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501 Types,2 | character.~If we try to discover the origin of such an attitude,
502 Types,7 | the persecuted, abused, disdained and humiliated Christ. And
503 Types,3 | the possibility of being disenchanted. The austere and rarefied
504 Types,4 | weakness which provokes disgust. All in all, he doesn't
505 Types,2 | this general process of disintegration of the spiritual life. The
506 Types,2 | sacrifice, selfless service and disinterested love -- all of which the
507 Types,4 | like the petty, confused, disorganized world of the human soul.
508 Types,5 | same humility and the same dispassion, because all these things
509 Types,Intro | discern, objectively and dispassionately, various categories of people
510 Types,4 | the smell of incense will disperse and Someone will say to
511 Types,4 | spiritual and eventually displace all other considerations.
512 Types,2 | everything had as its aim a display of the power, wealth, and
513 Types,4 | a numerically widespread dissemination.~The issue, however, is
514 Types,7 | self-centeredness and a fear of dissipating, of wasting one's energies,
515 Types,5 | which we must isolate and distinguish somewhat from the ascetic
516 Types,5 | challenges and is, of course, a distortion of the ascetic path.~All
517 Types,5 | whereby everything that is not distributed, everything that is saved,
518 Types,4 | hospitals, the low haunts and dives. Again and again Christ
519 Types,7 | anything that exists is divided into these two types. One
520 Types,6 | distorted and impoverished doctrine of salvation -- about being "
521 Types,4 | religious life, some small dollop of good will and ranting
522 Types,5 | been periods when it was dormant, when it was the achievement
523 Types,6 | inoculation with a certain dose of Christian morality. And
524 Types,4 | will cause heads to be downcast, will cause hope to die.
525 Types,5 | disappear in the light of my own downfall, my own sin. The whole world
526 Types,2 | tins, or in converting some drafty barracks into a church.
527 Types,7 | speaking about a genuine draining of self, in partial imitation
528 Types,4 | What conclusions can we draw about the future of this
529 Types,5 | found beneath that tightly drawn, impenetrable firmament
530 Types,7 | does not perish in this dreadful sacrificial self-emptying?~
531 Types,5 | failures, his joys and his dreams -- all these fade away and
532 Types,4 | thirsty and you gave me no drink. I was a stranger and you
533 Types,3 | human soul is tamed and driven into the allotted cages.
534 Types,4 | deformed by sin, by ugliness, drunkenness, depravity and hate. Then
535 Types,3 | heritage, but even managed to dry up its Biblical heritage,
536 Types,7 | highest can exhibit this dual character.~Take, for example,
537 Types,2 | accepted military stance, eagerly imitated by boys and any
538 Types,2 | which so resembled, in its earliest manifestations, the flaming
539 Types,5 | rule counts one's daily earnings and in the evening goes
540 Types,3 | astounding and incomprehensible ease, restructures his inner
541 Types,4 | representatives during all ages, easing off slightly only at times
542 Types,4 | will shout: "We are being eaten up by sores; we have been
543 Types,2 | of a national rather than ecclesial character.~If we try to
544 Types,4 | doors of the church are effectively locked, when no secular
545 Types,3 | torment it. It knows the effectiveness of magical incantations,
546 Types,5 | elevated type of spiritual ego-centrism. And with it all other types
547 Types,3 | Christianity, the Church of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
548 Types,3 | external rhythm which has been elaborately worked out in the minutest
549 Types,6 | Beatitudes, is merely an elaboration of these two commandments,
550 Types,2 | obligation, respect for one's elders, a condescending concern
551 Types,5 | types which are more or less elective, whereas asceticism touches
552 Types,4 | hungry people some kind of an elementary reformulation of the truth,
553 Types,5 | develops a particularly elevated type of spiritual ego-centrism.
554 Types,5 | repent and weep. One must eliminate everything that stands in
555 Types,4 | the unavoidable cultural elitism of any aesthetic stance.
556 Types,4 | lepers, the desperate, the embittered, the holy fools. Christ
557 Types,6 | of my imagination or my emotional feeling? Yes, there are
558 Types,2 | triumph. Through it the Roman emperor conquered Christ, not in
559 Types,5 | the more he acquires, the emptier his soul becomes. This occurs
560 Types,2 | hardly be seen, having been encased in gold and silver covers.
561 Types,3 | detail. This external rhythm encompasses everything within itself.
