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Human rights

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a voice against one cruelty, incomparable in history before World War II, and a boundless longing in the human soul for peace, prosperity, and freedom. Indisputably it is an achievement but also a political act of the duel of the two systems, which divided the world between themselves. The first system protected the personality in its entirety but in its mercantile aspect; the other one supported the idea of the collective consciousness, destroying the personality in a collective grave. Both systems however protected only the body.
The professed religions give enough reasons to protect something else beside the body. This is clearly said by Christ: And fear not them which kill the body, but rather fear your soul not to be killed (Matthew 10:28). Nowadays human being is protected not to be killed, but nobody guarantees for his soul not to be destroyed! A problem, never posed before, in order to seek which elements kill the soul. Which substance within us is the superhuman (der Uebermensch) and what is being done about its protection?
People turned the magic carpet into a rоcket, to fly to the Moon, but the magic carpet within the human being is still denied. Back in time the idea for flying has been accepted as fantasy, as mythology, but we have already made it a reality! Now we not only accept our soulness as objectivity but in the Third Millenium it will have its live. Human being stands as a target in the life path of history and indisputably a Day for protection of its rights is born as a necessity of the applied will and thought. There is no braver daring in the idea for freedom than what Christ gives man as a right by the idea for equality and forgiveness – to be not only co-divine, but also super-humane, because he – the man is a god in evolution. Freedom as an idea for equality has been brought throughout all milleniums and has begun ever since the first religious thrill – since the nascency of the prayer between man and God. The essence of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is so ancient that if we go back five thousand years, we will find it in the Hindu religion in Krishna’s words, who says that for the sake of love he gives his life. After that Buddha is fighting against the castes and Moses with the Ten Commandments sets what we now accept with such protection and tribute – the human rights!
And when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights already does exist, the discrimination in the United States of America is on its march, and Martin Luther King is killed. Where is then the threshold of the joy that we have rights to freedom as well as the right to life? Life is invincible – the rest are shadows of obsolete actualities! Therefore, the idea for immortality remains, because the idea for life is indisputable. And this is the source, this is the applied reality, that man is! Consequently, each present time must create and guarantee existence that can provide man with the right tо life and labour – protection from humiliation, poverty and hunger, to preserve the right to imagination, because imagination is freedom as an idea for creativity.
There are two poles in the world history and European culture: the Baptism, when Father God says: This is my beloved Son, in Whom I am well pleased (Mathew 3:17), and the Court of law,

where Pilate who has to judge a Deity, says: Behold the Man! This is the space in which the culture of mankind develops for the last two thousand years. In this period of time the inquisition and the indulgence exist – both being destructive enough. But there is something that is no less murderous, something that still remains – the anathema. Religious institutions use this unobstructed and forcible measure against the human soulness. Anathema is a religious punishment that destroys human spirituality.
In article 189 of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church Statute is accepted, and Apostle Paul also says, that one who does not share or does not want to accept Christ must be anathematized. Anathema is a curse upon both soul and spiritual essence of man. This is not like the act of branding a scar, as the respective Oecumenical Councils punished the heretics. That scar which is invisible is much more frightful. The anathema is a curse with excommunication. In the Universal Declaration rights are granted to the most elementary awareness of man, but where is then the right of the soul not to be stained, not to be branded with curse and socially isolated?
What is more, the term “enemy” is still cut deep into the social field! And Christ reveals an entire philosophy. He says: Love your enemy! He doesn’t say Love your fellow man, as always has been repeated, for what is the use of loving only your brother? Or, what is the use of loving the Lord, Whom you do not see, while hating your brother and turning him into your enemy?
The civil rights guarantee the freedom of speech, but no protection from the insult of the official institutions, which call their opponent an enemy. The opponent is a side to argue upon something with, while the enemy is something completely different. “Enemy” is a scar upon the personal soulness, “enemy” is a social curse!
Where are the causes of all these negations? The insight is missing, that man is something more than just a body that contains a brain to think with. And when greatness is missing, these horrible terms are used: anathema and enemy. Man must live trough the duel between good and evil. Condemning someone stops his own possibility to pass through, to evolve evil into good. Thus, the awakening of the Spirit in man, realizing himself for divinity, is hindered. For thousands of years battles have been fought for the freedom of man, often full of cruelty, but still no battle is fought for the freedom of God in man!
Indisputably the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is of a great merit, but it has to be known that when the United Nations Organization legalizes these rights on December 10th, 1948, they are already present in the Bulgarian history. Our Tangrism did not permit slavery and according to article 61 from the Turnovo Constitution every slave, regardless of gender, religion or nationality, becomes free once he steps on Bulgarian territory!
The idea for freedom is a winged bird which as the phoenix will be burned out, but it will be reborning. Jesus Christ says: Only the truth shall make you free (St. John 8:32) and freedom is the only thing which can make man co-divine – only freedom can give birth to gods!