Humility is to be in the truth, in reality, to be sober, conscious, responsible, sincere, merciful, zealous for good and against evil! The humble know that they are holy, that they are in the Holy Spirit (e.g., see above the testimony of the apostle Paul, Sts. Simeon, Seraphim…). The Holy Spirit is the True Reality, “denser,” “firmer” than everything that exists. Those who are in the Holy Spirit question this world and everything in it: does it even exist?! The experience of knowing the Holy Spirit is the most conscious, most evident, most reliable, most tangible experience! Therefore, if you are in the Holy Spirit – you cannot but know, not be aware that you are in the Holy Spirit! Just as you know your earthly nature (body-soul), so, incomparably more, you know your second nature – the Grace of the Holy Spirit! This is the testimony of all the humble – Christians!
All Tradition (the testimony of the God-seeing Church) – who wrote it, passed it on? The humble! So, the humble know God, the Holy Spirit! The Tradition of the Church is the testimony of the experience of God-seeing of specific Christians, the humble, who never did anything good, who testify about themselves that they are the greatest sinners, worse than all… and at the same time they testify about the great Mysteries of God, about the great Grace of the Holy Spirit in which they dwell, about the great Love of God (the Holy Spirit) for them, which they (the last nothings) know. The humble know that they are nothing and that they are gods by grace! Humility is standing in the Truth – knowing, being aware that you are nothing, and all that you have and are (god by the Grace of the Holy Spirit), – is God’s Love, God’s Gift! Humility is the Eucharist of Thanksgiving and Praise! This is what humility is, and not the caricature that the antichrists present as humility – ignorance, passivity, compromise with evil, irresponsibility, sycophancy, people-pleasing… Humility is the state of simultaneously knowing that I am nothing, and I am everything by Grace!
All Tradition of the Church is the testimony of their knowledge of God by each Christian, holy, humble! It is the testimony of the humble (the poor in spirit) about their wealth by Grace, the Gift of the Holy Spirit (theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven)! So what is humility? It is Light, Truth, Love, Freedom, Consciousness, Knowledge… Once again, we emphasize that the Tradition of the Church is the testimony of specific Christians, specific God-seers, not some abstract church (every Christian is the Church; the Catholic Church – in each member of the Church resides the fullness of the Holy Spirit, in each person reside all persons of the Church, by the principle: I in You, and You in Me, We in them, and they in Us).
“Do not judge,” says the antichrist, “for you will fall into delusion!” And this whole blasphemy goes against God’s commandment: watch, discern, judge, test the spirits… you will know them by their fruits (and by your own fruits – yourselves)! But people love irresponsibility, so they like such antichristian teaching (“the traditions of the elders”) about humility (do not think, do not judge, the less you know, the better you sleep, etc.) very much! Yet the main virtue, without which there is no other virtue, no good deed – is prudence! “No,” says the antichrist, “do not judge, for you will fall into delusion!” And with great humility, the children of the devil listen to the voice of their father – “humbling themselves,” and humbly crucifying Christ, persecuting the Truth, calling it heresy! Watch! Pray! Stand sincerely in the Truth!
Humility is the royal virtue because true humility comes precisely from wisdom, from knowledge, from touching “life in abundance,” and not as in church life (among “Christians”) – stupidity + hypocrisy, blind obedience, prohibition of giving an adequate moral (and spiritual in the light of Truth) assessment of what is happening! If a bishop (a priest of any rank) calls black white and vice versa, and you tell him about it, then, according to the opinion of “Christians,” this is a manifestation of a lack of humility!? This is the kind of “humble” absurdity that churches have reached!
Humility has different degrees: the catechumen knows one thing, while the Christian already sees everything in the light of the Holy Spirit, this humility (standing-walking in the Truth) is ontologically different from the ascetic. But ascetic humility, which is born and grows in the process of fulfilling God’s commandments, is the cause of Spiritual, Gracious humility, the knowledge of everything in the Holy Spirit (both created and Uncreated).
Humility is always the fruit of knowing the Truth (including the knowledge of one’s ignorance: I know that I know nothing; “Anyone who thinks they know something does not yet know as they ought to know” (1 Cor. 8:2). True knowledge is knowing the Unknowable). To come to the conclusion, to know that “I know nothing,” requires knowing a lot. Just as: “I have done nothing good,” “I can do nothing good” – this is the fruit of the titanic labor of catechesis, self-knowledge!