VLADIMIR SEVOSTIANOV
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THE HOLY REVELATIONS OF LOVE
C O N T E N T S
Forewords
Chapter I Genesis of Love
Chapter II Nature on the pages of the New Testament
Chapter III Dialogues of Love
Chapter IV Bible's philosophy of Love
Chapter V Hope dies last...
Chapter VI Instead of conclusion
Last stroke...
Bibliography
Commentary
Forewords.
My dear Friend,
Please, stay well, when you will begin to read this small, almost pocket - book. Even for me it's really strange...Frankly speaking I still don't realize it myself - how it happened? From where come the inspiration?
Anyway, I spent more then 20 years working as an ecologist and marine mammal’s biologist in different parts of the remote areas of the Russian Far East... ( Kamchatka, Kuril Islands, Commander Island and so on...). Many times in my expeditions work I was so close to death...but still alive! Well, during that time, it was the first chance for me to feel and touch the Mother Nature by heart and soul so deeply, that I never ever felt...Just remember one fall day on the Commander. I was alone for a month and wrote my thesis in a small cabin. Far from anybody... with only my dog, Yukon...
Sunset was amazing...Under the cliff I stayed in silent...and all of a sudden, like never before, I started to feel that I was face to face with the world, a part of all that surrounded me at that time. I was not a stranger anymore...I was like a small organic piece of the birds, the ocean, the sun...all Nature! In that same way, I felt that I would be forever!!! So, it was...An unforgettable experience, which, luckily, has continued up until this time in life!
After economic and political environment completely changed in Russia and we didn't have enough money for our expedition work, I moved to Canada. Over the last tree years have been in the USA, Australia, Japan, Germany, and England...A lot of new impressions, new people... Most of them, who try to be in touch with Nature and God, just like I do, and they have become my real friends...
You will easily find out about them by visiting our Web Site:
http://home.comcast.net/~mishkabear/island/
Also, and I'd like to mention that, my special Thanks to Dr.Alexsey Zimenko (Head of the Biodiversity Conservation Center, Moscow), Gail and Colin Owens (Victoria, Canada) who did a lot of supporting work when this thing was written.
So, maybe from all of that, this small book was born.
Just before going to sleep, up here in Canada, I read the Bible and try to recall the film by Andrey Tarkovskiy named " Andrey Rublev "...It certainly made a huge impression on me...and now to find from the Holy book some words, which that films hero had spoken...
" If I speak in the tongues of man and of angels but do not have Love, I have become a sounding brass or a clashing cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophesying and an acquainted with all the sacred secrets and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to transplant mountains, but do not have Love, I am nothing. And if I give all my belongings to feed others, and if I hand over my body, that I may boast, but do not have Love, I am not profited at all. Love is long-suffering and kind. Love is not jealous, it does not brag, does not get puffed up, does not behave indecently, does not look for its own interests, does not become provoked. If does not keep account of the injury. It does not rejoice over unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never falls. But whether there are gifts of prophesying, they will be done away with; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will be done away with." (I Corinthians 13: 1 - 8)
So, my Friend, as You will see, this book is not a simply combination from the Bible, Poetry and Research work with Nature, but principally to show all of us how the Holy Ideas have been accepting in Human Being! How we had to reflect and how it could be in near future, because our person's activity, all in all, completely depend from condition of our inner World. From each of us going the path towards the huge World outside.
I hope anyone who reads it, finds it so stimulating that they will try to find out the truly roots in His or Her own culture and life.
You see, it might be a really creative activity for each person, who has been trying to figure out some important Truth in his or her spiritual side.
I'm sure that it could be a very successful way for more deeply understanding Your own culture and a different, personal path or connection to the Lord.
I truly believe it! I believe in the Wisdom of Mankind, that eventually, the modern Human Society will cleave towards a clearer recognition of the treasure we have, given to us from the Lord.
Just have a look outside and inside - Alive Nature, Truth Culture, Friends and close People - should be tern up our inner world towards the feelings: try to build up the Harmony for everyone on the Earth. So, it's the main point of this book of Love...
Are you tired after reading this? If not, I'm so confident that this small book was written for you too!
Chapter I. Genesis of Love
" Surprised of these creature. They
call by themselves like people "
Lev Tolstoy, 1909
Our perfect planet of the Earth, being a small part of the Universe obeying the predetermined the laws of God's creations and during more than 4.5 billions years already has been signing the wonderful example and opportunity for a really self - comprehension and research of the Lord's wisdom.One of the most remarkable such attempts we can find out in the Bible.During thousand of years, this Holy Book symbolizes by itself, perhaps most painful impulse of mankind to collect together some Sacred Revelations of the Prophets and from that, resolutely to affect a way of spiritual development of the human civilization, and whenever possible to prevent its destruction, and together with it, crushing of one of the unique creations of God - Alive Nature on the planet of the Earth.Unfortunately, nowadays, we are living contemporaries, have become the witnesses of the futility of these attempts.In a pursuit of material well-being, the modern mankind irrevocably has lost feeling of a reality and by the prompt rates continues to move by false ways of technical pseudo-progress and unspiritual.By barbarous way the alive Nature has been destroying. The political and economic ambitions have resulted a modern civilization on a side of nuclear self-destruction and global, ecological accident. Selfish interests of state communities in all over the World have been derivation murders, blood and hopelessness... In reality, the mankind has turned out like the executioner of own destiny and stayed away from well-known Truths. As the matter of fact, it has appeared in spiritual pigsty.
Actually, it’s a real and massive situation in modern society of Humans and subordinating place for individual psychology.
Every day routine events and the perpetual striving for a life in comfort tend to dull our individual perceptions and astuteness in understanding the stream of life.
The situation gets somewhat more acute in critical moments.
There was a precise understanding for the catastrophic collapse of the northern Pacific’s unique ecosystem at the conference "Sustaining the Bering Sea: An International Conference for Collaboration" (April, 1-4, 2003, in Girdwood, Alaska,
It is well known that as a result of the destructive influence on any ecosystem, there is a mass destruction/death of its elements that seems to occur suddenly and usually befalls the higher level of the food chain. This is what happened in Alaska and on the Aleutian islands. For the last 5-7 years the number of sea otters has dropped from 120,000 to 5,000-7,000. There is the impression that sea otters simply disappeared for unknown reasons without leaving a trace from their habitat.
Currently, there is an alarming situation unfolding in California with a sharp increase in mortality among these animals ("SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE" from April 30, 2003 and "SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE" from April 30, 2003.).
Without mentioning the detailed reasons behind these events we can state that it is the economic activities of human beings that provoked this dramatic development!
What do the preconditions for the habitat of human beings look like? Or in other words, what are the conditions for the existence human beings in the biosphere?
The Washington, D.C. based Worldwatch Institute research organization’s annual report analyzes the tendencies forming the world’s future. The annual report, entitled “Vital Signs”, detects worrying tendencies like poverty growth and diseases and ecological catastrophes that endanger the world’s stability. The conclusions contained in the “Vital Signs 2003” report are hardly good news for humanity; the chronic incapacity to solve the growing poverty problem is leading all over the world to an increase in diseases, social and ecological catastrophes. One of the report’s authors, its project director, Michael Renner, notes, that it is the increase in consumption by the rich and the political leaders’ inability to take actions to lead humanity out of this situation and the near future holds little hope for positive change. (http://www.worldwatch.org. Copyright Environment News Service (ENS) 2003. All Rights Reserved.,) EARTH'S VITAL SIGNS SHOW THE PAIN OF POVERTY By J. R. Pegg
Such are the distressing consequences from the routine development of our existence.
These occurrences are reflected in the most extreme way in critical moments such as on September 11 in New York and Washington and in the mass taking of hostages in Moscow. They have without any doubts stirred the public consciousness all over the world!
The world over politicians and prominent figures are actively trying to understand the essence of what has happened.
What happened? What it was?
In situations where state institutions and the power elite are the primary factor controlling human society, they paradoxically are also the most needed. Efforts towards consolidation and aggression in return temporarily smooth over or augment the acuteness of bilateral or group social contradictions. Patriotic slogans like “Those who aren’t with us are against us” acquire an ideological reanimation and take on a vulgar nuance in the mouth of certain political leaders when they say things like “Slaughter them in the outhouse”.
There are clear reasons for concerns. Eventually most of the states are both states that declare to the rest of humanity that the rights and freedoms of their citizens are guaranteed; instead prove incapable of protecting them from death. Even more so, for many people it became clear that the super powers’ ideological premises for humanity’s progress are less than ideal or even non-progressive or backwards.
Humanity, drunken by its seeming power, its predatory relationship to the biosphere - reaping its illusionary fruits, has completely forgotten that it is only a small part of the cosmic biota.
Our perfect planet Earth, obeys as a small part of the Universe the predetermined laws of God's creations. For more than 4.5 billions years it has been a wonderful example and expression of and opportunity to experience the Lord's wisdom.
One of the most outstanding endeavors of this kind we find in the Bible.
For thousands of years this Holy Book has symbolized perhaps man’s most painful impulse to collect Sacred Revelations of the Prophets and from that, resolutely to affect a way of spiritual development. It is an attempt to prevent whenever possible its destruction and together with it the crushing of one of God’s unique creations - Earth’s Nature.
Yet, nowadays, modern humanity has irrevocably lost the feeling of reality and rushes onward under false pseudo-progress and lack of spirituality.
Barbarously nature is being destroyed. Political and economic ambitions have led civilization to the verge of nuclear self-destruction and global, ecological catastrophe. So, we are now - witnessing global warming, the disappearance of hundreds of species, catastrophic earthquakes and floods, and chemical and radioactive pollution.
We must state with bitterness the fact that selfish national state interests inevitable cause killing, blood and hopelessness. Humanity has become its own worst enemy by turning its back to the eternal truths of existence. It has found itself in a spiritual pigsty.
Aggressive aspirations to gain a more and more comfortable existence from a scientific point of view do not have any positive prospects.
“Double standards” politics is an essential skill for professional politicians and serves only as a convenient instrument to cover the real aims of any system in order to achieve more and more material goods and domination.
After this kinds of recognition, the people should think and discuss the modern picture of the World more precisely.
I’m pretty sure, that most of us unanimously condemned the barbarian terrorist acts and bowed our heads in deep sorrow for the innocent people killed. We are also concerned about the environmental situation. And what can we expect next?
Immediately the main themes from such analysis were identified:
- If states are the main form for social organization of humanity, then the most developed among them should demonstrate to their own people and others each individual’s real rights and freedoms as well as strategies for attaining positive long goals.
