God the father, son and holy spirit. About the concepts of "father", "son", "holy spirit"

Expression: ‘’in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit’’, is sometimes so ordinaryly perceived in Christianity that for years attending church, some do not even try to think about what it really means. However, if you delve into the background and the essence of the expression: ‘’in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit’’, we can see with you the most amazing picture. After reading this article to the end and reflecting with us, you can once again be convinced that the Bible can become much more interesting and ingenious for us if we delve into its world and understand the essence of secrets.

First of all, it is important to understand that the expression: ""in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit", is directly related to the Old Testament expression: ‘’The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob’’(Ex. 3:15.).

1) ‘’In the name of the Father…’’ or ‘’God of Abraham…’’

Abraham was a prophetic image of the Heavenly Father and was called the father of all believers. The apostle Paul wrote:

‘By faith, Abraham obeyed the call to go to the country that he had to receive as an inheritance, and he went, not knowing where he was going. By faith he dwelt in the promised land as in a foreign land, and dwelt in tents with Isaac and Jacob, joint heirs of the same promise; for he looked forward to the city that has foundations, whose builder and maker is God' (Heb. 11:8-10). ''

…what does Scripture say? Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness. When did you change? by circumcision or before circumcision? Not by circumcision, but before circumcision. And he received the mark of circumcision, [as] the seal of righteousness through faith, which he [had] in uncircumcision, so that he became father of all believers uncircumcised, that righteousness might be reckoned to them” (Rom. 4:3,10,11).

Being the image of the Most High [‘Ancient of Days’ – Dan.7:9,13.], Abraham was old when he was given the promise of numerous offspring (Gen.17:1,2,5-7.). However, when his son Isaac reached adolescence, the Most High Yahweh said:

‘‘Take your son, your only son whom you love, Isaac; and go to the land of Moriah and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains that I will tell you about” (Gen. 22:2).

This was a prophetic action [a sign] of what the Son of God said:

“God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16).

2) ‘’In the name of the Son…’’ or ‘’God of Isaac’’

1. Interestingly, Isaac was sacrificed on Mount Moriah (Gen. 22:2.).
2. Subsequently, in the same place, David, the forefather of Christ, built an altar to atone for the sins of Israel (2 Kings 24:1,18,25.).
3. Further, Solomon [who was a prophetic image of Christ - 2 Kings 7:12-17.], built a temple on the same place (2 Chronicles 3:1.).
4. And only there, all Israel, from that time on, performing a prophetic act, was to offer up lambs [as an image of the Lamb of Christ].

Before Israel entered the promised land, the Almighty warned:

‘Beware of offering your burnt offerings in every place that you see; but in that place which the Lord chooses, in one of your tribes, you shall offer your burnt offerings…” (Deut. 12:13,14).

So: in this place [Mount Moriah - later, part of the city of Jerusalem], a sign was performed with Isaac, which pointed prophetically to the Son of God. Then Abraham was told:

‘’All the peoples of the earth will be blessed in your Seed, because you obeyed my voice’’ (Gen.22:18. Galat.3:16.).

3) ‘’In the name of the Holy Spirit’’ or ‘’God of Jacob’’

The story of Jacob is remarkable in that his whole life was a struggle. For example, rivalry with his brother Esau for the birthright (Gen.25:22-33.). Esau is a collective image of Israel according to the flesh, who, having turned out to be unfaithful to God, subsequently lost his primacy [birthright] before the Most High and blessing (Acts 13:46; 28:25-28.).

The fact that Jacob fought for the blessing is an example for the heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven, born of the Holy Spirit (Rom. 8:14-17.). The desire for spiritual purity, the search for the best new, loyalty and love is always a struggle. The apostle Paul wrote:

‘’Let there not be [between you] any fornicator, or wicked man, who, like Esau, would give up his birthright for one meal. For you know that after that, desiring to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; could not change [his father's] thoughts, although he asked for it with tears. Therefore, having received an unshakable kingdom, let us keep grace, by which we will serve God well, with reverence and fear” (Heb. 12:16,17,28).

What Jacob was a type of the Holy Spirit of God, a prophetic sign testifies:

‘’ And Jacob was left alone. And Someone wrestled with him until dawn; and seeing that he did not prevail against him, he touched the limb of his thigh and injured the limb of Jacob's thigh as he wrestled with Him. And he said, Let me go, for the dawn has come. Jacob said, I will not let you go until you bless me. And he said: what is your name? He said: Jacob. And he said: From now on, your name will not be Jacob, but Israel, for you have wrestled with God, and you will overcome men” (Gen. 32:24-28).

Two thousand years later, Christ said:

‘’From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven is taken by force, and those who use force take it by force’’ (Mat. 11:12).

Why from the days of John the Baptist?

We find the answer in the Gospel of John:

‘’ … for the Holy Spirit was not yet upon them because Jesus was not yet glorified” (John 7:39).

Neither Abraham nor Isaac - but it was Jacob who had a dream:

‘‘Behold, a ladder stands on the earth, and its top touches the sky; and behold, the angels of God go up and down on it” (Gen. 28:12).

And just like that, only two thousand years later, Christ said to his apostles:

‘’…from now on you will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending to the Son of Man’’ (John 1:51).

And this once again shows that only through baptism into Christ and the Holy Spirit, the way to heaven opens (John 3:5. 1 Cor. 15:22,23. Heb. 11:32,39,40.).

So: before his ascension, the Son of God said: ‘Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit’(Mat. 28:19). What does this mean?

1. ‘’In the name of the Father’’– our baptism in the name of the Father should reflect the words: ‘’ … The Lord our God is the only Lord; And love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength—this is the first commandment!'' (Mark 12:29,30).

2. ‘’In the name of the Son’’- so said the Almighty: ‘I have anointed My King over Zion, My holy mountain. I will proclaim the definition: The Lord said to me: You are my Son; I have now begotten you; ask me, and I will give you the nations for your inheritance, and the ends of the earth for your possession. Honor the Son, lest He be angry, and lest you perish along the way, for His wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all who trust in Him.(Ps. 2:6-8,12). The fact that Heavenly Father made Jesus Christ Lord, Savior and King should not be in doubt (Acts 4:11,12.). They are ‘’The Way, Truth and Life’’ through whom we have access to the Father in heaven.

3. ‘’In the name of the Holy Spirit’’– born of the Holy Spirit, or the spiritual sons of Jacob (Isaiah.29:22,23. Galat.3:28,29.), get the opportunity to fight for the “birthright”, i.e. become brothers - the firstborn of Christ (Rev. 14:1,4. Rev. 20:6.).

And this is a great honor, reward and responsibility. The prophet Isaiah wrote:

‘’ …then Jacob will not be ashamed, and his face will no longer turn white. For when he sees his children in his presence, the work of my hands, they will holyly honor my name and holyly honor the holy Jacob, and revere the God of Israel” (Is.29:22,23).

S. Yakovlev (Bokhan)

Father son and holy spirit who is it

The Old Testament says. And God said: Let us make man in Our image and in Our likeness. And God created man in his own image (Old Testament, chapter 1, Genesis 1:26, 1:28).

BUT now look at the drawings of our Universe (below) and you will see for the first time what it really is !!! In the middle, in green, I painted arms and legs to her with a dotted line, and you saw Her for the first time! And we were convinced that we (people) were created in Her likeness! But not only that, we have seven "energy rings" inside us, headed by their "Chakras" ("Chakra" is translated from Sanskrit as "Ring"). And in our Universe there are "Seven Numerical Rings" with "Teacher systems" controlling Them.

And above it (in a person) is "Bioscreen", which controls absolutely the entire human body and its DNA! And in the Universe, at the head of Her entire organism, there is a Super Ring, which is located in the "Head of the Universe". And we have a completely wrong understanding of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. And here you will read below for the first time what the Highest Powers of our Universe from the Super Ring said about this. They said that we have very scanty knowledge about ourselves (less than 0 , 001% ), and even less about the Universe!!! And therefore, people actually do not know anything about the main energy of the Universe - the "energy of life", thanks to which life exists in the Universe and the Universe itself exists !!! What the Higher Powers said about this, you will read below.

The fact is that the Universe is a gigantic living organism. And any element of the Universe is a part of Her Mind! (These are the words of the Higher Powers). And all the "temporary nuclei" of Her are tied together!!! - And these are the words of the Higher Forces, spoken during the contact. And I repeat once again - What is the real Universe you can see for the first time below in my drawing.

In fact, our Universe (as a macrocosm) and the human body (as a microcosm) are penetrated by a network unknown to us so far, the so-called "protomatter" or, to put it more correctly, "first radiations", about which our scientists still have zero knowledge !!! This "protomatter" is much smaller in volume than the elementary particles known to us. And these "first radiations" arise at the birth of the Universe, that is, at the opening of the Universe of its space-time system after the "Big Bang". And they exist in its closed continuum in the form of a "cellular mesh frame"!!!

And the size of such cells is much smaller than the sizes of elementary particles that are known to us at the moment. And just such "first radiations" can be called the potential of "materiality", or "protomatter"! And it is precisely such "primary radiations" arise at the birth of the universe ! And it is these "first radiations" that are the basis for the creation of dense matter, which we know! And from their combinations and their interaction, the whole visible and invisible world and "time snails" and "passage tunnels" and various water and energy channels are built, about which we know nothing and which are invisible to the human eye! A person does not even see his "time axes", which come out approximately from the region of his navel. But if you form your "shell double" and fly across the Universe, you will see them well!

The Super Ring Forces, which have been living for more than 800 billion years, long before the "Big Bang" in our Universe (which happened about 15 billion years ago and They live in the "Head" of the layout of the Universe), say -

You have the wrong idea about all this. At the very beginning there were no particles. Originally was - field !!! These are the fields of "protomatters" and energies of powerful fields of biological nature ! These are the biological fields of all Galaxies, Constellations and individual planets. And this field is more essential than materialized matter! And it's not particles like you people think! This is where your delusion lies!

That is field - creates a particle, not a particle field !!! A field is such a natural concept that you can’t even give an analogue in your people! It's like in your dialectics, what is primary matter or consciousness! So consciousness is primary, not matter! And you are told - that consciousness is a product of matter! Not! Matter is a product of consciousness! Although without matter there can be no consciousness. And the Higher Powers continued, -

It's like that Holy Father and Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is a field of Living and Intelligent energy, thanks to which life exists in the Universe and the Universe itself exists !!!

And these were the words of the highest Powers, and not my inventions, "hypotheses", and fantasias and to my question, - Who is the Son? And the Higher Powers answered, - Their products , that is all Intelligences created from this Intelligent Energy!!! And you, people, are not God's servants, you are our children! You are our future! The fact is that the Creator is trying to raise souls to His level!!!

And now the development of people and its evolutionary perfection is being monitored by

"Cosmic Observer Coalition" , you people name Her God!!!

When creating people of the Fifth Race, the Creators collected and used all the most advanced humanoid DNA from all over the Universe! People of the Fifth Race were created by various Space Systems, more precisely, each System created its own type of person. And these people were settled simultaneously on planet Earth, but in different places!

Here is what the Powers of the Super Ring said about this energy, thanks to which absolutely all the Minds of the Universe exist, -

It's energy , due to which all living things live and the Universe itself exists, on the presence of which the quality and life expectancy . This is Smart Energy!

Absolutely all Minds of the Universe are created from this Living and Intelligent energy! And absolutely all the spirits of our universe. And it is the Spirits on Earth who monitor and are responsible for their parts of the Earth: forests, rivers and rivers, for mountains and even for the weather in one or another area. But besides that, there are Cosmic spirits that control our planet...

I once asked the Higher Forces a question about "Tornados" - Tell me, there are often "tornadoes" over the United States. How how do they form such a force that they even lift entire wagons into the air ?! And this is what the Forces answered me, - Tornado is a process sy that happen under the influence of external forces . At the same time, they take for the initial physical component of your planet and create a "tornado" from it.This is done by the Forces that are watching you and supervising you! And this is called cleansing. !!! Do you have people which make fortunes on the misfortune of others … here comes the cleansing !!! And they will only get stronger in the future!

And now you have tornadoes in Russia. You began to take a bad example from America , and you began to experience such cleansing… and if you continue to follow the Destructive-American way, they will only increase with you..."

The "energy of life" comes to our Earth, but our scientists know nothing about it yet. The matter is that in our Galaxy there are only two such fields with "life energy". And one of these fields is located in our solar system, this is the "Oort cloud", and the other is in our Galaxy in the Constellation of Orion.

The forces of the Universe, upon contact, said, - Your scientists not only do not know about this energy, they do not know much about the influence of various fields and radiations in open outer space. And as a result of this, your cosmonauts will receive severe damage to their health, since your earthly protection is absolutely unresponsive and does not meet the necessary safety conditions for being in such a space!

The Old Testament says. - And God said: - Let us make man in Our image and after Our likeness. And God created man in his own image (Old Testament, chapter 1, Genesis 1:26, 1:28).

For the first time you see a simplified drawing of a model of our universe. And the drawing of this Model of the Universe is very similar to the model of a person (as in the "Old Testament") and I asked the Powers of the Super Ring (which are in the drawing in the head of the Universe) a question, - And you, in my opinion, are something like"Bioscreen", or "Brains" our universe! This is right!? And this is what the Higher Powers of the Super Ring answered me, -

you think right!!! But We not only supervise your Universe, We create and build your Universe . And we are watching you all the time you are our children!!!

