What is Hesychasm? - Mystical Practice in Orthodox Christianity 

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That is what true Christianity is, my sister in Christ. God bless you.

You should be looking for salvation, not what the women are wearing ..

@tylerkessler4021 You should be seeking salvation not caring about what people write online...

Yes I think that's a very good point. Same way a cat can't comprehend quantum mechanics (probably) so we surely can't fully understand God, at least in this life.

Just leave your brain at the door!

@@garyl8356 Recognizing our cognitive limitations equals not using our brains? Someone's narcissism has got the better of him, methinks.

I love the way you think

@@garyl8356 your "brain" is not only your faculty of reason. And to "know" something is to catagorise it and God cannot be catagorized, and your base faculty of reason doesn't even serve you well in the field of Quantum physics and Event Probability, where we see a clear tendency in Nature toward that which is incalculable, both of which are the creations of God, let alone the Creator Himself... Unity with God sounds better than being able to catagorized Him in some made up human box

Same

Where's the emerald tablet , how can can issue Newton read the emerald in the 16th century and dead in the 17th century and there's no emerald tablet in the 21st, Where's it at ?

They didn't forget them, they were pagans and heretics from the start. In other words, either protestants. Also the Catholics of the Novus Ordo (Vatican 2) are same as protestants

What if the whole Christianity is a wrong path. What's your plan B?

@@whatislifebuttheenjoymento3405 The only wrong path is paganism - ALL Abrahamic religions are valid and true (except from the protestants and reformers in all faiths). There is only plan A period

Have fun navel-gazing

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May God bless you and Mary keep you in your vocation. And may East and West soon be reunited!

From one lie to the next line. Repent to be born again!

Why bother? Are you supernatural?

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Exactly

seriously, this ☝️

I, and I’m sure many others, would be absolutely delighted if he did a podcast!

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Jesus shall forgive you for your sins, therefore you are free to commit them to your hearts content. Amen.

@@xianseah4847 What motive do I have to act morally then, if I will be forgiven?

Jesus appeared to people. Jesus is God. He is the part of the trinity that is seen, so why was there ever controversy?

@@jmanderson84 non-trinitarians believe that Jesus is a literal son of God and thus a literal different being.

Big fan of Dostoyevsky and currently getting deep into russian culture. I am pleased my the timing of this video and your comment. Thank you.

Sounds very similar to Eastern Vedic mysticism that states the "student" requires guidance from a spiritual teacher / guru before Enlightenment can even be approached.

@@raminybhatti5740 It is.

First time I've heard introspection can cause mental illness 🤣

@@leminjapan more like the silence, relative isolation, and extreme mental rigor. It's not for everyone.

@@palanfuiniel well put. I wish you the best on your path

Clarifying ✓ Little opportunities exist, as there are very few bases/Churches of the Orthodox in the Western World, for learning of and understanding the Orthodox Religions. Many here see them as part of the Christian Religion and it as 1 with various interpretations. The Roman Christian Religions being the greater root of the Western Catholics and Protestants. It has required a journey through History, largely dependant on other Researchers and their interpretations of early Texts, the Sumerian Cuneiform Tablets, and Letters of the era, to gain a general concept of the more true History of Yeshua/Jesus and the relative stories. It is a subject with almost no resources available to 9ne interested in having the clarity of the Historical Records and Facts. The larger scope being that Constatine and his Priests really edited the earlier form of Christian Beliefs and basically established a wholly different Religion, one easily Marketable to Rome practicing Pagans, for his goal of establishing a "1 State/Empire Religion" (and its benefits for managing and controlling the Public). Beth Bartlett Sociologist/Behavioralist and Historian

​@@bethbartlett5692 I get that sense as well based on my research and observation of the church in history. The church/state union brought about by Constantine for the sake of political control and unification of the Roman Empire has altered the course of the church ever since. It's influence on a major segment of the church, has led to a leaning towards the desire for political dominance, strong hand tactics, tyranny and an attraction to and sympathy, and willingness to embrace and cooperate with fascism over the course of history. This explains a lot.

Superstition that's all this is

@@TheGuiltsOfUs If that's your belief, that's for you. Be well :)

Sorry, but you have yet to find it.

@@solelysoul8543 Are you sorry...? Or just feel threatened by others belief? Hope you find what you're looking for bud.

@@TheGuiltsOfUs Then why are you here?

Me too brother! I’ve been going to an Orthodox Church for 3 months now and I feel at home. Christos Anesti!

