Annotations

Annotations from the Section Meditationes fundamentales et variae

Title	Original title	Language
Man and Earth	Člověk a země
Short history of ground possession is sketched: – The Modern Theory of Unlimited Sources and the Liberty of Man (Fysiocratism, Mercantilism) – Ancient Civilisations – Sparta – Ancient Slavons – Beginnings of Agriculture – Large Empires – Middle Ages (eg. Danes and Normans ) – What is the Result? – Non European Cultures (Palau, Nicaragua, Viet-Nam, State of Israel eg. The Phenomen of Kibbutz)
On Moving and Directions	O cestách a pohybu
Phaenomenology of eight basic directions/movements (East-West-South-North-Up-Down-To Centre-Nowhere). With addition of Transcending the Pole
Time among the Monks	Čas a mniši
Short article concerning the structure of monastical hours (liturgia horarum) and measuring of time
The mysterious (gnostic) aion	Tajemný aión
The very common Christian doxological formula strikes by its – at first sight unnecessary – complexity or duplicity: for ages of ages. This puzzle cannot be solved unless we realize that at the root of it lies a much older concept of aion, with a long history beginning in pre-classical Greece. Are there more ages? At least two, because both in (Jewish) antiquity (olam habbá) and now a New Age has been expected. But a New Age can have also personal traits (The Messiah!) Time structure of a world can be quite complex and surely the plurality of worlds brings about plurality of time(s) or even of eternity/ies. Both temporality and personality appear by the Gnostic aion, which is not the ordinary time (The thing all things devours…), but a kind of its contrary – something providing vigorousness and stability. The 19-th Century dared to break the up-to-then source of stability – the conventional space (in mathematics and later in physics). It seems likely (and is illustrated by several examples) that people of the beginning of Christian era dared to break even more substantial universality – the time ant moreover give it personal traits.
On Numbers, Rhytms, Quadrature of Circle and Other Trivialities	O číslech, rytmech, kvadratuře kruhu a jiných samozřejmostech
Introduction to natural rhytms and cycles and dividing them; natural phases; septenary counting in connection with Christian religious year. Debate about the „missing link“.
What God United…	Co Bůh spojil…
A small remark on lifelong matrimony
Old Age	Stáří
A very short reflection on the subject.
About One Addiction Afflicting the Whole Generation	O generační závislosti
Distortion of time and space relation arising from using (and depending on) individual car transport. Its psychoanalytic interpreatation. The stuffs and powers we have depended on since the 1800s and their portraits from Greek pantheon.
On Money (and Values)	O penězích (a hodnotách)
Is money sacred? How? The „invisible Hand of the Market“. Materialism triumphant. (?)
How to Be Rich	Jak být bohatým?
Relativeness and origin of wealth. How to please people. Dark prospects.
On Gravity of Words	O závažnosti slov
Grammatic and semantic analyse of a six-words sentence (in Czech) – That night little Helen drowned herself of shame. – showing how much sense can be hidden behind very simple words, followed by a critical consideration on fiction, especially so-called realistic one.
Flood Guerrilla	Partyzánská válka povodní
Eco-terrorism can be hidden where you don’t expect it…. :))
Why There Should Be St. Stephen Monuments (not only) in Slovakia	Proč by měla (nejen) na Slovensku stát socha sv.Štěpána
Nationalistic protests against raising the monument of St.Stephen in Slovakia do not have sense. All Europe should be grateful to this historical person for its preservation.
My Ways are not Their Ways	Mé cesty nejsou jejich cestami
A bitter remark on how you simply cannot live together with the species Homo automobilis. A modest proposal to a substantial modification of Right of way.
On Freedom and Individualism	O svobodě a individualismu
What is freedom. Conflicting freedoms. Freedom in thinking. „Energetic“ aspect of freedom. Individualism as a matter of preference. Authority of an individual and of a group.
Two Major Pests in Schooling	Dva velcí škůdci vzdělání
The sole purpose of schools. The General school attendance – duty or privilege? Can we let teenagers free? What if schools did it? Reflexions on idealism and professionality.
Dis-information	Dezinformace
The falsehood (and lack of logic) of the „anti-disinformation“ campaigns demasqued.
Vengeance to Intellectuals	Pomsta intelektuálům
Eggheads are as a rule pushed back, whenever they try to reach their hand to any kind of commodity easily available for other people, at first place jobs. There is no social advantage in having obtained proper schooling or being used to educate oneself. Be it bad for them, the more it is disastrous for the society.
Fear of Showing to Be Different	Strach z odlišnosti
The general support of modern society to identity and individualism is just feigned. The social ideal is exactly the contrary – it hates individuality. The double character of individualism – individualism based on possessing and individualism based on being. Sharing and individualism.
Two Essays on Death	Dvě úvahy o smrti
Fourfold possibility of relation between death and life. The phenomenon of dead body and what to do with it.
On the Margin of the Story of Perceval	Na okraj Parsifalovského příběhu
Reversed perspectives in the story of Perceval: the story being seen from „inside“ and „outside“. Quest for Wisdom. The conflict of „old“ and „young“.
Hadewyjch	Hadewyjch
Review of the Henry Dumont 2009 film. Different realities of the film story and its two endings. What is real for a mystic? Christianity and Islam.
Connubial betrothal	Mandźelske ljubjenje
Dialectic meaning of the three parts of engagement

