you as well", Luke 12:31; is insert within a longer narrative that show to us the characteristics of the Kingdom of God.
The Kingdom of God is:
1) The happy life, the beatitudes Matthew 5:1-12
2) Salt and light of the earth (Truth and Wisdom), Matthew 5:13-16
3)Mercy and forgiveness, Matthew 21-26
4) Fidelity, Firmness Matthew 27-30
5)Perseverance, Matthew 33-37
6)Love for the good, the love perfected by the nature of the good, "love your enemies", Matthew 43-48
7)Devotion: No one can serve two masters, Matthew 5:24
8) Trust in God (Divine Providence), Matthew 5:25-34
The kingdom of God is an ethical doctrine that we can know through the description of his own characteristics. And ending as a summary: "Be Perfect as your heavenly father is perfect", Matthew 5:48.

It is God's will that you should be sanctified, 1 Thessalonians 4:3

The first letter to the thessalonians is a book of the new testament wrote by the apostle Paul. The epistle begins with an invocation to the Holy Spirit and with a thanksgiving. To continue then with an exhortation to holiness and finishing the letter with a mention to the second coming of Jesus Christ.
The apostle emphasizes the expression: "It is God's will that you should be sanctified, 1 Thessalonians 4:3"
The apostle adds: "God has not called us to impurity, but in holiness, 1 Thessalonians 4:7" In this context the concept of holiness is the opposite to impurity and being the impurity a work of the flesh (Galatians 5:19-21), the holiness could be understood as a fruit of the spirit (Galatians 5:22-23).
The apostle in this letter also refers the sanctity as a belonging to the divine, to the spiritual gift of fear of the lord or serenity, this gift is known as constancy, firmness, devotion, ecuanimity, stability. when he affirms: "in order to please God, 1 Thessalonians 4:1".

Good thoughts, good words, good deeds, Zarathustra

Zarathustra is primarity known in western countries for the written book: "Thus spoke Zarathustra" by Nietzsche.
He probably lived before the Achaemenian dinasty (600 to 330 bc) he was a philosopher and also prophet of the persian religion, the zoroastrianism.
He is credited with the autorship of some books: the gathas and the avesta. Zarathustra in his teaching emphasizes the righteousness and the way of thinking, unlike the christian fate that emphasizes the love and the feelings.
His most famous teaching is:

True Friends have one soul, Aristotle

Aristotle wonders about the nature of happiness, and in this study of happiness he focuses in three elements that identifies as keys for the happy man: the virtue, in special justice, the friendship and the pleasure.
Let's talk about the second: the friendship. Aristotle in his book Nichomaquean Ethics, Book VIII wrote about friendship: "is the most necessary for life. In effect, without friends nobody would want to live......But friendship is not is not only necessary but beautiful. We praise those who love their friends and having a lot of friends is considered one of the best things".
Then he affirms: "the happy life is considered to be the life according to virtue."
For what is exposed for Aristotle we can say that needing the man of the virtue for his social activity, and being the friends those with whom we primarity exercise the virtue; friendship is not the foundation of happiness, but without it (friendship) man can not achieve happiness. Friendship is necessary but not sufficient. We need both friendship and virtue.

I am the door, John 10:9

The teaching: "I am the door, John 10:9"; has a relationship with John 1: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God". Jesus personifies the door, the door means the word of God, the wisdom of God. Every road starts with a door.
The path of Rectitude starts with the wisdom of God, with the word of God, the science of the divine. In the old and new testament the word of God is identified with the head of science and the intelligence: "For the lord gives wisdom: from his mouth come knowledge and understanding", Proverbs 2:6
The concept of Word of God does not match with the Aristotelian concept of Wisdom (Book of Metaphysics). The Word of God is in direct relationship with the faculties of the spirit: the intuition and the inspiration; 1 Corinthians 2:13 :"This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the spirit"
Thomas Aquinas explains and this is important that the Bible is not the word of God, the bible is a book inspired by the word of God, by the counsel of God, because the Word of God predates the existance of man, the Word of God is eternal, is increated. Remember the expression in the Genesis that is similar to John 1.

His works are perfect, Deuteronomy 32,4

The expression:"He is the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he", Deuteronomy 32:4; is in the song of Moses.
Deuteronomy means in greek "second law", is a book of the Old Testament; the last book of the Pentateuch (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy). The autorship of this book is attributed to Moses.
The affirmation: "His works are perfect" has implications is Christian Theology; although God is the wisdom itself, we know God through his works. Tomas Aquinas affirms: in God are present the perfections of all things, Question 4, About the perfection of God.
This is the starting point of the doctrine of the kingdom of God, remember the teaching of Jesus: "Be perfect, as your heavenly father is perfect", Matthew 5:48. It is called perfect to what, of what it requires its perfections, nothing lacks, Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae.
As work of God we are called to his likeness, to the completeness, to the conformity to Jesus Christ.