The latest events force us to conclude that no current state system corresponds to these ideals.
The problem is, despite the clear differences in their economical, ethnical and religious elements; their foundations have a similar base. This foundation is:
1. Similar social form; unifying people in state constructions
2. Similar development incentives; accumulation of goods, mainly at the expense of Earth’s biosphere.
3. Aggressive behavior stereotypes (open aggressive stereotypes include a growing infiltration into nature, wars, religious fanaticism; hidden aggressive stereotypes – forming individuals as adherents and strengthening selfish tendencies in them, as they see the possibility to prosper inside a selected social system.
The different strategies and tactics selected by individuals lead to an irrevocable system confrontation which results in:
1. The death of some social group members as a result of others’ aspirations, militarism and pseudo patriotism, ecological terrorism (environmental pollution, destruction of the Biosphere’s resources).
2. The ruling elite’s hypocrisy and marked striving for civilization’s super-incentives (power and material wealth).
3. Spiritual ritualizing in social groups expressed in the tendency for confessional dominance and intolerance
Conclusions: The fact that there are declared rights and freedoms for certain groups and no global positive prospect for the development of societies makes these systems extremely vulnerable and lead in the end to the destruction of the Earth’s Biosphere.
Possible ways of resolving this critical situation:
As every day routine shows, further appeals and efforts to consolidate and unite can resolve only tactical and regional problems. All kinds of committees and international superstructures that declare with ambition their global aims have just one reason for being: They hide the state and intellectual elites’ powerlessness and lack of true desire to undertake anything practical for a real improvement.
In our opinion final goal of such, unfortunately, by far not exceptional situations are examined more and more distinctly…
In order to understand them completely, let us take a look at existing analogues in nature.
In the Biosphere we know of examples of very stable social groups that have been proven over hundreds of millions of years. Including for instance the often noted ant colonies.
Global cataclysms and the implacable passage of time are the mirror which reflects the seemingly incontestable and desired truth: the sustainability and stability of these socio-biological formations.
And we are delighted by these creatures’ harmonious social organization: Their diligence, their constructing talent, their selflessness in defending their colony, their power, their vivacity etc. (The use of anthropomorphic epithets here is intended).
Yet, what is the price to be paid?!
The price is monstrous and terrifying! Over 98 percent of the individuals in this social group are “renounced” by the evolutionary process to reproductive neutrality and with this all the related complex behavioral patterns (courting, love, altruistic behavior etc.). Yet, this is an invaluable Gift to Humans from God!!!
Is a society like that acceptable for me or for you?!
NO..!
Nevertheless, the contemporary socio-economic elites’ successful activities allow them to form societies with individuals whose behavior patterns are a surrogate of illusions, alienated from a real world perception or enclosed in a sphere of “Bread and Circuses” .
In my short life I have also been a successful (financially) scientist and initiator of many practical ecological programs in Russia’s Far East. With the beginning of “Perestroyka” I actively entered into business, becoming very prosperous.
Naturally, contacts with higher Russian scientific, political and economical leaders developed successfully during the realization of those aspirations.
However, the deeper I got into the embraces of that comfortable existence, the more I realized that with each step I was loosing, loosing my soul. My proceedings and apparent successes were finally brought to purely psychosomatic reactions that sometimes came close to crime or to bottomless altruism.
Both brought with them absolutely abnormal compromises, which guaranteed only the successful survival in the present and a completely cheerless perception of the future for me personally as well as for those in my entourage.
A game of boundless ambitions, spiritual ignorance, outrageous selfishness, hypocrisy, sanctimoniousness and a perverted aestheticism are the primitive elements of such “success”.
" Also, the Tempter came and said to him: If you are a Son of God, tell these stones to become loaves of bread." But in reply he said: It is written, Man must live, not on bread alone, but on every utterance coming forth through God's mouth." ( Matthew 4 : 3 - 4 )
However, in the past as well as in the present civilized humanists and pseudo-intellectual elites like to snap up phrases about Loving our neighbors.
Yet, Jesus Christ said this in the second place. And in the context of Love for God!
" Now one of the men that had come up and heard them disputing, knowing that he had answered them in a fine way, asked him: Which commandment is first of all? Jesus answered: The first is Lord our God is one God, and you must love Lord your God with your whole heart and with your whole soul and with your whole mind and with your whole strength. The second is this, You must love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these." ( Mark 12 : 28 - 31 )
The denial of this and a spiritual blindness lead to irrevocable consequences for the individual as well as for the social group as a whole. The clear result is the Biosphere’s total collapse.
Such an alternative’s spiritual component is well known and not comforting for any human being, as well as for the individual as for the human being as species of the Earth’ ecosystem.
" I, even I, have said in my heart with regard to the sons of mankind that the God is going to select them, that they may see that they themselves are beasts. For there is an eventuality as respects the sons of mankind and an eventuality as respects the beast, and they have the same eventuality. As the one dies, so the other dies; and they all have but one spirit, so that there is no superiority of the man over the beast, for everything is vanity. All are going to one place. They have all come to be from the dust, and they are all returning to the dust."
( Ecclesiastes 3 : 18 -20 )
The spiritual realization of that is a cornerstone for the birth of a completely new relationship and reaction level, in all variations of social formation.
Exactly these, yes, yes..!, exclusively individual reactions define personality’s new spiritual character. Exactly such individuals should together develop the tactical and strategic aspirations of civilization that are capable of saving it from global ecological catastrophes and social-economic shocks.
" If I speak in the tongues of man and of angels but do not have Love, I have become a sounding brass or a clashing cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophesying and an acquainted with all the sacred secrets and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to transplant mountains, but do not have Love, I am nothing. And if I give all my belongings to feed others, and if I hand over my body, that I may boast, but do not have Love, I am not profited at all. Love is long-suffering and kind. Love is not jealous, it does not brag, does not get puffed up, does not behave indecently, does not look for its own interests, does not become provoked. If does not keep account of the injury. It does not rejoice over unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never falls. But whether there are gifts of prophesying, they will be done away with; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will be done away with." (I Corinthians 13: 1 - 8)
Such the points of view have been sharing also by modern Science. And for the most conceiving citizens of the various countries become more and more obviously, that the technology's civilization going so far to global ecological accident, which could be destroy not only civilization of the Man, but also most ancient creation of God - a beautiful Nature on the planet of Earth.
The time for Renaissance has come. Spiritual development’s pure lines should be reanimated by the holy books of all peoples. Their main component has been and is LOVE! A true and deep compassion! A feeling of universal participation and common causality, individual responsibility and personal competence.
Even though, all these Books didn’t escape some influences - egoistic adaptations, political and about religious conjunctures, had not avoided the Bible as well, like a whole history of development of the spiritual culture.
For example and it’s clear scientific facts, that the during centuries, the Bible had corresponded, translated, supplemented, forbidden, expelled and even burnt out...
As a result, the Sacred Truths of it revelations were washed away and were shaded by favor of the different kind religious formations, both in Christianity (Catholicism, Protestantism, Russian Orthodox Church etc.), and in Judaism as well (orthodox and moderate formations).Moreover, the so-called Bible’s researches - the comments, various sort of the compilationcompositions have removed the shabby century True to the backyard of the history.
Essentially, for the two thousand years of existence of the Christianity, the various aspects of it history, ideology, social ideals had devoted at the thousand and thousands books in all basic languages. The great variety of analytical papers, comparisons, hypotheses and even more uncountable theological articles were overflowing the libraries in the World.
After all, will be good to recollect an ironical phrase from Ecclesiastes: " As regards anything besides these, my son, take a warning: To the making of many books there is no end, and much devotion to them is wearisome to the flesh."
( Ecclesiastes 12 : 12 )
Well, as you can see, the Bible, ever more and more have been becoming only a subject for scientific experts such as theologizes, historians, linguists, sociologists, scientific authors, politicians and many others professionals.
For the most of the simple people in modern World the Bible itself still boring for reading, difficult for understanding, because was re-written of washing out way, composite mosaic and false touching.
That's right! With an alongside coming Sacred Revelations, the Bible maintain a lot of
mythological and theological culture which naturally came up from Persia, Ancient Greece, Egypt and Roman Empire. Moreover, by submissions of obey, such for " everyday circumstances», in the Bible, from page to page, you will meet simply some crying facts which strongly stay apart from the Eternal Truths.
Here only most vivid examples of such character:
At the Old Testament, for example, among a long series of historical sketches about development of the Jewish state we will find a fantastic hero called Samson.
Obviously, some situations around him were from the ancient Greek mythology
which tells us about feats of Gerakl.
And three day of staying the prophet Jonah into the belly of the whale, in general,
one of the most fantastic - fantastic episodes and just according some plans of the author should be like an art ornament and a reception of literary variety.
Also, the completely obscure picture had described into the book by Job, when Great Creator of the Universe, three times was tempted by Devil !!!
And on the pious Job fall down awful misfortune, back to back.
" And Lord went to say to Satan: Have you set your heart upon my servant Job, that there is no one like him in the Earth, a man blameless and upright, fearing God and turning aside from bad? At that Satan answered Lord and said: Is it for nothing that Job has feared God?"
( Job 1 : 8 - 9 )
" Accordingly Lord said to Satan: Look! Everything that he has is in your hand. Only against him himself do not thrust out your hand!" ( Job 1 : 12 )
" But Satan answered Lord and said: Skin in behalf of skin, and everything that man has he will give in behalf of his soul."
" Accordingly Lord said to Satan: There he is in your hand! Only watch out for his soul itself! So, Satan went out away from the person of Lord and struck Job with a malignant boil from sole of his foot to the crown of his head." ( Job 2 : 4; 6 - 7 )
All of us - righteous and sinners,
Out of jail, from the altars
All of us - just funny actors
In the theater of the Creator.
- Hamlet? He has to be pallid.
Cain should be more audacious...
Audience heed to angelic
Shiny victorious trumpets.
God leaning forward is prying,
He is caught up in the drama…
Pity if Cain is crying,
Hamlet will have blissful moments!
That goes against His intentions!
So to guard losses and ailments,
God will entrust the production
Into the hands of a disabled.
Now the pain's shooting higher
Cunningly webbing and freely,
Those who choose to retire,
Are castigated severely.
Tortures grow out of proportion
Fear and dismay - even greater
What if continues the action
In the theater of the Creator.
Nickolay Gumilev, 1909
Let's go further dear reader...
