Ferdinand David, the astrologer thinker

[Lunesoleil]

Is there any truth in the world? A sense of evolution?

Is there a meaning to evolution? How will an approach to knowing this truth and this meaning be useful for the good management of our existence, individually and collectively? In other words, is the observation of the world likely to deliver us the truths that each individual and each community needs to manage their existence well?

By "truth" we mean a judgment that emerges from the observation that everyone can make of the common denominators observed between the processes of human life and those that we can observe as constant in what exists outside of us, and which existed before the arrival on Earth of the human being. For example, can we make a significant and instructive connection for us between the fruits which crown each annual cycle of the life of the tree, and the "fruits" that man produces by his activity ("it is the fruit from his work ") ? Another example, can we make a significant and instructive connection between the well-rooted tree, thus receiving good nutritive exchanges, therefore healthy, solid and productive, and the man who is well "rooted" in his environment, in his culture, in his his knowledge, rootedness that nourishes his body as well as his mind, and without which he remains fragile and unproductive (“he has his feet on the ground”)? In the same way we observe that, in the tree for example, we find at the same time Matter, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, the Life which animates it and which controls its development. Man too is made of matter and life. We were born of the same Life which, before us, had given birth to what preceded us and which allowed our arrival and our evolution. Life is invisible but essentially creative; we only perceive its manifestations, always varied according to its material support; demonstrations which allow us to conclude with the progressive realization of a plan of development pursued since the original chaos. The evolution of the world is going somewhere; she never goes back. Everything is going “somewhere”; don't you say, "How are you?" I'm fine, thank you”, “He is a young person who will go far”. It is the verb to go. We are going somewhere. Everything is going somewhere. Depending on the past of this evolution and its logic, we must try to find out where we are going; it is then that we will glimpse the meaning of life. And meaning is still an idea of ​​direction, of goal. The direction of our walk is inscribed in the Universe and no doubt also in our unconscious… which is the replica of the seed that gave birth to us.

Our field of observation is immense, so much has been achieved since the distant Big Bang of the original chaos 15 billion years ago, and since the 4.5 billion years of existence of our planet Earth born from this chaos original. Man is young compared to this birth of the Universe and that of our planet. The current man called homo homo sapiens (modern man) would go back only -35,000 years, he succeeded the so-called Neanderthal man who would have appeared around -100,000 years. Skilled homo dates back 2 or 3 million years. Agriculture began only around 8000 BC, it went hand in hand with sedentarization. The evolution of man is considerable and unique compared to the vegetable world and the animal world, and it is more and more rapid; contemporary history shows us several major stages… quickly challenged by new ones. And we are currently changing. So many reasons that require us to try to understand the meaning of this evolution.

What should be noted, because this is the most significant thing, is that from the original chaos the construction of the world has come, at least on Earth, to man, to the man of able to think today, able to think about the evolution of this world and to think about itself, to question itself, to seek to understand why it is there, why it took 4 billion years for it appears. Undoubtedly, without this progressive evolution going from chaos to the human passing through the mineral, the vegetable and the animal, the man would not possess neither freedom, nor capacity to think, nor creative intelligence. Evolution pursues an end and it gives itself the means to do so. Let us insist: man did not create himself; it's the Life that created it. But what is Life?

The construction of the world is very similar to the activity of our companies. Who's the boss?
The construction of the world is very similar to the activity of our companies, but we cannot conceive of a company without an intelligence at its head, an intelligence that started the company, defined its vocation and animated and controlled its development. And here comes the great and eternal question: who is at the origin of the Universe? Who is behind this titanic enterprise? Ever since man has thought, he has been asking and asking himself this question. He dreams of being able to dialogue with this Master to question him, even influence him, even obtain a part of his power by delegation. And there we find the religions with the concept of God. But the Evangelist John warns us: “God, no one has ever seen him”; before, Jean had taken care to say to us: “and the life was the light of the men”. Despite our Christian culture in the West, it must be understood that God remains an abstract concept. Of course, he was “humanized” by religions, considered as a “Father”, as the Creator, as the Master, etc. but man is quite incapable of imagining or defining the origin of Life, therefore of imagining this God. As for Life, which is Light for man, it is about works, manifestations of Life since Life is invisible to us, unlike the multiple forms of matter that it inhabits and animates. It is therefore easier, and more useful, to try to understand Life than to remain with the abstract concept of God. It is by looking at the finished Work of the Creator that we will come to understand Life.

