Such a call is contained in an article by Deacon Vladimir Vasilik, Associate Professor of St. Petersburg State University, "Neopaganism as a Project of Western Special Services for the Destruction of Russia"
The article contains an overview of speeches at the conference “Russia and Paganism. Myths and Truth. " The term "paganism" quite definitely covers the image of our ancient praculture, inextricably linked with the ancient sciences, everyday life and, of course, the Old Orthodox Faith. Its name is now adapted to the needs of Russified Christians with religion from Byzantium and philosophy from Jews.
In the text of the article, I single out the main complaints about the so-called "neopagans" contained in the materials of the conference. Each of them corresponds to its own, not far-fetched, but quite objective reality.
1. One of the reports is devoted to the complaint about the "seduction of neo-pagan literature by our youth", allegedly "due to the lack of access to genuine historical knowledge."
Someone, let alone young people, allegedly do not use the Internet and, as it were, do not have access to religious dogmas. Although without social networks in Russian cities and villages, many thousands of centers of the Christian religion are scattered in the most prominent places, attracting parishioners with their external gilding. Here you are always ready to explain to whom and how exactly you need to pray (without bothering with connection with real history and nature).
And this is what is true: a peculiar interpretation of historical events, compiled not without the help of the Church, relieves a modern young person from the desire to study this very history.
2. One of the speakers ranked the Orthodox Rodnovers "and other neo-pagan organizations" as a sect.
This is a strange statement by the author of the article and the speaker A. Popov like him, considering that this applies to everyone who wants to continue the Faith of their Ancestors, to everyone who understands the great significance of the Legacy left for their contemporaries.
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But it is the Church that can give the Orthodox Faith more importance, if it reveals not its forgeries, but truly ancient archives. But this is probably the case when the possibilities do not match the desire.
3. One of the reports highlighted the reasons for the success of the neo-pagans, “which lie not only in the huge funding, but also in the gullibility of the Russian people, his responsiveness to such words as“Ancestors”,“Motherland”and“patriotism,”which is what they buy many.
I would put a dozen or so likes and exclamation marks on this opinion of the speaker at the conference of the candidate of theology I. Bulyko. But as far as funding is concerned, there is an obvious lie: as far as I know, none of the organizers have ever received a single ruble / other funds from the side for events and holidays according to ancient Russian customs. All funds are jointly collected and are exclusively voluntary donations.
But what is true is that a really Russian person is responsive, wants to believe and trust, and this is what a considerable circle of various fraudsters use. Therefore, being in the circle of those close to you in thinking and co-religionists is a joy and a prerogative for everyone who understands the importance of the gatherings held in the ancient Russian traditions.
In this regard, let me remind you of the special relevance for the Russian person of Belief in oneself, in Nature, precisely in His Kin and People, who will not deliberately deceive. This concept corresponds to the Spirit of the Rus and therefore is the basis of Vedic Orthodoxy. It would be wonderful and useful for unity for this feature of the Russian person to be understood by the above-mentioned spiritual "mentors", who continue to impose on us the medieval teaching from the crafty East.
4. “The whole world of spirits: nymphs, dryads, mermaids, bereinas and other“small”spirits” at the conference was referred to as “demonic”.
Knowing the negative connotation of this term, I am surprised at the ignorance of the author of the article and at the same time the speaker. I am surprised at the irresponsibility of views that you do not understand, which is still unknown to modern scientists. The presence of the Subtle invisible World has been recognized since antiquity among different peoples. There are not only Russian legends, but also thousands of years of experience of communicating with these entities (probably having other dimensions). The author, however, prefers to use the absence of scientific evidence (although one cannot suspect the closeness of religions to academic science) for an open outrage against our cultural origins. In this case, the author of the opinion should better look for demons in his cell.
5. Misunderstanding or unwillingness to understand our Gods indicates the inconsistency of the author's statements. So, instead of the presence or absence of the Light of the Great RAMKH, he points to the mythical invented by someone: the Good and the Evil Gods. One gets the impression that a jumble is deliberately created that allows one to draw any of the most ridiculous conclusions, such as a "dual religion" created under the influence of a certain Mani. In my opinion, this is not permissible for a person with a scientific degree.
Roles are scheduled
The conclusions that we once had the assertion that God made a man out of a washcloth, allegedly about bloody sacrifices [1] before the advent of Christianity, about systemic murders of captive men, children and women [2], about fornication [3] and unrestrained drunkenness [4], about the lack of authenticity of the Veles Book.
The opinion is highlighted that the promotion of this book was carried out "it is not excluded that with the participation of American special services."
In fact, perhaps, the State Department returned to us part of its archives - our ancient artifacts (and we can talk not only about the Book of God Veles) in order to season with sauce of terry nationalism (which is present in a number of media and part of the Internet) and further push people of the Race against each other with a friend.
That is, whoever is engaged in the weakening of Russia uses a simple technique that hides real thoughts: some are engaged in discrediting national culture, others are playing out differences in views, others are distorting and highlighting from the general context, the fourth are contrasted, right up to the assignment of not only nicknames, but also summing up any actions under quite specific articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
The external enemy has known for a long time that each separate action does not apply to punishable acts and therefore acts almost openly. Centuries are changing, the formats of intervention are changing, only the hostile orientation of some circles towards the collapse of Russian civilization does not change. In general, there is a continuous test for weakness, which is a real hardening for the Russian people.
So to speak, the roles in the spiritual life for us have been assigned and not at all by us. The only bad thing is that not everyone understands this, at best, preparing themselves only for actions on the battlefield. Therefore, it is so important in today's circumstances not only continuous combat training, but also the return of the institution of Russian Magi and priests.
