Orthodox Apocalypse Prophecies

[Suaidan]

To be fair, I haven't actually been doing any research on this, so I take no credit

[Unseen.Warfare]

You're posting a lot of great material, Unseen.Warfare ! It's important to preserve all this in ONE place : here !

Where did that picture come from of the two Platina founders ?

Yes maybe you could find the source of that frightening statement that the Serbs somehow got all that material. It seems to me it could only have happened maybe as a part of a deal for Platina under Fr Gerasim [Eliel] to be accepted by the Serbian Patriarchate. Maybe a hidden codicil ? If you find out, please let me know, as that is important and scary that such priceless material could have been siphoned off. No one else had access to it but Fr Herman by that stage.

What about Fr Seraphim's thesis at Berkeley ? How on earth did that ever get put online anyway ?? Did someone have a copy, or was it in the Fr Seraphim Archives, if there WERE such a thing ? And then they put it online for anyone to be able to read ?

Have you had time to read through it ? What do you think of it, if so ?

Isn't it incredible that Eugene R., the future Fr Seraphim, was so deeply into Taoism that he would study it, write a thesis on it. Then, some years later, switch to Orthodoxy and leave Taoism completely behind as if that phase of his life never existed ?

Congratulations on the intrepid searching done by both Fr Joseph and you !

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The thesis was posted by Fr. Damascene about 14 years ago on that website and it turns out Johanna had a copy aswell. Her copy was never supposed to be online, a student had used it as a source on his paper he was writing. It has a note attached at the back that Fr. Damascene wrote that’s pretty interesting. In his lecture on the Chinese mind Fr. Seraphim makes reference to that time in his life and from what I can tell from reading his biography and Christ the Eternal Tao is he always thought highly of Lao Tzu and thought that if Lao Tzu was alive in the time of Christ he would have followed him because he would have seen in him the fulfillment of the Tao. I believe his studies on the relation between the Logos and Tao is what eventually lead him to Orthodoxy. Going so deep into the ancient Chinese philosophical tradition by learning Chinese. He taught himself Russian to dive into the Russian Orthodox tradition. Modern Daoism has very little to do with the Tao Teh Ching and that’s actually covered in the thesis. Lao Tzu didn’t really write a religious text although it’s thought of that way now. It’s more or less a study on what the Greek philosophers call the Logos or the “Ordering principal before time”.

Anyways, I looked everywhere and I can’t find anything about Fr. Herman giving Saint John’s writings to the Serbs but I know I’ve read it. Hopefully I stumble across it again. Speaking on Orthodox Apocalyptic Prophecies… I’m gonna look for some patristic texts on the “Growing cold of love”. It’s something I’ve noticed a lot lately that’s mentioned in “Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future”. Been dealing with some spiritual attacks lately.

[Unseen.Warfare]

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St. Nilus the Myrrh-gusher of Mount Athos (+1596): “About the year 1900, towards the middle of the twentieth century, the people of that time will begin to become unrecognizable. When the time of the coming of the Antichrist draws near, people’s minds will be darkened from carnal passions, and dishonour and iniquity will become ever stronger. The world will then become unrecognizable, the appearance of people will change and it will be impossible clearly to distinguish men from women thanks to their shamelessness in clothes and hairstyle. These people will become savage and cruel, like beasts, because of the deceptions of the Antichrist. There will be no respect for parents and elders, love will disappear, Christian pastors, bishops and priests will become vainglorious men, completely unable to distinguish the right path from the left. Then the morals and traditions of Christians and of the Church will change. Modesty and humility will disappear from among men and adultery and dissipation will reign. Lies and love of money will reach the highest limits, and woe to those who gather treasures. Adultery, lust, homosexuality, secret deeds, thefts and murders will rule in society. At that future time, thanks to the strength of very great criminality and dissoluteness, people will be deprived of the grace of the Holy Spirit which they received in Holy Baptism, and they will equally lose the pangs of conscience. The Churches of God will be deprived of God-fearing and pious pastors, and woe to the Christians who remain upon the earth, who will completely lose their faith, because they will be deprived of the possibility of seeing the light of knowledge from anyone. Then they will depart from the world into holy refuges in search of a lightening of their spiritual sufferings, but everywhere they will meet hindrances and obstacles. And all this will be the result of the Antichrist’s desiring to rule over them and become the ruler of the whole inhabited earth. He will work wonders and fantastic signs. He will also give corrupt wisdom to an unfortunate man, so that he will make discoveries enabling one man to conduct a conversation with another from one end of the earth to the other. Also, they will be able to fly in the air like birds, and descend to the bottom of the sea like fishes.