The God was not seen by anybody! Only prophets heard and felt his presence and manuals.
" No man has seen God at any time..." ( John 1 : 18 )
But all of a sudden, in the book of Revelation written by John we find out the exact description of the image of Lord.
" And in the midst of the lamp stand someone like a son of man, clothed with a garment that reached down to the feet, and girded at the breast with golden girdle. Moreover, hic head and his hair were white as white wool, as snow, and his eyes as fiery flame; and his feet were like fine copper when glowing in a furnace; and his voice was as the sound of many waters. And he had in his right hand seven stars, and out of his mouth a sharp, long two-edged sword was protruding, and his countenance was as the sun when it shines in its power. And when I saw him, I felt as dead at his feet." (Revelation by John 1: 13 - 17)
God the Lord chairing the throne,
Merrily follows the show
Brightly on his sumptuous gown
Sparkles and golden stars glow.
Oh, how easy and pleasant
Is the empyrean stage box!
Mary the Virgin is content,
Finds the libretto engaging:
Nickolay Gumilev, 1909
And finally, most crying an example of deviation from God's True we can touch out from
the authors of the New Testament, when they try to push down the Jesus Christ just directly to the hooligan, invented actions, clear contradicting to everything,
what He has been saying at His commandment about Love, Repentance, All-Forgiveness and Non-resistance towards to the Violence...
" God sent forth his Son into the world, not for him to judge the world, but for the world to be saved. " ( John 3 : 17 )
However, all authors of the Gospels, with small divergences in details, ostensibly describe about event, when Jesus, by real physical violence, try to establish new rules for the people. This an unbelievable situation sounds especially strange, that it is developed on the
"threshold" of a Jewish temple - synagogue...
" Now the passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. And he found in the temple those selling cattle and sheep and doves and the money brokers in their seats. So, after making a whip of ropes, he drove all those with the sheep and cattle out of the temple, and he poured out the coins of the moneychangers and overturned their table. "
( John 2 : 13-14 )
How up not recollect a words of Russian proverb - " With the own charter don't go into another’s monastery " and the famous episode from the Russian novel " The Master and Margaret " written by Mikhail Bulgakov, when Jesus by glancing at the papers of His disciple Matthew has come in horror from the written down ideas, ostensibly stated by Him a front of the people and the disciples... "... And this mess will be for a long time "... He said with bitterness in thoughts...
Therefore, it's so necessary to search only a unique way for reading of the Bible (as well as the other sacred books which were written by prophets and founders of religions like Buda, Mohammed, Baha' Ula and etc.) under the well-known parable of Jesus Christ:
" Another illustration he set before them, saying: " The kingdom of the heavens has become like a man that sowed fine seed in his field. While men were sleeping, his enemy came and over sowed weeds in among the wheat, and left. When the blade sprouted and produced fruit, then the weeds appeared also. So the servants of the householder came up and said to him: Master, did you not sow fine seed in your field? How, then, does it come to have weeds? He said to them: An enemy, a man, did this. They said to him: Do you want us, then, to go out and collect them? He said: No; that by no chance, while collecting the weeds, You uproot the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest; and in the harvest season I will tell the reapers, first collect the weeds and bind them in bundles to bern them up, then go to gathering the wheat into my storehouse. " ( Matthew 13 : 24-30 )
" And his disciples came to him and said: Explain to us the illustration of the weeds in the field. In response he said: The sower of the fine seed is the Son of man; the field is the World; as for the fine seed, these are the sons of the kingdom; but the weeds are the sons of the wicked one. Therefore, just as the weeds are collected and burned with fire, so it will be in the conclusion of the system of things." ( Matthew 13 : 38; 40 )
The attempts of separation a seeds from a weeds were undertaken by many Russian philosophers and writers such as Nikolay Berdiaev, Vladimir Solov'ev, Lev Tolstoy, Alexsandr Men' and many others during the XVIII - XVIIII centuries.
Some of the interesting researches in that area we can find out among the European and American authors too.
Chapter II. Nature on the pages of the New Testament
" Only picture an Alive Nature can
save, wallow in lies the World! "
Academician Petrianov-Sokolov, 1980
In this part of narration I will try to tell you about some of the unknown but extremely important episodes, from the lives of John Crusader and Jesus Christ. As you may be aware, the prophetical way of the first tragically has broken in the prison of tyrant Irod and another was crucify on the Calvary.
All the Gospels rather avariciously cover the childhood, adolescence and mature period of life (till 30-33 years old) two key figures from the New Testament: John Crusader and Jesus from Nazareth.
So, about John we know, that " And the young child went on growing up and getting strong in spirit, and he continued in the deserts until the day of showing himself openly...» to the people. ( Luke 1: 80 )
The life of Jesus was running out by circle of the large family, in mastering some carpentry and following religious ceremonies his own crowd - i.e. in strict observance of the doctrines from the Old Testament, including visiting of a Jerusalem Temple per days for religious holidays. At this particular time, this young man has paid attention to itself from clergy and simply people by surprising them of the great knowledge of the sacred books.
" Now his parents were accustomed to go from year to year to Jerusalem for the festival of the passover...But all those listening to him were in constant amazement at his understanding and his answers. " ( Luke 2 : 41,47 )
Meanwhile, it up to the time when Jesus was christening by John on the river. At that moment the desert - hermit - forerunner feels and determines in Jesus his Messianic role on the Earth.
" Now when all the people were christening, Jesus also was christened and, as he was praying, the heaven was opened up and the holy spirit in bodily shape like a dove came down upon him, and a voice came out of heaven: " You are my Son, the beloved: I have approved you." ( Luke 3 : 21-22 )
Immediately, after that, Jesus leaves all to the desert, for the self-statement of the applicability from the God. As a matter of fact, the young man (30-33 years old) was standing up alone a front of choice - to leave habitual stile of life and go by thorny way like a Teacher, with well known for him the tragical end.
From that being, he was exposed by severe temptations from the Devil. Jesus had been far away from vain crowd of the people and spent time in prays and struggles with him for 40 days. As a result, he takes up unshakable decision to carry out towards to the People of the Earth a Sacred Word from God and fundamental principles of the new Faith of Love:
" Man must not live by bread alone. " ( Luke 4 : 4 )
" It is Lord your God you must worship, and it is to him alone you must render sacred service. " ( Luke 4 : 8 )
And finally, when He comes to the top of the temple, Jesus ordered the Devil to drive away by saying: " You must not put Lord your God to the test." ( Luke 4 : 12 )
So, for forty days desert's vigils, basic principles of the new Christian Faith was getting up and was accepted the new stereotype of behavior - Teachings among crowd of people, who, according the Lord, were deeply sink at the sins.
As we can see on these examples, the moments turning point their life ( John and Jesus ) was accruing at the almost lifeless place on the planet of Earth - into the desert, which in thoughts of general public have been covering only by loose, heated sand and dunes. Even the desert, as an ecological type of primordial Nature, in representation for many people is the area completely absence of a moisture supplement and place for true suffering and extreme conditions in struggle for a survival.
But what actually is this unique ecological formation of the Nature? For example, desert of Negev, where John and Jesus have carried out so important periods of their life, by meaning from the point of view of comprehension Messianic roles on our Planet.?
According to the New Testament, we can define, that these events could be happened about one thousand seven hundred years back from time when the Jesus was born.
Probably, those in that time the deserts were much less touching by destructive influence from a human civilization and appeared by itself the natural ecosystems. The modern science determines that an age of formation to some of them could be a hundreds millions years up to the Christmas.
So, the desert of Negev is located at the center of a huge, droughty zone, which stretched from the Sahara up to the Goby.
The hill's plain are differentiated by ridges of height 200-450 meter and combined by limestones. Weathered sandstones form internal, sandy dunes and fields. Ground basically stony.
The climate of Negev transitive; from moderate - deserted with cool winter and warm summer in the north and hot, deserted up to the south. Two phenomena are characteristic of a climate the Negev: presence of dew at night and dry, hot winds called Ham sin.
Flora of the desert Negev makes up about 1200 kinds of plants. Six percent of them are endemic. Also many of the plants are edible and tested nice.
After spring rains, the desert Negev becomes covered colorful motley grass for a while. There are a huge variety sedges, tulips with is red - yellow by colures, black - violet flowers of an iris, pink inflorescence of rhubarb and many others...
The stones of desert are covered by lichen.
At the Fauna of the desert Negev fond up to 40 kinds of mammals, about 60 kinds of birds, up to 50 kinds of reptile and even one kind of amphibians named green toad.
On the small rodents, desert's hares and antelopes hunts velvet cat sandy fox. Striped hyenas arrange the refuges among rocks. The largest predator of desert is leopard.
Among birds in the desert are necessary to note deserted chicken and some sort of ptarmigans.
The most numerous group of animal in desert of Negev are reptile by various lizards. Many snakes are active at night.
Nor one of the New Testament doesn’t give to us the indication in what time of the year the Jesus was on the desert. May be, it happened in a spring period, when grasses were colorful flowering up, birds singing and raised vital activity of other animal. Such a combination was really fantastic picture of the Alive Nature - as one of the most ancient creation of the God on the Earth.
However in other seasons the desert full of life too.
Just in such environment John and Jesus accepted in their souls the sacred applicability of a Prophecy and Teaching. Just from it such a life giving of a source they scoop the forces and inspiration for the immortal, love sermons, which have been opening for all mankind the unique way to Salvation...
It is very important to note and some other circumstance from life of Jesus, which happened with him during the " Holy Week " and it also proceeds at the Nature. Jesus, together with his disciples, have left the city and gone on a mountain. They were come to a garden's site, where he has asked the disciples to remain with him and be awake. He has passed a little bit further, lowered on a ground and was praying. Soon, as is known, he was seized by guards and condemned on the crucifixion.
And his allegorical parable! Look: " Observe intently the birds of heaven, because they do not sow the seed or reap or gather into storehouses; still Your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth more than they are? Who of you by being anxious can add one cubit to his life span?...Take a lesson from the lilies of the field, how they are growing... "
( Matthew 6 : 26 - 28 )
In this passionate speech obviously looked through some premise to the people - learn more for a harmonious life with Nature; leave a disastrous attempts to achieve of the increasing material boons from her expense and by any price.
Certainly, in that address of Jesus, may be naive by a modern point of view, not supposed to be some refuse from any care about " vital bread " for life. Not, for sure..! It only testifies in emergency way Civilization, to be in harmony both in economic and political activity with Nature. Never ever forget about spiritual needs to the people and about real, safe way for using a natural resources on the planet of Earth.
