By Batiushka for The Saker blog
The news of the Western-sponsored terrorist murder of Alexander Dugin’s daughter, Daria, has shocked us all. Of course, in one sense it is no different from all the other brutal murders carried out by drone by the Obama regime, or the CIA’s disposal of countless human-beings under their puppet regimes from the Philippines to Vietnam, from Italy to Latin America, from Greece to Africa, and in many other countries over the last three generations. Nevertheless, it concerns me more personally, as I know her father.
I first met the Russian Eurasianist philosopher Alexander Dugin in London in 2005. He and I were two of the four speakers at an International Conference on the European Tradition. My approach was spiritual and so politically neutral, his approach was that of a right-wing academic. But regardless of that, we were heading in the same direction and, all the more as I was the only Orthodox priest present, we sympathised. I was able to speak to him between talks and we had a photograph taken together.
Alexander went on to become quite well-known on the academic and political philosophy circuits internationally. His influence on President Putin has been much exaggerated by the ignorant and hate-filled Western media which has decided (or rather been ordered) to cast him as ‘Putin’s adviser’, but that is another story. In fact, Alexander was a theoretician. However, as such his books, articles and talks were always stimulating and thought-provoking and will continue to be so.
It is my hope and prayer that the sacrifice of his daughter, Daria, which leaves him heart-broken, as it would any father, will not make him bitter. Rather it will inspire him to purify and refine his thought further, so that his influence through her will be ever greater. Below I attach the talk I gave that day, seventeen eventful years ago. I dedicate it to Daria.
23 August 2022
Holy Europe and Anti-Europe
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand be forgotten
Psalm 136, 6
Foreword
Last November I was invited to come and speak to you about Europe. My viewpoint is perhaps an original one for most of you, since it has an Orthodox Christian perspective. In the Orthodox Church we have a very different understanding of the Trinitarian God, and therefore of life, from that found in the Catholic/Protestant religion. I hope that this will become apparent to you in the course of this talk.
I have lived all over Europe and have travelled in many other parts of Europe and worked with dozens of European nationalities. I have been deeply drawn to many places in Europe, some well-known, others very obscure. I have very good friends in many European countries. So I have learned to have compassion for others, and try and look at the world from different standpoints. The following is a viewpoint which expresses the underlying unity of Europe, but which is also respectful of the diversity of the national traditions of European peoples. I hope that it will be of interest to you.
Introduction: Cynicism and Belief
Great nations are born in real belief and enthusiasm. They die in unbelief and cynicism.
Alfred Noyes, 1937
So wrote the English Catholic poet Alfred Noyes nearly seventy years ago. Perhaps we may also say, paraphrasing his words: ‘Great civilizations are born in real belief and enthusiasm. They die in unbelief and cynicism’. These words, sadly, may seem strangely apt in relation to modern Europe, which does appear to be drowning in unbelief and cynicism.
In today’s decadent European context it may therefore seem peculiar to use the words ‘Holy’ and ‘Europe’ together. However, if we can speak of ‘Political Europe’, ‘Economic Europe’ or ‘Social Europe’, then we should also be able to speak of ‘Holy Europe’. Moreover, it is our duty to speak of this, for it is the belief of the Church that if the European house does not first have a holy foundation, if it is built not on rock, but on sand, then it will possess no lasting moral or cultural values, it will be flooded and blown away, and great will be the fall of it.
It is our belief that the cause of moral and cultural decadence is always in spiritual decadence. It is our belief that a humanity deprived of spiritual values is a humanity doomed to falter and fail in a cultural and moral quagmire. Not believing in God, we no longer believe in ourselves. The result is the purposeless but uniform futility that we see around us in today’s throwaway culture, with its throwaway remarks, disposable goods, junk food, junk music, junk TV, junk culture, junk existence. This is the situation today, not so much of Europe, but of Anti-Europe. How has this Anti-Europe come into being and how can we return to a Europe of spiritual culture and moral dignity, a Europe of nobility and indeed holiness?
Europe and Jerusalem
We have forgotten Jerusalem and the land where He was born
Christmas 1912, J.E. Flecker
In any consideration of Europe and the Christian understanding of the word holiness, we must first point out that Christianity came down from heaven and became incarnate not in Europe, but in Asia. In the fourth century this was the whole sense of planting the capital of the Roman Christian Empire on the Bosphorus. At the gates of Europe and Asia, New Rome, or Constantinople as it came to be called, looked to unite both East and West, as symbolized by the emblem of the double-headed eagle.
Although Christians in Asia, including in the Middle East, were eventually to become a minority in a sea of Islam, the source of what some might call ‘the European Faith’ is not in Europe, but in Asia, or more precisely in Jerusalem. It does not matter whether it was the Russian Patriarch, Nikon (1605-1681), who in the seventeenth century built to the south of Moscow, a complex of buildings imitating the sacred geography of Jerusalem, which he called ‘New Jerusalem’. It does not matter whether it was the English visionary, William Blake (1757-1827), who wrote that he would not cease from mental fight, till we had ‘built Jerusalem in England’s green and pleasant land’. It has always been to Jerusalem that Europeans, East and West, have looked for inspiration as the source of holiness. And every step that Europe has taken away from its roots in Jerusalem has always been a step away from Christ. Jerusalem is at the roots of Europe’s Faith and Europe’s Holiness.
Indeed, when the region around Jerusalem where Christ lived was given the name ‘the Holy Land’, Europeans imitated it. Thus, like the Holy Land, the largest country in Europe, Russia, was also given the title ‘Holy’ and called Holy Russia. Elsewhere there is the Holy Mountain (Mt Athos), and in England, Scotland and Wales there are Holy Islands. As for Ireland, it was once known as ‘The Island of the Saints’. And all European countries, from Armenia to Iceland, Lapland to Portugal via Liechtenstein and all points inbetween, have adopted Patron Saints, be it St Gregory or St Columba, St Tryphon or St George and St Theodul, St Andrew or St Patrick, St Modest or St Olaf, St Denis or St Sava, St James or St David.
Furthermore, two European countries and thousands upon thousands of settlements in Europe, have taken their names from those who have won holiness and so become local Patrons. There are Georgia and San Marino, named after St George and St Marinus, and then countless cities, towns, villages, islands, mountains and lakes. To name but a few: St Petersburg in Russia and the same dedication of St Peter Port in Guernsey, St Andrew’s in Scotland and the same dedication of Szentendre in Hungary, the island of São Miguel in the Azores and the same dedications of Archangelsk in the far north of Russia, Monte San Angelo in Italy and Mont St Michel in Normandy, Santiago de Compostela (St James) in Galicia and San Sebastián (St Sebastian) in the Basque Country, Sankt Gallen in Switzerland and Sankt Johann in Austria, Saint Nazaire in France and the island of Aghia Marina in the Dodecanese, Sviatogorsk in the Ukraine and St Alban’s in England, St Agnes in the Isles of Scilly and Santa Cruz, the Holy Cross, in the Canaries.
Another tiny European country, Monaco, is named after the monks who once dwelt there, and there are hundreds of towns named after the same monks and nuns who sought and brought holiness, from München, Mönchengladbach and Münster in Germany, to Monastir in Macedonia. There are countless French towns including the word Moutiers and some thirty-two English minster-towns from Axminster to Westminster. As regards the word ‘church’ and all its equivalents, we could start with Christchurch in the south of England, go to innumerable Llan names in Wales, to Kirkwall in the Orkneys, from there to Dunkirk, the church on the dunes, in northern France, pass on to Belaya Tserkov to the south of Kiev and then back to Trinité sur Mer in Brittany, to cite just a few examples.