The art of war, Sun Tzu

Sun Tzu was a chinese military and strategist, he wrote the book "The Art of War". The book is required in the main military academies of the world and in the marketing and business administration careers. Is basically a book of strategy and gives a series of recommendations and rules to take into account to achieve victory over the enemy in the field of war.
The book has served as an inspiration to militaries and great authors like Clausewitz. Studing the book,we can talk about a philosophy of war, the book has similarities with the work of Aristotle ("the common sense is the proper virtue of the governant") and Nicolas Maquiavelli ("The main activity of the prince is the war")
Sun Tzu clarifies that every advantage over the enemy comes from the virtues of the strategist. He asks: who is the most wisest and most capable commander?, which army has the best trained men?, which is the most disciplined army?
Every successful action begins with good calculations and affirm as a principle:

Know Yourself, Socrates

Plato in his books talk about Socrates. This philosopher center his teaching in the dialectic method. An example of this method is describe in the book "The banquet" of Plato.In this book the socratic method is used to searh the nature of love, the Agape, the love for the good. A famous phrase attributed to Socrates is "Know Yourself". Self Knowledge is one of the most important philosophical searches, the expression is similar to that of the oracle of Delphi. Everything about Socrates comes to us through Plato. We can say that Socrates was one of the most important greek philosophers in history, and his ideas about the self knowledge and the socratic method are currently used in philosophy and other sciences based in the human behavior.

The Kingdom of God is among you, Luke 17:21

The Kingdom of God is the center of the teaching of Lord Jesus, the teachings begin in the sermon of the mountain with the beatitudes (Matthew 5, Luke 6) and continue with the parables that describes the Kingdom. The kingdom of God is secret (parable of the hidden treasure, Matthew 13); is progressive (parable of the mustard seed, Mark 4); is sovereign (Parable of the Great Banquet, Luke 14), is new (the kingdom belong to those who are like the children, Matthew 19) The Kingdom of God is not the church, is the transformation of man towards his nature, to his full development, the likeness to God, and also the correct order of the society.

Sowing in the spirit

To understand what it means "sowing in the spirit", we have to know the meaning of the parable of the good samarithan (Luke 10:25-37), and the parable of the sower (Matthew 13). The parable of the good samarithan explain to us that we have to choose between the sin like the pharisee or we live righteously like the good samarithan. The good samarithan acts according to the golden rule, this rule is known as the spiritual gift of rectitude or imitate god. Imitate God is to live according to the spirit. Practice the sin is to live according to the flesh. We have to choose. The 10 commanments is these scheme is a form of error, an heresy.
The parable of the sower explain to us the importance of receive the wisdom of God, retain it and put it in practice with constancy. The spiritual gift of fear of the lord or serenity is define as constancy, firmness, devotion, ecuanimity. This gift is the path to ilumination.
Sowing in the spirit is the resume of this parables, is to live righteously, to search the wisdom of god with contancy and firmness. The kingdom of god as ethical concept means all this, to search the true good for men: the eternal life.

Godliness

When we talk about ethics we talk about spiritual gifts. The spiritual gifts are perfections. The main characteristic of the spiritual gifts is the progressivity: "godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life wich is now, and of that wich is to come", this thought speaks about the idea of the progressive work, the progressive life, the progressive improvement, a life is the preparation for another. This way or mood of thinking can only be perceived by the eye of the mind, the guide of god.This is not fate, this is security in God. This way of thinking, of preparing ourselves, of working progressively, is the true essence of eternal life, the life in glory.

The Wise

To understand what is a wise man, we have to study the metaphysical concepts of essence and substance. The essence is the main characteristic of the being. Example: the essence of man is reason, the essence of God is wisdom. The substance is that of what is preach. For example: when we talk about God, what we talk about? We talk about wisdom, the wisdom is the substance of God. When we talk about men? what we talk about? We talk about the person. The person is the substance of man. In Metaphysics there is similarity when there is participation in the essence. Man and God have different essences, there is no likeness between man and God. And this is where the idea of the wise arises, a wise is a person with the essence of God: the wisdom. The wise is by his essence the bridge between men and the divine. Aristotle in his book, "Politics" explains that the good government depends of the leadership of the wise men and in the succession from a wise to another the quality of life in the community.

Blessed are those who emulate God

The tractate of the perfect and moral virtues is a book that resume the classic philosophy from Plato until Thomas Aquinas. Is fundamentally a book of ethics, using practical cases and metaphysical concepts and definitions; showing to what the man tends towards his development and the correct order the society: the kingdom of God.
The tractate is a book aimed primarily to those who seek the wisdom of the ancient word, and with it the ultimate destiny of humanity. The world needs the classic wisdom to survive, the philosophy is a science that serves as the basis for other sciences.
The wise is the best philosopher, and in the measure that human society develop better philosophers this will solve his problems as Plato said.

