Chapter 7

We: “We have long wanted to ask you about the Guardian Angel. What is the connection with the saint? Why do they say - Angel's Day? He: “I thought about this a lot. I can’t answer the question directly, because it’s a confusing thing, but the thoughts that came to me while thinking about it. Paths to follow. Name days are celebrated - we do not celebrate the day, for example, the Birth of John the Baptist. No! Because John the Baptist could also celebrate - and then what did he celebrate? I could only accept congratulations. Or St. Sergius - he could celebrate Sergius the Faster, and he could celebrate another. Angel Day is the day of the Name. We celebrate the Name. All who bear the same name are the berries of one bunch of grapes, and the saint we celebrate is only the best representative of this bunch. Guardian Angel is the name.” Me: “How then does everyone have a separate angel?” He: “No, not separate. But, at the same time, and separate. In general, the nature of spirits cannot be divided in the same way as we are, into separate and non-separate. They are both. Here we enter the world of Plato's ideas. Plato was the exponent of ideas, in general, of Religion, of all religious ideas of the entire ancient world. Therefore, he is recognized and revered as their spokesman by the Romans, the Arabs, the Greeks, and... But he did not invent his own. Therefore, he put the most important thoughts, the main ones, into the mouths of the priestesses, the muses, because he did not want to transpose them into secular language. And German scientists attribute this feature to his style. Juno and Genius - Spirits of all things, all events. But the Romans did not express it clearly; it was confused among them; their mythology was formalized in the Middle Ages in Greek. Genius is the essence, the ideological substance of every event. "Brilliant" from here. Therefore, when they worshiped the statues of emperors, they did not worship the statues, but the Genius, of whom he was the spokesman. The Emperor is stronger and therefore more “genius”. The Christians were persecuted because they did not want to burn incense in front of these statues, but they took it in the sense of idolatry, and the emperors took it as a political rebellion. In one statue, what belonged to the Idea and what to the Monument was not dissected. The Romans were tolerant and did not persecute Christians when they expressed otherwise." “The interest of a person with a European type lies in the variability of the inner life that flows underneath him. Socrates portrait. Physiognomists have found that there are many vices. They came to Socrates with this. He said - yes, I had all these vices, but I overcame them (a similar story about Moses).” I thought: “What does it mean to overcome a vice? Does he seem to be going anywhere? And the answer came immediately (but I just thought - I didn’t say...). He: “This does not mean destroy. But point it to something else! A person with raging passion, having become a monk, will not be like another. He will be passionate and quick in religion too. In my own way. He won't be lethargic. And it’s very good that it won’t happen. Floor. This is the center of activity. But direct it to something else.” You might be interested in: