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when we say that Berdyaev is like a prophet of the
20th century, we mean that Berdyaev
said something about the revolution that no one
else said,
blog did not say,
Florensky did not say Trotsky,
no one else said it, and he said it exactly like a prophet,
and here the point is not that that Berdyaev
predicted the revolution, I will repeat It was
simple, even Lenin could do it, the thing is
different,
what is the spiritual meaning of the revolution, the
proud people wrote about this before the seventeenth
year and after the seventeenth year to
write about the spiritual meaning of the Revolution. This is
what it means to be a prophet;
you cannot externally relate to the Revolution to
see in it there is only an empirical fact that is in
no way connected with my spiritual
life with my destiny. With such an external
attitude, only powerless anger can strangle a person,
the revolution took place not
only outside of me and above me as a fact
incommensurable with the meaning of my life, that
is, absolutely meaningless, it
took place in the same way with me, as
internal events in my life,
Bolshevism appeared in Russia and won
because I am who I am, because
I had no real spiritual strength,
there was no power of Faith moving mountains,
Bolshevism is my sin, my guilt, this
is a test sent down to me, the
suffering that it caused me
Bolshevism is the Atonement of my guilt,
my sin, our common guilt and our
common sin, everyone is responsible for everyone
from the point of view of the
absolute majority of Russian people and
Russian writers, publicists of that
time who survived the revolution, the Russian
revolution had no spiritual meaning, it
was a political reality,
economic social,
spiritual meaning in it they didn’t see
Berdyaev Why was he always alone
and when he lived in Russia and in exile he
said what no one else said and
not only did they argue with him, no one could
understand the
spiritual meaning of the Revolution for the Bolsheviks
it was the Victory of justice
The Victory of good over evil
Another thing is that the Bolsheviks understood
good and understand of course in fact I will say so
Gatentot earlier it was called
Gatento morality good this is when I
steal bad when they steal from me
and that’s the whole spiritual meaning of the Revolution,
moral Revolutions as moral
phenomena restoration of moral
order in this sense exchange of money
confiscatory monetary reform this is a
small repetition of the Revolution of 17,
this is the restoration of moral order,
or in the words of Sharikov, take and
divide so that everything is equal the situation
Revolutions situations
hopeless judgment of evil carried out
Evil forces
here there are no right and no guilty here no
one can be sawed no one can be
blamed
can enjoy success such a prophet is
not maybe Verdyaev was not successful
among his people in his own country.
Why was he loved in the West by
Western people? He opened his eyes to the fact that
they actually contained a
revolution, this is a purely Russian phenomenon, and
Berdyaev’s book of Russian ideas tells
why it was in Russia that
this abscess Noah broke out gathered from all over
the world and in this sense, the teaching of Marx or
Lenin that
he had crossed the Revolutionary center was absolutely fair. This is
such a nomadic ulcer that broke out. The
whole globe was
Western people. But they appreciated Berdyaev as a
prophet that they listened to him, they
stopped
plus at there was a clear example of them
But this is the evil that was judged in the revolution
and the evil that in the revolution took on the
function of a judge - all this was also in
the West
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individualism atomization of society
unbridled by the era of life unlimited
growth of the people of the population and unlimited
growth of needs decline of Faith weakening
spiritual life, all this led to the
creation of an
industrial-capitalist system
that changed the entire character of
human life, its entire style, tearing away
human life and the tremity of nature, the
industrial capitalist era
turned out to be fragile, it denies itself,
it gives rise to catastrophes, the world war with
its unheard-of horror was generated by this
system, the
working classes lived in the hypnosis of the
Industrial system this hypnosis
stopped after the World War
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Berdyaev this is journalism predictions
his most may be famous The book
is the new Middle Ages
survivors in 22 in Berlin the book
has been translated into all European languages ​​and, in
my opinion, into all eastern languages ​​in all
imaginable languages the majority of
people in the world are
middle-educated people of the world, they
know Berdyaev from the new Middle Ages,
it’s a small, convenient book that can be
read in an hour, like everything
Berdyaev writes, it’s extremely easy to read,
and there
’s like a section on prophecy on
the Revolution, and even the year 37 is predicted there,
it’s described with journalistic accuracy that to
replace those people who made
the revolution is a new generation of
revolutionaries, their throats full, self-confident
in cars that will destroy this entire
old cohort,
these gentlemen will make their way to the first places
of life through the activities of the check, having committed an
unfortunate number of executions and
blood will not stop them in fulfilling
their lust for life and the lust for power The most
sinister figure in Russia is not the figure of an
old communist Doomed to death
But the figure of this new young man
in it can be ruined The soul of Russia
the calling of the Russian people This new
anthropological type can overthrow
communism it can turn into Russian
fascism
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not given to a person
to solve all his problems within the confines of this world; it is not given; this
world is
initially in a fallen state;
Berdyaev repeated,
sharpening and as he always did, compressing
into an aphorism the thought of Vladimir Solovyov
that the state should not make
life on earth a
paradise; it should maintain this life is from
turning into hell
and we still live in a state
that only thinks about how to settle us all
in paradise. There was no need anymore.