That’s because you are probably under 30 and from USA 🇺🇸 ,, here in Central America even the mass was done in Latin still in the early 70’s

@Reino de Hiperbórea very smooth! I am blessed with a wonderful community, everyone is so lovely at my church

Its roots is an explicit rejection of Platonism. We have battled against Platonic heresies since the beginning.

@Reino de Hiperbórea Yes Hellenism is the source of many of the earliest major heresies and that we battled through our ecumenical councils.

the only wrong thing with catholic church not their followers is manipulation ,the only wrong aproach ,welcome brother or sister Amin

What kind of hermit use internet and you tube?

You surely don't know the various Eastern Catholic churches.

Are you really not aware of say the Byzantine Catholic Church? The Maronite Catholic Church? Etc. I’ve been to both and receive the best of both Western and Eastern Catholicism.

Visited several times father Gabriel Bunge - and he too felt out of place among the Roman Catholics.....

Your comment resonates with me. I am an American Christian but I stumbled upon this Hesychasm before I knew it was a thing. I find myself quieting the outside and seeking Jesus and thinking on the encounters with God until another one happens. Do you mind telling me more?

Why do you think God puts us through dry periods?

@@ruthimegi5556is it he who’s putting us there?

As long as you keep referring to an external god, there is no gnosis.

There nothing kind or merciful about any of it. God rips everything away from you anyway and leaves you with whatever he decides to give back to us. I'm not of the opinion that groveling and licking boot is going to do anything except make God disgusted with us.

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Where are you from brother?

@@Igor-my6ml Orthodox Albanian brother

I'm sick of seeing comments that start with, "as a fill-in-the-blank, I think filling the-blank"

@@TheAncientLight hello from Orthodox Serb 👋

SHHHHHH!

“Silence is the Cross upon which we must crucify our Egos” ~St. Seraphim of Sarov

" Be still and know that I Am"

then how the hell can you worship GOD in truth and spirit if you never say a thing?what you are saying is for us to just shut the hell up and obey

It’s probably better for mysticism than Christian pop for having a legitimate one, but spirituality should never be subjective.

That is interesting.

That is beautiful. Many people can't get there without psychedelics.

That sounds like the end result was luciferic extremity. Something doesn't want you to do it again. You can channel your thurgic fields, chakras, chi, 3 crowns, spirit and soul, all these are based on 3 becoming 1. Chakras has a kundalini version that is activating all 7 chakras. You are at purity of 7 of God, 6 seraphims surround the 1. Seven. 12 is of jehovah jirah, for his Disciples. 9 is actually seven because his trinity 1 in 3 and we lost the set key. So everything is of manifold, we'd basically have a higher beginning number. Based 12, this stuff is hidden from us because other want power. As we fold in, we actually bloom out. This is natural law, and doesn't take but a thought to understand. I had a 5 level activation 4 days ago so everything but my 2 above. It made me quake the room creaked I heard knocks on my door. Look at every huge company. Toyota,7 GMC 3, Nintendo is of 8. So it's actually very terrae (earth) so is made by us. We are all God's. Don't deny the beauty God gave you.

@gracerenda640 psychedelics is a trick. No you have to go through it. I wrote something above this. I have learned more in 4 years than everything I've learned my life about anything and everything.

Yes....that is what I believe to be the experience of something Transcendent. Don't fear it.... Transcendence is our natural 'state' when we purely attempt to simply know or act without selfishness. I honestly think you don't need to delve into a lot of specifics, technicalities or bend yrself out of shape with mental gymnastics written by 'other people' - that is their reality. Your reality is uniquely 'yours'. Drop words & concepts and go with your heart's purist intentions (spirit, the essence of something). You will be amazed. Small things, sometimes imperceptible at first, happen and then understanding just starts to flow. I try to stick to things that can apply equally universally - never something that puts one thing/person above or in conflict with another. So I never pray for someone to 'win' (as in sport or war) as that is fundamentally 'a house divided' and not universal good to all parties. Whatever the state of yr intention or 'being' at that time, will determine the nature of your experience. I would not, for example, try this when I am traumatised or deeply upset. It is very likely you will 'magnify' that state of being or experience. We are told to be either 'neutral' in emotions (such as the Buddhist meditation practices') or to be 'joyful, grateful & loving'. In being able to be 'that' in intention & experience and pray for yrself equally as for others - so if you are depressed, find a moment that was extremely joyful in your memories, feel those emotions and see everyone equally as joyful, at peace, having abundance, etc. When we focus on our own needs we resonate a frequency/spirit of lack. But we don't necessarily feel all people 'lack' a particular thing. Therefore when we focus on an essence & extend it to all equally, not only does a power relating to a Universal condition kick in for everyone, but your own state is altered & magnified by the size of the vision you engage with. Then weird negative experiences are so much less likely to happen. Your state of mind & heart (intention) will have blocked that possibility entirely. Our experience is quite literally on the identical frequency we enter the meditative intent/purpose in. But magnified, because we are 'engaging' with it powerfully. We are told in so many different cultures how to meditate/pray. That is: Neutrally With a pure & joyful heart Gratefulness for what is, or rather as if what you are praying for already exists.

You are not going anymore ?

Although the video was posted posted a year ago, I am pretty disappointed why you left out Ethiopia and Eritrean orthodox from oriental group. Major fallacy. The only difference is that Ethiopia is black.

It's almost if they purposely ignore it.

@@otundetchagala9560 yes. Along with many other things.

@@otundetchagala9560 I suspect the Catholic Church and its obvious influence in the west.

@@Gizziiusa Or the Cold War.

Still very mainstream compared to the oriental orthodox churches. Coptics, Armenians, Ethiopian and Syriac church are almost forgotten

It’s true. I grew up evangelical and converted to orthodoxy when I was 18. My parents(especially my father) still have a very hard time understanding anything I say and like to draw comparisons to other religions. Like prayers ropes he wants to claim is stolen from Hindus or some nonsense

All the churches are corps. Supposed to be the living body of Christ, but instead are corporations, dead paper fictions. They all have Bank accounts, not lock boxes and treasurers and are under commercial tax benefit status from the state. Pretty much every church is an extension of Rome(the Federal State). None are following scripture, this is the great falling away.

@@FarmersAreCool I think you forgot the part in the video explaining the split with rome and the East

@@___-_____- I'm talking about North America. In order to be a Christian Church you gotta be in line with the new testament. OTherwise you end up a place of business/den of thieves and are not a church at all. THe only expression of Love on this Earth is through proper expression of charity, the church has been disordered from being properly organized around the Cross . All nations are functioning on Roman Civil law/commercial code. Legal marriage has Rome as Third party, not God. National birth/berth certificates with debt liened against our Christian names that we neither benefits from nor incurred make a Man is neighbours slave unless we properly observe the law of the land in our dealings with each other. THe state has usurped the church over the last 150 years or so of global communism/satanism rollout. Don't unfairly burden your neighbour, nor incur debt at his expense through government. Rome Runs all commercial law/code. Like this unlawful covid rollout.

@@FarmersAreCool I tried telling them that as a kid, but it didn't work out great.

It is the true faith sometimes God has to remind us of these things.

I feel like Catholicism makes us worship the Church first, not God.

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orthodox LOVE to say the papacy is a medieval invention.. until you cite dozens of pre schism fathers, theologians, saints, and monks that taught roman authority and cited Matthew 16.

@@33jwill3 YES! it's very legalistic

You have a great son

Yes. You're very lucky.

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You have a wise child. Well done.

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I agree my aunt was a catholic nun but she mentioned the apocrypha, the dead sea scrolls, and the research she did with hesychasm. I was too young to understand it but I remember her having a calm demeanour that I've only ever seen from people who have alot of experience meditating, usually in a zen or buddhist style. She also spent alot of time with a sect of european nuns in Colombia whos practises where very different from typical catholic guilt trips and hellfire. When she lived in the US she was amazed out how miserable the typical christian behaved in their day to day life. Everything seemed to her preformative and kind of like people where just ticking boxes to be part of a team. Anytime I've ever mentioned any of this to a christian they found it blasphemous and became offended. They don't seem to have any piece of mind or calmness that she had. I'm not religious myself but I can appreciate meditation and contemplative practices for their contribution to mental clarity and ultimately to treating people and yourself in a better way. I hope soon these contemplative practices of gnostic christianity return to prominence in place of the evangelist and guilt based movements that dominate the west and particularly the United States.

i disagree on behalf of my mormonism. however i was lead astray due to church politics and homophobia.

100%

@@funknotik before gnostic Christianity returns to prominence, Christianity will have to tackle and reverse the forced conversions. It is like a second original sin, committed by the church.

@@kyll5552 interesting that you use the term " lead astray". Sounds like a bit of guilt there. Indoctrination is a strong form of brainwashing and hard for some to shake off

Sounds like you've fallen into great delusion.

