The Uman-Up Culture.

The culture of a people can be described, in its main lines, as the expression of a multitude of consciousnesses of life in unity.

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The philosophy of a people and its higher thought offer us the purest of their minds, the broadest and most general formulation of their consciousness of life and their dynamic perspective of existence.

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His religion manifests the most intense form of the will for spiritual progress and soul aspiration towards the achievement of the ideal and higher impulses.

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His art, poetry, literature provide us with the creative expression and seal of his intuition, his imagination, his vital disposition and his creative intelligence.

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A culture must be judged, first of all, by its essential spirit; later, for his maximum achievements; finally, for its power to survive, renew itself and adapt to the new phases of the permanent needs of the race.

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At Uman-Up we believe that:

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Serene joy, inner peace, and self-transcendence are at the heart of this experience. You have to Fall in love with the exterior life and the satisfactions that every ideal experiences.   No anti-vital culture can survive.

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An overly intellectual or ethereal civilization lacking a strong stimulus and motive of vital order will languish. You must do even more than adorn yourself with a great curiosity of philosophical knowledge, science, and research, or a rich light and splendor of art, poetry, and architecture. Human effort must also be overcome and a goal created, a stimulus that forces us to progress and reinforces our will to live.

 

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The world itself is the powerful work that our existence holds for us, And our planet a vast Spirit of Life that must be cared for and preserved.

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A great human culture must be able to see this truth, it must instill a conscious ideal of self-realization for its striving for progress. The growth of the race on earth demands from us a concern of Equal.

 

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But while the generous office of culture is to enrich, magnify, and instill courage in human life, it must also endow the vital and natural forces with a guiding law and subject them to a certain moral and rational government and lead them beyond their first formulations. logic, until I can find for people and life, the key to a freedom, perfection and greatness of Material and spiritual Life.

In a culture that strives for perfection, there must be not only great and noble guiding and inspiring ideas, but also a harmony of forms and rhythms.

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The shape has a certain stiffness that limits; no form can fully exhaust or express the potentiality of the idea or force that gave birth to it. The idea is only a partial expression. Even within its own limits it must become increasingly ductile and feed on other perspectives, rise and expand, finding new fields of application.

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There is a first period of extensive and free training; a second period in which we discover a fixation of forms, molds and rhythms and a final or critical period of exacerbation, decay and disintegration or transformation.

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The Society, desirous of understanding, controlling and assimilating new directions of growth and needs, can make possible a renewal, a fresh pact with life and its expansion, creating a true rebirth.

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All that is required is that the established lines be vast and noble, capable of evolving, so that it can express itself more and more in life; so that they can be absorbed and harmonized again.

But, finally, we must see not only the material and grow in variety and wealth without losing its unity and its culture. Not only the ideal idea and good intention perspective but also its actual work and effect.

Here we must admit that there is no culture, there is no ancient or modern civilization whose system has been entirely satisfactory to man's need for perfection, there is none whose work has not been affected by considerable limitations and imperfections.

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And the greater the purpose of a culture, the more the eyes of critical eyes claim its defects. But while the vigor of civilization lasts, life adapts and restores most of the compensating forces despite all obstacles, evils and disasters, finally something big is done.

On the other hand, the ideal may be great, it may even possess a certain provisional perfection, constitute a first attempt at totalizing harmony, but there is always a gap between the ideal and the actual practice of life. Bridging that gap, or at least making it as narrow as possible is the most difficult part of the effort.

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Finally, the evolution if we look through the ages, surprisingly still supposes, when everything has been said, a slow and disturbing progress. Each age, each civilization bears the heavy burden of its deficiencies.

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We must establish a balance, see things in relation to their totality, observe where we tend and use a broad vision in space and time; otherwise, it will be difficult to maintain because, after all, what we have achieved so far in our best moments has been to pour a small amount of reason, culture and spirituality on a great mass of humanity but it is still only semi-civilized and it has never gone beyond this state in the history of its present cycle.

A great human community, is in fact an organic living being with soul, body and mind.

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The life of a society, like the physical life of an individual human being, goes through a cycle of birth, growth, youth, maturity and decline, and this last stage will give way to a new cycle.

And, if the idea is powerful enough, vast and stimulating, and the people strong, vital and plastic enough in mind and temperament to combine stability with constant enrichment and a new application of power, of the Mind-Soul idea and of the Body-Life idea in the being.

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However, the idea is only the beginning of manifestation in time, Thus, a people who learn to live consciously not only in their physical and external life but also in their mind and soul, can govern the transformations of their development, That is the key to his psychology and temperament, such a people will not be exhausted, its end will not be the disappearance or a dissolution or fusion with others, it should not give rise to a new race or people but, having merged himself in his life with many Minor original societies and reached their maximum natural growth, will experience many rebirths without dying.

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Another differential point must be pointed out between the ancient society and the Uman-Up society, in its growth, it must go through three evolutionary stages before reaching the culmination of its possibilities.

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The first is a condition in which the forms and activities of communal existence are those of a spontaneous game within it that expresses communal psychology, its temperament, the vital and physical needs of the different powers and principles of life without deliberate intention. .

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All its growth and all its formations, customs and institutions then constitute a natural and organic development.

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At this stage, the people are not yet intelligently self-conscious on the path of reason, they are not yet a collective thinking being, and they do not try to govern the entirety of their communal existence through reasoning will, but live according to their vital intuitions. or first mental attempts but in the later stages of its self-conscious social growth its elements will be reformed, developed, systematized so that they were never just a construction of politicians, legislators and social and political thinkers, but a powerfully stable and vital order, natural to the human mind, instincts and intuitions of life and people.

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The second stage of society is that in which the communal mind becomes more and more intellectually self-conscious; first in the minds then with more and more precision in all parts of your life. Learn to examine and deal with your own life, with your communal ideas and needs, drawing on the power of critical and constructive reason.

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This is a stage full of great possibilities. Its first advantages are the increase in understanding and the exact and scientific knowledge, its organized critical and constructive reason, taken to its maximum degree.

Another and greater result of this stage of social evolution is the emergence of luminous and lofty ideals that promise to lift man beyond the limits of the vital being, beyond his first social, economic and political needs and desires, and lead him outside of Its habitual molds are an impulse of audacity and experimentation in communal life, capable of opening a field of possibilities to the realization of a more and more ideal society.

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Such an application of the mind to life with the well-finished and organized efficacy that constitute its maximum results. On the other hand, the tendency of reason when it tries to deal with the materials of life as its governors tend to look at the reality of society as if it were in the body of a living and free-growing people, and manage it according to the arbitrary dictates of intelligence and sophisticated, operating, constructive, effective and self-developed reason.

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The third stage of the evolution of the social collective as well as of the individual human being through the thought of man can discover its real source and character, its true meaning and the conditions of its realization.

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This will take place when man in the community learns to live more deeply, governing his collective life, firstly, by the needs, instincts and intuitions that spring from his vital being, and secondly mainly, by the constructions of the mind reasoning and sympathetic, always for the power of unity and spontaneous freedom. By the ductile and living order of their discovered essential being in which individual and communal existence find their law of freedom, perfection and unity.

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This is a rule to begin his effort, because it can only take place when man's attempt to achieve the exceptional purpose of his general aspiration, turned into a popular religion, and when it is recognized and followed as the imperative need of our being. , and its true culmination is the next step in the evolution of our race.

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After all, cultural unity is the only one capable of enduring, and if a people survives, it is to a greater extent thanks to a persistent mind and the spirit of truth.

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