Other sites and towns are famous simply as holy places, be it Rome, Echmiadzin in Armenia, Trondheim in Norway, Tinos in Greece, Iasi in Romania, Roskilde in Denmark, Czestochowa in Poland, St Paul’s Bay in Malta, Zhirovitsy in Belarus, Braga in Portugal, Mtskheta in Georgia, Echternach in Luxembourg, Diveyevo in Russia, Montserrat in Catalonia, Rila in Bulgaria, Skellig Michael in Ireland, Pochaiev in the Ukraine, Iona in Scotland, Piukhtitsa in Estonia, Utrecht in Holland, Ochrid in Macedonia, the shrine of the Virgin of Meritxell in Andorra, Pec in Serbia, Birka in Sweden, Marianka in Slovakia, Valaamo in Finland, Fulda in Germany, Velehrad in Moravia, Einsiedeln in Switzerland, or Canterbury in England.
Despite these historic facts, there are those who, to the amazement of men and angels alike, would deny the Christian basis of Europe. Indeed they have just drawn up a Constitution for the atheist Europe of their dreams, and our nightmares. Such people would cut Europe off from its spiritual roots, they would confirm the Anti-Europe.
Europe and Anti-Europe
The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.
Lord Grey, 3 August 1914
In speaking of an Anti-European spirit we may first think of the insular nationalism of the Irish and the Icelanders, of the Maltese and the Corsicans, of the Cypriots and the Sicilians, of the Sardinians and the English, of the Faeroese and the Shetlanders. Their insularity comes from living on islands. However, continental Europeans can also be insular. Those who live in the mountains have also fought their tribal battles, whether in the Swiss valleys, the mountains of Armenia and Georgia, the Carpathians of Slovakia, the glens of the Scottish clans or in the Balkans, from Bosnia to Croatia, Albania to Macedonia, Serbia to Montenegro, Romania to Bulgaria.
However, it is not only island and mountain peoples who can be insular and nationalistic. The French, for instance, have fought wars to preserve the geometric integrity of ‘L’Hexagone’, ensuring ‘insular’ borders, the Pyrenees, the Alps, the Rhine, the Vosges, the Ardennes. Where there was no natural border, nations constructed the buffer-state of Belgium between France and emerging Germany. Other European countries have been constantly overrun, because they had no natural borders, through lack of insularity, as one might say. The flat plains of Hungary, the Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, provide no protection.
In the modern context, we can also see the same insularity, the same nationalist reluctance to accept others. Western European politicians are prone to say the word ‘Europe’, and in fact mean their own country. ‘La France forte dans une Europe forte’, ‘A strong France in a strong Europe’, was the war cry of French President Jacques Chirac only a few years ago. Many another European politician has made it clear down the years that when they spoke of Europe, in fact they often meant their own selfish interests. Another example: wherever you travel in the European Union, you will see signs with the yellow ring of EU stars, in the centre of which you will find a GB or D or I or SU, or whatever it may be. This is not a European identity, this is a national identity under siege.
Thus, although nationalist insularity can embody the spirit of Anti-Europe, there is also another sort of Anti-European insularity. In order to exercise close control and create the illusion of a centrally united Europe, many politicians speak of ‘Europe’, when in fact they mean the European Union. In fact, this so-called ‘Union’ is not Europe, but merely an insular Europe. It is merely the Western corner of Europe, with some significant gaps – Norway and Switzerland, for example, which, for many, are the most European countries of all. And in this so-called European Union there are the gaps of the two largest countries in Europe: Russia and the Ukraine, and some fifteen other countries and peoples.
There is nothing new in this, for such a European Union was attempted even towards the end of the First Millennium. As the great French medieval historian, Jacques Le Goff, has written of the first attempted European Union, that of the Carolingian Empire: ‘Of all previous attempts to unite Europe, this was the first example of a perverted Europe…it was the first failure of all the attempts to build a Europe dominated by one people or one empire. The Europe of Charles V, that of Napoleon and that of Hitler, were in fact anti-Europes’. (In ‘Was Europe born in the Middle Ages’, p.47 in the French edition of the collection ‘Faire l’Europe’, Seuil, 2003). It is our belief that the present version of the European Union is just such another Anti-Europe. The very word ‘Union’ symbolises this fact, for any centrally-imposed Union, not freely-chosen, inevitably crushes the diversity of its peoples.
True, strides have recently been made to incorporate several ‘missing’ parts of Europe into the European Union. Here I am thinking of the addition of ten more countries to the EU on 1 May 2004. However, these new members have not yet been absorbed into the Brussels machine and perhaps, thank God, never will be. The accession of these ten new members has revealed an obscure but highly symbolic problem; it has proved impossible to find a single person out of 450 million who can interpret or translate from Finnish to Maltese and vice versa. Other permutations, such as Slovak to Danish, Estonian to Greek, Lithuanian to Hungarian, Dutch to Latvian, Slovene to Spanish and vice versa, have also proved very problematic. This problem symbolises the diversity within even the present European Union and the impossibility of actually imposing the Brussels centralist nightmare on such a diverse and obstinately real Europe.
Thus, in our context, when we speak of Anti-Europe, we mean both the nationalist refusal to accept the underlying unity of Europe, and also the internationalist refusal to accept its diversity. By Anti-Europe we mean that spirit which cuts Europeans off from the only thing that Europe really has in common, Jerusalem, Europe’s Christian roots, Europe’s Holiness, and that also cuts Europeans off from other Europeans. For in cutting themselves off from God, Europeans cut themselves off from their neighbours and so become tribal:
In failing to love God, Europe fails to observe the first commandment of the Gospel.
In failing to love its neighbour as itself, Europe fails to observe the second commandment of the Gospel. And he who fails to love his neighbour as himself, automatically begins to hate himself.
And so Europe takes the path of suicide. Hatred of God leads to hatred of man; hatred of man leads to hatred of self.
This is the path that Anti-Europe has taken again and again, from the Deicidal Crusades and Inquisitions of the Middle Ages, to the Fratricidal ‘Wars of Religion’ of the Reformation, to the Suicidal Wars of 1914 and 1939.
After committing tribal genocide against its own European peoples in the first half of the twentieth century, Anti-Europe came directly to its post-1945 reaction. This was the temptation of centralising, creating the cosmopolitan uniformity of the European Union. As a result, since 1945 a cultural suicide has been taking place in Europe. Mafia-like Eurocrats, encouraged by the United States, have tried to impose uniformity on all, crushing European national identities by imposing secularism. This is not the underlying unity of Europe’s roots in Jerusalem, but a false unity, the pseudo-unity of secular Brussels, of Anti-Europe. From the Christian standpoint, such ‘unity’, top-down centralisation, is no more a solution to Europe’s problems than the warring nationalisms which marred so much of Europe’s history in the Second Millennium.
In contrast, the original Christian model of international relations has never been aggressively nationalistic. Neither has it ever been soullessly cosmopolitan and internationalistic. The original Christian model has always been that of Trinitarian unity in diversity, Community, Commonwealth, Confederation. What hope is there for the victory of such a model today?
Europe and Interpatriotism
You are seeking and you shall find,
Not in the way you hope, not in the way foreseen.
A King’s Daughter, John Masefield
It is the recent accession of ten new members to the EU, with very diverse, but very European, histories, cultures and languages, which gives us hope. Their EU membership, together with the future potential membership of other European countries, may at last begin to break down the secular Anti-Europe. New members could destroy Anti-Europe’s ignorant and bigoted cosmopolitanism and its anti-religious ‘political correctness’, imported from post-Christian Puritan America, by creating a new awareness of real European identity. Their membership may at last put paid to the absurd ‘one size fits all’ standardisation and soul-destroying egalitarianism of the present European Union.
