Mysterium Fasces - Mysterium Monologue 02 — Friendship

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00:04:17.920 Good morning, brothers and sisters, and welcome to another episode of Mysterium Monologue.

00:04:23.520 This is our second episode, which I think I'm going to entitle Friendship.

00:04:27.200 And that's the topic that we're going to discuss today.

00:04:29.240 I'm bringing you this program once again

00:04:32.740 In lieu of a regular Mysterium Fashies episode

00:04:35.240 Which hopefully should be forthcoming

00:04:37.460 There are many important things for us to discuss

00:04:40.980 But Mysterium Fashies has a very difficult situation

00:04:44.740 In that it is cursed

00:04:46.780 It suffers under a curse which prevents it from holding down co-hosts

00:04:51.900 For very long at all before they're forced to go fight for Zog 1.00

00:04:55.760 Or get married to some beautiful foreign woman

00:04:59.660 Or any number of very inconvenient life circumstances

00:05:04.860 Which reduces their ability to evangelize and propagandize and so on

00:05:10.220 So, here I am today discussing with you

00:05:17.240 And it is a great pleasure

00:05:18.640 So the topic that we have today is friendship

00:05:21.740 And I think that this is a very important topic

00:05:25.720 And one that's not often discussed

00:05:27.340 And one which we shall go into depth here in today

00:05:30.560 And this is kind of, to many degrees

00:05:32.460 A little bit of an extension, I think appropriately enough

00:05:35.380 From the previous monologue that I gave on

00:05:37.580 The Bright Resurrection of Christ and Social Cohesion

00:05:39.660 As we've just come to the end of Pascha this week

00:05:43.800 And celebrated the bright and glorious attention of our Lord

00:05:47.960 And now stand in the Afterfeast

00:05:51.500 It seems appropriate that we can reflect on

00:05:54.560 The gift which Christ gives us

00:05:56.480 By His Incarnation and Resurrection

00:05:58.600 Which is His friendship, fundamentally

00:06:01.660 And we shall get into what I mean in just a moment

00:06:06.480 And so I think that before we get into the details

00:06:11.460 As I mentioned before

00:06:12.300 I think that this is poignant

00:06:13.260 Because what I see as part of the mass alienation

00:06:19.760 That our culture is undergoing

00:06:20.960 Is particularly in the throes of the far right

00:06:24.040 The disintegration of, or lack thereof, of friendship

00:06:29.200 The unwillingness to work together to pursue common interests

00:06:37.600 Or even to treat one another with enough honesty

00:06:40.880 To recognize and be clear about the differences

00:06:45.020 Between each party

00:06:46.680 And part and parcel of this particular disintegration

00:06:51.840 Is the kind of fraying of whatever bonds

00:06:56.580 Had been built up in the past few years

00:07:00.240 And so I think this is a perennial issue

00:07:03.100 I'm not speaking so much of

00:07:05.020 I mean, infighting is just one manifestation of it

00:07:07.420 But that's not really the issue at hand

00:07:09.700 Because infighting can be good

00:07:11.400 I mean, if the conflict is about a matter

00:07:13.300 That's of substance or weight

00:07:15.540 You know, we ought to be clear

00:07:17.500 And honest about what our opinions are

00:07:20.240 And we should be consistent

00:07:21.580 In our organization around them

00:07:22.920 What I'm speaking more of

00:07:24.760 Is 0.88

00:07:26.000 The relationship between

00:07:29.820 Men as social entities 0.99

00:07:33.180 Which of course is naturally political

00:07:35.280 But it is super political

00:07:37.160 So we're going to get into this a little bit on

00:07:39.380 I want to set the stage

00:07:40.700 So I think theologically

00:07:43.400 Most people are unaware that the

00:07:46.760 Question of friendship

00:07:48.800 And of

00:07:49.800 Compassion in these things

00:07:53.080 Is the central issue of

00:07:54.880 The Christian cosmology 0.72

00:07:56.720 So for us

00:07:59.740 Man's necessity for friendship

00:08:02.240 And his desire for friendship

00:08:03.780 And the importance of that to his life

00:08:06.320 And to his reality

00:08:08.020 Is a consequence of the fall of grace

00:08:09.880 And so what orthodoxy teaches is that

00:08:13.080 Man was created to be in a relationship with God

00:08:17.700 In that in the beginning

00:08:21.580 When God made man

00:08:23.200 There was a perfect connection between the two

00:08:25.300 That they were totally integrated into one another

00:08:28.420 In that man had a full and direct appreciation

00:08:33.000 Of God's personality

00:08:34.280 And who he was

00:08:35.340 A relationship of intimacy and love

00:08:37.820 Of divine illumination

00:08:39.560 And that

00:08:40.920 Even we can see in Genesis

00:08:43.120 God

00:08:43.960 Creates man

00:08:45.360 In two persons

00:08:46.500 Man and woman

00:08:47.780 Because the integrative nature

00:08:50.100 The communion

00:08:51.040 Of life

00:08:52.580 Is the nature of the Godhead

00:08:54.240 God is trinity

00:08:54.920 He's a community of persons

00:08:56.700 We ourselves

00:08:58.000 Are made in God's image

00:08:59.480 And we are designed

00:09:01.620 By our very nature

00:09:02.880 To be in communion with one another

00:09:04.740 And this is what friendship is

00:09:06.800 Friendship in its true sense

00:09:08.280 Is communion

00:09:08.920 With the other

00:09:10.080 Now

00:09:13.500 What happened was that

00:09:16.040 The church fathers talk about how

00:09:18.640 Adam fell from grace

00:09:20.200 And they say that

00:09:21.740 The

00:09:22.200 Most

00:09:24.200 Insidious and cunning

00:09:26.300 Of the techniques

00:09:27.020 That the devil used

00:09:28.000 In order to

00:09:29.240 Coerce Adam

00:09:30.100 Into

00:09:30.500 And tempt Adam 0.78

00:09:31.260 Into