562 Types,3 | struggles with it. Synodal piety encountered strict ritualism in the
563 Types,4 | sorrows and special needs, encroach upon the general grandeur
564 | ending
565 Types,5 | were, at the start of an endless path toward God. Everything
566 Types,5 | forces with which he has been endowed by nature.~The task of such
567 Types,5 | poem, "The Prophet," which ends with "and set the hearts
568 Types,4 | with his inner chaos, to endure it, and as a result, moves
569 Types,7 | prophesies, the healings, the enduring of hunger and thirst, right
570 Types,7 | dissipating, of wasting one's energies, even though it be through
571 Types,2 | degree of ingenuity and energy were expended in fashioning
572 Types,2 | the psychology which it engendered can survive it for long.
573 Types,5 | champions, that both views enjoy incontrovertible authority
574 Types,2 | nevertheless as an individual he enjoyed no more respect than did
575 Types,5 | carries with it its own enormous tragedy. It is just one
576 Types,5 | curtailed if it does not enrich but robs me of my spiritual
577 Types,5 | Eastern religions and has entered Christianity as a sort of
578 Types,6 | me -- and at times simply entertains and charms me. If, however,
579 Types,3 | life, where finally, the entire chaos of the human soul
580 Types,5 | essence there are two polar entities: the eternal Creator of
581 Types,4 | into account and he is then entranced by its antiquity, or struck
582 Types,7 | because it is one's own -- and enviously and jealously set it over
583 Types,7 | Gospels and clarified in the Epistles. It is continually being
584 Types,7 | not one's own. Both are equally unacceptable. And if it
585 Types,3 | another point of view also our era may expect to see the further
586 Types,AboutAuthor| Jim Forest's The following essay was written in 1937 and
587 Types,2 | was held in the greatest esteem was good order, a respect
588 Types,1 | synodal; (2) ritualist; (3) esthetical; (4) ascetical; (5) evangelical.~
589 Types,7 | sacrificial, self-giving eucharistic love, then where are the
590 Types,2 | Russian emigration flowed into Europe, one might say, before it
591 Types,4 | mediocrity -- Baptists, Evangelicals, Adventists, etc. -- who
592 Types,5 | daily earnings and in the evening goes to the cinema. There
593 Types,1 | help in understanding many events in our lives. To a certain
594 Types,4 | replace the spiritual and eventually displace all other considerations.
595 | everyone
596 Types,5 | of asceticism have given evidence of sterility and a lack
597 Types,7 | of renunciation becomes evident. Of course it does not refer
598 Types,2 | while believing that man evolved from apes. Thus it was possible
599 Types,7 | of spiritual life are the exact opposite of the laws of
600 Types,4 | There is only that cold, exacting contempt for the profane
601 Types,5 | particular person must be examined. He cannot decline to do
602 | except
603 Types,5 | with but a single, limited exception -- over all, that is, that
604 Types,7 | It assumes consent to the exclamation: "Let us love one another,
605 Types,4 | unrefined will likewise be excluded, so that he himself may
606 Types,3 | rules, words and gestures, excludes any possibility of creative
607 Types,2 | psychology was attracted exclusively to that special group.~Everywhere,
608 Types,2 | authority, etc. No special exertions were required. Creativity
609 Types,7 | coming. The world is so exhausted from its scabs and its sores.
610 Types,7 | consent are the highest can exhibit this dual character.~Take,
611 Types,6 | humanism, out of which the only exit is, at times, the rejection
612 Types,5 | consolidate, preserve, expand and utilize all natural
613 Types,2 | a party to its political expectations and ideals.~After two hundred
614 Types,2 | ingenuity and energy were expended in fashioning a censer or
615 Types,2 | the government's ideas, experiences, and the taste of power.
616 Types,5 | huge laboratory, a kind of experimental arena, where I can practice
617 Types,7 | well as a sacrifice for the expiation of our sins, as if demanding
618 Types,7 | later interpolation and explain these words as a call for
619 Types,3 | expansion can easily be explained if we take into account
620 Types,3 | difficult to see in what way it expresses itself in love for people.~
621 Types,4 | formulating its ideas and expressing itself and considers itself
622 Types,2 | all-powerful arm of the State was extended over them, over their morals
623 Types,7 | my funds by that amount. Extending this law, the world thinks
624 Types,3 | then this will mean the extinction of the creative spirit and
625 Types,3 | centuries has not been able to extirpate within itself that Moscow
626 Types,6 | evangelical sectarianism which has extracted only a selected list of
