Repent! Believe in the Gospel – the Kingdom of God has come! “Christ is Risen from the dead, trampling down death by death” and gave Happiness to all the unfortunate (godless)! Therefore, Happiness is in you and around you, and you are unhappy!? Why?! – Because you do not want to be happy! Like the one who closes his eyes and says he sees nothing! In the Old Testament it was “dark”: those who opened “eyes” (righteous) by repentance, righteous life, saw darkness, hellish, godless state. In the New Testament, the one who opens his eyes by repentance sees “Light” (Christ: “I am the Light”), because: “Today (already 2000 years, as this Eighth, Never-Evening Day began – V.A.) everything is filled with light (Holy Spirit – V.A.), heaven and earth, and the depths below (hell – V.A.); let all creation celebrate Christ’s Resurrection – in Him we are affirmed (become gods by Grace)”. And we tightly close our eyes and cover our ears, so as not to see and not hear, and not understand (because if we understand – then our conscience will not give us peace, feeling the Blessed Life) the Gospel about Reality, because we live well in our illusion, illusory world, which we have created for ourselves in our sick imagination! Illusion, which we cherish, – dreams with closed eyes, we “feel good” to be in it, so any Living, Real word, which can disturb our “peace” and “comfort”, we reject with disgust and hatred. We are freezing, the irreversible process of freezing has already begun – we are already “good”, we say: “just not worse…”, and here some Church shouts in my ear about some Gospel, does not let me “enjoy” (= die the real death) life!?? (Feel the irony in these words – and look at your attitude to the Gospel!). Therefore, to see the Resurrection of Christ and ours in Him, we ourselves just need to open our eyes, want to see and hear (= blessed are those who hunger and thirst for Righteousness, that is, Christ, because Christ is already knocking on the doors of their hearts, already at the doors…). Yes, this meeting with Christ will be “expensive” for us, its price – the entire illusory world, in which we live and value above all (we have so identified ourselves with the illusion, that the process of repentance – is to die for oneself illusory, for one’s illusory world, with which I became one whole: “Whoever wants to follow Me, let him deny himself (illusory – V.A.) and all his (illusory – V.A.)…, let him take up his cross (real reality, which, when leaving the illusion, becomes from unaccustomed and absolute difference – pain, cross – V.A.) and follow Me… Whoever wants to save his soul (his illusory life, illusory world – V.A.) will lose it (will ruin his I, hypostasis – V.A.), and whoever loses his soul (renounces the illusory world, in which he lives) for Me (for the sake of Christ, not another, “more comfortable”, illusory world – V.A.), will save it (will heal, will be established as a catholic, divine personality – V.A.)”!
You ask: how can it be that we have already resurrected, deified, and we do not feel it, do not see, do not hear? That is, the Church says that we are already healthy, healed, saved, and we say that we do not feel it. And relying only on our “experience” (did not see, did not hear, did not feel, did not experience), we assert that this cannot be. We talked above about the eyes that we close, and the ears that we cover, so as not to see and not hear – and then we complain: I did not see, did not hear… Let’s say something about the feeling – that we do not realize ourselves, do not feel healthy! In what state does a person not realize himself, and does such a state exist?! – Of course, it exists! A person who has lost consciousness (whether due to overwork, or lack of oxygen…) – all her organs are healthy, but she does not realize it. A person who is under anesthesia (general), also does not feel herself, although everything in her may be fine. And the one who sleeps, does he not also not know himself, although he is healthy and everything in his life goes as well as possible!? And the one who freezes in the cold – also reacts inadequately to reality. Therefore, the one who has lost consciousness, is under anesthesia or sleeps – knows nothing about himself, although he is healthy. Not in vain sleep is called an image of death: sleeps healthy, but since he sleeps – he is dead to life. Therefore, it is real – to be healthy, happy and not know about it (not realize it). Since, as the Church proclaims, we have already resurrected, healed, saved, then we just need to come to our senses, to realize who each of us is in Christ! “Arise, sleeper, – shouts the apostle, – rise from the dead (yourself, because you have already been objectively resurrected, resuscitated to Divine Life – V.A.) and Christ will shine on you”.
Can you be objectively happy (have what you want) and not know it?! – There are plenty of examples! For example, Christ is Risen, already the women-myrrhbearers go with this Gospel to the apostles, and they (the apostles) at that very moment (at that time) are in fear, despair, hopelessness, irreparable grief. Reality is one – Christ is Risen, and they do not know the true reality, but are in another, illusory, in which Christ is dead, and live according to this reality. Therefore, reality is one, and someone, knowing another (illusory) and living according to that knowledge, or rather saying ignorance, may not stand the grief and do evil to himself (unreasonably – because reality is different than he imagined; he is happy, but through ignorance thinks himself unhappy). The same in our life: Christ is Risen (which means that we have risen, become Happy), and we, through ignorance of the truth about ourselves (our divine dignity, Adoption) and about the Reality (Kingdom of God), in which we dwell, – mourn, do evil to ourselves, and even reach the extreme limit of despair, hopelessness – suicide. Why?! – Only because we do not know the reality of the Resurrection and do not want to accept this Gift!