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Reflections Concerning A Recent Article
Reflections Concerning A Recent Article
Early days of the year 2009 have surprised our church life and social field in Romania ravaged
by a new storm stirred up by the wicked acts of the scandal of biometric identification chips. The great
spiritual father of our nation, Father Justin Pârvu from Petru Vodă Monastery has launched an appeal to
all Romanian believers to not receive these arbitrary acts which, although not the seal itself and the
rejection of Christ as presented in Revelation Ch. 13, are clearly for everyone, a stage, both for
apostasy, but also, for those who do not value the sacred, to a total dictatorship over our bodies and our
souls. This message has triggered as expected, a wave of various reactions, from unconditional
adherence to the defamation and rejection as fierce.
Among the reactions posted in what is called nowadays "blogosphere", the field of modern
communication on the Internet, our attention was drawn by hierom. Gregory Sandu’s article titled:
"What's allowed and what is not allowed to a Christian to receive." Since we are still in the realm of
discussion pros and cons and the sobornost consensus, not to mention the position of "official", have
not coalesced into a somewhat unanimous definition, we express (with caution, as a subject still think
retouch!) the agreement with the analysis and the measures envisaged by Father Gregory, whom we
thank with love and gratitude for his edifying contributions.
That being said, we have allowed, with the same love and appreciation, to bring a humble
contribution of this useful article, that does not change as we said the essential of the conclusions
concerning sealing and apostasy, but what comes with something we believe that reinforce these
conclusions: the true confession of cosmology, i.e. the scriptural and patristic. We will therefore refer
to those passages, by asking Father to forgive us for daring this and hoping that he will receive with the
same love the testimony in question. Therefore, we read that:
"Those through are prepared even nowadays the conditions of Antichrist's reign are trying
cleverly to plant, both in the minds of those who believe in science and in the minds of those who
believe in God, the idea that things go naturally and inevitably to this end they desired. Their
demonstration is based on astronomical knowledge converted into astrology, so that all this serve to the
idea that they wish to implant in the mind of men. It starts from the known scientific fact that the North
South axis of the Earth in its movement describes a full cone in 25,764 years."
The astronomy and chronology of the Holly Tradition as the Holly Fathers got and have taught
say something else. These, as it should be known and constantly reminded to the orthodox Christians of
all ranks, lay people and monks was a geocentric/static one, and the age of the world counted thousands
of years, from Genesis to the Nativity are 5508 years, this year 2009 being the year 7517. All these
being impossible to deny and fight within the church, i.e. those who believe, confess and love this Holy
Tradition and the Fathers referred to, results that the North-South axis of the Earth is fixed motionless
in the center of the cosmos/universe and does not describe anything, no Geometric trajectory. Again,
those 25,764 years is a Pythagorean/Platonic meaningless in this reference frame.
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"What's allowed and what is not allowed to a Christian to receive" by Hierom. Gregory Sandu.
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"The speed of precession is thus one degree in 71,5667 years. The heavenly around the ecliptic
(Earth's orbital plane) with a width of 18 degrees is called the zodiac, because here are the 12
constellations through which the Earth goes successively in its yearly course."
We give below some basic explanations of patristic astro/logy/nomy to help clarify the
understanding of this passage:
Given the geocentric model, results that the Sun, the fourth planet from Earth, makes its route
through the zodiac, that band of 18 degrees, 23 degrees inclined to the ecliptic plane.
So, remember that the sun and not the earth is involved in what is called "precession of the
equinoxes."
"After gaining the trust of the people with these claims, strictly scientific and true, they are
getting closer of their goal, by connecting them to the biblical events, in order to win the believers."
Everything crashed with noise: the vernal equinox was in the early days of Creation in the very
Aries zodia! So, those speculations, whether astrology or "scientific and true" are scattering like a
spider web, as well as the father of Gregory had proven.
As well observed by those with spiritual consciousness and awareness, we are witnessing the
dawn the new era, with his "new world order", "golden dream" of some unseen enemy spirits, and put
in practice by people more or less "discreet." This "order" (cosmos) absolutely needs to work for our
depersonalization, which is a terrible attack on the image of God, that are we people. "Image" means
primarily the freedom and thinking (reason), divine and angelical qualities with which we are endowed
from the very beginning, regardless of subsequent falls and their severity2. Obviously the adding these
features gives "freedom of thought", the ultimate freedom, superior to that of action, movement or
expression. Here we can add of course the freedom of belief and conscience, "rights" granted not by
who knows what human bodies, but by the Creator Himself. That's why we Orthodox Christians
confess in unison with the Apostle Paul:
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I am an image of thy glory ineffable, though I bear the brands of transgressions. (The Order for the Burial
of the Dead)
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"All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but
I will not be brought under the power of any... all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not." (1
Corinthians 6:12, 10:23)
Now we are very aware what does the "mark of the beast" mean and how serious are the stages
and steps that go in there. The Devil and his seen and unseen servants, known and unknown, are acting
in attacking these freedoms in the opposite direction: action, movement, expression, the final step will
be the darkened mind, through the new magic, the advanced technology! Hence the significance of the
given signal, confession, and guidelines such as these in the article to which we refer.
We conclude these observations being fully aware that they are extremely difficult to receive by
the most, whereas the teaching of helio/acentric astrophysics comprised the vast majority of mankind in
the last century, being by far the greatest deception of the devil on the knowledge of the visible world
in such a scale. If we remembered the freedom of thought, belief and conscience, here, we express this
clearly in this confession of the true astrophysics. But, truth and light can not stay indefinitely under a
bushel, "the lie has short legs" even if her father struggles with his adoptive sons and ministers to
lengthen them beyond measure, in order if possible to deceive even those elected! Let the Lord have
mercy on us, to enlighten and strengthen us in these days and those to come! Amen.