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1501 Types,4 | beauty will wrap in mist the sorrowful image of Christ, will bring
1502 Types,4 | occasionally, by their personal sorrows and special needs, encroach
1503 Types,5 | arisen. These days they sound like the fundamental principles
1504 Types,5 | not charity, I am become a sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
1505 Types,2 | necessary attribute of Russian sovereignty.~It is difficult to have
1506 Types,4 | phenomenon is occurring now in Soviet Russia. There, everything
1507 Types,4 | this? Chance? Something the Soviets overlooked? Could this not
1508 Types,2 | special group.~Everywhere, in spacious cathedrals and in provincial
1509 Types,2 | their massiveness, their spaciousness, their gilt and marble,
1510 Types,2 | bureaucracy, that it was linked specifically with bureaucracy and so
1511 Types,5 | that interests him -- the spectacle of his own nothingness,
1512 Types,6 | sins. And in this way human speech, which is the symbol of
1513 Types,5 | spiritual poverty, about the spending, the squandering of one'
1514 Types,5 | himself to one particular sphere -- so it is in the name
1515 Types,7 | of God's gifts in these spheres.~One can also love the idea
1516 Types,6 | about being "born again" -- spiced this up with hatred of the
1517 Types,4 | he is sated, afraid to spill his treasure. He is afraid
1518 Types,3 | of traditional Orthodox spirituality, a person can find an answer
1519 Types,7 | stingy? Christ's humanity was spit upon, struck, crucified.
1520 Types,7 | fully and to the end in his spit-upon, battered, humiliated and
1521 Types,4 | to Christ. But when the splendor of the Church, its beautiful
1522 Types,3 | services. It is this that splits them into factions, this
1523 Types,4 | and feels obliged not to spoil it, not to disturb it. He
1524 Types,3 | obligation and not on a spontaneous feeling of love toward them.~
1525 Types,7 | our soul, that we should squander our soul in love, that we
1526 Types,5 | about the spending, the squandering of one's spiritual powers,
1527 Types,3 | well-being, no external stability, then it turns with special
1528 Types,7 | became incarnate, born in a stable in Bethlehem. This alone
1529 Types,5 | demands that I clean out stables, dig for potatoes, look
1530 Types,5 | blessings of this age. But this stagnation, this inertia, this self-satisfaction
1531 Types,5 | bears in himself all the stain of Adam's sin and is called
1532 Types,5 | love should be used as a standard is self-evident: it is the
1533 Types,5 | moral laws, to different standards of conduct, etc. It would
1534 Types,4 | semi-literate hodgepodge of starry-eyed idealism and charlatanism.
1535 Types,3 | of an ancient prophet, it started to pile up "commandment
1536 Types,3 | know of the presence of State-imposed philosophies and world-views.
1537 Types,4 | antiquity, or struck by its stately composition, or by the rhythmic
1538 Types,2 | absence of any distinctive status, and even a tendency to
1539 Types,5 | asceticism have given evidence of sterility and a lack of creative talent.
1540 Types,5 | trample and destroy this sticky, gooey mass that surrounds
1541 Types,3 | the human soul, frequently stifled in the official, cold, State-sanctioned
1542 Types,3 | correctly. In Church he likewise stifles any impulse, permits no
1543 Types,5 | on the nature of today's stock market gains? How can he
1544 Types,2 | children, buried their dead, stood through prayers of intercession
1545 Types,4 | eternal Northern Lights.~The strangest and most incredible thing
1546 Types,4 | people from that cultural stratum into the Church -- the aesthetic
1547 Types,4 | Christ will go out into the streets, the prisons, the hospitals,
1548 Types,7 | something she must develop and strengthen in him in preparation for
1549 Types,3 | out of it and absorbed its strengths into itself. By modifying
1550 Types,3 | different. It is simply that the stress is not placed there.~What
1551 Types,4 | ecclesiastical piety? Our harsh, stressful and agonizing life experience
1552 Types,5 | vast and vigorous spirit, striding forward with giant steps?
1553 Types,3 | spirit? Not at all. What strikes them as the most important,
1554 Types,7 | spiritually we should be stripped bare. There should be nothing
1555 Types,5 | soul of mine which must strive toward him. What are the