Of course, this notion of a single God was a considerable progress for humanity, a source of unification, an explanation which allowed, even imposed, a morality, a metaphysical reflection, including for public life. But religion attached itself too exclusively to God and to humanity, and not enough, not even at all, to the rest of its Work which is Nature (the whole of the mineral, vegetable and animal kingdom). She looked too much at the "soul" of man, and not enough at his relationship with his environment. And man became a disrespecter, a predator, an exploiter of that Nature. We forgot to tell him that he came from this Nature, that he was linked to her, that he could not survive without her, that she was alive like him. Anyway, this notion of God as it was taught is no longer credible. We are therefore sent back to a search for the truth of the world because man needs meaning. He needs to know what the direction of his walk should be, the sense of direction that suits him.

Man needs to give meaning to his existence

We want to understand and we seek to understand, even in spite of ourselves, because we know well that to live well, happy and in good health, we must come to understand the "game" of Life, its plan and its know-how, and to join us. Humanity cannot stand apart. The share of freedom that Life grants must not mislead us: humanity, as a whole, must remain in the planned line of the construction of the world. Our freedom is not total because humanity cannot destroy what allowed its birth and which keeps it alive. We are currently making this observation with pollution, but also, in a more underhanded way, with the orientation of the economy which is moving further and further away from the conditions of human development. Life is The Master, invisible so that our share of freedom-responsibility is complete, but who knows how to bar our way when we stray too dangerously from the line of evolution.

The great problem of our time is that we must rediscover a truth of the world, otherwise we return to the wild state of the animal; in other words: it is the strongest who imposes his law, and his law is obviously not that of Life. The danger is there. Do we not see today, at the same time, the dominance of an economy aimed at creating powerful financial groups (by destroying or buying up their competitors, or by issuing shares) while the Left and the Ecologists fail not to define a program of healthy economy, justice for all and respect for Nature. Respect for Man, respect for Nature, respect for Life. It is a whole. It is no coincidence that Left and Ecologists ended up meeting against a wild capitalism that exploits man as well as Nature. When there is no longer any meaning, there is no longer any project, neither individually nor collectively, the structures crumble, chaos tends to re-establish itself. The Left and the Ecologists must define why another economy, why another justice, why a respect for Life. A sound philosophy must be reintroduced into politics.

We have a great need to be able to answer all these questions because it is obvious that humanity today finds itself in the obligation to question itself on how to live better, and how to live better together. How can we live together without being led into a merciless battle between the strongest and the weakest? And the strongest do not often emerge victorious. The West was the strongest, and France in particular. But yesterday the United States dominated, and tomorrow it will be China, India, Japan, and the day after tomorrow it will be others. This is how the life of humanity unfolds on our planet. The stronger against the weaker. The rich against the poor. It is the law of the wild state, the law of the animal at the origin of our human species; it is the rule in the animal world, also in the plant world when it comes to monopolizing a good that cannot be shared among all individuals.

This law of the strong against the weak is very beneficial for the evolution of the world. It forces everyone to want to become the strongest, and the fight for domination forces the strongest to become even stronger, and the weakest to do everything possible to reduce their defeat. Such is the engine invented by Life so that the world grows by always developing more physical and intellectual capacities. With instinct, Life has offered itself the guarantee of the good material development of its plan, but its project is much more ambitious, and material development is only the nourishing base for the anchoring of the law of love. . Man must therefore go beyond his basic instinct.

