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Часть текста: 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 the true, indestructible, eternal life. If we were to say, that it will be a personal life, that we shall pass into other bodies or beings, as the Buddhists understand it in their metam-psychosis, we should be making a gratuitous assertion. If, on the other hand, we were to assert, that death destroys all that which composes our «ego», it...

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

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Часть текста: 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 the kingdom of God, and his righteousness & all these things shall be added unto you»; & in the words: «Be ye wise as serpents, & harmless as doves». Truth in order to influence men should be complete, not clipped, not adapted to the life of men of the world. And this is always being forgotten by mankind. And owing to this the most powerful...

3. Толстой Л. Н. - Кенворти Джону (John Kenworthy), 27 июня 1896 г.

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Часть текста: «Brotherhood Chucrh» (I do not like those names; they promise too much: it would be well, if in the transformation they would drop this name). 1 I think, that a great part of the evil of the world is due to our wishing to see the realization of what we are striving at, but are not ready for, and therefore being satisfied with the semblance of that, which should be. Compulsory governement organization is indeed nought else, than the semblance of good order, which is maintained by prisons, gallows, police, army and workhouses. Of real order there is none; only, that which infringes, it is hidden from our view in prisons, penal settlements and slums. And I think, that the dicease remains so long uncured, because it is concealed. So likewise with brotherhood or church communities. They also are semblances. There cannot be a community of saints among sinners. I think, that the members of a community in order to keep the semblance of sainthood must necessarily commit many new sins. We are so created, that we cannot become perfect either one by one, or in groups, but (from the very nature of the case) only all together. The warmth of any drop (or particle) is transmitted to all the others. And were it possible to conserve the heat of one particle, so that it...

4. 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 sent me. The causes, owing to which this astonishing spectacle arises, of the majority of the labouring classes submitting to a mere handful of idlers whom it permits to dispose not only of its labour but also of its very life, are always and everywhere the same; whether the oppressors and the oppressed belong to the same, or, as is the case in India and in other countries, where the dominant class belongs to an entirely different nation from those oppressed. It appears especially strange of India, for here we have a people of 200 millions of individuals, highly endowed with spiritual and physical powers, in absolute subjection to a small clique, composed of persons...

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

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Часть текста: 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, above him and therefore if I say that man is God, I say a contradiction, just as if I said: spirit (the definition of which is something that is not matter) — spirit is matter. Christ being God is a belief that can be kept only by people who do not want to accept his teaching. If Christ is man the chief purport of his advent is his teaching and if I accept Christ as teacher I must follow his doctrine, but if he is God his teaching is...

6. Толстой Л. Н. - Гибсону Дж. (G. Gibson), 11 марта 1898 г.

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Часть текста: your letter and magazine, both of which afforded me great pleasure. The first number is very good and I liked all the articles in it. It is quite true, as you say it in your article «The Social Need » 1 , and Herron 2 in his, that a Christian life is quite impossible in the present unchristian organization of society. The contradictions between his surroundings and his convictions are very painful for a man who is sincere in his сhristian faith, and therefore the organization of communities seems to such a man the only means of delivering himself from these contradictions. But this is an illusion. Every community is a small island in the mist of an ocean of unchristian conditions of life, so that the christian relations exist only between members of the colony but outside that must remain unchristian, otherwise the colony would not exist for a moment. And therefore to live in community cannot save a christian from the contradiction between his conscience and his life. I do not mean to say that I do not approve of...

7. Дневник 1891 г.

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Часть текста: Целый день метель. 5 Я. Я. П. 91. Встал позднее. Ходил. Всё молюсь так же, и всё холоднее и холоднее. Писал довольно много. Кончаю, кажется, о церкви. Ездил с Количкой к Булыгину, вернулся, тут Раевские. Теперь 11 часов. Они поехали на Козловку, а я пойду наверх и спать. 6 Я. Я. П. 91. Е. б. ж. 6-го Января. Ничего особенного. Писал об искусстве.[24] Остановился. Сил мало. Приехал Булыгин. Хорошо. 7 Я. Я. П. 91. Почти не писал. Ходил навстречу.[25] 8 Я. Я. П. 91. Писал, поправляя старое. Вчера написал письма Попову, Панькову, Бирюк[ову], Страхову, Чертко[ву], Гольцеву. Нынче написал Хрипковой. Записал: 1) Христианская истина открылась мне сознанием братства и моего удаления от него. Какая была радость и восторг и потребность осуществления! 2) Да, основная истина христианская есть сознание того, что жизнь эта плотская дана только для приобретения жизни истинной. 3) Любишь и радуешься. И стоит только подумать о том, как об тебе думают люди, чтобы любовь твоя перешла в злобу и радость в печаль. 4) Нынче 2-й раз думаю, молясь, о...

8. Толстой Л. Н. - Кенворти Джону (John С. Kenworthy), 15 мая 1894 г.

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Часть текста: help in the establishment of the kingdom of God, which cannot be established otherwise, than by establishing it in our own hearts by trying to be as perfect as is our Father in heaven. Tell me please, if you have many co-workers. Is the religious feeling alive in the English workmen? Is it not stifled by socialistic doctrines? I like very much the difference, that you establish between Socialism ans Christianity. We cannot too much insist upon it. Christianity for to be powerful must be pure from all mélange of Dogmatism, Sentimentalism, Evangelism, as well as of Socialism, Anarchy, or Philanthropism. Excuse my bad English, and believe me, Yours with hearty sympathy, Leo Tolstoy. Милостивый государь, я только что кончил читать те две книги, которые вы мне прислали, и хочу поблагодарить вас и за присылку и за содержание книг. 1 Не знаю, как выразить вам ту радость, которую я испытываю, видя, что такой способный и искренний человек, как вы, занимается тем же делом, на которое и я положил свою жизнь, и положил не потому, что избрал это призвание, а потому, что это единственное дело в этой нашей жизни, которое стоит делать. Я полагаю, что вы находитесь в том же самом положении, и думаю, что наша задача заключается в том, чтобы дать людям почувствовать, что в этой жизни не может быть другого дела, как помогать установлению царства божия, — того, которое не может быть установлено иначе, как прежде всего в наших собственных сердцах тем, что мы будем стремиться быть совершенными, как совершен отец наш небесный. Пожалуйста, сообщите, много ли у вас единомышленников. Живо ли религиозное чувство среди английских рабочих? Не заглушено ли оно социалистическими учениями? Мне очень нравится, как вы толкуете различие между христианством и социализмом. Нельзя достаточно настаивать на нем. Для того, чтобы христианство было могущественным, оно должно быть свободным от всякой примеси как догматизма, сентиментализма и евангелизма, так...

9. Толстой Л. Н. - Крауфорду (J. М. Crowford), 14 февраля 1893 г.

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Часть текста: as the want of fire wood has been greater than we expected it. Therefore every gift from American benefactors for our famine stricken peasants will be gratefully accepted. В ответ на ваше письмо имею честь уведомить вас, что в этом году голод в некоторых частях нашей местности грозен не менее прошлогоднего и что мы продолжаем нашу работу в этом году, хотя не в тех размерах, как в прошлом. В этом году мы имеем свыше 90 столовых (кухонь). Наши средства не столь обильны, как были в прошлом году. Тем более что мы превысили наш бюджет, так как нужда в топливе оказалась сильнее, нежели мы ожидали. Поэтому всё посланное американским жертвователями для наших голодающих крестьян будет принято с благодарностью. Примечания Печатается по черновику, написанному T. Л. Толстой на нижней половине четвертой страницы письма А. А. Бобринского к Толстому от 2 февраля 1893 г. (см. ниже). Датируется на основании упоминания об этом письме в письме Толстого к жене (см. т. 84, стр. 185 и 186). Ответ на письмо консула Соединенных Штатов Северной Америки Крауфорда из Петербурга от 4/16 февраля 1893 г., который спрашивал, продолжает ли Толстой помогать крестьянам, ощущается ли нужда в эту зиму и нуждается ли Толстой в деньгах. О том же запрашивал Толстого в письме от 2 февраля секретарь Американского комитета помощи голодающим А. А. Бобринский (р. 1859). Ответного письма Крауфорда не сохранилось. Бобринский в письме от 17 февраля сообщал: «Благотворительный комитет при Американском посольстве...

10. The hostelry (Гостиница)

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Часть текста: to do this was to....[25] an inn in such a place where many people passed and of furnishing it with all that could be of use or give pleasure to men. So he arranged a hostelry with comfortable rooms, good stoves, fuel, lighting, store-rooms full of every kind of provisions, vegetables and all sorts of refreshment, also beds, every kind of clothes, underwear and boots in such quantities as to suffice for a great quantity of people. Having arranged all this the benefactor wrate very distingly a direction how to use his hostelry and all the thing that where gathered in it. This decretion the benefactor nailed on the entrance door so that every man should see it. In the direction it was writen that every man who entered the hostelry might stay in it as long as it was good for him and might eate and drink at his heart content and use all what was gathered in the inn clothes or boots or kind of provisions. The sole condition which was required from the travelers was that they schould take only what they needed presently and that they should help each other and leaving the hostelry made things tidy as before their arrival. Having arranged all this and written and...

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