The shadow of Love – Love – is known-understood by all! And Love (Reality that “casts” this shadow-love) is known only by Christians (Christ’s)! Love is not a natural category (not emotions, not experiences, not pleasure…), it is the Hypostasis of the Father (the Father). (Love is not nature (not essence and not the energy of essence), but Person-Hypostasis. In God, everything is Love because everything is hypostasized by Love-Father, that is, both Essence and Energy-Grace). Therefore, those who Love with Blessed, Happy Love (each in their measure of God-like, God-accepting Humility) are only those who have known-understood the Truth and remain in Christ, faithful to this Love, by which we are Loved constantly. So know: when pagans (non-Christians, that is, non-Spirit-bearers) talk about love, they talk (using verbal forms-words: love, humility, forgiveness…) about something entirely different from what Christians talk about (invite to partake in, become), using the same words-forms! The words are the same, but the content-understanding (indication-direction) is diametrically opposite (what is high, valuable, desirable in people of this age – is abominable before God, and vice versa!). (Do not forget that a word is a form, a letter, a vessel, which can be filled with any content! Pagans, heretics take the Scriptures of the Church and fill them with their godless, satanic content, and shout to the whole world that they are Christians!?). Discern the spirits, and do not be fascinated by beautiful, refined, eloquent words-forms! What (Who) Love is known-understood only by those who have known the mystery of the Cross, the Grave, and the Resurrection – the mystery of the unutterable kenosis-humility of God, incarnate in Christ Jesus, and the glory of Eternal Life, in the Body of Resurrection – the Parish-Eucharist!
Someone says: you repeat the same words, sentences a hundred times?! It’s not hard for me – I will repeat the same thing a thousand times (what I consider extremely important in the spiritual parish-eucharistic life) to do everything in the flesh that I can to wake you up, to create conditions in which you will have the opportunity to wake up from sinful sleep (we already talked about repetitions).
We want Happiness not for a moment, but forever, we strive for Happiness that does not pass! And the only eternal thing is Love (= God)! Love is the Truth (what (Who) is at the foundation of all that exists, is the primary ontological reality, the basis and cause of the existence of all that is; what is for ages to come). The path to Truth-Love (to Happiness) is the path of righteousness, truth (desire for truth), hatred of all deceit, hypocrisy, double-mindedness, “double standards”… (primarily in one’s soul!). Here is the path in this world (the path of Old Testament righteousness, which the children of this age must follow (and this, by the way, is the maximum that the children of this age are capable of), to enter the state of God-receptive humility, which is the pass to Happiness – the Kingdom of God, that is, the Church) – the indication of how to live on earth (in the Old Testament righteousness-faithfulness to God’s Law, conscience for non-Biblical tradition pagans), to enter into Happiness-Church, to become happy, blessed – that is, a Christian! So, to talk about Happiness = to talk about the Church of Christ! To be Happy is to be a member of the Church (the Body of Divine Hypostatic Love) – to be a Christian! An unhappy, unhappy Christian is an absurdity, a logical contradiction (e.g., like: unhappy happiness; non-existent being, that is, an obvious non-being). (So, if someone is unhappy (lacking something earthly – what belongs to this world with its values and desires-dreams, what the children of this age seek, aspire to achieve) – they are definitely not a Christian! And if someone claims to be happy, the criterion for verifying the truth of this happiness is whether this “happy” person is a member of the Body of Christ – the Parish-Eucharist!). The Church of Christ is Love and Freedom, and all the pedagogy (guidance of the children, until they reach the measure of the stature of Christ – Catholic Wholeness) of the Church: dogmas, rules, rites, institutions (gypsum-hierarchy…)… serves Love and Freedom, the growth in Love and Freedom of each hypostasis, which in Marriage-Baptism-Chrismation became a member of the Whole Hypostatic Life (the Body of the Church – the Parish-Eucharist).