What does it mean to receive a body and soul from parents when nature is one, and not in some parents it is one, and in others—different? By the providence of God, you are introduced into the world, which for your spiritual growth is given to you as a gift, you are given parents (one Father we have, and our parents—our ‘older’ brother and sister, who will help us grow in spirit and wisdom). Everyone has a mission in this world—to be saved, and as a result, thousands around you will be saved. Do not look at parents and around, because you are here for their sake, in this family, at this time, to be saved (to exit the illusion of ancestral—ancestral sin) and to lead parents and relatives, close ones to salvation (from illusion to reality).
Every moment is a task set for you by the providence of God, so that by solving task after task, you grow in spirit and wisdom, approach the acquisition of the mind of Christ, know the truth and achieve freedom of love. Life after the resurrection—this is already a school (not a hospital) of hypostatic life, where mistakes (sins) can always be corrected by repentance, erase the handwriting with mistakes (sins) with tears of repentance and further master the science of love, divine life. Yes, there was one mistake that repentance could not correct—this is the original sin of Adam and Eve, with which they ‘broke’ our nature—’detached’ it from God. But this mistake was corrected by the Teacher (the Lord healed our essence, deified it in Himself). The mistake is corrected, and there is an opportunity to further grasp the science of sciences—deification. After the Resurrection, all mistakes are corrected by repentance!
All are saved: Catholics, Protestants, Buddhists, Muslims, atheists, Satanists… regardless of religious views and philosophies (since nature is one for all, and it is deified in Christ), but to learn to ‘use’ this deified nature—to be like God, is possible only in the Church (which in its fullness manifests itself in the historical Orthodox church), in the School of the only Teacher and Guide Jesus Christ. Those who do not have time to ‘enter’ the School (the Church) ‘here’ must necessarily enter ‘there’ (although, in fact, there is no longer ‘here’ and ‘there’—already the Eighth day, eternal ‘now,’ the time after the ‘second’ coming of Jesus Christ). And the entire course of study must be passed by every human hypostasis.”
“In the first grade, one will stay as long as necessary (even a thousand years), until they master the first-grade program with distinction (in heaven there are only two grades: ‘passed’ or ‘failed’; there is no ‘good,’ ‘satisfactory,’ or shades of ‘+’ and ‘-‘; there is only heaven and hell, and no third option) and pass the promotion exams. After the first grade comes the second, and so on… For all people are called not to be what they want, but to be gods, so the Teacher will not rest until we all reach perfection. The Most Holy Theotokos has gone through the whole school and passed the final exams with distinction—she has already entered into Life—the Life of the Holy Trinity (she became one of the Trinity by grace). All saints are still learning, some in the 11th grade, some in the 7th, and some are still in the 1st, but all are still learning (this does not mean they cannot help us, who are in the nursery group of the kindergarten, to solve some task of God’s providence! Ask them for help, they will gladly assist, suggest, explain!).