00:09:31.640 Into sin

00:09:32.460 Was that he was able to use

00:09:34.560 Adam's friendship

00:09:35.980 And his love for his wife

00:09:37.940 Eve

00:09:38.420 Against God

00:09:39.280 And so what the

00:09:41.520 In other words

00:09:42.740 Adam

00:09:46.420 Seeing his wife

00:09:48.220 And valuing

00:09:49.640 Her opinion of himself

00:09:51.560 And the closest

00:09:52.460 And nearness

00:09:52.960 That they wanted to be

00:09:53.920 Followed her

00:09:54.980 Into ontological death

00:09:56.400 And choosing a lesser good

00:09:58.140 Is to say knowledge

00:09:59.040 Of good and evil

00:09:59.780 Over obeying the commandments

00:10:02.100 Of God

00:10:02.500 And maintaining his friendship

00:10:03.400 With God

00:10:03.940 He chose

00:10:04.840 Delight in the created

00:10:08.880 Over delight in the uncreated

00:10:10.780 And this is the cause

00:10:12.160 Of the fall from grace

00:10:13.020 Because this action

00:10:14.960 This movement of the will

00:10:16.440 Away from God

00:10:17.320 Even if it is for

00:10:18.680 Another person

00:10:19.860 At its noblest

00:10:21.380 Is alienating to both

00:10:23.520 The other person

00:10:24.320 To oneself

00:10:25.300 And to God

00:10:26.240 Because God himself

00:10:28.640 Our relationship with him

00:10:29.980 When a man is a friend

00:10:30.900 Of God

00:10:31.460 He enjoys God's love

00:10:33.380 God's love

00:10:35.080 Or his grace

00:10:35.880 His mercy

00:10:36.700 His light

00:10:37.200 These are all

00:10:37.780 Synonymous concepts

00:10:39.020 That is just the

00:10:40.980 Effects of the action

00:10:42.700 Of God's presence

00:10:43.580 Man is in communion with him 0.53

00:10:45.760 The Holy Spirit

00:10:47.340 Makes his house

00:10:48.060 Within man

00:10:48.700 He becomes

00:10:51.000 A son

00:10:51.940 Of God

00:10:52.980 This is the intimacy

00:10:54.440 Of the relationship

00:10:55.340 And so man

00:10:57.540 His ability to appreciate

00:10:59.040 The world

00:10:59.720 Which God has made

00:11:00.740 And which he has

00:11:01.380 Set himself

00:11:01.820 Atop of

00:11:02.540 And his ability

00:11:03.460 To know himself

00:11:04.540 Is dependent

00:11:05.620 On this relationship

00:11:06.480 With God

00:11:07.040 Because it is

00:11:07.860 God's light

00:11:09.020 His grace

00:11:09.800 Which illuminates

00:11:10.640 The hearts of men

00:11:11.560 Our ability

00:11:13.740 To perceive

00:11:14.360 The highest echelons

00:11:15.480 Of reality

00:11:16.080 The natural

00:11:18.700 Forms

00:11:19.820 And ends of life

00:11:20.800 The Logoi

00:11:21.640 To use the terminology

00:11:22.600 Of St. Maximus

00:11:23.440 The Confessor

00:11:24.060 This is determined

00:11:27.680 By our relationship

00:11:28.500 With Christ

00:11:29.180 And in the fall

00:11:31.720 Because our heart

00:11:32.720 Became distorted

00:11:33.460 Because our love

00:11:35.380 And the passions

00:11:36.140 Which God gave us

00:11:37.140 Instead of being

00:11:38.100 Channeled

00:11:38.520 In rational order

00:11:40.440 Not just to say

00:11:43.920 Strictly speaking

00:11:44.600 Vertically

00:11:45.140 Strictly speaking

00:11:46.100 You know

00:11:46.520 Only to God

00:11:47.220 With the exclusion

00:11:47.700 Of all else

00:11:48.200 But in rational

00:11:49.080 Dispersion

00:11:49.800 Whereby God

00:11:50.680 Was the highest

00:11:51.460 And then other things

00:11:52.800 Underneath God

00:11:53.560 Received the appropriate

00:11:54.580 Amount of love

00:11:55.440 Conspicuous with their station

00:11:58.740 Because of the

00:12:00.640 The revolution

00:12:03.440 Against the hierarchy

00:12:04.480 Of love

00:12:04.960 So to speak

00:12:05.580 Or the

00:12:06.720 The miscommunication

00:12:09.900 The disintegration

00:12:11.360 Literally

00:12:11.900 Man introduced

00:12:13.880 Death into the world

00:12:14.760 He introduced

00:12:15.400 Corruption

00:12:16.220 And this is a critical

00:12:17.880 Concept for Christians

00:12:18.840 Because we believe

00:12:19.980 That death

00:12:20.460 And corruption

00:12:21.220 Are disintegration

00:12:23.420 It's not

00:12:25.020 Substance itself

00:12:26.360 But rather

00:12:27.500 It is the disintegration

00:12:29.200 Of substance

00:12:29.820 Caused by the

00:12:30.840 Movement of that

00:12:31.680 Substance

00:12:32.100 Away from

00:12:33.440 Light

00:12:34.140 From reality

00:12:36.040 From the

00:12:36.740 Formament of existence

00:12:37.640 Which is the

00:12:38.360 Grace of God

00:12:38.980 Because there's

00:12:40.560 Nothing that can

00:12:41.420 Exist outside

00:12:42.060 The grace of God

00:12:42.920 Even logic

00:12:44.040 Intelligibility

00:12:45.900 Comprehensibility

00:12:47.440 These are all qualities

00:12:48.660 Which come from

00:12:49.980 Creation

00:12:50.600 Which come from God

00:12:51.680 And all death is

00:12:53.240 Is the negation

00:12:54.180 And

00:12:54.980 Chaotic reduction

00:12:57.620 Of that form

00:12:58.960 Disorganization

00:13:00.480 Is another way

00:13:01.020 Of putting it

00:13:01.500 And so this is

00:13:02.600 The consequence

00:13:03.120 Of man's

00:13:03.920 Own

00:13:04.740 Free will

00:13:05.720 Decision

00:13:06.540 To disorganize

00:13:07.780 His love

00:13:08.240 To disorganize

00:13:09.260 His friendship

00:13:09.680 Is the entire world

00:13:11.000 Falls into death

00:13:12.200 Into decay

00:13:12.720 This is the central

00:13:13.540 Mystery of Christianity 0.99

00:13:14.500 Or the mystery

00:13:15.820 Of our sorrow

00:13:16.500 And so because

00:13:18.860 Man has lost

00:13:19.780 Sight of God

00:13:21.080 In favor of

00:13:22.640 Other human beings

00:13:23.540 And so on

00:13:24.700 Created things

00:13:26.000 He loses

00:13:28.340 Sight of himself

00:13:29.060 He doesn't

00:13:30.580 Understand

00:13:31.260 He doesn't

