Everything is created for the communication of hypostases, for life in unity-perichoresis. Therefore, everything (all given, which is essentially a Gift, God’s Providence, God’s Love) calls to communication in Love (in this world – in mercy: love your enemies – lay down your life for them!!!). As paradoxical (tempting and insane) as it may sound, all this (all given-reality) is beauty that gives
True, Spiritual enjoyment because it calls to Love: joyful and rejoicing or merciful, empathetic, laying down life for friends, receiving death from friends! Christians (who have understood the essence of all that exists – God is Love, by whom everything stands, lives, and exists) see a call to Love in everything that exists (see “Merciful Heart”), and therefore to joy (“Rejoice always! Give thanks for everything!”), despite the suffering and the cross, which they rightfully belong to (as a privilege – not only to believe in Jesus Christ but also to suffer for Him and with Him!), as Christ’s, as bearers of the Holy Spirit, Love, which in this world – is crucified!!!
“The Lord taught many things in parables, and in his teaching said to them: listen, here… When he was alone, those who were with him, along with the twelve, asked him about the parable. And he said to them: to you has been given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of God, but to those outside, everything is in parables, so that they may indeed see but not perceive, and may indeed hear but not understand; otherwise, they might turn and be forgiven. And he said to them: do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables? … And with many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it. Without a parable he did not speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained everything” (see Mk. 4). “And his disciples asked him, saying, what does this parable mean? And he said, to you it has been given to know the secrets of the Kingdom of God, but to others – in parables, that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand” (Lk. 8: 9-10). Why did the Lord speak in parables to the people, and without a parable, he did not speak anything to the people? There is no other language to the “outsiders” (not disciples, not participants in the Tradition-Transmission – life in the Holy Spirit, knowledge of the Kingdom of God), except for the parable. To the outsiders, the Church speaks only in parables (to arouse “interest”; and not to cast pearls…), and to those who are interested, who want to know the essence of the parable, that is, those who want to become disciples (learn from the Teacher-Preacher), – to them already the Lord and the Church (the mouth and fullness of the Holy Spirit) speak directly, without parables!
The book is a great “parable,” understanding of which (what the author wanted to say with all this, where he calls the reader-listener, which reality he calls to know) is possible only in direct communication with the author (or with his true disciples), when the author (considering my spiritual-mental-physical level-growth) will explain this “parable” (the content of the book) to me. Those who ask him, ask to explain (“privately asked him about the meaning of the parable-word”), explain it – this is a true disciple, and not just a listener-churchgoer (who comes to hear something interesting, new, and chooses from what is heard what he likes, what is convenient and brings pleasure; and the disciple – tries to become like the Teacher, understand everything He says). Parishioners are disciples of Christ, who do not choose convenient words from the Gospel (like heretics and sectarians of various kinds), but accept the entire Teaching of the Church, wholly, and most importantly – understand the Word (all forms of the Church’s Tradition) not with their own mind (not their own content is put into the Word of God, not their own interpretations of the Scriptures, – but they follow God’s commandments (as explained-interpreted by the Church through the Holy Spirit), not their own interpretations of God’s commandments), but ask the Author, the Preacher, what He wants to tell with all this, where He calls, and not what seems to them… Therefore, a parable is told to the outsiders (and every word to outsiders (unfamiliar, unannounced) is always a parable by definition – unknown, encrypted, coded, sealed word-knowledge, and only the Author knows the code to understand this word, the veil is removed only by the Author (and friends-disciples of the Lamb)), which separates the disciples from the crowd, who ask for each of them personally the Teacher to explain the word, so that everyone understands what the parable is about, what to do to be saved. Therefore, the purpose of the parable is to reveal the blind and the deaf, who want to see and understand.
Every word in the book is a parable for a person who does not reside in the Tradition-Transmission-Knowledge, in the context of which the book is written (spoken word). Church Books (Scripture in the broadest sense of the word – Tradition) are understood only by a participant in the Eucharist – the heart and essence of the Church’s Tradition-Transmission – Life in the Holy Spirit, in the Marital knowledge of Christ-Author.