Let’s spice up this dish made from unsorted quotes of the father—let’s make some conclusions together (so that something is learned—becomes useful in spiritual life). Therefore, if we look at reality (which is voluminous, not flat, and especially not linear), projected (projected onto a plane) in a plane with coordinate axes: truth (truth, righteousness) vertically and illusion (evil, mirage, non-being) horizontally, we will get the following image (do not forget that in another coordinate system it (reality) will look different, depending on the coordinate axes and the choice of the origin):
In the coordinate system we have chosen, reality looks like this: we already live after the second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ (it, ‘the second coming’, is long past, about 2000 years ago by the chronology of this form of existence). You might say, ‘Nonsense, absurd—I do not see or feel this, and the Scripture describes His second coming.’ But I will ask you: ‘How many people are still only waiting for the first coming of Christ the Messiah? At least all those who profess Judaism after the Resurrection of Christ, who say that their fathers did well to crucify Jesus of Nazareth. They are still waiting for the Messiah, and Christians mourn their foolishness and blindness! What foolishness: the train has already left, and they are still at the station waiting for it—what can be more pitiful than this spectacle of foolishness and blindness?!’ Similarly, think about the Resurrection, about the Eighth Day, about the Eternal Now, which enters into every temporal epoch of the mortal form of existence only a small flock (so far—but God will be all in all and in everyone!) and transitions ‘here and now’ from death to Eternal Life (long before the natural, in the form of existence of leather gowns, psycho-somatic process, which pagans call ‘death’, and Christians—a transition to another form of existence). As for the Second Coming of the Savior—the Church has been remembering and living this event for about 2000 years and experiences it in a special way (we mean the members of the Church, who are still on the path of becoming—in the mortal form of existence) at the Table in the Kingdom of God, which is actualized ‘here’ in the Mystery of Resurrection—Eucharist. Therefore, if you do not see the Resurrection and do not live by the Holy Spirit—the Spirit of Resurrection, there is an explanation: the god of this age has blinded the minds of people, so that looking, they do not see and listening, they do not understand—just as the Jews who nailed the Messiah to the cross, and are waiting for his (antichrist) coming, so ‘Christians’ being children of the same god as the Jewish god-killers, are waiting for the second coming of Christ (when they do not know His first coming!). We mourn the Jewish god-killers, but we ourselves are in an even more destructive situation—they are pagans, they can still be baptized in the Church, but we—are in a state where nothing needs to be done, there is nowhere to go. The only way out for ‘Christians’ is total repentance!!! Since the Lord has already accomplished everything—saved us, resurrected our being in Himself, now everything depends on me—The Table of Eternal Blessed Life is ready and waiting for guests (all are invited—a chariot of the gospel is sent for each—just do not refuse!!!). As for the arguments from Scripture, which supposedly contradict what we have said, that everything is not as you or your spiritual father say, in order not to waste extra paper—read carefully the section where we talked about Scripture and talk to my friend, an expert on the New Testament (if you still do not understand—write to me; but about this issue write only after your efforts and creative work). Do not be surprised that not everyone sees and lives the Resurrection: in the same chronological and topological coordinates—one is taken (into Life), and another remains (until he repents); the Most Holy Theotokos gives birth to God, enters into Reality, and the Pharisees look for ways to kill Him… Similarly now, on the Eighth Day, Now some step out of the illusion of evil, transitioning from death to life, and others are still drunk with their righteousness and exist in their illusory, hellish worlds (hell is an illusion, a meaningless place, emptiness). But we have all already resurrected in essence in Christ! What hurts? – Nature! Who suffers? – ‘I’, the hypostasis! Jesus Christ suffered by human nature, healing it with all His homesteading. And when nature is healthy, can the bearer of this nature suffer? – Can! An example of this is Adam, who suddenly lacked something, refused healthy nature—communion with God, and wanted something else, unnatural. This realized desire cost him mutilation and a history of rehabilitation, which ended in Christ. The poor man is not the one who lacks something, but the one who wants what he does not have. Therefore, one poor man is happy, and another is unhappy and suffers from his misfortune. Full happiness cannot be without Health, but Health is only a necessary condition, but not sufficient. We, all people, are already absolutely healthy and objectively happy (we are all: Christians, Catholics, Protestants, Buddhists, Muslims, Jews, atheists, Satanists… absolutely all, in Christ, in essence, are not only in Paradise but in the depths of the Holy Trinity, in the Kingdom of God; ‘The Lord is the Savior of all