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b.Rose1970.md
1 --- 2 aliases: 3 - The Orthodox Survival Course 4 citekey: Rose1970 5 tags: 6 - bibnote 7 --- 8 9 > [!book] Bibliography 10 > Rose, Fr Seraphim. 1970. _The Orthodox Survival Course_. 11 12 >[!meta]- Metadata 13 > **FirstAuthor**:: Rose, Fr Seraphim 14 ~ 15 > **Title**:: The Orthodox Survival Course 16 > **Year**:: 1970 17 > **Citekey**:: Rose1970 18 > **itemType**:: book 19 20 ___ 21 22 >[!focus] Goal (Selection Intent): 23 >- Understand the modern revolutionary movements against the church as they relate to chiliasm, western rationalism and the occult sciences. 24 25 >[!eye] Overview 26 > - Fr. Seraphim Rose structures this course in a way that is primarily concerned with an examination of the emergence of the spirit of the age in the modern west starting with the Great Schism and Rome’s departure from Orthodox tradition. He notes that his aim is to reveal how all of the modern west in its various revolutions and worldviews are of the same spirit of the age - rationalism, scholasticism, chiliasm, communism, etc. 27 28 #### Book Club Questions 29 - Many of Fr. Seraphim’s critics contest that he didn’t draw from a wider ranger of sources. In Lecture 2 for example, he primarily cites Kireyevsky. What are your thoughts on his style of synthesis? 30 - Other criticisms involve Fr. Seraphim's "extreme" anti-science position, is this a fair critique? 31 - How does this relate to our previous 2 books? 32 - RC defense of stigmata and "new sanctity" confirming the RC Church as valid 33 34 35 ### Lecture 1: Introduction to the Orthodox Worldview 36 - p.4 - Orthodoxy is the only religion. Only Orthodoxy can make sense of world history. 37 - p.6 - Stirner's extreme individualism 38 - Secterianism 39 - p.9 - The history of Israel is that of belief vs unbelief 40 41 ### Lecture 2: The [[Middle Ages]] 42 - p.13 - Roman/Western mind as rationalistic (Kireyevsky) 43 - p.14 - Transition from universe of exemplary causality to universe of efficient causality 44 - East followed tradition, west followed scholasticism 45 - p.23 - On original sin / objections to St. Augustine and Aquinas 46 - [[Scholasticism]] as an attempt to improve Christian doctrine with logic and reason - leads to the irrationality of atheism 47 - p.27 - Mythology is introduced to the lives of the saints (story of [[St. Christopher]]) - Fr. Seraphim speculates possible pagan influence 48 - p.32 - [[Francis of Assisi]] finds a "new rule of Christian life" not found anywhere in the Fathers (e.g. stigmata, making a public spectacle of his new form of piety, considers himself a holy man) 49 - Fr. Seraphim calls this a "new sanctity" 50 - p.39 - Joachin of Fiore and [[Chiliasm]] as a new eschatology which is twofold: History of eschaton and transcendent eschaton of new aeon ushered in by the second coming 51 - p.40 - Rule of [[Francis Assisi]] as quintessence of Gospel itself 52 - p.44 - Artistic innovations of Orthodox [[Iconography]] 53 - Pope chose Charlemagne (pro [[Filioque]] and against icons) over Irene the Easterner (pro icons) 54 - p.49 - def. Donation of Constantine - when Constantine gave temporal authority to the Pope 55 - Search for a "new Christianity", a better Orthodoxy (the religion of Antichrist) 56 - "**Unfolding of the Mystery of Iniquity**" 57 - [[2400.2b Re-divinization]] of the world (Chiliasm) 58 59 ### Lecture 3: The [[§ Renaissance]] 60 - p.52 - Pagan Greece and Rome's revenge on Christianity / united by reason 61 - p.55 - Rise of fame/infamy w/ Medici popes poisoning rival families / assassination of presidents , 62 - p.57 - Astrology and superstition - popes stargazing 63 - p.59 - [[§ Jewish Influence of the Protestant Reformation]] as counter-scholasticism 64 - Kierevsky: Same spirit of [[scholasticism]] that destroys Protestantism 65 - [[Humanism]] and Protestantism continued scholasticism and destroyed the Christian worldview 66 - p.60 - Scientific method takes place of Scholasticism as measure of