The Spirits' Book

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We want to start our discussion today. As I said, this is an episode about laying the foundations for the rest of what this show is going to be. By the way, we’re going to be on twice a month, so the second and fourth Thursdays of the month. It’s not exactly fortnightly, because occasionally there’s going to be five Thursdays in a month, but it’s going to be the second and fourth Thursdays of the month. That’s when you’re going to be able to tune in live, and it will be available as a podcast for those of you who can’t tune in live for whatever reason—your timezone is halfway across the world, or you have something going on. One last note on this question—hopefully that’s thorough enough—one last note on this question, because I think it’s important. What we mean when we say that there is one true God, what it means to be a true God, because I think what we hear as modern American Christians, when you hear “true God” is: “Oh, he’s the one that exists, and the other ones are fake.” Fr. Stephen: Elohim is used to refer to any spiritual being, so it’s used to refer to God, the true God; it’s used to refer to “the gods,” the same word, elohim; and now to really freak people out, I have a couple of examples where it’s even used for deceased humans. The first one, and the one that might freak people out less, in 1 Samuel 28:13.In the past few years, a lot of things have really opened my eyes to whole parts of Orthodox tradition that are there and that are often staring us in the face, but that we’re often not paying attention to. I’ll just give one example. So you’re probably going to hear us talk a lot about what we’re going to call spiritual geography. Where is paradise, where is the underworld, the mountain of God, Hades—all this kind of stuff. One of the things, one of the teachings that’s actually preserved in the Orthodox Church and has been handed down for many, many centuries but that I—I’ve been an Orthodox Christian for 25 years now—that I never actually paid attention to. So if you’d come up to me and said, “Does the Church teach this?” I would be like, “Uh… I’ve never heard that.” Fr. Stephen:“Lord of Spirits” is one of several titles that’s ascribed to God in the Enochic literature, which is the various books of Enoch as well as other books like the Apocalypse of Abraham and the Book of Jubilees and a few other texts in the Dead Sea Scrolls. “Lord of Spirits” is mostly used in the second portion of 1 Enoch, or the Book of Enoch, which is called the Book of Parables. The reason it’s used there is that it’s a title for God that describes his relationship with the other spiritual beings whom he created. It’s a way of referring to God in relationship to the heavenly hosts, the divine council, some of these other concepts that we’re going to be talking about a lot, not only in this episode, but in a bunch of episodes, and I’m sure in people’s questions. Who is like you, O Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, majestic in holiness, awesome in glorious deeds, doing wonders? Fr. Andrew: Yeah, right, sure! I mean, Mt. Hermon, we’re going to talk about the divine council over and over and over and over again on this show. So what does Mt. Hermon have to do with all of that then. In a nutshell. I know.

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The Spirits’ Book ” was published in 1857 and marks the official birth of Spiritism , a spiritualist philosophy. It is the result of extensive research by Allan Kardec and others on a series of seemingly unexplained phenomena taking place during the 1850s in Paris — and a significant milestone in the field of human thought as it more clearly unveiles the relationship between the physical and spiritual realities. Chapter 10 (Occupations and Missions of the Spirits) is an essay by Kardec on the different reasons why high spirits interfere with the world. The Deer of Cernunnos ( Jek-Kookan to the Wendigo/Uktena and Kerdh-Dhue to the Get of Fenris, Kerheist)So the next line is describing this relationship that we’re discussing. Go on. What’s the next one? There’s not a way to get around the fact that he says he will bring him to the gods. In the Hebrew, there’s a definite article, the word “the.” So you can’t say, “Bring him to God.” It’s “the gods.” And St. Jerome translated this just woodenly literally. If you look in the Vulgate, he has dei; it’s just the plural of god: “bring him to the gods.” He just translated it directly from the Hebrew. The Greek is interesting, because the Greek says that you should “bring him before the court of God.” Fr. Andrew: You don’t want to be. You don’t want to be superstitious. That’s not the same. We’re not teaching people how to be superstitious well. [Laughter] That’s not what we’re doing. Fr. Andrew: Maybe. Right, exactly, because that’s one of the things that’s going to be going on. I’m ready to be corrected. I’m ready to learn. But I’m ready to say that good angels cannot be killed by bad angels, because they don’t have mortal bodies. Am I correct in that? We do have an episode we’re going to be talking about spiritual bodies in the future, but this is not it.