The governing structure of the Universe is the "Center of the Universe". And this is what the Higher Forces of the Universe said about man and the Universe, - Between " Above the Universal object - the center of the Universe "("Head of the Universe") and " Bioscreen " of man there is a certain analogy of the structure and communication of functional units. What is this relationship and similarity:

1. They have a common external shape (For man and the universe ). A person means his "subtle body".

2. The general concept of the passage of certain information.

3. The general direction of movement of certain processes.

4. And certain structural building blocks.

That's why " Bioscreen"of a person is a structure that allows the physical matter of a person to interact with various "temporal" and "energy" formations in the Universe. And besides this, the "bioscreen" is able to store a huge amount of different information on its tori and be its carrier. And its capacity is such that if the information of the entire humanity of the Earth is multiplied by four, then it will fit freely in it!!!But in order to carry out such operations, a person simply needs:

1. Learn to fully manage the "bioscreen"".

2. Know how to translate your shell twin"in different other dimensions. You will read about the "bio-screen" of a person below.

You see an arrow at number 6 pointing to the Sixth Time Spiral. It is in this time spiral that we are now and we live. The number 6 is a symbol of life and prosperity. According to the Bible, man was created by God in his own image and likeness on the 6th day of creation after the creation of all things!!! And now for the first time you will understand this saying! Look closely at the blue model of the universe from the left edge and on it you see the number 6! It was on the 6th spiral of the "snail of time" that man was created! One revolution of such a Universal spiral is equal to 2.5 billion years! And everything that exists was created on the 4th and 5th spirals!

You look at the drawing of the model of the Universe and you will see something like a hat on Her head. This is the Super Ring of the Universe, which plays approximately the same role as " Bioscreen ", or" Brain "in humans(below you will see a drawing of a human "bio-screen"). For those who do not know what a human "bio-screen" is, I will say - it is in it that all information about all human organs, systems and DNA of a person and all information about all the knowledge that a person received in this and his previous lives is stored! And its capacity is such that if the information of all mankind is multiplied by four, they will freely fit in it!

And it is he who controls the work of the entire human body and it is he who gives the unquestioning order to eliminate all problems in the human body, if they appear!!! So the "Information banks" of the Super Ring contain all the information of the Universe, both before the "Big Bang" and after it (and the "Information Bank" of our Universe has existed for more than 800 billion years, and the "Big Bang" occurred about 15 billion years ago). And "The information bank of the Universe is immortal!!! Here is what the Higher Forces of the Universe said -

The fact that the Universe is a living organism!!! And the Chronospheres of the Galaxies and the Universe itself are, as it were, their skeletons, from which They will never come out, although at the same time they will expand, or - shrink! This is what the Higher Powers said upon contact.

Our Earth scientists have the wrong idea about the expansion of the Universe. And the following happens, the "snail sleeve" of the Universe expands and as a result of this, the "time axes" diverge (You can see this under the number 2 in my figure). And that's what the Higher Powers said about this, - What you see as an expansion of the Universe is just an expansion of matter at the "Time Snail" of the Universe! And this is for sure!!!

"Chronosphere" is one of the most resistant structures of the Universe!!! It will not collapse even if the universes themselves cease to exist!! And it is she who is the basis of the foundations of the existence of each Universe !!! Here is what the Higher Powers said: - Our Universe before the "Big Bang" was like one Big Brain, which after the explosion began to unfold its abilities. And the Forces also said, - Do not take the explosion for a catastrophe, because of internal contradictions and the laws of physics, it was a well-considered decision. But for people who have not reached a certain moral development, work with the topology of time is unacceptable!

All spiral vortex temporal flows - this is "temporal space". And when people understand them, they will understand the principles of physical movement in time. But for this, a person must first understand what is " temporary element ". From now on, we will call this smallest time unit of time" Tempor". "Tempora" are of two types: Permanent and Variables . Exactly " Constant Temps "create "protective frame" all the surface shells of the "Snails of Time" and various "tunnels-passages". BUT " Variable Tomporas "are in constant motion and they serve as the carriers of time .

Forces on contact said - Chronospheres are the foundations of absolutely everything !!! And for example, our "Noosphere", in which all earthly souls are located, is the fruit of the activity of the "Chronosphere" and our Noosphere is under the complete control of the "Chronosphere"!

It is the Chronosphere about which we know almost nothing, supports the development of Civilizations and it is She who stops their degradation!!!

The very structure of "Tempor" includes 9 "substructural informational" components (about which our earthly scientists know nothing yet) and of which the entire volume of "Tempor" consists. "Tempora" - indestructible and they are all the time in motion, from the very beginning of their movement (from the Quasar). And for these, the smallest "substructural" components of the "Tempors", we will introduce the name (at the prompt of the Higher Forces) - "Chronos". And these "temporary primary elements" exist in time only as part of the "Tempor". The fact is that "Chronos" are the smallest particles that are formed in the Universal "Temporary Core". They seem to consist of "flagella", which, intertwining and twisting, form already "bundles". And it is this "harness" that ideally consists of 27 "flagella", which just make up these very 27 "first radiations", or "protomatters" about which I wrote above!

But they are not only formed there, but having worked until the "Big Bang", they again fall apart into these very "primary elements" and at the same time absolutely everything that was previously in them is canceled in them: the previous information, energy ... and they - "Chronos", after that they again become "neutral" and ready for a new job. But after all this, new tasks in the "new time" appear before them. And they unite into new "Temporas" and begin to work in the new time. And this always happens after each "Big Bang" in all the Universes of our Universal country, in which there are more than a billion such Universes as ours!

"Chronos" are very information-intensive and one "Chronos" is such a microscopic particle capable of storing colossal information in itself - 3 , 276, 800 gigabyte! And to understand this, we compare the size of "Chronos" with the smallest atom - the hydrogen atom. It's about 10 -b to the power of minus 27 of the size of the hydrogen atom. It's not very easy for people to understand all this yet!

And "Temporas" are created in the core of the Universe and after that they leave the Temporary Universal "Quasar". And then, passing through all the "Snails of Time", they return back to the Universal "Black Hole"! At the entrance to the "Black Hole" of the "Tempor" information from them, as it were, turns outward and is ejected !!! By the way, this is somewhat reminiscent of the release of "cred information" from a person's "bio screen" when changing his "cred positions"! The new information that enriches the "Tempors" does not change their structure and does not form any new structures between the "Tempors", it is only recruited and accumulated in it!

After "Chronos" enters the "Quasar" and leaves it for its new temporary work, it does not just leave it, but at the same time it receives an exact address binding at the level of low structures (Galactic, Stellar) and at the same time he collects the necessary information as before approaching this particular place, which characterizes the information path traveled precisely at a particular time period.

"Temporal information", to be more precise, these are "Tempors" with information, enter through the Universal "Black Hole", giving information to the permanent storage system ("Information Banks"). And after that, the information is transferred to the "corrective layers", in which it is necessarily verified with the "reference information". Where is it analyzed and processed? And already after that there is a determination in which place of the Universe its "deviation" took place. And after that, the edited information is applied to the Chronos and transferred to the system as part of the Tempor. And at the same time, these Chronos already have a "address binding" - and this will be like a primary impulse, and their " Quality" is already being completed and obtained locally.

But the fact is that "Chronos" and "Temporas" are just "Performers" !!! BUT the functions of "regulation" and "management" belong to the "Clouds". And any instant correction on the Universal scale is carried out by "Clouds". It is for this reason that They can be called both the "One Mind" and the "Different Civilizations". And it is They who can change into both spatial formations and "Energy" formations. So that you can compare them with anything, they can be compared with the "Oort Cloud" in our solar system. But the "Oort Cloud" already has an "energy formation"!!

And if our "Noosphere" is located near the Earth, but in another dimension, then this belt with the "Oort Cloud" is in a certain space, but also in another dimension. And it has completely different temporal characteristics!

Conditions new image of the "Oort Cloud".

You've probably heard of the phrase " asteroid belt ". This is the region of the solar system located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. It is believed that in ancient times there was an orbit of the planet Phaeton, which broke up into many fragments, which now make up this very “asteroid belt”. It is just there, behind this asteroid belt, that the material for the formation of earthly souls from this very "life energy" is located. And just as our Noosphere is located near the Earth, but in another dimension, so this belt is located in a certain space, but in another dimension. And it has completely different temporal characteristics.

But the Fathers-Creators before the death of the "old world" put into its fabric their dream of the birth of a Living Intelligent Creature - Man! This sphere - the only one of all remained the same as it was billions of years before the start of the "Big Bang". It just got louder and louder! Who is the "first man"? It appeared very far from the solar system and in those days when it was not yet in sight, and did not originate from a monkey, as fairly well-known scientists write !!! To make it clear to ordinary people, I will clarify this based on what people know, on a person. After all, the human model is similar to the model of our universe! Remember who analyzes everything in a person - "Bioscreen" and the human brain! And above all organs and organisms that are in their space - "Chakras" of a person. So the Cosmic Coalition of Observers of the Universe works in the same way!

I repeat once again what the Higher Powers said about the Holy Spirit, - The Holy Spirit is a field of Living and Intelligent Energy , thanks to which Life exists in the Universe and the Universe itself exists !!! And to my question, - And who is the Son? Answer, -

Their products ( that is, all Intelligences created from this Intelligent Energy !!!). And this is not a hypothesis that earthly scientists write everywhere, but the words of the Higher Forces of the Universe. And in our solar system there is such a powerful "Living Field" from this Intelligent energy.

And just as our Noosphere is located near the Earth, but in another dimension, so this belt is located in a certain space, but in another dimension. And it has completely different temporal characteristics. We call this space the Oort Cloud. After a certain amount of it is taken from this space to form a new soul, certain programs are immediately put into it. This is done by special representatives who deal only with these issues. The soul is born in the physical body of a person on Earth in order to develop. This Intelligent Life Energy comes to us on Earth and from its core comes to us on the surface and our Noosphere.

But people involved in astronautics might notice. The fact is that, getting into this space, terrestrial spaceships involuntarily increased their speed by almost two times, compared if they flew through ordinary space. And this cannot go unnoticed! These reserves of matter for souls are used by both representatives of our Noosphere and representatives of our Galaxy.

During a person's life, some of the color waves from his "life energy" reserves around the person's chakras can be amplified, while others can be suppressed! At the same time, our bio-screen acts as a regulator!!! Some people think incorrectly that all earthly souls are born in our Noosphere!? It is not right! There are ready-made souls in the Noosphere. But "shower hospital" is very far from it.

And if our "Noosphere" is located near the Earth, but in another dimension, so this belt is located in a certain space, but also in another dimension. And it has completely different temporal characteristics.

Our Earth's core takes part in almost all Noospheric processes. This is, in particular, the replenishment of its fields surrounding the incarnation cells. Recharge is carried out from those anomalous places where it is constantly released. As a rule, these places are located in the depths of the seas and oceans. Most sailors know what luminous"circles in the ocean". It is from these places that such a release occurs.

Our Earth is replenished with this subtle "Life Energy" from "Clouds of the Oort" . Therefore, you probably guessed that the Earth's core takes part in almost all Noospheric processes. This is, in particular, the replenishment of its fields surrounding the incarnation cells. Recharge is carried out from those anomalous places where it is constantly released. As a rule, these places are located in the depths of the seas and oceans. Most sailors know what glowing "circles in the ocean" are. It is from these places that such a release occurs.

Even in ancient times, sailors returning from sea voyages reported miracles of luminous waters. With bated breath and admiration, they talked about the “giant sparkling wheels” that rotated on the water. These “wheels” sometimes reached the horizon and were several miles in size. The Europeans dubbed them the "devil's carousel". They rotated at about 100 revolutions per minute. And in Asia they were called " Buddha wheels ". And now think for yourself who is closer to the truth?? But not “enlightened Europeans”. After all, this energy went from the center of Mother Earth to the Divine Noosphere, where our souls are. Just as a person changes all the time, so over time the original structure of the Earth also changes, being filled with a new bioenergetic component.

For those who do not know what a "bioscreen" is, I will say that the fact is that it is in the "bioscreen" that all information is stored both about all human organs and systems of a person, and about his DNA, and about all the knowledge that a person zaimel throughout this life, and all previous lives! And its capacity is such that if the knowledge of all mankind is multiplied by four, they will freely fit in it! So the "Information Banks" of the Super Ring contain all the information of the Universe, both before the "Big Bang" and after it. Information banks are immortal !!!

Below you see a drawing of a human "Bioscreen". In fact, it is "Bioscreen" that is an integral part of the human soul. And after the death of a person, all the information of a person is removed from him.

Below you see a drawing of a human "Bioscreen". On it you see two rings. Lower (numbered 1) and upper (numbered 2). The lower ring ("Cred Ring") with the Cred position of a person is energetically more saturated and in highly spiritual people, in some cases it is even perceived visually ordinary people.And when you see a halo on the icons of holy people - this is just a true true image of such a person. The "bioscreen" of a person duplicates and controls absolutely all processes occurring in a person and in his brain. And the "Bioscreen" of a person is always in energetic contact with the people around us. And it is not necessary that such people should be near you, even from a neighboring apartment a bad person can negatively influence your child with his obscene words and bad thoughts (you can see a photo of thoughts below).

People know very little about their "Bioscreen", and it is able to play a role in a person's life " time machines "and this property in a person can manifest itself as much as possible at night. And it is in a dream that such a person can experience " looking into the future "along his cred temporal axes. When I asked the Forces of the Universe a question about a person, They answered the following, - You can't even imagine how complex and diverse is the design whose name is a person ! What you people know about her is not even one percent (approximately 0, 001% ) from what actually exists! You still have to know this design, yes to know! You have everything ahead!!!

"Bioscreen" of a person.

• 1. "Kredovaya Ring" of the bioscreen ("Life position" of a person).
• 2. "Creative Ring" of the bioscreen.
• 3. Ray into the incarnation cell.

The most common "life positions" are:

• 1. All for yourself.
• 2. All for the people.
• 3. All for work.
• 4. All for entertainment.
• 5. All for the sake of science.
• 6. Purely collective interest.
• 7. Pure family interest. And so on...