627 Types,7 | not be stingy, and even extravagant. One can also be stingy
628 Types,5 | coincide. We see here at both extremes the affirmation of one's
629 Types,2 | Church's hierarchs, kept an eye on their activities with
630 Types,4 | may be there for ages.~The eyes of love will perhaps be
631 Types,6 | becomes only a particular facet of my own self. I love that
632 Types,3 | this that splits them into factions, this that leads them to
633 Types,4 | twentieth century, when two factors converged -- a bright and
634 Types,2 | machine. Podvizhniki somehow failed to appear in provincial
635 Types,7 | commandment of Christ but simply fails to understand it? Because
636 Types,2 | cathedral archpriests thoroughly familiar with the Divine Services
637 Types,3 | He most certainly is a fanatical champion of Church Slavonic.
638 Types,2 | energy were expended in fashioning a censer or seven-branched
639 Types,3 | detail of life. He keeps the fast. He lives day in and day
640 Types,7 | one mind we may confess Father, Son and Holy Spirit: the
641 Types,2 | juniors, honesty, love of Fatherland, a reverence for authority,
642 Types,4 | must reach down into the fathomless lower levels of the human
643 Types,5 | all one's sins, all one's faults and failures. One sees the
644 Types,7 | self-centeredness and a fear of dissipating, of wasting
645 Types,5 | dangerous. A strange and fearsome holiness -- or likeness
646 Types,5 | asceticism was a typical feature of the nonreligious milieu
647 Types,2 | decisively from the moment of the February [1917] revolution and, in
648 Types,4 | cold hearts of her children fence it off from the world in
649 Types,7 | looks for its salvation, fencing it off from the world, and
650 Types,4 | impoverished lives, in our festering sores, in our crippled souls --
651 Types,2 | of intercession on royal festivals, and -- when they were particularly
652 Types,3 | how to believe, what to fight for, how to behave oneself,
653 Types,6 | to me, that it is not a figment of my imagination or my
654 Types,2 | order, the armed forces, finances, etc.~The Synodal Period
655 Types,3 | State-sanctioned Synodal Church and not finding any way to some kind of
656 Types,5 | with a thick, impenetrable, fireproof substance that you cannot
657 Types,2 | reserve, along with rather firmly expressed feelings of obligation,
658 Types,4 | strange suppression of that flame, almost amounting to spiritual
659 Types,5 | corrupt, is consumed in flames. The talent is taken away
660 Types,2 | earliest manifestations, the flaming passion of true religious
661 Types,7 | seeking to express oneself, to flaunt oneself in them. Or one
662 Types,3 | living source of faith, would flee from the Synodal understanding
663 Types,4 | during the period when it flourished, ancient Russian art was
664 Types,7 | of the holy fool. It is folly, foolishness in Christ.
665 Types,2 | desire to follow in the footsteps of Christ. From a historical
666 Types,4 | Russia. There, everything is forbidden to the Church -- whether
667 Types,AboutAuthor| short biography, see Jim Forest's The following essay was
668 Types,4 | discovered and sanctioned, reigns forever.~And here, as a result,
669 Types,3 | form and ritual, but to forfeit spirit and love. It is very
670 Types,7 | love. A mother can often forget herself, sacrifice herself
671 Types,2 | modified the established, formal, official tone of polite
672 Types,4 | dryness, often verging on formalism. There is a concern for
673 Types,4 | because it is capable of formulating its ideas and expressing
674 Types,4 | understanding of the Church as a fortress, it will guard the Church
675 Types,5 | vigorous spirit, striding forward with giant steps? How can
676 Types,2 | the preservation of the foundations, to the repetition of feelings,
677 Types,AboutAuthor| Paris, where in 1932 she had founded a house of hospitality. (
678 Types,7 | once and for all in the four Gospels and clarified in
679 Types,AboutAuthor| For a detailed life, see Fr. Sergei Hackel's biography,
680 Types,2 | cloth stretched over wooden frames, sacred vessels and vestments.
681 Types,5 | his repentance does not free him from thoughts of his
682 Types,5 | exercise not because it frees him from something or because
683 Types,3 | Moscow was able not only to freeze its Byzantine heritage,
684 Types,AboutAuthor| Maria Skobtsova died on Good Friday, 1945, in Ravensbrück concentration
685 Types,7 | for man. One can love a friend, one's family, children,
686 Types,2 | more a phenomenon on the fringes of the Church.~Everything
687 Types,5 | of the soul is the mature fruit of a true and authentic
688 Types,3 | example, or the Leader, the Führer -- wills that we think and
689 Types,5 | universe is required to fulfil my prayerful petitions for