And in general, if you are closely enough to re-read the New Testament, you will be convinced, that the most part of time for teaching, Jesus spend in an environment of the Nature: "When he saw the crowds he went up into the mountain; and after he sat down his disciples came to him; and he opened his mouth and began teaching them..."
"On that day Jesus, having left the house, was sitting by the sea; and great crowds gathered to him..."
"Six days later Jesus took Peter and James and John his brother along and brought them up into a lofty mountain by themselves."
( Matthew 5 : 1-2 ; 13 : 1 - 2 ; 17 : 1 )
" Again he went out beside the sea; and all the crowd kept coming to him..."
" And he again started teaching beside the sea and a great crowd gathered near him..."
" Great crowd gathered together to him; and he was beside the sea..."
( Mark 2 : 13 ; 4 : 1 ; 5 : 21 )
" On an occasion when the crowd was pressing close upon him and listening to the word of God, he was standing beside the lake..."
( Luke 5 : 1 )
" After these things Jesus departed across the sea of Gal-i-llee, or Ti-be-ri-as. But a great crowd kept following him..."
" But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives."
" Having said these thing, Jesus went out with his disciples across the winter torrent of Kid’ Ron to where there was garden, and he and his disciples entered into it."
( John 6 : 1 - 2 ; 8 : 1 ; 18 : 1 )
It is necessary also to emphasize that, such the examples in a history of development some religious in a Human civilization, are not exclusive at all.
Practically, all Founders of a global religions, for example: Buddhism, Baha'ism and a lot of the well - known Prophets from the Indian and Tibetan beliefs have been demonstrating the same, by taking for the mankind all the primary sources into the Nature.
The prophet Moses, as you know, travel with persecuted crowd of his people into desert more than 40 years.
All of that on the one hand are conclusive, that the Alive Nature, being the primary spring for our Life, on the other hand is most obvious example of the God's Revelation. Most simple, but at the same time most Fundamental basis of our applicability and sense of harmonious development for the Mankind.
The understanding of these statements was extremely important in all times and for all peoples on the Earth, but for the modern man it has been getting the special, topical character...By neglect it, completely obviously results us on the road of rigid denying of all Sacred Prophecies about fate of the World and Christian concept of Love.
Such the points of view have been sharing also by modern Science. And for the most conceiving citizens of the various countries become more and more obviously, that the technology's civilization going so far to global ecological accident, which could be destroy not only civilization of the Man, but also most ancient creation of a truth God - a beautiful Nature on the planet of Earth.
" And to Adam he said: Because you listened to your wife's voice and took to eating from the tree concerning which I gave you this command, You must not eat from it, cursed is the ground your account. In the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are and to dust you will return.
And God went on to say: Here the man has become like one of us in knowing good and bad, and now in order that he may not put his hand out and actually take fruit also from the tree of life and eat and live to time indefinite. With that God up him out of the garden of E'den to cultivate the ground..." ( Genesis 3 : 17-19, 22 - 23 ) for the beginning to destroy the poor Earth in near future after a long, long time the creation of Life by Lord.
In sandy steppes of Arabian land,
Three proud's the palms grew up,
Spring between them from ground,
With cold water just running out,
The shadow of green leaves safe proud,
Against hot beams and loose sand.
And many years quietly have passed;
But tired traveler from the alien land,
His flaring chest to cold moisture,
Still wasn't declined under green bus,
And start to dry from hot beams,
Magnificent leaves and sonorous spring.
And the palms began to grumble to the God,
What for we were born, that up here to wither?
Without benefit in desert we grew and blossomed,
Have been moving by a whirlwind and sunburn,
For nobody favorable under pleasing eyes...
Isn't right Yours, oh Heaven, Holy verdict!
And only silent fell - in the light-blue, long distance,
The gold sand by pole turned off,
Bells the shapeless sounds were distributed,
Parti-colored by carpets which covered the packs,
And the follow, as in the sea a shuttle, back to back
Camel behind the camel, blowing up the sand.
Soon the caravan approaches the palms,
Under their shadow cheerful was stretched the camp,
The sounding jugs were poured by water,
And proudly nodding of the heads,
Welcome meet the palms of the unexpected visitors,
And generously give to them the water from cold spring.
But only twilight on the Earth has fallen,
On the elastic roots the axe begging to knock,
And without life the pupils of centuries fall down!
Small children broke their clothes,
There bodies were chopped up then,
And slowly bern out by fire till early morning.
And nowadays all around so wild and empty,
Aren't the leaves whispered with the cold spring,
Vainly it asks to Prophet about the shadow,
Only the hot sand heated it...
Mickhail Lermontov, 1839
Chapter III Dialogues of Love
"Only in the Man could meet,
Sacred with vicious...
All his suffering,
Occur from that."
Michail Lermontov ( 1814 - 1841 )
" And God proceeded to take the man and settle him in the garden of E'den to cultivate it and to take care of it." ( Genesis 2 : 15 )
Tops of the mountains,
Sleep in darkness night,
Silent valleys,
Full of freshen might.
No dust on the road,
No trembled of leaves.
Wait a bit more.
And have a rest with...
Mickhail Lermontov,1840
Gardens of my soul always patterned,
In it the winds so fresh and soft,
The gold sand and black marble,
Deep, transparent pools.
The plants up there so extraordinary like dreams,
Like waters, by sun rising, the birds all pink,
And - will who understand a hint of ancient screens
There is a girl in garland like a great priestess...
I don't look on the World of running lines,
My dreams, only eternal of humble.
Let's up sirocco throw out in desert,
Gardens of my Soul always patterned.
Nickolay Gumilev ,1907
" See! This only I have found, that the God made mankind upright, but they themselves have sought out many plans." ( Ecclesiastes 7 : 29 )
Darling boy, you are so cheerful and bright
The smile of yours,
Don't ask about this happiness, poisoning
The Worlds,
You don't know, you don't know, what such this
Violin is,
How such dark horror to play on it!
Who has taken it once in imperative
Hands,
That has disappeared forever,
His serene light of eyes,
The spirits of a Hell love to listen these regal
Sounds,
And roaming around the wolves.
It's necessary eternally to sing and to cry, for these strings,
Ringing strings,
Eternally should be beated and twisted of the mad
Bow,
Everywhere - under the sun, and under a blizzard, under white
Storm,
And when west flares, and when burns east.
You will tired and will slow down, and on an instant
Will interrupted the song,
And you can even not shout, move and
Sigh,
Immediately furious wolves, in blood's feel
Frenzy,
Seize by teeth the throat, will rise by paws
On your chest!
You will understand then, how rage of mocking
All that sang,
In your eyes will look overdue and imperious
Fright.
And melancholy, mortal cold will wind round
As a shadow, your body
And the bride will begin to sob, and the friend will think.
Boy, farther more! Up there you won't meet
Neither fun nor treasures!
But I see - you laughing, your eyes like
Two beams.
Well, take this magic violin,
Glance to the eyes of monsters.
And be lost by famous death,
Terrible death of the violinist!
Nickolay Gumilev, 1907
" I, even I, have said in my heart with regard to the sons of mankind that the God is going to select them, that they may see that they themselves are beasts. For there is an eventuality as respects the sons of mankind and an eventuality as respects the beast, and they have the same eventuality. As the one dies, so the other dies; and they all have but one spirit, so that there is no superiority of the man over the beast, for everything is vanity. All are going to one place. They have all come to be from the dust, and they are all returning to the dust."
( Ecclesiastes 3 : 18 -20 )
I trusted, I thought, and at last the light has flashed for me;
By creating, Founder forever has conceded me to fate;
I sold! I'm not belonging to the God any more! The seller has left,
And with an obvious sneer, the buyer looks at me.
Like a fly mountain, Yesterday, chasseing to me,
And Tomorrow expects me ahead, as a chasm,
I go... But some time to a chasm, mountain will be broken.
The road of mine too useless for me.
But, once, by dream, I feel that my heart hasn't pained,
It like the bluebell in porcelain and yellow China,
On motley pagoda... Hangs and friendly ringed,
On the enamel sky, tease the flights of crane.
And silent girl in a dress, from red silks,
Where embroider the gold wasps, flowers and dragons,
With purse legs, looks without words and thoughts,
Attentively listening to easy, easy ringing...
Nickolay Gumilev, 1911
" For every time there is an appointed time, even a time for every affair under the heavens."
( Ecclesiastes 3 : 1 )
If the life will deceive you,
Don't be sad, don’t angry.
In the day of despondency be restrained.
Trust, that a Day of Luck, coming!
Heart by the future lives,
The present in sadness,
All in a moment all will pass!
What will pass will be gladness!
Alexander Pushkin, 1825
" The heart of the wise ones is in the house of mourning, but the heart of the stupid ones is in the house of rejoicing. Better is it to hear the rebuke of someone wise than to be the man hearing the song of the stupid ones. For as the sound of thorns under the pot, so is the laughter of the stupid one; and this too is vanity." ( Ecclesiastes 7 : 4 - 6 )
That's why I wear out from the rustle of a grass,
That the grass will turn yellow and the rose will wither,
And your precious body, alas,
Gold flowers and clay will tern either...
Even the memory about us will disappear...
And then,
Revive, under skilful fingers, the clay,
And spring water will run for the first time,
Into a gold, wide throat new jug of mine...
And other, can, will embrace the other,
In sunset, at the agreed o’clock, near the spring...
And the ashes of darling, from the naked shoulder,
To slide down and break in pieces with by ring...
George Ivanov, 1921
" For I took all this to my heart, even to search out all this, that the righteous ones and the wise ones and their works are in the hand of the God. Mankinds are not aware of either the love or the hate that were all prior to them. All are the same in what all have."
( Ecclesiastes 9 : 1 )
" When I go for a walk, I see and feel very clear a life around me: sheep, calf, moles, trees...Everyone doing their business...Grow up some seeds...; seed of fir-tree, acorn -turn to the tree and continue to grow...And all of them will be hundred's year old...From them will be new generations...Also the same with sheep, moles and people. And its had time in the past and its will be in the future, and its have been done in Africa, India, Australia and everywhere on each piece of the planet of Earth! And at the Universe there are a lot of planets like ball - thousand and millions...And when you will be understanding that, after all, so funny to hear some speeches about something Greatness of Human and even about any person...From all creatures, which well-known for us, no doubt that the Man is higher, but as to run down from him - a lot of lower creatures, so then to have to be an endless of highest creatures, which completely unknown for us, because it's impossible for a Man to know its! So, in this situation, try to speak about Man' Greatness - really funny! Only one thing, what the Man could wish to Yourself that don't do anything stupid ways! Yes! That's enough..."
