Wisdom

We know well an excerpt from an Old Slavic legend about the life of St. Cyril-Constantine: «When Constantine was seven years old, he saw in a dream how a certain duke had gathered all the devas and ordered him to choose one. And he is a chosen one named Sofia-Wisdom. »
This passage inspires us with the Spirit of medieval romance from the time of «minnesängrov.» We will also remember St. Francis of Assisi, who sings love songs about the lady Poverty. A Freud supporter thinks of something to transform or sublimation, the instinct. However, it is not advisable to draw attention to the form of the symbol more than to its content. Metaphorical engagement with an idea is not something unique, after all. Christian mystics always like to eagerly paraphrase the Song of Songs in the time of Origin, who knows «wounds of love,» «kisses,» «spiritual engagement» with gnosis, t. j. spiritual knowledge reality.

The Old Slavic legend is quite in line with the Byzantine tradition, not so much in its form, which is general rather than its specific content.
The young hero Constantine is engaged to Wisdom. The Thessaloniki Temple of Divine Wisdom is restored today, but relatively mundane. Even in the time of the Thessalonian brothers, he could not match the cathedral’s cathedral in any way. For the Thessalonians, after all, they were their Hagia Sophia with a mystical vault depicting the sky and with mosaics on the walls in which Greenness, whiteness, gold, that is, all the beauty of the visible world prevailed. Whoever finds me will find life and happiness in the Creator (Proverbs 8: 35).
He who once saw the temple of God’s Wisdom in Constantinople writes Russian theologian S. Bulgakov will remain forever under the influence of what is revealed here will forever be enriched by the new
by understanding the universe, the world in God, the Wisdom of God. The ten author sees in the concept of God’s Wisdom summarized everything the Greek Spirit created in the time of the seven ecumenical councils, the sum of all the inheritance that the baptized Helada left to the universal Church.
We have been translating Greek since the time of the Slavic apostles
Sophia as Wisdom. However, the words have a fascinating history. They have, as if, the property of living creatures who adapt their shades to the environment in which they live. Wisdom in the new Slovak and her sisters in other languages have an almost exclusively intellectual character. A sage is, in our conception, a gifted, intelligent man who knows many things. It wasn’t always like that. Philologists have found the relationship of ancient Greek trophies with Sanskrit aromas, the root of which indicates not as good thinking as rather a good job. Thus, the old Greek sage means an initially able worker, a master. The Scriptures also presuppose this original meaning. When God created WisdomWisdom at the beginning of the days, she seemed to be a worker, a collaborator, a builder of the whole visible world (Proverbs 8, 22 .). However, the Semitic peoples did extraordinarily well appreciate someone who can do his job deftly and cleverly. Therefore, the Hebrew kochma means Wisdom in it in a sense. The Old Testament Book of Wisdom and Proverbs pit the wise and the fool against each other. One can entrust every work, the other confuses and spoils everything.
In contrast, the ideal of intellectual Greeks has become abstract. The philosopher, translated as a lover of WisdomWisdom, loses more and more interest in practical life. The sirens that lured the swimmers at Homer promised the curious Helen that “They will see everything that is happening on earth.” But it was in the old days the primitive curiosity of a young, intelligent nation. A philosopher raised in enclosed gardens in The Platonic Academy does not know the path that leads to the squares; it does not care what happens at the town hall. Porphyrin praises those who have gouged out their eyes so that they do not have to look at vanities and can only deal with the noble
contemplation and contemplation of eternal truths.
St. Paul noticed well how the Greeks sought Wisdom (1 Cor 1:22). However, he does not judge them in any thoughtful way. In the great Roman Empire, Christianity means the victory of ordinary uneducated people and their healthy view of life, transformed by the gift of the Spirit, over pride Greek Wisdom, which “God damned.” «Wisdom of The cross “overcame” the Wisdom of the Greeks “and exalted them to escape to the unreal world of ideas. Although brought up in Greek schools and speaking in the terminology of philosophers, the First Fathers nevertheless gladly and willingly returned to the concept of Wisdom as it occurs in the Old Testament: the worker, co-worker of God, builder of the world, and the gift of life.