690 Types,7 | soul, offering to it the full strength of the divine image
691 Types,7 | perfect love in all its fullness.~This is the only conclusion
692 Types,2 | without such a certificate the functionary could not be considered
693 Types,2 | performance of religious functions by loyal Russian subjects.
694 Types,7 | then I have reduced my funds by that amount. Extending
695 Types,6 | of Christ's "Good News." Furthermore, Christ's earthly life is
696 Types,2 | seething with passionate fury at having been deprived
697 Types,5 | of today's stock market gains? How can he break through,
698 Types,4 | serve only as Christ's outer garment, an offering of human genius
699 Types,3 | afraid to soil their pristine garments, who are completely devoted
700 Types,4 | to the wedding feast, has gathered from the highways, the poor
701 Types,5 | personal vices and sins? My gaze is turned inward on myself,
702 Types,6 | Christianization," however, is generally understood as nothing more
703 Types,5 | spirit, striding forward with giant steps? How can one possibly
704 Types,2 | that the most religiously gifted and fervent believers would
705 Types,2 | their spaciousness, their gilt and marble, with huge cupolas,
706 Types,7 | not only returns to the giver like a whole and unbroken
707 Types,2 | of the establishment of glorious regiments. In church it
708 Types,7 | make sure that it develops gloriously and victoriously, overcoming
709 Types,5 | world is colored by the glow from the fire of my own
710 Types,4 | before a secularized and God-deprived humanity. A spiritually
711 Types,4 | within that miserable and godless world, there will arise --
712 Types,7 | Bethlehem. There are not two Gods, nor are there two Christs:
713 Types,5 | earnings and in the evening goes to the cinema. There is
714 Types,2 | having been encased in gold and silver covers. The deacon
715 Types,5 | contemplation of his eternal goodness. The world may abide in
716 Types,5 | And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though
717 Types,5 | and destroy this sticky, gooey mass that surrounds the
718 Types,2 | what was required. They got married in Church, they
719 Types,3 | only by the rules, and who govern their whole life according
720 Types,6 | sanctified and filled with grace -- and through it the whole
721 Types,3 | and depriving it of its grace-filled, living spirit. In the words
722 Types,5 | threat of impending war, the gradual dying out of the spirit
723 Types,3 | philosophies and world-views. If we grant that somewhere the Church
724 Types,5 | I," the affirmation of a grasping, greedy and miserly love
725 Types,7 | confused: stinginess and greed. One can be greedy but at
726 Types,7 | only that we should not greedily seek advantage for our soul,
727 Types,3 | inaccurate translations from the Greek. The lengthy readings by
728 Types,3 | The Old Believer Schism grew out of it and absorbed its
729 Types,2 | synodal type of piety was grounded, in the first instance,
730 Types,2 | from us so urgently that no grouping which lacks a creative agenda
731 Types,7 | given to a beggar, but it grows and becomes more valuable.
732 Types,3 | ritualist path determine its growth in our times. In all likelihood
733 Types,4 | chaotic style would serve to guarantee that aestheticism is no
734 Types,4 | Church as a fortress, it will guard the Church against invasion
735 Types,2 | Everything was strongly guarded and protected. Innovation
736 Types,4 | and considers itself the guardian of all the Church's treasures
737 Types,2 | nineteenth century. Suddenly a guest appeared in the Church,
738 Types,5 | matter and spirit. Just as a gymnast must exercise to achieve
739 Types,2 | one's education, through habit and custom, but in no way
740 Types,5 | schedule his time, curb his habits, order his life -- and all
741 Types,AboutAuthor| detailed life, see Fr. Sergei Hackel's biography, Pearl of Great
742 Types,5 | It is just one step, one hair's breadth from religious
743 Types,5 | are the words: "Behold the handmaid of the Lord." Although these
744 Types,7 | tiny human soul into his hands. And apart from their name --
745 Types,7 | revealed himself to them. If we harbor doubts about this on the
746 Types,3 | they are merely a part of a harmonious whole established once and
747 Types,4 | is so well structured and harmonized, from the intrusion of anything
748 Types,4 | the hospitals, the low haunts and dives. Again and again
749 Types,7 | all others grow dim and hazy. One must not, however,
750 Types,4 | lamentation to an end, will cause heads to be downcast, will cause
751 Types,4 | Apostles and disciples and to heal, to preach, and to spread
752 Types,7 | miracles, the prophesies, the healings, the enduring of hunger