00:13:34.880 Understand

00:13:35.440 Who he is

00:13:38.840 Because his

00:13:39.760 Relationship with

00:13:40.560 Others

00:13:40.840 His context

00:13:41.720 Has become

00:13:42.940 Severed

00:13:43.500 He is alienated

00:13:44.880 In the abyss

00:13:46.360 Of his own

00:13:46.960 Loneliness

00:13:47.420 And this is the

00:13:49.600 Great difficulty

00:13:50.180 Is that

00:13:50.720 Man is longing

00:13:52.240 Longs for something

00:13:53.860 Within himself

00:13:54.680 A communion

00:13:55.660 In a state

00:13:56.180 Of blessedness

00:13:56.960 That he does

00:13:58.520 Not know

00:13:59.060 And the very

00:14:00.100 Mechanism

00:14:00.820 Of the

00:14:01.300 That he sees

00:14:02.520 Within himself

00:14:03.080 Has the ability

00:14:04.000 To obtain that

00:14:04.760 To enjoy

00:14:06.540 The life

00:14:07.060 Of flourishing

00:14:08.780 And of

00:14:09.500 Safety

00:14:10.300 And of

00:14:10.920 Goodness

00:14:11.680 That is to say

00:14:12.840 Human communion

00:14:13.640 And love

00:14:15.260 And solace

00:14:15.840 In the company

00:14:16.640 Of others

00:14:17.060 While eminently

00:14:18.540 Natural

00:14:19.060 And perfect

00:14:20.040 To his character

00:14:20.760 Is corrupt

00:14:22.060 Without

00:14:23.320 Without the grace

00:14:23.800 Of god

00:14:24.260 And without

00:14:24.960 His logos

00:14:25.600 And his spirit

00:14:26.640 Illuminating our

00:14:27.420 Hearts

00:14:27.720 Even that

00:14:28.820 Core existential

00:14:30.740 Striving

00:14:32.400 Is damaged

00:14:33.520 Now that's not to say

00:14:34.940 It's totally evil

00:14:35.720 It's wicked

00:14:36.680 But man's whole

00:14:38.020 Capacity and orientation

00:14:39.100 For love

00:14:39.940 Is damaged

00:14:40.920 By the fall

00:14:41.540 And it's a great

00:14:42.980 Sadness

00:14:43.480 And this is

00:14:44.180 This very

00:14:45.120 Quality

00:14:45.780 Is I think

00:14:46.220 At the

00:14:46.600 Heart of many

00:14:48.480 Of our sorrows

00:14:49.200 Because we desire

00:14:50.380 A sense of

00:14:50.880 Communion

00:14:51.200 With others

00:14:51.740 And friendship

00:14:52.860 And meaning

00:14:53.820 Integration

00:14:54.420 Into life

00:14:55.240 And the reality

00:14:56.480 And cogency

00:14:58.860 Of our actions

00:14:59.700 Within that

00:15:00.460 Communion

00:15:01.020 But many times

00:15:03.340 We find ourselves

00:15:04.200 Unsatisfied

00:15:06.140 Even by the

00:15:06.720 Results

00:15:07.060 Of such a

00:15:07.600 Reality

00:15:07.940 Or drawn

00:15:09.520 Into

00:15:09.920 Realities

00:15:11.340 Which are

00:15:13.760 Pleasing to us

00:15:14.600 But which are

00:15:15.400 Not objectively

00:15:16.580 Rational

00:15:17.120 And good

00:15:18.040 For the

00:15:18.720 Ordering

00:15:19.060 Of our

00:15:19.280 Soul

00:15:19.540 And so

00:15:22.120 The consequence

00:15:24.100 Of man's

00:15:24.880 Alienation

00:15:25.480 From the

00:15:25.820 Garden

00:15:26.120 Is that man

00:15:26.940 Is thrown

00:15:27.840 Into a world

00:15:28.520 Of irrationality

00:15:29.980 Of tyranny

00:15:31.320 Of

00:15:31.780 The domination

00:15:34.100 Of

00:15:34.500 Misdirected

00:15:36.100 Loves

00:15:36.500 And passions

00:15:37.120 The degeneration

00:15:38.280 Of things

00:15:38.900 That were once

00:15:39.440 Noble

00:15:39.800 And so

00:15:41.420 The

00:15:43.260 Orthodoxy

00:15:45.280 Teaches that

00:15:45.880 The purpose

00:15:46.720 Of the

00:15:46.940 Creation

00:15:47.260 Of the

00:15:47.520 World

00:15:47.720 Was for

00:15:48.080 Man to

00:15:48.440 Come

00:15:48.660 As we've

00:15:49.040 Said already

00:15:49.400 Into communion

00:15:49.980 Into friendship

00:15:50.520 With god

00:15:51.140 And that

00:15:51.940 Christ

00:15:52.420 Logos

00:15:53.280 The second

00:15:53.600 Person of

00:15:53.980 The holy

00:15:54.220 Trinity

00:15:54.540 Would have

00:15:55.760 Become incarnate

00:15:56.600 As a man

00:15:57.400 Even if

00:15:58.240 Man had

00:15:58.780 Not followed

00:15:59.760 And so

00:16:02.640 The

00:16:03.020 Whole

00:16:05.880 Telos

00:16:06.520 For

00:16:06.820 Christianity

00:16:08.440 Regardless of

00:16:09.980 Man's free

00:16:10.480 Will

00:16:10.720 Is Christ

00:16:12.440 And his

00:16:12.780 Incarnation

00:16:13.360 And his

00:16:13.620 Assumption of

00:16:14.080 Human nature

00:16:14.620 And the

00:16:15.380 Friendship

00:16:16.020 That Christ

00:16:17.380 Offers to

00:16:17.960 Us

00:16:18.240 Between god

00:16:18.980 And man

00:16:19.340 By his

00:16:19.820 Very

00:16:20.000 Incarnation

00:16:20.700 As we

00:16:21.400 Discussed

00:16:21.800 Here on

00:16:22.000 The show

00:16:22.220 Before

00:16:22.600 When Christ

00:16:24.320 Assumed

00:16:25.200 Manhood

00:16:26.240 He united

00:16:27.300 The natures

00:16:28.060 Of divinity

00:16:28.880 And humanity

00:16:30.380 In one

00:16:31.220 Person

00:16:31.660 In one

00:16:33.100 Entity

00:16:34.140 This union

00:16:35.920 Is perfect

00:16:36.600 It's without

00:16:37.360 Confusion

00:16:38.060 Or diminishment

00:16:38.980 Or blemish

00:16:39.820 It is

00:16:42.340 Ennobling

00:16:43.260 To the

00:16:44.140 Humanity

00:16:44.720 Imperfectly

00:16:46.120 We've

00:16:47.240 Talked about

00:16:47.640 This idea

00:16:48.040 Before

00:16:48.440 It's a

00:16:49.160 Fancy

00:16:49.380 Theological

00:16:49.820 Term

00:16:50.180 The exchange

00:16:50.860 Of properties

00:16:51.380 Communicatio

00:16:52.240 Idiom

00:16:52.940 Adam

00:16:53.120 But what

00:16:53.680 This basically

00:16:54.160 Means is

00:16:54.600 That the

00:16:55.580 Man's

00:16:55.980 Humanity

00:16:56.500 Is made 0.94

00:16:56.960 Like god

00:16:57.660 Godlike

00:16:58.480 By the

00:16:59.300 Presence

00:16:59.660 Of the

00:16:59.900 Divinity 0.89

00:17:00.260 Within it

00:17:00.780 And so

00:17:02.680 This is the