"Creed Ring" is responsible for the "life position" of a person. And it develops, in fact, from the very birth of a person, when he still does not understand anything, and the "bioscreen" through this "Creed Ring" already forms a person's life position. But we do not currently have such a thing as "education" of a person. But if there is no upbringing with a good - spiritual life position of a person, then a person imperceptibly begins to be brought up with a different life position. The fact is that such concepts as egregor and the upbringing of a person’s life position, whether he wants it or not, still happens! Our bioscreen is impossible to deceive!!! And he is in working mode all the time (you work or sleep)! And absolutely all information about the energy of absolutely every organ and all human systems is reflected on the shell of the "bioscreen"!!! And at the same time, one should not forget that all information about human DNA is stored in the "bio-screen" !!! When a person sleeps, during sleep, the phantom of his "bio-screen" can go into the future for a period of up to 2.5 years. And after that, it will seem to this person that he has already seen it somewhere.

But when a person begins to change his creed attitudes, then this is, to some extent, a critical situation for a person and there is a release of his previous "cred program" and its energy over the head of such a person. And an energy structure appears in the form " waterfall, which protects this person from penetration into his "bio-screen" at this time of extraneous programs. But critical situations are different: for example, a person suddenly stopped breathing! In this situation, a " falling waterfall". But in such a situation, it sometimes acts on the "time axis" of a person and it seems to a person that time has slowed down its run. And he will see all the events in slow motion! And after that, when he tells about it, no one will tell him believe, although he will speak - the truth!

" Falling waterfall", throwing out the previous "life position" of a person.

Now I will write something that our Earth scientists do not know about. "Bioscreen" is such an energy structure that covers and controls the entire human brain! It starts to unfold in 5 - 6 months before the birth of a person and completely completes its formation by about 25-30 years. The "bio-screen" reflects all the codes of all human organs and systems. And at the same time, each human organ generates energy in the form of a spectrum of field radiation.

And if the information that came from any organism indicates any deviations, then the "bioscreen" at the same time generates energy impulses that instantly enter the human brain in the form unquestioning order to work with the relevant authority.

A man with a "bio-screen" and a "field shell".

The human "field shell" is almost always in different states, everything depends on the mental and physical activity of a person.And for all people, the outer layer of the "field shell" is different. Its thickness ranges from 2 -uh up 7 -and centimeters. The thinner its thickness, the easier it is for outsiders to penetrate through it into this shell. Since its main function is protective !!! Also, on the cover of the "field shell" the chakra structures of a person stand out especially strongly. These are the most stable energy formations of a person, which provide a constant energy balance of the human body, both with its external and internal environment!

And at the very bottom of the human field shell there is a "vertical cone", which constantly rotates at a speed of one revolution per second, taking the life energy for the entire human body. This "life energy" flows through the spinal canal, and each chakra takes only the energy of its own color. In addition to the first chakra, which, in addition to its own - "red energy", also takes away the energy of "pink color" for the legs. And the "fourth chakra", which, in addition to its own, "green energy", also takes away the energy of the "green color" for the hands.

This energy flows like an "energy column", which is our spine, all the time rotating, when viewed from below, clockwise. The rotation speed of this "energy column" is the same all the time, one revolution per second. And only during sleep it slows down a little, by about 25%. The 1st and 3rd "chakras" take this energy, coming from the external environment, especially intensively. And it is these energies that affect the physical strength of a person. And the main and main functions of the "chakras" are in the accumulation of "energy of life" in the human body and in its subtle structures and the use of the accumulated reserves of "life energy" in the future in certain circumstances!

And the higher the filling of the chakra structures in a person, the better the person's tone, his health, his energy reserve, the composition of his blood, and much, much more. Therefore, the path of healing people lies in filling the "chakras" with "life energy" and in improving its subtle structures and shells. Therefore, it is well-developed "chakras" that allow a person to maintain working capacity for a long time and prolong the life of the human body, that is, its biomatter!!!

But not only do the "chakras" provide all the organs and organisms under their control with their "energy of life", they constantly control the work of all the systems under their control. And if necessary, they can strengthen or weaken the flow of "life energy" to any organ!

But their work is constantly monitored and controlled by their "bio-screen" of a person. And the most interesting thing is that every person is fed by this "energy of life" every second and knows absolutely nothing about this energy (by the way, he - a person - lives precisely thanks to it !!!) and at the same time, a person does not know and does not want to know anything about it !!!Without exception, all people, including Earth scientists, believe that a person takes energy from eating food! It is not true! Food serves to some extent a person as a "building material" for absolutely the entire human body!!!

And upon contact, the Higher Forces confirmed - That the "energy of life" in a person, due to his aging, is definitely decreasing!!!No wonder the ancient Tibetans wrote, -

The only difference between sick and healthy, old and young is is the energy of rotating rings around human chakras from life energy . It's enough to bring the rings (whirlwinds from the "energy of life" ) back to normal and the old will become young, and the sick - healthy !!!

And upon contact, the Higher Forces confirmed that the "energy of life" in a person, due to his aging, is definitely decreasing!!! And the Forces added, - If you, people, cognize all types of energies of each "energy center" of a person ("Chakras" with its "energy ring"), then you will cognize how these energy resources can be used. And in this case it will be quite easy for you to know your illnesses and in general the shortcomings of any human body!

The fact is that a person, with the help of his "Chakras" and the "energy of life" that enters them every second, can influence both his health and his longevity!!! And it is the "Chakras" that have a direct impact and influence on the duration of a person's life, since they are responsible for the bio-reserve and bio-balance of the "energy of life" in the human body. That is, they provide a certain duration of functioning of human biomatter! And when the bio-reserve of the "energy of life" of this particular individual runs out, then the matter of this person will cease to be replenished with the energy of the physical plane and begins to gradually collapse, and as a result of this, the physical death of this individual occurs!!!

The fact is that the Universes, like people, have their own Universal Families and their Universal Countries. Our universe has its own Universal Family"- this is 5thHer " Sisters of the Universes " . And we, or rather our Universe, lives in Its Family of Universes, but in these Universes the "Snails of Time" move in the opposite direction along the arms of their "Snails of Time". And our entire Family of Universes are interconnected by special "passage tunnels". And in the future, people have the opportunity to visit the "Sisters of the Universe", but it will be impossible to stay there!!!

Now you will see for the first time what the connection of our Universe with our Sister Universes looks like (I drew only one of the 5 Sisters of our Universe). The "Snails of Time" of the Sisters of our Universe enter the grooves of the "Snails of Time" of our Universe and the kinetic energy of the "Big Bang" of each Universe initially flows through them.

This is the first. And second - this is interaction with time factors of backward current Universal flows(you can see for yourself that time in Them moves in different directions. Since in the Universes everything obeys its own laws and time, like an electric current, runs from one pole to another. In addition, magnetic fields that are in " Buffer Zones" "Snails of Time", I asked Them a question, Our Universe is included in any Union of Universes, or a Conglomerate of Galactic Universes, or - country from universes ? I do not know the name of such a Union. But I would like to know how many Universes like ours are in it?

The answer of the Higher Powers of the Super Ring, - More than a billion such universes.

I asked the Forces the following question, - This is how a peculiar organism from the Universes is obtained, or - " Country of Universes"? This is true?

The answer of the Higher Forces, - Of course, this is a kind of organism, or according to you Country of Universes ! My next question followed immediately, - And above them is some kind of Coordinator, or some kind of Control Structure? Force's answer, - Yes, of course! And He is outside the Universe and coordinates, in your understanding, the state of the General Conglomerate of Universes and keeps the connection between the same objects of other Conglomerates of Universes. I asked in surprise, - So there are still the same Countries from Universes?! The answer of the Higher Forces, -

Exactly the same Countries from Universes , only located in a different space and time from you.

And to my question, - So the Universe, like a person, someday dies?.. Higher Powers, - Of course! And to my question, - And what needs to be done to revive Her!? The Higher Powers answered with surprise, - And why revive Her, if She, just like a person, having lived his life, dies. In fact, She, like a person, begins a different life. She reincarnates, or passes from one form of life to another!!!

Everything in the world is subject to the same law!!!

Dogma of the Trinity- the main dogma of Christianity. God is one, one in essence, but trinity in Persons.

(The concept of “ face", or hypostasis, (not face) is close to the concepts of “personality”, “consciousness”, personality).

The first Person is God the Father, the second Person is God the Son, the third Person is God the Holy Spirit.

These are not three Gods, but one God in three Persons, the Trinity Consubstantial and Indivisible.

St. Gregory the Theologian teaches:

"We worship the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, sharing personal attributes and uniting the Godhead."

All three Persons have the same Divine Dignity, between them there is neither older nor younger; just as God the Father is true God, so God the Son is true God, so the Holy Spirit is true God. Each Person carries in Himself all the properties of the Divine. Since God is one in His essence, then all the properties of God - His eternity, omnipotence, omnipresence and others - belong equally to all three Persons of the Most Holy Trinity. In other words, the Son of God and the Holy Spirit are eternal and omnipotent, like God the Father.

They differ only in that God the Father is neither born nor emanates from anyone; The Son of God is born from God the Father - eternally (timeless, without beginning, endlessly), and the Holy Spirit proceeds from God the Father.

The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, - eternally abide with each other in uninterrupted love and constitute one Being by Himself. God is the most perfect Love. God is love Himself in Himself, because the existence of the One God is the existence of Divine Hypostases, abiding among themselves in the “eternal movement of love” (St. Maximus the Confessor).

1. The dogma of the Holy Trinity

God is one in Essence and three in Persons. The dogma of the Trinity is the main dogma of Christianity. A number of great dogmas of the Church and, above all, the dogma of our redemption are directly based on it. Because of its special importance, the doctrine of the Most Holy Trinity constitutes the content of all the creeds that have been used and are being used in the Orthodox Church, as well as all private confessions of faith written on various occasions by the pastors of the Church.

Being the most important of all Christian dogmas, the dogma of the Most Holy Trinity is at the same time the most difficult for limited human thought to assimilate it. That is why the struggle was not so tense in the history of the ancient Church about any other Christian truth as about this dogma and about the truths directly connected with it.

The dogma of the Holy Trinity contains two basic truths:

A. God is one in Essence, but three in Persons, or in other words: God is triune, trinitarian, consubstantial Trinity.

B. Hypostases have personal or hypostatic properties: The father is not born. The Son is born from the Father. The Holy Spirit comes from the Father.

2. About the Unity of God - the Holy Trinity

Rev. John of Damascus:

“So we believe in one God, one principle, without beginning, uncreated, unborn, incorruptible, equally immortal, eternal, infinite, indescribable, limitless, omnipotent, simple, uncompound, incorporeal, alien flow, impassive, immutable and unchanging, invisible, - the source of goodness and truth, the light of the mind and unapproachable, - in strength, indefinable by any measure and only measured by one's own will, - for everything that it desires, can, - all creatures visible and invisible, the creator, all-encompassing and preserving, providing for everything, all-powerful , who rules over everything and reigns in an endless and immortal kingdom, having no rival, filling everything, not embracing anything, but all-encompassing, containing and exceeding everything, which penetrates all essences, itself remaining pure, stays outside the limits of everything and is withdrawn from the ranks of all beings as transcendent and above all existing, pre-divine, blessed, full, which is tired presses all principalities and ranks, and she herself is higher than any principality and rank, higher than essence, life, word and understanding, which is light itself, goodness itself, life itself, essence itself, since it has neither being nor anything from another from what is, but it is itself the source of being for everything that exists, life for everything living, reason for everything rational, the cause of all blessings for all beings, into the force that knows everything before the existence of everything, a single essence, a single Deity , one power, one desire, one action, one beginning, one power, one dominion, one kingdom, in three perfect hypostases known and worshiped by one worship, believed and revered from every verbal creature (in hypostases), inseparably united and inseparably divided, which is incomprehensible - into the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, in whose name we were baptized, for thus the Lord commanded the Apostles to baptize, saying: “baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit” (Matt. 28, 19).

... And that God is one, and not many, this is undoubtedly for those who believe in Divine Scripture. For the Lord, at the beginning of His statute, says: “I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt; and again: “Hear, O Israel, the Lord your God, the Lord is one” (Deut. 6:4); and in Isaiah the prophet: “I am the first God and I am after these, besides Me there is no God” (Is. 41, 4) - “Before Me there was no other God, and according to Me it will not be ... and is there really Me” (Is. 43, 10–11). And the Lord in the Holy Gospels says this to the Father: “Behold, this is the eternal life, that they may know Thee the only true God” (John 17:3).

With those who do not believe the Divine Scripture, we will reason thus: God is perfect and has no shortcomings, both in goodness, and in wisdom, and in power, is without beginning, infinite, everlasting, unlimited, and, in a word, is perfect according to everything. So, if we admit many gods, then it will be necessary to recognize the difference between these many. For if there is no difference between them, then there is already one, and not many; if there is a difference between them, where is the perfection? If there is a lack of perfection, either in goodness, or in power, or in wisdom, or in time, or in place, then God will no longer exist. Identity in everything indicates one God rather than many.

Moreover, if there were many gods, how would their indescribability be preserved? For where there was one, there would not be another.

How then would the world be ruled by many, and not be destroyed and upset when there was war between the rulers? Because difference introduces confrontation. If someone says that each of them governs his part, then what introduced such an order and made a division between them? This one would actually be God. So, there is only one God, perfect, indescribable, Creator of everything, Sustainer and Ruler, above and before all perfection.
(An accurate statement of the Orthodox faith)

Protopresbyter Michael Pomazansky (Orthodox dogmatic theology):

"I believe in one God" - the first words of the Creed. God owns all the fullness of the most perfect being. The idea of ​​completeness, perfection, infinity, comprehensiveness in God does not allow one to think of Him otherwise than as the One, i.e. unique and consubstantial in itself. This requirement of our consciousness was expressed by one of the ancient church writers in the words: "if God is not alone, then there is no God" (Tertullian), in other words, a deity, limited by another being, loses its divine dignity.