Lev Tolstoy, 1906 (9)
" Two better then one, because they have a good reward for their hard work. For if one of them should fall, the other one can raise his partner up. But how will it be with just he one who falls when there is not another to raise him up? Moreover, if two lie down together, they also will certainly get warm; but how can just one keep warm? And if somebody could overpower one alone, two together could make a stand against him. And a threefold cord can not quickly be torn in two." ( Ecclesiastes 4 : 9 - 12 )
" On this account a man will leave his father and mother, and the two will be one flesh; so that they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God yoked together let no man put apart." ( Mark 10 : 7 - 9 )
Five horses has presented to me my friend Lucifer,
And one gold with a ruby of ring,
That could I be lowered in depths caverns,
And to see a sky of the gold face.
Horses snorting beat of hoofs, alluring
To be incurred on wide open space Earthly,
And I trusted, that the sun up for me,
By lighting up as a ruby on a gold ring.
A lot of fiery days and star night,
I wandered, not knowing wandering of the end,
I laughed to impulses of mighty horses,
And game of my gold ring.
There, on the height of sense, mad and snow,
But I have struck of horses by a whistling scourge,
And on to height of sense has directed my run,
And has seen there the virgin with the sad face.
In that vote, were heard a rings of string,
In that eye there was the answer a question,
And I have given back a ring to this virgin of the Moon,
For an incorrect shade scattered plaits.
And laughing of me, despising me,
Lucifer has opened gate in darkness,
Lucifer has presented me sixth horse,
And "despair" was named of it.
Nickolay Gumilev, 1903-1907
" The inheritance from fathers is a house and wealth, but a discreet wife is from God."
" The truly wise women has built up her house, but foolish one tears it down with her own hands"
" Better is a dry piece of bread with which there is quietness than a house full of the sacrifices of quarreling."
" Better is it to dwell in a wilderness land than with a contentious wife along with vexation."
" A capable wife who can find? Her value is far more than that of corals."
( Proverbs 19 : 14; 14 : 1;17 : 1; 21 : 19; 31 : 10 )
I wait for, full of thoughts provoking,
But not a gay and pretty wife,
Not the sincere and gentle talking
About the old time and life.
And not a mistress: I am bored
With languor whispers, languor looks,
And with delights, a lot and more,
And more tortures that I took.
I wait for him, who’s sent by Deities,
Who is my friend by sacred rights,
Because my heart has pined for centuries
For silence and for heaven’s heights.
And how wrong was he, the merciless,
Who lost eternity at once,
By taking for the iron fetters,
The dreams that were uniting us.
Nickolay Gumilev, 1912
" Which my soul has continuously sought, but I have not found. One man out of a thousand I have found, but a women among all these I have not found." ( Ecclesiastes 7 : 28 )
From den of the snake,
From city of the Kiev,
I've taken not the wife,
But the witch,
I thought - jolly girl,
Guessed - willful person,
Cheerful bird - songsters.
Call her - she crease,
Will embrace - she resist,
And when the moon runs out
She so sad...
Both looks and groans,
Like though buries
Someone...
And wants to burn.
I tell her: as a christened,
With you on real way,
To be carried now for me
Not a proper time.
Demolish your lassitude,
To the pools of the river,
To the guilty Bald mountain.
She keeps silent,
Only shiver with cold,
And all does not owe to her.
I'm a pity at her guilty,
Like the bird of instigate,
Like the birch of undermined,
Under some reasons to sworn
Of the God...
Nickolay Gumilev, 1911
" Look! You are beautiful, O girl companion of mine. Look! You are beautiful. Your eyes those of doves."
" Many waters themselves are not able to extinguish love, nor can rivers themselves wash it away. If a man would give all the valuable things of his house for love, person would positively despise them." (The songs of Solomon 1: 14; 8: 7)
Today I see that your look is particularly sad,
And your hands are particularly fragile, clasped over your knees.
Just listen: far, far away, on Lake Chad
Roams a proud giraffe.
He has been blessed with gracefulness and bliss,
His hide is decorated with a magical pattern,
That only the moon would dare to compete with,
Glistening and bouncing on the wetness of the wide lake.
From a distance he looks like the colored sail of a ship,
And when running he glides, like the flight of a gleeful bird.
I know that there are a lot of miraculous things to see in
the world,
When at sunset he hides himself in a marble grotto.
I know the merry fairy tales of mysterious lands
About a dark maiden, about the fear of a youthful chief,
But you have breathed in the heavy fog for too long,
You don't want to believe in anything but the rain.
And when I tell you about a tropical garden,
About straight-standing palms, about the unbelievable
scent of the grasses...
You're crying? Just listen... far away, on Lake Chad
Roams a proud giraffe.
Nickolay Gumilev, 1911
" Honor your father and your mother in order that your days may prove long upon the ground that your God is giving to you." ( Exodus 20 : 12 )
Alone with you my friend, I would like to be,
Frankly speaking too short time I can be alive,
Sooner You will be back at home,
Look ... Oh, what...
In my destiny... to tell under the truth,
Nobody is anxious at me...
The father and mother of mine,
Hardly believe that still they alive...
Well, it will be so pity for me,
To take them some sorrow...
Mickhail Lermontov, 1840
" This why I speak to them by use of illustrations, because, looking, they look in vain, and hearing, they hear in vain, neither do they get the sense of it." ( Matthew 13 : 13 )
How the heart may present itself for the others,
How they will understand in way for another’s,
Will understand they how do you live, and further,
The thought by speaking to close to lay my brother.
Appealing will exasperate some springs.
Eat its and be silent...
Fedor Tyutchev,1830
" Also, the Tempter came and said to him: If you are a Son of God, tell these stones to become loaves of bread." But in reply he said: It is written, Man must live, not on bread alone, but on every utterance coming forth through God's mouth." ( Matthew 4 : 3 - 4 )
Fine is the wine that is in love with us,
The goodly bread we wait for from the oven,
And woman, whom we have possessed, at last,
After we've suffered under yoke her own.
But what to do if a red sunset freezes
Above a sky that's drowning in cold,
Where there is silence and unearthly peace,
What can one do with the immortal ode?
You can't eat it, or drink, or even kiss...
The moment fled, and next one now hovers,
And we wring hands, but yet once more miss -
We are condemned to miss and miss it over.
Just as a boy, forgetting games and friends,
Sometimes beholds the girls bath in a river
And, knowing nothing of the loving trends,
Is yet tormented by a hidden fever;
As once in time on overgrowing banks
The moisten creature holed in despair
Of self impotence, feeling on its back
Wings - still unformed and very feeble pair, -
So century after century - when, O Christ?
Under the knife of liberal arts and nature
The flesh breaks down and the spirit cries
As they bear organs of the sixth sensation.
Nickolay Gumilev, 1919
" A lover of discipline is a lover a knowledge, but a hater of reproof is unreasoning."
" Listen to counsel and accept discipline in order that you may become wise in your future."
( Proverbs 12 : 1;19 : 20 )
" Also, do not give your heart to all the words that people may speak...For your own heart well knows even many times that you, even you, have called down evil upon others."
( Ecclesiastes 7 : 21 )
" Also, just as You want men to do to You, do the same way to them."
" Pay attention to yourselves. If your brother commits a sin give him a rebuke, and if he repents forgive him. Even if his sins seven times a day against you and he comes back to you seven times, saying, I repent, you must forgive him." ( Luke 6 : 31; 16 : 3 - 4 )
" Let the one of you that is sinless be first to throw a stone at her."
"Jesus said: Neither do I condemn you. Go your way; from now on practice sin no more."
( John 8 : 7; 11 )
" For if You forgive men their trespasses, Your heavenly Father will also forgive You."
( Matthew 6 : 14 )
" Most truly I say to You, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, if remains just one; but if it dies, it then bears much fruit." ( John 12 : 24 )
Seed of grape in warm ground I will bury,
Kiss the vine and will take the ripe bunch,
Call the friends and will adjust my heart on love,
Because differently what for on the eternal Earth I live...
Gathering my guests for the food of mine,
Tell me directly, who are you a front of you in person,
King Heavenly will send to me forgiveness for the sins,
And differently what for on the guilty Earth I live....
In dark-red dressed will be singing for me the wife,
In black-and-white dressed I tern down my head,
And I will be heard and died from melancholy and grief,
And differently what for on the sin's Earth I live...
And when sunset on the corners will sweep up,
Again and again will float a front of me like mirage,
Dark- blue buffalo, white eagle and gold trout,
And differently what for on the eternal Earth I live...
Bulat Okudgava, 1970
" I myself turned around, even my heart did to know and explore and to search for wisdom and the reason of things, and to know about the wickedness of stupidity and the foolishness of madness..." " All this I have tested with wisdom. I said: I will become wise. But it was far from me. What has come to be is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find out? "
( Ecclesiastes 7 : 23 - 25 )
I’m sick, for sure: deep darkness holds my heart,
I’m bored with the people and the stories,
And dream of treasures of the kingdoms, glories,
And yataghan, all covered with blood.
It seems to me – and this is no fraud –
A Tartar, squint, was one of my begetters,
That fierce Hun. And the infection’s fetters
Through length of ages, is my steady bond.
I’m mute. I pine… They vanish – walls of home:
There is a sea in spots of silver foam,
The sun of evening – on the stones’ lead,
The city, with blue domes, like its wardens,
With flourish and decor of jasmine gardens,
We’d fought right there … Oh, yes! And I was killed!
Nickolay Gumilev, 1912
" For even the Son of man came, not to be ministered to, but minister and give his soul a ransom in exchange for many." ( Mark 10 : 45 )
The sun looked at the countries was lonely and blindly,
Where madness and horror from the centuries have stiffened in all,
Where the mountains in the far seem like the disheveled dogs,
Where by the black copper the volcanoes breathed and bubbled.
There was twilight of the World...
But suddenly, on the sky was flash the wide shadow,
And comets, that running, as the wolves, furious and rough,
And bearing the iron teeth were forced down each other,
Have begun to spin with disturbed howl by welcoming day.
There was a fright of the Waiting...
And in crown of thorns, with blood under it,
There was a thin person, in gentle, dark-blue of aureole,
And by silver plough He cut persistent new lands,
Combination of planets has nominated the name to Him: Suffering!
