Chapter 20 theologian

The Huns leveled the gardens, trampled on the Holy Grail and the altar, rode into the library of the monastery, tore up the books they could not understand, and burned them cursingly, lest those words contained a half-moon-shaped steel knife against their god. — the blasphemy.They burned parchments and manuscripts, but among the ashes in the middle of the fire was safe the twelfth book of the Citizenship of God, in which Plato, speaking in Athens, declared that after many centuries all things would return to the way they were , and he would again preach the doctrine in Athens before the same audience.The book that has not been burned is held in special esteem, and those who read it again and again in that distant province forget that the author proclaimed the doctrine only to better refute it.A century later, Archdeacon Aureliano of Aquileia heard that there was a new sect of "monotony" (also called "circle" sect) on the banks of the Danube, which declared that history was a circle, that nothing new happened in the world, and that everything that happened in the past It will happen in the future.In the mountains, wheels and snakes have replaced crosses.Everyone was uneasy, but relieved to hear that Juan de Pannonia, famous for his treatise on the seventh attribute of God, would come forward to refute such a heinous heresy.

These messages, especially the latter, made Aureliano regretful.He knew that with anything new in theology there was a certain risk; then he thought that the cycle of time was too outlandish, too sensational, and therefore riskier. (It is heresy that we should be afraid of that might be confused with orthodoxy.) What pained him more, however, was Juan de Pannonia's intervention—or violation.Two years ago, this man usurped Aureliano's special research topic with his nonsense "On the Seventh State of God or Eternity"; now, the problem of time seems to be his domain, and he wants to come out Correcting the arguments of the circus, he used, perhaps, that of Procustos, an antidote more terrible than snake venom... That night, Aureliano read Plutarch's ancient text on the cessation of the oracle. Dialogue; I saw that the twenty-ninth paragraph mocked the Stoics. Those ascetics advocated the infinite cycle of the world, with infinite suns, moons, the sun god Apollo, the moon god Diana and the sea god Poseidon.He felt this discovery to be a favorable omen; and he decided to fight Juan de Pannonia's heresy by refuting the faction of the Chakras.

A man pursues a woman's love in order to forget about her and stop thinking about her; similarly in the case of Aureliano, he wanted to outdo Juan de Pannonia to appease resentment , not for the whole Pannonia.Just get to work, use deductive reasoning, invent a few insults, use words like "otherwise," "however," and "absolutely not," and you'll be able to calm down and forget about grudges.So he creates a mass of intertwined sentences, with a barrage of interjections, in which carelessness and grammatical errors seem to be forms of contempt.He uses phonetic repetition as a tool.He expected Juan to lash out at the Ringists with prophetic solemnity; unlike Juan, he mocked.Augustine once wrote: Jesus is the straight road leading the impious from the labyrinth; compare it to Sisyphus, the king of Thebes who saw two suns, stammering, parrots, mirrors, echoes, and millstones. The mule, likened to a syllogism with two horns. (The objects of pagan satire still exist, but are reduced to ornament.) Like anyone who owns a library, Aureliano feels a little guilty for not reading them all; Many books seem to blame him for neglect.Therefore, he pondered over a passage in Orihenes's work "On the Origin", which denied that Judas Israel would betray the Lord Jesus again, denied that Paul would watch Stephen's martyrdom in Jerusalem, and pondered Cicero's introduction to Plato's theory, which mocks those who dream that when Cicero talks to the Roman general Luculo, countless other Lukulos and other Ciceroes are in countless other worlds that are exactly the same Saying exactly the same thing.Moreover, he attacks the monotony with the words of Plutarch, saying that the argument that the light of nature is more valuable to idolaters than the word of God is outrageous.For nine days he read it intently, and on the tenth day someone brought him a transcript of Juan de Pannonia's critique.

The article was almost ridiculously short; Aureliano looked at it contemptuously and then became frightened.The first part interprets the last passage of Chapter 9 of Hebrews, which says that Jesus has not suffered many times since the creation of the world, but now appears once in these last days to offer himself as a sacrifice to take away sin.The second part cites the admonition in the Bible not to imitate the pagans in praying with many repetitions (Matthew 6:7), and the seventh book of Pliny's writings that no two cards in the long universe are the same. The words of the face.Juan de Pannonia declared that in the long universe no two souls are alike, and that the meanest sinner is as precious as Jesus' blood for him.Pannonia's assertion that one's deeds are greater than the Empyrean Heavens put together makes it foolish to believe that such deeds will reappear after their disappearance.Time cannot regenerate what is lost, but only enjoy the glory of heaven or suffer the torment of hellfire in eternity.The article was clear and comprehensive; it didn't look like it was written by a specific person, but it was written by any or all of them.

Aureliano felt an almost physical humiliation.He wanted to destroy or rewrite his article; then, with unconvinced honesty, he sent it to Rome verbatim.A few months later, when the Senate of Bergamo convened, the theologian responsible for criticizing the errors of monotony was (as might be expected) Juan de Pannonia; As a result, the heresy leader Ou Fubo was sentenced to death by burning at the stake.Ou Fubo said: This kind of thing is easy.It happened before, and it will happen again.What you have kindled is not a fire, but a labyrinth of fire.If you put people like me at the stake, there will be no room for so many fires on the earth, and the flames will be so bright that the angels will not be able to open their eyes.Then he yelled as the flames burned him.

The wheels fell before the cross, but Aureliano and Juan's covert feud continued.The two were on the same side, hoping for the same reward, and fighting the same enemy, but every word Aureliano wrote contained an ulterior purpose of defeating Juan.Their struggle is invisible.The many volumes of Aureliano included in Miniet's Essays do not once mention the name of another, if those numerous indexes are reliable. (As for Juan's writings, only twenty words remained.) Neither of them agreed with the condemnation decided by the Second Council of Constantinople; Both confirmed the orthodoxy of Cosmas's Christian Topography, which claimed that the Earth was as square as the Hebrew Ark of the Covenant.Unfortunately, due to the four corners of the earth, heresy is rampant again.Originating in Egypt or Asia (the testimonies are inconsistent, and Busset is unwilling to accept Harnack's teachings), it spread to the eastern provinces, and temples were erected in Macedonia, Carthage, and Trier.It seems to be the same everywhere; the cross is said to have been turned upside down in the parish of Britannia, and the statue of the Lord Jesus in Thesalea has been replaced by a mirror.Mirrors and Greek silver coins became the hallmarks of the new secession.

Historically, they have had many names (Mirror, Abyss, Caine), but the best known is Actors, a name given to them by Aureliano and which they boldly adopted.In Phrygia and Dardania they were called Representationists.Juan Damascenor called them the Formalists; and it is not difficult to see why that statement was refuted by Epheod.Scholars of heresy speak with astonishment at the mention of their appalling customs.Many actors practiced asceticism; some, like Orihenes, mutilated themselves; others took shelter in underground sewers; Bucodonoso) "grazed like an ox and had hair like an eagle's feathers".Often they passed from asceticism to crime; some groups tolerated theft; others murder; still others sodomy, incest, and bestiality.These groups were impious; they denigrated not only the Christian God, but the secret gods of their own temples.They conspired to conspire some holy books, which are now lost, much to the regret of learned men.Sir Thomas Blanc wrote around 1685: "Time has worn out the gospel of the ambitious actors, but not the insults against their godlessness." hand-copied ancient books) are exactly those vanished gospels.It's hard to understand this if we don't know the actor's worldview.

The Hermetic esoteric books say that what is below is like what is above, and what is above is like what is below; Sohar says that the lower world is a reflection of the upper world.The actor faction distorts this concept as the basis of their doctrine.- They quote Matthew 6:12 ("Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors") and 11:12 ("The kingdom of heaven is entered by effort") to illustrate Affecting heaven, he quoted 1 Corinthians 13:12 ("We now see as in a mirror, dimly") to show that what we see is false.They may have been infected with monotony, thinking that all human beings are composed of two, and that the real person is the other in heaven.They also think that our actions cast upside-down reflections, that when we are awake, the other sleeps; when we commit adultery, the other remains chaste;When we die, we become one with the other and become him. (Some remnants of that teaching linger in Bloy.) Other schools of actor hold that the world ends when all the possibilities of number combinations are exhausted; The most despicable acts should be eliminated (performed) so as not to pollute the future and thereby hasten the coming of Jesus' Kingdom.That article was opposed by other sects who believed that the history of the world should be completed in each individual.Most, such as Pythagoras, had to go through many physical reincarnations to obtain the liberation of the soul; others "became a lion, dragon, wild boar, water, tree in only one life".Demosthenes mentions that the new disciples of the Orphic mystics had to perform a rite of immersion in the mire for purification; the situation was similar for the Protean, seeking purification from sin.They, like Capocrates, understood that anyone "if you have not paid a penny, you will never get out of there" (Luke 12:59), and they often quote another passage Come to deceive those who repent: "I have come to give life, and to have it more abundantly" ("John 10:10").They also say that not being a bad person is the arrogance of the devil... The actor school has fabricated myths in various forms;Berenice actor Pat Oponpo dismisses these myths; he says each human being is an organ designed by the gods to perceive the world.

The heretics in the diocese of Aureliano are those who assert that time cannot tolerate repetition, not those who assert that all deeds are reflected in heaven.This was rare; Aureliano also mentioned it in a report to the Roman authorities.The archbishop who received the report was the queen's priest of the sea; everyone knew that this demanding office did not allow him to enjoy the pleasures of speculative theology.His secretary - formerly a collaborator of Juan de Pannonia's, now at odds with him - had a reputation for scrupulousness in adjudicating heresy; statement, as in the conclave of Henua and Achillea.He wrote a few paragraphs; just as he was about to get to the crucial point that no two moments in the world are alike, his pen stopped.He could not find the necessary words; if the exhortation of the new doctrine ("Would you like to see what the human eye has not seen? Look at the moon. Would you like to hear what the human ear has not heard? Listen to the birdsong .Do you want to touch something that has not been touched by human hands? Touch the ground. I am actually saying that God is about to create the world") Copying it is too artificial and too metaphorical.He suddenly remembered a twenty-character sentence, and wrote it down excitedly; then he felt a little uneasy, feeling like someone else's words.The next day he remembered seeing it years ago in Juan de Pannonia's article "Refuting the Circus".He checked the original text, and it was correct.He hesitated.Changing or deleting that paragraph will weaken the power of the statement; keeping that paragraph is plagiarizing the article of someone he hates; stating the source is tantamount to reporting.He prayed for help.At dawn the next day, his guardian angel suggested a compromise.Aureliano retained that passage, but added an explanation; the following passage was made by a heretic in order to disturb the faith, by a learned man of this century, a man who had no intention of blaming others for publicity Self-blame.Later, what was worried, expected, and inevitable finally happened.Aureliano had to reveal who the man was; Juan de Pannonia was accused of spreading heresy.

Four months later, a blacksmith in Aventino had hallucinations due to being deceived by actors, and used a big iron ball to hold his young son Yu's shoulders, so that his son's soul would soar.The child was killed; this appalling crime prompted justifiable severity on the part of the judges who tried Juan.Juan did not want to admit his error; he repeated over and over that to deny his thesis would be to echo the dangerous heresy of the Monotonists.He doesn't understand (and doesn't want to understand) that to speak of monotony these days is to speak of something long forgotten.With an almost senile obstinacy he quoted profusely from the best sentences of his old polemics; the judges could not hear what had once fascinated them.Instead of trying to wash away his erroneous thinking about actors, he tried his best to show that the proposition he was accused of was absolutely orthodox.His fate depended on the verdict of the judges, but he argued with them and ridiculed them, committing the greatest folly.After three days and nights of discussion, the judges sentenced him to death by burning at the stake on October 26.

Aureliano was present at the execution because to do otherwise would be to admit guilt.The place of execution was a small hill. A pile was driven deep into the verdant hilltop, and many bundles of firewood were piled up around it.The warden read the court's verdict.In the twelve o'clock sun, Juan de Pannonia fell face down on the ground, howling like a wild animal.He clutched the ground with his fingers, but the executioner dragged him up, tore off his clothes, and tied him to the stake of shame.On his head was a crown of grass covered with sulfur; beside him was a very popular copy of "Refuting the Ring School".It rained the night before, so the fire was not burning.Juan de Pannonia prayed first in Greek and then in a language he did not understand.Only when the flames were about to engulf him did Aureliano dare to raise his eyes.There was a pause in the blazing flames; for the first and last time Aureliano saw the face of the man he hated.He remembered that it was someone's face, but couldn't remember whose.Then the flames engulfed the face; then only a cry was heard, like a screaming fire. Plutarch mentions that Julius Caesar wept over Pompey's death; Aureliano did not weep over Juan's death, but he felt as if he had been cured of an incurable disease Lost at a loss, because the incurable disease has become a part of his life.He spent several years in Achillea, Ephesus, Macedonia.He roamed the savage slumbers of the empire, the hard swamps, and the deserts of contemplation, hoping that solitude would help him comprehend his destiny.He ruminated over the complex charges against Juan de Pataña on lion-infested nights in his Zen house in Mauritania, defending the verdict countless times.But he could not defend himself against the trumped-up charges.He gave an anachronistic sermon at Russedil entitled "The Light of Lights Burned in a Man Cast into Hell."In a temple hut surrounded by a jungle in Hibernia, he was suddenly awakened by the sound of rain at dawn.He remembered being awakened by the same sound of cascading rain the night before in Rome.At noon a flash of lightning ignited the surrounding trees, and Aureliano, like Juan, was killed. The ending of the story can only be found in metaphor, because the background has been switched to the kingdom of heaven where there is no concept of time.Perhaps it was only necessary to say that Aureliano talked to God, who was so indifferent to religious differences that he took him for Juan de Pannonia.That incident might suggest that God's mind was a bit confused.More precisely, in heaven, Aureliano knew that for the unfathomable God, he and Juan de Pannonia (orthodoxy and heretic, hater and hated, informer and victim) constitute the same person.