people, especially of the faithful’, because they enter into the Resurrection in chronological order first, then all others, and until God is all in all, until everything in freedom is subjected to Love), but not everyone is happy, far from everyone. Having everything, we still want something, and do not get it because we want what does not exist! I want to sin, and this action cannot be realized in reality because it is an illusion, so I suffer because I want something unnatural, unrealizable! Wars, diseases, sorrows, pain—do not really exist, but they have a place in us from our foolishness, and although they are illusory, they are more real to us than Christ and the Resurrection!? Therefore, the Church calls humanity to one thing—to repentance! Come to your senses and see that there is no evil, there is only Love, Happiness, the Kingdom of God! In the Old Testament, as a result of the sin of the ancestors, there was disease, wound, and illusion, but in the New Testament only the illusion remained because the wound was healed by the Lord. (What is a wound? Of course, it is not a wound in the literal sense, but the inability of a person to be in communion with God, to be one with Him). The Lord limited the duration of stay in the illusory state, clothing humanity in leather gowns—in mortality, a mortal form of existence (as unanimously stated by the holy fathers, who interpreted this place in Scripture—where the Lord clothes people in leather gowns). Man created an illusory world and began to live in it, but God, who directs everything for good by His providence, limited the stay of man in this state of non-being, and through death leads man to another form of existence (not necessarily that there will be no illusions—but this metamorphosis is undoubtedly better for man—it is a link in the process of sobering up). Old Testament righteous people came to their senses through repentance (partially came out of the illusion) and saw their hellish situation—the abyss of non-being separated them from God, and the inability due to paralysis from fear of the god-tyrant (whom, after the fall, became God-Love for the deranged man: already in Paradise Adam began to hide, like a madman, from God, because he was afraid of Him, Whom he knew before sin only as Love!?) to surrender to God-Love-Healer. Millennia had to pass before, from generation to generation, the fear of God was finally washed away, until God, like a tender mother, proved to the deranged children that He is Love and only Love, that He is not a avenger, not a tyrant, but a loving Father! The crown of purifying, repentant efforts of humanity—The Most Holy Theotokos. She completely came to her senses (came out of the illusion, and as a result, had no personal sins, because sin is an illusion) and, having completely cleansed herself of fear, was able to, entering the terrible reality of godlessness, trust the God-Healer and give herself to Him: ‘I am the handmaid of the Lord, let it be to me according to your word.’ Let’s look at reality again, projecting it onto a plane, with the same coordinate axes, only placing the center at the spatial-chronological point—Pentecost, the descent of the Holy Spirit on the Church (on the birthday of the Church), and consider that part of the projection that is in the first quarter (where all coordinates have a ‘+’ sign), we will get the following picture: As a Healer—Christ healed our being at Golgotha and revealed it healed after three days on the first day of the week—in the Resurrection; revealed to created hypostases the resurrected cosmos—the healed, deified their (and the Savior after the incarnation) nature! As a Healer—He completed His task, finished! As Savior—Christ saved us, lifting us to a safe place—on the right hand of the Father, into the depths of the Holy Trinity, from where no one (even we ourselves will not be able to escape—to our great joy) will be able to steal us, detach us from God! So, we are already healthy and safe, so Christ’s work as a Healer and Savior is completed! Now remains the work of Christ-Teacher and Educator—to bring to senses from the fumes of passions and illusion, which constitutes the negative side of pedagogy, and, of course, to teach the created hypostases to be like God, so that everyone can fully live in the depths of the Trinity, that is, by grace to become one of the Trinity. Christ-Teacher sends the Holy Spirit—the Spirit of Truth and Comfort, whose task is to give human hypostases the strength (comfort) and wisdom (truthfulness) to accept Christ, to become Christ—a god by Grace. The Holy Spirit helps and teaches to assimilate (to make one’s own, to accept) the fruits of the salvific feat of God Jesus Christ. For a better understanding of what is being said, let’s tell a parable: a terrorist kidnapped the children of the richest Father and put them in a dark dungeon, a basement, to find a way to destroy them. They do not need a ransom—they need the death of the children, and the more fierce, the better. But since these were the children of the Existing Father, it was impossible to destroy them! But the bloodthirsty terrorists, for thousands of years, tormented those poor kids with hunger, cold, darkness, fear, and various tortures, trying to realize their plan. But the children rehabilitated themselves, overcame fear and were able to contact the Father and inform Him of their coordinates (the Father asked the son: where are you? And he did not