It was Salvation!
Nickolay Gumilev, 1907
" Also, when you pray, You must not be as the hypocrites; "
" You, however, when you pray, go into your private room and, after shutting your door, pray to your Father who is in secret; then your Father who looks on in secret will reply you."
( Matthew 6 : 5 - 6 )
" Then he said them: Whenever You pray, say - Father, let your name be sanctified. Let your kingdom come. Give us our bread for the day according to the day's requirement. And forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone that is in debt to us; and do not bring us into temptation." ( Luke 11 : 2 - 4 )
" Untruth and the lying world put far away from me. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Let me devour the food prescribed for me..." ( Proverbs 30 : 8 )
" I Lord's Mother, nowadays with prayer,
Before your image, bright light,
Not about rescue, not before battle,
Not with gratitude, not with a repentance.
I ask not for soul deserted,
For soul of the wanderer in World,
And I want to hand of virgin innocent,
Warm patroness in the world cold.
Surround with happiness soul worthy,
Give to her the companions, complete attention,
Youth light, in old age - quiet,
To heart insightful, world of a hope.
Whether the hour will come nearer to term farewell,
In morning whether noisy, whether night silent,
You have to send to your bed,
The best angel in soul perfect. "
Mickhail Lermontov, 1837
" But he said: Truly I tell You that no prophet is accepted in his home territory."
( Luke 4 : 24 )
Since eternal Judge,
Has given to me omniscience of the Prophet,
In eyes of the people I read,
Pages of rage and vice.
I have become to proclaim of Love,
And pure truth teaching of Life,
But most of the people around,
Threw out of stones on me!
I strewed by ashes the chapter,
From cities I ran a beggar,
And here in desert I live,
As a bird for nothing of God’s food.
Precept of Eternity have been storing,
All creatures listen to me on the Earth,
And the stars listen to me at night,
By beams joyfully playing.
When through a noisy hailstones,
I come hasty,
That the old mans speak to children,
With ambitious smile on the face:
Look: here an example for you,
He was proud, has not live with us:
Fool wanted to assure us,
That the God says trough his mouth!
Look at him, children again!
Like he is gloomy, skinny and pale!
Look like he is naked and poor,
Like all most of the people despise of him!
Mickhail Lermontov, 1841
" You are from this world; I am not from this world " ( John 8 : 23 )
... And quiet sight of yours,
Stares to me and amazed,
You have shaken by head,
By telling, that the reason of mine is sick,
By wish foolish blinded.
And trust to your words,
Deeply in heart has plunged,
However I have found there,
That my mind not on trifles,
To something secret aspired.
What are given in a pledge?
With crowd of stars,
Heavenly vault,
That the God promised to us!
And to comprehend I could,
Through thinking and years.
Mickhail Lermontov, 1841
" And Jesus said to him: Foxes have dens and birds of heaven have roots, but the Son of man has nowhere to lay down his had " ( Luke 9 : 58 )
The heavenly cloudlets, eternal wanderers,
By sky-blue circuit, by pearl circuit
You are rushing like me, as an exile,
From darling of North, to the party Southern.
What turn you out? Destiny whether the decision,
Whether envy secret, rage open,
Or on you weighs a crime,
Or friends slander poisonous?
No, it's too bore for you cornfield of fruitless,
The passions are alien to you and the sufferings are alien,
Eternally cold, eternal free,
There is no for you a native Land,
There is no for you an Exile!
Mickhail Lermontov, 1840
" For whoever wants to save his soul will lose it; but whoever loses his soul for sake of me and the good news will save it. What, really, would a man give in exchange for his soul? "
( Mark 8: 35, 37 )
Yes, it was so...
And pale star fall,
Gracefully rustling,
Down. my palm.
Moon on the sky,
Tern to the silvery,
When the sunrise come.
Amazing time
And grief like violin
With words of mine,
Have sounded,
In that rare, sad time...
Yes, it was so...
The words have fallen
But not to the point,
Vainly eyes sparkled.
And better look back,
But I hurried up...
Into eternity...
Vladimir Sevostianov, 1987
" Hearing them he said: Persons in health do not need a physician, but the ailing do. Go, then, and learn what means, I want mercy, and not sacrifice." ( Matthew 9 : 12 - 13 )
Why did you come, my thoughts, in instant,
Like thieves to rob my quiet habitation,
Like vultures, gloomy and malignant,
With thirst for dread retaliation.
My hopes are gone, and ran away my visions,
My eyes were opened by fierce agitation,
And, in the sacred books of new religions,
I read my words, my deals and plans for future actions.
For that, that I with looks so calm and quiet,
Watched them who sailed to victory and glory,
That with my lips I touched the lips in fire,
Which did not have the former sinning story,
That those hands of mine, my own fingers,
Didn’t know a plough, were so thin and pliant,
And that my songs, the rambling meistersingers,
Could only sing, while making a sad sound,
For all this now came repudiation.
Blind men will smash the gentle, deceptive temple,
And thoughts will come into my habitation,
And strangle me, like thieves – a shabby tramper.
Nickolay Gumilev, 1906
" Whereas narrow is the gate and cramped the road leading off into life, and few are the ones finding it." ( Matthew 7 : 14 )
I come out to the path, alone,
Night and wildness are referred to God,
Through the mist, the road gleams with stone,
Stars are speaking in the shinning lot.
There is grave and wonderful in heaven;
Earth is sleeping in a pale-blue light...
Why is then my heart such pined and heavy?
Is it waiting or regretting plight?
I expect that nothing more go,
And for past I do not have regret,
I wish only freedom and repose,
I would fall asleep and all forget...
I would like to fall asleep forever,
But without cold sleep of death,
Let my breast be full of dozing fervor,
For the life, and heave in gentle breath;
So, that enchanting voice would ready,
Day and night to sing to me of love,
And the oak, evergreen and shady,
Would decline to me and rustle above.
Mikhail Lermontov, 1814
“ Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name…And yet then I will confess to them: I never knew you! Get away from me, You workers of lawlessness.” ( Matthew 7: 22-23 )
“Why, then, do you call me Lord, Lord? But do not do the things I say? "
(Luke 6: 46)
My own dream is lofty, simple thing:
To seize the oar, put feet into the stirrups,
And to deceive the time, that slow tries to stir us,
By kissing lips, forever new and pink;
When getting old, to keep the law of Christ,
Cast down looks, put on sackcloth and ashes,
Put on the chest, as heavy obligations,
The iron Cross, that He died on for us.
And only when, amidst the orgy’s madness,
I get my senses – a sleepwalker aimless,
Just frightened in the silence of his ways –
Then I recall: the worst of many others –
I had no way from the Lord in my years
And never called the Nature a brother.
Nickolay Gumilev, 1909
" Why are you fainthearted, You with little faith?"
" O faithless and twisted generation, how long must I continue with you? How long must put up with You? "
" Jesus said to him: Truly I say to you. On this night, before cockcrows, You will disown me three times. "
" Then one of the twelve, the one called Judas Is-car'iot, went to the chief priests and said: What will You give me to betray him to You? They stipulated to him thirty silver pieces."
" On seeing the crowds he felt pity for them, because they were skinned and thrown about..."
( Matthew 8 : 26; 17 : 17; 26 : 34; 26 : 14; 9 : 36 )
I am sadly looked at the generation of ours,
There future or empty or darkly,
Meanwhile under burden of cognitions and doubts,
In inactivity it will grow old.
We are rich hardly almost from a cradle,
By mistakes of the fathers and their late mind,
And life have been wearing us without the purpose,
As a feast on a holiday another's.
To the good and harm we are shamefully indifferent,
At the beginning of a field we wither without struggle,
Before danger - disgracefully coward,
And before authority -despicable slaves.
We dried up our mind by fruitless science,
Enviously thawing from close people and friends,
Our best hopes and vote noble,
By disbelief of derision the passions.
Dreams of poetry, creation of art,
By sweet delight our mind not move;
We greedily protect at the chest some rest of feeling,
Buried by avarice and useless treasure.
Both ways: we hate and we love casually,
By nothing endowing to rage and love,
Any cold secret also reigns in our soul,
When fire boils in blood.
And magnificent entertainments of ancestors too boring for us,
Their diligent, childish debauch;
And we hasten to the coffin without happiness and glory,
Looking back suffocating.
By gloomy and sooner forget crowd,
Above the World we will pass without noise and trace,
Without givens to centuries any prolific idea,
Without any work of Genius.
Mickhail Lermontov, 1838
" O Lord, who will be a guest in your tent?
He who is walking faultlessly and practicing righteousness and speaking the truth in his heart.
( Psalms 15 : 1 - 2 )
" Do not swear at all, neither by heaven...nor by earth...nor by your head! Just let Your words Yes mean Yes, Your No, No..."
" Why, You must not murder, You must not commit adultery, You must not steal..."
( Matthew 5 : 34, 35, 36, 37; 19 : 18 )
" Moreover, stop judging, and You will by means be judged; and stop condemning, and You will by means be condemned." ( Luke 6 : 37 )
" By endurance on Your part You will acquire Your souls."
" But pay attention to Yourselves that Your hearts never become weighed down with overeating and heavy drinking and anxieties of life."
( Luke 21 : 19, 34 )
How often was surrounded by motley crowd,
When a front of me, as if through dream,
With noise of music and dances,
With wild whisper and well known of speeches,
Flashing images of the people without soul's feelings
The pulled together masks...
Oh! How I would like to confuse their cheerfulness,
And throw out in there eyes an iron verse,
Which sluice over by bitterness and rage.
Mickhail Lermontov,1840
" Keep on, then, seeking first the kingdom and his righteousness, and all other things will be added to You." ( Matthew 6 : 33 )
I love my Native Land, but strange of love!
Mind of mine will not win,
No glory bought by blood,
No complete proud trust rest,
No dark olden time,
Not move in me some pleasant dreams.
But I love - for what? I don't know indeed,
Her steppes cold silence,
Her woods boundless in waving,
Her floods of the rivers like the seas.
I love to skip in a cart, by country road,
And, slowly gazing the shadow of the night,
Meet on the side of the way, sighing about longing,
Shivering fires of the sad villages.
I love puff of smoke from burn stubble,
In steppe spending of the night some sledges,
And on the hill among yellow field,
Couple of the white birches.
