Traditional Strung

Traditional Strung

Traditional Strung
Traditional Strung

What is tradition?

What is the meaning and significance lies in that word? Literally translated, the tradition is the "transfer", the transfer of sustainable value, acquisition or retention of history. Tradition - a spiritual legacy that is passed from generation to generation.

We are living through a time when traditions are destroyed and disappear with startling rapidity, as if the cast iron roller rolls across the globe, destroying its weight cultural and spiritual values of people, and turning people into some homogenous mass.

Orthodox Church - one of the most traditional in nature and form of religion, it preserves the integrity of the fact that the apostles had heard from Christ and handed over to the Church. In Orthodoxy, the content is inseparable from the form and the form itself is not the outer shell, and the symbolic language through which digested the contents of the above words. Images and rituals of the Orthodox Church - not legalized customs, not invented allegories, not mimic a dramatization of sacred events, and the mysterious language of the Church, the spiritual channels through which people connect with the metaphysical world. Orthodoxy is identical to itself in the aspect of time and history, it is not evolving, not progressing, not developing as from smallest to largest, from lowest to highest. It has received the fullness of life in the day of Pentecost, and stores it in its sacraments and rites, but stores are not as a memory, but as a continuation of Pentecost itself.

Many of the "okolotserkovnoy" intellectuals criticized the Church for its conservatism. They confuse the Church with secular institutions, which boils the human mind, human energy, which is seeking new forms, new expressions, new discoveries. In science, a man constantly striving to assert themselves. Life Church and the sacred is sacred. To understand her need to come into contact with it, must enter into it, and it means to live in its traditions. Churches are most alien to the spirit of rationalism and the dry abstractions of the dead, and she - being, which is apprehended only through being; it - the truth, which is open for those who seek the truth, and then becomes a self-evident, above all other evidence.

To better understand the importance of tradition, look at examples and comparisons to secular traditions, which, like all human, in many ways imperfect. Which class is most cherished its tradition, originally, customs and family honor? This estate was an aristocracy, which gave rise, as its highest manifestation, chivalry. Knight was supposed to dominate his life the traditions and rules, which are not only behavior but also the moral side of his life. Dishonorable act punishable by the general contempt, and in some cases, a shameful punishment: a knight, discredit themselves, or how vile, take off their clothes and broke his arms, deprived of his name and title, it was a bloodless death. The aristocracy was predominantly those classes which smacked of their traditions, customs of his family and honor family coat of arms, - the blood and lives.

Plebs not have traditions. They had nothing to store and transmit to their descendants. If poetry Knights (troubadours and minnesingers) was subject to strict canons, the poetry of the plebs - the townspeople and traders - has become largely a cult of flesh and mockery of traditions. Representations of buffoons, so the crowd favorite, is a parody and mockery of tradition and at the same time, over such notions as honor, chastity and fidelity. We do not want to say that the entire aristocracy of birth was the aristocracy of spirit. Despotism, who has appeared in such phenomena as serfdom - it's a different mentality. The destruction of the aristocracy in Russia started since PetraI, and ended the revolution. In Germany, nationalism made part of the German aristocracy to follow the crowd and indulge her tastes, and there the fall of the aristocracy paved the way for fascism.

History avenged himself: when the aristocrat ceases to be an aristocrat, he becomes a slave to the plebeian.

A revolution is a violent destruction of tradition. Her attack is directed primarily against the bearers of tradition. Revolution - a struggle with the Church as a guardian of spiritual traditions and, above all, to those who not only refused to change the faith, but did not want to change the very faith. As the church reformer, with the revolutionaries found a common language.

Reforms in the Church is also a series of mini-revolutions. People who do not have a deep spiritual - a mystical experience, do not understand what keeps the church liturgical treasures. They want to force the church to serve their own tastes, they want her to obediently followed the spirit of the time, the fashion, taste and ideas of the world as a prisoner, tied to the chariot of the victor. Thus, any autonomy and independence of the Church annoys them.

The tradition of the concept of not only historic, but also ethical. When we say "a man without traditions", we mean that this man was deprived of his strong moral and behavioral attitudes, that he has no sense of honor that would deter him, it is a cynic and a nihilist. When we say that a person deprived of traditions, we mean that he is cut off from the historical roots, that he does not belong to his people, and cannot represent anyone but himself. The higher the spiritual culture of man, the more treasures to Church tradition, which dates back to the apostles, and lives in the Church. Church - the revelation of the Holy Spirit, there is nothing imperfect, that it would be necessary to supplement, not false, that should have been eradicated, there is no mistake that should have been corrected.

Any reform is the substitution of jewels in the treasury of the Church with false stones, and forged metal. Any reform is the loss of the mystical depths of worship and the destruction of sacred symbols. If someone from modern writers would have wanted to reform and correct the Bible, mix the words of the prophets and apostles with their own writing, then the Bible would cease to be holy book, and would become a surrogate. The same is true reformers want to do with the church charter and liturgics.

In the fable says that cock finding the pearl, was upset that he can not swallow, and decided that it was an unnecessary thing. If the rooster knew how much work is for people to get the pearls, as then carefully store it, then he would have a blank deed, worthy of laughter.

We have a wonderful pearl, strung on the thread of tradition - this iconography, ancient chants, church language and the Julian calendar, in the rhythms and cycles, which is worship. What would this gentleman cock?

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Demian De Santos

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