In 2018, 1155 years of the Slavic alphabet will be celebrated, which gave impetus to the development of culture and literature in the Slavic lands, the development and flourishing of the Russian language. This national holiday has been celebrated in Bulgaria for many decades. Thanks to the incredible efforts of the writer Vitaly Maslov, this holiday came to Russia after 1985. It was first noted in Murmansk. Then Vologda picked up the baton of the unity of Slavic cultures.
The Cyrillic alphabet, created in the 9th century, has been keeping the Russian world in a single space for a millennium and is one of the bonds of numerous peoples of Russia. It is not for nothing that in the 1920s the "Trotskyists-liberals" tried to translate the writing from the Cyrillic alphabet into the Latin alphabet. It was Constantine and Methodius who created the Slavic alphabet, their selfless life and selfless educational activity laid the foundation for writing and literacy of many peoples. In a historically short period of time, an epochal revolution took place in the worldview of the Slavs, a new faith was established in vast territories.
By the 9th century, two religious centers had developed: Byzantium and Rome. Christianity spread widely in Europe, only the rich and populous Slavic lands adhered to the old Vedic faith. Rome and Byzantium competed with each other, sending their preachers to the Slavs. At that time, divine services were allowed to be held only in three languages: Greek, Latin, Hebrew. Rome insisted on the Latin alphabet, forbade the translation of liturgical books into Slavic languages. Contrary to Rome, the decision ripened in Byzantium to create a new letter for the Slavs, spread it over the Slavic lands and take them under their control. Constantine the Philosopher is entrusted with developing a new alphabet.
Constantine was born in the Byzantine Empire in the city of Soluni in 826. Father, a Bulgarian - a major military leader, mother - Greek. From his youth he studied dialectics, many philosophies, mathematics, astronomy, and music. He knew perfectly Greek, Slavic, Latin, Hebrew, Arabic. He taught at the Constantinople Higher School. He worked in the imperial library, where he had access to the richest book depositories. For his great knowledge he was nicknamed the Philosopher.
Konstantin was well aware of the logical and mathematical relationships of the universe, he owned alphanumeric symbols. It was believed that the letters, and each letter had its own number, are the primary elements from which the spiritual universe is composed - the invisible world, just as the material world is composed of atoms - the visible, and these worlds exist not separately, but together. Therefore, the alphabet had to contain all the secrets of the universe, both explicit and hidden, for the initiated. In the Bible, every word, every number has its own meaning. There is nothing random there. These texts encrypt ancient knowledge about the world from the first days to the last days. The ancients said: "All of the Number - since the Almighty God the Creator is One-One." The entire Universe and Man obey geometric laws.
For Constantine the Philosopher, the indisputable authority was Gregory Nazianzus - the Theologian (330-390), who preached the highest dogma, the highest achievement of Christian thought - about the Holy Trinity.
He said: “I have not yet begun to think about the One, as the Trinity illuminates me with His radiance. As soon as I began to think about the Trinity, the One again embraces me. As One of the Three appears to me, I think that This is the whole, until then my gaze is filled with Him, and the rest eludes me; for in my mind, too limited to understand One, there is no more room for the rest. When I unite the Three in the same thought, I see a single light, but I cannot separate or consider the united light."
“The one comes into motion from His wealth, the two is overcome, for the Divine is higher than matter and form; The Trinity is closed in perfection, for it is the first to overcome the composition of the two. Thus, the Divine is not limited, but also does not extend to infinity. The first would be inglorious and the second contrary to order. One would be perfect in the spirit of Judaism, and the second - Hellenism and polytheism."
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In 381, the church council in Constantinople approved the Trinity dogma: the Most Holy Trinity - God the Father, God the Son, the Holy Spirit.
From that moment on, the persecution of rationalism and Hellenic thinking intensified. Libraries, ancient manuscripts, schools of thought were destroyed all over the world. Man was torn away from nature and space. The Vedic Law of Rule - the unity of man, nature, space and God - was destroyed.
The worship of the Lamb was cultivated in the first centuries. Imitating the Jews, Christians did not paint icons at first. The outline drawings of the sacrificial Lamb were associated with God the Son. The Lamb on the throne with a cross on its head became an object of worship for people. Already in the III century, next to the Lamb, they began to draw the figure of Jesus the Shepherd, and the Face of Christ also appeared. Theologians have made great efforts to focus the worship of believers not on the body of the Lamb, but on the human image of Jesus Christ. The rooting of new Faces, Signs, Icons took place very slowly. In 692, the Council of Constantinople issues a decree, where it demanded instead of the Lamb to depict the face and body of Jesus.
The triumph of the Greco-Byzantine Church, marked by the official recognition of icons (843), led to the approval of the iconographic canon. In fact, the sacred image triumphed. Temple painting eclipsed, began to supplant symbolic emblems and monograms. Their hidden numerical meaning, geometric proportions were more and more lost and forgotten. Going beyond the dogmatic framework was not allowed. Absolutization of the One led to Judaism, polytheism was equated with paganism. The confrontation between the West and the East intensified. Rome defended the view that the Holy Spirit proceeds "and from the Son." The Greek-Byzantine Church defended the view that the Holy Spirit proceeds only “from the Father”. The controversy ended in division in 1054.
In 860, Constantine was sent on an embassy mission to Khazaria, where the Jewish community was in power. In the Khazar Kaganate, Constantine entered into a dispute with the Jews, took the side of the persecuted Christians and Muslims. On the way to Khazaria, Constantine stopped for several months in Korsun (Tauric Chersonesos). At that time, the territory of Russia had its own written language, its own alphabet. Konstantin is studying Russian writings, which are used to write the gospel, psalter and other texts. He knew grammar well, alphabetic and numerical systems of other signs, and compared Russian letters with Greek ones. To enter the environment of three sacred alphabets (Greek, Latin, Hebrew), in which one can write holy books and conduct divine services, it was necessary to create a complex Alphanumeric system, where each sign is an esoteric Symbol that keeps the secret of the Law of God. Any alphabet that did not contain a secret law was considered barbaric, desecrating the doctrine.
Constantine the Philosopher borrowed 24 Byzantine letters and added 14 Slavic ones. (The alphabet did not reach us in its original form). The confusion of "ancient Christian" signs with "pagan" signs provoked opposition from both the Greek and Latin priests.
Constantine knew that letters are honored if Letters-Numbers keep the secret of the Law of God. The secret, mystical meaning cannot be expressed in words. All the most secret is expressed not by the Word, but by the Number. They used to say: "He does not speak from the date" - that means he is mistaken, lying.
Cyrillic is not a Proto-Slavic script. The outlines of the letters changed, carried their secret meaning, tk. each "letter" must be judged in a threefold sense: by the general genus, the special form, and the individual number. Only a genius scientist, with God's help, could create a new letter so that the signs of the Slavic alphabet embodied a gamut of pure sounds capable of reproducing all the existing and potential wealth of Russian speech, writing, counting, all the content of the innermost meaning; so that they keep in their Alphanumeric system the ancient universal Plan that reflects the structure of the Universe and the life of Man.
Creating the Slavic alphabet, Constantine the Philosopher followed the canonical plan, based on the esoteric identity - the Universe + Man. In the upper part of the Cyrillic alphabet, almost all letters are represented by words whose meaning is clear.
Az - 1, Buki, Vedi - 2, Verb - 3, Good - 4, Yes - 5, Live, Zelo - 6, Earth - 7, I - 10, Izhe - 8, Kako - 20, People - 30, Think - 40, Our - 50, He - 70. Peace - 80, Rtsy - 100, Word - 200, Firmly - 300, Uk - 400, Firth - 500, Her - 600, Omega - 800, Cy - 900, Worm - 90.
It sounds like this: “Initially, be the first; know the teaching, speak, act kindly, live by nature; love the earth firmly, strive like a thinking man; our spiritual brother; you will utter a strong word, you will strengthen the law. Eternal glory."
Almost all letters are endowed with numbers. In the unity of the Word and Number, harmony is expressed, the idea of life by nature, the idea of spiritual striving for light, good, truth. In Russian, all letters of the first half of the alphabet are most widely used.
In the Greek interpretation, X stands for the prototype of the universe. Further - the secret sign of Christ and the Way of the Cross (St. Andrew's Cross), destined for Man. Omega expressed the End of everything, in Christianity - faith in Christ, denoted the word Lord.
