Death and Resurrection
What Do We Mean By Death to the World?
Archangel Michael triumphs over the devil at
the end of the world.
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"The world is the general name for all the passions. When we wish to
call the passions by a common name, we call them the world. But when we
wish to distinguish them by their special names, we call them the
passions. The passions are the following: love of riches, desire for
possessions, bodily pleasure from which comes sexual passion, love of
honour which gives rise to envy, lust for power, arrogance and pride of
position, the craving to adorn oneself with luxurious clothes and
vain ornaments, the itch for human glory which is a source of rancour
and resentment, and physical fear. Where these passions cease to be
active, there the world is dead; for though living in the flesh, they
did not live for the flesh. See for which of these passions you are
alive. Then you will know how far you are alive to the world and how
far you are dead to it."
- St. Isaac the Syrian
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The Last True Rebellion
The Radical, Catacomb Teaching
of Monk Seraphim Rose
It's all over for what was once known as
Christian civilization. We're living in a post-Christian age. As the
mad prophet Friedrich Nietzsche said, "The 20th century will be the
triumph of NIHILISM." And this triumph, said Monk Seraphim Rose, will
end in a reign of ANARCHY. "Nihilism is the means, Anarchism is the
end." "Nihilism" comes from the word nihil,
meaning "nothing". Nietzsche defined Nihilism thus: "There is no truth.
There is no absolute state of affairs - no 'thing-in-itself'. This alone is Nihilism, and of the
most extreme kind."
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The Philosophy of
the Absurd
For Truth Seekers ...
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