00:17:03.280 Essence of

00:17:03.860 Friendship

00:17:04.320 Is the

00:17:06.000 Ennobling

00:17:06.660 Of the

00:17:07.600 Party

00:17:07.940 The

00:17:09.320 The

00:17:10.540 Self-giving

00:17:11.280 Of life

00:17:13.320 Towards the

00:17:13.940 Other

00:17:14.200 Without respect

00:17:15.680 For one's

00:17:16.440 Own

00:17:16.840 Desires

00:17:17.800 Or suffering

00:17:19.200 This is the

00:17:20.340 Essence of

00:17:20.700 Who Christ

00:17:21.080 Is 0.88

00:17:21.380 And so

00:17:24.580 Christ is 0.59

00:17:26.740 Both

00:17:27.300 You know

00:17:27.720 As an

00:17:28.500 Exemplar

00:17:29.100 A model 0.62

00:17:29.460 Of the

00:17:30.160 Perfect

00:17:30.460 Friendship

00:17:30.920 But he

00:17:31.300 Is 0.88

00:17:31.600 Ontologically

00:17:32.380 Mystically

00:17:33.040 Himself

00:17:33.540 The perfect

00:17:34.480 Friend of

00:17:34.940 Man

00:17:35.220 Because he

00:17:36.000 Offers to

00:17:36.740 Us

00:17:37.200 Our heart's

00:17:38.320 Desire

00:17:38.760 Which is

00:17:40.000 The divinization

00:17:40.780 The perfection

00:17:41.520 Of our nature

00:17:42.060 In god

00:17:42.640 Not only

00:17:43.180 The reversal

00:17:43.760 Of the

00:17:44.140 Woes

00:17:44.400 That have

00:17:44.620 Been brought

00:17:45.020 About

00:17:45.320 By the

00:17:46.340 Fall from

00:17:46.700 Grace

00:17:47.020 And the

00:17:47.940 Sorrows

00:17:48.240 Of the

00:17:48.440 Loss

00:17:48.680 Of paradise

00:17:49.260 But a

00:17:51.920 Perfection

00:17:52.500 Beyond that

00:17:53.280 A eternal

00:17:54.820 Movement

00:17:55.360 And dynamism

00:17:56.420 A liturgical 0.57

00:17:58.100 Perfection

00:17:58.740 In life

00:17:59.340 Towards

00:18:00.880 Christ

00:18:01.280 Forever

00:18:01.640 And so

00:18:04.540 This is

00:18:04.860 The

00:18:05.160 This is

00:18:07.320 What the

00:18:07.560 Christian

00:18:07.820 Mystery is

00:18:08.540 Is that

00:18:08.860 When we

00:18:09.360 Enter into

00:18:10.140 The church

00:18:10.520 When we

00:18:10.720 Have faith

00:18:11.140 In Christ

00:18:11.620 We accept

00:18:12.360 His friendship

00:18:12.880 We move

00:18:14.140 Into an

00:18:14.560 Ever deeper

00:18:14.940 Relationship

00:18:15.580 With him

00:18:15.940 As a

00:18:17.940 As a

00:18:19.280 Son and

00:18:19.620 A daughter

00:18:19.920 Of god

00:18:20.460 Now

00:18:22.420 It's important

00:18:24.060 To set

00:18:24.520 These terms

00:18:25.300 In context

00:18:26.420 When I use

00:18:27.300 The term

00:18:27.580 Friendship

00:18:28.140 Love

00:18:29.220 Sonship

00:18:30.680 All of

00:18:31.380 These different

00:18:31.680 Things

00:18:31.980 Many people

00:18:33.100 This is a 0.94

00:18:33.580 Disgusting 0.99

00:18:34.180 Just a 1.00

00:18:36.080 Disgusting 1.00

00:18:36.960 Saccharacter 0.99

00:18:37.600 Right

00:18:38.000 It's

00:18:39.160 Dripping

00:18:39.900 With

00:18:40.180 Romantic

00:18:41.080 Implications

00:18:41.800 And

00:18:42.340 Soft

00:18:43.520 And kind

00:18:43.980 Of

00:18:44.980 Mushy

00:18:45.560 Feelings

00:18:46.000 And now

00:18:47.120 I won't

00:18:47.700 Deny

00:18:48.160 That there

00:18:48.560 Is gladness

00:18:49.840 And joy

00:18:50.360 And comfort

00:18:51.000 That comes

00:18:51.500 From these

00:18:52.600 Things

00:18:52.900 And friendship

00:18:53.420 And integration

00:18:54.720 With god

00:18:55.320 But as we've

00:18:56.280 Seen from

00:18:56.640 The life

00:18:57.000 Of christ

00:18:57.460 Mostly

00:18:58.280 Integration

00:18:58.740 With god

00:18:59.140 In this

00:18:59.400 World

00:18:59.620 Is suffering

00:19:00.140 And torture

00:19:01.500 Because of

00:19:03.560 The nature

00:19:03.940 Of human

00:19:04.360 Corruption

00:19:04.880 And so

00:19:07.240 In order

00:19:08.120 To understand

00:19:08.780 What kind

00:19:09.520 Of friend

00:19:09.840 Christ was 0.79

00:19:10.400 It's necessary

00:19:10.900 To understand

00:19:11.600 The

00:19:12.480 Cultural

00:19:14.020 Anthropology

00:19:14.760 Of the

00:19:15.000 Classical

00:19:15.380 World

00:19:15.640 And how

00:19:16.360 The ancients

00:19:16.960 Looked at

00:19:17.480 Friendship

00:19:17.960 So for

00:19:18.940 The ancients

00:19:19.620 And for

00:19:20.820 The classical

00:19:21.260 World

00:19:21.620 Friendship

00:19:23.040 You know

00:19:23.360 We could say

00:19:23.680 According to

00:19:24.080 Plato

00:19:24.240 Friendship

00:19:24.700 And love

00:19:25.640 Is the

00:19:26.140 Quality

00:19:26.520 Which allows

00:19:27.140 A city

00:19:27.500 To run

00:19:28.020 It is

00:19:28.540 Integration

00:19:29.040 It is

00:19:29.940 That man

00:19:31.700 Has a

00:19:32.100 Context

00:19:32.620 Between himself

00:19:33.400 And his

00:19:33.780 Fellows

00:19:34.100 All recognizing

00:19:35.540 Their situation

00:19:36.360 And the reality

00:19:37.120 That surrounds

00:19:37.760 Them

00:19:38.000 And coming

00:19:38.860 To a

00:19:39.360 Common

00:19:39.780 Conclusion

00:19:40.400 In order

00:19:41.180 For the

00:19:42.080 Necessity

00:19:42.520 Of organization

00:19:43.100 They put

00:19:44.100 Aside

00:19:44.560 Or subliminate

00:19:45.540 Their own

00:19:46.220 Desires

00:19:46.780 And their

00:19:47.060 Own ego

00:19:47.700 For the

00:19:48.440 Social

00:19:48.800 Compact

00:19:49.820 And the

00:19:50.180 Social

00:19:50.560 Cohesion

00:19:52.040 Inflourishment

00:19:52.600 Of the

00:19:53.560 Polity 0.99

00:19:54.000 It is

00:19:55.160 A very

00:19:55.340 Fancy

00:19:56.040 Way

00:19:56.280 Of saying

00:19:56.600 That

00:19:56.820 People

00:19:58.140 Get

00:19:59.360 Co-operate

00:20:00.100 With one

00:20:00.340 Another

00:20:00.600 And strive

00:20:01.460 To build

00:20:02.500 A society

00:20:03.000 In which

00:20:03.260 They can

00:20:03.520 Live

00:20:03.740 Because

00:20:04.280 A man

00:20:04.940 Can not

00:20:05.200 Live