Mickhail Lermontov,1841
" Now one of the man that had come up and heard them disputing, knowing that he had answered them in a fine way, asked him: Which commandment is first of all? Jesus answered: The first is Lord our God is one God, and you must love Lord your God with your whole heart and with your whole soul and with your whole mind and with you whole strength. The second is this, You must love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these." ( Mark 12 : 28 - 31 )
In my mind I have created the other World,
And others images in existence,
I have connected them by a circuit,
I have given them an appearance,
But has not given them the names.
Suddenly, howl of Earthly storm was distributed,
And fell down my incorrect creation...
So, a front off idleness crowd,
And with national balalaika,
The singer sits in a shadow,
Always disinterested and free.
He suddenly issues a loud sound,
In honor of the darling virgin for his heart,
But the sound suddenly will tear off strings...
Beginning of the song was heard..,
But it is useless!
Anybody don't finish of the end of it...
Mickhail Lermontov, 1829
" So Jesus started to say to them: Look out that nobody misleads You. Many will come on the basis of my name..." " For false Christs and false prophets will arise." " You, then, watch out; I have told You all things beforehand." ( Mark 13 : 5, 22, 23 )
Forever you, the unwashed Russia!
The land of slaves the land of lords:
And you, the blue-uniformed ushers,
And people who worship them as gods.
Mickhail Lermontov, 1841
" Moreover, when You hear of wars and reports of wars, do not be terrified; these things must take place, but the end is nor yet. For nation and kingdom against kingdom, there will be earthquakes in one place after another, there will be food shortages. These are a beginning of pangs of distress." ( Mark 13 : 7 - 8 )
" And there will be great earthquakes, and in one place after another pestilences and food shortage; and there will be fearful sights and from heaven great signs." ( Luke 21 : 11 )
" Further, brother will deliver up brother to death, and a father his child, and children will rise up against parents and will have them put to death." ( Matthew 10 : 21 )
A year will come, the year of Russia, last,
When the monarchs' crown will be cast;
Mob will forget its former love and faith,
And food of many will be blood and death;
When the cast off law will not guard
A guiltless woman and a feeble child;
When the plague on bodies, sick or dead,
Among the gloomy villages will spread,
To call from huts with pieces of a rag,
And dearth will maim this poor earth as plague;
Mickhail Lermontov, 1830
" But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will be falling out of heaven, and the powers that are in the heavens will be shaken. And then he will send forth the angels and will gather his chosen ones together from the four winds, from earth's extremity to heaven's extremity."
( Mark 13 : 24 - 27 )
Shines of the small icon-lamp,
In dark children's bedroom,
Silently, deafly.
In lace and pink bed,
Has hidden shy baby.
What there? As if tread of brownie,
He there lives - small and bald.
Misfortune - from the wardrobe,
Slowly leaves malicious rat!
In dark of the small icon-lamp,
Moving by a prickly moustache,
Looks, whether there is a girl in bed,
Girl, with huge eyes.
Mummy, mummy, but mum with the visitors.
In the kitchen whisper of a nurse Vasilisa,
And shine for pleasure and rage
As if coals, tiny eyes of rat.
It is terrible to rise, but to wait even more terrible,
Where you! Where my Angel with white-wings!
Darling Angel, flying faster,
Protect from the rat and goodness sake to me!
Nickolay Gumilev, 1903 - 1907
" And he will certainly render judgment among the nations and set matters straight respecting many peoples. And they will have to beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning shears. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, neither will they learn war anymore." ( Isaiah 2 : 4 )
And with mysterious and intimate sadness,
I being silent thought - Man!
What he wants?
The sky is clear.
Under the sky a lot of place,
Will suffice for all,
But incessantly and vainly,
Only He on the war...
What for!?
Mickhail Lermontov, 1840
" For this is the will of my Father, that everyone that beholds the Son and exercises faith in him should have everlasting life, and I will resurrect him at the last day."
( John 6 : 40 )
In my delirium one me torment,
Some sharp lines infinity,
And incessantly bell calls,
As fight of clock ringing of eternity.
It seems to me, that after death so,
With painful hope for Resurrection,
Eyes look at in the neighboring gloom,
Looking for a long time familiar of ghosts.
But at the ocean of primordial haze,
There are no votes and no green grass,
But only cubes, rhombuses and corners,
And malicious, unending ringing.
Oh, dreams have overtaken me out!
To leave, as on a holiday of conciliation,
On yellow sand of the gray-haired seas,
To count some large and brown stones.
Nickolay Gumilev, 1915
That's why..." Keep on asking, and it will be given You; keep on seeking, and You will find; keep on knocking, and it will be opened to You!" ( Matthew 7 : 7 )
Nobody does not heed my words,
I'm alone!
The day dies away,
Red drawn being strips,
On West the clouds have evaded,
And fireplace,
Cracks a front of me.
I am complete full of dreams.
About the future...
And my days with melancholy,
Monotonously pass back to back,
And I am useless searching,
By confused of eyes,
From them only one day...
Marked by destiny!
Mickhail Lermontov, 1840
One more not necessary day,
Magnificent... And not necessary,
Come to me the gently shadow,
And dressing my vague soul,
By pearl chasuble.
And you have come, you turn away,
Boding birds of my grief,
Oh! My sovereign -night,
Nobody in forces to overcome,
Victory's step of yours!
From mountains flies the silence,
The moon, shines on your wrists,
And in my dream to me has given again,
Promised Land,
Tear-stained happiness of mine.
Nickolay Gumilev, 1908
" This is my commandment, that You Love one another just as I have Loved You. No one has Love greater than this, that someone should surrender his soul in behalf of his Friends."
( John 15 : 12 - 13 )
The sun has disappeared in the West,
Behind fields of the Promised Land,
And calm's backwater,
Became blue and silent.
Drowsily shake the cane.
The bat has flown by,
Fish splash in the pool,
And all come to the house,
Who has house...
I have remained outside alone,
Look at the dark, blue pool,
Where in the afternoon so pleasant to swim,
And in the evening - to cry...
Because I love you -
- My Lord!!!
Nickolay Gumilev, 1910
When yellow cornfield a bit moving,
And the fresh wood rustles from sound of breeze,
And crimson plum has hidden in a garden,
Under a sweet shadow of the green leaf.
When by fragrant dew of splash water,
In the rosy evening or in the morning's gold hour.
From under a bush the lily just silvery to me.
Affably nodding a head.
When an ice cold stream, playing on the gully,
And immersing an idea in vague dream.
Babble to me some mysterious saga,
About peace territory from where it rushes.
Then in my soul become peaceful,
Then the wrinkles on my brow became smooth,
And happiness I am ready to reach on the Earth!
And on the heaven I can see a God!!!
Mikhail Lemont, 1837
Chapter IV. Bible’s philosophy of Love
" Everything He has made pretty in its time. Even
time indefinite He has put in their heart,
that mankind may never find out the work that
the Lord has made from the start to the finish."
( Ecclesiastes 3 : 11 )
" In the beginning the Word was, and the Word was with God, and the Word was a Lord."
( John 1 : 1 )
First sign:
The Nature of the planet of Earth is a generous, invaluable gift from God and an inexhaustible source of Love. The man himself, if he consecrate by her salutary influence, realizes, that he only a small part of Divine Being. An allocated of Mind and Speech only for creative, search ways for harmonious coexistence with Nature.
Second sign:
Jesus Christ is envoy from the united God on the Earth - Son of Human and Son of Lord! Bearing light and word; way of Love and Salvation!
In this image with flesh and blood, Son of human have been appearing to the Civilization like greatly open form the Sense of Being and the main philosophy of the Universe.
All alive and lifeless substance is spiritual and from the first step of Great Creation have been consecrating by Blessing of Lord.
Probably, only to Man were given a special privilege for self-comprehension and freedom, to get up a choice on this way. The hard way, but creative...From since earliest time by aspiration to the ideal embodied in an image of the Son of God - Jesus Christ! So simply and so difficult in an accessible ideal...
In this unity, the people also consists such a great example - by image and similarity -in all of us content of spark from God. So, the great wisdom and precept for the mankind have been realizing and cherishing this Divine Gift.
Everyone allocated this Gift from an instant. To everyone has given the right of a choice and only a self-comprehension of this simply thesis, could be the result for the man's Happiness! Only in such a condition might be open a spiritual grain of Love for everybody and everyone. Only then, a front of him, the world of creative knowledge and true way of self-perfection generously swings open.
You see if I, let on the small part, has allocated by LOVE of God, I will be trying on the my life's way, even being mistaken and falling, but rising and directing, will bring up in myself a highest level of love motivations towards to the environment which I surround from the beginning - Nature and People!
That's why Jesus so much spoke about kids. As a matter of fact, about importance of their education during greatest susceptibility and formation their personal imperatives. Look...
" See to it that You men do not despise one of these little ones; for I tell You that their angels in heaven always behold the face of my Father who is in heaven."
( Matthew 18 : 10 ) and more...
" However, Jesus called to him, saying: Let the young children come to me, and do not try to stop them. For the kingdom of God belongs to suchlike ones. Truly I say to You, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a young child will by no means get into it." ( Luke 18 : 16 - 17 )
As it's spoken in Russian, national proverb: " What was sow, that will harvesting!"
" Difficultly itself to present that revolution, which could be take place in all material life of the people, if the people, will become to live in Love, but only will cease to live
by spiteful Love for a killing treasure." ( Lev Tolstoy, 1908 )
" Do you not know that You people are God's temple, and that spirit of God dwells in You? If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for the temple of God in holy, which You people are." ( I Corinthians 3 : 16 - 17 )
Third sign:
The way of achievement of a Divine ideal run up through the Love. Therefore, the basis any creative activity Human Being on the planet of Earth (in politics, science, economy and ordinary life) should be only through Dialogues of Love.
" If I speak in the tongues of man and of angels but do not have Love, I have become a sounding brass or a clashing cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophesying and an acquainted with all the sacred secrets and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to transplant mountains, but do not have Love, I am nothing. And if I give all my belongings to feed others, and if I hand over my body, that I may boast, but do not have Love, I am not profited at all. Love is long-suffering and kind. Love is not jealous, it does not brag, does not get puffed up, does not behave indecently, does not look for its own interests, and does not become provoked. If does not keep account of the injury. It does not rejoice over unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things. Love never falls. But whether there are gifts of prophesying, they will be done away with; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will be done away with." ( I Corinthians 13 : 1 - 8 )
Chapter V. The hope dies by last...
" Didn't make anything bad, but in
soul not well, hadn't have a sense
of Love..."