1556 Types,5 | with one thing only: the striving for its own salvation. The
1557 Types,4 | world, which is so well structured and harmonized, from the
1558 Types,4 | the strict ritualist, he structures his own personal way of
1559 Types,3 | over others, a complete structuring of one's inner and outer
1560 Types,3 | those things for which they struggled and endured martyrdom. It
1561 Types,4 | were found, restored and studied; museums of iconography
1562 Types,2 | functions by loyal Russian subjects. As such he was a respected
1563 Types,5 | working-out of a simple submission to disciplinary challenges
1564 Types,4 | just because they were so subtly and so intensely assessing
1565 Types,2 | at that very moment the subversion of Christ's commandments
1566 Types,2 | creative agenda can expect to succeed. Moreover, there is no doubt
1567 Types,4 | servants, the priests -- the successors of the Apostles and disciples --
1568 Types,2 | Period even the monasteries succumbed to this general process
1569 Types,7 | to come.~These examples suffice to let us know where Christianity
1570 Types,7 | This alone should be fully sufficient for us to speak of the limitless,
1571 Types,4 | almost amounting to spiritual suicide, which changes fire into
1572 Types,6 | world, is determined by the suitability of that act for reflecting
1573 Types,AboutAuthor| text was published in the summer of 1998 by the Paris-based
1574 Types,4 | him all those whom he has summoned to the wedding feast, has
1575 Types,5 | words of denunciation, of summons, and of love.~Today, in
1576 Types,3 | resounds to a special chant sung according to the old kriuk
1577 Types,2 | and magnificent temples, superb administrators and organizers,
1578 Types,2 | themselves completely from all superficial Church activity, or they
1579 Types,5 | inspiration of any kind of supernatural power. It neither considers
1580 Types,4 | world outlook what will supplement his inner characteristics
1581 Types,3 | Church might become, if not supportive then at least tolerant of
1582 Types,3 | contemplation.~And what do you suppose most upsets this world of
1583 Types,2 | required. Creativity was suppressed in the interests of good
1584 Types,4 | might imagine -- a strange suppression of that flame, almost amounting
1585 Types,7 | unconditional self-sacrifice as the supreme example of the love that
1586 Types,2 | background, while on the surface one had an official State-sanctioned
1587 Types,5 | that he must do this. The surmounting of an unpleasantness, as
1588 Types,7 | precisely about the soul, about surrendering one's inner world, about
1589 Types,4 | truth, some impoverished surrogate for religious life, some
1590 Types,2 | which it engendered can survive it for long. In this sense
1591 Types,4 | but he will not receive sustenance for his spiritual hunger,
1592 Types,4 | society. The Church will be swamped with simple people. The
1593 Types,5 | salvation of the soul proves a sword which cuts through the whole
1594 Types,3 | expressed in incomprehensible syllables. Like the dervish, it knows
1595 Types,7 | its whole meaning, all its symbolism, all its power. In it Christ
1596 Types,7 | prototypes, their primary symbols, their boundaries? It is
1597 Types,1 | understand one's own personal sympathies and antipathies, one's own
1598 Types,4 | human woes which provoke sympathy, he is afraid of human weakness
1599 Types,5 | Eastern influences, through Syria and her particular type
1600 Types,5 | Both schools have their systems, their principles and their
1601 Types,4 | converged -- a bright and talented outburst of aestheticism
1602 Types,5 | consolidating one's natural talents, developing them and being
1603 Types,5 | the cinema. There is no talk of the courage of despair
1604 Types,3 | chaos of the human soul is tamed and driven into the allotted
1605 Types,4 | treasure. He is afraid of tasteless detail, of the human woes
1606 Types,7 | the reflections of her own tastes, the continuation of her
1607 Types,3 | sinners, can hardly be the Teacher of those who are afraid
1608 Types,3 | detail. He knows the special technique for bringing oneself to
1609 Types,4 | rhythm of worship, or as tedious and annoying barbarians
1610 Types,4 | might think that their fiery temperament, their pithy sayings and,
1611 Types,2 | splendid and magnificent temples, superb administrators and
1612 Types,4 | enveloping grandeur will be a temporary lullaby, others will recoil
