(I) 12.In Lieu of Conclusions…

Jesus Christ, becoming man, healed our (human) nature in Himself—united it in His hypostasis with the Divinity inseparably and indivisibly. Human natural will is healed—human nature in the hypostasis of the Savior already exists as sacrificial humble love. Human nature is healed (that is, man already ‘sits’ at the right hand of the Father; human nature is deified, resurrected in Christ, can no longer get sick, suffer, die, that is, fall away from God, cease to exist in the Trinitarian, God-human mode) and restored for every person not only the paradisiacal state from which one can fall (fall away from God), but in Christ, a person is so closely united with God that even if he wants to fall away from God in some hypostasis—he cannot! Already in two hypostases, the Logos and the Most Holy Theotokos (who was the first of created beings to be deified, resurrected), the world exists as God-human—for ages of ages! Since human nature is one for all, it is one, not the same in everyone—in the sense of being similar. (For example, each apple on the tree has its individual nature, although the chemical composition and structure are the same; similarly, in our blindness, we say that each person-individual has his (other) nature, although similar in all respects. Therefore, we believe not only in the Triune God but also in Man as one nature in billions of hypostases). So, if human nature is one (as the Church teaches) and it is healed even in one hypostasis (and we know that already in two), then it is healed for all. The whole world is already healed, deified!

But we see that having a healthy nature (natural will) is not enough—Adam and Eve in Paradise before the fall were healthy, unblemished (for example, a baby is absolutely healthy, but how much it needs to learn and grow to live in society…). Nature does not develop—it grows (more precisely, reveals itself) and the hypostatic choosing will, the hypostasis gains wisdom (the process of revelation in us of the hypostatic principle). Nature is healthy, but wisdom was lacking (not knowledge, Adam’s knowledge was phenomenal—he knew the essence of things; for comparison—modern science of the 21st century is trying to understand phenomena, manifestations, the external manifestation of essence and it succeeds with ‘two minus’—by its fruits the ‘enlightened’ mind is known). Wisdom is to know the purpose, the goal, and the best way to achieve it. Adam was intelligent, but he was not wise, in paradise he had not yet grown to wisdom—because he did not know the way to achieve the goal—deification. (If Adam or Eve had been faithful to God—man would not have fallen away from God, because in one hypostasis the world would have stood in God). Wisdom is gained through a beaten, experienced path. Adam knew about death intellectually (informationally, not experientially), but he did not know from experience what it means to be without God and that he is nothing without God—that ‘life’ without God is death, non-existence. The created being on the path to deification had to experientially learn that it has no life in itself, and everything it has and is—is a gift from God. God cannot be created—one can only become a god (by grace). Such a path (through the crucible of history) was in God’s plans before the creation of the world. God saw the whole history and in its center—the deifying creation of Christ’s Cross. Adam’s senseless act subjected nature to vanity, forcibly forced nature to exist in non-being—in his created illusory world, with its laws—passions. Adam commits a double evil—begins to exist in non-being and destroys (detaches from God) human nature-world. The Lord, entering the world with the permission of man (in the person of the Most Holy Theotokos and through Her), heals the consequences of Adam’s folly—treats nature, that is, restores the God-human mode of existence of all reality.

It remains to ‘heal’ the hyp ostatic will of each personality, that is, to emulate the image of the Divine Prototype, to become that which each personality already is in Christ—the only-begotten son in the Only-begotten Son. Thus, our nature is resurrected—acquired spiritual qualities (properties of the body of Jesus Christ after the resurrection—these are the properties of our bodies and souls). That is, it is no longer possible to break an arm—you can only want this, only try to break… Therefore, we say that there is no disease, there is no pain (nature hurts and suffers—’something’ that is already impossible; and suffers is the hypostasis, ‘someone’), or it (the disease) exists only when I want it, that is, nourish it—want, try to detach myself (which is impossible) from God. Repent—there is no disease! (Objectively, on the level of nature, there are no diseases, and subjectively—yes, I suffer because I torment myself) The Lord determined that each human hypostasis should go to deification through hell, the bottom of which—godforsakenness. Being healthy is not enough, one needs to be wise (‘acquire’ the integrity of the hypostatic choosing will). This is to know the only path to deification, which the Lord indicated and was the first to walk, and which all whose names are written in the Book of Life walk—Christ’s Cross, kenosis, the ultimate boundary of which—godforsakenness. Each of us no longer heals nature—it is healed, deified, but educates, ‘heals’ his own hypostatic will—learns to be as God is—humble sacrificial kenotic Love. The revelation in each of us of the hypostatic principle, the tempering and training of the hypostatic will takes place in the Church, which lives the mystery of Christ Christ. To possess the whole world, to become a king, a priest, and a prophet, to hypostasize, to contain all reality in oneself, one needs great wisdom—Sophia, which is Christ (to know the purpose of the Gift and what to do with it: ‘give ourselves, each other, and all our life to Christ God’)—humble kenotic love. And to grow to the measure of the growth of Christ, one needs to work hard: to learn to give, to accept, to deny oneself for another… Therefore, this world (after the resurrection, which we already commemorate two thousand years)—this is a school of love (no longer a hospital, because nature is already healed, resurrected, spiritual, and the spiritual does not break, does not get the flu… The hypostasis, the image of God, can only get lost, become obscured in understanding—choose the wrong goal of life). The Lord, having incarnated, did not destroy the illusion (took the sin of the world—the godforsaken nature, and healed it in His hypostasis, not the sins—the illusory world of each created hypostasis, from which each must exit by repentance), but healed nature, because the illusion—in the free will of the hypostasis, not in nature. Adam, having created an illusion, an illusory world in himself, and having begun to exist in it—forced nature to exist in non-being (the mode of death, godlessly). Christ healed in Himself the essence of the human, restored the lost unity between God and man by the fall, forever hypostatically united the Divine and human nature, resurrected the latter—made it spiritual, which differs from the paradisiacal state in that it can never fall away from God, cease to be a spiritual body and soul.

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