Much as I like Burdon, (less so Dylan) I think the song presents the ol' false duality, the Hegalian dialect. (That we must serve, and that we must serve a God or a Devil) I serve myself.. It is only by primarily serving myself that I can even remotely begin to assist others, if only by staying out of their way. I live in wonderment that somewhere deep in my cells, there is a memory of running away, hiding, from the masters of the church, and their idiot dialect that infects us to this day.
In general the thrust of Eastern Orthodox is God-Manhood. Not bended knee. God-manhood, or bogochelovechestvo in Russian, is a central concept in Russian religious philosophy. It is the idea that the Godhead and humanity are completely unified, and that humanity is the intermediary between God and the world. So following from a non-Latinized view the internal is a union. So then you serve yourself in the positive sense. In 1880, Solovyov gave a series of lectures on God-manhood at the University of St. Petersburg. The lectures were a seminal moment in Russian and world philosophy, and were attended by luminaries such as Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Solovyov believed that humanity is a vital part of nature, and that humans can express the divine idea of "absolute unitotality". He also believed that God posits his oneness with the world through his son, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit.
Much as I like Burdon, (less so Dylan) I think the song presents the ol' false duality, the Hegalian dialect. (That we must serve, and that we must serve a God or a Devil) I serve myself.. It is only by primarily serving myself that I can even remotely begin to assist others, if only by staying out of their way. I live in wonderment that somewhere deep in my cells, there is a memory of running away, hiding, from the masters of the church, and their idiot dialect that infects us to this day.
In general the thrust of Eastern Orthodox is God-Manhood. Not bended knee. God-manhood, or bogochelovechestvo in Russian, is a central concept in Russian religious philosophy. It is the idea that the Godhead and humanity are completely unified, and that humanity is the intermediary between God and the world. So following from a non-Latinized view the internal is a union. So then you serve yourself in the positive sense. In 1880, Solovyov gave a series of lectures on God-manhood at the University of St. Petersburg. The lectures were a seminal moment in Russian and world philosophy, and were attended by luminaries such as Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Solovyov believed that humanity is a vital part of nature, and that humans can express the divine idea of "absolute unitotality". He also believed that God posits his oneness with the world through his son, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit.