There are no happy heroes, they're all unhappy without exception.
If we remove the celestial dimension, we will have man. If we miss the Earth dimension, we see God. But it is the hero who stands at the intersection of earth and heaven.
A Hero as a Way to God
At first we have a man (a human being), inactive was a Greek, later a hero, and yet God. The Greek is so the way to a hero (Greek civilization is simply a heroic civilization), while the hero is the way of man to God. It was. Homer, then in neoplatonics and later, with any changes, this took over Christianity.
The hero is God's way to man and man to God. In the hero God can see what he does not feel, e.g. suffering.
A Hero Needed by God
That's where the belief that the souls of heroes are tears of the gods. Because God is free from desire, he is calm, eternal, no 1 is driving him out of balance, and man is full of emotion, sick, pain, tired, suffering from misery, humiliation, weakness and doubt.
God will never know desire, pain, loss, lack; he will never know the essence of man, unless he has his own heroic boy or daughter, who will let him to feel a nightmare, fear and bottomless misery, to deprive only man of all right. For God, people of flourishing and success are not interesting, due to the fact that their accomplishments compared to his accomplishments are so insignificant. On the another hand, a man suffering, tired, struggling with destiny is simply a mystery to God.
And God may want to transcend Himself, his own indifference to lust, his blessed condition, to feel misery, the absence of blessings, to feel suffering (Gr. πάθος), misfortune. It is the hero that allows God to feel pain, and man gives the experience of blessing, greatness, immortality and fame.
Heros as a Mistake
So heroism is concurrent ontological and anthropological category, vertical hierarchy, along which the dialog between God and man takes place (another: heavenly and earthly).
Where a hero is, there's always a tragedy. A hero always carries suffering, pain, teardrop and tragedy. no happy Heroes, all heroes are absolutely Unhappy. The Herois themselves are unfortunate.
Why? due to the fact that simultaneously being eternal and mortal, fearless and suffering, heavenly and earthly—it is the most unbearable experience for all creature, a condition which is not desired by even the worst enemy.
Christian Hero
In Christianity, heroes were replaced by ascetics, martyrs, saints. There are no happy monks and saints either. They're all profoundly unhappy. Yet, according to another heavenly criteria, they are blessed. As blessed are the weeping, the exiled, the spoken, the hungry and the thirsty, as in Sermon upstairs. Blessed are the unhappy.
A hero of man makes A thought directed toward heaven, but flowing down to earth. The hero creates suffering, misery that rips him apart, torments him, tortures him, and at the same time they always harden him. They may take place in war, in the act of martyrdom, but they may execute and without war, without death.
Spiritual Battle
The hero himself seeks his own war, and if he does not find it, he hides in a monastery cell, in a hermitage, to fight the truest of his enemies there. Bo A real conflict is simply a spiritual battle. He wrote about it in IlluminationArthur Rimbaud: The spiritual conflict is as fierce as the clash of enemy forces (le combat spirituel est assi brutal que la bataille d’hommes).
As the neoplatonics utilized to say Proclos, 1 hero is worth as much as thousands of average souls. It means more than the average human soul, due to the fact that it forces each of them to vertical existence. This is the heroic dimension of the sources of the theatre, the appropriate ethics of our religion – this is the most important, It's something we can't lose, something we should love in others and form in ourselves.
Our task is to become deep, fundamental and irreparably unhappy. No substance how horrible it sounds. That's the only way we can be saved.
Prof. Aleksandr Dugin