All New Testament Holy Scripture is filled with the doctrine of one God. "Our Father, who art in heaven," we pray with the words of the Lord's Prayer. "There is no other God but One," the apostle Paul expresses the fundamental truth of faith (1 Cor. 8:4).

3. On the Trinity of Persons in God with the unity of God in Essence.

“The Christian truth of the unity of God is deepened by the truth of the unity of the trinity.

We worship the Most Holy Trinity with one undivided worship. In the Fathers of the Church and in worship, the Trinity is often referred to as "a unit in the Trinity, a Trinitarian unit." In most cases, prayers addressed to the venerated one Person of the Holy Trinity end with a doxology to all three Persons (for example, in a prayer to the Lord Jesus Christ: "For thou art glorified with Your Beginningless Father and with the Most Holy Spirit forever, amen").

The Church, turning in prayer to the Most Holy Trinity, calls on Her in the singular, and not in the plural, for example: “For it is You (and not You) that all the powers of heaven praise, and to You (and not You) we send glory, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit now and forever and forever and ever, amen."

The Christian Church, recognizing the mystique of this dogma, sees in it a great revelation that elevates the Christian faith immeasurably above any confession of simple monotheism, which is also found in other non-Christian religions.

...Three Divine Persons, having eternal and eternal being, are revealed to the world with the coming and incarnation of the Son of God, being "one Power, one Being, one Divinity" (stichera on the day of Pentecost).

Since God, by His very Essence, is all consciousness and thought and self-consciousness, then each of these tripartite eternal manifestations of Himself by the One God has self-consciousness, and therefore each is a Person, and Persons are not simply forms or single phenomena, or properties, or actions; Three Persons are contained in the very Unity of the Being of God. Thus, when in Christian teaching we speak of the Trinity of God, we speak about the mysterious inner life of God hidden in the depths of the Godhead, revealed - ajar to the world in time, in the New Testament, by the sending from the Father into the world of the Son of God and the action of the miraculous, life-giving, saving power of the Comforter - the Holy Spirit.

"The Most Holy Trinity is the most perfect union of three Persons in one Being, because it is the most perfect equality."

“God is a Spirit, a simple Being. How does the spirit manifest itself? Thought, word and deed. Therefore, God, as a simple Being, does not consist of a series or of many thoughts, or of many words or creations, but He is all in one simple thought - God the Trinity, or in one simple word - the Trinity, or in three Persons united together . But He is all and in everything that exists, everything passes, everything fills with Himself. For example, you read a prayer, and He is all in every word, like Holy Fire, penetrates every word: - everyone can experience this himself if he prays sincerely, earnestly, with faith and love.

4. Old Testament evidence of the Holy Trinity

The truth of the trinity of God is only veiledly expressed in the Old Testament, only ajar. The Old Testament testimonies about the Trinity are revealed, understood in the light of the Christian faith, just as the Apostle writes about the Jews: "... until now, when they read Moses, the veil lies on their hearts, but when they turn to the Lord, this veil is removed ... it is removed by Christ"(2 Cor. 3, 14-16).

The main Old Testament passages are as follows:

Gen. 3, 22:" And the Lord God said, Behold, Adam has become like one of us, knowing good and evil"(God's words before the expulsion of the forefathers from paradise).

Gen. 11, 6-7: before the confusion of tongues during the pandemonium - " One people and one language for all ... Let's go down and mix their language there".

Gen. 18, 1-3 : about Abraham - " And the Lord appeared to him at the oak forest of Mavre ... lifted (Abraham) his eyes, and, behold, three men stand opposite him ... and bowed to the ground and said: ... if I have found favor in Your eyes, do not pass by Your servant"-" You see, Blessed Augustine instructs, Abraham meets the Three, and worships the One ... Having seen the Three, he comprehended the mystery of the Trinity, and bowing as the One, he confessed the One God in three Persons.

In addition, the Fathers of the Church see an indirect reference to the Trinity in the following places:

Number 6:24-26: A priestly blessing indicated by God through Moses, in trinity form: " May the Lord bless you ... may the Lord look upon you with His bright face ... may the Lord turn His face on you…".

Is. 6.3: Doxology of the seraphim standing around the Throne of God, in threefold form: "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts".

Ps. 32, 6 : "".

Finally, it is possible to indicate in the Old Testament Revelation the places where it is spoken separately about the Son of God and the Holy Spirit.

About the Son:

Ps. 2, 7:" You are my Son; I have now begotten you".

Ps. 109, 3: "... from the womb before the morning star, your birth is like dew".

About Spirit:

Ps. 142, 10:" May your good spirit guide me to the land of righteousness."

Is. 48, 16: "... The Lord sent me and His Spirit".

And other similar places.

5. Evidence of the Holy Scriptures of the New Testament about the Holy Trinity

The Trinity of Persons in God is revealed in the New Testament in the coming of the Son of God and in the sending down of the Holy Spirit. The message to earth from the Father God the Word and the Holy Spirit is the content of all New Testament writings. Of course, the appearance of the Triune God to the world is given here not in a dogmatic formula, but in the narrative of the appearances and deeds of the Persons of the Holy Trinity.

The manifestation of God in the Trinity took place at the baptism of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is why the baptism itself is called Theophany. The Son of God, having become man, received water baptism; The Father testified of Him; The Holy Spirit, by His appearance in the form of a dove, confirmed the truth of the voice of God, as expressed in the troparion of the feast of the Baptism of the Lord:

"In the Jordan, baptized by You, Lord, the Trinity appeared worship, Parents for the voice testifying to You, calling Your beloved Son, and the Spirit, in the form of a dove, knowing your word affirmation."

There are sayings in the New Testament Scriptures about the Triune God in the most concise, but, moreover, exact form, expressing the truth of the trinity.

These sayings are as follows:

2 Cor. 13, 13:" The grace of the Lord (our) Jesus Christ, and the love of God (Father), and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit with you all. Amen".

1 In. 5, 7:" For there are three that testify in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are the essence of one"(This verse is not found in the surviving ancient Greek manuscripts, but only in Latin, Western manuscripts).

In addition, in the meaning of the Trinity explains St. Athanasius the Great following the text of the epistle to Eph. 4, 6:" One God and Father of all, who is above all ( God the Father) and through all (God the Son) and in all of us (God the Holy Spirit)."

6. Confession of the dogma of the Holy Trinity in the ancient Church

The truth about the Holy Trinity is confessed by the Church of Christ from the beginning in all its fullness and integrity. Clearly speaks, for example, about the universality of faith in the Holy Trinity St. Irenaeus of Lyon, student of St. Polycarp of Smyrna, instructed by the Apostle John the Theologian himself:

"Although the Church is scattered throughout the universe to the end of the earth, from the apostles and their disciples she received faith in one God the Father Almighty ... and in one Jesus Christ, the Son of God, incarnate for our salvation, and in the Holy Spirit, through the prophets proclaimed the dispensation of our salvation ... Having accepted such a sermon and such a faith, the Church, as we said, although scattered throughout the world, carefully preserves it, as if dwelling in one house; equally believes in this, as if having one soul and one heart, and preaches according to about this he teaches and conveys, as if having one mouth.Although there are many dialects in the world, but the power of Tradition is one and the same... And of the primates of the Churches, neither the one who is strong in word nor the one who unskilled in words."

The Holy Fathers, defending the catholic truth of the Holy Trinity from heretics, not only cited the testimony of Holy Scripture as proof, but also rational, philosophical grounds for refuting heretical sophistication, but they themselves relied on the evidence of the early Christians. They pointed to examples of martyrs and confessors who were not afraid to declare their faith in the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit before the tormentors; they referred to the Scriptures of the apostolic and ancient Christian writers in general and to liturgical formulas.

So, St. Basil the Great gives a small doxology:

“Glory to the Father through the Son in the Holy Spirit,” and another: “To Him (Christ) with the Father and the Holy Spirit, honor and glory forever and ever,” and says that this doxology has been used in churches since the very time the Gospel was proclaimed . Indicates St. Basil also gives thanksgiving by the lamp, or the evening song, calling it an "ancient" song, passed down "from the fathers", and quotes from it the words: "We praise the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit of God", to show the faith of ancient Christians in the equal honor of the Holy Spirit with the Father and the Son.

St. Basil the Great also writes, interpreting Genesis:

“Let us make man in Our image, and in that likeness” (Genesis 1:26).

You have learned that there are two persons: the speaker and the one to whom the word is addressed. Why didn't He say, "I will make," but, "Let us make a man"? For you to know the supreme power; lest, while acknowledging the Father, thou shalt not reject the Son; that you may know that the Father created through the Son, and the Son created by the command of the Father; that you glorify the Father in the Son and the Son in the Holy Spirit. Thus you were born as a common creature to become a common worshiper of the One and the Other, not dividing in worship, but relating to the Deity as one. Pay attention to the outward course of history and to the deep inner meaning of Theology. And God created man. - Let's create! And it is not said: “And they created,” so that you would not have reason to fall into polytheism. If the person were plural in composition, then people would have reason to make many gods for themselves. Now the expression “let us make” is used so that you may know the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

“God created man” so that you recognize (understand) the unity of the Godhead, not the unity of Hypostases, but the unity in power, so that you glorify the one God, making no difference in worship and not falling into polytheism. After all, it does not say "the gods created man", but "God created". A special Person of the Father, a special - of the Son, a special - of the Holy Spirit. Why not three gods? Because the Divine is one. What Deity I contemplate in the Father, the same is in the Son, and what is in the Holy Spirit, the same is in the Son. Therefore the image (μορφη) is one in both, and the power that proceeds from the Father remains the same in the Son. As a result, our worship and also our praise are the same. The foreshadowing of our creation is true theology.”

Prot. Mikhail Pomazansky:

“There are many testimonies of the ancient fathers and teachers of the Church also that the Church from the first days of her existence performed baptism in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, as three Divine Persons, and denounced heretics who attempted to perform baptism or in the name of one Father, considering the Son and the Holy Spirit by lower forces, or in the name of the Father and the Son and even one Son, humiliating the Holy Spirit before them (testimonies of Justin Martyr, Tertullian, Irenaeus, Cyprian, Athanasius, Ilarius, Basil the Great and others).

However, the Church endured great disturbances and withstood a huge struggle in defending this dogma. The struggle was directed mainly on two points: first, to affirm the truth of the consubstantiality and equal honor of the Son of God with God the Father; then - to affirm the unity of the Holy Spirit with God the Father and the Son of God.

The dogmatic task of the Church in its ancient period was to find such exact words for the dogma, by which the dogma of the Holy Trinity is best protected from reinterpretation by heretics.

7. About the personal properties of Divine Persons

The personal, or Hypostatic, properties of the Most Holy Trinity are designated as follows: The Father is not born; Son - eternally born; The Holy Spirit comes from the Father.

Rev. John of Damascus expresses the idea of ​​the incomprehensibility of the mystery of the Holy Trinity:

"Although we have been taught that there is a difference between generation and procession, but what is the difference and what is the generation of the Son and the procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father, we do not know this."

Prot. Mikhail Pomazansky:

“All sorts of dialectical considerations about what is birth and what is the procession are not capable of revealing the inner mystery of the Divine life. Arbitrary speculation can even lead to a distortion of Christian teaching. The expressions themselves: about the Son - "begotten of the Father" and about the Spirit - "proceeds from the Father" - represent an accurate rendering of the words of Holy Scripture. About the Son it is said: "only begotten" (John 1, 14; 3, 16, etc.); also - " from the womb before the right hand like dew your birth"(Ps. 109, 3);" You are my Son; I have now given birth to you"(Ps. 2, 7; the words of the psalm are quoted in Hebrews 1, 5 and 5, 5). The dogma of the procession of the Holy Spirit rests on the following direct and precise saying of the Savior: " When the Comforter comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, He will testify about Me"(John 15, 26). Based on the above sayings, the Son is usually spoken of in the past grammatical tense - "begotten", and the Spirit - in the grammatical present tense - "comes out." However, different grammatical forms of time do not indicate any relationship to time: both the birth and the procession are “eternal”, “timeless.” In theological terminology, the form of the present tense is sometimes used: “eternally born” from the Father, however, the expression of the Creed is more common among the Holy Fathers - “begotten”.

The dogma of the birth of the Son from the Father and the procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father points to the mysterious internal relationships of the Persons in God, to the life of God in Himself. These eternal, eternal, timeless relationships must be clearly distinguished from the manifestations of the Holy Trinity in the created world, distinguished from providential actions and manifestations of God in the world, as they were expressed in the events of the creation of the world, the coming of the Son of God to earth, His incarnation and the sending down of the Holy Spirit. These providential phenomena and actions took place in time. In historical times, the Son of God was born from the Virgin Mary by the descent of the Holy Spirit upon Her: " The Holy Spirit will come upon You, and the power of the Most High will overshadow You; therefore, the holy being born will be called the Son of God"(Luke 1, 35). In historical time, the Holy Spirit descended on Jesus during His baptism from John. In historical time, the Holy Spirit was sent down by the Son from the Father, appearing in the form of fiery tongues. The Son comes to earth through the Holy Spirit; the Spirit is sent down Son, according to the promise: "" (John 15, 26).

To the question about the eternal birth of the Son and the procession of the Spirit: "When is this birth and procession?" St. Gregory the Theologian answers: "Before the very moment. You hear about birth: don't try to know what the image of birth is. You hear that the Spirit proceeds from the Father: don't try to know how it comes."