The Spiritual Gift of Justification

The doctrine of Justification is understood by knowing that justice is necessary but not enough. Justice is a form of error because the spiritual gift of counsel is precise and accure. The practice of the virtue as Aristotle teach to us is an heresy, because happiness is an apparent good, the true good for men is the eternal life not happiness. The kingdom of God means dominion, empire of the divine perfections, the kingdom of god is not about virtue but perfections, "Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly father is perfect", Matthew 5:48. To live according to the divine law we need a special help because justice is not sufficient, the strength of the soul is not enough to reach salvation, we need more, and this moore is the Justification,a special help, a gift from God.

There is no fear in love

John is the disciple most beloved by Jesus. He is the author of the Gospel of John and the letter 1 John. In his texts speaks frecuently about the nature of love. For this author to know God is "love". He expresses: "Whoever does not love does not know god, because God is charity" 1 John 4:8; and, "There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear", 1 John 4:18.
We can extend the text in another way; we cannot attribute imperfections to God. God is the origine of the perfections that we see in the universe, explains Thomas Aquinas. Then he adds: "God is love wihout passions". The fear is an imperfection of the soul. The love as spiritual gift of God (Charity), is the love free from fear, free from the sin and the punishment. Remember the difference between passions and attachments. The hope and the joy are moviments of the spirit and guide men towards the good; instead the fear and the shame (passions) for example, are movement of the soul and guide men to evil. A practical case of Charity, is the parable of the Prodigal Son, Luke 15:11-32.

Friendship is equality

Aristotle in his book Nicomachean Ethics speaks frecuently about the theme of friendship, he speaks about the mercy, "the ethical friendship"; the justice, "the general friendship; and the Concord, "the political friendship". For Aristotle friendship is not also necessary but beautiful:"friendship is equality", "the benevolence is the beginning of the friendship" expresses to us.
Friendship is equality because it is closely related to a form of love: "Philia". In the ancient greek lenguage each form of love had his own name: eros, the love of lovers, agape the love for the good and Philia. This last form of love is the love that arises from the pleasure of seeing ourselves reflected in the others. The natural love, Philia is the origine of the friendship and the equality, the likeness, among men.

Take hold of the eternal life

The Apostle Paul of Tarsus wrote two letters to his disciple Timothy. In his first letter exhorts us to seek eternal life and no the opinated goods. But what is eternal life? Eternal life could be understand as a fruit of the spirit. A final result of the righteous life, of which the parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10) is an example. Aristotle tells us that the end of man is happiness, but Christ in the Gospel of Luke 6: 24-26 explains that happiness is an apparent good, happiness appears to us as a good, the 4 curses are an example. Christ in the sermon of the mountain teaches us not to follow the false goods (this is related with the concept of heresy), not to live according to the flesh. The true good of man is eternal life. Eternal life is contemplative activity explains Thomas Aquinas (Summa Theologica), remeber the text in the bible: "This is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God", John 17,3. This knowledge of God is more than contemplation is happines of the heart (the gift of happiness), is longevity (meditation is related with the long life), is security in God. In resume the eternal life is a "set of blessing", that describes the life in glory.

The definition of the sin

The good is rectitude of judgment or to say the spiritual gift of counsel: listen (perceive with attention), meditate with intuition and inspiration and decide creatively; also it is righteousness of action: the golden rule.
From the definition of the good comes the concept of error, of heresy. Sin is basically a mode to fail.
We can all sin, fail, but when the sin becomes an habit we become sinners, people who fail, people who do not hit the target, who do not aim.
The pursuit of happiness makes us sinners and this is because happiness is an apparent good, only when we seek the true goods, which are eternal life, the fruits of the spirit, the life in common is that when we become people  who live according to the law of God.
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The Mercy

Mercy is defined as kindness, affability, benedicence. The beatitudes of Matthew tell us a beatitude concerning mercy: Blessed are the merciful, for they shall be shown mercy. Matthew 5: 7.
The Mercy returns mercy, or expressed in another way: the spiritual gifts return spiritual gifts. The Spiritual gifts are perfections, explains Tomas Aquinas teacher of the scholastic. The beatitudes implicitly tell us about the  law of the return: you  reap what you saw. The right actions bring us blessings.
The Beatitudes carry a concept: happiness, but not happiness as a false good, but as a return, as a collateral effect. When we take the right, the correct actions we diminish, we minimize suffering, and as the opposite of happiness is suffering, when we decrease this last concept we predispose ourselves to happiness.
The minimization of the suffering is an ethical goal to achive happiness.
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About Justice

Aristotle in his book Nicomaquean Ethics define  Justice as give and receive proportionately, Aristotle also defines Justice as generalized friendship. The end of Justice is fundamentally the happiness but also the end of justice is the friendship thence this double definition.
Aristotle defines virtue as the middle term between the excess and the defect, nevertheless justice is an exception to the definition because justice is not a middle term.
Not all Justice is good, sometimes Justice can be a mask, Aristotle explain that sometimes a vice can be shown as virtue, for example the rigor. This is because moral virtues like prudence, justice, temperance and fortitude describes an intermediate state between good and evil.
The equivalent in psychology of the cardinal virtues is the concept of mask. The fundament of Justice is love, that is why we can seem just without being as Plato in his book The Republic said....