753 Types,3 | themselves in good spiritual health because they observe everything
754 Types,3 | Christ told us, it is not the healthy who are in need of a physician,
755 Types,AboutAuthor| and discovered in 1996 by Helene Klepinin-Arjakovsky in the
756 Types,3 | apart, the new teachings, heresies perhaps, the destitution,
757 Types,2 | tragic deaths of national heroes or the anniversaries of
758 Types,2 | State appointed the Church's hierarchs, kept an eye on their activities
759 Types,7 | raised again and again on high, be foolishness for our
760 Types,7 | by common consent are the highest can exhibit this dual character.~
761 Types,4 | feast, has gathered from the highways, the poor and the maimed,
762 Types,5 | Everything is either a hindrance or a help along that path.
763 Types,2 | changes were to the Church's historic way of life, they could
764 Types,7 | away the interest but keeps hold of the capital. Here we
765 Types,5 | to speak, on which I can hone my own virtue. How can I
766 Types,2 | concern for one's juniors, honesty, love of Fatherland, a reverence
767 Types,2 | the synodal establishment, honorable people, conscientious, but
768 Types,3 | according to the old kriuk or "hook" notation -- all those things
769 Types,4 | be downcast, will cause hope to die. For some this enveloping
770 Types,5 | opposite direction. The more horrible and sinful is the world,
771 Types,AboutAuthor| she had founded a house of hospitality. (For a detailed life, see
772 Types,4 | streets, the prisons, the hospitals, the low haunts and dives.
773 Types,5 | for him. It determines his hostility toward anything that stands
774 Types,6 | alley of an anti-Christian humanism, out of which the only exit
775 Types,5 | practice my obedience and humble my will. If obedience demands
776 Types,7 | kind of love, however, will humbly and sacrificially offer
777 Types,5 | attentive effort, with the same humility and the same dispassion,
778 Types,2 | expectations and ideals.~After two hundred years of such a system's
779 Types,3 | prescribed by spiritual hygiene. But Christ told us, it
780 Types,4 | somewhat naive wording of a hymn. He has partaken in everything,
781 Types,4 | services, toward individual hymns, the Great Canon of Andrew
782 Types,6 | however, is condemned: "You hypocrite, how can you love God whom
783 Types,7 | nature and his whole divine hypostasis -- beneath the vaults of
784 Types,4 | of good will and ranting hysteria. Some will respond to this.
785 Types,3 | which makes up the name [i.e. Isus]. A frightful retribution
786 Types,2 | but portable churches with iconostases made out of cloth stretched
787 Types,5 | carrying out the ascetic ideal in life. These can be of
788 Types,4 | hodgepodge of starry-eyed idealism and charlatanism. But the
789 Types,4 | things. For a start, it identified very great treasures from
790 Types,2 | in accordance with this ideology, uniting Church and State,
791 Types,4 | barbarians who, by their ignorance, clumsiness and, occasionally,
792 Types,7 | s vision, forcing one to ignore the rest of the world --
793 Types,AboutAuthor| journal, Vestnik, No. 176 (II-III 1997), pp. 5-50, and is
794 Types,3 | write "Isus" instead of "Iisus."~Here it is not a question
795 Types,3 | not a question simply of illiteracy. The issue is much more
796 Types,7 | children, that his mishaps and illnesses are more severe than those
797 Types,5 | that there are no social ills which have not affected
798 Types,2 | ecclesiastical chants. The images on the icons could hardly
799 Types,6 | it is not a figment of my imagination or my emotional feeling?
800 Types,2 | the remotest -- real or imagined -- connection with the military. (
801 Types,4 | enemies, the profane crowd. Imagining that the foundation of Church
802 Types,5 | Church which have not been imbued with asceticism have been
803 Types,2 | military stance, eagerly imitated by boys and any other male
804 Types,7 | draining of self, in partial imitation of Christ's self-emptying
805 Types,6 | to it. But other than the immediate consciousness that Christ
806 Types,4 | ice -- an impulse toward immobility, an all-out search for a
807 Types,Intro | within the framework of impartiality and objectivity when classifying
808 Types,5 | there always exists that impassable chasm between their "I"
809 Types,5 | There is the threat of impending war, the gradual dying out
810 Types,5 | difficult to discern, because it imperceptibly replaces true spiritual
811 Types,7 | about the love which human imperfection can assume -- "Greater love
812 Types,7 | through communion with man? It implies that each time one must
813 Types,2 | the Church is of utmost importance, something absolutely necessary,
814 Types,5 | certain satiation, to the impossibility of any true understanding.