Above all, their membership could lead to a new awareness of the underlying stratum of what all European countries really have in common: Europe’s roots in the Faith from Jerusalem. It is those roots which reveal to us neither belligerent nationalism, nor soulless internationalism or Americanisation and Zionisation, which is now camouflaged under the name of ‘Globalisation’. Those roots reveal to the ignorant and bigoted a balance between the national and the international, a replacement for both nationalism and globalisation. I would call this replacement – Interpatriotism; the love not only of one’s own homeland, patriotism, but the love of the homelands of others too.
Bez Boga, ne do poroga. The Russian proverb can be translated freely as ‘No God, no entry’. It neatly illustrates opposition to the present-day EU among all who belong to the European Spiritual Tradition. It neatly illustrates what all European Christians have in common, in spite of and because of, their diversity. There are certain orthodox principles on which all who belong to the European Spiritual Tradition can agree. This is in our opposition to Godless secularism, the spirit of ‘this world’, to which we say ‘No entry’.
We saw this in October 2004 with the affair of Rocco Buttiglione, who was not allowed to express Christian sense, the sort of common sense that fifty years ago every five-year-old European child could express. At the end of 2004, personalities as diverse as Pope John Paul II and Archbishop Christodoulos of Athens, were at one in declaring that Buttiglione had been persecuted for his Faith, the once common Faith of Europe. On 19 November 2004 Cardinal Josef Ratzinger spoke of how the forces of secularism in Europe, the so-called ‘liberal consensus’, have now become aggressive persecutors of European Christendom. Like many others, we had been saying it for years before him.
There are such turning-points in European history, moments of truth, when questions of principle arise. Then we have to say where we stand, in black and white. And the united spiritual forces of Europe, united as they were for most of the First Millennium, the living Faith of Europe, can bring strength. Here I would like to give a few examples from that Europe of the First Millennium, a Europe united in diversity, before the Apostasy, betrayals and tragedies, before the Deicide, Fratricide and Suicide, which rapidly took form in the Second Millennium. For most of the First Millennium, called by many ‘The Age of Faith’, although divided and diverse, there was also unity, a spiritual unity which gave Europe the strength to absorb and baptize barbarian hordes and produce a new Europe. Here are a few names from that epoch, who illustrate true internationalism, or as I have called it – Interpatriotism:
St Irenaeus of Lyon was a Greek from Asia Minor. He was a disciple of St Polycarp, who had been a disciple of St John the Evangelist, ‘the disciple whom Christ loved’. A Church Father, he was Bishop of Lyon in Gaul, where he was martyred for the Faith at the beginning of the third century.
St Chrysolius was an Armenian who lived in the fourth century. Under persecution from the Persians, he left his homeland, went to what is now Belgium, and evangelised the area. He was martyred in Flanders and is still venerated in Bruges.
St Martin of Tours was born in the fourth century in what is now Szombathely in Hungary. He was educated in Pavia in Italy and enrolled in the Imperial cavalry. Posted to Gaul, he left the army after the famous incident in Amiens. He was to become the Bishop of Tours and one of the greatest saints of Christendom, a patron of the Loire Valley, of hundreds of French villages and towns and his name became one of the most common French, and indeed European, Christian names and surnames.
St John Cassian was born in the Dobrudja in what is now Romania. He became a monk in Egypt and in the fifth century established a monastery near Marseille in the south of France, becoming one of the great monastic Fathers of Christendom.
St Martin of Braga lived in the sixth century. Born in what is now Hungary, he became a monk in Palestine, then went to Galicia, in what is now Portugal. He is one of the greatest figures of the Iberian Peninsula and played an important role in converting pagans, like his namesake in Gaul. He made his see of Braga into the first spiritual centre for all north-west Iberia. Indeed, in Portuguese, Braga, ‘the Rome of Portugal’, has become proverbial: ‘tao velho como o sede de Braga’, ‘as old as the see of Braga’, means in English, ‘as old as the hills’.
St Theodore of Tarsus lived in the seventh century in Asia Minor, a hundred miles from the coast of Cyprus. In middle age he left for Rome and there played an important role in uniting East and West at a time of controversy. Then he was appointed the first Greek Archbishop of Canterbury. Here he played a fundamental part in uniting the strands of Irish and Roman Christianity in England, approving both as complementary to one another.
St Boniface was born in Devon in the south-west of England. In the eighth century he went to the German Lands and became a great missionary Archbishop, reforming much of the Christianity of north-western Europe. Supported by three Popes, including the Greek Pope St Zacharias, this Englishman, known as the Apostle of Germany, was martyred in Frisia in Holland in 754.
St George of Córdoba was born in Bethlehem in the ninth century and became a monk at St Sabbas Monastery outside Jerusalem. Fluent in Greek, Arabic and Latin, he then travelled via North Africa to Córdoba in Spain where he preached the Faith, finally being martyred with Spanish brothers and sisters by the Muslims.
St Wenceslas, or Václav, was Duke of the Czech Lands in the tenth century. He was martyred there in intrigues and is venerated in St Vitus Cathedral in Prague to this day, as the Patron-Saint of the Czech Lands.
St Olav was King of Sweden in the mid-tenth century. He and his family were baptized by the English missionary St Sigfrid. His daughter married into the Russian royal house, lived mainly in Novgorod, had twelve children, one of whom is venerated as a saint. In her widowhood, she became a nun, taking the name Anna and is herself honoured as a saint.
St Gregory of Burtscheid was a Greek monk from Calabria who, fleeing from the Muslims, met Emperor Otto III in Rome. At the latter’s invitation, Gregory went north and founded a monastery just outside Aachen where he was a holy Abbot, reposing in 996.
St Simeon of Padolirone was an Armenian pilgrim. Having visited Jerusalem, then Rome, Compostela in Spain and Tours in France, he settled at a monastery outside Padua in Italy, where he was renowned as a wonder-worker, reposing in 1016.
St Simeon of Trier was a Greek, born in Syracuse, educated in Constantinople, and who then lived as a hermit by the River Jordan, in Bethlehem and on Mt Sinai. Sent by his Abbot to Normandy to collect alms, he eventually settled in Trier in Germany and lived there as a much-venerated hermit. He was canonized seven years after his repose, which came in 1035.
Another Anna of the eleventh century, this time of Kiev, married Henri I of France. She played a vital role in spreading Christian values, like many other women of the First Millennium before her. As examples, there are St Clotilde in Gaul, the Greek Theodosia and also Ingonde in Spain, the Bavarian Theodelinda in Lombardy, the French Bertha in England, the English St Bathilde in France, the Czechs, St Ludmila in Czechia and Dubrava in Poland, the Swedish St Helga, or Olga, in Kiev, the Greek Empress Theophano in Germany. In Anna’s eleventh century Kiev, they were to welcome Christians such as Thorwald of Iceland and Gytha of Winchester. Both Kiev and Winchester were famed for their standards of civilization, running water, drains, pavements, education.
Here are but a few examples of the concourse or coming together, of Interpatriotic Europe in the First Millennium, before the advent of both warring nationalism and soulless internationalism in the Second Millennium. In the First Millennium, we find the roots of Europe, we find Holy Europe.
Conclusion: Roots and Routes
Die Weltgechichte is das Weltgericht
The history of the world is the judgement of the world
Friedrich von Schiller
Europe – you forgot holiness, and so you began a hundred wars of crusade and conquest over a thousand years.
Europe – you silenced your conscience, and so you invented the machine-gun and saturation bombing.
Europe – you stifled the voice of God, and so you invented the concentration camp and the Atom Bomb.
Europe – you forsook your roots in Jerusalem, and so you invented Anti-Europe.
