John Bereslavskiy
The new book of Blessed John is claimed by author's design to reveal three mysteries of human being: heavenly love, Divine wisdom and virgin chastity.
All three enlisted mysteries must be opened: without cognition of their essence the being in God and with Him is not possible.
Blessed John possesses a precious gift: I would call this gift “the feeling of God”. To my opinion, it has no confines for those who has it. “No confines” because it reveals to possessors of this feeling the mystical depths of existence. And it reveals them in divine simplicity, the reaching of what doesn't consider the obligatory kit of knowledge called erudition. The feeling of God surpasses the intellect. God is known through the heart, able to love and to bring sacrifice. This ability is a Wisdom's gift.”
ZOYA KRAKHMALNIKOVA,
Writer-dissident
Main Editor of the underground digest
"Nadezhda (The Hope)" in the Soviet times