@@severiusbrandusa1413 I suppose I could see why someone would think that

@@bigbrownhouse6999 I don't just think it but I know this to be true. You don't know the LORD God of Israel and the Father of the Lord Christ Jesus. Neither do the Protestants, Catholics, Orthodox, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, or any other so-called "christian" denomination. They are all an abomination and against the LORD God of Hosts. Meditation is to think about the word of God with sincerity and diligence, not sitting in a yoga position and emptying your mind and focusing on the self. You're lost, bud.

@@severiusbrandusa1413 Who knows the Lord then?

@@severiusbrandusa1413 okay so every Christian denomination is wrong except for you? How is that?

Orthobro spotted, who must go

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Orthodox seems cool I wanna read your books insha Allah

@@malikialgeriankabyleswag4200 inshallah you will let the Holy Spirit guide you

@@neame-bh3uq Are you from Syria brother and can you give me some names of books? But I only worship One God ;)

This sounds like another man made doctrine. What baffles me is several times he states that people that practice this doctrine seek to "become one with God." God has told us how to become one with Him through the Holy Spirit inspired, God breathed scripture. 2 Timothy 3 16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 17 That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. How does one become one with God? The scripture tells us that when a pennetant believer in Godly sorrow repents, confesses Christ as the son of God, and is baptized (baptizo - immeresed) in water for remission of sins it is there he comes in contact with the saving blood of Christ. He is dead in sin upon entering the water, is immersed in the watery grave of baptism, sins washed away (by the cleansing blood of Christ) and rises up out of the water a new creature born of water and spirit. He now is in union with Christ, clothed in His righteousness. He is added by God to the one true church, the body of Christ. Acts 2 (Peter preached the first gospel sermon on the day of Pentecost) 37 Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do? 38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. 39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. 40 And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation. 41 Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls. 42 And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers. 43 And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles. 44 And all that believed were together, and had all things common; 45 And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need. 46 And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart, 47 Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved. Galatians 3 (clothed in Christ's righteousness) 26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. 27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. Romans 6 (baptized into His death) What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? 3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? 4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. Colossians 2 ( Warning against vain philosophies and false doctrine, baptism an operation of God, buried with Christ) 8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. 9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. 10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power: 11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: 12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead. 13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; 14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; 15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

@@dsvet Man made doctrine? Jesus went off into the desert alone to fast and pray for 40 days. That is an example of Hesychasm not only told in the Bible but practiced by Christ Himself. So not man made but an example set by Christ. Matthew 4:1-11 1 Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. 2 After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. 3 The tempter came to him and said, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.” 4 Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God." 5 Then the devil took him to the holy city and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. 6 “If you are the Son of God,” he said, “throw yourself down. For it is written: “‘He will command his angels concerning you, and they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone." 7 Jesus answered him, “It is also written: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.” 8 Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. 9 “All this I will give you,” he said, “if you will bow down and worship me.” 10 Jesus said to him, “Away from me, Satan! For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.” 11 Then the devil left him, and angels came and attended him. Also, what about John the Baptist? Everything about him was Hesychast. He lived alone in the desert and ate only what God provided. He prayed and finally, when God had told him to, he preached and baptized people, including Christ. Hesychasm is about denying passions, prayer and facing your own temptations squarely to overcome them. In doing so you draw closer to God. The Orthodox believe salvation comes only from the Grace of God and is not be earned. Even so we can STILL become closer to God through prayer and reflection. This process doesn't end for Orthodox anymore than it does for you. I am sure you go to Church and Bible Study or at least read the Bible a lot. You also have to think and pray a lot about it. How is that much different than Hesychasm? It isn't.

@@dsvet Another protestant heretic you up a bible and think you are saved

@@dsvetHave you ever stopped and thought “where did my Bible come from?”

@@dsvet That's a cop-out. Reflections on the Good News are not man-made, rather, they're God-inspired.

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Can you explain what the Jesus prayer is exactly?

@@dedezee11 It’s a prayer that has been used by Christian monks that is almost 2000 years old. If you repeat it over and over ( I used to say it about 100 times for many days), miracles will happen. It’s not like they might happen. They will. But any version of the prayer will work. “Lord Jesus Christ, son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.” Or “Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me.” Or “Have mercy on me”. I have personally experienced profound miracles that I cannot attribute to anything else. The priests I spoke with about them validated them and gave great reverence to the prayer.

@ManifestReality thanks. So you say this phrase outloud 100 times a day? Does it need to be said outloud? Miracles WILL happen is a big promise! Curious to know what kind of miracles you've experienced?

