Philosophy

I

If we look for sources of the best works of the world culture - be it Literatyre, paintings, or music, we will invariably come to the Bible.

Centuries gone by changed almost nothing in the human nature. And the moral problems faced by the contemporary world are the same as they were in hoary antiquity: love and hate, friendship and betrayal, arrising and falling, desperation and hope.

"Cephas" is a challenge to the generation of disappointed people, struck by treachery. This is the lesson on survival for those, who in overcoming the burning shame and disgrace of   betrayal strive to return to the lost calling.

Peter was just that kind of person, who walked the scorching road of agonizing doubts, treachery and denial.

II

Jesus has chosen twelve disciples. What kind of people were They? Nothing special, ordinary guys, asyou and me. But they turned the world upside down later. The gentile world has wavered before the name of Jesus Christ and the power of the Gospel. The disciples continued the work of their Teacher.

God has chosen something insignificant to put to shame the significant, to put the devil on his knees and to establish the Kingdom of God on this earth. Beautiful and strong words, but what is behind these phrases? The price! The great price that a person pays for success.

Each one of us before going up to the Olympus goes up to their own Calvary.  People of great destiny are special people, life makes special demands on them: rigid, fundamental and almost not accomplishable. Therefore unlike theothers they have to surmount the insurmountable, walk the edge of a knife and even on the water.

At times we do not even suspect what is concealed in the depths of our soul. Getting to know one's own self may result in grave drama, sometimes even a personal catastrophe.

III

When human hearts are being broken and their souls are coming into despair, then trough the anxious twilight the heavens are turning their eyes on us, stretching to us their ever helping hands. And woe is to them who are ashamed to srize them.

IV

"Cephas" is not just a story of fall, but also of a rise of human spirit. At times it is much easier to deside to leave this life, then to find yourself again.

The salutary rope for those summit subjugators now fallen in the rock clefts is faith. It lifts people out of the abyss depths, manifesting the triumph of God's all-conquering, all-forgiving, and all-resurrecting love over the weakness and imperfection of the human character.

"Cephas" is the imperious and loving voice of the Teacher:

DON'T GIVE UP!                      RISE UP!                        COME BACK TO RANKS!

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