1613 Types,7 | be completely defined in terms of the laws of divine love,
1614 Types,AboutAuthor| B. Pilenko. The Russian text was published in the summer
1615 Types,7 | context of other evangelical texts. The person who is poor
1616 Types,4 | architecture became better known thanks to a great number of publications
1617 Types,3 | spirit of the Church, its theanthropic, deifying sacramental life.
1618 | thee
1619 Types,3 | doubt that the creative and theological level of Muscovite piety
1620 Types,5 | of occult teachings, of theosophy and anthroposophy. Their
1621 | Therein
1622 Types,5 | they are covered with a thick, impenetrable, fireproof
1623 Types,2 | to itself all those who thirsted for an inner ascetic challenge,
1624 Types,4 | you gave me no food. I was thirsty and you gave me no drink.
1625 Types,2 | businesslike cathedral archpriests thoroughly familiar with the Divine
1626 Types,5 | world today. There is the threat of impending war, the gradual
1627 Types,3 | truly there is something threatening and ominous here, precisely
1628 Types,4 | hungry person will cross the threshold of the church and make the
1629 Types,3 | legitimacy of its inner world. It throws over the chaos a solid cover
1630 Types,2 | administratively independent of St. Tikhon, the Patriarch of Moscow.
1631 Types,5 | become a sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have
1632 Types,2 | stand out of empty food tins, or in converting some drafty
1633 Types,7 | sacrificially offer one's tiny human soul into his hands.
1634 Types,5 | during the Plague is the title of a play by Pushkin, published
1635 Types,3 | supportive then at least tolerant of this, it will then be
1636 Types,2 | established, formal, official tone of polite relationship toward
1637 Types,3 | does, in fact, come out on top, then this will mean the
1638 Types,3 | way of life, preferring torture and even death not only
1639 Types,6 | contain within themselves the totality of Christ's "Good News."
1640 Types,5 | would like to pause and touch upon some of the unique
1641 Types,3 | something that should not be touched, introducing it into its
1642 Types,5 | elective, whereas asceticism touches upon the eternal depths
1643 Types,6 | of peculiar, monstrous, towering egoism in which every "other"
1644 Types,4 | piety~It is difficult to trace the origins of the aesthetic
1645 Types,3 | strict ritualist, bears traces of an entirely different
1646 Types,4 | new and often uncultured, traditionless strata of society. The Church
1647 Types,7 | that she sees in them, the traits of her own character, the
1648 Types,5 | How can he break through, trample and destroy this sticky,
1649 Types,3 | the martyrs in Russia, the trampling down of belief throughout
1650 Types,3 | It feels protected and tranquil. All these particularities
1651 Types,5 | not look for any kind of transcendence, nor does it expect the
1652 Types,5 | own nothingness. He is not transfigured because of it, and again
1653 Types,7 | from life not only in the transient, worldly sense of the word,
1654 Types,3 | ungrammatical and inaccurate translations from the Greek. The lengthy
1655 Types,2 | connection with the military. (Translator)], gather around the senior
1656 Types,7 | in order that they may be transubstantiated into Christ's love, that
1657 Types,7 | fool for Christ in order to travel this path to its end --
1658 Types,2 | and even a tendency to treat them as inferior, not allowing
1659 Types,4 | Christianity, they are being treated to a questionable, semi-literate
1660 Types,5 | All of the above are mere trifles when compared with the fundamental
1661 Types,2 | more frequently let Caesar triumph. Through it the Roman emperor
1662 Types,3 | prohibitions -- a Sabbath which triumphs over the Son of Man? Idolatry
1663 Types,5 | fire with your Word."] The trouble is, they are covered with
1664 Types,7 | people, but given to her in trust, as her responsibility,
1665 Types,6 | combination of two great truths taken from two spiritual
1666 Types,2 | ecclesial character.~If we try to discover the origin of
1667 Types,3 | Moscow reforged all the turbulent and antinomian vibrancy
1668 Types,5 | relationship with God, my turning toward the contemplation
1669 Types,4 | wonder, then, that in the twentieth century, when two factors
1670 Types,3 | not only in defense of the two-fingered sign of the cross, but for
