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To my great shame, I must admit that I haven't watched "The Alchemist," neither the first nor the second one.
You know how it is – you know you should watch something, that it will definitely be enjoyable, you put it off to watch later when you have time...
But I have a collection of interpretations of roughly the same images by one Orthodox artist.
Airy Torments, if you happen to know... But you probably don't. And you don't need to know yet; you'll find out eventually.
Pride
Lust
Wrath
Envy
Sloth
Greed
Gluttony
In small things
Resentment
Mercilessness
Murder
Injustice
And my favorites
Lies
Sorcery
Heresy (and I even know which one!)
And the "King of Sins" himself, sodomy.
In my opinion, the Orthodox obsession with this particular sin (which, in the Apostle Paul, is listed among theft and, excuse me, masturbation, and is not mentioned elsewhere in the New Testament) says something very important about them, right in the spirit of Grandfather Freud...
"Their pleasure is deceit," I repeated to myself what I remembered, "their fruits are deadly poison, their promise is death. The tree of their life they planted in the middle of paradise... But I will teach you what is the secret of their life... The root of the tree is bitter, and its branches are death, and its shade is hatred... Deceit dwells in its leaves, and it grows in darkness."
(c) V. Pelevin, "Empire V"
You know how it is – you know you should watch something, that it will definitely be enjoyable, you put it off to watch later when you have time...
But I have a collection of interpretations of roughly the same images by one Orthodox artist.
Airy Torments, if you happen to know... But you probably don't. And you don't need to know yet; you'll find out eventually.
Pride
Lust
Wrath
Envy
Sloth
Greed
Gluttony
In small things
Resentment
Mercilessness
Murder
Injustice
And my favorites
Lies
Sorcery
Heresy (and I even know which one!)
And the "King of Sins" himself, sodomy.
In my opinion, the Orthodox obsession with this particular sin (which, in the Apostle Paul, is listed among theft and, excuse me, masturbation, and is not mentioned elsewhere in the New Testament) says something very important about them, right in the spirit of Grandfather Freud...
"Their pleasure is deceit," I repeated to myself what I remembered, "their fruits are deadly poison, their promise is death. The tree of their life they planted in the middle of paradise... But I will teach you what is the secret of their life... The root of the tree is bitter, and its branches are death, and its shade is hatred... Deceit dwells in its leaves, and it grows in darkness."
(c) V. Pelevin, "Empire V"