@@dedezee11 I said it in my head while meditating. I also used prayer beads to help count. There’s no harm saying it aloud. I had no way to heal at one point in my life. After praying many days, I saw a miraculous vision. When I came out of it, I was healed.

@@JRIVOT1222 physically healed?? That's what I need.

Amazing saints. Also remember a monk is not the same as a married person or lay person. Don’t expect your married priest who works too be like a monk who lives a very different lifestyle. You can be a lay person and practice aescetic disciplines but talk to your spiritual father and he will guide you by the Holy Spirit.

Exactly - you must be Orthodox to practice Hesychasm.

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Yea, more corruption more bullshit

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This is a very clarifying comment, thanks! Language barriers are so confounding, it’s usually a miracle if two people speaking the same language from the same country can really understand each other.

This is a subject to be EXPERIENCED, SELF-REALISED and NOT understood.

Ενέργεια = activity For anyone wonder.

OK. I was thinking these energies sounded like the planets of the Babylonians and the gnostics.

This really much reminds me of Buddhism in a way. Like Pure Land or Zen/Chan Buddhism. Same goals very much.

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Yes, yes and YES. The STILLNESS is the key. This IS bestowed upon one by the Grace of God and is a rare and precious spiritual state to experience. 'Stillness' is more, much, more than simply having a quiet (thinking) mind and feeling (emotions). Stillness is oh, so problematic to define intellectually yet, the 'intellect' is the major tool us humans use to TRY to understand that which cannot be understood by the thinking mind. The state of 'STILLNESS' is a spiritual gift bestowed by God. Wishing to experience this state does not guarantee we will or that state will be given and/or granted. STILLNESS is an experience.

@@Ptah-Tatenen It gets even more complicated in traditions that revere Mahavairocana Buddha

Dr Manhattan from "Watchmen" is an ideal hesychast?

Same here brother I'm only 15 but I study and learn about all types of religions mythologys and the such

*Eastern Roman Theology No such thing as Byzantine.

OMG I abhor confessional polemics...like totally

@@alhassani626 False!! There is no such thing as Eastern Roman Theology. The monikers serve purpose. Stop trying to disparage the fact!!

@@orthodoxrocks9644 Pick up a history book and see when the term Byzantine was coined. And it is called Orthodox Theology not Byzantine Theology. You're barely educated.

@@alhassani626 two things 1. I never called it Byzantine Theology. 2. The Empire indeed was split into East and West. However, no one calls it Western Rome Theology or Eastern Rome Theology. It doesn't make any sense to even group Rome with the other 4 cities that made up the Pentarchy since Rome was the reason for the split! The two Churches are under the appellation: Roman Catholic Church and The Orthodox Church. Yeah, I'm barely educated.....Yawn......