know what to say, but over time, through thousands of years, he could tell the Father—I am in hell, in prison, come and save me). The Father found a way to save his beloved children, to snatch them from the clutches of the terrorists. The first thing the Father did was to free them from prison and heal their wounds, and then a long-long course of rehabilitation (for example, to stop being afraid—there, in the dungeon, they did nothing but fear, lived by fears—they are now at home, in absolute safety and comfort, but fear and other evil habits at the level of reflexes remained in them; they will not soon stop being afraid of their own shadow…). Therefore, before sending them back to School—intensive rehabilitation, on the tearful waters of repentance, gentle restoration of psyche, mind… And then—School! The Father bequeathed the Kingdom to all his children (bequeathed Everything to each child!), but to possess it, to receive the inheritance, one needs to learn a lot—therefore, the Father primarily cares about the best education and training of his beloved children. He loves them so much that he works individually with each child. Despite His busyness, the Father finds time for personal education of his children; each child is given an educator-tutor (guardian angel). If the children are too mischievous, do not want to learn, He, as a loving Father, ‘punishes’ and ‘sentences’, showing strictness (is there any learning without a whip?!). And which children are very naughty—such are sent to a boarding school (hell), a correctional colony, where both education and training take place in a special form… But whatever it is, whatever kind of Father is ‘strict’—we are at Home, in His Loving Fatherly care, which if it sends to a boarding school, then only with one purpose—Happiness of his children! Once the Father bequeathed and gifted the Kingdom to all his children as an inalienable treasure, then he will not allow anyone to be unprepared to enter into possession of the Gift—all will be brought to the measure of the growth of Christ! The interpretation of the parable, I think, is superfluous. Thus, in this part of the coordinate system, we are already in the area of education and science (it is necessary to understand in ontological and existential categories; salvation and healing are already behind). Education implies a ‘sobering up station’ (exiting from illusion and the first stage of the struggle with passions—departure from the intoxication with passions)—this is the institute of the proclaimed—preparatory courses before entering the School. And the School of hypostatic life is the Church, and Its branch on earth, in the mortal form of existence, is the historical Orthodox church. Currently, unfortunately, these preparatory courses, the initial ‘school’ (of the proclaimed, who are preparing for baptism—entrance to the first grade) are closed and not ‘funded’, considered unnecessary, and often even unknown, that such was once in the saints!? Therefore, now the earthly branch of the School admits drunk, smoked, frightened, ‘morally’ unprepared people, who believe in the existence of sin, death, and live in an illusory world!? A normal child finishes the first grade in one year, and here they assimilate the material of the first grade for a thousand years and only for the first semester… But we have what we have!.. So, we are all already in the Homeland, but someone is already in School, and someone has not yet come to their senses and is still only preparing to go to the first grade. Let’s say something about studying at School. The Teacher became a student and went through the entire course of study, passing the final exam on ‘godforsakenness to the end’ with distinction. The Doctor became sick, and in himself healed the sick human being—united it hypostatically with the Divine. The Lord used the illusory world, arranging it for classrooms. Money, property, worldly glory, in a word, everything that is outside of us—is illusion, non-being—the true reality, the Kingdom of God is within us. In the School we learn hypostatic existence, to love, which implies perfect, at the level of reflexes, mastery of skills: to give, to receive, and not to be for the happiness of others (see above Let’s agree on terms: hypostasis). Therefore, in illusion and through the mediation of the illusory, we learn these hypostatic qualities—educate the hypostatic will in wisdom. You will say, why is the training taking place in the illusory world, and not in reality? ‘Who will entrust you with your own, if you are not faithful in someone else’s’, or remember the parable of unrighteous wealth and the unfaithful steward, whom the Lord praised for machinations with the illusory. If you ‘nothing’ (that which does not exist) regret giving away, and with greed appropriate it to yourself, then how will you give away the Real, the Holy Spirit?!? As soon as they would entrust you with the real, they would immediately ruin you, at the root of the proud! If I greedily accept ‘nothing’, devouring it—how will I gratefully accept the real?! And if I want them to exchange ‘nothing’ with me, and not with others, then how can I step aside for the sake of real relationships of two others?.. An example of absurdity: I regret giving someone an acre of land on Venus, or picking apples in the constellation of Cancer (not mine, no one needs it, because it is unattainable, and I say that I will need it!?). Oh, the