I would paraphrase the most terrible, above-quoted words of Friedrich von Schiller, as he spoke in Jena in 1789: Die Europageschichte ist das Europagericht: The history of Europe is the judgement of Europe. The blood-soaked deeds of Anti-Europe are Europe’s judgement, but they are only part of Europe’s judgement. There is another Europe too. As I said at the beginning of this talk, the conjunction of the words ‘Holy’ and ‘Europe’ may seem strange, as though words from two different planets had collided, but I tell you, and have been telling you all this afternoon, that it was not always so. A voice from the past should be jarring on the memory of today’s Anti-Europe.
It is my belief that in seeking common European roots, or origins, we shall find routes, or paths, out of the present European crisis towards what I have called an ‘Interpatriotic Europe’, summed up so harmoniously in the French phrase ‘l’Europe des Patries’. It is in our common spiritual origins that we shall find our common spiritual opportunities. It is in our common spiritual identity that we shall find our common spiritual freedom. But if Europe denies her common roots, her common spiritual origins in Jerusalem, then, as even the warlike Churchill said of earlier twentieth-century Europe: ‘…the whole world…will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age, made more sinister and perhaps more protracted by the lights of perverted science’.
In recent years, I have heard certain naive people declaring that ‘the barbarians are at the gates’. They are not at the gates and have not been for a very long time. The barbarians entered long ago and began their long task of expelling Wisdom from the City. Ever since the barbarians have been parading in the City, destroying the walls and opening the gates wide, whenever new forms of barbarianism appeared. Nevertheless, I would end this talk with words of optimism, inherent to all Christians, who know that the last words in history will be Christ’s. As the Emperor Julian the Apostate is reputed to have said on his death-bed, some sixteen hundred years ago: Thou hast conquered, O Galilean…
Rest In Peace Daria. But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying,
I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living…
On that note…
“There is neither a “Holy” Land nor a “Holy” Jerusalem that needs to be prayed for. The New Covenant changed everything.
“Holiness is twofold: the perfection of God and the sanctification of Christians.
1. God is Holy.
“You are holy.” Psalm 22:3
2. True Christians become Holy because Christ resides in them, so they may produce the fruit of the Spirit.
“It is written, ‘You shall be Holy, for I am Holy.’ ” 1 Peter 1:16”
read more:
https://biblicisminstitute.wordpress.com/2014/09/16/pray-for-the-peace-of-which-jerusalem/
чтобы вся Европа и мир были едины во Христе, Который есть путь, истина и жизнь.
Ut tota Europa et mundus unus sit in Christo, qui est via, veritas et vita.
Go mbeidh an Eoraip go léir agus an domhan ina n-aon i gCríost, an té atá an bealach, an fhírinne, agus an bheatha.
so that all Europe and the world may be one in Christ, who is the way, the truth and the life.
The present Author refers to Charlemagne, Karl der Grosse, of Aix-la-Chapelle, Aachen.
See his church and statue there :
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlsschrein
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aachener_Dom#/media/Datei:Aix_dom_int_vue_cote.jpg
This diminutive man, not tall at all, could neither read nor write, yet built 630 schools, a revolution. Why?
His personal advisor Alcuin, from Northumberland, was educated in the only university of the time, with 12,000 students, Kells, in Ireland – see the Book of Kells :
https://www.historyireland.com/iona-the-vikings-and-the-making-of-the-book-of-kells/
It is clear Charlemagne owed everything to Ireland, Hibernia, which was never raped by Rome, and so kept Christianity alive.
This is why the Vikings of Jutland attacked Scotland, Ionia, Ireland. Charlemagne had smashed them, knew their origin, and took Europe out of their grip.
Today’s Vikings, ISIS, the New Gladio of Azov, are also moneybagged by high finance, Venice then, London/WallStreet now.
The Great Schism the Author refers to happened soon after Charlemagne, but erupted a few times before.
«Interpatriotic Europe in the First Millennium, before the advent of both warring nationalism»
As your stories of kings and princes and dukes and their wives show, there is a reason for not-national Europe and the rise of nationalism:
* After the roman empire, wars were largely decided by cavalry, and in particular by gangs of house-mounted enforcers called “knights”, running the protection racket (called “feudal system” or “ancien regime”) and as a result authority was vested in top mobsters called “earls”, “dukes”, etc. and wars were “dynastic” wars, that is among mobs for control of territory. So the mobs, e.g. the Hapsburgs, controlled territories with many nationalities, and
nationality and ethnicity mattered far less than personal loyalty to a top mobster. So for example several tsars has generals, architects, intellectuals, from many countries, loyal to the dynasty, not the nation or the state.
* With the development of firearms cavalry became very vulnerable, and what decided wars became mass armies with firearms, so wars were no longer dynastic but industrial. In order to motivate large armies and fund them with taxation “home front morale” started to matter and so nationalism was invented to motivate the masses to join mass armies and pay taxes to fund them, and personal loyalty to mobsters turned into impersonal loyalty to the nation/state/flag/…
«and soulless internationalism in the Second Millennium»
It is not quite soulless, it is spiritual, it is a cult of Mammon, of the Golden Calf, of “The Markets”. “The Markets” are all-powerful, all-knowing, metaphysical, eternal, judge everybody and dispense punishments and rewards, and greed is how they must be worshipped.
“wide is the road to destruction and many that are on it , narrow is the path to life and few there be that find it’
says it all
the gospel of Christ doesn’t call nations’ He calls sinners to repentance
there is only the lost or saved in the world {most remain lost having rejected Christ}
loving darkness rejecting the light is this world … till He comes!
“the kingdom of God is within you” has nuthing to do with geography
but of the heart’
Brilliant analysis. I disagree, however, that the deity you cite, Mammon, is the major object of reverence. My guess would be that the top dogs believe in the innate superiority of themselves above all lesser beings and that self worship motivates them. If they envisage a deity, it would be the embodiment of all their most outstanding features.
Worry not Good Soul!
The meek shall inherit the earth!
Do good & trust God has good purpose!
May Daria’s light shine forever brightly!
May goodness & God’s blessings
be forever multiplied !
🙏💕🙏💕🙏
Beautiful! The metaphor is a bridge to reality it is said. Since the “real” mystical experience can’t be expressed in “mere” words.
Europe, open the curtains! Let the divine light and love shine in. God is the source of every positive thing in the world!
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She was either killed by the FSB or by an internal Russian opposition faction… But Russia is blaming Ukraine with no evidence.
That’s the MSM narrative in the west, BBC, NBC etc. They don’t even present any of the evidence that has been published by the FSB.
It is hard to ignore that the FSB pinning the attack on the west is also convenient. It is impossible for keyboard warriors to know who really is at cause here so I can’t see much point in speculating.
A terrorist murder on Russian soil took the life of a of a well known woman in the prime of her life. There is zero chance the FSB has placed blame out of “convenience”.
You should present evidence for such a claim, otherwise its pure BS.
Dugin and his daughter had no power in the Russian govt apparatus, apart from being opinion leaders (that also aligning with the govt POV) they had no active participation in politics.
What you say here is the typical narrative of the anti-Russian propaganda machine of the west
That’s just it though. If they had no real power or active political participation, it makes no sense that Ukraine would take such a large risk to try and take them out. What would be the point? Let’s say it was them, what have they gained from doing so? Absolutely nothing.
I believe you may have just answered your own question. Since there appears no point in Ukraine risking doing this, it further confirms the fact that they are now acting completely irrationally. Driven on, no doubt, by the hysteria of the U.S. government whose chickens are themselves now coming home to roost.
Both Ukraine and the U.S.A. figured to be in total control by now.