00:20:05.380 By himself

00:20:05.800 Obviously

00:20:06.200 He requires

00:20:07.100 A language

00:20:08.260 Even to

00:20:08.740 Express himself

00:20:09.380 And that

00:20:10.040 Needs a

00:20:10.640 Context

00:20:11.200 Family

00:20:12.180 And ethnicity

00:20:12.740 There's

00:20:13.720 The strict

00:20:14.540 Matter of

00:20:14.980 An economic

00:20:15.420 System

00:20:15.800 Unless all

00:20:18.220 Are going to

00:20:18.620 Be freehold

00:20:19.080 Farmers

00:20:19.580 Which even

00:20:20.240 Was the

00:20:20.620 Rigor

00:20:20.880 In the

00:20:21.220 Ancient

00:20:21.440 World

00:20:21.780 Excuse me

00:20:23.200 Or subsistence

00:20:23.900 Farmers

00:20:24.240 As

00:20:24.420 The common

00:20:26.900 Occupation

00:20:27.480 There still

00:20:28.040 Needs to be

00:20:28.480 Distribution

00:20:28.860 Of labor

00:20:29.300 For other

00:20:29.840 Qualities

00:20:30.900 And so on

00:20:31.760 And so

00:20:34.020 The

00:20:34.540 Friendship

00:20:35.700 In the

00:20:36.000 Ancient

00:20:36.260 World

00:20:36.620 Is not

00:20:38.180 Necessarily

00:20:38.880 A state

00:20:39.580 Of

00:20:40.060 A delight

00:20:41.920 In the

00:20:42.300 Virtues

00:20:42.680 Of the

00:20:42.980 Other

00:20:43.260 Or

00:20:44.440 The pleasure

00:20:46.840 And ecstasy

00:20:47.580 Of the

00:20:47.920 Soul

00:20:48.260 In the

00:20:49.040 Movement

00:20:49.340 Of beauty

00:20:49.920 And the

00:20:50.880 Compassion

00:20:51.560 And empathy

00:20:52.000 That comes

00:20:52.980 From a

00:20:53.300 Familiarity

00:20:54.020 And bond

00:20:54.540 Closeness

00:20:55.220 With another

00:20:55.620 Though these

00:20:56.160 Can certainly

00:20:56.640 Be subsets

00:20:57.320 Of the

00:20:57.540 Friendship

00:20:57.940 But

00:20:59.020 Friendship

00:20:59.440 Is a

00:20:59.740 Real

00:21:00.320 Commit

00:21:01.800 And bond

00:21:02.900 To the

00:21:04.020 Goodness

00:21:04.460 Of the

00:21:04.840 Other

00:21:05.080 For their

00:21:06.220 Own sake

00:21:06.780 Irrespective

00:21:07.760 Of ourselves

00:21:08.300 And so

00:21:09.140 We've talked

00:21:09.520 Before on

00:21:10.180 This program

00:21:10.640 About the

00:21:12.120 Four loves

00:21:12.600 And ancient

00:21:14.200 Greek

00:21:14.640 And so

00:21:16.180 Philia

00:21:16.680 Where we get

00:21:18.360 An innumerable

00:21:19.580 Host of

00:21:20.000 English terms

00:21:20.720 Is this

00:21:21.840 Type of

00:21:22.580 Love

00:21:22.920 This

00:21:24.400 Commitment

00:21:24.960 To the

00:21:25.220 Other

00:21:25.440 This

00:21:25.800 Sustenance

00:21:27.740 Of the

00:21:28.840 Good of

00:21:29.200 The city

00:21:29.620 And of the

00:21:30.100 The society

00:21:31.060 Regardless

00:21:32.960 Of the

00:21:34.380 Flattery

00:21:34.760 Of your

00:21:34.980 Own ego

00:21:35.440 Or the

00:21:36.500 Aggrandisement

00:21:37.160 That you

00:21:37.480 Reap

00:21:37.720 By participation

00:21:38.420 Therein

00:21:38.960 And so

00:21:40.860 This is a

00:21:41.780 Natural human

00:21:42.460 State and

00:21:43.020 You know

00:21:43.340 It's obtained

00:21:43.820 To various

00:21:44.300 Degrees of

00:21:44.840 Perfection

00:21:45.460 But Christ

00:21:48.140 Christ promises 0.63

00:21:48.640 Us this

00:21:49.520 Type

00:21:49.860 This type

00:21:49.880 Of

00:21:52.400 Friendship

00:21:53.220 But not

00:21:53.860 Just this

00:21:54.280 But a

00:21:54.540 Higher

00:21:54.760 Form

00:21:55.120 And so

00:21:56.300 In

00:21:57.400 Christianity

00:21:57.880 We have a

00:21:58.520 Specifically

00:21:59.100 Deific form

00:22:00.620 Of love

00:22:00.980 Which is

00:22:01.340 Agape

00:22:01.760 And the

00:22:02.780 Idea behind

00:22:03.500 The agapic

00:22:04.740 Love

00:22:05.060 As opposed to

00:22:05.760 The filial

00:22:06.140 Love

00:22:06.380 Is that where

00:22:06.760 The filial

00:22:07.220 Love is

00:22:07.660 Contextual

00:22:08.720 It is

00:22:10.300 Dedicated from

00:22:11.040 One person

00:22:11.720 To another

00:22:12.280 In a

00:22:13.340 Specific

00:22:13.860 Context of

00:22:15.040 Relationship

00:22:15.740 The agapic

00:22:18.140 Love is

00:22:19.120 Solar

00:22:20.040 In the

00:22:21.140 Sense that

00:22:21.620 It is

00:22:22.380 Totally

00:22:25.620 Self-giving

00:22:26.400 And unreserved

00:22:28.280 As the

00:22:29.140 Sun

00:22:29.500 Shines

00:22:31.060 High in

00:22:31.580 The sky

00:22:32.100 And bestows

00:22:32.860 His life

00:22:33.300 Upon the

00:22:33.740 Entirety of

00:22:34.400 The cosmos

00:22:34.980 Without

00:22:36.060 Thought for

00:22:36.920 What the

00:22:38.060 Cosmos

00:22:38.580 Thinks

00:22:39.160 Or its

00:22:39.440 Own

00:22:39.780 Attitude

00:22:41.980 Christ offers

00:22:43.000 Us this

00:22:43.380 Type of

00:22:43.740 Love

00:22:43.980 This is

00:22:44.320 The mercy

00:22:44.660 Which he

00:22:44.960 Gives us

00:22:45.440 And his

00:22:47.260 Communion

00:22:49.200 His life

00:22:49.940 You know

00:22:51.480 Is totally

00:22:51.940 Free to

00:22:52.500 Those who

00:22:52.840 Would

00:22:52.980 Desire

00:22:53.400 It

00:22:53.880 He

00:22:55.560 Does it

00:22:55.840 For

00:22:56.080 The miraculous

00:22:57.240 Nature of

00:22:57.800 It is

00:22:57.960 That unlike

00:22:58.420 The sun

00:22:59.480 And the

00:22:59.740 Forces of

00:23:00.200 Nature

00:23:00.500 He doesn't

00:23:01.280 Force us

00:23:02.200 To accept

00:23:02.660 It

00:23:02.820 He doesn't

00:23:03.160 Force us

00:23:03.520 To integrate

00:23:03.960 With it

00:23:04.320 Perhaps the

00:23:06.020 Best way I

00:23:06.460 Can explain

00:23:06.940 It is by

00:23:07.480 Returning to

00:23:08.400 Concepts of

00:23:09.080 Divine

00:23:10.320 Energy

00:23:10.620 Divine

00:23:10.980 Grace

00:23:11.360 Where for

00:23:13.320 The Christian

00:23:13.840 When Christ

00:23:14.660 Came to

00:23:15.020 Earth

00:23:15.220 And he