These letters symbolize the supercosmic spheres where the Lord dwells, where, according to the Plan of God, the fate of the World and Man from the Beginning to the End is predetermined. According to the Jewish alphabetical system, the leading role belongs to the First and Last Signs - alpha and omega - the Beginning and the End. Constantine places X and omega in the center of the letter row. Ancient logicians said that the middle is at the same time a kind of peak dominating over its environment.
In the lower part of the alphabet, the root meaning of the thirteen "innumerable" Letter-Words is completely different.
Sha - shabala, trash; Shcha - mercy, mercy; Er - Era - a cheat; Ery - Eryga - connecting rod, reveler; Yer - Erik - a renegade, a heretic; Yat - Imat - yatny, accessible; Yu (y) - Yudol - a bad lot; I am torture, outcast; E - to ulcerate, gnaw; Small Yus - bonds, chains; Big Yus - prison prison; Iotov (Yus small) - imprisonment, confinement; Iotov (Yus big) - truncation; and four more letters: Xi - 60, Psi - 700, Fita - 9, Izhitsa.
It reads: Rootless, empty, finished scum, uterine creature, vain trash, thieves, drunkards, heretics, enemies, take a bitter share, mock the exiles, imprison in dungeon, execute.
In the first commandment, virtue, knowledge and wisdom are glorified; the second condemns everything that is immoral and low.
Constantine said that 900 and 9 years are the Beginning and the End, from the First Temple, erected by Solomon, to Jesus Christ, who denounced the religion of the Jews. In the Old Church Slavonic alphabet, these values set the limits between which there is a "dissonant" series of letters from Tsi (900) to the penultimate Fita (9).
As noted, there are no random numbers in the Bible. For example, in the Apocalypse of John the Evangelist, the term "revelation" is endowed with the esoteric number 1445.5. The size is associated with the sacred chronology: 4x361.375 = 1445.5. The biblical year is 361.375 days and one of the names of God is 361.375. In the theological sense, "revelation" is the comprehension of the "divine trinity" (3 + 1) = 4.
Pythagoras taught that the Cosmos arose from the First, from the Triune Number, which is Tetraktida. The famous phrase of John the Theologian - “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. It was in the beginning with God”- figuratively follows the Pythagorean logic, deriving from the One God the Triune Word - the Quaternary.
Games with Numbers in the Sacred Texts lead to the chronology of Ancient India: 600x90x900x800: 9 = 4,320,000,000 this is the great Kalpa period. At the end of this period, the world dies (is renewed).
The Great Sidereal Year discovered in antiquity is 25920 years, which is formed as a result of the addition of three movements. The Earth not only revolves around its axis (daily cycle) and flies around the Sun, alternately passing twelve zodiacal zones (annual cycle). Like a giant top, the Earth sways during rotation, as if slowing down uniform rotation. This subtle shift is 50 seconds of the celestial sphere. In 72 years, the movement will be 1 degree. In other words, the spring equinox exactly coincides with the initial position of the stellar sphere once every 360x60x60: 50 = 1296000: 50 = 25920 years. The sidereal year is equal to the Mayan Seven Ages. Ancient chronologies of different peoples are linked.
In the six days of the prophet Moses, the creation of the Universe is described as the Logos of the triune Circle of the Universe, the “circular lines” of which Sophia-Wisdom mentions. (In Christianity, all the temples of Sophia the Wisdom were renamed into the temples of Saint Sophia.) In other words, "God created the World geometrically." The numerical symbol is characteristic of Sophia - 7. The rhythm of time in Christianity is 7 (week). In the first centuries, Gnostic Christians were well aware of the numerical and geometric secrets of the Law of God. As Christianity strengthened, sciences were supplanted, and purely religious norms took root.
In the Old and New Testaments, all numerical symbolism in form and content coincides with the Pythagorean number system. Many ideas, expressions, plots are taken from Hellenic legends or borrowed from ancient Greek philosophers. The communities of the Pythagoreans are the historical and canonical prototype of the early Christian Gnostic circles. Their teaching laid the foundation for a powerful spiritual movement, which was used to establish the Christian religion.