Enoch hid his 36,525 scrolls (the Emerald tablet) in the Ark of the Covenant, which was kept in the Holy of Holies at Solomon's Temple. 36,525 being the number of days in a year times 100, the Egyptian number of perfection. Just like Enoch himself lived 365 years. It's a Zodiac Calendar, just like the one at Gobekli Tepe, and Teotihuacan. He hid those scrolls under a pillars of Gold and Emerald, the only Temple that fits that description is the Temple of Melqart in Tyre, which sat just offshore from Urshu Shalom, City of the New Moon, the root word of Jerusalem. Tyre was an island Fortress, Troy, the base means Rock. The Cross comes from this site, the Cross of Baal, the Phoenican Moon God. There are 13 Lunar cycles in a year, which requires a sophisticated equation in order to synchronize the first New Moon of Spring with the Easter Sabbath. The star Azazel is Helel, in Orion, the Constellation of Osiris, but that rose in the fall, on the Jewish/Pagan New Year because that's when Orion ruled the skies as the God of Storms. The temple of melqart was built when King Ahab married Jezebel of Sidon, she is the same as Sheba, because the entire region had worshipped the Mother of the Mountain for thousands of years, she is Vaticanus, and her son and husband is Vulcan, or Lucifer, Son of Saturn. She is Gaea, her Titan children are the offspring of animals and men who became God's, the Constellations of the Zodiac. They are the Angels and Demons, or Anglos and Daimons, and the Cherubim the cardinal directions. Anglo comes from Ankh, and means to bend, much like Atlantis was beyond the Gates of Gebal, or Gabriel's Alter, Gibraltar, where we find Tartessos, and the oldest Stonehenge on earth, over 7000 years old. The Internal angles of the Star of David are 1440 degrees. 2016 plus 144 is 2160, the length of an astrological age. 86,400 seconds in a day, divide by 2160 equals 40. 1440 seconds is also ten minutes, or a single Megalithic minute of Arc. The exterior angles of a Pentagon are 108 degrees, divide by 40 and get 2.7, a Megalithic yard is 2.72 feet. The Moon completes an orbit of the earth every 27.3 days. 24 times 60 is also 1440, and the internal angles of the Six sided cube are 2160. The interior angles of a right angle Tetrahedron Pyramid are 720 degrees, and the Azimuth of the Standing stones at Carnac is 72 degrees. 72 times five is 360. Or 36 ten day weeks A metonic cycle is 18.6 years, but a full cycle is 19, 19 divided by 7 is 2.714, or 19.2 gives us 2.74. A Megalithic yard was 2.7 feet, a Megalithic Rod was 2.5 Yards, half a Rod is 99.88 cm. The full Metonic cycle is 216 years, divided by 2.7 equals 80, half a metonic cycle is therefore 40. Venus also takes forty years to complete its Pentagonal pattern in the sky, resurrecting after 8 days below the horizon every 584 years. There are 13 lunar cycles in a year, just as the Pyramid of Cheops is 13 Acres square at the base, it is also 186 feet on the slope, and 230 metres (235 sumerian metres/ number of synods in a year) at the base and is 481ft high. 477.9 divided by 2.7 equals 177 Megalith Yards, times two equals 354, plus 11.25 equals 365.25. Where did the 11.25 come from? Why 216 divided by 19.2 of course! That 11.25 is the height of the Phoenix ashes, the days removed by the Metonic cycle in order to synchronize the Equinoxes with the first New Moon, which pretty much all Megalithic sites were designed to observe and measure. It's also why Trumps building is 663.9 feet instead of 666 because it requires that last 2.7 feet to make 666.6, which is what you get from 18.6, 6 plus 6 plus 6, plus .6. 216 is 6 cubed, or 6 times 6 times 6. Did I mention there are 13 hours on the clock? The 12 should really be a 1, until we return to where we started, at 13, just like Jesus and his 12 disciples, or Loki the 13th guest at Valhalla, or Queztlcoatyl and the 13 Butan Calender of the Maya. Incidentally Maia was also the wife of Hephaestus, as in the Phaistos disk, who was King Og, the first Pharoah to unite Egypt, before the Scorpion King. Hephaestus is also the God of Metals, Alchemy, and Knowldge like Thoth, and features in the Greek and Roman Pantheons, as King Oaegrus, adoptive father of Apollo. His son was Theseus of the Labryrinth, who bought the first writing to Greece. His first Palace was next to the Necroplis of El Gebel, same name as the Phrygians Goddess of the Mountain, or the Jezebel of the Bible, Queen Sheba, Wife of Solomon, Queen of Sidon, Daughter of Hiram Abiff. Sidon means Kingdom of the Fish, the Phoenician Symbol for fish is X. Sidon is also the birthplace of Pythagoras, whose parents were told by Pythias of Delphi to expect a son of great importance. The star of David also aligns with 6 key points of the Zodiac, Solomon's Key is the New Year, Samhain, September, Zayim, Serpentis, 13th Sunsign of the Babylonian Zodiac, when Osiris rose in the Night Sky, the Aleph (Ox) and the Omega (Zayin is the last letter of the Phoenician Alphabet, and also means 7). The Heliopolis of Baalbek as well as of Egypt and Karnak etc all housed their own Ark of the Covenant, which was a Sarcophagi of their City's Patron God (Baal) and it is where the Phoenix returned and annointed itself in Frankinscense and Myrrh before self igniting, upon the altar, ie the Pyramid. In Egypt it was called the Benben Bird and looked like a kind of Crane or Stork. Enoch's other name is El Ashmunein, a name for the Moon, or Thoth, the Egyptian symbol for the soul was the Estruscan X inside a circle, they also used a Theta symbol to signify the Dragon Agathos Daimon wrapping around the Earth, just as with the Zodiac. At the center of the Arc created by the 3 great Pyramids lies El Tuna Gebal, much like Pipituna the Phrygian Mother Goddess. At that site sites a well from which tools dating back to the Paleolithic were found. It is the well of memories that Osiris, Odin, and Orpheus drink from in order to pass through the underworld, just as the Phoenix lies at the end of Eradinus, the red river, that leads from Orion's ankle. Oh and the term Anglo comes from Ankh, to bend, denoting their origins in Brittany and Iberia, beyond the Gates of El Gebal, aka Gabriel, aka Jezebel, to the west, just as described in the Bible. That same metonic calendar can be found from India to Greece, Mesoamerica, Hawaii and New Zealand, using all the same starsigns as we do. The Venus statues of old were called Donii, just like one might call followers of Dionysus, whose name means King Isis, Mlqrt was not the Scion of Baal, it is Sheba, the Daughter of Sidon, the Fisher King, Eschmun II., a female deity, presented as riding an Ass and begging for money, just as the Feathered Serpent Ammun, who was also portrayed as an advocate for the interests of the common man. Hence Israel, Saturn, fruit of Isis and Ra, El, El Gebal, El Ashmunein, the Hidden Ptah, Lord of the Zodiac, the Moon. Those same zodiac identities and interpretations can also be found amongst the almost contemporary Megalithic sites from Sth America to Easter Island, and Japan.