foolishness of passions: I desire and steal ‘nothing’!? I envy that someone has more ‘nothing’ than me!? I kill for the possession of ‘nothing’!.. etc. Therefore, I first learn to give away ‘nothing’, to accept ‘nothing’ and not to interfere with others, on the contrary, to protect their mutual exchange of ‘nothing’. You will say: how can you learn something real through the mediation of the illusory, or something that can be applied in the real world?! You can, and how! The Lord said: ‘Everyone who looks at a woman desiring her has already committed adultery with her in his heart’, ‘Whoever is angry with his brother in vain is subject to judgment, as a murderer’… Therefore, a sinful act is the result of a sin committed at the level of the hypostatic, choosing will. For example: hitting a finger with a hammer is a sin, and pain is a natural consequence of the sin. Similarly, a sinful act is not a sin, but pain, as a result of a sin committed at the level of thoughts, desires. Sin does not necessarily have expression in deeds (these are the most terrible sins—Pharisaic, especially god-killing)! Similarly, good deeds, virtues are also accomplished in the heart, and outwardly in deeds—these are the consequences of virtues accomplished internally: ‘When you give alms (a good deed—V.A.), let not your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your alms may be in secret’, ‘When you pray, go into your room (the cell of the heart—V.A.) and, having shut your doors, pray to your Father, who is in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you openly’… ‘You must have the same feelings as in Christ Jesus’. Therefore, to develop the skill of giving, it does not matter what you give: a real kilogram of gold or a paper note on which is written ‘kilogram of gold’ (in this case—it is an illusion: paper written with ink, not gold), the main thing is that you give it with joy; similarly, to receive with gratitude and humility: gold or a receipt… For a better understanding, let’s give an example-parable: Who will trust you to transport people on a bus, if you do not know how to drive a car. But, to learn to drive a car, you need to finish driving school, pass exams in theory (traffic rules) and driving. Before the student goes out into the city with an instructor, he learns to drive a car on training mock-ups—simulators—real car cabin (steering wheel, pedals, levers…), that is, everything as in a real car, only the road is unreal—everything happens on the monitor, in a virtual (illusory) world—thus the student acquires real skills, driving a car in an unreal world, and solving various non-standard situations in it. Those who drive well on training cars can go with an inspector in a real car to a real city—to improve skills. Similarly, we learn to love in an illusory, virtual world: real—I, as a hypostasis, and rules—Commandments (The Other is also real, but I do not see him), and everything else is ‘nothing’, in which I learn to love. On the monitor, I can run over a pedestrian (kill intentionally or unintentionally—it does not matter)—in reality I did not kill (because sin is an illusion, you cannot kill, you can only want to kill; do not forget about the Resurrection), but I did not pass the test, which needs to be retaken, and the time of study at school is limited (death—the end of the term of study). Sin is a failed (‘flunked’) test, as if there is no tragedy—you can retake it, but do not forget that there will be a second test soon, and I have not yet retaken the past one (and the training in this form of existence is limited in terms—time is allotted to each exactly as much as needed for each, according to his strength and capabilities, to assimilate the material! And if I idle, do not prepare in time for the tests—I will not have time to pass the final exams in life; I am guaranteed training in a boarding school-hell, and a person will not come out of there until he passes all the exams; remember the parable of the unmerciful debtor). Confession is the retake of a test that I ‘flunked’, which is preceded by intensive preparation, on these issues—repentance! And not just come and remind the Teacher that you did not pass the test!?—Only ‘anger’ Him! The providence of God is a task set before us every moment, which I must solve, it is a collection of tasks with answers. Solutions are known in advance—these are love; there is a task and there is an answer, and I have to find the solution. How to achieve the result? To help the student, collections of solved life, providential tasks are given—Lives of the Saints. Analyzing these solutions, the student must get to the principles: why the saint acted this way or another. Only by understanding the principle of the action of the phenomenon, will you be able to creatively apply it in solving the tasks set before you. Let’s say something in these coordinates about diseases. Enduring diseases, sorrows without complaints—this is the use of Divine pedagogy ’25th frame’, which records information in my subconscious, which becomes my acquisition. Example: the parable of the rich man and Lazarus. It is not said whether Lazarus was a believer or not, but he endured sorrows without complaints (thus giving access to himself to the Healer), and the Loving Lord accomplished the work of salvation and teaching in him. Result—the bosom of Abraham, that is, the lot with the father of all believers! (Details about the ’25th frame’ in Part II).”