Although the meaning of the expressions: "birth" and "proceeding" is incomprehensible to us, however, this does not diminish the importance of these concepts in the Christian doctrine of God. They point to the perfect Divinity of the Second and Third Persons. The being of the Son and the Spirit rests inseparably in the very being of God the Father; hence the expression about the Son: from the womb... gave birth to You"(Ps. 109, 3), from the womb - from the being. Through the words "begotten" and "proceeds" the being of the Son and the Spirit is opposed to the being of all creatures, of everything that is created, that is caused by the will of God from non-existence. Being from the being of God can to be only Divine and Eternal.

What is born is always of the same essence as the one who gives birth, and what is created and created is of a different essence, lower, is external in relation to the creator.

Rev. John of Damascus:

“(We believe) in one Father, the beginning of all and the cause, not from anyone begotten, Who alone has no cause and is not begotten, the Creator of everything, but the Father, by nature, His one Only-Begotten Son, the Lord and God and Savior our Jesus Christ and into the bringer of the All-Holy Spirit. And into the one and only Son of God, our Lord, Jesus Christ, begotten of the Father before all ages, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, uncreated, consubstantial with the Father, through whom all things happened. Speaking of Him: before all ages, we show that His birth is timeless and without beginning; for the Son of God, the radiance of glory and the image of the Hypostasis of the Father (Heb. 1:3), living wisdom and power, the hypostatic Word, the essential, perfect and living image of the invisible God, was not brought into being from non-existent things; but He was always with the Father and in the Father, from whom He was born forever and without beginning. For the Father never existed when there was no Son, but together the Father, together also the Son, begotten of Him. For the Father without the Son would not be called the Father, if he had ever existed without the Son, he would not have been the Father, and if afterward he began to have the Son, then also afterward he became the Father, not having been the Father before, and would have undergone a change in that , not being the Father, became Him, and such a thought is more terrible than any blasphemy, for it cannot be said of God that He does not have the natural power of birth, and the power of birth consists in the ability to give birth from oneself, that is, from one’s own essence, a being, similar in nature.

So, it would be impious to say about the birth of the Son that it happened in time and that the existence of the Son began after the Father. For we confess the birth of the Son from the Father, that is, from His nature. And if we do not admit that the Son from the beginning existed together with the Father, from whom He was born, then we introduce a change in the hypostasis of the Father in that the Father, not being the Father, later became the Father. True, the creation came after, but not from the essence of God; but by the will and power of God it was brought from non-existence into existence, and therefore no change took place in the nature of God. For generation consists in this, that out of the essence of the one who gives birth, that which is similar in essence is produced; creation and creation consists in the fact that what is created and created comes from outside, and not from the essence of the creator and creator, and is completely unlike in nature.

Therefore, in God, Who alone is passionless, immutable, immutable and always the same, both birth and creation are passionless. For, being by nature impassive and devoid of flow, because simple and uncomplicated, He cannot be subject to suffering or flow either in birth or in creation, and has no need of anyone's assistance. But generation (in Him) is without beginning and eternal, since it is the action of His nature and proceeds from His being, otherwise the begetter would have undergone a change, and there would have been a first God and a subsequent God, and multiplication would have occurred. Creation with God, as an act of will, is not co-eternal with God. For what is brought from non-existence into being cannot be contemporaneous with the Beginningless and always Existing. God and man create differently. Man does not bring anything out of non-existent into being, but what he does, he does out of pre-existing matter, not only wishing, but also having first considered and imagined in his mind what he wants to do, then he already works with his hands, accepts labors, fatigue, and often does not reach the goal when hard work does not work out the way you want; But God, only having willed, brought everything out of non-existent into being: in the same way, God and man give birth not in the same way. God, being flightless and without beginning, and passionless, and free from flow, and incorporeal, and only one, and infinite, and gives birth without flight and without beginning, and without passion, and without flow, and without combination, and His incomprehensible birth has no beginning, no end. He gives birth without beginning, because He is unchangeable; - without expiration because it is passionless and incorporeal; - out of combination, because again it is incorporeal, and there is only one God, who does not need anyone else; - infinite and unceasing, because it is both flightless, and timeless, and infinite, and always the same, for what is without beginning is infinite, and what is infinite by grace is by no means without beginning, like, for example, the Angels.

So, the eternal God gives birth to His Word, perfect without beginning and without end, so that God, who has higher time and nature, and being, does not give birth in time. But man, obviously, gives birth in the opposite way, because he is subject to both birth, and decay, and outflow, and reproduction, and is clothed with a body, and in human nature there is a male and female sex, and the husband needs the allowance of his wife. But let him be merciful, who is above all things, and who transcends all thought and understanding.”

8. Naming the Second Person by the Word

Orthodox dogmatic theology:

“The naming of the Son of God by the Word, or Logos, which is often found among the holy fathers and in liturgical texts, has its basis in the first chapter of the Gospel of John the Theologian.

The concept, or the name of the Word in its exalted meaning, is repeatedly found in the Old Testament books. These are the expressions in the Psalms: Forever, O Lord, your word is established in heaven"(Ps. 118, 89);" He sent his word and healed them"(Ps. 106, 20 - a verse talking about the exodus of the Jews from Egypt);" By the word of the Lord the heavens were created, and by the spirit of his mouth all their host"(Ps. 32, 6). The author of the Wisdom of Solomon writes:" Your almighty Word descended from heaven from royal thrones into the middle of the perilous earth, like a formidable warrior. It carried a sharp sword - Your unchanging command, and, standing, filled everything with death, it touched the sky and walked the earth"(Wisdom 28, 15-16).

The Holy Fathers make an attempt with the help of this divine name to somewhat clarify the mystery of the relationship of the Son to the Father. St. Dionysius of Alexandria (a student of Origen) explains this attitude as follows: "Our thought spews out the word from itself according to what was said by the prophet:" A good word has poured out from my heart"(Ps. 44, 2). Thought and word are different from each other and occupy their own special and separate place: while the thought abides and moves in the heart, the word - in the tongue and in the mouth; however, they are inseparable and never for a minute are deprived of each other. Neither a thought exists without a word, nor a word without a thought ... in it having received being. Thought is, as it were, a hidden word inside, and a word is a thought that manifests itself. Thought passes into a word, and the word transfers the thought to the listeners, and thus Thus, through the medium of the word, thought takes root in the souls of those who listen, entering them together with the word. or it came from outside along with the thought, and penetrated from it itself. So the Father, the greatest and all-encompassing Thought, has a Son - the Word, His first Interpreter and Messenger "((quoted by St. Athanasius De sentent. Dionis., n. 15 )).

In the same way, the image of the relation of word to thought, is widely used by St. John of Kronstadt in his reflections on the Holy Trinity ("My life in Christ"). In the above quotation from St. Dionysius of Alexandria's reference to the Psalter shows that the thoughts of the Fathers of the Church were based on the use of the name "Word" in the Holy Scriptures not only of the New Testament, but also of the Old Testament. Thus, there is no reason to assert that the name Logos-Word was borrowed by Christianity from philosophy, as some Western interpreters do.

Of course, the Fathers of the Church, like the Apostle John the Theologian himself, did not pass by the concept of the Logos as it was interpreted in Greek philosophy and by the Jewish philosopher Philo of Alexandria (the concept of the Logos as a personal being mediating between God and the world, or as an impersonal divine force) and opposed their understanding of the Logos, the Christian doctrine of the Word - the Only Begotten Son of God, consubstantial with the Father and equally divine with the Father and the Spirit.

Rev. John of Damascus:

“So this one and only God is not without the Word. But if He has the Word, then He must have the Word not without hypostasis, which began to be and has to cease. For there was no time when God was without the Word. On the contrary, God always has His Word, which is born from Him and which is not like our word - non-hypostatic and spreading in the air, but is hypostatic, living, perfect, not outside of Him (God), but always in Him. For where can He be outside of God? But since our nature is temporary and easily destructible; then our word is not hypostatic. But God, as perpetual and perfect, and the Word will also have perfect and hypostatic, which always is, lives and has everything that the Parent has. Our word, originating from the mind, is neither completely identical with the mind, nor completely different; for, being of the mind, it is something else in relation to it; but since it reveals the mind, it is not completely different from the mind, but being one with it by nature, it differs from it as a special subject: so the Word of God, since it exists in itself, differs from the one from whom it has hypostasis; because it manifests in itself the same thing that is in God; then by nature there is one with him. For just as perfection in every respect is seen in the Father, so is the same seen in the Word born of Him.

St. rights. John of Kronstadt:

“Have you learned to foresee the Lord before you, outwardly, as the omnipresent Mind, as the living and active Word, as the life-giving Spirit? Holy Scripture is the realm of the Mind, Word and Spirit - the God of the Trinity: in it He manifests itself clearly: “verbs, even Az I have spoken to you, are spirit and life” (John 6, 63), said the Lord; the writings of the Holy Fathers - here again the expression of the Thought, Word and Spirit of the hypostatic, with a greater participation of the human spirit itself; the writings of ordinary secular people are a manifestation of the fallen human spirit, with its sinful attachments, habits, and passions. In the Word of God we see face to face God and ourselves as we are. Recognize yourself in it, people, and always walk in the presence of God.

St. Gregory Palamas:

“And since the perfect and all-perfect Goodness is the Mind, then what else could come from It, as from the Source, if not the Word? Moreover, It is not like our spoken word, because this word of ours is not only the action of the mind, but also the action of the body, set in motion by the mind. Neither is it like our inner word, which, as it were, possesses its inherent disposition towards the images of sounds. It is also impossible to compare Him with our mental word, although it is silently carried out by completely incorporeal movements; however, it needs intervals and considerable intervals of time in order, gradually starting from the mind, to become a perfect conclusion, being something imperfect from the beginning.

Rather, this Word can be compared to the innate word or knowledge of our mind, always coexisting with the mind, due to which it should be thought that we were brought into being by Him who made us in His image. Predominantly, this Awareness is inherent in the Highest Mind of all-perfect and super-perfect Goodness, in Whom there is nothing imperfect, for except for the fact that the Awareness comes from It, everything related to it is the same unchanging Goodness, like Itself. Therefore, the Son is and is called by us the Highest Word, so that we may know Him as Perfect in our own and perfect Hypostasis; for this Word is born from the Father and is in no way inferior to the Father's essence, but is completely identical with the Father, with the only exception of His being according to the Hypostasis, which shows that the Word is divinely born from the Father.

9. About the procession of the Holy Spirit

Orthodox dogmatic theology:

The ancient Orthodox doctrine of the personal properties of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is distorted in the Latin Church by the creation of the doctrine of the timeless, eternal procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father and the Son (Filioque). The expression that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son originates from Blessed Augustine, who, in the course of his theological discussions, found it possible to express it in some places in his writings, although in other places he confesses that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father. Having thus appeared in the West, it began to spread there around the seventh century; it was established there, as obligatory, in the ninth century. As early as the beginning of the 9th century, Pope Leo III - although he himself personally leaned towards this doctrine - forbade changing the text of the Nicene Constantinople Creed in favor of this doctrine, and for this he ordered the Creed to be drawn in its ancient Orthodox reading (i.e. . without Filioque) on two metal boards: on one - in Greek, and on the other - in Latin, - and exhibited in the Basilica of St. Peter with the inscription: "I, Leo, put it out of love for the Orthodox faith and for its protection." This was done by the pope after the Council of Aachen (which was in the ninth century, presided over by Emperor Charlemagne) in response to the request of that council that the pope declare the Filioque a general church doctrine.

Nevertheless, the newly created dogma continued to spread in the West, and when Latin missionaries came to the Bulgarians in the middle of the ninth century, the Filioque stood in their creed.

As relations between the papacy and the Orthodox East became more acute, the Latin dogma was more and more strengthened in the West and, finally, was recognized there as a universally binding dogma. Protestantism also inherited this teaching from the Roman Church.

The Latin dogma Filioque represents a significant and important deviation from Orthodox truth. He was subjected to detailed analysis and denunciation, especially by Patriarchs Photius and Michael Cerularius, as well as Bishop Mark of Ephesus, a participant in the Council of Florence. Adam Zernikav (XVIII century), who converted from Roman Catholicism to Orthodoxy, in his essay "On the Descent of the Holy Spirit" cites about a thousand testimonies from the writings of the holy fathers of the Church in favor of the Orthodox teaching about the Holy Spirit.

In modern times, the Roman Church, out of "missionary" goals, obscures the difference (or rather, its essentiality) between the Orthodox teaching about the Holy Spirit and the Roman one; to this end, the popes left for the Uniates and for the "Eastern rite" the ancient Orthodox text of the Creed, without the words "and from the Son." Such a device cannot be understood as a semi-repudiation of Rome from her dogma; at best, this is only a covert view of Rome, that the Orthodox East is backward in the sense of dogmatic development, and this backwardness must be treated with indulgence, and that dogma, expressed in the West in a developed form (explicite, according to the Roman theory of "development of dogmas"), hidden in the Orthodox dogma in an as yet undiscovered state (implicite). But in the Latin dogma, intended for internal use, we find a certain interpretation of the Orthodox dogma about the procession of the Holy Spirit as "heresy". In the Latin dogma of the doctor of theology A. Sanda, officially approved, we read: “The opponents (of this Roman teaching) are the Greek schismatics, who teach that the Holy Spirit comes from one Father. The symbol… Who was the ancestor of this heresy is unknown" (Sinopsis Theologie Dogmaticae specialist. Autore D-re A. Sanda. Volum. I).

Meanwhile, the Latin dogma is inconsistent neither with the Holy Scriptures nor with the Holy Tradition of the Church as a whole, it does not even agree with the most ancient tradition of the local Roman Church.

Roman theologians cite in his defense a number of places from the Holy Scriptures, where the Holy Spirit is called "Christ's", where it is said that He is given by the Son of God: from this they conclude that He proceeds from the Son.