Annotations from the Section Philosophica

Title	Original title	Language
The Ways of Philosophy	Cesty filosofie
Ways of philosophy folow often the ways of language. We can divide philosphy (philosophical methods) to postulative philosophy (whose device is clarity, vision), philosophical questioning, and an „exclamative philosopfy“. Phenomena as theorioes on origins of language, philosophical comtemplation, logic, historical/narrative philosophy, utopy are mentioned as well.
Idea by Zdeněk Neubauer	Zamyšlení nad idejemi u Zdeňka Neubauera
Considerations ove Neubauer’s essay „O přírodě a přirozenosti věcí“. The role of experience by forming ideas.
Good and Evil – Now under a Mythological Aspect	O „dobru a zlu“ mytologicky
The role of trees in Gen 2. Seduction via offering a choice. The dictatorship of „good-or-evil“.
The Truth	Pravda
The Aristotelian definition of truth is not good enough, neither in a weakened form requiring not equality, but correspondence. But Aristotle rightly reminds us that we can only know what we already know in a way – in a purely private world, truth is not very difficult to constitute. In our search for the core of the truth will help us analasyng its two essential antitheses – error and lie. The role of activity on the way to the truth. The value of the so-called objective truth. Falsification is not the way to the truth either. What truth do we need? Truth as the medium of (self-)identity, as a religious and transcendent phenomenon, as ontological certainty.
Parallel ages of the world	Paralelní věky
Starting from a particular dictum in the Gnostic writing Trimorfos Protennoia NHC XIII,1 (40,4-7), where it is said that at one moment new aeons were formed while there had already existed a complete another series of such entities , the article studies the particular character of the Gnostic aion: Is it a purely temporal, spacial, or personal entity? Therefore a set of 100 references in the Gnostic literature has been considered with interesting results, establishing that sometimes the aion may be all of this at once. The (pre-Gnostic) history of the concept of aion from antiquity to Christian times is then considered, as well as the relation of the Gnostic aions to Jewish eschatology with its key concept of two ages/worlds (OLAM HAZE, OLAM HABBA). The decomposition of space that was successfully attempted by mathematicians in the nineteenth century may thus have already had a precursor in the manner how the man of the Hellenistic era, suffering so much under the severe rule of time (of the devouring and destructive time – of the type of CHRONOS) together with fate (HEIMARMENE), tried to overcome these by designing a sophisticated structure of temporality.
Hidden Turning Point in the History of Philosophy	Skrytý bod obratu v dějinách evropské filosofie
A. Is it Descartes? – Motion vs. esse in philosophy – The structure of mediaeval world – Mystics -Jacob Boehme, his „Principles“and his „Prozess“ B. Causes in philosophy – Outstanding outsiders (incl, Boehme) – Boehme’s (binary!) constitutive dialectics
A Sketch in Anthropophysics	Náčrt antropofyziky
Unity/universality of world (as a question). – Well ordered sets – Universe and world – Man in the middle of World – Spirit and spirituality – Human Self, Spirit and World – Mapping -Lost physics of Quality – Survey of (measurable) physical values – Criteria for a new, sought system of values – Rudiments of such system by the ancient Jacob Boehme – Eleven human senses/channels of perception (slightly according to Steiner) – Adam Kadmon in the Kabbalah

Annotations from the Section Theologia

Title	Original title	Language
Civilization and Gods	Civilizovaný člověk a božství
High developed cultures/civilizations (like late antiquity) tend to atheism. The independent, godlike man. What are Gods good for. Man or God?
On Trinity	O Trojici
Why just Trinity? – The Origin (Arche, Keter) – Wisdom (Chochmah) – The descending principle of Logos (Binah) – The Ascending principle of Spirit (Daat) – Pentecost , as demonstration of Spirit – Life ot the Spirit – Conclusion: Another Trinity?
Of the Spirit (sermon)	O svatém Duchu (kázání)
How many Gods are there in Christianity? How did it come to be?
About Angels	O andělech
What are angels? Values. Individuality of angels. Are there angels, do they exist? What means „to be“? Are they free?
The Devil	Ďábel
The existence of devil – in scientism, in psychology, in Christianity. Can God have an „adversary“? How does acknowledging the existence of devil change human situation. Why are „properites“ of the devil so obvious? Interconnection of Man and devil. The collective devil. Development of devils. Devil(s) as defective consciousness (gnosis).
Whose is the Earth?	Čí je země?
Reflexion of baroque iconography and old views of the Earth. What is the role of man on Earth. Does it belong to God or to man (or to the devil)? The Earth as a gift.
Service and Servants in the NT	Služba a služebníci v Novém Zákoně
Is work/labour, when mentioned in the NT, meant as formal? The analysis of particular cases and meanings of the words DIAKONEIN – to serve; DIAKONIA – service and DIAKONOS – servant. The institute of deacons. Service of angels (liturgy).
Grasshopper	Čmel
A moral similitude composed in ancient language.
On Conversion	Obrácení
The stereotypes ov „conversion“ and „rebirth“ during the ages of Christianity. Prophets and preaching of conversion. Calvin nad Eckhart: Can the nature of man be changed? (And may it be changed?) Meaning of biblical metanoein. – Think it over.
About Sin	O hříchu
The existence of death and evil. Relativenes of religious codes of behaviour. Against what is the sin? Matter and spirit. Plurality in the realm of spirit.
On Luther’s Anniversary and the Principle of Sla Gratia	K Lutherovu výročí -a principu sola gratia
Is Luther’s articulus stantis et cadentis ecclesiae really that important? The experience of grace with some mystics. Grace in mythology. Importance and miening of both individual and collective defeats.
Worship of Saints in Lutheran Churches	Uctívání svatých v luterských církvích
The Basis of lutheran theory of saints: Teaching of the old church – Patristis Era – Eastern Church – Attitude of Lutheran reformation towards the Saints (in Lutherr’s early writings – in Augustana – in Melanchton’s Apology – in later doctrinal writings) – The reasons therefore – Later Developments (from Lutheran Orthodoxy to the Age of Enlightment – 19-th Century Oblivion of saints – The Present Renaissance of Protestant Cult of Saints – Is there still a big difference between Catholic and Protestant Teaching of Saints?)
St.Barbara’s Legend	Legenda o svaté Barboře
Comparison of the St.Barbara’s legent with a local tale of Kutná Hora and its alchemical symbolism.
Prayer in Jacob Boehme’s Writings	Gebet bei Jakob Boehme
Form and humble spirit of many long prayers within the works of Jacob Boehme show exactly the contrary of what is often presumed about theosophs and theosophical writing. Their key expression is DESIRE which is found already in the dark principle of deity itself and the two desires are identical. Connubial mysticism (of a mystic with the Virgin Sophia) is found by Boehme, too.
Our Father I	Otče náš I
What (personal) relation does the Lord’s Prayer express. „Our“ and „thy“. Bread and will.
Our Father II	Otče náš II
Lord’s Prayer eplained more thoroughly and in an „emanatory“ way as a more ot less necessary sequence. God’s names. Two incorrect translations, a corrected one and one ommitted word.
Sociological types of Church Communities	Sociologické typy církevních společenství
Centralised (pyramidal), episcopal, ecclesiastical and presbyteral types of church structures. Their devolution towards the individual.
On Churches and Ecumenism	O církvích a o ekumenismu
Self promotion of churches, Misunderstood secularization. Unification or tolerance? Where to seek sources of ecumenism?
Cultural Restitution and Evangelization	Kulturní restituce a evangelizace
New tasks of churches in post-totalitarian world. Revolution – restoration – restitution. Let’s not try to take back from the state what it’s doing well. Propositions for activity of church(es) in several branches – education, politics, economy, nature and preservationism, culture.
Is immortality possible?	Je možná nesmrtelnost?
Two views and two understandings of the question lead to opposite statements. Longevity – – the evolutional specialisation of mankind. Paul’s yearning for an „immortal body“. Life maintaining mystery of Christ. Soul is „more lively“ than body.

Annotations from the Section Exegetica

title	original title	language
Jacob at Jabok (Gn 32,23-33)	Jákob u Jaboku (Gn 32,23-33)
Complex exegesis of the pericope with special attention to the site, incl. sketched literary criticism; attempts to solve problems of identity of speaking/acting individuals and to reconstruct Jacob’s intentions and/or movements; debate on the given name ISRAEL. Role of blessing in Jacob’s life. The inportance of face. Two brothers – topic as old as the mountains.

Annotations from the Section Historica / dějiny a dějiny myšlení

title	original title	language
Parallel Eras of the World	Paralelní věky v gnózi Der Paralelismus der Zeitalter in der Gnosis
The article is based on a Gnostic dictum found in the text De Protennoia trimorfos (NHC XIII,1), which literally states: „And the great Daimon began to create aeons in the image of the aeons already existing. He created them with his own power,“ and, taking into account other passages from the Gnostic literature (100 excerpts were used for this purpose), the specific Gnostic term „aion“ is examined in detail, including its history, wonderful variety of meanings and interpretations, temporal, spatial, but also personal. (The being must be understood personally when, for example, it has a name or expresses its will or carries out actions). The distribution of meanings in the result is presented and interpreted in tables and graphs ( special attention is given to Valentinian Gnosis). References to other Gnostic terms such as generation or angels and also to the two ages of later Judaism, namely this world and the world to come, are mentioned. Time is then considered from a philosophical point of view, with reference to a saying by Zd. Neubauer, which reads: The determination of time presupposes a certain temporality which is for every world specific. Another age – other days; Each regime of the world corresponds to a different „alignment of days“, constituting the nature of its eternity. The long history of the term Aion is then examined, beginning in archaic Greece, , then via Plato with his definition of time, up to the strange Alexandrian deity and the meanings of this term among the Gnostics and Christians. At the end, the treatise returns to the initial question, that of the plurality of aeons, which, according to the analysis carried out, seems possible, especially since aeon is not the usual time, chronos (something uniting the whole world under its rule and subdueing it to it). If we take into account that mathematicians in the 19th century learned to destroy and re-build space, which in their age was considered something indomitable, superior and constitutive to all forms of being, especially those tangible by scientific description, and to reconstruct it in new variants, why could not the people of late antiquity do the same with time, which was then the phenomenon considered most powerful and universally feared of?