815 Types,5 | is crushed by one's own impotence; one has come to know clearly
816 Types,5 | powers, about the utmost impoverishment of the spirit. The only
817 Types,4 | but on the strength of the impression made by their external forms.
818 Types,5 | which have not borne the imprint of asceticism have given
819 Types,5 | extreme form of egoism, an improper and inadmissible act of
820 Types,5 | against profound, exalted but improperly understood Christian values
821 Types,2 | could keep their religious impulses under control, or those
822 Types,6 | have rejected. He becomes inaccessible to your human soul because,
823 Types,3 | unsatisfactory, ungrammatical and inaccurate translations from the Greek.
824 Types,5 | egoism, an improper and inadmissible act of self-preservation.
825 Types,3 | effectiveness of magical incantations, often expressed in incomprehensible
826 Types,1 | result of some internal inclination, but also because he is,
827 Types,7 | of material nature and is inclined to carry these laws over
828 Types,7 | the whole world (herself included) is called to serve her
829 Types,6 | addition to this it also includes the preaching of the Gospel
830 Types,5 | champions, that both views enjoy incontrovertible authority within the experience
831 Types,6 | of divine services, the incorporation of certain specific elements
832 Types,7 | way of piety. It would be incorrect, however, to think that
833 Types,2 | themselves administratively independent of St. Tikhon, the Patriarch
834 Types,2 | of the power, wealth, and indestructibility of the Orthodox Church and
835 Types,6 | Yes, there are objective indications.~Christ gave us two commandments:
836 Types,3 | same time he is completely indifferent when what is being read
837 Types,3 | detail. He is angry and indignant if anything is omitted during
838 Types,7 | hearts, our stingy souls, our ineffective will, our lack of faith
839 Types,3 | the most frightening and inert remnant inherited from Muscovite
840 Types,5 | But this stagnation, this inertia, this self-satisfaction
841 Types,7 | asceticism whose existence is inescapably presupposed by the very
842 Types,6 | toward man, then it will move inevitably from a specific person of
843 Types,5 | there exists no unlimited or inexhaustible source of power, and thus
844 Types,3 | individual, who believes in the infallibility of the directive, easily,
845 Types,3 | tyranny over ideas. The infallible center -- the Party, for
846 Types,2 | tendency to treat them as inferior, not allowing them entry
847 Types,2 | a considerable degree of ingenuity and energy were expended
848 Types,7 | true image of God, which is inherent not only in him but in all
849 Types,3 | frightening and inert remnant inherited from Muscovite Rus'.~There
850 Types,7 | Christ. This is the only injunction we have received through
851 Types,2 | strongly guarded and protected. Innovation was not permitted. There
852 Types,6 | of man's history through inoculation with a certain dose of Christian
853 Types,3 | treatment of Christ's truth. Go inside an Old Believer meeting
854 Types,4 | fiery soul by nature). They insist on putting a chill on everything
855 Types,2 | was grounded, in the first instance, on the cadres of the Petersburg
856 Types,2 | only against the Church's institutional system but against the Church
857 Types,2 | the system of government institutions, absorbing into itself the
858 Types,4 | are capable who have been instructed by it. Mellifluous chants,
859 Types,7 | humanity. The Cross -- an instrument of shameful death -- has
860 Types,2 | welcome one: the Russian intelligentsia. We shall speak more about
861 Types,2 | ways, we developed our own intense form of atheism. These people,
862 Types,4 | they were so subtly and so intensely assessing the works of others.
863 Types,6 | which is the symbol of man's interior life, was likewise sanctified
864 Types,7 | word "spirit" as a later interpolation and explain these words
865 Types,7 | clearly these words can be interpreted in the context of other
866 Types,3 | it has never died out. It intertwined itself with the synodal
867 Types,4 | as part of some kind of intricate composition and feels obliged
868 Types,6 | Here one must immediately introduce a clarification so as to
869 Types,5 | to Christianity has been introduced into our piety by way of
870 Types,4 | general rhythm, but then introduces that rhythm into his own
871 Types,3 | that should not be touched, introducing it into its own obligatory
872 Types,4 | and harmonized, from the intrusion of anything that might offend
873 Types,3 | of this, it will then be inundated with new cadres of people
874 Types,4 | guard the Church against invasion by the profane masses with