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That’s just one example of something that’s just right there in our tradition and kind of staring you in the face, but unless you’re oriented toward paying attention to it, you’re probably just going to skip over it, not really even know that it’s there. So if someone were to say to me, “If you could say in a nutshell, what is this show about?” it’s about talking about especially those things that are right there in the Bible, right there in the Church services, right there in the Church Fathers but that maybe we’ve never noticed or we didn’t know what to do with it so we just kind of skipped over it, or maybe it was hidden behind a translation issue and we just didn’t know because we didn’t read the original languages. And sometimes these are really kind of important issues. It’s not just obscure little things like: “Oh, that’s neat”; it’s really important kind of issues for your spiritual life. It’s interesting, and it also comes in if you’ve ever gone to Great Compline, which we especially serve during—at least in our tradition—Great Lent. But it shows up, of course, at other times of the liturgical year. There is a hymn in there called “Lord of hosts”: “O Lord of hosts, be with us, for we have no other help in times of sorrow but thee.” Which in the Byzantine tradition is just a wonderful, big, throaty kind of manly hymn. But what’s interesting is that in Greek it’s: “ Kyrie [ton] dynamaeon, Lord of powers,” but it means the same thing. I mean, isn’t that just simply the Septuagint translation of “Lord Sabaoth,” right?

This question kind of refers to I guess any physical geography and the correlation it has to heavenly events and places. But what is it about Mt. Hermon that makes it a recurring physical place for events of such cosmic significance? Fr. Stephen: Right, and that’s why we reiterate that in the Creed, that Christ is true God. It’s not just that he’s god, that he’s divine, but that he is true God. He exercises the same authority. Alicia is commissioned by the government to find Don Mauricio Valls, culture minister in the Franco administration, who has disappeared mysteriously. Valls is a writer and book collector, whose own secret library includes the rarest works. The solution to the mystery of the politician will in turn resolve the facts about the fictions of Carax, Martín and Mataix, and the later life of Daniel Sempere.

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Fr. Andrew:“Um, actually…” Exactly! Everyone, get out your animated gifs for that! We today, Christians today, we are monotheists. That’s the way we talk about it, and we’re not polytheists. So there’s the idea that we worship the one, true God, and those pagans, they worshiped many gods. But that, if you listen to the beginning of what we were talking about tonight, you know that that’s not the image that the Bible depicts. It uses the word “gods” to refer to all kinds of beings and doesn’t see a problem with using that same word to refer to the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, the one true God. “The one true God,” the phrase that we use, that doesn’t mean that that’s the only being we use the word “god” to refer to, because the Bible doesn’t do that.However, other oddities for a non Spanish-speaker include the report that, one morning before dawn, a character “descended on” his “unsuspecting” partner and “showered her with one of his morning love specials”. In translation at least, it’s unclear what’s going on, but it doesn’t sound good. That is not the only moment when suspicion rises that Alicia, Zafón’s most substantial and pivotal female character, is an attempt to balance an occasional strain of queasily antique machismo in his writing. Fr. Stephen: That the other ones are made up. But remember what we were saying earlier in our discussion. The idea of being god is the idea of exercising authority and dominion and reign. So God is the one true God. He is the one who truly holds all authority and power and dominion over the entire creation. Anyone else who has any authority or power or dominion has received it from above, has received it from him, or they don’t have it. Fr. Andrew: That is a good and a very… That’s a great question and I think really important, because, if you look at the baptismal service, we ask God in the course of that baptismal service to assign a guardian angel to that person. We don’t say that because we just want to say it; we believe that that happens. We don’t ask God for things that we don’t think are going to happen, especially in services like baptism. Angels are assigned to us to guard us, to help us. For Yahweh, your God, is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who is not partial and takes no bribe.