For the good, not to increase discord
It should be noted here that it is impossible to return these books back. So you need to use this case for the good, like a good ring fighter is able to direct the efforts of the opponent against himself.
The author does not know and therefore does not take into account: the Russian people are characterized by another quality - the striving for Light, Joy, all the best with the use of what is, and not what one would like to have (here you can find the border between Vedic living teaching and religious dogmas).
It is known to every schoolchild: only in the case of national unity will we become stronger. This means that our ancient manuscripts returned to us should not be used to incite hatred between Christians and the so-called “pagans,” but for Unity. And this is quite possible, because in the soul of every Russian person lies a nationality, emphasized by Leo Tolstoy, Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, and other Russian classics.
Genus - People - Nature - Trinity, which forms the basis of all our ancient Orthodox Faith and Vedic culture. Only it is necessary not to attack it, but to understand what it is not the "neo-pagans" who are doing, but the Orthodox Old Believers and Rodnovers. And all this is in contrast to religious fanaticism (and it's good that our youth does not accept it!), Which has its own dogmatic attitudes about nature, people, and tribal traditions.
The Weak Unifying Principle of Christianity
It's funny, those who “for their souls” have nothing Russian except, perhaps, borrowed from ancient Orthodoxy and our Vedic traditions, are determined to fight with us. It was borrowed, since the ideology of Christianity in a number of fundamental points does not correspond to the Vedic worldview of the Rus.
For example, our ancient Polytheism (and the associated absence of a strict hierarchy leading, in particular, to the ugly power of money) does not in any way correspond to Monotheism not only of Christianity, but also of all other religions. Or, for example, the Russians do not, and cannot have, religious dogmas, since we have faith from time immemorial, but not religion, which is not the same thing.
The opinion about the non-Russian basis of Christianity, which does not correspond to national values and about the influence thereby on the undermining of stability in Russian society is confirmed by a number of facts. For example, such as the main focus of Christian prayers on the glorification of alien names and names, on the absence of the dominant glorifications of the Russian Land in frequently used prayers.
It is perplexing that the main sacred place of pilgrimage for Christians, Jerusalem, is located far beyond the borders of our Motherland (it is strange, but the fact that other religions “legalized” in the Russian Federation also “sin” with this, maybe this is the root cause of many of our today's problems ?!).
The weak unifying spirituality of Christianity is also confirmed by numerous historical facts. So, the collapse of Byzantium occurred precisely at the time of the flourishing of Christianity there. Blood and civil strife in Russia began with the period of Christianization, first in Kiev, and then touched many other regions, including Siberia.
The last major bloody event - the Civil War was also not prevented by the dominant and gaining strength at that time state religion. It doesn't matter what this religion is called.
Of course, it's not my business to teach Christians to pray. But I can notice and, probably, must express my opinion, especially regarding the unity of the Russian people.
Afterword to the Conference
In general, there is something to think about after the conference “Russia and paganism. Myths and Truth”and articles by V. Vasilik based on her materials. Only the first thing that is noticed is the deliberate introduction of confusion in the understanding of the term "Good".
One cannot fail to notice the call to "the hierarchy and ordinary Orthodox believers for greater activity, for intense activity against this plague (probably, we are talking about" neopaganism ") of the XX - XXI centuries." Five years have passed since the article was published, I hope the author of the article and the conference participants have changed their militant attitude.
One must really hurry to do good and love one's people, although not stumbling on both feet. Love for your people can work out if all thoughts and deeds are done in a unifying channel. This is facilitated by the timeless Commandments of Our Gods, in particular God Ramhat, one of which bequeaths to the Russians:
- Do not listen to those who say that your neighbor is your thief, but listen to those who say that your neighbor is your friend.
Acting in a unifying spirit, it is important to remember our own traditions and the entire Russian history of many thousands of years. So that it finally becomes successive and be studied with pleasure by young people. This is an indicator of her veracity and, therefore, an indicator of not ostentatious, but sincere love.
When hard times came, all Russian people always united, regardless of religion. So did the examples of national heroes given by the authors in vain: Alexander Nevsky, Dmitry Donskoy, Peresvet and Oslablya, as well as many other unnamed patriots of Russia.
Today we are threatened by coordinated information attacks from Western countries. But they will turn out to be insignificant if there is spiritual unity within the Russian people. Of course, unity is possible not under the guise of an alien ideology, but on the basis of our primordial spiritual roots.
What I call my opponents to
Vedoyar Korneev, community of Orthodox Old Believers "Rhodesvet", Omsk, candidate of technical sciences
[1] Our gods are our ancestors. Outstanding of them left their Commandments, which are revered by all Russians. So, one of the Commandments of God Svarog says: "Do not bring bloody sacrifices to Alatyr, do not anger our Gods, for it is disgusting for Them to accept innocent blood from God's creatures."
[2] One of the Commandments of God Perun: "Do not humiliate the dignity of other people, and may your dignity not be humiliated …".
[3] There were legends in the world about the devotion and loyalty of Russian women to their husbands before the advent of Christianity. The Byzantine emperor M. Tiberius (539-602) said: "The modesty of their women exceeds any human nature, so most of them consider the death of their husband to be their death and voluntarily kill themselves, not counting being widowed for life."
[4] Perhaps only in one country in the world, Russia, there were anti-vodka riots, especially in the 19th century. But representatives of the Church were involved in the fishing of money for the distribution of alcohol among the population. And this was both in the 19th and at the end of the 20th century.