875 Types,4 | himself departs, quietly and invisibly, from the sanctuary which
876 Types,4 | acquires an aura of beauty, inviting admiration and delight.
877 Types,5 | sins? My gaze is turned inward on myself, I see only my
878 Types,5 | characteristic of Hinduism and Islam and is present also in ancient
879 Types,3 | this what most alarms these islands of the elect, these pinnacles
880 Types,5 | speak and which we must isolate and distinguish somewhat
881 Types,2 | with certificates being issued to civil functionaries certifying
882 Types,1 | journals devoted to religious issues, you are at once struck
883 Types,2 | choirs performed special Italianate and secularized ecclesiastical
884 Types,7 | own -- and enviously and jealously set it over against all
885 Types,4 | questions of life and death: O Jesus, save us!" But between Christ
886 Types,AboutAuthor| For a short biography, see Jim Forest's The following essay
887 Types,2 | word. But it was not his job to make the reading understandable:
888 Types,5 | in the 1830s and based on John Wilson's City of the Plague.]
889 Types,AboutAuthor| 1998 by the Paris-based journal, Vestnik, No. 176 (II-III
890 Types,1 | various Orthodox books and journals devoted to religious issues,
891 Types,5 | suffering, his failures, his joys and his dreams -- all these
892 Types,4 | of that word. A priest is judged by how much he knows and
893 Types,2 | condescending concern for one's juniors, honesty, love of Fatherland,
894 Types,3 | In his time he has sent kalachi [wheatmeal loaves] to those
895 Types,4 | The psychology of a museum keeper is incompatible with that
896 Types,2 | recognized the Heavenly King: at that very moment the
897 Types,2 | everything, from prayer to the kitchen. From what has been said
898 Types,AboutAuthor| discovered in 1996 by Helene Klepinin-Arjakovsky in the archive of S.B. Pilenko.
899 Types,2 | Memory Eternal [endnote: Kneeling on one knee, instead of
900 Types,3 | established gestures. He kneels at the proper moment during
901 Types,3 | sung according to the old kriuk or "hook" notation -- all
902 Types,5 | this is a kind of a huge laboratory, a kind of experimental
903 Types,4 | whose souls, as a rule, are lacking in harmony, measure and
904 Types,2 | Soloviev accurately observed, laid down their lives for their
905 Types,4 | image of Christ, will bring lamentation to an end, will cause heads
906 Types,3 | services. He lights vigil lamps at prescribed times. He
907 Types,2 | and vestments. And having landed on foreign soil, it set
908 Types,2 | brought with it into foreign lands memories of the Russian
909 Types,5 | self-renouncing and sacrificial love, laying down his life for his friends:
910 Types,3 | Party, for example, or the Leader, the Führer -- wills that
911 Types,3 | thirst for authoritative leaders who can lead a blind and
912 Types,4 | anywhere provided creative leadership themselves, perhaps just
913 Types,4 | will make no attempt to leap across the chasm because
914 | least
915 Types,4 | flock and whether he will leave the ninety and nine to find
916 Types,2 | point of view. This system led to the creation of a special
917 Types,4 | according to the ancient legend, was determined by a well-known
918 Types,3 | the utter determinacy and legitimacy of its inner world. It throws
919 Types,3 | prayer, and whether the legs should be near a warm or
920 Types,5 | given to the one who will lend it at interest. Further
921 Types,4 | the crowd: the poor, the lepers, the desperate, the embittered,
922 Types,5 | for potatoes, look after leprous persons, collect alms for
923 Types,5 | The difference does not lie in the methods of carrying
924 Types,2 | The deacon could hardly lift the book of the Gospels,
925 Types,6 | faces of saints and at times lighting with the reflection of its
926 Types,3 | growth in our times. In all likelihood a long period of development
927 Types,5 | fearsome holiness -- or likeness of holiness -- unfolds itself
928 Types,5 | things, with but a single, limited exception -- over all, that
929 Types,7 | sufficient for us to speak of the limitless, sacrificial, self-abnegating
930 Types,5 | see a genuine and clear line of real ascent, of refinement,
931 Types,6 | extracted only a selected list of moral precepts from the
932 Types,5 | Philokalia, read the Paterikon, listen -- even in this day -- to
933 Types,4 | divides all mankind into a "little flock" with special aesthetic
934 Types,7 | the world has at all times lived by accommodating itself
935 Types,5 | myself, I see only my own loathsomeness, my own scabs and wounds.
936 Types,3 | sent kalachi [wheatmeal loaves] to those confined in prison.
937 Types,2 | bureaucratic centers to the local representatives of State
938 Types,4 | the church are effectively locked, when no secular authority