1671 Types,5 | Moreover, asceticism was a typical feature of the nonreligious
1672 Types,3 | dictatorship that ever existed, a tyranny over ideas. The infallible
1673 Types,4 | Does our beauty not look ugly when compared to his eternal
1674 Types,1 | other categories which I was unable to discern. But even this
1675 Types,5 | which makes it even more unbearable for someone who thirsts
1676 Types,7 | the giver like a whole and unbroken ruble given to a beggar,
1677 Types,3 | he has an established and unchanging 'rule' for them. This rule
1678 Types,7 | family. Then it becomes unclear where is the fundamental
1679 Types,7 | inner world, about utter and unconditional self-sacrifice as the supreme
1680 Types,2 | conscientious, but uninspiring and uncreative.~And the cathedrals -- the
1681 Types,4 | penetrating new and often uncultured, traditionless strata of
1682 Types,5 | this is how such a person understands Christ's teaching about
1683 Types,5 | and decay, stagnant and undistinguished. It might also be said that
1684 Types,5 | for "sleep peaceful and undisturbed."~Spiritual ego-centrist
1685 Types,7 | Trinity, one in essence and undivided."~The Eucharist needs the
1686 Types,5 | likeness of holiness -- unfolds itself along this path.
1687 Types,7 | love in the person of each unfortunate and miserable individual,
1688 Types,3 | obviously unsatisfactory, ungrammatical and inaccurate translations
1689 Types,5 | as to the inner and outer unhappiness and misery of the world
1690 Types,5 | Today the world is extremely unhealthy and even dangerous for an
1691 Types,2 | to begin with a kind of unimaginably low rumble and end in a
1692 Types,2 | people, conscientious, but uninspiring and uncreative.~And the
1693 Types,2 | demonstrations of one's unity, one's loyalty. One could
1694 | unless
1695 Types,5 | this kind there exists no unlimited or inexhaustible source
1696 Types,5 | one's soul and constantly unmasks the snakes and scorpions
1697 Types,5 | on his inner path. It is unpleasant for him to limit himself
1698 Types,4 | those who are too simple and unrefined will likewise be excluded,
1699 Types,3 | change even the obviously unsatisfactory, ungrammatical and inaccurate
1700 Types,7 | this on the basis of our unsuccessful everyday experience, then
1701 | unto
1702 Types,4 | sensitivity, and the mass of those unworthies to be found beyond the pale.
1703 Types,1 | from which he comes, by his upbringing, education and other influences.
1704 Types,4 | aestheticism among the cultural upper strata of Russian life and
1705 Types,4 | anything that might offend or upset that harmony. Even fiery
1706 Types,3 | what do you suppose most upsets this world of sanctity?
1707 Types,2 | creative efforts from us so urgently that no grouping which lacks
1708 Types,5 | consolidate, preserve, expand and utilize all natural possibilities.
1709 Types,5 | not everything is fully utilized, that there is tremendous
1710 Types,7 | Christ in an act of the uttermost self-renunciation and love,
1711 Types,4 | etc. Often the artistic value of that material is assessed,
1712 Types,4 | and peoples, have always valued the genius or talent of
1713 Types,5 | various kinds, but all these variations are applicable everywhere
1714 Types,1 | attempt to classify this variety into more or less closely
1715 Types,5 | heroic action with this vast and vigorous spirit, striding
1716 Types,7 | hypostasis -- beneath the vaults of that cave in Bethlehem.
1717 Types,4 | There is a dryness, often verging on formalism. There is a
1718 Types,2 | over wooden frames, sacred vessels and vestments. And having
1719 Types,AboutAuthor| the Paris-based journal, Vestnik, No. 176 (II-III 1997),
1720 Types,3 | turbulent and antinomian vibrancy of the Byzantine genius
1721 Types,7 | develops gloriously and victoriously, overcoming and destroying
1722 Types,3 | received a punishment for their victory, for having attained their
1723 Types,3 | cycle of services. He lights vigil lamps at prescribed times.
1724 Types,5 | action with this vast and vigorous spirit, striding forward
1725 Types,4 | and when it was obliged to vindicate the very essence of Christianity.
1726 Types,3 | the Sabbath, and that he violated that Sabbath precisely in
1727 Types,5 | Kingdom of heaven is taken by violence, by force. This is confessed
1728 Types,7 | s own which blinds one's vision, forcing one to ignore the
