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advising and teaching the others, by a unrecognizable diffusion even
if stolen afterwards.
We find ourselves in the space of a sub-moon, unofficial
and unrecognized culture — apocryphal culture — with prophetical
characteristics, Tradition that cannot be counted as age and
source, maybe even parallel with the second culture, which, being
ratified, gains glory, although it often uses the ignored one and it
marginalizes it by forgetting it. However, we are here in the middle
of what one may call universality of essence, which shows that it
is possible to create at a very high degree of generality without starting
from the paths already confirmed, but by developing one's own
history of values expressed by the fundamental substance that does
not depend on any confirmation or diffusion what so ever.
It is a fable that moves, an apologue that describes this paradox
of the lone path in the „theory of sanctity“ revealed by Dumitru
Stãniloae within these simple phrases full of essence, theory that
simply cannot be rejected no matter what:
"Therefore, all saints are local by way of working together in
a certain place, but they are universal for the universal belief that
they serve in that particular place. From this point of view, there
are no local and universal saints. They are all local for the people
in a certain place to whom they serve throughout their lives by their
actions and by their example, but they are all universal because this
example is valid for the believers all over the world and it gives unity
to all those who get to know them. They all receive the Same Christ
that serves through their bodies and they are all the bearers of the
Same Holy Ghost, even if the Holy Ghost communicating with them
was also expressed in other language. They all belong by the Same
Holy Ghost to the universal Church, who began and continues over
the centuries, comprising different peoples (Acts 2, 3). The languages
are different, but the souls are filled by the Same Holy Ghost“.
We find ourselves in a world that is not defined by „Urbi et Orbi“
but, for a more than adapted and more appropriate expression that
surpasses the indistinctive time, by „Orbi per Urbem“, talking to the
universe through the native language, through the spirit of the place.
January 5, 2005
In the Epiphany night, when the Heavens open.
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