What a shock it must be when souls realize that there truly is a ‘Higher Power’.
thank you!!!! O, so very much for this!!.
Peace to you Daria.
Cheers
“It is our belief that the present version of the European Union is just such another Anti-Europe. The very word ‘Union’ symbolises this fact, for any centrally-imposed Union, not freely-chosen, inevitably crushes the diversity of its peoples.”
There is no democracy in Europe, except in Switzerland, yet? True democracy implies, at least, a separation of powers and a representative government of society, not of political parties.
We have individual freedom but there are no public freedoms because there are no collective freedoms and freedom is either collective or it does not exist. Current voters say there is freedom now. But what freedom is that which only allows state and corporate parties to vote, whose lists of candidates are imposed, those elected are subject to party discipline and voters lack the possibility of removing them? Is it worth voting for corrupt parties and electing in bloc a list of people who, even if they wanted to, could not defend the interests of those who vote for them, because they are under the imperative mandate of the party leader who makes them? The reasons for the moral, political and cultural failure of the Party States in Europe are congenital and institutional. The cause is due to two decisive facts: absence of collective political freedom and lack of representation of society before the State. Political freedom is kidnapped by state and corporate parties, the only agents and managers of the political monopoly of representation (of themselves), carried out by the proportional system of party lists. We are therefore facing a regime of political oligarchies where social democracy and liberalism would be complicit variants of the same corporate and political oligarchic regime.
It is often claimed that Christianity has failed, that it has not been historically realized, and thence another argument is drawn: Not only Christians but the very history of their Church testifies against it. It must be recognized that the reading of ecclesiastical history can be an occasion of scandal to those whose faith is unsteady. These books tell us of the conflict within the Christian world, of human passions and temporal interests, of the corruption and disfigurement of truth in the consciousness of sinful mankind; very often they show periods of church-history which remarkably resemble those of civil governments, with their diplomatic relations, wars, and so on.
The outward history of the Church is visible and can be set out so that it is accessible to all. But her inward and spiritual history, the turning of men to God, the development of holiness, cannot be seen so easily; it is more difficult to write about them because they are in a way obscured and sometimes even overwhelmed by exterior history. Men detect evil more easily than good, they are more conscious of the outer than of the inner aspect of life; we have no difficulty in learning about the externals of our fellows, their commercial undertakings, their politics, their domestic and social institutions. But do we think much about the way in which men pray to God, how they relate their inner life to the divine world, in what manner they war spiritually with temptation?
Very often we know nothing, do not even suspect the existence, of a spiritual side to those whom we meet — at the most we are conscious of it only in those whom we know particularly well. We are quick to note the exterior manifestations of evil passions that anyone can see, but as for what lies behind them, the spiritual struggles, the reachings out to God, the toilsome endeavours to live the truth of Christ — we do not know them, we may even not want to know them. We are told not to judge our neighbour, but we judge him continually, by his outward actions, by the expression of his face, without ever looking within.
It is just the same with the history of Christianity. It cannot be judged by external facts, by the human passions and human sins that disfigure its image. We have got to recall to our minds what Christian people have had to contend with in the course of ages and their bitter struggles to get the better of “the old man,” of their ancestral heathenism, of their age-long barbarity, of their grosser instincts; Christianity has had to work its way through the matter which put up such a solid resistance to the spirit of Christ, it has had to raise up to a religion of love those whose appetites were all for violence and cruelty. Christianity is here to heal the sick not the whole, to call sinners not the righteous, and mankind, converted to Christianity, is sick and sinful. It is not the business of the Church of Christ to organize the external part of life, to overcome evil by material force; she looks for an inner and spiritual rebirth from the reciprocal action of human freedom and divine grace. It is an essential quality of Christianity that it cannot get rid of self-will, the evil in human nature, for it recognizes and respects the freedom of man. http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Philosophy/Sui-Generis/Berdyaev/essays/worth.htm
Good meditations. Sorry for the pain of his friend Alexander. It is an obscene tragedy.
That said, all of this nation-centric self identification via culture and language is strange. None of it can account for entropy.
All things collapse. Even culture.
Nothing lasts. So dont identify wih anyrhing.
Perhaps much of the Christian world has approached God from an intellectual paradigm rather than an experiential one. This may have lead to many errors.
I am absolutely no expert on Eastern Orthodox teachings. The closest I’ve come to its teaching was a friend in college who have training to be a monk in this tradition and reading a few books. One thing that has always fascinated me about Eastern teachings is the tradition of Hesychasmism.
“According to the standard ascetic formulation of this process, there are three stages:
Katharsis (κάθαρσις) or purification,
Theoria (θεωρία) or illumination, and
Theosis (θέωσις) or deification (also referred to as union with God).”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesychasm
There is a process to experiencing God! Many have tried this path and have succeeded. It isn’t easy but it can be done. This is the purpose of life.
You’re quite right in emphasizing a Christianity built upon experience, holiness and virtue. Moreover, the path to holiness in both East and West is the three stages of spiritual life: purgation, illumination, and union with God.
Yes indeed. The more experience of God, angels, grace the better.
However intellectual development is also important, for we are rational creatures, and this is what, at the very least, separates us from animals.
Finally, on the outside, today, the third millennium, we live in an age of science, for good or ill. The enemies of Christ will use it against us. For this reason, we have to adapt. Holiness is no bar to intelligence and use of science for good of all. Let us experience that
It is not that difficult, with ego removed, all one need do is open their heart….purity of thoughts, purity of words, purity of actions…empathy and compassion for fellow humans, the second commandment, opens the path to love of God, the most important commandment.
Cheers M
I have no words for the stunning sweep of that talk. It reunited me with a Europe I have not felt for decades, and which I had never known in words that way.
A beautiful gift to give to the martyred girl and the desolate father.
Many thanks.
Eternal salvation through Christ is simple. Else why would he tell us “except you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the Kingdom of heaven”, and “whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven” (Matthew 18:3-4).
Gifts from our Father, including intelligence should be given away to love and bless others with promptly, without reticence, or pride.
Pride is a powerful destroyer. It nailed Lucifer.
European Union as a construct was conceived 1922 or thereabouts by Jean Monnet and Arthur Salter and modeled in League of Nations at which time Russia was caught up in Lenin‘s Experiment.
It was revived post-1955 after failure of France to ratify European Defence Pact year before following Dien Bien Phu
It was to facilitate German Rearmament within NATO and needed French satisfaction it would control German orientation and Turkey was bought off on NATO by Germany agreeing to import Turkish males as Gastarbeiter
It is devoid of emotional content and was always a technocratic construct like Soviet Communism determined to perfect „Euro-Man“ just as „Sovet-Man“ was sought as an ideal. Both failed.
EEC functioned as long as The Six was the basis and it imploded once US forced acceptance of Poland and assorted pseudo-democracies which skewed the focus into interwar chicanery
I object – EU Commission President Ursula van der Leyen is the paragon Euro-Woman !
She is doing much better than Finnish PM Sanna Marin apologizing emotionally for wild party pictures, making BoJo’s Partygate look tame!
Regarding EEC, One cannot ignore this doc. from 1942; > http://www.bilderberg.org/EWG.pdf <, where the concept of European union is thoroughly debated.
I wonder if the Ukronazis and their american masters comprehend the mistake they’ve made by killing Daria Dugina, They’ve created a martyr. And, if history is any indication, martyrs are powerful unifying symbols for a common cause.
I think they comprehend it now. Their goal was division, and I don’t think they could imagine it possible for the father to trancend his pain and make it an unifying moment.
