If we trace it back, most occultism and esotericism in the orthodox world is a product of the Western Renaissance, which was sponsored by the roman church.
Setting aside charlatans like Blavatsky, occultism in the orthodox world was largely baptized, just as we baptized earlier traditions, discarding what was anti-Christian and keeping what corresponded to revealed truth. And even if some views may contain heterodoxies like Bulgakov’s sophiology, it remains within the same spiritual and cultural ground of the Church.
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Sainthood is not univocal in Orthodox Christianity. Attaining the status of sainthood merely means that it is evident that one is not in Hades. A lay martyr is not level with Saint Symeon the New Theologian. According to Saint Cleopa, there are nine types of prayer, and only one in ten thousand earnest strivers for true prayer reaches the sixth stage, while only one person in a generation reaches the ninth. Saint Nicodemus the Hagiorite lists six categories of the saved in the Eschaton. The implications of this hierarchy of holiness are profound.
@Koda0777@Fiddelito_R@sakxraboy Have you read/watched Bleach all the way to the end? Zaraki didn’t lose to Ichigo consciously. Unohana reveals that Zaraki unconsciously levels his strength to match his opponent’s so he can have more fun in the fight.
@studyphilo8 A patristica não é apenas Santo Agostinho.
Jogo uns 10 santos de maior relevância teológica que Santo Agostinho, principalmente no oriente, e a dupla-predestinação calvinista vira pó.
@jcdeusex@JoaoAdvogado A patrística não é só Santo Agostinho. O protestantismo ignora a tradição oriental inteira. No oriente, os padres capadócios e São Máximo foram muito mais relevantes que Santo Agostinho.
“The Jesus Prayer will raise you to a spiritual state wherein the whole of nature will appear to you with indescribable beauty. Creation will seem to converse with you, to smile upon you. And when, through the Prayer, you are drawn into higher realms, you will behold nature in its transfigured form. All creation will seem to co-pray with you.”
- Saint Ephraim of Katonakia, The Fragrance of Christ
Yeah, we’re in the Great Apostasy of the Modernist Captivity, but thank God we have the latinizing laymen on X to teach us that Holy Orthodoxy is just Roman Catholicism without a pope, or Lutheranism with a pretty liturgy. Let’s go back to tradition… the tradition of two centuries ago, with catechisms written by random Russian priests and bishops copying Protestants. I’m sure that’s representative of the entirety of Orthodox theology. 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
@Regesnovus@AT_Adrian_UT Você pode fazer catecismo online. Para ser batizado, reserve um dia do ano para viajar para a cidade onde está a igreja que você fez catecismo.
@AT_Adrian_UT@Regesnovus Tudo está caminhando para isso desde Francisco. Católicos negarão e enviarão documentos que dão a entender que isso jamais acontecerá, mas quantos "jamais acontecerá" já não aconteceram desde o CVII até hoje?
A igreja romana virou um trem desgovernado da heresia.
....As for atheism, it arises as a consequence of the presuppositions of western enlightenment, which is a byproduct of protestantism, which is a child of the errors of roman catholicism. Given that the enlightenment didn't have the same impact on the orthodox world in the same proportion as in the west, the average orthodox christian still had a pre-modern and even medieval mindset, and so went straight to communism, skipping the process of widespread liberalization of society.
It sounds crazy to say this, but communism seemed more traditional from the point of view of the average eastern christian than western liberalism, and that is the exact reason why the USSR had to bring religion back, even while trying to co-opt it.
The transformation of Russian institutions based on the west, which began with the reforms of Peter the Great, was not well regarded by the people or by the Church.
@hipersick Capitalismo é merda, mas livre mercado não. Há quem confunda as duas coisas, porque ambas acabam estando entrelaçadas, mas não são a mesma coisa.
@Eschlastic Nessa frase, especificamente, não há nada de esquerdismo. O esquedismo dele é no indiferentismo moral e religioso, em promover imigração em massa, valores liberais etc.