Understand the direction of the evolution of the Universe and associate with it

From these struggles, humanity was born. And if the plant world and the animal world evolve slowly, on the other hand the evolution of the human species is considerable although the last arrival on the planet. And it is there, by considering all the richness of this human evolution, all its speed, all its creativity, all the development of its power, of its thought, that we can understand the direction of the evolution of the Universe. Violence and love are already in animals, and we find them similarly in man, except that in the latter love tends to develop and to outweigh violence more and more; at least, that is the great aspiration in most humans. Man is never so happy and so creative as when he is “in love”. In love, certainly with his spouse, but also in love with his work, his land, his animals, etc. This is a feature of the will of Life: to develop love, more and more. Without doubt, moreover, the development of beauty, goodness and love – and the first two can be summed up in the third – represent the main, even final, objective of the evolution of the Universe. Even hate is a derivative of love because we hate what opposes what we love. Love goes hand in hand with exchange since it is a gift. The tree lives on exchanges through its roots and its leaves, and we ourselves only live on exchanges: with the air, with food, with our unconscious, with our fellow human beings; man cannot live alone and we know well that loneliness is the worst of trials. But the exchange is a gift, it is the law. The tree, through its exchanges with the earth and with the air, has produced fruit... which it offers to whoever needs it or wants it.

When man has understood this, he should only cease to imitate Life. Being associated with one's will and one's know-how is therefore the great recipe for human fulfilment, the recipe for happiness, individual and collective. This truth of the world is already enough for us to define our projects, projects that will condition our way of life, therefore our health, our relational life, etc.

Take a look around us, and within us, and we understand that everything is a project; the project of plants is to grow and develop flowers and fruits. Man can plant a tree, sow a seed, but he can do no more: it is Life that takes care of it. Man seems free to define his project and to implement what will develop it, but this is to ignore that in our unconscious a multitude of aspirations germinates, and that of reproducing is not the least powerful, which is normal since without reproduction there would be no renewal, therefore the construction of the world would stop.

One Life in All That Is

It is therefore the same Life which is in all that exists with, everywhere, its same program and its same know-how: birth, development, flowers, fruit-seeds, old age, death, each according to the cycle of its species. . Man was designed to have more and more freedom as humanity evolves, and even each individual can personally develop this freedom from his instincts and his environment by striving to understand ever better the processes that Life develops in its creations, in order to be able to associate with it and be creative like it. This is also how man was able to create, among other things, our many drinks: wine, cider, beer,... by combining various natural processes. Only... if he refuses to obey Life, or if he organizes his existence by ignoring it, he will feel pain, physical or moral, and this pain, in order to disappear, will require another way of living, individual and collective, closer to the ideal of Life. Extensive mixing! Invisible, discreet, but effective. Each seed contains the original seed, the seed of the world. And, with man, we can even say that his mind also fertilizes other minds – the teacher fertilizes the minds of his students. We can say that the whole world, past and future, is in each of us and conditions us through the discreet means of our aspirations, affinities, repulsions, etc. It is as if Life acted twice, in duality: both on matter and on thought; thought acts on matter but matter also acts on thought: joy and sadness, pleasure and pain, dialectic of duality.

There is therefore a logic of the evolution of the Universe served by universal processes; we can therefore draw laws from it to understand our own processes, redirect them if necessary and live better, individually and collectively. Dissatisfaction will not disappear because it remains the engine of evolution: it will have a meaning, it is quite different, and, instead of suffering it, we will be able to manage it.

How can we use our observations of nature to live better?

Let us say right away that this observation-comprehension has become difficult for the city-dweller who no longer has true rural ancestors, because admiring nature is one thing, perceiving and understanding the life that animates it is another; you have to live in the midst of things to understand them. To look at nature is to embrace a considerable mass of symbols which must be made to speak one after the other, and to make them speak it is necessary to understand the Life which animates them. But everyone can observe in their own way, according to their sensitivity, their culture and their rhythm. And everyone will take away from their observation what they are prepared to understand. We will take a few examples.

