Deus em minha cabeçaDeus está dentro de mimDeus em minhas costasDeus na frente é o meu caminho
Not a human possession
The hymns are consistent that justice belongs to the divine and is received, not administered by the singer. In Padrinho Sebastião's hinário it is held together with the other three and attributed to the Trinity; elsewhere the same hinário says a justiça de Deus é reta, não deixa passar nada — God's justice is straight, it lets nothing pass. The hymn quoted above places God at every point of the compass around the singer, which is the same claim in spatial form: there is nowhere the accounting does not reach.
The severity in the sources
Mestre Irineu's hymn Das Virtudes, which gives the doctrine its name for this whole group of teachings, does not soften the term. It speaks of teaching with love, with pleasure and joy — and in the same hymn of punishing severely whoever will not obey, and of aqui eu faço a minha justiça, here I make my justice. The tradition holds these together rather than choosing between them, and a page that quoted only the gentler half would be misrepresenting the text.
Justice and the work
Padrinho Sebastião's principal hinário is titled O Justiceiro — the one who does justice — and the theme runs through it: a justiça está na terra, para todos observar, justice is on the earth for all to observe. Read alongside harmony, love and truth, justice is what keeps the other three from becoming merely agreeable: the doctrine's account of itself includes the claim that conduct is weighed.