I am spellbound. Anything less cannot express the magnificent spiritual experience I felt throughout the entire reading of the speech. It is not only an apt tribute to Daria, but perhaps, forgive me, more importantly, a powerful message to the non-barbarian world of what’s at stake today in the ukraine theater. thank you immensely.
I am spellbound. anything less cannot express the magnificent spiritual experience I felt throughout the entire reading of the speech. It is not only an apt tribute to Darya, but perhaps, forgive me, more importantly, a powerful message to the non-barbarian world of what’s at stake today in the Ukraine theater. thank you immensely.
According to Alain Soral site ‘égalité et réconciliation’, zio BHL asked Douguine( french prononciation) ”if he has children”?It looks very ‘mossad’ like crime more than SBU, or both?
”Now when we see the video of BHL with Duguine asking him if he has children and that this war can be dangerous for his children, our children it may sound like a “subliminal” warning.”
#3015523
https://www.egaliteetreconciliation.fr/Le-FSB-publie-une-video-de-la-suspecte-du-meurtre-de-Daria-Douguine-69290.html
Few have described better the fate of ‘Europe’ than Saint Justin Popovic:
”Man’s greatness is only in God-that is the motto of Theanthropic culture.
Man without God is 70 kg of bloody clay, a sepulchre prior to the grave. European man has condemned to death both God and the soul, but has he not thereby also condemned himself to that death following which there is no resurrection? Try dispassionately to grasp the essence of European philosophy, of European science, politics, culture, civilization, and you will see that in European man they have killed God and the immortality of the soul. And if one seriously ponders the tragedy of human history, then it is possible to see that Deicide always ends with suicide. Remember Judas: first he killed God, and then he destroyed himself, such is the inevitable law of the history of our planet.
The structure of European culture, erected without Christ, must crumble away, crumble away very quickly-prophesied the insightful and astute Dostoyevskii 100 years ago, and the mournful Gogol’ over 100 years ago. And before our very eyes are the prognostications of the Slavonic prophets coming to pass. For 10 centuries has the European Tower of Babel been a-building, and now a tragic picture meets our gaze: what has been constructed is a huge-nothing! General perplexity and confusion have begun: man cannot understand man, nor soul-soul, nor nation-nation. Man has risen up against man, kingdom against kingdom, nation against nation, and even continent against continent.
European man has reached his destiny-determining and head-spinning heights. He has set the superman at the summit of his Tower of Babel, seeking therewith to crown his structure, but the superman went mad just short of the apex and fell from the tower, which is crumbling away and collapsing, in his wake, and being broken down by wars and revolutions. _Homo europaeicus_ had to become a suicide. His «Wille zur Macht» (lust for Power) became «Wille zur Nacht» (longing for Night). And Night, a burdensome Night, descended upon Europe. The idols of Europe are crashing down, and not far distant is that day when not a stone will remain upon a stone of European culture, that culture which builds cities and destroys souls; which deifies creatures and casts away the Creator”…
”Doubtless, the principles of European culture and civilization are theomachic. Long was the type of European man in his becoming what he is, until such a time as he replaced the God-man Christ with his philosophy and science, with his politics and technology, with his religion and ethics. Europe made use of Christ «merely as a bridge from uncultured barbarism to cultured barbarism; that is, from a guileless barbarism into a sly barbarism.» (Bp. Nikolai [Velimirovich], «Slovo o vsecheloveke» [«A Sermon On Everyman»], p. 334.)…
In my conclusions about European culture there is much that is catastrophic, but let this not astonish you, for we are speaking about the most catastrophic period of human history-the apocalypse of Europe, the body and spirit of which are being rent asunder by horrors. Without a doubt, volcanic contradictions are implanted in Europe, the which, if they are not removed, can be resolved only by the final destruction of European culture”. (St. Justin Popovic: Whither does humanistic culture lead?)
Dear Daria, May the Lord have mercy on your soul.
I just wanted to add this:⁸ Never talk to the devil. Eva spoke with satan, she believed in the absurd and she lost everything, we lost everything with Eva. Europe for decades only listens to the devil and has lost its mind and is delirious now, will we find someone sensible to talk to in Europe?
As Venerable Holzhauser, in the 1600s, prophesied of our times:
“During this period, many men will abuse the freedom of conscience granted to them. It is of such men that Jude the Apostle spoke when he said, “These men blaspheme whatever they do not understand; and they corrupt whatever they know naturally as irrational animals do”…During this unhappy period, there will be laxity in divine and human precepts… Everyone will be carried away and led to believe and to do what he fancies, according to the manner of the flesh…They will ridicule Christian simplicity; they will call it folly and nonsense, but they will have the highest regard for advanced knowledge…clouded by senseless questions and elaborate arguments. As a result, not principle at. all, however holy, authentic, ancient, and certain it may be, will remain free of censorship, criticism, false interpretation, modification, and delimitation by man…These are evil times, a century full of dangers and calamities.. Heresy is everywhere , and the followers of heresy are in power almost everywhere…”
Please read what Alexey Stepanovich Khomyakov wrote about Western Europe
“Apart from this difference, it must be admitted that the influence of Mohammedanism on its followers was stronger than that of Christianity. The dogmatic richness and all-encompassing demands of the conciliar teaching are less accessible to the dark minds of uneducated peoples than the simplicity and one-sidedness of the Qur’an. The words of logical belief, and the magnificent rites created by the artistic imagination of the Hellenic-Roman, were repeated or adopted by the stupid and wild natives of Germany; the lofty teaching, the spiritual demands of Christianity, were not at all known to them. The Mohammedan peoples (especially the Arabians) were completely Mohammedan, expressing all the good and all the shortcomings of their teaching. The Christian peoples, especially the Germans, were Christians only in name.
It should also be noted that the very conversion of the Germans from paganism was such that it must of necessity have left bad and hard to efface traces. With the exception of the Anglo-Saxons, almost all adopted their new faith from the conquered peoples that were part of the Roman state and, therefore, the influence of bad examples and the depravity of semi-enlightenment had to penetrate into the soul of the conquerors along with religion. The Germans were not converted to the Christianity of the apostles, but were seduced by the Christianity of depraved Rome. This is clear from modern and almost unbelievable evidence of the gross ignorance of 162 podpis, the spiritual humiliation and vile life of most of the spiritual people who accompanied the campaigns of the Frankish and other squads. The Anglo-Saxons are an exception in every way.
These are the reasons for the obvious superiority of the first and partly even the later Muslim conquerors over the Christian ones. Evil, sown or allowed at the beginning, had to bear fruit; centuries had to pass over these new peoples before the traces of their first and, so to speak, illegal admission into the Christian community, to which they did not at all belong, could be erased. These traces have not been erased to our time. But once admitted, though not understood, Christianity should also bear fruit, and it bore fruit in the gradual development and ennoblement of the Western, Germanic-Roman world.
The states of Western Europe were not created by Christianity and not by its human principles; but Christianity was present at their founding; it could act, and acted stronger and more freely in social terms, on the new powers, which had not yet taken positive and definite forms, than on the Roman Empire, which had already matured and crystallized into the stubborn and unchanging forms created by ancient pagan history.
However, this applies only to the general state or social structure, and not to the details of internal civil life, where the spiritual life of individuals is manifested in contact with society. Here the higher enlightenment of the Byzantine and Hellenic-Roman obviously retains its rights, and the attitude of the owner towards the slave, serf, tenant or mercenary in the surviving half of the Roman Empire is undoubtedly purer and closer to Christianity than in the first kingdoms of the Germano-Roman region.”