But earnestly desire the greater gifts, 1 Corinthians 12:31

To understand the phrase "But earnestly desire the greater gifts" from 1 Corinthians 12:31, we must understand what means to live according to the spirit (Romans 8:5).
God is the origin of the perfections we observe in the cosmos, to these perfections we call them spiritual gifts.
The gifts are lived because we grow. They are way, that is, we all have a ranking of rectitude, of mercy. 
They are progressive and are linked together, an example of a bond: Blessed are the pure in heart because they will see God, Matthew 5: 8, in this example a gift in this case integrity returns contemplative activity, the law of return acts upon our actions (You reap what your sow), the spiritual gifts return spiritual gifts as in this case. 
The spiritual gifts are progressive because we bear fruits: the fruits of the spirit, Galatians 5:22-23 (love, joy, peace, forbearans, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self control); and the works of the flesh: Galatians 519-21 (wrath, strife, seditions, envyngs, murders, drunkeness, orgies, adultery, fornication, witchcraft, hatred, litigations, jealousy).
Tomas Aqunas makes a distinction between the spiritual gifts of the will: mercy, rectitude, continuous improvement, constancy (fear of the lord); and the spiritual gifts of the understanding: good discernment, wisdom and spiritual gift of knowledge.
The search of wisdom and the progressive thinking lead us to the greater gifts: the eternal life, the perseverance, the fruits of the spirit, and the spiritual gifts of understanding.
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We live according to the flesh or according to the spirit

The ethics has a purpose: the study of the good and the evil. The ethics explains that the good and the evil have their origin in the truth and in the falsity.Truth and falsehood are concepts previous to good and evil. Why? Because to know if something is good or bad first you have to know it, something is false when it is presented as something that is not, remember and this is important that abstraction does not admit falsehood, as in the case of mathematics.From the metaphysical point of view evil is a deprivation of good affected by falsehood, but the evil is also a discernment.We all discern, we all choose in one way or another. There is a chaotic, unjust, destructive mood of thinking to this we call bad discernment, remember the concept of natural man in 1 Corinthians 2:14-15. In the other hand there is a benevolent, uplifting, just mood of thinking to this we call it good discernment.The ways of thinking are lifestyles, we choose.The goal of sin are the false goods: happiness, good fortune, abundance of material goods; But the purpose of rectitude is the true good to achieve: the eternal life. 
In the text of Romans 6:23 wages means return, the return of the sin (law of the return, you reap what you sow).
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About Passions

The expression in Proverbs 14:29, "Whoever is patient has great understanding, but one who is quick-tempered displays folly"; has a relation with the expression of  Tomas de Aquinas: "God is love without passion".
Passions are movements of the soul like shame, guilt, anger. In the other hand, attachments are movements of the spirit like joy, charity.
Remember that passions have their own will, which is different from reason, passions incline man to error. In the other hand, the attachments perfects the will, as for example the doctor and the love for medicine.
People affected by passions and particularly anger have a multiple personality, depending on whether they are affected by reason or passion, that is why quick tempered displays folly.
http://www.quintoevangelio.com.ar/en/articles/item/101-about-passions.html

Union with God

"But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit", 1 Corinthians 6:17. This expression has a similarity with the following texts: "That all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you" John 17:21 (spiritual gift of concord); "This is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true god", John 17:3 (contemplation).
The concept of union with God is related with the contemplative life (John 17:3) and the concord (John 17:21). The eternal life is a spiritual gift, the eternal life consist in a set of blessings that God give in advance to us, one of this blessing is the contemplation. The contemplation is a special meditation, a direct relationship with the divine, contemplation is devotion.
The Concord instead is a special type of friendship, is the union of wills that arises from the charity, the love for the good.
Be one in spirit with the Lord is share with him the good love, the love for the good, the love of charity.
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Spiritual Gift of Perseverance

The Spiritual Gift of Perseverance is the daily determination of doing good and avoiding evil and its distinctive characteristics are the loss of  fear and the resistance.
Remember that the love of charity is the love without passion, or to say the love without fear. Anger, shame and fear are passions; shame and guilt for example are typicals passions of an intermediate state between good and evil.
The Spiritual Gift of Perseverance is the spiritual gift proper of the spiritual man (pneumatic man) or the man gifted by the spirit.
The triple division of man (1 Corinthians 2:14; 1 Thessalonians 5:23): body, soul and spirit gives birth to 3 types of man: the natural man (prevails the body), the rational man (prevails the soul) and the spiritual man (prevails the spirit). This diference among men is because there is an intermediate state between good and evil.
Understand the spiritual man is to understand the eternal life and the perseverance. Perseverance and eternal life allways go together, like face and mint of the same coin.
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Gnosis