00:23:15.440 Was

00:23:15.580 Incarnate

00:23:16.180 He made

00:23:17.100 This life

00:23:17.800 The divine

00:23:18.480 Energy

00:23:18.920 This is the

00:23:19.860 Kingdom of

00:23:20.260 Heaven

00:23:20.500 He made

00:23:21.380 That available

00:23:21.820 To us

00:23:22.420 But in

00:23:23.840 Order to

00:23:24.160 Obtain

00:23:24.440 The kingdom

00:23:24.800 Of heaven

00:23:25.300 We need

00:23:25.860 To be

00:23:26.140 Able

00:23:26.380 To

00:23:26.560 Integrate

00:23:27.040 With

00:23:27.240 Christ

00:23:27.660 We

00:23:28.040 You know

00:23:28.600 We

00:23:28.960 We need

00:23:30.540 To become

00:23:31.080 One with

00:23:32.320 Him

00:23:32.520 Not in

00:23:34.060 The sense

00:23:34.340 That our

00:23:34.580 Own

00:23:34.820 Personality

00:23:35.580 Is destroyed

00:23:36.100 But that

00:23:36.440 Our

00:23:36.560 Personality

00:23:37.000 Is perfected

00:23:37.860 Towards

00:23:38.720 Its best

00:23:39.560 Direction

00:23:40.600 And so

00:23:43.460 And so

00:23:43.480 The

00:23:43.720 Divine

00:23:44.780 Life

00:23:45.640 Which

00:23:45.840 Christ

00:23:46.160 Offers

00:23:47.560 Us

00:23:47.840 Which

00:23:48.020 We

00:23:48.180 Can

00:23:48.340 Obtain

00:23:48.780 Through

00:23:49.040 Repentance

00:23:49.620 And

00:23:49.760 Through

00:23:49.900 Initiation

00:23:50.440 Into

00:23:50.680 The mysteries

00:23:51.120 Of

00:23:51.280 The church

00:23:51.720 Which is

00:23:52.620 Christ

00:23:52.940 This

00:23:55.480 This is

00:23:55.620 The very

00:23:55.980 Satan

00:23:56.360 Divine

00:23:56.620 Life

00:23:57.040 Which

00:23:57.280 Christ

00:23:57.580 Gives

00:23:57.900 To

00:23:58.100 Sinners

00:23:58.440 Who

00:23:58.560 Reject

00:23:58.900 Him

00:23:59.060 This

00:23:59.400 Is 0.88

00:23:59.500 What

00:23:59.620 Hellfire

00:23:59.960 Is 0.88

00:24:00.200 This

00:24:00.840 Is 0.88

00:24:00.940 The

00:24:01.120 Teaching

00:24:01.480 Of

00:24:01.680 Guys

00:24:02.300 Like

00:24:02.500 Saint

00:24:02.660 Isaac

00:24:02.880 The

00:24:03.060 Syrian

00:24:03.300 And

00:24:03.540 Simeon

00:24:03.860 The

00:24:03.980 New

00:24:04.120 Theologian

00:24:04.700 That

00:24:05.520 The

00:24:05.980 Chastising

00:24:07.580 Fires

00:24:08.020 Of

00:24:08.180 Hell

00:24:08.420 And

00:24:09.160 The

00:24:09.500 If you

00:24:10.720 Look at

00:24:11.020 Icons

00:24:11.460 Of

00:24:11.600 The

00:24:11.680 Last

00:24:11.960 Judgment

00:24:12.380 There's

00:24:13.320 A

00:24:13.600 Stream

00:24:14.140 Of

00:24:14.340 Fire

00:24:14.720 Of

00:24:15.040 Blood

00:24:15.400 Which

00:24:15.620 Flows

00:24:15.900 From

00:24:16.060 The

00:24:16.220 Feet

00:24:16.440 Of

00:24:16.580 Christ

00:24:16.880 All

00:24:17.200 The

00:24:17.340 Way

00:24:17.520 To

00:24:17.820 The

00:24:18.840 Behemoth

00:24:19.980 The

00:24:20.280 Death

00:24:21.020 The

00:24:21.300 Second

00:24:21.540 Death

00:24:21.820 In

00:24:22.200 The

00:24:22.300 Lake

00:24:22.480 Of

00:24:22.600 Fire

00:24:22.860 This

00:24:23.960 Is 0.88

00:24:24.060 No

00:24:24.220 Coincidence

00:24:24.680 That

00:24:25.840 In

00:24:25.960 Icons

00:24:26.380 Like

00:24:26.600 This

00:24:26.800 It

00:24:27.400 Passes

00:24:27.760 Through

00:24:27.920 The

00:24:28.080 Altar

00:24:28.460 That

00:24:29.880 It

00:24:29.960 Evokes

00:24:30.260 The

00:24:30.400 Chalice

00:24:30.760 Because

00:24:30.940 That's

00:24:31.120 What's

00:24:31.340 In

00:24:31.420 The

00:24:31.560 Chalice

00:24:31.900 It's

00:24:32.080 Hellfire

00:24:32.460 It's

00:24:33.020 The

00:24:33.120 Grace

00:24:33.320 Of

00:24:33.460 God

00:24:33.740 It's

00:24:34.060 Him

00:24:34.220 His

00:24:36.000 Body

00:24:36.280 And

00:24:36.440 Blood

00:24:36.700 And

00:24:37.260 That's

00:24:37.500 Why

00:24:37.800 The

00:24:38.520 Chalice

00:24:38.980 For

00:24:39.200 Us

00:24:39.500 The

00:24:40.220 Holy

00:24:40.640 Communion

00:24:41.160 Is 0.88

00:24:41.660 The

00:24:41.800 Seal

00:24:42.080 Of

00:24:42.240 Our

00:24:42.360 Salvation

00:24:42.880 If

00:24:43.440 We

00:24:43.540 Love

00:24:43.840 Christ

00:24:44.260 And

00:24:44.440 We

00:24:44.540 Are

00:24:44.660 Repentant

00:24:45.180 And

00:24:45.700 We

00:24:45.820 Come

00:24:46.020 To

00:24:46.160 Him

00:24:46.400 Humbly

00:24:48.400 But

00:24:49.020 If

00:24:49.140 We

00:24:49.220 Do

00:24:49.360 Not

00:24:49.620 It

00:24:49.820 Is 0.88

00:24:49.920 The

00:24:50.060 Seal

00:24:50.280 Of

00:24:50.400 Our

00:24:50.520 Damnation

00:24:51.040 We

00:24:51.300 Eat

00:24:51.520 And

00:24:51.820 Drink

00:24:52.020 Unt

00:24:52.200 Damnation

00:24:52.780 Because

00:24:54.820 That's

00:24:55.060 How It

00:24:55.260 Is 0.88

00:24:55.360 For

00:24:55.460 The

00:24:55.560 Whole

00:24:55.740 World

00:24:56.060 And

00:24:57.200 The

00:24:57.300 Difference

00:24:57.540 Is 0.88

00:24:57.700 That

00:24:57.820 When

00:24:57.960 Christ

00:24:58.220 Comes

00:24:58.440 Back

00:24:58.820 In

00:24:59.220 The

00:24:59.440 General

00:25:00.600 Resurrection

00:25:01.200 Heaven

00:25:02.160 And

00:25:02.320 Earth

00:25:02.460 Will

00:25:02.620 Be

00:25:02.740 Recreated

00:25:03.420 And

00:25:03.600 It

00:25:03.720 Will

00:25:03.840 Be 0.69

00:25:04.020 Penetrated

00:25:04.640 Totally

00:25:05.100 Pneumatized

00:25:06.320 Resurrected

00:25:07.060 In

00:25:07.460 The

00:25:07.580 Divine

00:25:07.840 Energy

00:25:08.120 Of

00:25:08.280 Christ

00:25:08.560 That

00:25:08.860 Grace

00:25:09.140 The

00:25:09.340 Chalice

00:25:09.660 It

00:25:09.780 Will

00:25:09.860 Be

00:25:09.980 Everywhere

00:25:10.380 All

00:25:10.700 Around

00:25:10.940 Us

00:25:11.200 That's

00:25:11.760 Why

00:25:11.880 In

00:25:11.980 The

00:25:12.080 Book

00:25:12.220 Of

00:25:12.320 Revelation

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00:31:14.740 believe that we live in a fallen world and that our minds are fallen as well and that it requires