[Barbara]

Thanks for explaining as much as you know, Unseen.Warfare. Whatever else you find would always be of interest, be sure to post as you find things !

What was the note on the bac of the thesis, if you recall ?

The picture is so rare ! Good find ! I was always wanting to see more of that chapel in Alamada that Bishop Nektary had. I don't know much info about it, have you uncovered any details ? To whom it was dedicated, how long did it last there ? Was it in a regular house maybe ? It looks SO well-established from what little one can see from the pic.

Are there more pics of it ?? I did see one some years ago on the ReaderDaniel Sharing blog that he had. But that's all that have surfaced, probably ?

I remember the part of Not of This World that Bishop Nektary wanted to start a Convent there in Alameda. Did you come across any further details about that process ? That always intrigued me.

Keep up the faith during spiritual attacks. I know what you mean, though - sometimes they are too intense, or too many at once, or hard to deal with for any other reason.
I hope you are doing well in repelling the devils !!!

[Unseen.Warfare]

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Bishop Nektarios (in the world Oleg Mikhailovich Kontsevich; December 7, 1905, Tulsa, Kurland - February 6, 1983, USA) was the bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad and since 1962, Bishop of Seattle, vicar of the Western American Diocese.

He lived in Ukraine since childhood and visited Optina hermitage with his mother where he was nurtured by the saint Nektarios of Optina. His mother accepted the monastic schema with the name Nektaria and was buried next to the grave of the Elder Nektarios, of whom she was a disciple. During World War II he lived in Kiev and was the spiritual child of Fr. Adrian Rymarenko, and was a member of the community he led.

On March 11, 1962, he became Bishop of Seattle, Vicar of the Western American Diocese. He was a close associate of Archbishop St. John (Maximovich) and supported him during his trial in 1963. For several years he headed the Diocese of San Francisco.

He was an active proponent of the canonization of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia.

We offer our readers an excerpt from Bishop Nektarios (Kontsevich)'s 1981 report, "The Mystical Significance of the Russian Martyrs," which was devoted to the substantiation that Tsar Nicholas, as the Anointed One of God and His Family must lead the whole host of New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia.

"From the day of the fall of the Russian Autocracy, the devil has assailed the Orthodox Church of Russia with particular fury. Truly, in the history of all the Local Churches there has never been such a fatal persecution of the Church as the Russian Orthodox Church has suffered and continues to suffer.

A satanic, God-fighting government has taken hold in our homeland, and therefore we cannot hope that it - this government - can change for the better, because Satan can only perfect himself in evil. But with the Lord all things are possible - in power He will free Russia from the bonds of the devil. And much depends on how we, together with the faithful Russian people, accept the message of the glorification of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia.

So, we prepare ourselves for the historic Church ACT - the Glorification of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia. Many books, articles, and memoirs have been written about these martyrs and their tormentors, about the atrocities of the tormentors.

Let us think of our confessor Patriarch Tikhon, of Metropolitan Vladimir, who was shot, of the other saints Benjamin, Joseph, Andronicus, Hermogenes, Peter, Cyril, Agathangel, and many other archpastors who were shot and martyred. Let us also remember the thousands of clergymen and millions of laity martyred in prisons and concentration death camps for their confession of faith.

As we have said, all of the New Martyrs have long been glorified by God since their martyrdom, but few pay attention to the mystical side of the question, and this is very important, because, having endured torture, they are victors of evil, have the courage of the Lord to pray for us, and are added to the number of God's Benefices. Therefore, the apparent victory of the tormentors who put to death their victims is the defeat of those same tormentors.

It is especially important to note the martyrdom of our Lord Emperor Nicholas Alexandrovich and his family. He was the last Monarch to be anointed by the holy oil to the kingship. The Sovereign is the Anointed One of God. This Sacrament is administered by the Church at the Coronation and the Anointed One enters through the Royal Doors [Holy Doors] into the altar to the throne and receives Holy Communion separately, as a priest, of the Body and Blood of Christ. Thereby the Holy Church emphasizes the great spiritual significance of the royal office, by equating it with priestly service.

Thus the Sovereign is the Anointed One of God. A holy Person, the bearer of the special power of the Grace of the Holy Spirit. This divine power, working through God's Anointed One, held back the spread of evil "the mystery of iniquity."

In his second letter to the Thessalonians, the Apostle Paul writes: "THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY IS NOW IN ACTION, BUT IT WILL NOT BE DONE TILL IT IS TAKEN OUT OF THE MEANS THAT MAKES IT HAPPEN" (2 Thess. 2:7).