(The most important of these places cited by Roman theologians: the words of the Savior to the disciples about the Holy Spirit the Comforter: " He will take from Mine and proclaim to you"(John 16, 14); the words of the Apostle Paul:" God sent the Spirit of His Son into your hearts"(Gal. 4, 6); the same Apostle" If anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His."(Rom. 8, 9); John's Gospel:" He blew and said to them: receive the Holy Spirit"(John 20, 22)).

In the same way, Roman theologians find passages in the writings of the Holy Fathers of the Church where they often speak of the sending down of the Holy Spirit “through the Son,” and sometimes even of “proceeding through the Son.”

However, no one can close the absolutely definite words of the Savior with any reasoning: " Comforter whom I will send to you from the Father"(John 15, 26) - and next - other words:" The Spirit of truth, which proceeds from the Father"(John 15, 26). The Holy Fathers of the Church could not put anything else into the words "through the Son", as soon as what is contained in Holy Scripture.

In this case, Roman Catholic theologians confuse two dogmas: the dogma of the personal existence of Hypostases and the dogma of consubstantiality, directly connected with it, but special. That the Holy Spirit is consubstantial with the Father and the Son, that therefore He is the Spirit of the Father and the Son, is an indisputable Christian truth, for God is a Trinity consubstantial and indivisible.

Blessed Theodoret clearly expresses this idea: “It is said about the Holy Spirit that He does not come from the Son or through the Son, but that He proceeds from the Father, is peculiar to the Son, as being called consubstantial with Him” (Blessed Theodoret. About the Third Ecumenical Council) .

And in Orthodox worship we often hear words addressed to the Lord Jesus Christ: "By Your Holy Spirit enlighten us, instruct us, save us…” The expression “The Spirit of the Father and the Son” is also Orthodox in itself. But these expressions refer to the dogma of consubstantiality, and it must be distinguished from another dogma, the dogma of birth and procession, which indicates, according to the expression of the holy fathers , the existential Cause of the Son and the Spirit. All the Eastern Fathers admit that the Father is monos - the only Cause of the Son and the Spirit. Therefore, when some Church Fathers use the expression "through the Son", it is precisely with this expression that they protect the dogma of the procession from the Father and the inviolability the dogmatic formula “he proceeds from the Father.” The Fathers speak of the Son as “through,” in order to protect the expression “from,” which refers only to the Father.

To this it should also be added that the expression “through the Son” found in some holy fathers in most cases definitely refers to the manifestations of the Holy Spirit in the world, that is, to the providential actions of the Holy Trinity, and not to the life of God in Himself. When the Eastern Church first noticed the distortion of the dogma about the Holy Spirit in the West and began to reproach Western theologians for their innovations, St. Maximus the Confessor (in the 7th century), wishing to protect the Westerners, justified them by saying that they mean by the words "from the Son" to indicate that the Holy Spirit "through the Son is given to creatures, appears, is sent", but not that the Holy Spirit has being from Him. St. himself Maximus the Confessor strictly adhered to the teaching of the Eastern Church about the procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father and wrote a special treatise on this dogma.

The providential sending of the Spirit by the Son of God is spoken of in the words: I will send him to you from the Father"(John 15, 26). So we pray: "Lord, even Thy Most Holy Spirit at the third hour sent down to Thy apostles, that, O Good One, do not take away from us, but renew in us who pray to Thee."

By confusing the texts of Holy Scripture that speak of "origination" and "sending down", Roman theologians transfer the concept of providential relations to the very depths of the existential relations of the Persons of the Holy Trinity.

By introducing a new dogma, the Roman Church, except for the dogmatic side, violated the decree of the Third and subsequent Councils (Fourth - Seventh Councils), which forbids making any changes to the Nicene Creed after the Second Ecumenical Council gave it its final form. Thus, she also committed a sharp canonical offense.

When the Roman theologians try to suggest that the whole difference between Roman Catholicism and Orthodoxy in the doctrine of the Holy Spirit is that the former teaches about the procession "and from the Son", and the second - "through the Son", then in such a statement lies at least a misunderstanding (although sometimes our church writers, following the Catholic ones, allow themselves to repeat this idea): for the expression "through the Son" does not constitute a dogma of the Orthodox Church at all, but is only an explanatory device of some holy fathers in the doctrine of the Holy Trinity; the very meaning of the teachings of the Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church are essentially different.

10. Consubstantial, equal divinity and equal honor of the Persons of the Holy Trinity

The three Hypostases of the Holy Trinity have the same essence, each of the Hypostases has the fullness of divinity, boundless and immeasurable; the three Hypostases are equal in honor and worship equally.

As for the fullness of the divinity of the First Person of the Holy Trinity, there were no heretics who rejected or belittled it in the history of the Christian Church. However, deviations from the truly Christian teaching about God the Father are encountered. Thus, in antiquity, under the influence of the Gnostics, the doctrine of God as the Absolute, God detached from everything limited, finite (the word itself "absolute" means "detached") and therefore not having a direct connection with the world, in need of a Mediator; thus, the concept of the Absolute came close to the name of God the Father and the concept of the Mediator with the name of the Son of God. Such an idea is completely inconsistent with the Christian understanding, with the teaching of the word of God. The Word of God teaches us that God is close to the world, that "God is Love" (1 John 4:8; 4:16), that God - God the Father - so loved the world that He gave His Only Begotten Son, so that everyone who believes in Him had eternal life; God the Father, inseparable from the Son and the Spirit, belongs to the creation of the world and the unceasing providence for the world. If in the word of God the Son is called the Mediator, it is because the Son of God took upon Himself human nature, became the God-man and united the Divinity with humanity, united the earthly with the heavenly, but not at all because the Son is supposedly the necessary connecting principle between the infinitely distant from the world by God the Father and the created finite world.

In the history of the Church, the main dogmatic work of the Holy Fathers was aimed at affirming the truth of consubstantiality, the fullness of divinity and the equal honor of the Second and Third Hypostases of the Holy Trinity.

11. Consubstantial, equal divinity and equal honor of God the Son with God the Father

Rev. John of Damascus writes about the consubstantiality and equality of God the Son with God the Father:

“So this one and only God is not without the Word. But if He has the Word, then He must have the Word not without hypostasis, which began to be and has to cease. For there was no time when God was without the Word. On the contrary, God always has His Word, which is born from Him… God, as inherent and perfect, and the Word will also have perfect and hypostatic, which always exists, lives and has everything that the Parent has. ... The Word of God, since it exists by itself, differs from the one from whom it has a hypostasis; because it manifests in itself the same thing that is in God; then by nature there is one with him. For just as perfection in every respect is seen in the Father, so is the same seen in the Word begotten of Him.

But if we say that the Father is the beginning of the Son and greater than Him (John 14:28), then we do not show by this that He takes precedence over the Son in terms of time or nature; for through him the Father made the world (Heb. 1:2). It does not excel in any other respect, if not in respect of the cause; that is, because the Son was born from the Father, and not the Father from the Son, because the Father is the author of the Son by nature, just as we do not say that fire comes from light, but, on the contrary, light from fire. Therefore, when we hear that the Father is the beginning and greater than the Son, we must understand the Father as the cause. And just as we do not say that fire is of one essence, and light is of another, so it is impossible to say that the Father is of one essence, and the Son is different, but (both) are one and the same. And how we say that fire shines through the light that comes out of it, and we do not suppose that the light coming from fire is its service organ, but, on the contrary, is its natural force; so we speak of the Father, that everything that the Father does, he does through His Only Begotten Son, not as through a service tool, but as through a natural and hypostatic Power; and just as we say that fire illuminates and again we say that the light of fire illuminates, so everything that the Father does, the Son also does (John 5:19). But light has no hypostasis special from fire; The Son is a perfect hypostasis, inseparable from the hypostasis of the Father, as we have shown above.

Prot. Michael Pomazansky (Orthodox dogmatic theology):

In the early Christian period, until the faith of the Church in the consubstantial and equality of the Persons of the Holy Trinity was precisely formulated in strictly defined terms, it happened that even those church writers who carefully guarded their agreement with the universal Church consciousness and had no intention of violating it by any with their personal views, they sometimes allowed, next to clear Orthodox thoughts, expressions about the Divinity of the Persons of the Holy Trinity that were not quite accurate, did not clearly affirm the equality of the Persons.

This was explained mainly by the fact that the pastors of the Church invested in one and the same term - one content, others - another. The concept of "being" in the Greek language was expressed by the word usia, and this term was understood by everyone, in general, the same way. As for the concept of "Person", it was expressed in different words: ipostasis, prosopon. The various uses of the word "hypostasis" were confusing. By this term, some denoted the "Person" of the Holy Trinity, others the "Being". This circumstance hindered mutual understanding until, at the suggestion of St. Athanasius, it was not decided to understand definitely by the word "hypostasis" - "Person".

But besides this, in the ancient Christian period there were heretics who deliberately rejected or belittled the Divinity of the Son of God. Heresies of this kind were numerous and at times produced great disturbances in the Church. These were, in particular, the heretics:

In the age of the apostles - the Ebionites (named after the heretic Ebion); early holy fathers testify that against them St. Evangelist John the Theologian wrote his Gospel;

In the third century, Paul of Samosata, denounced by two councils of Antioch, in the same century.

But the most dangerous of all heretics was - in the 4th century - Arius, presbyter of Alexandria. Arius taught that the Word, or the Son of God, received its beginning of being in time, though before everything else; that He was created by God, although later God created everything through Him; that He is called the Son of God only as the most perfect of created spirits and has a nature other than the Father, not Divine.

This heretical teaching of Arius excited the whole Christian world, as it captivated so many. The First Ecumenical Council was convened against him in the year 325, and at it 318 primates of the Church unanimously expressed the ancient teaching of Orthodoxy and condemned the false teaching of Arius. The Council solemnly pronounced an anathema on those who say that there was a time when the Son of God did not exist, on those who claim that He was created or that He is of a different essence than God the Father. The Council drew up the Creed, which was subsequently confirmed and supplemented at the Second Ecumenical Council. The unity and equality of the Son of God with God the Father was expressed by the Council in the Symbol of Faith with the words: "consubstantial with the Father."

The Arian heresy after the Council broke into three branches and continued to exist for several decades. It was subjected to further refutation, its details were reported at several local councils and in the writings of the great fathers of the Church of the 4th century, and partly of the 5th century (Athanasius the Great, Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian, John Chrysostom, Gregory of Nyssa, Epiphanius, Ambrose of Milan, Cyril Alexandria and others). However, the spirit of this heresy later found a place for itself in various false teachings, both of the Middle Ages and of modern times.

The Fathers of the Church, answering the arguments of the Arians, did not disregard any of those passages of Holy Scripture to which the heretics referred in order to justify their idea of ​​the inequality of the Son with the Father. In the group of sayings of Holy Scripture, speaking, as it were, about the inequality of the Son with the Father, one must keep in mind the following: a) that the Lord Jesus Christ is not only God, but became a Man, and such sayings can refer to His humanity; b) that, moreover, He, as our Redeemer, was in the days of His earthly life in a state of voluntary humiliation, " humbled himself, being obedient even unto death"(Phil. 2, 7-8); therefore, even when the Lord speaks of His Divinity, He, as sent by the Father, as having come to fulfill the will of the Father on earth, places Himself in obedience to the Father, being consubstantial and equal to Him, as The Son, giving us an example of obedience, this subordinate relation refers not to the Essence (usia) of the Deity, but to the action of the Persons in the world: the Father is the one who sends, the Son is the one who is sent, This is the obedience of love.

Such is the meaning, in particular, of the words of the Savior in the Gospel of John: " My Father is greater than Me"(John 14, 28). It should be noted that they were said to the disciples in a farewell conversation after words expressing the idea of ​​the fullness of Divinity and the unity of the Son with the Father -" Whoever loves Me will keep My word: and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him."(John 14, 23). In these words, the Savior combines the Father and Himself in one word" We "and speaks equally on behalf of the Father and on His own; but as sent by the Father into the world (John 14, 24), He places Himself in a subordinate relation to the Father (John 14:28).

When the Lord said: But no one knows about that day or hour, neither the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father ts" (Mk. 13, 32), - said about Himself in a state of voluntary humiliation; leading according to the Divinity, He humbled Himself to the point of ignorance according to humanity. St. Gregory the Theologian interprets these words in a similar way.

When the Lord said: My Father! If possible, let this cup pass from Me; however, not as I want, but as You"(Matt. 26, 39), - showed in Himself the human weakness of the flesh, however, coordinated His human will with His Divine will, which is one with the will of the Father (blessed Theophylact). This truth is expressed in the words of the Eucharistic canon of the liturgy of St. John Chrysostom about the Lamb - the Son of God, "who has come, and having fulfilled everything about us, at night, betraying himself in the nude, moreover, betraying Himself for the life of the world."

When the Lord called on the cross: My God, My God! Why did you leave me?"(Matt. 27, 46), - he called out on behalf of all mankind. He came into the world in order to suffer with mankind its guilt and its estrangement from God, its abandonment by God, for, as the prophet Isaiah says, He "sins He wears ours and suffers for us" (Isaiah 53:5-6). This is how St. Gregory the Theologian explains these words of the Lord.

When, departing to heaven after His resurrection, the Lord said to His disciples: I ascend to my Father and your Father, and to my God and your God"(John 20, 17), - he did not speak in the same sense about His relationship to the Father and about their relationship to the Heavenly Father. Therefore, he said separately: not "our" Father, but " My Father and your Father". God the Father is His Father by nature, and ours is by grace (St. John of Damascus). The Savior's words contain the idea that the Heavenly Father has now become closer to us, that His Heavenly Father has now become our Father - and we are His children - by grace. This is accomplished by earthly life, death on the cross and the resurrection of Christ." See what kind of love the Father has given us so that we can be called and be children of God", - writes the Apostle John (1 Jn. 3, 1). After the completion of the work of our adoption by God, the Lord ascends to the Father as the God-man, i.e. not only in His Divinity, but also in Humanity, and, being of one nature with us , appends the words: " to my God and your God", suggesting that He is forever united with us by His Humanity.