We have already mentioned above the life of the tree, its rooting, its growth, its flowers and its fruits. Let's look at the vine, it is an invasive creeper of great vitality; it needs to be mastered, pruned, otherwise it "wastes" its energy by developing tentacles of surprising length, and its bunches of grapes will then be ridiculously small: spreading out, gesticulating, chattering, wasting... man does not should not scatter his energies in multiple directions; he must concentrate; you can't touch everything. There is a time to explore and a time to realize. All the art of education is there.

Take the example of transplantation. It consists in inserting on a vigorous subject a graft taken from a tree that we want to reproduce while giving it the benefit of the powerful vitality of the rootstock. It is a marriage, a mating for a good production. The peasant always took care of the good choice of his breeding animals. In humans, consanguineous marriage is always at risk for offspring. Is not the education of children also a kind of grafting of the best of ascendants and teachers onto the young personality of the child. It is obvious that the symbolism of flowers is found in women's toilets and makeup. The role of the flower is to attract the bee or the bumblebee so that it is fertilized. Who knows if the tree does not symbolize the theory of reincarnation: in the fall, it loses its leaves and retains, stripped, only its skeleton, then, the following spring, it finds a new life with the development of babies -buds, at the same time its structure (its skeleton) accomplishes a plus of growth. Our "winters" in the beyond would allow us to assimilate the fruit of the experiences of the fulfilled existence, and to be reborn enriched by the latter in the place and at the time that would suit us. Man also has a skeleton. Take windstorms. They clear the trees of dead wood which weakens them and they cut down the least resistant. We too need to shake ourselves up from time to time, and to shake up others. “Get rid of all this useless that encumbers you! And the storm? Brutal, certainly; rising from the horizon, invading our sky, sometimes causing damage, but it rebalances heaven and earth. The storm reminds us today of the always violent difficulties of globalization (violence in the economy, violence in immigration, etc.). But also to our family storms, to our love storms… Then to the pleasant calm after the storms. Storms are never immediate: they rise from the horizon. All storms. Let's not forget the seasons. Our springs, our summers, our autumns, our winters are very much like those of nature: we can hardly talk about our flowers or our fruits when our winter is well established. And youth always knows the exuberance of spring, and the beauty of its flowers. We are similarly in affinity with streams, rivers and streams. They drain the tiny and the individual here and there to form the mass of the oceans. Great wholes are made up of individual contributions, whether this whole is material construction or of the spirit, nation or civilization. Everyone knows the proverb “Small streams make great rivers”.

Each of us is all of nature on his own

Each of us is in himself all of Nature; all the times and all the life processes of nature are within us; we were built by the same universal laws that formed the kingdoms before us. Our body is built and maintained by our ability to assimilate what grows naturally on the earth; we are in affinity with it, otherwise we could not feed on it. Products resulting from chemical manipulations cannot therefore be suitable for us. The invisible Life acts in us and through us, just as, similarly invisible, it acts in nature and through it. We thus understand why a naturally healthy food maintains, even restores, good health, and why certain plants can cure certain diseases, but, also, why a part of what our ancestors were is found in us.

“Life is the light of men,” wrote the Evangelist John in his famous Prologue, and why is that? It is again John, the philosopher, who clarifies this for us: “And the Word became flesh”. The Word is the Thought, it is the Word, it is the Project which precedes and presides over any work. The philosopher John speaks of the Thought-Project which caused the birth of the world, and he tells us that this Word became flesh; what a monumental shortcut! the flesh is matter; in other words, the Thought-Project-Will creates all the existing forms of matter and animates them. Jean could not go further: “God, no one has ever seen him,” he specifies. He tells us that “In the Beginning was the Word”. but it does not tell us who was at the origin of this Word; he says that this Word was God, which refers purely and simply to the observation of man's inability to penetrate beyond the original Big Bang. No one has done better since. It is obvious that we see a constant logic in the evolution of the Universe since its origin which authorizes us to consider that this Word originally contained the project of all that is and will be. Recognizing its existence in Nature therefore leads us to better understand what is happening within us; our freedom is, in fact, limited, framed by the content of this Word...