One addition / answer I might have to the question of Anti-Europe to Batiushka hoping that he might read it and reply: Christianity made it a point to violently destroy, defame and spit on every and all traditions it could not usurp or control. I am sure you have read the actual text of the with hammer and who the church specifically targeted: the benevolent and innocent healing practitioners for they took away the pain the ill had to endure in order to atone. It does not get more perverse than this. All the while Christianity was believing it is the source of all goodness, while there are only demons in the other, a total blindness to the other, to their wisdom. There is a reason people turned and they were right to do so. If Christianity behaved like Buddhism in Asia, simply coming and leaving national traditions intact and unmolested, the story would have been dramatically different as it has been in the earliest days of Christianity’s advent to Europe. Violence in matters of faith, enshrined by the ilk of “St.” Augustin in his treatise on terror, is in fact abject atheism and anti-theism in praxis. This is what truly prevented the peaceful integration of Europe. The Church was a spiritual EU, national identities held hostage.
Today cannibalism, a quaint religion, is a Western matter of taste.
Columbus approached an island in the Caribbean, the stench overpowering, to find cannibals. It is Satanasa on his map. (Might be Guadalupe today). The sailors thought they landed in hell.
Persistent rumors of Azov cannibalism tells something of their religion….
What evidence is there that cannibalism was a religious practice of Prechristian Europeans? Whatever Asow think they are practicing is their own satanist fake pagan garbage. Native Europe contains mythology, theater, philosophy, high festivals, sacred sites and rituals like the Eleusinian mysteries. Much of it was inculturated into Catholicism, which took basically all high festivals from native Europe. Also Julian the Apostate, Batiushka mentioned, swapped Christianity for neoplatonic philosophy and was a very moral and disciplined man, not a satanist.
The Celtic god Bel, known as Apollo too, had an appetite for child offerings. Christians found out about this, and archaeo’s covered it up for decades. Some famous sites do fool tourists. They did not fool missionaries.
The Celtic Cross, found all across Europe is actually Bel, Christianized. Bell followers liked to carry skulls of their opponents around their belts – today the Highland Pipers sporran on the belt fool tourists.
Across the Atlantic, one finds such ‘traditions’ almost the same, which shows these people did cross long before Columbus. Bel is the sun god, look at the Aztec sun god mass sacrifices.
Cannibalism was always a religion – likely started with a famine, given a narrative. Columbus noted the next island had no trace of such. So one needs 2 factors, famine, and the loss of ocean navigation, or civilization collapse.
Diana, the only Christianity you know is Catholicism and Protestantism. Look at the Orthodox Church in Russia / It came there leaving undisclosed national traditions. Conversions, if any, were caused by the personal example of the Orthodox clergy. You do not know true Christianity, because you only know the distorted Western Christianity.
https://orthodoxwiki.org/Herman_of_Alaska
Another Ukrainian car bomb :
The head of the Russian-controlled Ukrainian village of Mikhailovka died after his vehicle exploded
https://www.rt.com/russia/561441-zaporozhye-official-car-bomb-assassination/
They have switched to terror mode.
Get ready – the New Gladio is unleashed.
How nice to read, I am happy to get to know this website. I like to post my own experiences and thoughts, but now hesitate to do so. Nevertheless, I make an attempt, hoping not to offend anyone.
Thirty years ago, I worked in the office and shared a room with a very religious man. I was (and still am) not a believer and that’s how special conversations arose. One day he asked how it was possible that we thought the same about so many moral values when I was not religious. I replied that you don’t have to be religious to have a moral compass and wish for the good for the world with all that world lives.
I do not believe in a God as an entity in the sense of a being as man is. I see God more as ‘nature’ or ‘the source of consciousness’. I feel that everything is connected to everything, I to ‘God’ and to everything and everyone, not only on Earth, but with all consciousness in this entire Universe. In my eyes, God does not prescribe anything, but it is his universal laws that are the frameworks for my existence. Actually, I see this basis underneath all religions. This cannot be otherwise, because all religions draw from the same source. All religions only differ from each other, because people have put their own spin on it.
Personally, a religion terrifies me, because the frameworks do not feel purely universal and natural. A universal commandment like not to kill others makes sense, but wearing a garment is not. I see that man has ‘made up’ all kinds of things around the base and thus institutionalized religions that came in handy at that time. The basis is God, but religion is a human institution. That institute can work in the bubble for a long time, but there is always an expiration date. This applies to all institutes. No empire is for eternity.
I agree that unconscious people can benefit from a guide and that religion can play an important role in that. But in the end, every human being will have to make direct contact with God (nature/source/unity consciousness) and transcend man’s religion. That is my opinion, what I feel God has in mind for us. I use the word God in my writing to try to make and keep the connection, where ‘we’ may think differently about the interpretation of it.
There is talk of the need to believe. And to believe in Christianity. But Islam might as well be a guide. Nevertheless? Why is one ‘better’ than the other, whether or not specific to Europe? Buddhism often seems to want to go back to the past, because it was better then. But does the evolution of life not only go one way, namely forward. How many splits are there and how often have the holy books been adapted. I certainly recognize the bases from my own spiritual experiences, but I have trouble with man who states that God has made us in his image. As if man is central to life.
Europe must certainly rediscover its cultural identity and from there evolve further in consciousness. Faith can play a major role in this, but in my opinion a temporary one because ‘we’ are allowed to leave all institutions behind us and be directly connected to the source ‘God’. I am confident that this will “be all right”, because man can only follow the evolution of life and not determine it. There are mountains and valleys, both are needed on our trip. If we live in a valley, we must also make the best of it. There is no choice.
Suffer enough and it becomes a part of your DNA. “It’s God’s Will.” Look at the Irish. Subjugates under the British. Crying out for their freedom for generations. And once they got their freedom what did they do? They immediately gave it away again to debt servitude. And the crying for freedom began again. It’s like doubling down. Think we’ll see an IRA take up arms against the banksters?
The whole matter is unclear, for now. I remember what I have heard. “God created the blight, but the British created the famine.” That’s what brought my mother’s side of the family over from the Old Country to the New Country. My mother, a good Irish Catholic woman; educated in a Catholic school from K through 12. Becoming a Registered Nurse. Then pursuing a Master’s degree in Public Health from Syracuse University. Married my father, a “black-hearted” Protestant, in the Church Rectory. No mixed marriages allowed in the Church, proper and otherwise. Trinitarianism at work.
“God created the blight, but the British created the famine.” At least until my father completed dental school and became a successful businessman. Then the Chruch showed up again, looking for money. Which blight? Which famine?
“God created the blight, but the British created the famine.” When we discover who created SARS-Cov-2 then we will discover who created the Pandemic. Man-and-woman-kind. “Kill them all. Let God sort them out.” COVID. At least this time there is certainty that God will have had nothing to do with it. You won’t be hearing any of that “It’s God’s Will” stuff.
“God created the blight, but the British created the famine.”
I believe there is an order in the universe. I believe in faith. I believe one good deed, one good decision, leads to the next, and the next one after that. I believe in one bad deed, one bad decision leading to the next, and the next after that. I have described the gift of a perfect day as somehow being holy.
Which blight? Which famine?
500-years of darkness is almost upon us. Create cold fusion, with endless and free energy, and our problems, along with our sins, will become exponential.
Belief and cynicism? Whose blight? Whose famine?
Please do not lump together western denominations like the Latins or the Protestants with the Church.
Thank you!
What an exceptional blog
What a diversity of thought
Light in the darkness
Sanctuary in the wilderness
Founded on love and peace
That the Nazis must respond in such a despicable fashion is no surprise. Daria joins the legions of angels in the next world that don’t rest, but surely work to change reality here?
I love that the Russian SMO effort is multi-denominational. Chechens shouting Allah-Akbar as they clean up Nazis.
With so many Christian sects declaring their right to the best religion status, it is apparent they aren’t.