00:31:18.660 illumination and so that the common good the logos the telos of uh life of human organization is

00:31:25.760 christ in the mystery of the church and this is whereby we have the concept in um orthodox theology

00:31:32.380 of symphonia where the political life of the church and its end that is to say christ is not

00:31:39.240 separated and thus the political life may be sacralized because it's in service of the social

00:31:47.300 cohesion which is christ which is the logos so at best but life is often far from this and so we have

00:31:52.980 to live this reality as very best we can at the very minimum within ourselves and try to bring

00:31:58.120 whatever part of that we have to the world without even if it is a babylonian world in fact a really

00:32:06.520 good example of this is the prophet daniel the prophet daniel was an intensely political figure

00:32:10.700 he was a political official in the court of uh babylon and despite the fact that he lived in a

00:32:16.380 culture which was totally alien from his values uh there's a reason why it's an epithet he was able

00:32:23.480 to serve god rightly in the context of his political situation now i think that the culture political

00:32:29.780 culture of ancient babylon was far healthier than we enjoy today uh and unfortunately there are very

00:32:36.060 limited positions in the actual governance apparatus where we can be authentic christians

00:32:42.200 that express the fullness of our social teaching uh and our theology uh in in current times it's become

00:32:49.440 so babylonian it's it's just it's demonic right i mean at least ancient babylon 0.75

00:32:54.800 babylon was a monarchy um and so the um so back to the kind of the beginning of what i was discussing

00:33:07.720 and so what all this really means is that for us the matter of our success is the friendship that we

00:33:16.480 have with one another and the commitment that we have to our brothers and sisters and especially because

00:33:21.400 we all of us listening to this program occupy in some sense the cultural political religious vanguard

00:33:28.340 um we have a particular duty to be diligent and faithful to the friends who are both in these

00:33:37.700 circles but beyond especially the members of our family our church and of our neighborhood this is

00:33:43.900 the christ says to to be good neighbors and so this friendship this social integration this is the

00:33:50.080 foundation of national struggle this is the foundation of the camaraderie of you know the manner bunda if

00:33:56.160 you want to use that somewhat tired term these days it is the uh and this is like i mean plato says this

00:34:04.800 clearly you know he was pretty convinced that only uh he thought that only men could enjoy um true philia

00:34:11.220 because it was only men that could totally give themselves in um um martial self-sacrifice

00:34:18.860 and um discipline to the good of the other and to the bad the bunda now as christians we teach that

00:34:27.020 because women are made in the image and likeness of god uh they can participate in the divine energies 1.00

00:34:32.400 of god so they can also actually have philia um but plato

00:34:36.600 but uh what plato was getting at is that it is a particularly important and um keen reality

00:34:47.760 in organizations of men ideological or military or otherwise and so this this comradeship and this

00:34:59.620 is above you know whether we personally like someone i mean we can actually uh dislike someone

00:35:05.620 quite a good a good deal and still be their comrade and still consent to suffer and to die

00:35:11.020 and to bleed for them to back them in a fight i mean this is what the essence of friendship is for men

00:35:15.220 will you back your friend in a fight if you will they are they are your friend and if they won't

00:35:20.380 they're not your friend that's all that that's all that that's what that means pretty much good

00:35:25.000 litmus test um and so uh this is the difficult i mean if we look at you know our civilization today

00:35:35.780 what are the who who backs each other in fights where where are these bonds and ties they are few

00:35:42.180 and far between on purpose right mostly the purchase of the willingness to fight it's a mercenary endeavor

00:35:50.740 it comes from the exchange of you know just currency right i mean payment or you know some other um

00:35:57.560 personal aggrandizement

00:36:00.040 and so for us we must build up a culture of selfless friendship of self-giving friendship

00:36:10.840 to each other in dedication to each other in the light of christ

00:36:14.900 this is the mechanism by which we will have both the hearts but the dispensation and the inclination

00:36:22.080 to do great deeds of heroism for the salvation of our people

00:36:25.900 there's no other way that we can temper and train our hearts and come up with with uh the grit and

00:36:33.180 willingness to to do what needs to be done and sacrifice what needs to be sacrificed in order to

00:36:38.780 ensure that we live you know because what is there to live for if there's no friendship and social

00:36:44.840 integrity it's just a necromantic babylonian as the example i've used before

00:36:49.820 the force of inertia essentially

00:36:56.880 and so um thus friendship is critical it is our task is to become good friends and to organize ourselves

00:37:07.160 into a body of comrades that is willing and able to do what is necessary

00:37:14.580 friendship is also founded upon honesty this is a particularly strange quality of friendship

00:37:24.680 and i find only the christian i mean maybe i could be wrong perhaps some of my non-christian

00:37:29.760 listeners have a explanation but i find only the christian explanation to be satisfactory whereas

00:37:34.000 friendship is founded upon honesty i find and it's strikes me as continually strange

00:37:41.620 that we can in my experience anyway oftentimes i find myself able to be friends with people who

00:37:48.880 are totally dissonant with myself uh even sometimes close to enemies as long as they are honest in their

00:37:56.220 conduct and unconcealing in their actions and i personally suspect that this is a reflection of the

00:38:02.840 relationship that god has with us that that's why we must have repentance because it's a re-establishment

00:38:08.920 of the honesty with god if we look at the fall from grace that after adam sinned god did not

00:38:14.260 immediately expel him from the garden he was merciful to him and indeed he came unto him as a friend

00:38:19.340 he walked in the garden and asked adam to come and walk with him as a friend in

00:38:24.820 you know hand in hand face to face in full honesty a call to repentance but adam denied this he hid within

00:38:34.380 himself and tried to hide himself and the shame and the alienation which he had already begun to

00:38:39.880 experience from god he did not want to break out of the entropy that he had created by the misdirection

00:38:46.440 of his love and the blindness to the loveliness and excellence and necessity of god's friendship

00:38:53.880 and so uh he did not emerge

00:38:58.920 so i think that it's uh for us

00:39:06.120 that friendship and respect which is rooted in respect the desire not to conceal or to manipulate

00:39:14.360 one another or conceal oneself from one another or manipulate one another or

00:39:19.000 uh utilize another as an instrument for our own gain or as a species of political mechanism but

00:39:29.580 rather devalue each other as a an integrated unit of a transcendental whole

00:39:35.180 and to approach one another in honesty even if we all suffer from intense in various degrees of

00:39:44.780 personal corruption now that same honesty demands of course uh

00:39:52.140 uh the uh self-improvement and uh honesty with friend with oneself to a friend demands that we are

00:40:03.200 honest with them about their qualities you know we uh if we are good friends to one another christ

00:40:08.140 you know tells us we we have to you know be diligent especially as men in applying the law of god but of

00:40:13.460 course we do so with mercy uh we never lose sight of what christ and what the perfective object reality

00:40:20.960 that we're pursuing after is but we have to realize and we have to be ameliorative because of our corrupt

00:40:28.160 nature and that we share with one another and that we are constantly entering into sin despite ourselves

00:40:33.660 and so we have to take the absolute um transcendental reality that we strive to to cultivate

00:40:41.220 and we have to apply that with love and with stewardly care to ourselves and to one another

00:40:46.900 um and it's by this means and this and then this doesn't necessarily mean being soft i mean if you

00:40:54.540 read the the prophets are very merciful but if you read through them they have some very hard words to

00:41:00.220 say oftentimes telling someone the truth that honesty that is the greatest mercy that you can give them

00:41:05.840 and our difficulty is that oftentimes when we tell each other the truth

00:41:12.680 we lose communication there is no interest in hearing one another we become like talking dogs

00:41:20.540 now if you are speaking the truth and the other man does not want to hear it there's nothing you can do

00:41:27.240 and that's when a man becomes your enemy

00:41:32.440 when you can no longer speak to him and there's no longer any communication

00:41:38.440 when there's no longer any point of honesty or reference there's only desire and forces and

00:41:47.360 interests which come into conflict with one another and need to be backed up through the defense and use

00:41:52.300 of force spiritual primarily a bit physical as an extension of that

00:41:58.060 that's a lamentable situation but this is the

00:42:03.380 the reality of our afflicted life the disease upon which we all must bear

00:42:10.680 and so the

00:42:13.620 the great irony of this i think again we could we come at a kind of subtle theological point

00:42:24.660 is that the church fathers teach that language itself in terms of spoken enumerated word is a

00:42:30.500 consequence of the fall then in the garden they had subtle language that there was a that they

00:42:35.980 didn't need to speak to each other because the level of the fineness of their integration of their

00:42:40.300 souls into god was so intense and so perfect and so pure that they had a spiritual communication

00:42:45.780 they were directly in contact with the fullness of the real world and they could express themselves

00:42:53.200 in relationship to that and others with perfect communicative clarity not limited by the syllables

00:43:00.680 of lexicon or our own internal semantic integrity but there was a universal vision of language in

00:43:08.660 christ that's who we were speaking of and the medium by which we spoke and then even it's still

00:43:13.500 with a corrupted degree the medium by which we speak today but the necessity and the limitation of words

00:43:19.040 which very enigmatically is the very capacity which marks us as rational creatures and makes us human

00:43:25.920 has been damaged by the fall and that language the linguistic capacity is itself the first fruits and

00:43:34.320 products of ethnicity of the extended family because the family is the context of man's existence

00:43:40.320 and the communication with them communion with them is the purpose and development of language and that's why ethnic

00:43:50.560 groups are linguistic are linguically based that the language the communion and then the fruit of that

00:43:59.800 communion especially between men and women the offspring blood race these are intimately bound up concepts

00:44:07.600 so thus if we desire for the greater intercommunity of our people ourselves our own national

00:44:20.480 theological salvation we must strive to be good friends we must strive to have clear and honest language with one

00:44:30.120 another conducted in mercy but in truth primarily and without consolation to the wickedness of the temptation to be dishonest with one another

00:44:41.960 for reasons of bourgeois sentimentality or the domination of the passions as tempting as those prospects may be

00:44:53.000 so brothers and sisters i hope for all of your friendship and i give you my love

00:45:04.200 thank you for joining me

00:45:08.040 and shalom

00:45:09.800 we sing des geiers schwarzer haufe hi ja oh oh oh and voll mit tyrannen raufen hi ja oh oh oh

00:45:30.760 kivia

00:45:34.760 kiva

00:45:35.560 kiva

00:45:39.720 kiva

00:45:41.180 kiva

00:45:41.240 sound

00:45:42.380 kiva

00:45:44.940 kiva

00:45:49.440 kiva

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00:45:52.780 kiva

00:45:54.980 kiva

00:45:57.100 kiva

00:45:59.840 Who was there, the Edelman, Kyrie Leis?

00:46:07.960 Go on, go on and go on, set the red flag on.

00:46:15.600 Go on, go on and go on, set the red flag on.

00:46:23.700 Go on, go on and go on.

00:46:53.700 Go on, go on and go on, set the red flag on.

00:47:03.380 By Weinsberg setzt es Brand und Schank, hei, ja, oh, gar mancher über die Klinge schrank, hei, ja, oh, spießt voran.

00:47:22.380 Rauf und ran, setzt aufs Losterdach den roten Ahn.

00:47:28.700 Spießt voran, rauf und ran, setzt aufs Losterdach den roten Ahn.

00:47:36.520 Geschlagen ziehen wir nach Haus, hei, ja, oh, unsere Enkel fechten's besser aus, hei, ja, oh, spießt voran.

00:47:58.760 Rauf und ran, setzt aufs Losterdach den roten Ahn.

00:48:04.840 Spießt voran, rauf und ran, setzt aufs Losterdach den roten Ahn.

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Mysterium Fasces - December 02, 2023

Mysterium Monologue 02 — Friendship

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