The Big Book of Nature therefore does exist. He is there to teach us, to tell us how we were built, to teach us our “nature” as humans. These are the universal laws that have shaped Nature, and they are the same that have shaped man, which is why we can only live according to these same laws as we can find and understand them in this Great Book. To imitate the creative nature, yes. Fake it, no. Our body does not allow it. Individuals and societies must evolve by listening to the Word.

Evolution: how far? Benefits, difficulties, pitfalls

How far will the evolution of the world go? Obviously we cannot know it, but we can try to understand the spirit of its development in order to attune ourselves to it and put ourselves in phase with its objective instead of being called to order, individually and collectively, when we ignored too much or when we objected to it. What can we observe if we look at this evolution from the earliest times on our planet? Surely it is the development of freedom. There are very few of them in the mineral kingdom where pebbles and grains of sand move only by rain and wind. It's already better in the plant kingdom with the seeds dispersed by the wind. In the animal kingdom, this embryo of freedom-mobility has been perfected: the animal can move to find its favorite food, to escape danger, to reproduce, etc. Animals even have a minimum of social organization within each species. Of course, fantasy is practically excluded in animals, instinct rules the existence of each species; there is therefore repetition and very little creativity.

With the human species, freedom takes a prodigious leap forward. We could say that Life knew very well what it was doing by developing a creativity capable of generating freedom. However, this development of freedom, which has become individual in man, had to be controlled so that the general evolution of the world would not be disturbed and that the individual would not be penalized, irreparably lost by it. Freedom and control are however in contradiction, and the Life had to solve this difficulty so that the creative diversity hoped for by this freedom can develop normally. Because it seems that after freedom it is creativity that Life seeks to develop. Logical sequence, since without freedom there can be no diversified creativity, but freedom generates the diversity of creativity.

Life therefore wanted to combine freedom and creativity at the level of the species, as for the animal kingdom, but also at the level of each individual. Parents today can imagine the difficulty of this task with the education of their children. However, the parents express themselves, they encourage or prohibit or warn. Life does not speak. If she spoke in any way, freedom would be greatly reduced, even destroyed, and creativity with it. Life therefore invented a brilliant system: satisfaction of the individual or suffering of the same, with useless revolt against sanction. Satisfaction when the individual – or the collective – uses his freedom by living and creating in the spirit of evolution. Suffering when the individual – or the community – uses his freedom by living and creating in a spirit that thwarts evolution too much. It is still necessary for the individual – or the community – to develop sufficient knowledge of the art of living since ignorance cannot increase freedom. The individual – or the community – could still choose, faced with the difficulty of living, stagnation; do nothing, have no ambition. Life has foreseen this, and it wanted its own "engine" to be in each individual: these are our higher aspirations, our need to be recognized, to be respected, to be fascinated by Life and to work trying to penetrate its mystery, the desire to conquer, etc. Doing nothing is therefore not an option. The same is true for communities. So, freedom and instinct for creativity, but not to do anything.

To safeguard freedom, Life could only leave it to man to discover for himself, individually and collectively, the universal laws which condition the proper development of the world. This highly educational method was not retained - probably not understood - by Moses, great master of the Hebrew people leaving Egypt, since the book of Exodus, in the Bible, tells us of the mythical episode of God-Yahweh giving to Moses on Mount Sinai the Tables of the Law which later became the Decalogue – the “Ten Commandments of God”. Life and religions have different educational methods.

