"Everyone imagines that if they go run away from civilization they will become St Anthony the Great or St Seraphim of Sarov; because they forget that Anthony's equal was a cobbler living in the slums of Alexadria, and the prophet Daniel lived a sinless life in Babylon in the employ of the wickedest king alive on the earth.
The problem is YOU, not your circumstances.
And as long as you think you can change human nature by changing circumstances, you're not "trad." You're a liberal, no matter what you call yourself."
Anonymous Orthodox Priest
The problem is YOU, not your circumstances.
And as long as you think you can change human nature by changing circumstances, you're not "trad." You're a liberal, no matter what you call yourself."
Anonymous Orthodox Priest
10.... For she was the first to teach mortal humans to be craftsmen
in making war-chariots and other things on wheels, decorated with bronze.
And she it is who teaches maidens, tender of skin, inside the palaces,
15 the skill of making splendid pieces of craftsmanship, putting it
firmly into each one’s mind [phrên]. -Homer Hymn to Aphrodite
Enoch 8
1 And Azazel taught men to make swords, and knives, and shields, and breastplates, and made known to them the metals of the earth and the art of working them, and bracelets, and ornaments, and the use of antimony, and the beautifying of the eyelids, and all kinds of costly stones, and all 2 colouring tinctures. And there arose much godlessness, and they committed fornication, and they
in making war-chariots and other things on wheels, decorated with bronze.
And she it is who teaches maidens, tender of skin, inside the palaces,
15 the skill of making splendid pieces of craftsmanship, putting it
firmly into each one’s mind [phrên]. -Homer Hymn to Aphrodite
Enoch 8
1 And Azazel taught men to make swords, and knives, and shields, and breastplates, and made known to them the metals of the earth and the art of working them, and bracelets, and ornaments, and the use of antimony, and the beautifying of the eyelids, and all kinds of costly stones, and all 2 colouring tinctures. And there arose much godlessness, and they committed fornication, and they