2 presented throughout the course on the legal proceedings before this Court in the present case of the Castro Castro Prison. II. New Reflections on Time and Law. 5. We all live in time, the greatest mystery of human existence; but the implacable time of the cosmos, which reduces power and glory to nothing, is not the time of humans, that later fills us with hope and then memory. Time grants everybody, first innocence, to later impose experience. And this covers it all, good and evil, proper of human condition, corresponding to each individual the extraction of its lessons in search of their own nirvana. 6. Time covers everything, the chiaroscuro of day and night, of the seasons of the year, and covers everybody – those that dispense justice and those that disintegrate with their violence and deceits. Time impregnates the existence of every person with memories that let them search for the sense of each instant of their history. The time of humans demystifies the unfair and astute, and gradually sediments absolute values. Chronological time is different to the biological one 3, and the latter is different from the psychological one. Human time requires truth, memory, and justice, since ommission and impunity will deprive life of sense and it will fill it up with malice. 7. Time is inherent to Law, its interpretation and application, the Law that seeks to govern human relationships and all type of situations. Law, when governing the conflicts that arise is, in time, the transmitter of solidarity between the generations that succeed each other. If time is what finally allows the overcoming of obstacles and the obtainment of justice, it is human conscience what moves Law towards this purpose, overcoming all evil. 8. Time and Law disunited lead to the despair, paralyzing the course of life surrounded by sense and realization. Time and law united put an end to impunity, turning life into a privilege nurtured by spiritual peace and tranquility. Time with justice is a time worth while remembering, it is the time of the lightness of the being. Time with impunity is a time that must be endured, it is that of the being’s nightmare. The first paves the way to the realizations of the being in life; the second, is the time of despair. Justice cannot be denied to each fello man; this would turn life, for each of them, into Dante’s hell. 9. The difference between seriousness and grace becomes evident here, immortalized by a superior women (Simone Weil) who I greatly admire for her purity of spirit and audacious mystic. She faced evil, sought out restoration, and (at 34 years of age) she no longer fed herself and turned herself over to death; 4 she turned herself over to the other life, leaving her successors with the indelible testimony of an illuminated and strong spirit. The same as Stefan Zweig, another illuminated writer of the XX century, which preferred the other life 5 when he did not 3 . The time of youngsters, who live their days, is not the time of boys and girls, who live their minutes, or that of adults and the elderly, who live their history. . In a sanatorium in Ashford, Kent, on 08.24.1943; only eight people went to her funeral, but the meditations of this superior women (whom I have admired since my youth), today almost forgotten by the general public, are still inspiring those who fight for life and justice. Cf. S. Weil, Oeuvres [org. F. de Lussy] , Paris, Quarto Gallimard, 1999 [reed.], pp. 11-1267; S. Weil, Gravity and Grace, London, RKP, 1972 [reed.], pp. 1-160. 4 . Was found dead with his wife on 02.23.1942, victimized by a fatal overdose, in his home, his exile, in Petrópolis (Brazil). His vast works reveal a strange sensibility to human suffering and the history 5

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