Lev Tolstoy, 1909
Finishing a perusal of the New Testament it’s necessary to ascertain, that pressing appeals and precepts. Speech of Jesus Christ, from time to time, descending down to the sadness.
He saw like his attempts by speaking to the people were met a lot of misleading. Even the main idea of Love that's given them in naive - lyrical and irrational style, to perceive by his disciples, crowd, official and holy authority with ill - will of fear.
The people, who surrounded of Christ, only would like to see a sign from the heaven. Following rational logic in the development of the Bible's narration, Human’s Son satisfied their insatiable wishes for sure. In the conclusion of the His short earthly life, He, without any resistance, tern down himself for the profanation and death. Just believe, that His example could be awake their hearts and brains for a real Life.
However, in modern time being, we can see that his hopes were not fated to come true.
Therefore, the Bible's skepticism of Jesus so natural...Let's have a look together...
" ...They asked him to display to them a sign from heaven."
"O, a wicked and adulterous generation keeps on seeking for sign, but no sign will be given..." ( Matthew 16 : 1; 4 )
"His brothers were, in fact, not exercising faith in him" ( John 7 : 5 )
Sending the disciples for the sermons, Jesus addressed them: " Look! I am sending You forth as sheep amidst wolves..." ( Matthew 10 : 16 )...but even from them He didn't have enough spiritual support on time...
" At that Jesus said to him: Truly I say to you, You today, yes, this night, before a cock crows twice, even You will disown me three times. " ( Mark 14 : 30 )
"...At such time as this You are sleeping and taking Your rest! Look! The hour has drawn near for the Son of man to be betrayed into the hands of sinners. Get up, let us go. Look! My betrayer has drawn near. And while he was yet speaking, look! Judas one of the twelve, came and with him a great crowd with swords and clubs from the chief priests and older men of the people." ( Matthew 26 : 45 - 47 )
At list... "... all the disciples abandoned him and fled. " ( Matthew 26 : 56 )
The Orthodoxy Priesthood... " For he was aware that because of envy the chief priests had handed him over." ( Mark 15 : 10 )
The crowd... " And some started to spit on him and to cover his whole face and hit him with their fists and say to him: Prophesy! And slapping him in the face, the court attendants took him." ( Mark 14 : 65 )
And finally... "... they forced the people to yelling..." Impale! Impale Him!" ( Luke 23 : 21 )
Just looking forward He understand the all situation with so sorrowful drama beside his Earth's Life and Jesus have been saying:
" The world has no reason to hate You, but its hates me, because I bear witness concerning it that its works are wicked."
" People have blinded their eyes and they have made their hearts hard, that eyes and get the thought with their hearts and turn around and I should heal them."
( John 7 : 7 ; 12 : 40 )
Anyway, close to the time of destruction, Jesus, practically, had to stay alone!!!
A year will come, the year of Russia, last,
When the monarchs' crown will be cast;
Mob will forget its former love and faith,
And food of many will be blood and death;
When the cast off law will not guard
A guiltless woman and a feeble child;
When the plague on bodies, sick or dead,
Among the gloomy villages will spread,
To call from huts with pieces of a rag,
And dearth will maim this poor earth as plague;
Mickhail Lermontov, 1830
But nevertheless, His calls and prayers towards to the People have been continuing to sound in all over the World. It's only one thing what could be bringing up the Hope!
All in this World were created and grow up by Great Love of Lord! So, only for the people has been done an unique opportunity will be opening and harmonizing an all Love's characteristics in the Universe, and without decoration by pseudo - scientific theories, vainly to try to find out their favorite place under the Sun.
That's why very important to follow His words..." Accordingly I say to You: Keep on asking, and it will be given to You; keep on seeking, and You will find; keep on knocking, and it will be opened to You. For everyone asking receives, and everyone seeking finds, and to everyone knocking it will be opened." ( Luke 11 : 9 - 10 )
Chapter VI Instead of conclusion...
" It's impossible to stop talking right up
here, in Russia, without crying of pain,
when you see all the horrors, which going
by in such a usual ways. "
Lev Tolstoy, 1909
In a history of a human civilization the multinational community of people called, Russia, always occupied a special place indeed. Only in its fate felled down so terrible disasters and fatal casualties for a long, long time...The scales of its so horrible, that for any mind, which thinking by rational way really hard to trust - how they can save at all !?
Let's have a look just to the modern history of Russia: Russian - Japanese war, First World war, two Revolutions and Civil war, Stalin's Terror and Second World war...For the period, a bit more then 40 years from now, in Russia had been killed about from 60 to 70 millions the people. In such a bloody orgy, hundred of millions the human souls were spoiled for sure. And it seems just incredible, that the Russia still alive...and, moreover, presented and have been showing to the World in the same time, such a precious breeding ground of spiritual Revelation like a Prose and Poetry, Painting and Music, Theology and Philosophy, and also Unique systems of a Nature Preserves...
First of all it means that the hopes has not died. Its still have a glimmer of hope and amazingly, it still has been developing in very active way by some persons and groups of people...
All this, more and more times, have to see by very intently our environment. We should feel by heart and by soul some Holy Revelations which have been giving to all of us from the God and his Prophets, particularly Russians Prophets, such the Poets and Writers like the Mikhail Lermontov, Nickolay Berdaev, Fedor Tutchev, Lev Tolstoy, Nikolay Gumilev, Mikhail Bulgakov and Viktor Astafiev...We should have been keeping our efforts, through their epistolary creations and will be in touch with life-giving Truth of the Universe!
There are speeches - there meaning are darkly or insignificant,
But them without excitement to heed it is impossible.
As its complete the sounds, madness of feeling!
In them the tears of separation, in them pleasure of suffering.
Will not meet the answer, among the noise's World,
From flame and light, were born its words.
But in the temple, among of fight and where ever I will be,
By hearing, I will recognize its everywhere.
Not finish the prayer, on call that I will answer,
And will rush from the battle, towards to it!
Mickhail Lermontov, 1839
Last stroke ...
So, this book was born like some efforts by my own and weak voice to try to sing again and again some Songs towards to the Human. Songs which full of God's Love, Hopes and Revelations. Sometimes its could be lyrical ways at the poems and prose in all around the World. Sometimes it’s a simply wonderful scene of alive Nature in all over the place too.
You see, a specially the Poems and Nature, they like an amazing stars, they like a revelations from the Lord, always have been shining to the People by romantic and transparent mysteries...
Anyway, I don't hope that whenever this book will be reading by official’s people, especially in Russia...
Such a wonderful and long - suffering country! Well-known with unique Nature... But if this unreal thing will happen, for me, with all my pain in soul, will be so great to hope that New Russian Government might be show for all their Christian Wisdom! All in all they could be showing the World many great examples for take care about People and Nature!
For all that, even with many the economic and political difficulties of a modern period they still have a time to stop the obvious tendencies to the self-terrible destruction.
You see, just in it consists the most important Sacred applicability of the Man on the Earth!
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'me up with workout tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will, which says to them: "Hold on";
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!
Rudyard Kipling ( 1865 - 1936 )
" Let him that has ears to listen, listen!" ( Mark 4 : 10 )...because even when..." heaven and Earth will pass away, but my words will by no means pass away."
( Matthew 24 : 35 )
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Bibliography:
1. New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures, International Bible Students Association,
Brooklyn, New York, USA, 1984
2. Nature of the World, Deserts, published by " Thought ", Moscow, 1986
3. Wreath of Great, published by " Progress ", Moscow, 1999
3. Mickhail Lermontov, Collected Works, published by "Artistic Literature",Moscow, 1964
4. Lev Tolstoy, Collected Works, Diary, published by "Artistic Literature", Moscow, 1960
5. Alexander Pushkin, Collected Works, published by "Artistic Literature", Moscow, 1985
6. Fedor Tutchev, Poems, published by " Pravda ", Moscow, 1987
7. Nickolay Gumilev, Library of Poetry, published by " Diamant", S-Petersburg, 1997
8. George Ivanov, Book for the students and teachers, published by "AST", Moscow, 1998
Poetry and prose translation from Russian by:
Evgeniy Bonver, Lindsay Malcom, Vladimir Sevostianov, Maya Jouravleva.
Commentary:
Mickhail Lermontov - Great Russian Poet and Writer ( 1814 - 1841 ).
Most of the mysterious man and forerunner author for many poets and writers in all over the World. Unfortunately He died so youthful by duel. " So, what the pity fate of poet, who was born in Paradise, which was turn down to the Earth, have been trying to find out some Happiness and Love, which He left in the Elysium." ( Sergey Andrievskiy, 1899).
That's why..." Become so awfully for Russia, that like verdict of fate, killed down most of her best Sons...( Yriy Samarin, 1819 - 1876 ).
Anyway His influence to the World's Culture has been growing up constantly.
Here are some short comments about His creative work:
" Nobody in our country wrote such a true, beautiful and fragrant prose."
( Nickolay Gogol', 1846 )
" Sometimes from his poems much more benefit for spiritual people then from so boring propagations..." ( Konstantin Leont'ev, 1890 )
" I don't know the better style like by Lermontov...I will make like that: take his story and analysis it, as at school - by line, by small pieces...And after all will be studying how to write!"
( Anton Chehov, 1860 - 1904 )
" A lot of observations of Nature tern on his mind for deeply understanding the soul of the Human Being." ( Inokentiy Anenskiy, 1891)
" His creation work could be only like a Prophet and Magician."
( Vladimir Solov'ev, 1899 )
" His poems for us like a prayers, which we memorized from our childhood." ( Dmitriy Meregskovskiy, 1908 - 1909 )
" Lermontov gave the first step all movements in literature, which then by Gogol', Dostoevskiy, Tolstoy Russian creations become like the confession. Its push up her to the highest standard and made her truly religious." ( Vladimir Hodasevich, 1914 )
" He is a poet of Revival; He was a real Christian." " By feelings, Lermontov has been most of the religious Russian writer." ( Peter Percov, 1897)
Nickolay Gumilev ( 1886 - 1921 ) - Russian Poet.
By his point of view to the life on the Earth, so close in spirit to the Lermontov. He was killed by communist regime in Sent - Petersburg. But again and again, he is one of the most popular poet in Russia, for now!
" Try to imagine that you speak with alive Lermontov...What you can say to him? What can ask about?" ( Alexasndr Levinson,.......)
" Only the Word, among some anxiety on the Earth,
Into the Gospel by John, was saying,
That Word was Lord! "
( Nickolay Gumilev,.......)
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