Archives for November 2016

The word “cultivation” expresses the good work someone does in the garden, in their field or in any good or bad object. So if you decide to increase evil and doubt in your life then you need compassion, compromise, ignorance, and ultimately waiving of any claim.

But if you decide to increase the fruit of your labor, to cultivate your field better, to increase your level of faith, then you need agility, wisdom for everyday life, and eventually claiming every good that someone wants to deprive you of, or its conquest requires competition; hard struggle that you personally have to start and finish.

No one will fight and will not claim something for you! No one can replace you in the race of the competition. Even if someone wants to, it is explicitly forbidden by law. No one can give an exam on your behalf. It is a personal matter, and that is beyond question.

The same applies to the issues of living faith. Growth and conquering is a completely personal affair, and the idea that others will care for you is deceitful illusion and ill imagination.

The tower was part of the ancient fortification and served to protect mainly the military. They fled to it in times of war in order to prepare their defense or attack against the outer enemies.

It was a fortress of war, not of peace. However, the change in modern warfare, canceled the operation of a tower, the construction of new towers was discontinued, and the existing towers were turned into empty spaces for every use, mainly museums (in urban centers) or an irrelevant, to the reason they were built, use.

Nowadays, building a tower in Greece is obviously without reason, but at the same time it also states the suspicious thoughts of the builder of such an expensive building. So what can a modern Greek who wants to build a tower have in mind? The answer lies in the following message!

In the Greek language, the word “code” means “book”. We can all understand that a Code of Conduct is not a legal book in the sense of the written law, but it is a book that includes the elements that cannot be registered as law, but are of great value for how the law applies.

This helps people not to live under an unworthy law (= pelting the offender with stones), but even when someone begins to gradually violate a law, to give him the opportunity to perceive the consequences alone and decide to stop the illegal activities.

For the issues of living faith, this Code of Ethics is included in the Holy Bible; it is contained within the books of the New Testament and the Old Testament, and as we seek the presence of the living God, we are careful in our decisions, and above all, and we always seek good and beneficial solutions to the problems, not only of belief in the living God, but even in the matters of everyday life.

In short, the code of conduct of living and effective faith in the living God is here, and we ought to discover it and apply it daily so that our efforts can have beneficial and meaningful results.

The foundation in every building is not only the foundation upon which the whole building is based, but it is what’s built first, at the beginning.

And it’s not just that. Because the foundation determines the shape and size of the building, its uniqueness and its non-substitution are obvious. When someone starts a building, they can clearly change the shape and color of the doors and windows, change the position of the furniture and the decorations, but in no case can they turn back, remove the foundation that has already been built and build again a new foundation.

Such a move is obviously stupid, but beyond that, it is obvious that the building which is already built will be immediately broken down. This simple everyday and intimate truth is used by the writer of the Sacred Texts to bring us to the reality of life and to move us away from dreams.

In the personal building of living faith, you can change a lot, but not the foundation of your building. If you ignore this truth, collapse and destruction are certain.

“Emporakos” is a word in greek that describes a small merchant, a type of person who is active in the field of buying and selling. He buys and sells, and from this activity he earns his livelihood, but also gains capital and gold for the person who gave him not only the first capital for his business, but supported him in all his activities as well.

The good person who gave him his first venture capital does not control him daily, because he is long-suffering, knows how to wait, does not expect to see the result on the evening of the first appearance of the merchant in the market, but to realize how successful will the future be. In the end, if the merchant is clever and hard-working he will increase the capital that his master has lent to him.

But if the merchant who took the capital was wasting it into everyday nonsense, he would have nothing to give as interest to his master, but he is even in danger of starvation for lack of his daily food. The death of the merchant who did not honor the capital that the good gentleman entrusted him is absolutely certain, even if his shop was in St. Mark’s Square of the prosperous Venice.