939 Types,4 | satisfaction through the lofty aesthetic beauty of the
940 Types,7 | Only-begotten Son of God, the Logos, has become Man, lowering
941 Types,6 | sense, not only did the Logos-Word-Son of God assume human nature
942 Types,7 | center of everything, which looks for its salvation, fencing
943 Types,7 | can lay himself waste and lose sight of what is essential:
944 Types,4 | the service.~The aesthete loses himself in clouds of incense,
945 Types,3 | reflected in human souls.~While losing the living spirit of Christianity,
946 Types,4 | ninety and nine to find one lost soul and whether he will
947 Types,5 | Christianity is often the lot of strong and manly souls.
948 Types,3 | over others. No, his most loved services are the rarest
949 Types,7 | reason for these doubts: our loveless hearts, our stingy souls,
950 Types,4 | Protected carefully by the lovers of beauty, protected by
951 Types,4 | down into the fathomless lower levels of the human spirit,
952 Types,7 | in this. The Son of Man lowered the whole of himself --
953 Types,4 | grandeur will be a temporary lullaby, others will recoil from
954 Types,3 | enveloping every religious lyric with the form of law.~The
955 Types,2 | general purposes of the State machine. Podvizhniki somehow failed
956 Types,3 | knows the effectiveness of magical incantations, often expressed
957 Types,4 | highways, the poor and the maimed, prostitutes and sinners.~
958 Types,3 | Church for many decades.~The main question, however, which
959 Types,Intro | one or another type, the majority of people will represent
960 Types,3 | ritualist? What is his spiritual make-up? His greatest desire is
961 Types,2 | cathedrals and in provincial makeshift churches, we can find people
962 Types,2 | imitated by boys and any other male with even the remotest --
963 Types,3 | have been brought up on mandatory directives, and strict ritualism
964 Types,2 | resembled, in its earliest manifestations, the flaming passion of
965 Types,5 | often the lot of strong and manly souls. It can prove a temptation
966 Types,2 | spaciousness, their gilt and marble, with huge cupolas, resonant
967 Types,AboutAuthor| Mother Maria Skobtsova died on Good Friday,
968 Types,5 | nature of today's stock market gains? How can he break
969 Types,2 | what was required. They got married in Church, they baptized
970 Types,3 | they struggled and endured martyrdom. It lacks only one thing:
971 Types,4 | invasion by the profane masses with its very life. The
972 Types,2 | were overwhelming in their massiveness, their spaciousness, their
973 Types,3 | year and, above all, he has mastered the Order of Services to
974 Types,5 | changes within oneself and a mastery over matter and spirit.
975 Types,5 | salvation of the soul is the mature fruit of a true and authentic
976 Types,5 | all this to develop to the maximum those forces with which
977 Types,4 | the name of an abstract, measured and arid form and beauty.
978 Types,7 | in all.~Here we see the measurelessness of Christian love. Here
979 Types,7 | nor about that love which measures and parcels out its various
980 Types,4 | degrees of shallowness and mediocrity -- Baptists, Evangelicals,
981 Types,7 | self-renunciation is genuine, then he meets Christ himself face to face
982 Types,4 | have been instructed by it. Mellifluous chants, however, and softly
983 Types,2 | people who confess their membership in the Orthodox Church and
984 Types,3 | not the person who prefers memorial services, services of intercession
985 Types,2 | with it into foreign lands memories of the Russian Church's
986 Types,2 | knee during the singing of Memory Eternal [endnote: Kneeling
987 Types,5 | teaching about love. He is merciful, he visits the sick, he
988 Types,5 | salvation, a prayer for mercy for oneself. Sometimes this
989 Types,5 | path.~All of the above are mere trifles when compared with
990 Types,3 | In a sense it has great merits: it has preserved for us
991 Types,3 | covered with icons in massive metalwork covers, shelters nothing,
992 Types,5 | difference does not lie in the methods of carrying out the ascetic
993 Types,7 | this very moment, in the midst of this cheerless and despairing
994 Types,2 | bellow, showing off the mighty power of his voice. Everything
995 Types,4 | grow up a particular moral mind-set, whose characteristics are
996 Types,5 | and this miserable soul of mine which must strive toward
997 Types,4 | out on to the porch and mingle with the crowd: the poor,
998 Types,2 | cadres of the Petersburg ministerial bureaucracy, that it was
999 Types,7 | whole of Christ's earthly ministry. But can it be that the
1000 Types,4 | the province of a small minority. This explains the unavoidable
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