There is no information about the long-term works of Constantine the Philosopher. There is a report that Constantine and his companions "began to pray" - "And here God revealed a Slavic letter to the Philosopher." All ancient alphabets were revered as a gift from the Gods, and the creation of the Slavic alphabet was announced as a divine revelation.
Upon his return from Khazaria, Konstantin lives in Constantinople, where he continues to work on the alphabet. Having enlisted the support of the Tsar and the Patriarch, he goes to the small monastery of Polykhron on the shores of the Sea of Marmara near Mount Olympus. His brother Methodius serves as the abbot. In this monastery, the miracle of the revelation of Slavic letters takes place.
With the blessing of the Patriarch, Constantine and Methodius set off for Moravia (region of the Czech Republic). Enlighteners faced a difficult and stubborn struggle not only against the dogma of "trilingualism", great efforts were required to take root new traditions and rules of writing letters, numbers, everyday and liturgical readings, chants.
They spent forty months in Moravia, carrying out an educational mission, translating sacred texts into the new alphabet. At the same time, the decision was ripe to go to Rome in order to prove the correctness of his cause to the head of all Catholics - the Pope.
Realizing the opposition of Rome, Constantine prepared for the meeting. He carries with him the relics of St. Clement, found near Korsun, as if saying that Clement himself supports the new alphabet. Proving “the sanctity of Slovenian books”, Konstantin said: “The native language is the path to the highest manifestation of the spirit, the path to revelation. Praying in a foreign language is soulless and incomprehensible. Only a sincere native word expresses the spirit of prophecy, when the present, past and future, the world visible and invisible, are revealed in full."
Pope Adrian heeded the arguments and consecrated Slovene books and letters, and received from Constantine the Philosopher a priceless gift - the relics of Clement of Rome.
Hard work undermined the health of Constantine the Philosopher. Taking monastic vows and a new name - Cyril 50 days before his death - he bequeathed to Methodius, his elder brother, to continue the common cause of enlightening the Slavic peoples. He died on February 14, 869.
The Pope's favor soon ended. Methodius and his disciples had to endure a lot of hardships: intrigue, arrest, imprisonment. Methodius neglected the papal prohibition and preached in the native language of the Slavs, which aroused the wrath of the Roman priests. Exhausted by intrigues, Methodius left for Constantinople in 881. In 884 he returns and translates the Holy Scriptures. Slavic letters had spread widely by that time, they acquired an independent life. Methodius died on April 6, 885 at the age of 60. The saint was sung in three languages: Slavic, Greek and Latin. The Hebrew language was withdrawn from worship.
However, the struggle continued. Books of the Slavic language were confiscated and burned, and in 905 Moravia was captured by German-Magyar troops. But by this time, Bulgaria, a large center of culture and writing of the Slavs, had already blossomed. A new written language came to Russia, and with it a new faith. In 988, Prince Vladimir officially introduced Christianity to the great Old Russian state.
After hundreds of years, the folk dialect will separate from the Church Slavonic language. Separated letters, numbers, grammar, syntax. The Old Church Slavonic language has virtually disappeared, it has become an intra-church, liturgical language. Sacred writing, liturgies, chants are increasingly difficult to understand not only by parishioners, but also by the clergy. A rare priest can write and speak the Church Slavonic language, even fewer are those who seriously strive to know and preserve the ancient speech.
We must not forget that the life-giving roots of the Russian language lie in the depths of the Church Slavonic language. All Church Slavonic literature, all the bookish wisdom of the church fathers, biblical prophets, ancient writers, philosophers, cabalists and gnostics in their esoteric sphere still conceals a great many mysteries, secrets, answers to questions from historians, linguists, logicians, mathematicians, chronologists, scientists and cultural figures …
It is unlikely that we will ever discover all the hidden knowledge contained in the sacred texts. The esoteric Logos was created thousands of years ago and, hidden in the Bible, it is only reliably preserved in it. For Man, the main thing that the Bible carries is the possibility of a personal conversation with God. To feel His Love and cherish in our hearts our Great Orthodoxy, in which sparks of love glimmer, laid many, many thousands of years ago by our distant ancestors.
Victor PLOTNIKOV