VII. Symbolism and occultism in the Church.

VIII. The Seven Sacraments [9].

IX [10]. Church and all-human religion; the boundaries of the Church.

X. The Holy Scriptures and the Universal Tradition.

"From the metaphysics of the cult

Cult.

Religion and culture. On the methodology of studying religion. Cult as a basis. SIN. Durkheim. My review of Bogolyubsky. Icon of the XVIII century<1 nrzb.> XIX c. —<1 nrzb.> Talk about SIN.

Anthropocentrism. Measures.<Cosmocentrism?>

Cultocentrism.

Christocentricity.

What is a cult? "Sacraments + rites."

"Essays on[11] the philosophy of the cult

1) Cult, religion and culture.

2) Cult and philosophy.

3) The Church and the World. [12]

4) Rites and sacraments.

5) Features of the phenomenology of the cult.

6) Sanctification of reality.

7) Prayer.

8) The Word of God.

1918. IV.26. The day of the procession of the cross to the Chernigov Mother of God with the Patriarch.

Svyashch. Florensky.

Tuesday and Wednesday, from 4 to 6. Ostozhenka, 2nd Ilyinsky, Gymnasium "Islands of Teachers".

May, verses 8, 9, 15, 16, 22, 23, 29, 30[13], June 5, 6."

On the same day, Father Pavel made a sketch of the beginning of his lectures, which he then pronounced at the end of the first lecture in a slightly revised form: "We will have to deal with subjects that have not been studied at all, or have been studied in completely different directions and angles than we have in mind, and the main thing served as a subject in other intentions than for us. We will have to do everything again<2 nrzb.>".

The report on the lectures appeared in the press, and, judging by the extremely accurate and capacious presentation, it could have belonged to Florensky himself:

"The main task of the course was to establish the greatest importance of the cult (sacraments, divine services, rites) for Orthodoxy. To the cult of the Church and to its foundation and center—the Divine Eucharist—ascend all the holiness of Christian life, thought, and deeds. Everything that is then secularized in culture proceeds from the cult: philosophy, science, forms of society, art. The cult (and its basis, the sacrament of Communion) is the sacred and only basis for living thought, creativity, and society. Therefore, Orthodoxy is threatened with troubles by those theological systems that evade the recognition of the central importance of the sacraments, divine services and sacred symbols-rites for the Church, life and philosophy.

The lectures of the priest P. A. Florensky were held with exceptional success and in front of a crowded audience"[14].