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AllatRa by Anastasia Novykh
during the final stages of the initial period of formation of a new Personality. It is
assumed that starting from this age, a child already must be consciously responsible for
his actions.
Rigden: Similar echoes of the old knowledge are recorded by different peoples…
Anastasia: You once mentioned that in early Christianity, the true repentance was
called with the Greek word metanoia (the word is given in the English transcription),
which means “after the mind”, “rethinking”.
Rigden: Absolutely. This is a spiritual and moral transformation of a person, which is
better facilitated by not the external ritual action but a deep perception and
comprehension of your own spiritual nature at the level of feelings. Why does this
religion say that God forgives any sin if man has the true feeling of repentance? Because
all this realisation should take place, again, at the level of deepest feelings, sincere faith
and appeal to God. If a person decided to live differently, took a serious approach to his
self-education in the spiritual direction and does that, then he really begins to change.
His attitude to his past also changes because he rethinks his life, and progress appears in
having good thoughts, actions and deeds in the present.
Anastasia: Yes, for Buddhists this is perfection in zeal, producing thoughts directed
towards enlightenment and fight with their selfish desires. For Sufi Muslims, this is a
stage when the seeker of God must finally part with his attachments and desires…
Rigden: That’s right. And if we look at the Christian sacrament holy communion
(eucharist; from the Greek word “eucharistia”, in which “eu” means “good” and “charis”
is “mercy, grace”), then we can also see the the symbolic reflection of one of the stages
of spiritual self-perfection, which is shared by other religions as well. The Eucharist is
the main ritual of the Christians service (the Divine Liturgy), mass, divine service,
during which disciples are symbolically given communion in bread and wine. In
Christianity, this sacrament symbolises communion with God, gratitude, finding unity
with the Almighty, admission to the Divine, to the Love of God. It is no coincidence that
early Christian authors call the Eucarist the “medicine of immortality”, “the medicine of
life”. It is believed that deeply believing people during the worship service (reading the
prayers) can “mentally observe the heavenly service”, in other words, deeply enter into
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