There are different passages in the Bible related to Gnosis. The concept of Gnosis is philosophical, in religion is called to receive the Holy Spirit.
Consider the following texts: "In Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream at night and God said:" Ask what you want". Solomon replied:"Give therefore to your servant, a heart that knows how to listen, to judge his people, and discern between good and evil ".... and God said ...." I give you a wise and understanding heart "1 Kings 3: 9
In this case God is not offering, God is asking to Solomon what he wants most. Because what is asked first is what is most wanted.
Solomon ask to God, the sacred listening, Solomon ask the capacity to do the good through the good judgment. In other words when the desire for the good prevails three spiritual gifts arises: spiritual gift of wisdom, good discernment and spiritual gift of knowledge.
In the Gospels there is another text related with this dialogue between God and Solomon: "Everyone will be salted with fire". Mark 9:49
The salt in the Gospels represents the wisdom of God, the salt like the wisdom has his own flavor. Ask to God a change of heart, to receive the Holy Spirit means to receive the taste for wisdom.
The fire represent the Holy Spirit, the energy of God, Jesus promise the Holy Spirit to the disciples..
Let's see the pasage of Pentecost in Acts of the Apostle 2:
When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit.
http://www.quintoevangelio.com.ar/en/articles/item/93-gnosis-and-love.html

The nature of man is the emulation of God

Thomas Aquinas takes the concept of nature from Aristotle and explains in his work Summa Theologica that the good is a nature. A nature is according to Aristotle to what the being tends in its development. Thomas Aquinas concludes that every being desires its own good or perfection and that the good is a nature, all being tends to its own completitude or to say towards its maximum development. Example: the fruit is good when it is mature.
The gospels add some information about the good: "Only God is good" Mark 10:18. The good is a perfection of God, is a spiritual gift, God is the source of the good.
Then a question arises, what is the good of man? What is the nature of man? What does man tend in his development?
We can say that the adult man is the man gifted of the Art of Listening; so what is the Art of Listening?
The Art of Listening is: listen (perceive with attention), meditate (with intuition and inspiration), decide.
Practical cases are: Jesus and the denarius (Mark 12), Jesus and the prostitute (John 8)
The Art of Listening is known as Emulating God (Book of Rhetoric, Aristotle), or to say we resolve what is presented to our judgement as God in person, capturing the mind of God. That is the action of the Holy Spirit in the Christian Religion.
Concluding we can affirm that the nature of man is the conformity to God, the nature of man is the emulation of God.
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Oracle

Aristotle tells us in his book Nicomachean Ethics that the goal of virtue is happiness, and in particular the Justice. The whole work of Aristotle is focuses in the development of the idea of how man seeks happiness, happiness is a central theme in the classical Greeks.
Now in the case of Jesus Christ his teachings start from the beatitudes, the beatitudes are promises, the beatitudes are ethical and spiritual affirmations. From the point of view of the Beatitudes the true good is the eternal life, happiness as the goal of life is a false good. In the gospel of Luke there are four beatitudes, Luke 6: 20-23 and four maledictions Luke 6: 24-26.
So, what is eternal life? The spiritual gift of eternal life is a group of blessing, that god give to us in advance of the life in Glory.
This blessings are: the guide of god, contemplation, longevity and the spiritual gift of Consulting.
When we talk about the spiritual gift of Consulting we talk about an oracle.
In the state of communion with God, or to say in the state of integrity,  we can "read" the thoughts of God, a practical case is Joseph divining the dreams of the Pharaoh (Genesis 41:1-44), those who can do this are called oracles. This Gift allows the reveal the thoughts of God.
In ancient times oracles were used to consult about subjects related with the future, the war, marriages, etc.
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Ethic Rules

The Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, and the Silver Rule: Do not do unto others what you would not have them do unto you, are ethic rule of universal reach.
The base of the ethical behavior is the empathy, a faculty of the spirit.
The base of Justice is the desire for happiness, instead the base of the ethic rules is the desire for the good. Justice is not enough.
Happiness is a result of the ethical behavior not a goal, these ethical principles have a property: the minimization of the suffering, as a result, happiness arises.
"Always act with principles", this is known as righteous life, we all have a ranking of righteousness, the goal of ethics is the life in common, or communion, the common good, the integrity.
The Law of the Return complements the previous rules as a law of balance
http://www.quintoevangelio.com.ar/en/articles/item/74-ethic-rules.html