This is the highest. The truth is very bitter.
Well, how can it be that here on Earth it is
impossible to build it is impossible to
build Socialism it is impossible to build the
kingdom of God the kingdom of earth nothing
can be done in this world Yes it is impossible the
main
dogma with which the Bible begins the
first story of the Bible is the dogma and
the story of the fall man is a
fallen creature
fallen from a great height man
was created to live in paradise so he fell from there
he fell like from the 12th floor
Now imagine that you approach a
person who fell from the 12th floor, how
lucky he is still moving and you begin to
discuss with him the question of how he will now
build Socialism, this is impossible, a
person who fell from the 12th floor
will never again be a full-fledged person, to put it
mildly here we are all people who fell from the
12th floor and in the plane on which we are
now fumbling around
it is impossible
to build an ideal state
and this is the dream of both socialists and many
capitalists. The bitter
truth is bitter, this is the prophetic
truth
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everything that is happening in Russia gives the
impression of the destruction of the old world, but
the destruction is produced by the
negative and degenerating forces of the
old world, which have come to a state of
chaos and disintegration of the souls of people making a
socialist revolution, their old
instincts are terribly old, their feelings and
thoughts are inert in all their guise, the
old bestial nature of man is recognized,
acting in the bourgeois world and there
committing the most evil deeds of this world
but with this bestial nature
all the sharks are finally removed. It has emerged from under the
restraining law of civilization, the laws of
the state,
all the bad, evil, soulless in the old
bourgeois world, the self-satisfied
Socialist world, the slave borrows,
steals and further develops the new
Socialist world and there is a strengthening
forever and ever and the widespread
distribution of self-satisfied bourgeoisity
is not conscious of sin, he did not reject sins.
Awareness of sin and Repentance
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heard him speak several times.