truth 67 - p.61 - Faustianism and [[Renaissance alchemy]] 68 - Science as power over nature - a religious faith 69 - p.63 - [[Heliocentrism]] as a new cosmology - [[Giordano Bruno]] and the infinite universe 70 - p.66 - Speculations about the cosmos are not important to our faith 71 - p.70 - [[Muentzer]] as forefunner of communism 72 - p.78 - Blasphemy of Renaissance art - pagan elements 73 74 ### Lecture 4: The [[Enlightenment]] (Part 1) 75 - p.94 - Enlightenment as scientific dominance begins with [[Isaac Newton]] 76 - Renaissance of pagan thought and science as a new theology to determine truth 77 - p.96 - The emergence of [[all knowledge being contained in books]] - encyclopedia page to "know everything" about a subject / fragmented knowledge / "new synthesis" 78 - p.100 - [[Empiricism]] > rational theology, natural rights and natural law > replaces asceticism 79 - p.103 - Confidence of Condorcet: Enlightenment principles would spread across the whole earth and be strengthened 80 81 ### Lecture 5: The [[Enlightenment]] (Part 2) 82 - p.105 - [[Chiliasm]] of the Enlightenment - utopian mockery of Christianity 83 - p.109 - Anglican de-mystifying Christianity with "reasonable Christanity" 84 - p.115 - [[Voltaire]]'s rationalistic apologetics 85 - p.117 - Baroque music lacking Orthodox contrition / higher part of the soul, not lower 86 87 ### Lecture 6: [[1150.1a French Revolution as a new spirit]] 88 - p.123 - The French Revolution introduced a new, different spirit 89 - Old regime was replaced by the revolutionary age 90 - [[Jacobin]] conspiracy 91 - p.125 - Harmony of Patristic thought vs harmony of modern thinkers 92 - p.133 - [[D'Alembert]] and [[Voltaire]] tried to persuade [[Catherine II]] to rebuild [[Temple of Jerusalem]] 93 - p.135 - [[Rousseau]]'s influence on modern revolutionary thought 94 - "man is born free" 95 - Choose your religion 96 - god of deism 97 - p.138 [[§ Freemasonry]] born in 1717 England 98 - [[Illuminism]] created by [[Adam Weishaupt]] in 1748 99 - p.139 - [[Jesuit]] + Freemason, Patriotism + nationalism 100 - p.143 - Initiation rites into the "higher mysteries" 101 - p.163 - 1793 the new revolution sets out to replace [[Roman Catholicism]] - establishes a new religious order, venerating revolutionary martyrs 102 - p.170 - [[Napoleon]] ties his power to [[magic]] 103 - p.171 - Napoleon "the god of the revolution" 104 - p.174 - The revolution favored the Jews and gave them more freedom 105 - Napoleon revives the Jewish Sanhedrin to gain favor with the Jews 106 - p.175 - Universal monarchy - Napoleon as an antichrist figure (see. [[2400.2b Re-divinization]]) 107 - p.177 - [[Revolution in the 19th century]] 108 - p.182 - Occultism in the age of Romanticism 109 - p.184 - Novalis writes an obvious praise of [[Chiliasm]] 110 - p.190 - Chiliastic doctrines of St. Simon - new religion of Catholic Socialism 111 - p.204 - Communism/socialism as anti-Christian 112 - p.208 - Papal infalibility influenced by Demaistre in 18070 - New doctrine 113 - p.218 - [[Death of Tsar Nicholas I]] 114 - p.228 - Tsar Nicholas I receives last communion from St. [[John of Kronstadt]] 115 - p.273 - Communist manifesto 1848 - Call to unite workers of the world / influenced by French Revolution 116 - p.275 - [[Bakunin]] spends his days in bed, [[Karl Marx]] never worked / cf. Modern left 117 - p.277 - Nechayev - Disciple of Bakunin and occultist 118 - p.284 - [[Proudhon]] "property is theft" 119 - atheist, invoked satan, communist revolution is satanic 120 - p.299 - [[Hitler's Bolshevism in the form of race war]] instead of class war 121 - Like [[Lenin]] and [[Napoleon]] 122 - Used the Jewish Question as a scapegoat like Bolsheviks used bourgeois 123 - p.304 - Hitler as "first dictator in a new age of magic" [Yeats] / c.f. [[Napoleon's power attributed to magic]] (170) 124 125 126 ___ 127 >[!sticky]+ Notes Cited 128 >```dataview 129 TABLE WITHOUT ID file.link AS "Links to this page" FROM "" WHERE contains(file.outlinks, this.file.link) 130 >```