Слово 3, о Святом Духе

Why are you delaying, my soul? Sing also the glory of the Spirit; do not separate in the word the One who is not excluded by nature. With trepidation we honor the great Spirit: He is my God, through Him I came to know God, He Himself is God, and in that life He makes me God. He is omnipotent; He is the dispenser of gifts, the subject of the hymns of the pure face of heaven and earth; He is the Giver of Life, sits on the exalted throne, comes from the Father. He is God's power, the Autonomous Ruler. He is not the Son (because there is only one good Son of the one All-Good One), but He is not outside the invisible Divinity, but is of equal honor. Who wants to find the Divinity of the Heavenly Spirit on the pages of the inspired law; he will see many frequent and converging paths, if only he wishes to see, if he has somehow attracted the pure Spirit with his heart, and his mind is sharp-sighted. And if anyone demands the open words of the all-loving Deity; then let him know that his demand is unreasonable. For until the Divinity of Christ was revealed to the majority of mortals, it was not appropriate to place an incredible burden on hearts that were extremely weak. The most perfect word is not for beginners. Who would show the full brilliance of fire to still weak eyes or saturate them with exorbitant light? It is better to gradually accustom them to bright shine, so as not to damage the very sources of sweet light. So the word, having first revealed the entire Divinity of the King-Father, began to illuminate with light the great glory of Christ, which is revealed to the few rational people, and then, having more clearly revealed the Divinity of the Son, the Divinity of the luminous Spirit shone for us. And for those it shed a little light, but provided most of it to us, to whom the Spirit was then abundantly and in tongues of fire, showing clear signs of His Divinity when the Savior ascended from the earth. I know that God is fire for the wicked and light for the good. Thus I proved to you the Divinity of the Spirit. If you come to surprise, partly hearing about the Son and not the Son of the one Divinity, and partly convinced by the opposite, conveniently perverted passages of Scripture; then here too God Himself will descend and give me the word. From one primordial came the wife and Seth, and the half and offspring of a couple according to the laws of marriage, and the unborn and the begotten, although both were equally human. Remembering this, do not humiliate the Divine, do not prefer One, humiliating the Other. One is nature immeasurable, uncreated, flightless, good, free and equal. There is One God in the Three Illuminations, who rules the world. With them I am excited in a new life when, burying death in the font, I return to the light. For the Trinity Divinity has given me the power to shine as luminous. No, I won’t deceive you, lover of cleansing. If I, washed by the Divine, began to dissect the bright Divinity, it would be better... but I’m afraid to finish the unkind word. I entered the font in the hope of receiving God's gift. If God has purified all of me, then all of Him is honorable to me. But may that wicked mortal who cuts his own Divinity receive the unequal gift of God! If in God’s word and among God-bearing men you hear either about the Son or about the good Spirit, as if they are second in place to God the Father; then I advise you here, in the words of deep wisdom, to find the meaning that it does not dissect the Divinity, but ascends to a single beginningless root, so that you see the unity of the power, and not the difference in venerability. From the Unity the Trinity and from the Trinity again the Unity - here is not the same as a key vein, a key and a big river, and yet a single current, rushing along the earth in three forms; not the same as the light from a blazing fire, again put into it; not the same as the word coming from the mind and abiding in it; not the same as the reflection of wavering and sunlit waters flickering on the wall, not stopping for a single moment, but moving away before approaching and approaching before moving away; not the same, because the nature of God is not something impermanent, or fluid, or merging again; on the contrary, God is characterized by immutability. And you, thinking like this, bring a pure sacrifice in your heart. In the Three Lights one nature is motionless. One is not innumerable; because it rests in three Kindnesses. The Trinity is not venerable in different degrees; because nature is uncut. There is One in the Divinity, but those to Whom the Divinity belongs are three in number. Each is one God, if you call one. And again, there is one God without beginning, from Whom is the wealth of the Divinity, when the word mentions the Three. In the first case, the venerability of the Three Lights is preached to mortals; in the second we glorify the blessed autocracy and do not admire the multi-principal council of gods. For, according to my reasoning, plurality of command is the same as complete anarchy, located in mutual struggle. And struggle presupposes discord; and discord quickly leads to destruction. Therefore, let my multiplicity be as far away from the Divine as possible! Three gods could be called those who were divided among themselves by time, or thought, or power, or desire - so that each would never be identical with the others, but would always be in conflict with them. But my Trinity has one power, one thought, one glory, one power; and through this, the singularity of which there is great glory in the united harmony of the Divine is not violated. This only revealed to the light that is within me the Trinity radiance from behind the curtains of the curtain inside the church of God, behind which the royal nature of God is hidden. And if something more is revealed to the angelic faces; something else is much more known to the Trinity Itself. You might be interested in: