The Emanation of Jerusalem

"(...) The Revelation of the Second Person of the Most Holy Trinity—the Son of the Father—takes place in a time that is already metaphysically prepared. Both the chosen people are prepared through the way of grace, and the entire world of Greek thinkers is prepared as well, along with the Romans, as the center of the world of ancient civilization. Prepared in what way? Prepared in that there exists one God. Thus, reason and faith agree on this: there is one God, and from the position of this God, the reality of man and the universe must now be interpreted. (...)"

"(...) The ancient Greeks and Romans said that when I ask about the cause of man, it is the Absolute that constitutes it. But it is well known that ancient Greek science had one fundamental problem: it did not know the name of the Absolute. For this, Revelation in the Divine Person of Jesus of Nazareth was necessary, who became man through the Immaculate Mother, the Most Holy Mary. And He revealed to us the fact that the cause of man's being is a personal God, who reveals Himself in Jesus of Nazareth as God the Father, the Son of God, and the Holy Spirit—that is, one God existing in Three Divine Persons. (...)"

"(...) Only Christian philosophy, broadly understood, drawing upon the understanding of God—indeed as one, but existing in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, as simultaneously the highest Truth and the highest Love—opened up to human reason fascinating spaces of systematic reflection upon God as love and upon man, whose most important dimension of existence is to become a loving being. (...)"

"(...) The ancient Greeks and Romans did not fully know what follows from the fact that there exists the Lord God, who is the most perfect being, who is Truth itself and Wisdom itself. What follows from this? They did not find this bridge to the love of God. But we, children of God, knowing the Revealed God, know perfectly well: our Lord God is not only eternal Truth, not only eternal Reason, which itself is absolute truth and knows every existing truth absolutely perfectly. Our Lord God, in His ontology, is also an eternally free being, with a free will that is eternally fulfilled as Love. (...)"

"(...) in the last five centuries, the person most attacked among all Divine, angelic, and human persons is the Person of Jesus of Nazareth. Across all ideologies, whatever they may be called. For almost thirty years now, they have been the subject of my research, and I must say with full responsibility that no one in the last five centuries has been as reviled as the Lord Jesus."

"(...) The Lord Jesus, as the second Person of the Most Holy Trinity, is eternal, is holy, is God, just as God the Father and the Holy Spirit are, and He also remained God at the moment of the Incarnation under the Immaculate Heart of Mary, at the moment of birth, during His childhood, His youth, on the cross—the Lord Jesus always remained God, paving our way to the Father. (...)"

"(...) The Revelation of the true God in the Old and New Covenants shows us the full truth about the primordial vocation of man—with soul, spirit, body, and whole person—already unto immortality in Paradise. He was conceived by the Triune God the Creator as a place and time of preparation for man, created in the image and likeness of God, to pass into eternal life in the Kingdom of Heaven. Paradise is still constituted by spatio-temporality, whereas the Kingdom of Heaven is constituted by eternity. The sin of our first parents, due to the negative influence of the evil spirit, that is, the fallen angel, became the cause of the death of the human body as a negation of human life in its material aspect. Christ's great triumph over death in the act of the Resurrection led to the definitive overcoming of this negation and the restoration of the unity of fallen human beings within themselves and unity with God—for those who believe, of course. For from the objective act of Redemption accomplished by the Incarnate Son of God, one must distinguish the necessity of a subjective affirmation of that very divine act of Salvation offered to every human being as a rational and free creature. (...)"

"(...) If we ask how to perfect the world, there is not, there has not been, and until the final day—that is, the closing of the history of creation and human deeds—there will not be a more splendid center of divine truth and love than Christ's saving cross. (...)"

"(...) The truth about man is unique; he has only a beginning, but no end. Why? Because it pleased God the Creator to create him, to initiate his existence, but to call him to everlasting immortality. (...)"

"(...) in ancient Greek philosophy, before the revelation of Jesus of Nazareth, there was indeed no concept of the person, only the concept of hypokeimenon, that is, suppositum—the subject was discovered, something wonderful, but that subject was de facto nature. (...) Aristotle had the intuition that there must be something more in man than this composition of nature: soul, spirit, and body, but it was not articulated. (...)"

"(...) the supernatural dimension of our existence as baptized individuals means that our intellect is additionally endowed with the grace of faith, our memory is additionally endowed with the grace of hope, and our free will is additionally endowed with the grace of divine love (...)"

"(...) The harmony within man between his nature and the grace he receives from God becomes such a miracle that human life can only be compared to the most magnificent musical symphony or opera—one that no greatest musical composer has ever formulated. (...)"

"(...) Christian Revelation tells us that my stay in time occurs only once. That is, I, as this specific individual, can only appear in time once. And I appear in time for a specific purpose: to shape my existence in this single temporal life so as to prepare for eternity. This intuition of man preparing in time for eternity was already present in antiquity, except that antiquity did not discover from the standpoint of reason the Creator who calls all being, including time, into real existence ex nihilo. (...)"