Freedom, creativity… and love

We create out of love; we create what we love and we need love. This is our dream: to love and be loved. We choose what we like: spouse, food, clothing, entertainment, job; we gather by affinities. Dedication, humanitarianism, fraternity... Love is even the driving force behind the evolution of our personality: loving leads us towards others, pushes us to know their needs, to exchange with others – we have seen that living is exchange, for humans as well as for the animal and plant world –; love of culture, love of art, love of sport, love of nature... Man cannot avoid love because the Life that is in him is love, but he remains free to grant it the place that He wishes. We know that love is capable of anything, we know that it always ends up triumphing, so how far will love lead the evolution of the world? Of course, there is no possible answer to this question. However, we can be sure that love will triumph more and more in our societies; is it not more present today than a few centuries ago?

Religion, secularism, duality

Secularism is respect for all opinions and beliefs with a religious and philosophical connotation and, in return, the obligation for institutions dealing with the latter to remain outside the exercise of political and administrative power. It is the religions that take into account these opinions and beliefs that refer to the divine. Religion's mission is to connect men to God, of course to the God defined by the founding men of these religions. In our societies, there is what relates to men among themselves, and what relates to men in their relationship to the divine. It seems that a certain “religious” dimension is innate in man; religions would only take it into account, or, perhaps in some cases, exploit this need. In the relationship of men to each other, in addition to the secular and the religious, we still find a duality: the Right and the Left, as there is duality between men and divinity, and also between religions. The principle of duality is found in all things, it is the engine of development, including in sport where the athlete encounters the resistance of air, water, etc. The flying plane perfectly symbolizes this universal duality and its role since it is the resistance of the air, its opposition, which allows it to fly, to go towards. And then, wouldn't every man want to be other than what he is? This is yet another duality, a push for more development.

Of course, this duality, engine of development, can, in all areas, be conducted knowingly, with intelligence, love and delicacy, or brutally without understanding, ignoring this process and its purpose. It is a great art to master duality, to return it to its role of development. With duality, we touch here on the most useful psychological knowledge for all educators. And who is not an “educator” in one area or another of our world? To educate is to help the individual to go beyond what he is.

Where to go?

In other words, what can we learn, for the management of our existence, from the observation of the manifestations of Life in us and in Nature? Where is the evolution that Life has been pursuing in the Universe for 15 billion years, and for 4.5 billion years on our planet? What does Life want to achieve? What skill is his? Where do the aspirations come from that develop in each of us and that lead us each in our own directions?

It is important to answer such questions. Oh ! not all at once, not once and for all, but very often during our existence, each time we encounter a problem, each time we have to choose. And if our answer is not good, Life will take care of letting us know. Life wants us to go into dead ends, but it doesn't want us to stay there. No stagnation.

However, let us know that existence is not a long straight line, but much more a succession of experiences and trial and error. If the line was straight, it should be drawn clearly in advance, imposed, without possible derogations, everyone following the same track, therefore without freedom. And we have seen it, without freedom there is no creativity and goodbye to the richness of diversity, so there is no evolution. What is most precious for Life is the creative capacity of each human being, creativity which works for the development of thought and also leads to the transformation of matter. But there would be nothing but our instinct if there were not in each of us these demanding higher aspirations which send us back a kind of model to achieve. Where does this past of the Universe and its future come from that would be in us, what psychologists call the unconscious? The ideal is certainly to seek to pool and compare these manifestations in order to identify their meaning and put them into practice. Undoubtedly, is this the part of "religious" that would be in us with a view to a large development to come within the framework of the evolution of the Universe?

For Life, each individual has meaning only through their belonging to a species. The individual alone could not even survive, and, without the competition and collaboration of exchanges, no progress would be possible, moreover, already to be born, every individual is the fruit of a double encounter. But there is more, we cannot imagine a single tree, it only has meaning in relation to the forest, a forest which, moreover, allows the diversity of trees. The same is true of beehives or anthills. It is the whole that has meaning and allows the survival and growth of each individual. Life ensured the organization of these species by instinct, while it entrusted that of the human species to thought, accompanied by a significant amount of creative freedom for each individual. The difficulty is that our societies must develop this diversity and ensure, at the same time, that it always remains at the service of all. And there, we find growth through experience, a universal and eternal dialectic. It is this creativity-growth of man that must agree with that of Life. We can identify the principle: respect the natural balances by human intelligence and the law of universal love taking into account the principle of duality animator of growth. And it is not only about the natural balances of Nature, but also about human justice, mutual aid, equal opportunities in order to reduce excessive tensions between individuals and nations. Without such principles neither ecologists nor left-wing political parties will succeed in building credible programs.