A detailed discussion of these and similar passages of Holy Scripture is found in St. Athanasius the Great (in words against the Arians), at St. Basil the Great (in book IV against Eunomius), at St. Gregory the Theologian and others who wrote against the Arians.

But if there are such implicit expressions in the Holy Scriptures about Jesus Christ, then there are numerous, and one could say - innumerable, places that testify to the Divinity of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Gospel taken as a whole bears witness to Him. Of the individual places, we will indicate only a few, the most important. Some of them say that the Son of God is the true God. Others - that He is equal to the Father. Still others, that He is consubstantial with the Father.

It must be remembered that calling the Lord Jesus Christ God (Theos) in itself speaks of the fullness of the Godhead. "God" cannot be (from the point of view of the logical, philosophical) - "second degree", "lower level", God is limited. The properties of the Divine nature are not subject to conditionality, change, reduction. If "God", then wholly, not partially. The Apostle Paul points to this when he says of the Son that " For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily"(Col. 2, 9). That the Son of God is the True God, says:

a) direct naming of Him as God in the Holy Scriptures:

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. It was in the beginning with God. Everything came into being through Him, and without Him nothing came into being that came into being."(John 1, 1-3).

"The Great Piety Mystery: God Appeared in the Flesh"(1 Tim. 3, 16).

"We also know that the Son of God has come and given us (light and) understanding, so that we may know the true (God) and be in His true Son Jesus Christ: this is the true God and eternal life.(1 John 5:20).

"Their fathers, and from them Christ according to the flesh, who is over all God, blessed forever, amen"(Rom. 9, 5).

"My Lord and my God!"- the exclamation of the Apostle Thomas (John 20, 28).

"Take heed therefore to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of the Lord and God, which He purchased with His own blood."(Acts 20, 28).

"We lived piously in this present age, waiting for the blessed hope and the appearance of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ."(Tit. 2:12-13). That the name "great God" belongs here to Jesus Christ, we verify this from the construction of speech in Greek (a common term for the words "God and the Savior") and from the context of this chapter.

c) calling Him "the Only Begotten":

"And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten from the Father"(John 1, 14,18).

"For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life"(John 3, 16).

On the equality of the Son with the Father:

"My Father is doing to this day, and I am doing"(John 5, 17).

"For whatever He does, the Son also does" (John 5:19).

"For just as the Father raises the dead and gives life, so the Son gives life to whomever He wills."(John 5, 21).

"For just as the Father has life in Himself, so He gave to the Son to have life in Himself."(John 5, 26).

"That all should honor the Son as they honor the Father"(John 5, 23).

On the consubstantiality of the Son with the Father:

"I and the Father are one" (John 10:30): en esmen - consubstantial.

"I am in the Father and the Father is in me"(is) (John 24, 11; 10, 38).

"And all mine is yours, and yours is mine"(John 17, 10).

The Word of God also speaks of the eternity of the Son of God:

"I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, says the Lord, who is, and was, and is to come, the Almighty"(Rev. 1, 8).

"And now glorify me, O Father, from your own self with the glory that I had with you before the world was."(John 17, 5).

About His omnipresence:

"No one ascended to heaven but the Son of Man, who descended from heaven, who is in heaven."(John 3:13).

"For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them."(Mt. 18, 20).

About the Son of God as the Creator of the world:

"Everything came into being through Him, and without Him nothing came into being that came into being."(John 1, 3).

"For by Him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers, all things were created by Him and for Him; And He is above all, and everything costs Him"(Col. 1, 16-17).

Likewise, the word of God speaks of other divine attributes of the Lord Jesus Christ.

As for Sacred Tradition, it contains quite clear evidence of the universal faith of Christians of the first centuries in the true Divinity of the Lord Jesus Christ. We see the universality of this faith:

From the Creeds, used in every local church even before the Council of Nicaea;

From confessions of faith drawn up at Councils or on behalf of the Council of Pastors of the Church before the 4th century;

From the writings of the apostolic men and teachers of the Church of the first centuries;

From the written testimonies of persons external to Christianity, reporting that Christians worship "Christ as God" (for example, a letter from Pliny the Younger to the Emperor Trojan; testimonies of the enemy of Christians, the writer Celsus and others).

12. Consubstantial, equal divinity and equal honor of the Holy Spirit with God the Father and the Son of God

In the history of the ancient Church, heretics' belittling of the divine dignity of the Son of God was usually accompanied by heretics' belittling of the dignity of the Holy Spirit.

In the second century, the heretic Valentinus falsely taught about the Holy Spirit, who said that the Holy Spirit does not differ in His nature from angels. So did the Arians. But the head of the heretics, who distorted the apostolic teaching about the Holy Spirit, was Macedonius, who occupied the Archbishop's see of Constantinople in the 4th century, and who found followers among former Arians and semi-Arians. He called the Holy Spirit the creation of the Son, serving the Father and the Son. The accusers of his heresy were the Church Fathers: Saints Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian, Athanasius the Great, Gregory of Nyssa, Ambrose, Amphilochius, Diodorus of Tarsus and others who wrote essays against heretics. The false doctrine of Macedonia was refuted first at a number of local councils and, finally, at the Second Ecumenical Council of Constantinople (381 years). The Second Ecumenical Council, in order to protect Orthodoxy, supplemented the Nicene Creed with the words: "(We believe) in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the Life-Giving One, who proceeds from the Father, Who with the Father and the Son is worshiped and glorified, who spoke the prophets," - as well as by further members included in the Nicene Constantinople Creed.

Of the many testimonies about the Holy Spirit available in Holy Scripture, it is especially important to keep in mind such passages that a) confirm the teaching of the Church that the Holy Spirit is not an impersonal Divine power, but the Person of the Holy Trinity, and b) affirm His consubstantial and equal Divine dignity with the first and second Persons of the Holy Trinity.

A) Evidence of the first kind - that the Holy Spirit is the bearer of the personal principle, includes the words of the Lord in a farewell conversation with the disciples, where the Lord calls the Holy Spirit the "Comforter", who "will come", "teach", "convict": " When the Comforter comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me"(John 15, 26)..." And He, having come, will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment. About the sin that they do not believe in Me; Of righteousness, that I am going to my Father, and you will see me no more; About the judgment, that the prince of this world is condemned"(John 16, 8-11).

The Apostle Paul clearly speaks of the Spirit as a Person when, discussing various gifts from the Holy Spirit - the gifts of wisdom, knowledge, faith, healings, miracles, discernment of spirits, different languages, interpretation of different languages, he concludes: " Yet it is produced by the same Spirit, dividing to each one individually as He pleases."(1 Cor. 12, 11).

B) The words of the Apostle Peter, addressed to Ananias, who concealed the price of his estate, speak of the Spirit as God: " Why did you allow Satan to put into your heart the thought of lying to the Holy Spirit… You lied not to people, but to God"(Acts 5, 3-4).

The equal honor and consubstantiality of the Spirit with the Father and the Son are evidenced by such passages as:

"baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit"(Matt. 28, 19),

"The grace of the Lord (our) Jesus Christ, and the love of God (Father), and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit with you all"(2 Cor. 13, 13):

Here all three Persons of the Holy Trinity are called equally. The Savior Himself expressed the divine dignity of the Holy Spirit in the following words: If anyone speaks a word against the Son of Man, he will be forgiven; but if anyone speaks against the Holy Spirit, he will not be forgiven either in this age or in the future"(Matt. 12, 32).

13. Images explaining the mystery of the Holy Trinity

Prot. Mikhail Pomazansky:

“Wishing to bring the mystery of the Holy Trinity closer at least somewhat to our earthly concepts, the incomprehensible to the comprehensible, the Church Fathers resorted to similarities from nature, which are: a) the sun, its ray and light; b) root, trunk and fruit of a tree; c) a spring gushing out of it a key and a stream; d) three candles burning one at the other, giving one indivisible light; e) fire, shine from it and warmth from it; f) mind, will and memory; g) consciousness, subconsciousness and desire and the like.”

The life of St. Cyril, the Enlightener of the Slavs, tells how he explained the mystery of the Holy Trinity:

“Then the Saracen sages asked Constantine:

Why do you, Christians, divide One God into three: you call the Father, the Son and the Spirit. If God can have a Son, then give Him a wife, so that there are many gods?

Do not blaspheme the Most Divine Trinity, - answered the Christian philosopher, - Which we have learned to confess from the ancient prophets, whom you also recognize as circumcisions holding together with them. They teach us that the Father, the Son and the Spirit are three hypostases, but their essence is one. Similarity to this can be seen in the sky. So in the sun, created by God in the image of the Holy Trinity, there are three things: a circle, a bright ray and warmth. In the Holy Trinity, the solar circle is the likeness of God the Father. Just as a circle has neither beginning nor end, so God is without beginning and without end. Just as a bright ray and solar warmth come from the circle of the sun, so the Son is born from God the Father and the Holy Spirit proceeds. Thus, the solar ray that enlightens the entire universe is the likeness of God the Son, born of the Father and manifested in this world, while the solar warmth emanating from the same solar circle along with the ray is the likeness of God the Holy Spirit, who, together with the begotten Son, is eternally comes from the Father, although in time it is sent to people and the Son! [Those. for the sake of Christ's merits on the cross: "for the Holy Spirit was not yet upon them, because Jesus was not yet glorified" (John 7:39)], as for example. was sent to the apostles in the form of fiery tongues. And as the sun, consisting of three objects: a circle, a bright ray and heat, is not divided into three suns, although each of these objects has its own characteristics, one is a circle, the other is a ray, the third is heat, but not three suns, but one, so is the Most Holy Trinity, although it has Three Persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, however, it is not divided by the Deity into three gods, but there is One God. Do you remember how the Scripture says about how God appeared to the forefather Abraham at the Maurian oak, from which you keep circumcision? God appeared to Abraham in Three Persons. “He (Abraham) lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, three men stood against him, seeing, he ran towards them from the entrance to the tent and bowed to the ground. And he said: Lord! If I have found favor with You, do not pass by Your servant "(Gen.18, 2-3).

Pay attention: Abraham sees before him Three Husbands, and he converses as if with One, saying: "Lord! If I have found favor before You." Obviously, the holy forefather confessed in the Three Persons of One God.

To clarify the mystery of the Holy Trinity, the holy fathers also pointed to a person who is the image of God.

Saint Ignatius Brianchaninov teaches:

"Our mind is the image of the Father; our word (the unspoken word we usually call thought) is the image of the Son; the spirit is the image of the Holy Spirit. being, not mixing with each other, not merging into one person, not dividing into three beings.Our mind gave birth and does not cease to give birth to a thought, a thought, having been born, does not cease to be born again and at the same time remains born, hidden in the mind. can not exist, and thought without mind. The beginning of one is certainly the beginning of another; the existence of mind is necessarily the existence of thought. In the same way, our spirit proceeds from the mind and contributes to thought. That is why every thought has its own spirit, every way of thinking has its separate spirit, every book has its own spirit. There can be no thought without a spirit, the existence of one is necessarily accompanied by the existence of the other. In the existence of both is the existence of the mind. "

St. rights. John of Kronstadt:

“We sin in thought, word and deed. In order to become pure images of the Most Holy Trinity, we must strive for the holiness of our thoughts, words, and deeds. Thought corresponds in God to the Father, words to the Son, deeds to the all-performing Holy Spirit. Sins of thought in a Christian are an important matter, because all our pleasing to God is, according to St. Macarius of Egypt, in thoughts: for thoughts are the beginning, words and activity come from them, - words, because they either give grace to those who hear, or are rotten words and serve as a stumbling block for others, corrupt the thoughts and hearts of others; matters all the more, because examples have the strongest effect on people, captivating them to imitate them.

“Just as in God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are inseparable, so in prayer and in our life, thought, word, and deed must also be inseparable. If you ask anything from God, believe that it will be done according to your request, as God wills; when you read the word of God, believe that everything it says was, is, and will be, or has been, is being done, and will be done. So believe, so speak, so read, so pray. Great thing word. A great thing is the soul that thinks, speaks and acts, the image and likeness of the almighty Trinity. Human! know yourself, who you are, and behave according to your dignity.

14. The incomprehensibility of the mystery of the Holy Trinity

The images offered by the holy fathers help us to come closer to understanding the mystery of the Holy Trinity, but we must not forget that they are not complete and cannot explain it to us. Here's what he says about these attempts at similarity Saint Gregory the Theologian:

“Whatever I considered with myself in my inquisitive mind, with which I enriched my mind, wherever I looked for similarities for this sacrament, I did not find anything to which the earthly (earthly) nature of God could be likened. , then much more escapes, leaving me below along with what is chosen for comparison.Following the example of others, I imagined a spring, a key and a stream and reasoned: do not the Father have similarities with one, the Son with another, the Holy Spirit with the third? For spring, spring, and stream are inseparable by time, and their coexistence is uninterrupted, although it seems that they are separated by three properties. such similarity does not introduce even numerical unity. For the spring, the key, and the stream, in relation to number, are one, but they are different only in the way they are represented. Again, he took into consideration the sun, ray, and light. oh, any difficulty seen in the sun and in that which is from the sun. Secondly, by ascribing essence to the Father, not to deprive the other Persons of the same independent essence and not to make them the powers of God, who exist in the Father, but would not be independent. Because the ray and light are not the sun, but some solar outpourings and essential qualities of the sun. Thirdly, in order not to ascribe to God both being and non-being (to what conclusion can this example lead); and that would be even more absurd than what was said before ... And in general I don’t find anything that, when considering, would stop the thought on the chosen similarities, unless someone with due prudence takes one thing from the image and discards everything else. Finally, I concluded that it is best to depart from all images and shadows, as deceptive and far from reaching the truth, but to stick to a more pious way of thinking, stopping at a few sayings, to have the Spirit as the guide, and what kind of illumination is received from Him, then, preserving until end, with Him, as with a sincere accomplice and interlocutor, to pass the present age, and to the best of our ability to convince others to worship the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, the one Godhead and the one Power.