"(...) The measure of time for a Catholic Christian is the Incarnate Person of the Son of God. Apart from Christ, I will find neither a plan of time that is more perfect, nor a purposefulness of time that is more supreme, nor supernatural powers that could help me realize myself within time. (...)"

"(...) Unlike Divine freedom, our freedom has a beginning. (...) But having a beginning, we have no end to being free. Our humanity, as free, is invited to experience this human freedom forever. But on how (...) we realize our freedom here on earth—whether based on the principle of good or based on evil—will depend whether we shall exist as eternally free in the House of God, or forever as slaves in the house of hell. (...)"

"(...) Any distancing of oneself from God is a direct path to enslavement. Man is free only by virtue of his coming into being. That is, if we ask about freedom, I can only be free in my Creator. Thus, acceptance of God is the path to freedom. Worshiping God is the path to true freedom; respecting God, paying Him homage, and therefore professing the faith and practicing the faith—this is precisely the true path to freedom. (...)"

"(...) In the light of the Bible, that is, the revealed Word of God and the great, splendid, holy doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church built upon it, marriage is established by God Himself. That is, God the Creator established this institution by bringing into existence man and woman as persons—that is, as rational, free subjects who are aware of from whom they originate, who they are, what their nature is, what communion they can build together, and for what purpose. (...)"

"(...) Marriage is, according to its nature, an indissoluble union of man and woman. Why indissoluble? Because man is preparing for eternal communion with God, and to be able to worthily prepare for eternal communion with God in the Holy Trinity, whether as a woman or as a man, one must train during one's earthly existence in the path of indissolubility. This is served, among other things, by marriage, but also by the sacrament of holy orders, religious vows, or various friendships that people form—they possess an indissoluble character so as to begin eternal life already here on earth. (...)"

"(...) Just as throughout all of reality we find traces of God, so too in various religions there are certain intuitions and fragments of truth about God, man, or the world. Nevertheless, the fullness of truth—the fullness of Revelation—is given to us in the Person of Jesus of Nazareth. (...) Christianity, in its Catholic interpretation, is the most magnificent doctrine concerning God; it presents God to us as primordial, divine, eternal, omnipresent, holy, infinite, and inexhaustible Love of extraordinary depth. (...)"

"(...) We know perfectly well who the prince of this world is. We Catholics have no doubt whatsoever. If we strive to be true Catholics, every honest, good Catholic knows that biblical teaching and the Church's doctrine unequivocally state that the prince of this world is the fallen spirit. (...)"

"(...) It is the primordial transgression of Satan—to destroy God. I believe that we will only understand communism and what is happening today in Poland, in Europe, or in world culture when we realize that ultimately it concerns the struggle between God and Satan in the history of man and the world. (...)"

"(...) it is very easy to expose the spirit of the times, because it is the antipode of the Spirit of God. If the Spirit of God points us to the existence of God, the spirit of the times will deny God's existence; if the Holy Spirit shows us the perfect God, the spirit of the times will blaspheme, revile the true God, and promote idols that are not the true God, alternative churches, and other things; the spirit of the times possesses various illusory proposals. (...)"

"(...) as Poles we have a great mission—to save everyone. And since it is not always possible to save everyone, to save whomever can be saved. But one thing should be present in all of us, and in a Polish Catholic absolutely: to try to save every human being, without exception."

"(...) May the time finally come for us to return from artificially deformed thinking back to a healthy understanding of the world. And especially we Poles, subjected in various ways to the totalitarianisms of the twentieth century that devastated our nation and state, should return to Christian thinking regarding human life created by God, redeemed by God, destined for eternity—a life capable of sovereign thinking, willing, perceiving, empathizing with the Creator, co-creating, and co-managing the universe, in this charming corner of it called Poland, our Fatherland, and above all, to a life called forth from Eternal Love and for that very Love, (...) which will constitute the essence of eternal life. (...)"

"(...) The summit of the human spirit is to allow oneself to be formed according to the Divine design, that plan of creation. What a great and unique perfection! But what great work it requires—from the Church, Polish academia, Polish culture, and the Polish state—to align all dimensions of our Polish existence and direct them so that Poland may truly be reborn, and daily regenerate in Christ. Then it will sovereignly deal with any ideology, no matter how intricately crafted. (...)"

"The Athens of Roztocze is a synthesis-project of Jerusalem as the symbol of God's Revelation of the Old and New Testaments, of ancient Greece as the cradle of philosophy and science in general, and of ancient Rome with Roman law astonishingly faithful to natural law, and simultaneously the capital of the Holy Catholic Church of our Lord Jesus Christ, as true God and true Man, established by the will of its Divine Founder upon the College of Apostles with St. Peter at its head."