The threefold division of man

The text in 1 Corinthians 2: 14-15 has similarities with the Gnostic thought.
The greeks and in particular Aristotle and Plato used for their analyzes the triple division of the soul: reason, pasion and desire. Instead the Gnostics and Christians in general use the triple division of man: body, soul and spirit. That´s why in the Bible is talk about living according to the spirit and to live according to the flesh as in Romans 8:5 and in Romans 6:23.
The triple division of man is related with three types of person: the natural man in which prevails the body, the rational man in which prevais the soul, and the spiritual man in which prevails the spirit.
For the natural man the spiritual matters are foolishness to him, because he lacks of the spirit.
The natural and the spiritual man have oppose modes of discerning one is chaotic, unjust, destrutive: the other instead benevolent, edifyng,progressive. The rational man is the man in which the main characteristic is the variety of passions, is the man in a intermediate state between good and evil.
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Keep your tongue from evil

"Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit. Depart from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it" Psalm 34:14. Good and evil are basic choices of the human being, we choose between righteousness (the golden rule, imitating christ) and sin.
Love instead is a gender, there is the evil love. The love of charity, which is an ethical demand is the love perfected by the nature of the good, in love we also choose in a destructive or uplifting sense. Love does not change the fact of how we choose. That is why we speak of benevolence and malevolence. The sin is an habit or not.
Justice, on the other hand, is a virtue whose fundamental aim is to maintain friendship among men, the unjust people can not be friends with each other, in fact Aristotle calls Justice, generalized friendship.
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Power and Dominion

The domain or self control is a fruit of the spirit, this is in Galatians 5:22-23: love, joyce, peace, forbearans, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self control.
The fruits of the spirit describes the character of God.
The idea of domain appears for the first time in the Genesis 1:26: "And God said: let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea;.....and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth"
Domain or self control is not the virtue of temperance. Domain is more. Temperance is moderation, domain is the control of the impulses and thoughts. The Domain is a spiritual Gift, a perfection of God.
The concept of domain perfect the power and gives origine to the spiritual power: the power perfected by the domain.

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Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God

Jesus begins his preaching with the sermon of the mountain (Luke 6:20-23; Matthew 5:3-12), Jesus never speaks to us to seek happiness. All the beatitudes begin with the word "rejoice", "blessed", "happy". Virtue responds to the natural desire for happiness, which is the desire of the soul, because we have a soul we want to be naturally happy.

In the beatitudes the concept of happiness is different, the beatitudes respond to the desire for the good.

If we see the teachings of Jesus, happiness lies in eternal life, happiness is a promise related with the fear of God (the spiritual gift of fear of the lord is define as constancy, firmness, devotion, ecuanimity, stability). Remember the text: "Happiness is for those who fear God" Ecclesiastes 8:12.
Happiness is the result of the contemplative activity, of the maturity of man, the happiness as a goal of life is a false good
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Glory

The Glory is a perfection, is a spiritual gift, is the perfect fame, the fame of God.
In the Bible there is a text: "His works are perfect" Deuteronomy 32,4
The firmament, "the heavens" are works of God, are perfections of God. We know the glory of God trought his perfections.
Glory means also, the presence of God. Can we prove the existance of God? Yes, knowing his perfections, his spiritual gifts, "his Glory".
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Everyone will be salted with fire, Mark 9:49

Jesus Christ begins his teachings with the sermon of the mountain, with the beatitudes (Matthew 5:3-12 and Luke 6: 20-23), the beatitudes are promises, perfections, excellencies and respond to the desire for the good (wisdom).
Some of these promises are very specific: "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God" (Matthew 5: 8). What does it mean to see God? In eternal life: This is the eternal life, that they may know you the only true God. John 17: 3.
After the teaching of the beatitudes, there is a dialogue between Christ and his disciples: "Jesus said to Simon Peter: Simon, son of John, do you Agape me more than these? Yes, Lord, you know that I Philia you", John 21: 15-16
This is a dialogue between two levels of love, one "Agape", the spiritual love, the love projected towards to all the work of God; in the other hand "Philia", the love that is born of the pleasure of seeing us reflected in the others, the love of friendship.
After this dialogue Christ promises them the holy spirit, promises the Gnosis:
"Everyone will be salted with fire" Mark 9:49
The salt symbolizes the wisdom of god, the fire the energy of god. This promise will be realized in Pentecost: Acts of the Apostles 2
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Quo Vadis?

