>>24571316
Pic related perfectly foreshadowed late modernity. The Holy Orthodoxy pill could have saved Mark. Suffering cannot be avoided; it must be transfigured in Christ. It's like Solovyov says, history is the proving ground where dross is burned away by the refiner's fire and truth is purified in suffering. The race of man is to become like the Blessed Virgin, giving birth to the immanent, mystical body of Christ, the Church Militant, in thought, word, and deed.