Spiritual Practice - I. LAMA
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He said to me, "Don't seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at hand. He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He who is holy, let him be holy still. – The real world is divided into two poles. There is a type of people who have reached civilized maturity, but spiritually degraded. And there is a part of people who lead the right life, engage in spiritual practice, sincerely think about spiritual growth. So the predicted time is near. It is possible that the moment of reading the true interpretation of Revelation coincides with the moment of the second coming (on a white cloud with a golden crown).
"Don't seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at hand." – Don't seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at hand.
I, Jesus … – from this point to the end, the style of the text of Revelation becomes different, not the same as before. This is strange, should be alarming, like a later postscript. The procedure for witnessing by Jesus is not described anywhere, while the procedure for transmitting a message by God is described in sufficient detail. John talks only with the Almighty and his angels, and he records all this in detail. But John does not have a conversation with the Lamb: John only observes the actions of the Lamb and fixes them, writes down everything that he sees, as in a film. Therefore, the appearance of Jesus suddenly, for no apparent reason, from nowhere, is strange.
This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, who testified to God's word, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, about everything that he saw (ch. 1). – The underlined is a late addition. In Revelation, one can notice such a feature that the Lamb himself never addresses John. That is, only the Almighty and his Angels conduct a dialogue with John. Therefore, it is not difficult to feel the dissonance in the phrase "testified to the testimony of Jesus Christ". (Did it occur to anyone to witness the testimony of the testimony?) Firstly, because there was no such evidence further down the text. And secondly, because these underlined inserts destroy the semantics of the sentence: the phrase "Revelation of Jesus Christ" is in itself a dead end, has no further textual semantic development. "Revelation to Jesus", and show the servants. "Elderberry in the garden, and uncle in Kyiv". Why does Jesus need to receive Revelation from God when John receives Revelation directly? Obviously, in the original version it was like this: "The Revelation of John, which God gave him to show His servants what should be soon. And He showed it by sending it through His servant John, who testified to the word of God and what he saw."
«The Lamb is the New Testament Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the Savior from the past» – there is no such statement or anything similar anywhere in the text of Revelation. Although a lot of other similar important things in the text of Revelation are repeated many times. Whenever someone says or addresses something to John, John always points it out: who is speaking. Nowhere in the text of Revelation is there a place where John directly testified that Jesus Christ would have spoken to him. In the same way, nowhere in the text of Revelation is there a place where John would testify in plain text that the Lamb would speak to him. That is, the events that happen to the Lamb are described from the outside, but there is no dialogue with the Lamb himself. This means that the Lamb himself acts as a character in events, but not as their author. It also says that that at this moment (2022), personally, the Lamb himself, for the most part, is still poorly aware of the general plan of salvation. That is, the Lamb has yet to become fully acquainted with the plan of salvation in the future.
In the era of the absence of true law, the generally accepted does not coincide with the true. An interpretation with which no one will argue, and an interpretation striving for the true meaning, then obviously contradictory aspirations. It is not for nothing that it is said: "go through the narrow gates, for wide gates lead to hell". This interpretation does not deny others and, in particular, the canonical one. As this is a divine message, it is quite normal that the message has many readings, and it is quite normal that these meanings can change in different eras. The general principle of interpretation can be formulated as follows: the text is addressed to the one who is currently reading this text.
Part 3. Promised Communism
Methodological approach
Introduction to the problem
Communism itself is a good, kind, most promising social formation. This formation has an unconditional future. However, at the present moment the theory of communism is hopelessly outdated. It has not changed for three centuries. There are significant flaws in this theory. This theory needs to be revised and updated. It is necessary to correct mistakes, it is necessary to make changes in connection with the experience already carried out. In the form in which this theory of communism exists now, it is no good. With such a theory, no communism can be