Quo Vadis, Domine? Where are you going Lord?
The righteous life is always to act by principles, the end of the righteous life in the life in common, the communion, the eternal life, the sanctity (remember the justice is a form of error). The Commandment of Charity: "Love your neighbor as yourself" Mark 12:31 is express in the works as imitating Christ: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" Matthew 7:12.
Legend said that St. Peter was persecuted in Rome, flees and encounters a beggar. St. Peter recognizes him and asked: Quo Vadis, Domine? To which the beggar answered: to be crucified a second time. To which St. Peter returned to Rome and where he was finally crucified.
The Charity and the Rectitude, they seemed at some point not to be sufficient. We need something else: Perseverance and Fervor. We need the motivation of the fervor and resistance and the determination of the Perseverance. In difficult situations we need the greater gifts, the gifts that perfect the life in grace and summarizing:
"But earnestly desire the greater gifts", 1 Corinthians 12:31 and "But the one who endures to the end will be saved"  Matthew 24:13.
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The divine providence

Providence, as Thomas Aquinas explains, is the divine prudence, there are passages in the Bible that allude to this divine attribute (remember that a divine attribute is a non-transmissible gift or perfection): "For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But  seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well" Matthew 6:32-33; and, "Oh Father, your rule eveything with Providence" Wisdom 14:3
The divine Providence is related with the Security in God or the Confidence in God. Security o Confidence in God is not fate, fate is accept the creed. Every religion has his own creed, the creed are a set of affirmation that stablish a religion.  The Security in God is directly related with the spiritual gift of Knowledge, the promise of the beatitudes, and the divine guide.
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The Spiritual Gifts are perfections

The goal of the virtues is happiness, but the goal of the spiritual gifts are the integrity, the eternal life, the common life.
Tomas Aquinas explains an introduction of the work of Aristotle and talks about the 4 cardinal virtues: Temperance, Fortitude, Justice and Prudence. Later Tomas Aquinas says in his book Summa Theologiae: "we can only attributes perfections to God".
The virtues are not perfections, Justice is not a perfection, not all Justice is good. The 4 cardinal virtues describes an intermediate state between good and evil characterized by the passions.
Tomas Aquinas describes about the spiritual gifts of the will like Mercy, Continuous Improvement (spiritual gift of fortitude), spiritual gift of fear of the lord (constancy, firmness, devotion); and the spiritual gifts of science like spiritual gift of knowledge, spiritual gift of wisdom, and spiritual gift of discernment.
The origine of the virtue is the desire for happiness, the origine of the spiritual gifts is the desire for the good.
"Be perfect,therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect" Matthew 5:48 is the resume of the spirituality and the Christian life.
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Agape & Philia, The love of the spirit and the love of the soul

"Jesus said to Simon Peter: Simon, son of John, do you Agape me more than these? Yes, Lord, you know that I philia you" John 21:15-16
This text is a dialogue between different levels of consciousness and love. In ancient greek, each kind of love was designated by his own name. In ancient greek there is no traduction for the term love. The love is a genre. Philia designates the love of the friends, the love of the soul, the love that comes from the pleasure of seeing us reflected in the others. Agape is the love of the spirit, the love projected to god's creation, the love perfected by the nature of the good.
Later Jesus, will promise to the disciples the arrival of the Holy Ghost, or to say Pentecost.
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God is love without passions

The expression: "God is love without passion" of Thomas Aquinas has a similarity with the biblical passage: "There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment" 1 John 4:18.
Talk about punishment is talk about sin, is to talk about to go against the law.
We cannot attribute passions to God because passions have their own will. A will for reason and a will for passion, God is not divisible.
Tomas Aquinas explains that the expression, the wrath of god in the old testament is a meta metaphor.
We can only attribute perfections to God, this perfections are called gifts.
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The Spiritual Gift of Rectitude

Living in communion: The Parable of the Good Samaritan: Luke 10:25-35
On one occasion an expert of the Law stood up to test Jesus. Teacher he asked: "What must I do to inherit the eternal life?"
What is written in the Law? he replied. How do you read it?
He answered: "Love your Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind", and, "love your neighbor as yourself".
You have answered correctly, Jesus replied: Do this and you will live.
But he wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus: and who is my neighbor?
Jesus said: "A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jerico, when he was attacked by robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead. A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side. So too, a levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was, and when he saw him, he took pity on him. He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, brought him to an inn and took care on him. The next day, he took out two denarios and gave them to the innkeeper. "look after him", he said: "and when I return I will reimburse you for any extra expense you may have"

In this practical case of the good samaritan we have two choices: the sin or the golden rule: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" this is also known as rectitude or imitate Jesus. This rule is the definition of the ethical behavior. The goal of rectitud is the communion, the life in common with God and the neighbor. We choose between good and evil, there is no term for Justice or the commandments, the sin (living according to the flesh) and the rectitude (lifing according to the spirit) are lifestyles, that bear fruits: the fruits of the spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) or the works of the flesh (Galatians 5: 19-21).

