Lust for domination

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

And God blessed them, and God said to them:

“Be fruitful and multiply, and

fill the earth and subdue it …

(Genesis 1:28)

And the Lord blessed people and gave them all power over all things.

The power of creative blessing, once taught earlier to the lower animals, was only related to their reproduction; man is granted not only the ability to reproduce on earth, but also the right to possess it.

The latter is a consequence of the high position that man, being the image of God on earth, had to occupy in the world.

The very domination of man over nature must also be understood in the sense of man's use for his own benefit of various natural forces of nature and its riches.

This idea is perfectly expressed in the following inspired lines of I. Zlatoust:

“How great is the dignity of souls! Through her powers, cities are built, seas are crossed, fields are cultivated, countless arts are discovered, wild animals are tamed! But most importantly, the soul knows God, who created it and distinguishes between good and evil.

Only one person from the entire visible world sends prayers to God, receives revelations, studies the nature of heavenly things and even penetrates into divine secrets! For him there is the whole earth, the sun and the stars, for him the heavens are open, for him were sent apostles and prophets, and even the Angels themselves; for his salvation, finally, the Father sent down his Only Begotten Son!"

John Chrysostom is the greatest of the fathers of the Eastern Church, one of its three "universal teachers". Born about 344 in Antioch, where there was one of the centers of development of Christianity, along with which he gave many luminaries to the church.

She went on to lead early Christianity. Here, for the first time, the name of the followers of the new religion was created. Here the Apostle Paul began his work, and Chrysostom came out from here.

He came to Christianity with a deep experience in terms of self-improvement and with his immeasurable naivety of a person who absolutely does not recognize any deals and compromises in an environment that is all woven of these deals, intrigues and tricks.

And at the same time, he immediately declared war on everyone - the clergy, monasticism, war on the court camarilla, Arianism, Novatianism, war on the episcopate, the rich and the empress herself.

Its direction differed from the Alexandrian school, where idealism prevailed, inherited from the philosophy of Plato, expressed by allegorism and mysticism in the interpretation of St. Scripture and deep speculation in resolving dogmatic issues.

In the Antiochian school, on the contrary, realism prevailed, - the basic principle of Aristotle's philosophy, which admitted in St. Scripture is predominantly literal and demanded simplicity and clarity in the understanding of Christian dogmas. Both of these directions, taken to an extreme, served as the basis for the development of heresies in the Church in the 4th century and subsequent ones.

Nestorius and his followers emerged from the Antioch School. In Iranian Syria, the Nestorians isolated their theological delights and laid the foundations for an incredible missionary thrust further east - through the Caucasus to Russia, through Central Asia to the Eurasian steppe, Mongolia, China and even Japan.

Over the course of several centuries, the Nestorian Church created a spiritual empire that covered almost half of Asia, but fell under the pressure of Islam and the fickle temper of feudal Catholicism.

Open history, and you, at the most cursory glance at historical events, will be quite convinced that only that state and that people succeeded and grew stronger in terms of culture and civilization that had long periods of peaceful prosperity.

That was given to the world by Athens, only forced to war, and Sparta, imbued to the core with soldiery.

Athens left a deep mark on the civilization of peoples, outlining and laying the foundation in sciences, arts, and crafts, and Sparta declared itself only by the fact that for several centuries it was at enmity with Athens, preventing the latter from developing correctly and evenly in the sense of culture.

Moreover, the Athenians achieved particular prosperity after the Greco-Persian wars, when the head of the republic, Pericles, focused all his attention not on increasing and strengthening the army, but on the construction of buildings and monuments, both in order to decorate Athens, and in order to raise in the state of science, arts, crafts and trade.

Distracting citizens from an idle and little productive life and occupying them with buildings, Pericles in a short time enriched the Athenians and significantly raised their mental and scientific growth, and who knows what Athens would be like if they could develop calmly, but the Peloponnesian war that arose ruined and weakened, as Athens, and in general and all of Greece.

In a short time, the Carthaginian Republic, brought to poverty by the Romans, managed to recover and renew its strength, when it got the opportunity to develop and prosper peacefully.

But Carthage was a thorn in the eye of the Romans, and the latter calmed down only after Carthage left no stone unturned.

Where did the inflated Persian monarchy, the Macedonian and the great Roman empires go? Haven't constant wars weakened and destroyed them, those wars that, enriching and exalting the few, ruined, weakened and corrupted the masses.

By the 11th century in Catholic Europe, the entire land was divided among the feudal lords.

Forests, lands, rivers began to bring land rent to owners and reigning monarchs.

The destitute and impoverished peasantry filled the cities, causing numerous pogroms, arson and murders. Having faded into the background, after the secular power, the church, by means of forged documents, [“Veno Constantinovo” (Donatio Const antini) see], acquires unlimited power.

To calm the people and preserve the property of the feudal lords in 1095, Pope Urban II began to preach the crusade, the war waged in the name of the Lord's Cross.

In such a war, according to the Pope, the believer, killing, could find the grace of the Lord and a place "at the right hand of the Father." He encouraged Christians to refrain from their unfortunate habit of killing one another. Instead, he urged them to direct their bloodthirsty inclinations to a righteous war under the guidance of the Lord himself.

In addition to spiritual and moral privileges, there were also numerous privileges that the crusader enjoyed on his way through this world even before he passed through the Heavenly Gates.

He could appropriate property, land, women and titles in the territory he conquered. He could keep as much loot as he wanted. Whatever his status at home - for example, a landless youngest son - he could become the august ruler with his own court, a harem and a considerable land plot.

Such a generous reward could be obtained simply by taking part in a crusade. To participate in the campaign, he could mortgage property and land with subsequent ransom, as he acquired wealth in the rich East.

In the years that followed, the same privileges became available to a wider category of people. To get them, it was not even necessary to go on a crusade yourself. It was enough just to lend money for a holy cause.

The crusaders took Constantinople in April 1204 and betrayed the city to plunder and destruction, after which they created a feudal state here - the Latin Empire, led by Baldwin I of Flanders. Byzantine lands were divided into feudal possessions and transferred to the French barons.

The fourth Luther; nsky council (according to the Catholic Church - the XII Ecumenical Council) took place in 1215, where Pope Innocent III officially approved the monastic orders of the Dominicans and Franciscans with the aim of combating heresies, and the Inquisition was also sanctioned.

All people, who henceforth did not accept any religion, or preached another, different from Catholicism saturated with feudalism, were declared pagans and their conversion to Christianity, by any means, was the duty of all churches.

All the attention of the church is turned to eastern Europe - Russia, where Nestorian Christianity flourished. The peaceful policy of early Christianity throughout Asia allowed all religions from Judaism to Buddhism to live peacefully, as well as peoples who did not have any religion.

The official history of Europe describes this time as an era of peasant unrest and attacks on feudal lords. And the history of the church is the same time - this is the time of schism - mass heretical movements that took on a mass character, when the development of the urban bourgeoisie made possible a more decisive opposition to the feudal lords and the church.

Since they identified the church with feudalism, the social movements that fought against feudalism were also anti-church in nature.

In the Balkans, anti-feudal heresies spilled over into the movement of the Patarens and Bogomils, in Lombardy - humiliates (from the Latin humilis - humiliated, insignificant, humble), and in southern France - Cathars and Waldensians.

With some differences, they proclaimed and wanted one thing: the fulfillment of a perfect evangelical life, towards the social idea of the early Christian church. They considered the mediation of the church unnecessary to receive divine grace, and they did not need the church itself.

Therefore, they questioned the need for the existence of a church organization, a feudal church, and thus a feudal system. Increasingly, their programs raised the issue of changing society.

Organizing a crusade against Christianity raised doubts about how to shed Christian blood, and mining in the Balkans did not promise benefits.

When the Hungarian king Imre conquered Serbia, the pope supported the expansion in the Balkans, because he expected from Imre to eliminate the local heresies (Bogomils and Patarens), but the campaign did not justify expectations.

The dignity and inviolability of Christian churches before 1258 were rarely violated. But this year, the Muslim world was provoked (WHO ???), Caliph al-Mustasim and most of his relatives from the Abbasid clan were killed in Baghdad, and the Caliph palace was handed over to the Nestorian patriarch.

Classical Islam, in principle, does not make national distinctions, recognizing three statuses of human existence: as a faithful (Muslim), as a patron (Jews and early Christians in the world of Islam, they are also "ahl al-kitab" - people of the Book, holders of the Scriptures, not subject to forced conversion to Islam) and as a polytheist subject to conversion.

And the peaceful, Byzantine multi-confessional empire exploded from within. With a cry: “Atu him!” Muslim religious fanatics of the Seljuks began to “defend” Islam, destroying the churches of Christians - Nestorians, Jews and Armenians.

D'Ohsson, in Histoire des mongols, II, pp. 352-358, writes: in 1262 great turmoil took place in the Horde, we can only guess that the politics and power of the Horde changed …

1264 - The invasion of the Turks to Thrace (the European coast of Byzantium), and by the end of the century, more precisely from 1288, when Osman Pasha led all the Turkish tribes, the entire Black Sea coast, Bulgaria, Crimea was under the rule of Ottoman Turkey.