But there is more: let's change the political power that drives the people and makes the laws if it does not suit us. It is then necessary to modify the philosophy of the life of the majority of the citizens because the politicians are the representatives of the populations, resulting from the people, chosen by the people, most of the time in many progressive stages from the local to the national. Also from the people are all our personnel with authority or skills: judges, police officers, teachers, doctors... There is only one way: the creation of associations which will gradually act as leaven in the nations: militant associations for the ecology, to relearn how to make bread, to relearn how to grow vegetables, for a healthier and more economical marketing of the products of the earth, for health, for education, for leisure, for a better life in the city, for the revitalization of our villages built in the past to meet the needs of exchanges and mutual aid, etc. Long-term associative work, but how quickly comfortable. Otherwise the places will always be occupied by the exploiters of the people and their delegates or by unscrupulous upstarts.

Are we heading towards another civilization?

The answer is yes. For more than fifty years the great dreams of the West have collapsed, and how fast! : Hitlerism, colonialism, communism, socialism, Christianity, and our capitalism is living in real agony. The West has become incapable of renewing itself, and it succumbs to the young vitality of emerging countries… which will experience the same fate as us if they copy our wild capitalism. Producing quickly and in very large quantities, as we know how to do now, must find at the end of the chain a consumption of all this production. However, consumption is limited by purchasing power and by the “fatigue” of the consumer. Savage capitalism is a destructive bulldozer that advances by destroying even its client and its consumer of yesterday after having made them financially bloodless. It constantly swallows what it has previously reduced to its smallest dimension. To survive, we in France had to offer this capitalism a loan (?) of 1,500 billion euros, i.e. a debt of 26,000 euros per citizen! The same is true in several countries. And globalization is in the process of giving the final assault on our West, this globalization that we have provoked, accelerated, by our colonization, by our wars, by the considerable development of our means of communication, by the images of our television and our internet, our tourism, etc. We must now think of organizing this planetary unity, a bit like yesterday we had to federate the provinces into nations.

But it is not easy to invent the world of tomorrow. Capitalism does not succeed in judging useful the need for it to balance production and consumption: it accumulates ever more money in its banks and in its tools of production and distribution while reducing to poverty more and more many of the population… who therefore cannot buy what is produced. The duality here generates a waste instead of being an engine of development of humanity.

And, during this time, the ruling power claims that it is necessary to work more to earn more, while unemployment is still there, panicking the populations, and that jobs are more and more precarious. We hastily create new models and new robots because deadly clashes between big internationals require it; management and labor then run out of steam trying to constantly integrate the ever new technologies that constantly generate stress, deteriorate health and create new unemployed. The Right of the political parties disappears then returns, by despair of the citizens. The Left, for more than fifty years, has failed to develop a credible program of government that the country would accept. We are increasingly coming to create vast projects more to satisfy large financial groups and to try to camouflage the increase in unemployment than to meet the most urgent needs of the populations. Was it really the best choice for the happiness of humanity to connect the big provincial towns to the capital at the same time by a national road, by a railway line, by a motorway, by a TGV line and by an air link… while cutting-edge technologies free men more and more from the constraints of work? It was an example. The people always have the representatives they deserve: those who represent what they are, or else those who, by their abuses, will wake them up. Why such a rush in such a short time? Why this flight towards the wall of excessive complication? Would Life go bankrupt at the stage of humanity? Or is humanity going through a growth crisis, or is it facing a victory that it does not know how to use? The current situation certainly makes sense. Excellent opportunity to discuss it in groups.