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Fruits of the Spirit

The fruits of the spirit are perfections, spiritual gifts, blessings, but they are not beatitudes. The beatitudes are promises and perfections.
The fruits of the spirit and the works of the flesh are the ultimate results of our actions. All beings tends towards its own good or perfection. Like the tree that bear fruits when it reaches its own perfection, the man bears fruits of the spirit when he attains his integrity. When we live righteously we bear the fruits of the spirit (Galatians 5:22-23), when we sin we bear the works of the flesh (Galatians 5:19-21). The works of the flesh are not fruits because they are not delectable, pleasant.
Basically the fruits of the spirit as Tomas Aquinas says are: Charity, joy and peace, the first three are the fruits related directly with God. The rest of the fruits: forbearance, kindness goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self control are related with the neighbor.
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The Contemplation

"This is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God" John 17:3.  To know God is contemplation, explains Tomas Aquinas.
Aristotle also explains that contemplation or contemplative activity is a perfect activity. An activity related with the wisdom, with the wise, as a result is asociated with a form of happinees, different that the happiness related with virtue. Tomas Aquinas continues this reasoning and affirm: "Eternal happiness consist in the vision of God", Summa Theologiae.
There is a beatitude related with eternal life: "Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God" Matthew 5:8. The purity of heart (lack of selfishness) is a requirement for eternal life.
Tomas Aquinas also explains that angels are created for the contemplation of God, for the vision of God. The contemplation is the main activity of the angel, his purpose.
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Spiritual Gift of Fear of the Lord

"What does the Lord your God ask of  you but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, to love him, to serve the lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul" Deuteronomy 10:12
The fear of the Lord or Serenity is define as constancy, firmness, devotion, ecuanimity, stability.
This text of the Bible is related with: "The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of the wisdom" Proverbs 1:7
The Parable of the Sower (Matthew 13, Mark 4) teaches us that the wisdom of God  bear fruits through the constancy, the firmness.
The Spiritual Gift of Serenity  means firmness and constancy in the search of the excellence, "Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect" Matthew 5:48
The Serenity is the base of the ethical behavior or to say we must have constancy, firmness in the search of the eternal life.
This spiritual gift is more important than Mercy, and is directly related with the Security or Confidence in God.
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Spiritual Gift of Counsel

The Spiritual Gift of Counsel or the Art of Listening is the art of the wise.
In the Bible Solomon ask to God a heart that knows how to listen: "At Gibeon the Lord appeared during the night in a dream, and God said: Ask for whatever you want me to give you......So give your servant a discerning heart to govern your people and to distinguish between right and wrong......The Lord was pleasant that Solomon had asked for this. So God said to him.....I will do what you have asked. I will give you a wise and discerning heart. 1 Kings 3: 1-12
Wisdom must be asked. The Art of listening is not prudence. The prudence is related with the faculties of the soul: imagination and fantasy. The spiritual gift of Counsel with the faculties of the spirit: intuition, inspiration, creativity.
The counsel is a spiritual gift, a perfection in religion is related with the Holy Spirit. Practical cases are: King Solomon and the two prostitutes, 1 Kings 3:1, Jesus and the denarius (Luke 20:25)
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God is good

The good is a nature, a spiritual gift and a mood of discern:
The good as a nature:
Aristotle in his book "Politic" explains that a nature is toward what the being tends in its development, example: the nature of the worm is the butterfly.
Thomas Aquinas father of the scholasticism take this idea and affirm that the good is a nature, every being tends towards his own good or perfection explains, example: the house is good when it is finished, the fruit is good when in mature.

The good as spiritual gift:
Thomas Aquinas explains that the good is a spiritual gift. God is the source of the good. "Only God is good" Mark 10:18. The good is a perfection of god, we inherit the good from God.
The good as Spiritual Gift is known as the Golden Rule: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" Matthew 7:12, this is also known as imitating Jesus. A practical case of this rule is the parable of the  Good Samaritan. Luke 10: 29-37

The good as a discernment:
Good and evil are lifestyles. The good as discernment is one of the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit. The spiritual gift of good discernment accompanies the spiritual gift of knowledge and the gift of wisdom after the Gnosis. The goal of this spiritual gift is to separate what is wrong from what is right, this gift in religion is directly related with the Holy Spirit.
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The Beatitudes

The beatitudes are the starting point of the teaching of  Jesus in the sermon of the Mountain. The beatitudes teach us the functioning of the spiritual laws.
Living according to the spirit is to live the spiritual gifts, is to search the correct (for the spiritual gift of counsel) and the best (for the mercy and the continuous improvement). The beatitudes are promises for those who choose the right path, for those who choose to live according to the spirit.
The beatitudes respond to the desire for the good, the virtues (like Justice) instead responds to the desire for happiness.
Is importante to notice that beatitudes must be read using the spiritual gift of knowledge and not the reason or to say beatitudes must be read using the progressive thinking.
The beatitudes are an expression of hope.
The beatitudes are 4 in Luke 6:20-22 and 8 in Matthew 5:3-12. Each beatitude respond to a spiritual gift, the beatitudes are the plan of god, the best expression of the kingdom of God, the empire of the divine perfections.
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