It was possible to write these chapters as scholastic (pagan in spirit and often in content dogmatics – indications of what “how it (reality) really is…”) dogmatics, that is, after each thought of mine, to show that it is correct, to provide several quotes (tearing them from their native contexts and raping them, imposing thoughts on the author that he never had in mind, or even in a terrible, horrible dream could not even think) and proudly state that both this one and that one think and speak the same!? But I did not rape those quotes (texts), did not cram them into the context of my book – that would be a crime on my part! Therefore, I present them separately so that you can read them (= understand) in the context of the thoughts “father of the word”! Because I could impose a lot on the saints (my false thoughts, fantasies), tearing their words, quotes from the context (in all senses: who said, when, to whom, under what conditions and with what purpose, etc.) and confirming them with them, having previously raped (used the form of the word, without the content, laid by the author, in my own purposes), my ideology, fantasies, etc. I deliberately do not give exact coordinates of “quotes”, but only indicate a broad context, because the meaning of the word is understood (grasped maximally close to the author’s thought) only in the word combination, which, in turn, – in the sentence, and the sentence – in the paragraph, the paragraph – in the chapter, the chapter – in the book… If you do not try to understand (hear, listen) the quoted quotes in the “native”, organic, primary context, then do not read them – do not do harm to yourself!
The most important testimony of realized eschatology (= the Kingdom of God has come!) – it is the Eucharist (the Sacrament of breaking bread, communion of the Body and Blood of the Risen Christ, that is, communion of the Life of the Risen Christ). From the day of the birth of the Church (the Church – it is the God-man sacrament; and this Sacrament is the Eucharist, that is, the Eucharist – it is the Sacrament of the Church, the Sacrament of the revelation and communion of the Kingdom of God, which came in power and as a Gift under the guise of Bread and Wine (the Body and Blood of the Risen Christ) is given to every believer who is a participant in this all-cosmic, universal Sacrament of the
Church, the Sacrament of God-man existence), which took place at Pentecost, and until the end of this age (II phase of existence, “leather robes”; for the III phase, we do not know how communion with God takes place there) in the Church the sacrament of actualization here and now of the Kingdom of God, which came in power, that is, the Sacrament of communion with the Risen Jesus Christ and in the Holy Spirit communion with Him and the Father and the Holy Spirit is performed. Therefore, let’s consider two liturgies of St. John Chrysostom and Basil the Great, which in words and rites indicate what the church (each Eucharistic community, parish) lives (experiences) at the Eucharistic Table.
In the course of getting acquainted with these rites and first of all with the prayers, in which the mystical experience of knowing the Kingdom of God in the Holy Spirit is always recorded (this is the property of the birth of each prayer of the saints, which by its nature is a meeting with God, union with Him; the saints to some extent intensively knowing God (know God as He them; the knower and the known become one whole, even for a moment, but one – see above about “knowing and knowledge”), at the end of “staying in the third heaven”, returning to the sensations of reality “leather robes”, recorded for themselves what they experienced (“what the eye has not seen, and the ear has not heard, and what did not come to the mind of man…” – what cannot be expressed, nor recounted, nor depicted, nor comprehended in the II phase of existence) with the means available to them – words, music, paints, etc.).
You ask me: why do I write mostly about the negative, that is, about what is wrong in church life, about paganism, which has penetrated all corners of the consciousness of the church, instead of paying more attention to what – how it should be in reality, Orthodox?! My reasoning is as follows: to build something, first, you need to clear the territory, all unsuitable superstructures located there, to destroy, but not without the permission of the owner of those possessions (buildings)! First, I need to show the owner that what he is proud of, owns, it is no good, even worse – from day to day it becomes even more dangerous (at any time it can collapse and cause great damage, trouble, or even bring death)… When the owner of those (illusory, dreamy) “castles” is convinced of the correctness of my words (better to say – voice, teaching of the Church) and asks: what to do next? – then I will tell him that it is absolutely necessary to demolish everything (absolutely everything) and build a real house (“deny yourself”, “who does not deny everything (illusory, egoistic – V.A.)…”, “who wants to save his soul (egoistic, sinful life – V.A.) will lose it (his unique I – V.A.), and who loses his soul (the illusory world in which he lives – V.A.) for My sake (Jesus Christ, the Truth – V.A.) and the Gospel – will save it (will happen as a catholic Personality – V.A.)”). “No one pours new wine into old wineskins… No one tears new clothes to take a patch and sew an old one… The wineskins will burst and the wine will perish, the new clothes will spoil and there will be an even bigger hole on the old one…”. My task is primarily to show that what they proudly call “Orthodoxy” is mostly pure paganism, which has nothing to do with Christianity, although it is advertised as the ultimate truth (first we destroy, with your permission and only with your permission! And then on a new foundation we build… That is, you have to do everything yourself, and this “we” means that we just suggested to you and advised something). And when you understand that the way we (paganly) live, Happiness is unattainable, and ask: how should I live to inherit Eternal Life (= Happiness)? – then we will talk about the positive… Although the negative also contains an indication of the positive, because in existence the third is not given: life or hellish death, love or hellish death, freedom or hellish death… Therefore, in principle (essentially) we only talk about the positive (Reality), but we indicate reality either dogmatically (directly), or pedagogically (which in form often “from the opposite”, what reality is not, or what is not true; for example, pedagogy “do not kill” – this is something a person can understand, but not yet contain a direct indication of life: give your life for a neighbor, “lay down your soul for…” not yet; but until a person understands that hating, getting angry is not possible, then what kind of love to talk about with him?!). Therefore, we talk about how it should be, but in most cases our speech is pedagogical and further (for now) pedagogy will be more than dogmatics (one of the reasons: what comes easily, it is not appreciated and easily lost; therefore not the last task of our labors – so that the reader, trying to overhear, what we are talking about, a little worked himself, so we do not finish much to the end, but put mentally or formally three dots!).