Findings

I would like to end this reflective essay with a personal example that shows the complexity of the problem, the sequence of situations: During the German Occupation of 40-45 I was a young agricultural worker. As a large number of men were prisoners in Germany for six years, agricultural work was in charge of young and old. I had three horses to do the work on the farm, including plowing, haymaking and the various carriages. The rural world did not know modernization at that time. From five or six o'clock in the morning, depending on the season, the horses had to be fetched from the fields where they were, whatever the state of the sky; then clean them with a curry comb and brush; then harness them and hitch them to the machine chosen according to the work to be carried out. At noon, they had to be unhitched, fed and watered. The meal finished, it was necessary to hitch again. And in the evening, unhitch and drive the horses back to their pasture. Bis repeated the next day.

As for the aftermath of the war, the first agricultural tractors appeared on the market and at the same time a bank specialized in lending to farmers, the young sons of the most dynamic farmers, already strongly impressed and awakened by the power of motorized equipment of the Allies during the Landing, understood very quickly that considerable time savings and comfort were promised by the machine. Simply turn the ignition key instead of harnessing the horses! And the feeling of modernity and power as a bonus! In addition, the tractor carried its man when it was necessary to walk alongside the horses. And the gears of relentless progress were set in motion. After the tractor, the equipment that goes with it, but to ensure the profitability of the whole and pay the bank interest, we quickly understood that it was necessary to expand the farm. We bought back the lands that became available by abandonment of the oldest who could not follow the progress or for any other reason. The equipment becoming more and more powerful demanded larger spaces and led to the "regrouping" of the land, an error of precipitation which removed the protective hedges built by the ancients. And today, only five or six decades later, the agricultural world is going through an unprecedented crisis forcing it into poverty, debt, demonstrations and strikes. Yes, it was necessary, by mechanics, to free the peasant from the harshness of certain works; man, for Life, is first of all thought, and we must encourage its development, so where is the fault?

When the tractor arrived… but also when the refrigerator arrived… when the washing machine arrived… when the household appliances boom arrived… when the automobile for all arrived… when the television arrived… when the internet and the mobile phone arrived … it was always to liberate the man, to save time, to become more competitive, to devote himself to more profitable jobs, etc. But capitalism was watching; he knew how to liberate man in one area to better exploit him in another. Undoubtedly, a large number of us live better, but similarly a large number – the silent ones – live very badly… while the wealth produced is more and more important. It is certain that we fall for this liberating, falsely liberating progress, yet it is difficult to always say no. It is difficult to say no even to credit, which has since caused the current dramatic debts of nations, but shouldn't we encourage the purchase of what was produced! Where is the error? How to regulate this race for production which leads to a race for consumption for some and despair for others? It seems obvious that the wealth produced must be redirected towards destinations that are more useful to humanity. What other civilization for tomorrow?


Ferdinand David born October 9, 1924 and died October 8, 2015 ( French translation




Youth oriented towards theological studies in the post-war period of the grandiose attempt at renewal in the Catholic Church: in Coutances, then at the seminary of the young Mission of France installed in Lisieux, and quickly decapitated by conservative politicians and Rome spouses.

Along with commercial activities:

Political commitment alongside Pierre Mendès France for a renewal of political practice and mores (1954).

Ecological commitment since 1970 for a primacy to the quality of life, against the intensive and unnatural development of the means of production.

Teaches esotericism from 1975 to help discover the true nature of man and the universal laws that govern the world.

Devoted himself to astrology in the late 1970s; opens a consulting room, then an astrology course. Contacts in the late 1980s for a gathering of astrology professionals to try to promote a better image of it.

Published by Editions Bussière and Editions du Rocher. Various articles published in L'Astrologue, La Lettre des Astrologues, Urania Magazine.

Member of the Honorary Committee of the Federation of Francophone Astrologers (FDAF).

Lived in Bordeaux for 17 years, then in Strasbourg for 30 years, retired to Ardèche since 1998.

another article in French by the author on Neptune