Nikolai Berdyaev. The spirit and reality (№ 304930)

Ceremonialism, obryadoverie is conditional symbolization. The precepts of Christ are not implemented, and symbolists. Christian love and mercy are expressed in symbols, not realities. <...> wins Symbolism realism in marriage and the family. Marriage in most cases is a symbolic, not a real mystery, because the real mystery associated with love. The relationship of family members between themselves are conventionally symbolic, ritual, and the comparatively small role of breakthrough realities. The whole life of the state is symbolic. <...> the Whole moral life, crystallizing in morals based on symbolism and not on the real transformation of the people. Legalistic morality requires people to perform conditional symbology of a non-binding real connection with their inner life, their spirituality. The duty is symbolic. People need to offer each other signs that may not match the realities. The so-called "good deeds" can carry symbolic symbolic. Mercy may be symbolic and not real. The so-called hypocrisy is an extreme form of symbolism, from which disappeared all reality.