Vienne Cathedral was convened by Pope Clement V (bull Regnans in coelis from August 12, 1308) in the small city of Vienne (now Vienne) in southeastern France, near Lyon. 20 cardinals, 4 patriarchs, 39 archbishops, 79 bishops, 38 abbots took part in the Vienne cathedral. The cathedral was attended by King Philip IV of France and secular lords. The total number of those present is about 300 people.

During these years, for the first time, information was received about the cruelty used by the Ottomans in the Balkans and in the Crimea. To which King Philip first gave a definition of these barbarities, he called the invaders - tartares - a fiend from hell.

The Council adopted a document, referring primarily to the preparation of a new crusade for the liberation of Europe from the Turks. The cathedral called Philip IV and Eng. cor. Edward II to lead the campaign. To finance it, according to the decision of the Council, from May 6 to 1312, a tax was to be collected from the feudal lords (church tithe) for 6 years.

The cathedral also adopted a project by Raymund Llull on the creation of special chairs at the Roman Curia and large European Universities (Paris, Oxford, Bologna, Avignon and Salamanca) for teaching Hebrew, Arab. and sire. (Chaldean) languages (canon 10 "On languages") and qualified missionaries were trained to convert the Gentiles to the Christian faith, which made it possible to establish suppression of free states and establish feudalism in Asia and Russia.

Why did they hide the participation of the Turks in the raids and collecting tribute from the Russian princes?

Only because they did the "job" that the Teutonic knights and the Hungarian king could not do. To extinguish the spread of light from Russia - the people's veche, the election of power, and most importantly - the public ownership of land and land.

Moreover, they were renamed into "numerous tribes", the troops of the Turks, moving in "a great gathering and a large army" "like a cloud to cover the earth", although from the lips of Philip IV they were called "Tartares" - descendants of the "Tartarus" - the underworld. Europe adopted this name, in Russian transcription and lexicography they were renamed Tatars.

The papal Inquisition, raging in Europe, did not admit the doctrine of the sphericity of the Earth - "the earth rested on three whales." In view of this, the geographical maps of those times were in a two-dimensional projection. On them you will not see any "Tartaria", no mention of the Tatars. These are maps of the X - XV centuries, where the Ptolemy Map was the basis.

On these maps of the place from the Dnieper, the Siberian side was Scythia, the land around the Aral - Sogdiana, the territory of Kazakhstan - Saki, on any maps or legends the name of the Tatars or Tartars was not found. Homer called Tartarus the place of imprisonment of the titans, different from hell. However, in the writings of Homer, he is tied to certain places in the west relative to Greece.

Nowhere in history or national memory are mentioned, in Eastern Europe, in the Caucasus, the descendants of the Kipchaks, there is no blood - Naimans, Nogays, and even more so the descendants of the Mongols.

But the Turkish trace remained, and which was experienced by all Eastern peoples. The largest center of the slave trade was in Kherson, Constantinople, and this is the possession of Porta.

An old Russian proverb says: - "Sharp sword, but there is no one to whip, Tatar in Crimea, pan in Lithuania", "To whom is the Mother of God, and to us Lithuania, yes Tatarva", "Abuse (war) does not like the truth."

The Catholic Church was one of the most powerful feudal lords. She concentrated in her hands a huge economic and political power.

The largest usurer of all the royal houses in Europe. The ideologist of God's chosen power, the author of genealogical manuscripts about “royal” persons, where the mythical “Chingizids” and “Timurids” were artificially added to control Asian personalities.

According to F. Engels, church feudal lords "exploited their subjects as mercilessly as the nobility and princes, but behaved even more shamelessly."

The struggle of the masses against feudal oppression often took on a religious shell, appearing in the form of various heresies. Rebelling against feudal exploitation, the masses fought against the church, since the church justified and defended this oppression, sanctified the feudal system with divine authority.

According to F. Engels, the church occupied the position of “the most general synthesis and the most general sanction of the existing feudal system. It is clear that under these conditions all attacks on feudalism expressed in a general form and, above all, attacks on the church, all social and political revolutionary doctrines should, for the most part, represent at the same time theological heresies."

It was at the request of Catholicism and the hands of a vassal - Ottoman Turkey, that the Orthodox Church became the largest feudal lord in Russia. She owned over a million peasants, whom she oppressed with exceptional cruelty, using a well-established coercive apparatus for this.

Even in the word "peasant" the foundation of Christianity was laid - "hristianin"

Monasteries were the first carriers of commercial and, in part, industrial capital, the first banks. When serfdom was established in Russia, monasteries began to own a huge number of serf souls.

The enormous lands and property of the church, and in our country, of course, corrupted the higher clergy, and arrogant hierarchs appeared in our country, and the poor wondered how this could be: the Church of Christ was mired in vice and splendor? AND

we had people from among the clergy themselves who protested against this.

