My understanding of Christianity under the conditions of Modernity...
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Mar 22, 2025
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My understanding of Christianity under the conditions of Modernity are informed by Merezhkovsky, Solovyov, Florensky, & Fedorov.
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Kojeve was deeply immersed in these sorts of authors & that's why no one can understand what he is really talking about in America (& even in France). This is why he held court with Jesuits like Gaston Fessard as well as people like Strauss, Schmitt, Bataille, Aron, etc.
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The Silver Age of Russian letters is informed by the most avant-garde of Euro-American letters, the legacy German Idealism, as well as connection to the Oldest sect of Christianity. If you want Holistic accounts of the turn of the century-- you'll find it here.
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People were reading these at the time-- Merezhkovsky was almost a Nobel prize winner-- he was hated in Russia but read widely outside of it. When he was compared to Tolstoy & Dostoevsky in Western press, the Russian public was so mad that he had to issue an apology.
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The Emphasis on Solzhenitsyn as the "inheritor" of Tolstoy & Dostoevsky is just the hangover psyop of his use by Western Intelligence as agitprop. The gap between the age of Tolstoy & Solezhenitsyn is basically ignored in most western academia still.
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Nabokov inherited this Silver Age tradition-- & I would consider Pynchon an inheritor of Nabokov-- the path from Andrei Bely's Petersburg to Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow is a straight line. A full circle considering "Russian Symbolism" spawned from Poe's Philosophy of Composition.
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Russian Literature is still understood as being of World Historical significance-- but I contend that this is still underrating it. There is not a single country with as deep a roster in literature in such a short period of time-- from the age of Napoleon to the age of Lenin.
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It makes sense though-- if you think about it-- Russia was considered the "dark" feudal world-- & it sat back on its Byzantine heritage while keeping a close eye on the rest of the world. Its "great tsars" like Peter & Catherine were the ones who modernized their state.
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This is where questions of ULTIMATE significance came to the forefront-- one has the Eternal World of Byzantine Feudalism tied to the OLDEST Church-- tied directly to GREEK & not LATIN-- & it is interpreting all of Modernity from this vantage point.
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These are a people who considered the Pope the beginning of Modernity. The Roman centered Catholics wanted to translate the Bible into Latin-- & this was a "modernization" that the Orthodox simply said No to. & Greek was lost as a language in the West due to this, for centuries.
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In an odd twist-- from our vantage-- the reintroduction of Greek due to the Islamic conquest of Constantinople-- is the foreground of OUR modernity-- but in a different sense-- this could be a RETURN to tradition-- that's our schizophrenia. The Russians understood this.
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This Sophianist "Third Testament" disclosed in History in a Hegelian dialectic of the unfolding Trinity in World History is predicted by none other than William Blake. Of course-- this is not liked by *any* sect of Christianity as it existed then or now.
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The Atlantic-Anglo is the Avant-Garde of History-- Russia is the Reactionary Defense-- the Alpha & the Omega of Modernity here-- so Continental Europe is the "translator" or "carrier" of this dialectic back & forth. It is only when we can embrace each other as brothers...
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There is so much to this...
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Uh like y'know "Zembla" in Nabokov's Pale Fire...
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It's funny cuz in the Conspiracy Cosmology community recently "Tartaria" has become this ideal of a Golden Age-- it's also what Nabokov calls Russia in his alternate-world novel Ada (his best work). I think Americans have a deep longing for incorporating Russian wisdom.
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The Mythological "Tartaria" is the shadow of our repression of incorporating Russia into our self-conceptions on a World Historical level-- the Iron Curtain fell, the "Cold War" ended (& they're trying to keep it going rn)-- & only now do people sense that they need to get it.
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I personally felt this from a young age-- I was always absolutely fascinated by Russia-- in my podunk little town our maps still said USSR-- it's been an obsession of mine from a very young age-- & I think it has provided me a more holistic vantage of World History tbh.
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I unironically think that the soundcloud rap boom with Lil Peep having cyrillic subtitles on his videos etc was a foretelling of this-- "Eurasianism" is still not right. It's more "Post-Europeanism" that would be proper-- but we're still fucked over by the British Empire smh.
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I think late-millens/early-zoomers are more interested in understanding Russia than the older generations. This is good. I hope someday we can truly complete the system of German Idealism & reconnect Siberia with Alaska. An age of Peace-- the Atlantic center becoming the Pacific.
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There's a whole lot more to this history than anyone will teach you in the West
angelfire.com/ny4/djw/luther…
angelfire.com/ny4/djw/luther…
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Like-- imagine if the Protestant Reformation had become "German Orthodoxy"
orthochristian.com/61852.html
orthochristian.com/61852.html
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Lots of the "heretics" under Catholic dominion would have been graciously invited by the Orthodox-- Pelagius is an interesting case of this especially-- because Augustine has no hold over the Orthodox.
shamelessorthodoxy.com/2016/03/14/pel…
shamelessorthodoxy.com/2016/03/14/pel…
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Recently I have been thinking much of the "Celtic Orthodoxy" that existed prior to Catholic conquest via Saint Patrick (who was NOT the first christian in Ireland by a LONG shot). I truly think Orthodoxy would be better capable of coordinating Christendom than the Vatican.
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So-- if I'm ever going to "convert" officially to anything-- it's Orthodoxy or nothing. Until we have a real Orthodoxy viable in the West, which can understand the developments of Christianity in time (as Merezhkovsky did)-- I will remain outside the folds-- in the desert.
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Just imagine a sort of Cosmist Orthodoxy in which we are all brothers working for the immortality of all & the resurrection of all the dead to life while seeding life across the universe tho... Orthodox Futurism. Antiquity & Modernity wedded finally.
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That's the real "Universal Homogenous State"-- if we understand Orthodox humility as when the Patriarch responded to Lutheran inquiries with the following:
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This is why Kanye, despite being sucked into the Bourgeois Protestant Satanism to a degree-- in posting orthodox icons all day-- is truly prophetic.