1729 Types,4 | in prison and you did not visit me."~It is the idolatry
1730 Types,3 | frightful retribution has been visited upon the Old Believers for
1731 Types,5 | love. He is merciful, he visits the sick, he is attentive
1732 Types,4 | of aesthetic piety. St. Vladimir compared religions not on
1733 Types,5 | rules. Open up the massive volumes of the Philokalia, read
1734 Types,7 | Christ again and again is voluntarily slain for the sins of the
1735 Types,7 | significance of the monastic vow of renunciation becomes
1736 Types,3 | the same danger lies in wait for us: to be left with
1737 Types,6 | time, blessed are they that walk in its paths -- even those
1738 Types,5 | the threat of impending war, the gradual dying out of
1739 Types,3 | the legs should be near a warm or near a cool place.~If
1740 Types,7 | Yet this does not as yet warrant recognition as Christian
1741 Types,7 | fear of dissipating, of wasting one's energies, even though
1742 Types,3 | Muscovite piety was extremely weak. Moscow adopted many things
1743 Types,4 | sympathy, he is afraid of human weakness which provokes disgust.
1744 Types,AboutAuthor| posted on the St. Philaret web site in Moscow at: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1745 Types,4 | whom he has summoned to the wedding feast, has gathered from
1746 Types,3 | during the last days of Holy Week.~For him the form and structure
1747 Types,5 | that one must repent and weep. One must eliminate everything
1748 Types,5 | asceticism, with a massive weight of tradition. You need only
1749 Types,6 | clarification so as to prevent well-intentioned or deliberate misinterpretations
1750 Types,4 | legend, was determined by a well-known act of aesthetic piety.
1751 Types,3 | time he has sent kalachi [wheatmeal loaves] to those confined
1752 | whereas
1753 | whereby
1754 | wherein
1755 Types,5 | simply a trial field -- a whetstone, so to speak, on which I
1756 Types,2 | great Russian land, of the "White" idea, etc. It carried with
1757 Types,7 | did not sacrifice himself wholly and entirely for the salvation
1758 | Why
1759 Types,3 | the Leader, the Führer -- wills that we think and act in
1760 Types,5 | 1830s and based on John Wilson's City of the Plague.] To
1761 Types,2 | low rumble and end in a window-rattling bellow, showing off the
1762 Types,7 | our hearts, like bread and wine, in order that they may
1763 Types,7 | Christ's love like? Did it withhold anything? Did it observe
1764 Types,7 | spirit out of love, not withholding his spiritual treasures.~
1765 Types,4 | but are powerless to witness to Christ's Truth before
1766 Types,6 | blows where it will," but woe betide those ages and those
1767 Types,4 | it there was beauty.~No wonder, then, that in the twentieth
1768 Types,2 | of cloth stretched over wooden frames, sacred vessels and
1769 Types,4 | note of the somewhat naive wording of a hymn. He has partaken
1770 Types,6 | human nature to complete his work of redemption and by this
1771 Types,5 | of exercise, is at best a working-out of a simple submission to
1772 Types,3 | State-imposed philosophies and world-views. If we grant that somewhere
1773 Types,6 | taken from two spiritual worlds. Their linkage is the union
1774 Types,5 | There is really no room to worry about the misfortunes of
1775 Types,5 | After all, they don't feel worse than anyone else. Should
1776 Types,4 | for the proper rhythm of worship, or as tedious and annoying
1777 Types,4 | upon as either a crowd of worshipers, props needed for the proper
1778 Types,5 | world? I who am nothing, wounded by ancestral sin, covered
1779 Types,5 | loathsomeness, my own scabs and wounds. It is about these that
1780 Types,4 | atmosphere of beauty will wrap in mist the sorrowful image
1781 Types,5 | achieve dexterity, just as a wrestler must follow a specific regimen
1782 Types,3 | cross, but for the right to write "Isus" instead of "Iisus."~
1783 Types,4 | which so shook him. The writers of Muscovite Rus' have produced
1784 Types,AboutAuthor| The following essay was written in 1937 and discovered in
1785 Types,2 | ideals.~After two hundred years of such a system's existence
1786 | Yes
1787 Types,5 | and on their basis the yogis have arisen. These days
1788 | yourself
1789 Types,7 | own reflection, her second youth, an expansion of her own "
1790 Types,3 | then it turns with special zeal toward internal well-being,
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