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Часть текста: Sundays in halls that they call churches. But I think, that these assemblies ought not to be devoted, as they usually are, to public and uniform public prayers, firstly, because the repetition on Sunday in the same words is perfectly useless, as it very soon becomes a mechanical procedure; secondly and chiefly, because in the Gospels this error is plainly pointed out and it is there definitely said (Math. VI), that one should not pray in public places, but in solitude, which is corroborated both by the reason and the experience of every man, who has ever sincerely prayed to God, as the assembly of people only distracts, makes one’s thoughts wander and diverts them. I think that Sunday rest and dedication of this day to spiritual exercise may take place in the most various forms. One may suggest, that men of the same spirit, meeting together on Sunday, should bring to their meeting such religious books or articles which they find in ancient and modern literature and read and discuss them together; one may suggest, that meeting together on Sunday men of the same spirit should arrange dinners for the poor and themselves serve those dinners; one may suggest, that meeting together men of the same spirit should confess their sins to each other and discuss them. In short one can think of a hundred different forms of worship, which should all have for their aim a mutual spiritual help and should not be mechanical, but sensible. 2) Do I believe in the resurrection and that there is a hereafter? I believe in true, i. e. indestructible life which Christ has disclosed to us and for the which death does not exist. But this life should in no-wise be understood as a resurrection to future life, as a hereafter. One cannot be too cautious in the use of terms for the definition of...

2. Letter to a Hindoo (Письмо к индусу)

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Часть текста: I Do not seek rest in that plane where the earthly gives birth to thoughts and desires, for if thou dost, thou wilt be dragged through the rough wilderness of life, which is not of Me. Whenever thou feelest that thy feet are becoming entangled in the interlaced roots of life, know then that thou hast strayed from the path to which I beckon thee, for I have placed thee in broad smooth paths which are strewn with flowers. I have put a light before thee, which thou can’st follow and thus run without stumbling. Krishna P. 212. I received your letter and the two issues of the magazine. Both were intensely interesting to me; indeed, the oppression of a majority by the minority of a people and the corruption which flows from it, is a phenomenon which has always occupied my mind and at present is entirely occupying my attention. I will endeavour to convey to you what I think, both in a particular and a general way, about those causes from which those dreadful calamities have arisen and do arise, of which you write in your letter and which are also mentioned in the two numbers of the Hindoo magazine you...

3. Толстой Л. Н. - Кэмпбеллу Гамильтону (Hamilton Camp[bell]), 27 января (6 февраля) 1891 г.

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Часть текста: element in the gospel narratives? I think that to accept or to believe the miracles of the gospel is a complete impossibility for a sane person in our times. We cannot believe the miracles not because we wish, or we do not wish to believe in them, but because such narratives, having a certain meaning for people of the 4-th century, have none for us. If Christ in body ascended the sky, he is ascending it still and never will reach the seat at the right hand of his father. And the same stands for all the miracles of the gospel. I think that the faith in the miracle excludes the faith in the teaching. If Christ could make all men healthy and rich (if he could make wine out of water, he could make all men rich) he should have done it instead of teaching men how to be blessed without health and riches. Those who accept the miracles, accept them only because they do not want to accept the teaching. 2) The divinity of Christ? The chief meaning of the definition of God is that He is a being different from man,...

4. Толстой Л. Н. - Кенворти Джону (John С. Kenworthy), 8 июля 1894 г.

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Часть текста: 1894 г. Июля 8. Я. П. Dear friend, I have received both your letters & the papers, which you sent, and thank you for the one & the other. In regard to your letter, the one before last, in which you write that soon you will have formed a community, I wished to answer you the following: Of course one can not but desire the largest spreading of that which one regards as the truth, and not only as an abstract truth, but as a practical one, such a truth, the acceptation of which would deliver men from their miseries and give them the greatest welfare; but, strange though it seems to say so nothing has so much hindered the spreading of the truth, as the too hasty desire to make others accept it. I have always been deeply affected by the seldom noticed words of Christ to his 70 disciples, when they returned from preaching and boasted of their success, saying that everywhere the devils were subject unto them: «In this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather, because your names are written in heaven». In other words: seek not exterior success visible to all men, do not count your proselytes, as do the churchmen & the salvation army, 1 but seek to be in the truth, never to deviate from it & success, thoough perhaps invisible to you, will follow, will certainly follow, because when a man is in the truth he will act and his action will inevitably have the most fruitful results, if even they will not be visible to him. The same is expressed in the words «Seek ye first ...

5. Толстой Л. Н. - Кросби Эрнесту (Ernest Crosby), 24 ноября 1894 г.

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Часть текста: Philosopher» and others, were new to me. The more I know of him, the more I esteem him and am astonished at the indifference of the civilized world to his work. If the new Tsar were to ask me, what I would advise him to do, I would say to him: use your autocratic power to abolish the land property in Russia and to introduce the single tax system; and then give up your power and the people a liberal constitution. I write this to you, because I know, that you are one of the coworkers of H. George, and that you hold his ideas. I wish you success in your work. Yours truly Leo Tolstoy. Дорогой г. Кросби, Пишу вам это письмо только для того, чтобы сказать вам, что г-н Владимир Чертков, о котором вы, я уверен, уже слышали от меня и который обратится к вам по поводу некоторых литературных дел, т. е. издания кое-каких переводов моих сочинений, мой большой друг, и вы очень обяжете меня, если поможете ему в его работе. Из письма, полученного мною от сотрудника журнала «Пророк труда», я догадываюсь, что вы сообщили издателю мое мнение о его газете. Благодарю вас за это, так как я очень ценю его деятельность и хочу, чтобы он знал об этом. Генри Джордж прислал мне все свои книги. Некоторые из них мне знакомы, но другие, как «Запутавшийся философ»...

6. Толстой Л. Н. - Кросби Э. (Е. Crosby), 1896 - 1900 гг.

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Часть текста: like the book very, very much. Some of the pieces the choice is difficult, becouse all are very good — I will have translated in Russian and publisch. There is nothing more new and interesting as the most common subjects looked at from a Christian point of view. And that is what you are doing in your book and doing with talent and sincerity. I will very much like to see M-r Herron 3 but I am affraid that his ideas shall not be partaken by me. I think that Christian principles can have real influence only when they are thorough. Christianity can not bear halfmeasures. There is only the key for the lock that opens it. A key which is nearly the real one is of no use. If we can not be thorough in our lifes, deads [?]let us try to be as thorough as possible in our idead, because to be thorough in ones ideas there is no hindrance. I like very much the Christian[?] gospel 4 and it is a great joy for me to know that I have so many true friends and brothers among your countrymen. Yours truly Leo Tolstoy. Мой дорогой м-р Кросби, Я получил ваше письмо и пишу, как вы мне посоветовали сделать, письмо м-ру Рейнольдсу. 1 Я это сделал, потому что вы посоветовали, но тем не менее боюсь, что это вовлечет меня в неприятное дело, с которым я не имею ничего общего. Я получил также вашу книгу, 2 за которую вас благодарю. Она мне очень, очень нравится. Некоторые отрывки — выбирать трудно, потому что все очень хороши, — мне хочется перевести на русский язык и опубликовать. Нет ничего новее и интереснее самых обыкновенных тем, рассматриваемых с христианской точки зрения. И это вы делаете в вашей книге, и делаете талантливо и искренно. Мне очень хочется повидаться с м-ром Херроном, 3 но боюсь, что его...

7. Толстой л. Н. - Эвансу Фредерику (Frederic W. Evans), 27 января (6 февраля) 1891 г.

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Часть текста: (I received the tracts that you sent me 1 ) and was very satisfied with your views upon the diffe[re]nt expressions of religious sentiments suiting the age of those to whom they are directed. I received the tracts you sent me and read them not only with interest but with profit, and cannot criticise them because I agree with everything that is said in them. There is only one question that I should wish to ask you. You are, as I know non-resistants. How do you manage to keep communial, but nevertheless property? Do you acknowledge the possibility for a Christian to defend property from usurpators? I ask this question because I think that the principle of non-resistance is the chief trait of true Christianity and the greatest difficulty in our time is to be true to it. How do you manage to do so in your community? With sincere respect and love yours truly Leo Tolstoy. I received your tracts, you say in your letter that [you] have sent me books, did you mean them or did you send me books calling the tracts books? I received more than a year the Oregon paper World Advance Thought, sometimes. I saw in it your articles. 2 I am very thankful to the editor for sending this paper; in every № I get spiritual nourishment if it were not for some spiritistic tendency that is foreign to me. Who is the editor and how long ago has it been founded? [I] agree with all its religious views. I like this paper very much. Дорогой друг и брат. Благодарю вас за ваше доброе письмо. Большой радостью было для меня узнать, что вы разделяете мои мысли о христианстве (я получил брошюры, которые вы мне послали 1 ), и был очень удовлетворен вашими взглядами относительно различных способов выражения религиозных чувств, сообразно с возрастом тех, к которым они...

8. Толстой Л. Н. - Войзе Чарльзу (Charles Voysey), 7 июня 1901 г.

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Часть текста: about the Unitarien but not about the Theistic Church. I have read some of the books and leaflets that you sent me to see that your belief is nearly the same as mine. I say nearly, because I do not regard Christ as an impostor as one of your co-religionists wrote to me some time ago 1 and do not lay at his door all the bad things that are included in the Gospel. All that I read in your books is quite congenial to me and especially your sermon on «The Philosophy of Human life». I am very sorry not to be able to send you my complete answer to the «Excommunication», but I wrote to my friend in England — V. Tchertkoff (Christchurch, Hants) begging him to send to you this answer and also some of my books on religious subjects by which you will see that without knowing each other personally we come to the same conclusions because we draw from the same source: human reason, love and conscience, as you rightly put in some of your books. With respect and love Yours truly Leo Tolstoy. Милостивый государь, Я получил ваше письмо и проповедь по поводу моего отлучения, так же как и ваши книги, и очень вас благодарю. Очень был рад узнать, что у меня есть религиозные единомышленники, о которых до сих пор не ...

9. Толстой Л. Н. - Ферису Томасу (Thomas Н. Ferris), 21 - 25 ? января 1903 г.

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Часть текста: letter and your question confirm me in this resolution. I can not answer your question, because I can not understand it, though I see, that for you it has a very clear meaning. And therefore you see that our discussion would be quite vain. You say that my refusal to see you again is a sign of my want of love. My love to you can manifest itself only in repeating my advice and hearty wish that you should free your good and religious soul from the strange ideas that mar it, which as they say in a Russian popular asying: spoil by a spoonful of tar a barrel of honey. So once more repeating my conviction of the needlessness of our interview, I wish you and your friend 1 a good journey home. Yours truly Leo Tolstoy. Уважаемый г. Ферис, Когда я вам писал, что не желаю обсуждать ваши религиозные воззрения, потому что это ни к чему хорошему не привело бы, я делал это вполне обдуманно. Ваше письмо и ваш вопрос утверждают меня в этом решении. 1 Я не могу ответить на ваш вопрос, потому что не могу его понять, хотя вижу, что для вас он имеет очень ясное значение. Ясно, что наше обсуждение было бы...

10. Толстой Л. Н. - Вильсону Л. Ж. (L. G. Wilson), 22 июня 1889 г.

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Часть текста: Л. Н. - Вильсону Л. Ж. (L. G. Wilson), 22 июня 1889 г. 391. Л. Ж. Вильсону (L. G. Wilson). 1889 г. Июня 22. Я. П. Iasnaya Polyana Tula, Russia Iuly 5, 1889 Dear Sir. I have seldom experienced so much gratification as I had in reading Mr. Ballou’s 1 treatise and tracts. I cannot agree with your opinion that Mr. Ballou «will not go down to posterity among the immortals...» I think that because he has been one of the first true apostles of the «New Time» — he will be in the future acknowledged as one of the chief benefactors of humanity. If, in his long and seemingly unsuccessful career, Mr. Ballou has experienced moments of depression in thinking that his efforts have been vain; he has only partaken of the fate of his and our Master. Tell him please, that his efforts have not been vain, they give great strength to people, as I can judge from myself. In those tracts I found all the objections that are generally made against «non-resistance» victoriously answered and also the true basis of the doctrine. I will endeavor to translate and propagate as much as I can, the works of Mr. Ballou, and I not only hope, but am convinced, that the time is come, «when the dead hear the voice of the Son of god; and they that hear shall live». The only comments that I wish to make on Mr. Ballou’s explanation of the doctrine, are, firstly, that I cannot agree with the concession that he makes for employing violence against drunkards and insane people, the Master made no concessions, and we can make none. We must try, as Mr. Ballou putsit, to mave impossible the...

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