Our spiritual writer, Bishop Theophan the Recluse, and others explain that by "The One who withholds" is to be understood the Royal Authority. The devil has long sought to reveal the Antichrist to the world, but could not, because the Divine Grace, purely operating through God's Anointed One, the Restrainer, did not make it possible.

For the "mystery of Iniquity", in order to gain freedom of action, it was necessary to "take from the environment" the Holder, which happened by God's permission for the sins of the Russian people. A terrible atrocity has been committed - REGICIDE. Killed the Emperor - God's Anointed One, Protector of the Orthodox Church, Head of the Orthodox State. Murdered the Restrainer. And from that moment on, the "mystery of Iniquity" was set free and we are all witness to the unrestrained rampant and spread of evil throughout the world.

From what has been said, it is absolutely clear that the atrocity was a RITUAL and not a political murder, as evidenced also by the Kabalistic inscription on the cellar wall of the Ipatiev House, where this truly satanic atrocity was committed. Just as Christ was crucified on Calvary for the sins of the whole world, abandoned by all, so the Emperor was sacrificed for the sins of All Russia, abandoned by all. No one helped his Sovereign in the days of his ordeal, when he was a prisoner of Satan's godforsaken power. Therefore, the mortal sin of regicide weighs on the entire Russian People, and therefore, to one degree or another, on each of us.

And, if this is so, then, in order to have at least a small hope of removing this sin from the conscience of Russia, it is necessary, in addition to our own pure penitence, to glorify the Sovereign at the head of all the Russian New Martyrs. For he accepted a martyr's death for the Orthodox Faith, the Holy Church, and for the Fatherland. How, then, can we prepare ourselves for the day of the great event of the glorification of the Russian Martyrs?

We cherish the hope that when the news of the glorification of the Tsar at the head of all the Russian New Martyrs will reach the faithful Russian people in our homeland, who together with us, realizing the sin of the Tsar's murder weighing over Russia, will, with tears of repentance, plead the Lord for forgiveness and, in prayerful chanting, will call upon the Tsar-Martyr for help with their hearts:

'HOLY ROYAL MARTYR AND PASSION-BEARER NICHOLAS, WITH ALL THE NEW MARTYRS OF THE LAND OF RUSSIA, PRAY TO GOD FOR US SINNERS.' Then, WE BELIEVE, the luminous soul of the Sovereign Sorrower of the Land of Russia, will bow before the Throne of God and make a solemn prayer for the salvation of Russia and for us sinners. "The blood of a martyr cries out to Heaven."

And the Lord, in hearing the holy prayer of His humble servant, our Tsar-Martyr, in power He will work a Miracle, and, having removed from the conscience of the Russian People the grievous sin of regicide, with the breath of His lips He can sweep away the communist yoke and all the filthiness of God's power from the face of the Russian Land.

With the Lord all things are possible!

In His power, He will change sorrow into joy, and He will uplift the HOLY ORTHODOX RUSSIA.

Amen."
"Russian Pilgrim" N 3 '91 (USA)

Hieromonk Seraphim (Rose):

Blessed Memory Archbishop John Maximovich thought long and hard about the meaning of the Russian Revolution and the scattering of the Russian people.

In his message to the All-Diaspora Council of Bishops in Yugoslavia in 1938, he wrote: "The Russian people as a whole have committed the great sins which are the cause of the present disasters, namely, the crime of perjury and regicide. The social and military leaders refused obedience and loyalty to the Tsar even before his abdication, forcing the latter from the Tsar, who did not want internal bloodshed, while the people clearly and noisily welcomed what had happened without loudly expressing their disagreement with it.

In the sins of regicide was not only the guilt of the physical executors, but all the people who rejoiced at the overthrow of the Tsar and allowed his humiliation, arrest and exile, leaving him defenseless in the hands of criminals, which by itself already predetermined the end.

Thus, the calamity that has come upon Russia is a direct consequence of her grave sins, and her rebirth is only possible after her purification from them. But so far there has been no real repentance, the crimes committed have not yet been condemned, and many active participants in the revolution continue to argue that it was impossible to do otherwise.

Without directly condemning the February Revolution, the rebellion against the Anointed One, Russian people continue to participate in sin, especially when they defend the fruits of the revolution. (Act of the All-Diaspora Council, 1938, Yugoslavia.)

Of course, regicide is not the only sin on the conscience of the Russian people. It is as if a symbol of Russia falling away from Christ and true Orthodoxy, a process which took place during the 19th and 20th centuries, and which is only now, perhaps, changing its direction. It is interesting to note the fact that in modern Russia the question of glorification of the Tsar and the New Martyrs is connected to the removal of the curse that has lain on Russian soil since their martyrdom.

"The Future of Russia and the End of the World." Hieromonk Seraphim (Rose)