For me God provides many paths to salvation and it’s high time we quit ignoring Christ’s example and quit being so judgmental of truly pious people and so damn forgiving of skillful psychopaths who hijack any and every institution.
Thanks for an interesting read.
I have no faith in the artificial “European” construct though. First time I became aware of this ‘identity’ was back in 2011, when the ‘nationalist’ Breivik was massacering Norwegians to promote his project of saving ‘Europe’.
There have never been an common European unity even within Christianity, with it’s division in Protestantism, Catholism and Orthodoxy. Not to mention the two other Abrahamic religions of Judaism and Islam.
I think it more a question of Religion vs. Anti-Religion, the latter being the westen plan for new world conquest.
It would be a great monument to Daria Dugina, on this site, if we can get a translation of her last article.
Or few of her best articles. And photos. Her style, thoughts and the spirit would then strongly reverberate
with us for quite a long time.
Thank you, Spiral
A week ago I had not hear of Daria Dugina, though I was quite familiar with her father and his views. Now I’m so sad and angry, I can hardly bear to think about her. Rest in peace Daria!
I expect her murder was planned, ordered or at least approved in Washington. I hope and pray those responsible will face justice promptly. I’d do anything in my power to help make that happen.
Those psychopaths in Washington are cornered now and are capable of anything. On which they will blame Russia. Holy Russia/Unholy USA. Many who have emigrated here have assimilated and therein sacrificed their souls. For naught.
Europe (or anywhere else in this planet TBH) was never holy anyway, but in darkness is where occasional specks of light shine brighter.
An enlightening and informative essay. Going to the beach, will have to reread tonight when I have more time. First impression, very good/
https://t.me/podled/6451
I am not a sentimental person by any means but this made me tear up.
Even if you don’t understand Russian it’s easy to see what type of person she was.
When did crazies from Lviv need any reason to kill? Same with the other spawns of Satan such as IS, Croatian Ustashas, Bosnian Muslim Nazi battalions or Albanian UCK who never needed any reason to kill, chop heads or smash heads of newborns just because. Google the name of one Croatian Petar Brzica. They are spawns of the Satanic Vatican. Even Muslim Nazis.
By the way, Europe is a dead end of Asia. Geographically it is an appendix the absence of which will be hardly noticed in the new/old Euroasian world. So good riddance. It is now a cesspool with Nazis floating on top like any turd does.
Two thirds of Indians, probably half of Chinese or other peoples of Asia would not be able to find Europe on the map. Two thirds of USians as well.
Europe, like the US, talked themselves into thinking they are so important that everything depends on them. We have news for them: it doesn’t. Thank god Russians woke up from the stupor they were in for 300 years which was cast on them by their unbelievable corrupt and stupid “elites”. I just hope they cleanse themselves of the Satanic offspring libtards that still lurks in the background. One example are Russian tennis players who play the tournaments without their flag. That is a shame and sacrilege of the suffering of the ordinary Russians who are dying for their land.
Batiushka you may be interested in the origin of Christchurch:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christchurch_Priory
“The legend of the miraculous beam dates to the early 12th century. The story is that a beam was found to have been cut too short when it was hoisted into place. This would have been embarrassing for the carpenters since the wood was expensive and would be difficult to replace. There was however a mysterious carpenter who had worked and eaten alone. The following day the carpenters returned and found the beam was now fitted in place. The unknown carpenter was never seen again, and the story came to be that it was Jesus Christ who had intervened. The church became Christ’s Church of Twynham in commemoration of the event.[6] In time the town became Twynham-Christchurch and eventually shortened to Christchurch. The miraculous beam can be seen today and is located in the Priory’s ambulatory.”
I live in Wimborne Minster which has connections to Saint Boniface:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wimborne_Minster_(church)
“The minster is dedicated to Saint Cuthburga (sister to Ine, King of Wessex and wife of Aldfrith, King of Northumbria) who founded a Benedictine abbey of nuns at the present day minster c. 705. Saint Walpurga was educated in the monastery, where she spent 26 years before travelling to Germany, following the missionary call of her mother’s brother Saint Boniface. Leoba was also educated in this place. A monastery for men was also built around this time, adjacent to the abbey. Over the next hundred years the abbey and monastery grew in size and importance.
In 871 King Ethelred I of Wessex, elder brother of Alfred the Great, was buried in the minster. Alfred was succeeded by his son Edward the Elder in 899, and Ethelred’s son, Ethelwold, rebelled and attempted to claim the throne. He seized a nun, probably of Wimborne, and made a stand there, probably because of its symbolic importance as his father’s burial place, but he was unable to gain enough support to fight Edward and fled to the Vikings of Northumbria.”
Also for your information.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wimborne_Minster
Condolences for your loss.
Beautiful essay. well written and enlightening. Best thing for Europe would be to convert to Orthodox.
Excellent article. One corrigendum — St. Theodore of Canterbury did not “approve of both” Celtic Orthodoxy and the Patriarchate in England. He considered the Celts schismatic and required they be chrismated into the canonical Patriarchate to be able to receive Holy Communion. He indeed labored to unite the two camps, but by submission of the anti-Patriarchate camp.
Daria Dugina zginęła w zamachu bombowym 20 sierpnia. W kalendarzu cerkiewnym pod tą datą widnieje także czcigodna Dziewica Potamia z Aleksandrii. Daria jest córką (z) Aleksandra Dugina – to pierwszy ślad obecności tej aleksandryjskiej Mniszki Cudotwórczyni Męczennicy w odejściu młodej Duginy z tej ziemi. Drugi ślad: Niektóre kalendarze (20 sierpnia) mylnie podają Potamius Mnich Cudotwórca. Pełna analogia: miał zginąć ojciec, a przez zbieg okoliczności zginęła córka.
Greckie imię Potamia znaczy “Strumienie” – oboje, Daria i jej ojciec Aleksander są strumieniami cennej myśli chrześcijańskiej.
Daria według źródłosłowu perskiego znaczyłoby “Pielęgnująca dobro” a według greckiego – byłaby to forma imienia Doroty, czyli “Dar Boga” i chyba tak należy ją zapamiętać.
Śmierć dosięgła Darię w miejscowości Wielkie Wiaziemy, rodowej posiadłości cara Borysa Godunowa i Dymitra I, pierwszego katolickiego cara Rosji niesłusznie uważanego za samozwańca. Daria Dugina zginęła w ogniu. Obiecany przez Pana Jezusa Ogień pogodzi nie tylko prawosławnych i katolików, ale w ogóle wszystkie narody, które ostaną się na ziemi po wielkim oczyszczeniu – dopiero wtedy nastanie jedna owczarnia i jeden Pasterz.
23 sierpnia, (w kalendarzu cerkiewnym 10 sierpnia) – świętych Męczenników: Archidiakona Laurentego, papieża Sykstusa i Towarzyszy [św. Laurenty zwyciężył śmierć w ogniu na ruszcie].
Автору:
“Без бога ни до порога.” по словарю Ожегова С.И. и Шведовой Н.Ю https://xn--b1arjbl7a.xn--p1ai/poslovitsy/bez-boga-ni-do-poroga словцо.рф
Eu sou Darya Dugina
Marvellous and stunning; lucid and powerful, like standing in front of a great waterfall and soaking in the awesome sound and energy. God Bless you, Batiushka – you have a great voice. Please keep sharing it with us. Bravo to the Saker for hosting you.
I totally share your sincere sentiments. Anything that can bring true spirituality back into secularism-poisoned and atheism-poised Europe, however defined, should be welcomed by all. An Intra-patriotic Europe, as the author alludes to, could also lead larger humanity to bliss, if it allow God’s true teachings to guide it !