Bishop Alexander (Mileant):

“All these and other similarities, while somewhat facilitating the assimilation of the mystery of the Trinity, are, however, only the faintest allusions to the nature of the Highest Being. They leave behind a consciousness of insufficiency, of inconsistency with that lofty subject for the understanding of which they are used. They cannot remove from the teaching about the Triune God that veil of incomprehensibility, mystery, with which this teaching is clothed for the human mind.

In this regard, one instructive story has been preserved about the famous Western teacher of the Church - Blessed Augustine. Immersed one day in thoughts about the mystery of the Trinity and drawing up a plan for an essay on this subject, he went to the seashore. There he saw the boy, playing in the sand, digging a hole. Approaching the boy, Augustine asked him: “What are you doing?” - "I want to pour the sea into this hole," the boy replied, smiling. Then Augustine understood: “Am I not doing the same thing as this child when I try to exhaust the sea of ​​God’s infinity with my mind?”

In the same way, that great ecumenical hierarch, who, for his ability to penetrate in thought to the deepest mysteries of faith, is honored by the Church with the name of the Theologian, wrote to himself that he speaks of the Trinity more often than breathes, and he admits the unsatisfactoryness of all likenings aimed understanding of the dogma of the Trinity. “Whatever I considered with my inquisitive mind,” he says, “whatever I enriched the mind, wherever I looked for similarities for this, I did not find to which the natural nature of God could be applied.”

So, the doctrine of the Holy Trinity is the deepest, incomprehensible mystery of faith. All efforts to make it understandable, to introduce it into the usual framework of our thinking, are in vain. “Here is the limit of that,” remarks St. Athanasius the Great, - “what cherubs cover with wings””.

St. Philaret of Moscow answering the question “is it possible to comprehend the trinity of God?” - writes:

“God is one in three persons. We do not comprehend this inner mystery of the Godhead, but we believe in it according to the immutable testimony of the word of God: “No one knows God except the Spirit of God” (1 Cor. 2, 11).

Rev. John of Damascus:

“It is impossible for an image to be found among creatures that in everything similarly shows in itself the properties of the Holy Trinity. For what is created and complex, fleeting and changeable, describable and having an image and perishable - how exactly will the pre-essential Divine essence, which is alien to all this, be explained? And it is known that every creature is subject to the majority of such properties and, by its very nature, is subject to decay.

“For the Word there must be breath; for even our word is not without breath. But our breath is different from our being: it is the inhalation and exhalation of air drawn in and out for the existence of the body. When a word is pronounced, it becomes a sound that reveals the power of the word. And in God's nature, simple and uncomplicated, we must piously confess the existence of the Spirit of God, because His Word is not less than our word; but it would be impious to think that in God the Spirit is something that comes from outside, as it happens in us, complex beings. On the contrary, as when we hear about the Word of God, we do not recognize Him as without hypostasis or such as is acquired by teaching, pronounced with a voice, spreads in the air and disappears, but such as exists hypostatically, has free will, actively and omnipotently: thus, having learned that the Spirit God accompanies the Word and manifests His action, we do not honor Him with non-hypostatic breath; for in this way we would humiliate to insignificance the greatness of the Divine nature, if we had the same understanding about the Spirit that is in Him, which we have about our spirit; but we honor Him by a power that really exists, contemplated in its own and special personal being, proceeding from the Father, resting in the Word and manifesting Him, which therefore cannot be separated either from God, in whom it is, nor from the Word, with whom it accompanies, and which does not appear in such a way as to disappear, but, like the Word, exists personally, lives, has a free will, moves by itself, is active, always wants the good, in every will accompanies the will with force and has neither beginning nor end; for neither the Father was ever without the Word, nor the Word without the Spirit.

Thus, the polytheism of the Greeks is completely refuted by the unity of nature, and the teaching of the Jews is rejected by the acceptance of the Word and the Spirit; and from both remains what is useful, that is, from the teachings of the Jews - the unity of nature, and from Hellenism - one difference in hypostases.

If a Jew begins to contradict the acceptance of the Word and the Spirit, then he must rebuke him and stop his mouth with the Divine Scripture. For the Divine David says of the Word: Forever, O Lord, Thy Word abides in heaven (Ps. 119:89), and in another place: I sent forth Thy Word, and heal me (Ps. 106:20); - but the word spoken by the mouth is not sent and does not abide forever. And about the Spirit the same David says: Follow thy Spirit, and they shall be built up (Ps. 103:30); and in another place: By the word of the Lord the heavens were established, and by the Spirit of his mouth all their strength (Ps. 32, 6); also Job: the Spirit of God that created me, but the breath of the Almighty teaches me (Job 33:4); - but the Spirit that is sent, creating, affirming and preserving is not a breath that disappears, just as the mouth of God is not a member of the body: but one and the other must be understood in a godly manner.

Prot. Seraphim Slobodskoy:

“The great mystery that God revealed to us about Himself - the mystery of the Holy Trinity, our weak mind cannot comprehend, understand.

…St. Augustine He speaks:

"You see the Trinity if you see love." This means that the mystery of the Most Holy Trinity can be understood with the heart, that is, with love, rather than with our feeble mind.”

15. The dogma of trinity indicates the fullness of the mysterious inner life in God: God is Love

Orthodox dogmatic theology:

“The dogma of trinity points to the fullness of the mysterious inner life in God, for “God is love” (1 John 4:8; 4:16), and the love of God cannot only extend to the world created by God: in the Holy Trinity it is also turned inward Divine life.

Even more clearly for us, the dogma of trinity points to the proximity of God to the world: God is above us, God is with us, God is in us and in all creation. Above us is God the Father, the ever-flowing Source, according to the expression of the church prayer, the Foundation of all being, the Father of bounty, who loves us and cares for us, His creation, we are His children by grace. With us is God the Son, His birth, for the sake of Divine love, who revealed Himself to people as a Man, so that we know and see with our own eyes that God is with us, "sincerely", i.e. in the most perfect way "participated in us" (Heb. 2:14).

In us and in all creation - by His power and grace - the Holy Spirit, Who fulfills everything, Giver of life, Life-giving, Comforter, Treasure and Source of blessings.

St. Gregory Palamas:

“The Spirit of the Highest Word is, as it were, a kind of inexpressible Love of the Parent for the inexpressibly born Word Itself. The Beloved Son Himself and the Word of the Father use the same Love, having it in relation to the Parent, as having come together with Him from the Father and unitedly resting in Himself. From this Word, who communicates with us through His flesh, we are taught about the name of the Spirit, which differs in hypostatic existence from the Father, and also about the fact that He is not only the Spirit of the Father, but also the Spirit of the Son. For He says: “The Spirit of truth, which proceeds from the Father” (John 15:26), so that we may know not only the Word, but also the Spirit, which is from the Father, not begotten, but proceeding: He is also the Spirit of the Son who has Him from the Father as the Spirit of Truth, Wisdom and Word. For Truth and Wisdom is the Word, corresponding to the Parent and rejoicing with the Father, according to what He said through Solomon: "I was and rejoiced with Him." He did not say “rejoiced,” but precisely “rejoiced,” because the eternal Joy of the Father and the Son is the Holy Spirit as common to Both, according to the saying of Holy Scripture.

That is why the Holy Spirit is sent by both to worthy people, having being from the Father alone and proceeding from Him alone in being. The image of this Highest Love also has our mind, created in the image of God, [feeding it] to the knowledge, from Him and in Him constantly abiding; and this love is from Him and in Him, proceeding from Him together with the inner Word. And this insatiable desire of people for knowledge is a clear evidence of such love even for those who are not able to comprehend the innermost depths of themselves. But in that Archetype, in that all-perfect and super-perfect Goodness, in which there is nothing imperfect, except for what comes from It, Divine Love is fully Goodness Itself. Therefore, this Love is the Holy Spirit and another Comforter (John 14:16), and so it is called by us, since He accompanies the Word, so that we may know that the Holy Spirit, being perfect in a perfect and own Hypostasis, is in no way inferior to the essence of the Father. , but invariably identical in nature to the Son and the Father, differing from Them in Hypostasis and presenting to us His divine procession from the Father.

Ep. Alexander Mileant:

“However, for all its incomprehensibility, the doctrine of the Holy Trinity has an important moral significance for us, and, obviously, this is why this mystery is open to people. Indeed, it elevates the very idea of ​​monotheism, puts it on firm ground and eliminates those important, insurmountable difficulties that previously arose for human thought. Some of the thinkers of pre-Christian antiquity, rising to the concept of the unity of the supreme Being, could not resolve the question of what actually manifests the life and activity of this Being in itself, outside of its relation to the world. And so the Deity was either identified in their view with the world (pantheism), or was lifeless, self-contained, motionless, isolated beginning (deism), or turned into a formidable, inexorably dominating fate over the world (fatalism). Christianity, in the doctrine of the Holy Trinity, has discovered that in the Trinity Being and apart from His relations to the world, the infinite fullness of the inner, mysterious life is manifested from time immemorial. God, in the words of one ancient teacher of the Church (Peter Chrysologus), is one, but not alone. In Him there is a distinction of Persons who are in continuous communion with one another. “God the Father is neither begotten nor proceeds from another Person, the Son of God is eternally born from the Father, the Holy Spirit eternally proceeds from the Father.” In this mutual communion of the Divine Persons from time immemorial consists the inner, secret life of the Divine, which before Christ was closed by an impenetrable veil.

Through the mystery of the Trinity, Christianity taught not only to honor God, to revere Him, but also to love Him. Through this very mystery, it gave the world that gratifying and significant idea that God is infinite, perfect Love. The strict, dry monotheism of other religious teachings (Judaism and Mohammedanism), without rising to the frank idea of ​​the Divine Trinity, therefore cannot rise to the true concept of love as the dominant property of God. Love by its very essence is unthinkable outside of union, communion. If God is one-man, then in relation to whom could His Love be revealed? To the world? But the world is not eternal. In what way could Divine love manifest itself in pre-peaceful eternity? Besides, the world is limited, and the love of God cannot be revealed in all its infinity. The highest love, for its full manifestation, requires the same highest object. But where is he? Only the mystery of the Triune God gives a solution to all these difficulties. It reveals that the love of God has never remained inactive, without manifestations: the Persons of the Most Holy Trinity from eternity abide with each other in uninterrupted communion of love. The Father loves the Son (John 5:20; 3:35) and calls Him beloved (Matthew 3:17; 17:5, etc.). The Son says of Himself: “I love the Father” (John 14:31). Brief but expressive words of Blessed Augustine are profoundly true: “The mystery of the Christian Trinity is the mystery of Divine love. You see the Trinity if you see love.”

How to understand the trinity of God - the Holy Trinity - God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit?

The Holy Trinity exists. There is God the Father, who is the father of all people and all human souls, God the Son - Jesus Christ. God is the Holy Spirit. God the Holy Spirit has absorbed all the souls that exist in the entire higher realm and who live in a physical body on earth.

About the Holy Trinity

God is one, as written in the Bible. And the fact that God exists in three persons: God the Father - directly God, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit - is the right message. So united so that people better understand the essence of the highest heavenly divine state. But in fact, God is God. And Jesus Christ is the messenger of God on earth, who was sent to earth with his mission, and he fulfilled this mission. He gathered so many human souls around him that he became a natural continuation of God on earth, began to be called his son. The third hypostasis is the Holy Spirit, which is, in fact, human souls united by the understanding of God. But the most important God is God the Father, who created the entire Universe that does not fit in the consciousness of people: both the subtle and the physical world, not limited by the Milky Way and nearby galaxies. Everything that God created exists in completely different forms: in one universe it exists in one form, in another universe, as an experiment of God, in another form, etc. God created many universes: the diversity of the world is unique and so diverse that it defies description. All this gamut of varieties God absorbs in himself, accumulates and by this God lives, by this he is great. People and all beings that live in other universes fill God with their strength, experiences, feelings, emotions, all the richness and beauty of the colors of physical and subtle life. That is why God is great.

What is Mind?

God created such a substance as Mind . This is not written anywhere in any religion, but Mind as a separate Divine substance exists. Mind is what organizes and permeates the universes, other substances, humanity. This is what systematizes this whole world and keeps the world in balance. In fact, these are the laws of God, which are discovered by saints, physicists, biologists, chemists, astrophysicists, philosophers, eclecticists, alchemists, psychics ... If there were no mind, all the contents of the Universe would have a chaotic appearance and forms, and each in conflict with each other. In fact, everything that is created by God is harmonious, logical, is within certain boundaries and forms, which allows all types and forms of Life to exist and develop. Thus the great purposes of God are realized.

Where is all this going and what is the point of all this?

All this is moving towards perfection, in order to reach those wonderful heights and states in physical bodies that are achieved in the Higher Heavenly Divine World. In many universes that are not yet open to people, living beings have reached such a degree of understanding of God (the Trinity), when even in the physical body one can feel all the infinity, all the greatness and all the love of the Divine. When there is an understanding even in the physical body, how great and beautiful God is and how wonderful everything that he has conceived. That life is eternal and endless.

However, one must understand that the people of the Earth are still at a low stage of development and understanding of the Divine essence - the Divine Trinity.