@@uncannyvalley2350 tldr

Psychedelics are dangerous and produce demonic experiences that deceive you into thinking you are experiencing God. If you want to draw nearer to God, read the Nee Testament and pray 🙏 to Jesus. In my opinion. God bless you ✝️

That’s pagan garbage

sounds like you may have schitzophrenia

This tradition is big in traditional Catholicism, but now set aside in favour of rationalism, moralism, and social engineering

orthodox LOVE to say the papacy is a medieval invention.. until you cite dozens of pre schism fathers, theologians, saints, and monks that taught roman authority and cited Matthew 16. God built the Catholic Church! I will pray for you

​@christophersalinas2722 90% of the time it's just out of context or anachronistic quotes.

Indeed

There are many Christians who believe that Jesus pbuh was only a human

I feel so cheated by American Christian culture. I think I’m probably converting to Orthodox ☦️

@@pinkfloydguy7781 lol I feel you there, I was raised Mormon so my first interaction with Jesus' teachings was through a protestant/ MLM type church

Loyalty to the establishment was important because Christianity was more interested in world domination, on behalf of vested interests. And least interested in the internal, spiritual development of individuals.

The sentiment of personalized relationship with God seems to me to lead to false praxis and conclusions about God and our relationship to him. It is clear that God established and revealed one Church and one faith to the world. Christ is a King, through the line of David. David gave the keys to the kingdom to his equivalent of a prime minister. Christ, being of the line of David and the fulfillment of the law gives those same keys to St.Peter the first Pope. The Church is a divine institution that God has established, it is also a matter of humility to accept and acknowledge the authority of the Church. It isn't just a matter of "proving your allegiance" to some institution of man, the Church is an institution of God.

@@danielfigueroa6409 religious texts are NOT literal in meaning but allegorical, esoteric. They are not to be understood by logic, reason, rational thinking and scholarship. Or BELIEVED. They have to be EXPERIENCED, SELF-REALISED, taste the honey in the rock. Religious leaders, on behalf of vested interests, MIS-INTERPRETED the scriptures for world domination. Billions have been MISLED, brainwashed, enslaved, deracinated, converted and cruelly controlled or killed because the abrahamic religions, over the last 2000 yrs, have been BELIEVING in their God. Conversions, by aggression and deceit, are going on in full swing in Asian countries, even today. If the gate to heaven is very narrow, inspite of Mathew 15/14, why do we forget the Tower of Babel. Aren't we confused between the kingdom of God on earth, the kingdom of God in heaven and the kingdom of God in our hearts.

I had a dream once where I was a girl, looking out a window at a funeral procession in MONTENEGRO. Always thought: Find out where that is, exactly. Must be some special meaning to this word.

The West also has several saints whose remains appear to be intact.

​@@vaska1999where?

orthodox LOVE to say the papacy is a medieval invention.. until you cite dozens of pre schism fathers, theologians, saints, and monks that taught roman authority and cited Matthew 16.

Only those weird large churches of the US. Western old Christians from Europe have great philosophy.

I have always been told and matches with bible, that having a relationship with God is a personal thing, as someone who was changed for good, by a very spiritual experience 40 yrs ago. Man, however long words he uses can never ever over ride that personal time when God, Jesus, pierced my heart. Love ❤️

What Must I Do To Be Saved? m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DmiH89xWZ0Q.html

The mystical aspect is overblown. Eastern Orthodoxy still hugely emphasises repentance and abstaining from sin, and oppose everything the West loves. It's not something like Buddhism where people take what they want from it and go on their way. Orthodox Christians are huge on staying faithful to God/Jesus.

So you judge a whole society. You are not god. Go pray more.

Aquinas still argued that it was possible to know God analogously, the world as a metaphor for God, which sets aquinas apart from the rest I think. Using Nature we can speak meaningfully about God, the last few hundred years have not been kind to this idea in fact it has resulted in the denial of that God. Nietzsche has a lot to say about these ideas and their consequences.

@@TheGuiltsOfUs While its true that Aquinas held to analogical predication he also held that we cannot know God's nature or essence. In this he was different from the great Eastern Orthodox theologians such as Gregory of Nyssa and Maximus the Confessor who by no means understood apophatic theology to imply equivocal predication.

I believe conceptualization still occurs during the Rupa Jhanas, but not in the Arupa Jhanas. But at that point it becomes very noodley and I won't pretend to be an expert. Also, greetings from a fellow Buddhist!

It's entirely possible someone is mistaking a Jhana experience for God lol! Even the mystic conceptions of God can be dismantled, the reason we don't see much talk of a creator in Buddhist circles.

@@TheGuiltsOfUs Who is to say they are mistaking? Could just be another, equally valid way of understanding it.

As someone who looks at all religions but doesn't follow any at a whole.. I love to see you compare one to another and find the similarities within each group.

@@TheGuiltsOfUs Buddha (Gautama ) was a a Hindu prince. Therefore he already knew of the creator and did not oppose the idea of Brahma.

lol that's why I do this every morning. I start my day by contemplating diverse religious ideas presented in content like this. It helps refine my character and behavior in a way that church always tried to and failed because it was only once a week and, in truth, rather stagnant due to the profound lack of spiritual inertia that Fundamentalism inevitably brings about.

Daniel, church is different than spiritually. Each has it's place and function in our individual as well as collective lives. Look to the spiritual; it's much more rewarding than a bunch of 'rules'. Blessings to you, Danella

@@andythedishwasher1117 what RU-vid channels do you suggest?

@@mirabletest I think Philip would agree Esoterica is excellent. I also frequent Angela's Symposium and Religion For Breakfast. Together, they seem to be doing an excellent job of contextualizing the history of religion and mysticism in light of the current archaeology and pertinent philosophical models.

@@mirabletest I'm sure there are plenty of others I've left out. I hear good things about The Modern Hermeticist, but I have yet to dive deep over there. I'm trying to break out of my Hermetic bubble these days.

heh yep

You got me

Yes but then I stay to hear what he has to say

@@ruthanneperry1623 Oh absolutely.

No.

I noticed that as well it's a shame when people choose to white wash history without giving a unbiased interpretation of events

self absorbed race worshiping africans. The coptic church is not part of eastern or oriental orthodoxy. But you have to make it about duh melanin, don't you?

@@violenceisfun The Coptic Orthodox Church is firmly in the Oriental Orthodox category, the whole reason they exist is their rejection of the Council of Chalcedon. Also, he said literally nothing about melanin. The Ethiopian Church was given special dispensation by the Coptic Orthodox Pope because of their scriptural and praxical peculiarities

That's because the Tewahedo "church" isn't Orthodox but monophysite.

@@lordofhostsappreciator3075 No, they're miaphysites

Yessss. The Way of a Pilgrim. Awesome book. Eye opener

I also return to be active, please explain more about the prayer, I am all ears

@@edwnsoto18 My advice is to go to a quite place and sit in silence. Allow your mind to relax and wonder. And when you are calm speak to God as if he is in front of you. Speak to him about whatever is on your mind. Offer thanks for your blessings. Ask for forgiveness fo your mistakes. Ask him what you have done wrong and what you can do better. Ask if there is anyone you can help. Tell him about your problems and hope's and dreams. Poor out your heart and all your feelings to God.

@@kellharris2491 Thank you so much , really appreciate for the advice, God Bless

@@edwnsoto18 the jesus prayer is very specific

I just finished my 3rd reading of it. Excellent example

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior. Have mercy on me a sinner. Haiku style Jesus Prayer. Praise our Lord Jesus Christ!

What about matt. 6:7? But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

@@sneakybeaver8866 is sincere and constant prayer vain? To be fully in communion with God is to be in constant prayer. It is not the same as saying “om” while meditating, or whatever pagan repetition is being directly addressed here

@@HammerHeadzzz I read it as the repetitive style being vain as the pagans do and his commands are to his followers, not pagans, because they choose not to obey anyway...But I could definitely be wrong, I just started looking into orthodoxy.

orthodox LOVE to say the papacy is a medieval invention.. until you cite dozens of pre schism fathers, theologians, saints, and monks that taught roman authority and cited Matthew 16.