A Hidden Camera in the Soul / Православие.Ru

Recently I read on the internet about hallucination-like variations on the means for audio and video recordings that exist today. Microcameras hidden on a jacket lapel, in a pen, on eyeglasses, in the telephone, a hat—they are all intended to record and make known the hidden, and of course curious side of your personal life. Today every event is immediately fixed on a mobile telephone or video observation camera that hangs somewhere … there. All places on the earth are easily looked at, and with the help of "Google Earth," you can see everything, even the hat on the head of an old lady standing on the Eifel Tower; you can virtually walk down your street, looking at it from a satellite; you can watch a baby crow growing minute by minute on the roof of a house in Boston. Everything is recorded on a video camera, everything is exposed, we would say. Every detail, no matter how trivial it might be, should and can be placed before the view of the crowds that thirst for sensations. The first avalanche of gazes falls upon the stars; their private lives are invaded, they are spied upon, and followed everywhere. But even ordinary, undistinguished people can become the target of the curious mass media, because of the importance of their professions, for example. In general, you can't hide from the probing eyes of Big Brother even in a hole in the ground. In this new consumer society, they are trying to imitate the All-seeing God in monstrous and abnormal way. The new surveillance and security structures are trying, unsuccessfully, we would say, to compete with the Omniscient Creator.

In the Kingdom of God, all that is secret will be announced and judged in front of everyone, "on the rooftops," says the Bible. Thus, the secrets of the human soul will become a spectacle for the myriad of angels and all our brothers in humanity, and they will be the cause of universal lamentation and endless weeping. The archives of our personal security service will be out for everyone to see, even those which were already destroyed, in order to state clearly and forthrightly, without any mistakes in interpretation, the absolute truth about each person's being. All will be weighed and measured by the righteous and loving judgment of God, and will become the basis for eternal blessedness, or to the contrary, eternal condemnation. The attack of observation systems: electronic, computer, media, political, etc., are a prophecy that the truth will soon be proclaimed from on high, from the rooftop of the world.

We are getting closer and closer to each other; we live in an overcrowded global village, but we feel more and more lonely, more and more distant from other people. We live only a sound signal away from America, but a whole eternity from heaven. We are close in body, distant in soul. Or, it would be better to say, our bodies are not getting closer, but rather becoming more and more pressed by matter; while the soul is becoming ever smaller, and that is why it seems so distant to us.

So, what is there left for us to do? We are recorded, wiretapped, watched. There are more and more electronic eyes, behind which are concealed either good or bad intentions—we don't know which. Everything is known about us. For we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men (1 Cor 4:9). We are playing on a giant stage, lighted to the point of absurdity by thousands of projectors, and we never see the audience hidden behind the one-way screens, which are ever growing in number.

The only good and sure thing for us to do is to live according to the Truth; that is, according to Christ. So that we might not be ashamed of anything we do (that is, we should only do good). We should live just as if—for this is how it is—we were walking before the ceaseless and loving gaze of God. The camera hidden in the soul is the chamber of the Holy Spirit, in which the holy love of the Bridegroom, Christ celebrates the feast and brings immortality.

Thoughts of repentance, of compassion, and forgiveness cannot be recorded even by the most advanced apparatus. Thus, the terror of hidden objects only has power where there is something to hide. A person with a good, merciful, and faithful life goes along in a natural way, without hidden spots, within the bounds of normal and common sense. No matter who watches him, even his domestic life, they will not find anything other than a life filled with God, and a living, real love, embodied by prayer.

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