Los Proverbios de Salomon

En los orígenes, el hombre moraba en el Jardín del Edén plácidamente. No le faltaba nada. Su vida era un verdadero vergel colmado de goce y felicidad, se deleitaba con todos los placeres que estaban dispuestos para que los disfrutase, y no debía preocuparse por nada. La única condición que le fue impuesta para conservar ese paraíso perpetuamente era que no comiera del Árbol del Conocimiento del Bien y del Mal. Pero el hombre no logró superar la prueba y por eso fue expulsado del Jardín del Edén. Desde entonces, obtener el sustento ha sido siempre muy difícil. Pero, aun así,...

For too many centuries, the Catholic Church has been teaching lies to the innocent people who apparently are unable to think clearly for themselves. Catholic clergymen pretend to be "representatives of God," with power to forgive the sins of other human beings, and also to transform the host, and the wine into the body and blood of Jesus Christ, in order for the faithful to eat and drink it as cannibals. They also pretend that their mass is a repetition of the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross, when Jesus died and resurrected almost two thousand years ago. They are also teaching several other...

Presents God's answers to the author's questions concerning everyday life and how man should respond to opportunities and challenges.

The backpack of acquired knowledge was a chain around my neck that made me go in circles. It took me three years to realize it. I got rid of it to see for myself. I was publishing a logbook to avoid having to remember and as a proposal for open debate. Nobody debates, at most, they insult. Then I understood that my path was very lonely. The clinical trials that I organized helped me to validate the results in third parties, verifying their objectivity, but only on the initial practice. The rest I never made public. However, one warm afternoon in the summer of 17, sprawled out in a lonely...

In a meditation on the wisdom of the Vedas, Roberto Calasso brings ritual and sacrifice to bear on the modern world In this revelatory volume, Roberto Calasso, whom The Paris Review has called "a literary institution," explores the ancient texts known as the Vedas. Little is known about the Vedic people, who lived more than three thousand years ago in northern India: They left behind almost no objects, images, or ruins. They created no empires. Even the soma, the likely hallucinogenic plant that appears at the center of some of their rituals, has not been identified with any certainty. Only a ...