I think that Berdyaev thought along the same lines as
Marxists, although Marxism itself as a
doctrine has of course outlived itself, but Marx
really was a genius, he was not a bandit
as they tried to present him
contemporaries, publicists
and revolutionaries were not bandits,
they were people who had a kind of
spiritual
aspiration,
aspiration that was fundamentally completely
fair from a moral point of view,
impeccable but from a spiritual point
of view perverted,
what can
characterize the difference between spirit and matter,
only the spirit is free, as the
Apostle Paul said the spirit breathes where it wants to say
about matter it is practically impossible to say this
Although from the biblical point of view the spirit of
matter is one Flesh and here it is
difficult to somehow separate them Well,
let’s for convenience
I think this is understandable the spirit is free
mother bone slave existence
where the spiritual perversion of
the revolutionary
from the point of view from Berdyaev's point of view, I say no to
myself,
an attempt to force violence against the spirit,
only freely
can we survive the problem of poverty,
only freely can we solve the problem of
socialism,
this is the famous problem of taking and
dividing, only freely can we solve the
problem of economic political
reorganization of the world, only freely
as soon as we begin to treat the
spirit as matter Imposing on the spirit
your ideas, your resolutions
of the plenums,
your decisions, the spirit disappears, it becomes a
cobblestone and the spirit No, there is a huge,
petrified country
and it is not turning to stone in the mud, but in something
incomparable, better, the
Russian question is not at all in a handful of
Bolsheviks in power, but in a
huge layer of new ones of people who have come to
dominate the lives of communism is a struggle
against the spirit and spiritual life and its
moral consequences are more terrible than the
consequences of state legal and
economic they will be long-term
materialization and demoralization have captured
not only the communists this process is
much wider Russian people are getting used to
slavery they no longer need Freedom they
betrayed the freedom of spirit for external benefits The
black feeling of envy is becoming the
determining force of the world in Russia
cultural traditions are being interrupted, a
terrible decline in the level of
culture awaits the quality of culture the
test of
seeming justice the test of
fair injustice
tested our freedom
revolutionary right consciousness it was
very fair
it was criminal
the White Guard
counter-revolution a
very noble phenomenon very
fair and very criminal and also a
very slavish spirit,
finally
the problem of rudeness
is perhaps the limit to which
other
publicists and thinkers of
Berdyaev’s contemporaries managed to rise. Revolutions as the coming Khan
as the coming,
but
what is positive, what is the spiritual meaning of the
Khanate?
I remind you of the biblical boor, the son of Noah,
who
dared when his father got drunk To look at
him drunk and naked, which was a
grave crime, according to the
moral ideas of that time, he violated
tradition, he violated the law,
which modern man, by the way, does not
really understand the essence of rudeness. She is in another,
she is really in denial in
non-refutation of any tradition. It would seem
terrible,
but this is also a test of Freedom, tradition
with with all
its goodness, with all its
meaningfulness, like a kind of Crutch that
props us up, we
resemble slumped, relaxed,
flabby ones, we rely on tradition
thanks to it, we move thanks to this
decency, thanks to them, we didn’t gnaw
each other’s throats out,
but there is one thing in it: tradition, all of this is to
some extent slavery here is the revolution
as an apotheosis, rudeness as a triumph,
rudeness it was a victory over tradition, a
person is freed from tradition, and in this
sense, revolutions took place throughout the
Christian world throughout the twentieth
century,
from 1905 in our country to the hippies
or sixty-eighth in France,
this happened in one generation over
the generation, they were freed from tradition
from the power of something outsider,
a person understands asserts himself as a
valuable person in his own right, which no one and
nothing prescribes what to do
in a certain sense, this is rudeness, this is
really rudeness, this is
really disrespect for the ancestors, but the
spiritual meaning is positive in this
rudeness, this is a test through which
must be passed through and any generation has been
naughty and rude in this way,
well, it calms down, it’s coming back, it’s
a shame No, that’s good, that’s right
Why did
you experience your freedom, were you
convinced that you’re free, that you’re an individual and you
’re returning to humanity Berdyaev
went through Marxism, he went through the
denial of his own family
he went through the renunciation of his family, through the
renunciation of everything that was given to him,
the essence, he went through certain
rudeness, although he always observed secular decorum,
as far as I understand,
and he went through it just like the
whole country, I’ll say it again, he repeated the
path that we all went through in the 20th century,
this is the path of testing freedom and it came
to something established, first of all to a
very deep one, once again I will say to Faith to Faith
for which the future of the kingdom is desired and
this world of greater creativity
and maybe there is the meaning of this
test of Freedom about which
Berdyaev said in order to come to a completely
free, loving and very creative
attitude towards the historical world, a
creative attitude towards history
now, most of all, it is necessary to affirm the
lure of spiritual activity over the
political, it is necessary to spiritually fight the
bloody nightmare that has gripped the world, the
exclusive predominance of politics
increases this Nightmare And intensifies the
thirst for blood Now we need to save freedom of the
human spirit, every people lives in
history and performs great deeds of strength and
integrity of their spirit when the spirit of the people is
corrupted and extinguished, the people leave the
historical stage, they move away,
but the Russian people still have a great
role to play in history, they are only now entering
world life and I believe they will not perish
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