In memory of our beloved Titilica!

A room without books is like a body without a soul. - Cicero Cicero is considered to be one of the most versatile minds of ancient Rome. He was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, writer and skeptical academician this is your first name to which your beloved being answered with pleasure. Perhaps this journey called life is not about becoming something. It is about unlearning your soul from all that it is not really, so that you can become who it was meant to be from the beginning. Here’s what Genesis says: Then God said, " let the waters be full of creatures, beings with life in them, and let birds fly on the Earth, on the breadth of the strength of heaven!“And it was so. God made the great animals of the waters, and all living things, which roam in the waters, where they breed according to their kind, and all the winged birds according to their kind. And God saw that it was good. And God blessed them and said, " Breed and multiply, and fill the waters of the seas, and let the birds multiply on the Earth! And there was evening and there was morning: the fifth day. Even the difference in bodies is mentioned in the Bible: “not all bodies are the same body, but one is the body of men, and another is the body of animals, and another is the body of birds, and another is the body of fish.”(1 Cor, 15:39). This discovery has consequences in molecular biology: proteins make up the majority of the body. The human body contains fifty thousand types of different proteins, each of which performs its specific functions. They have different amino acid sequences. All organisms have certain animoacids in the same positions in the polypeptide chain, and they serve to establish and preserve the characteristic functions of the specific protein. In contrast to this precise positioning, there are other positions where amino acids clearly differ from one type to another. Only man is said to have been created not only “by God “but also” for him” (Col 1:16). This high goal is attributed only to man. Animals are also creatures of God, but they have not received the call to become children of God (John 1:12). I allow myself to contradict the above statements thus: if man was created for God, and as animals are served at Man’s table, then man is also served at God’s table. No? It is also said that unlike animals, man is an eternal being; this means that his existence never ends, even after the death of the body (Luke 16:19-31). An imperishable body will rise from a perishing one. (1 Cor 15: 42). Then why does it hurt so much both physically and mentally that you left us the precious being? Although the creator of all was God, and he had every right to name the animals, yet it happens differently: “and the Lord God, who had made out of the Earth all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air, brought them to Adam, to see how he would call them; so that all living beings should be called as Adam would call them. And Adam named all the animals and all the birds of the sky and all the Wild Beasts”. This Bible passage shows what kind of connection there is between man and animal. Man is the master of animals, he can use them, but never forget who gave them to him. Therefore, humanity is responsible for animals and has a duty to avoid the two possible extremes: treating animals savagely or considering them as “non-human persons”. I do not believe that animal instinct and reflex are sufficient to define a being, in the sense of the psyche. That is why your name will remain written in eternity for what you have done for those and those of your species who have known you and who have also received a name, as well as for us. Your name bears in its structure the name Gefion which means"giver”. Gefion is an ancient Norse goddess associated with prosperity, abundance and fertility. Its symbol is the Plow, which was often seen as a symbol of prosperity in times when abundance depended on the fertility of farmland. One of your most important qualities is soul beauty. This is doubled by the physical one, the two accentuating each other, even if you have a disease on your feet acquired from hatred. You are among the best souls who have swallowed pain without passing it on, without making others feel it in turn. Beauty is a trait that characterizes both complex things and those that are clear and easy to understand. Thus, it is present in every thing or being that exists. However, the simplicity of your actions and gestures is the trait that makes you even more beautiful in our eyes. We miss you, your kisses, your one-man gang… You were, are and will remain a blessing to us, because being with us, you knew how to react to our states. A free spirit, a gentle heart and a kind soul is all you have been, are and will remain for this world. All the quotes below fit your beloved being. Beauty is the radiance of truth and the fragrance of goodness. - Vincent McNabb Beauty is not external; beauty is given by the light in the heart. - Khalil Gibran Beauty is nothing but the promise of happiness. Stendhal Beauty is always a land of promise in which Moses does not enter. - Lucian Blaga To us you are an immortal being because you live forever in our memory, in our souls, that which resists time (glorifying, glorifying, singing). According to some beliefs, animal spirits are embodied in us throughout our entire lives. In the religion of the Native American Indians, the spirit of a certain animal enters the soul of a man at the very moment of his birth. His duty is to watch over the person in whom he lives, to give him the strength and wisdom that characterize him.

Thank you for all this beloved being. There are two currents of thought in Christianity regarding the understanding of the term soul. One current holds that man was created mortal, as far as the body is concerned, but that he possessed an immortal entity called “Soul” or “spirit”. The other current holds that man was not created immortal in any form, because it was believed that man did not possess an etheric soul or spirit that would survive death as a conscious entity, separated from the body. The Bible, using the usages of the original language, defines its own terms as follows: nephesh and psyche A definition for nephesh emerges from the biblical account of the creation of man (Genesis 2:7). When God gave life to the body he formed, man literally “became a soul of life”. Thus, the soul had not existed before, but acquired existence at the creation of Adam. A new soul comes into existence every time a child is born. Each birth represents a new unit of life different uniquely and separately from similar units. (The new unit cannot merge with another unit she will always be herself. There may be countless individuals like him, but none are exactly like that unit.) This uniqueness of individuality is most likely the idea emphasized by the Hebrew term nephesh. Nephesh applies not only to humans, but also to animals. The sentence:” to swarm the waters of living things “is literal,“to swarm crowds of Souls (individual beings)”. Thus, animals as well as human beings are souls. This basic idea that the soul represents the individual rather than a constituent part of it seems to explain the various appearances of nephesh. Therefore, it is more accurate to say that a certain being is a soul than to say that he has a soul. This is certainly the point of Genesis 2: 7:“man thus became a living soul”. In the New Testament the word “soul “is the translation of the Greek term psyche, meaning” life”,” breath “or"soul”. Psyche is translated 40 times in the New Testament with “life” or “lives”, clearly with the meaning usually attributed to life (Matthew 2:20; 6:25; 16:25). The term is also rendered 58 times as “soul” or “souls” (Matthew 10:28; 11:29; 12:18); in some of these apparitions it means concretely “people” (Acts 7:14; 27: 37; 1 Peter 3: 20); on other occasions it is translated as a personal pronoun (Matthew 12:18; 2 Corinthians 12: 15); sometimes it refers to emotions (Mark 14:34; Luke 2:35), natural appetite (Revelation 18:14), mind (acts 14:2; Philippians 1:27), or heart (Ephesians 6:6). There is nothing in the word psyche that suggests in the slightest association with a conscious entity that can survive bodily death. Surely the presence of animals in our lives must be honored and perceived at its true value. Souls who travel with us unconditionally and from whom we have learned many personal lessons. There is that special kind of being who finds himself isolated and alone in this world almost from birth. His solitary existence does not come from a particular preference or antisocial temperament-he is simply an old soul. With an old heart, with an old mind – he’s an old soul who has a very different and much more mature outlook on life than most of those around him. - Aletheia Luna Such are you for your species our blessing. Forgive us!!!