So, the famous Nil Sorsky under John III "began to verb so that the monasteries would not have villages, but the monks would live in the deserts and feed on their handicrafts." The council, however, replied: "The saints and monasteries do not dare to give away church property and do not favor."

Not only boyar and communal lands were privatized, but hundreds of villages were also burned down in order to evict, erase the memory, resettle the peasants to the estates of monasteries and churches.

Kurbsky accuses Grozny of destroying and defeating the "powerful in Israel" given from God, that is, the old boyars, took away from the boyars every last shirt (shirts) and ruined "the great city of Pskov," "shut up the kingdom Russian, like a stronghold in hell,”that is, with the help of extraordinary dictatorial measures.

In response to the question why Grozny exterminated the boyars, “his loyal servants,” the tsar replies: “the Russian autocrats have ruled the kingdom themselves, not boyars for a long time”.

During the capture of Kazan, Ivan IV, fulfilling the will of the papacy, on the very first day burned the synagogues of Jews and churches of Armenian Christians along with his flock. (The bull on the fight against heresy has not yet been canceled: Jewish pogroms, Armenian massacres; genocide is hidden by civil strife and political squabbles).

Until the 16th century, the rebuilders of Rus used the services of the Ottoman Empire, paying for their help in the establishment of feudalism in Russia, selling the people into slavery.

In this era, everything Russian, everything national was consigned to oblivion - and almost desecration - was branded with the nickname of savagery and ignorance.

Princes and boyars are responsible to the people and veche for their affairs. This position is well expressed in the answer of the Pechersk abbot Polycarp to Prince Rostislav Mstislavich:

"God has commanded you to be like this: the truth of deeds in this world, judge in truth and in the kiss of the cross to stand and guard the Russian land."

Where are the creations of the Chinese people of the Yuan era? Marco Polo, comparing what he saw with the countries of Europe and Western Asia, was impressed by the vastness and prosperity of China. He described Khubilai as "the most powerful in the world, with exceptional people, lands and goods."

For a short period under Kublai's rule, the Yuan dynasty enjoyed unity, economic prosperity, and peace. There were over 5,000 Europeans in Beijing, missionaries provoked a feudal revolution, proclaimed emperor of the new Ming dynasty in Nanjing, fought against his own people for about 20 years, establishing feudalism.

The famous Chinese Wall, erected on the bones of the "slaves", became an obstacle for the peasants to escape and escape to the free steppes. This wall was not built to protect from the outside, but to protect the country from internal uprisings and departures, therefore it was built with loopholes inside the country.

The era of the revival of Central Asia - the Khorezm Empire, (the territory of all Central Asia, Iran, Azerbaijan) fell on the Middle Ages and the memory retained their names only because they wrote in Arabic letters (!!!), although the language of the creations is Turkic.

The Ottoman Empire in various ways - where with iron and blood, and where with benefits and promises - affirms Islam in Central Asia. But this land is Dar-al-Harb, so Timur's sword passed through it and development stopped.

Islam has had the most reactionary, slowing down influence on science and culture. The Muslim clergy demanded that scientists blindly believe in the dogmas of Islam as immutable truths, consider the Koran the creation of Allah, read and comment on only one book in the world - the Koran

After the massacre of Timur, the Nestorians fled to India, where the famous unrivaled empire of the great Mughals was founded.

People admire the wondrous harmony of the Taj Mahal, recall the statesmanship of Akbar, admire the glitter of historical gems, recreate the events of a bygone era in novels and films, call the term "Muglai" - a "Mughal" whole style in art, clothing, even cooking, its motives reproduced in India in the architecture of buildings, in ornamental patterns, on boxes, table tops, dishes. Whole cities of mausoleums and sarcophagi made of the most precious marble and the mysterious mysteries of this dynasty do not leave anyone indifferent.

The last of the Mughal dynasty, Bahadur Shah Zafar II, stood at the head of the sepoy uprising. In 1858, the uprising was brutally suppressed, after the defeat of the sepoys, the British abolished the Mughal dynasty, plundering the state, divided into more than 500 principalities.

Preaching Christianity, concluding agreements with "native" princes with the aim of acquiring and exploiting their territory and levying duties and taxes to cover the administration costs of the acquired possessions, they acquired the rights to "perpetual use" of the land.

Thus, famine settled in the once prosperous and powerful state. And he walks through India, Africa, South America, the Middle East, where the indigenous people are an outcast table in their land.

… and fill the earth and subdue it …

I have long sought God among Christians, but He was not on the cross.

I visited a Hindu temple and an ancient Buddhist monastery, But even there I did not find even a trace of Him.

I went to the Kaaba, but God was not there either.

Then I looked into my heart.

And only there I saw God, Which was nowhere else …

(Rami)