It is doubtful that IA Ilyin today would be a post to our forum cutting its old opus - a man he was quite adequate, so as not to tease the geese and not to seek sympathy for their formulation is created in a different cultural and historical environment, and addressed a completely different community, but many - myself .
And could sympathize with the frustrated efforts of good people to stick a healing plaster from citation of the old religious writers to ulcers of sin and ignorance, which erodes the soul forumlyan in an atmosphere of poisonous fumes postclassical art. But compassion prevents the feeling that if some of the fervor of good people going off on the exorcism and the treatment zakosnevshih AI-Pagans in the true aesthetics, would be aimed at a meaningful reading of the same Ilyina ("Axioms of religious experience" and so on.), Then there would be no and the object of sympathy.
After all, Ilyin, emphasizes the subjective religious experience, saw no reason or warning, no hit on the head with those who have such experience does not have or has it in alternative forms. His pathos was aimed at finding optimal social conditions for natural and full of religious feeling, and their allies in these conditions he saw the religious-minded artists, duhovidenie which has already reached a higher development - ie if not at all saints, bogovdohnovlennyh.
Dreaming is not bad, but identifying the right contingent genius among his contemporaries in Ilyina was not going well, although the "degradation" of art had not yet been as blatant as it is today: he is very talented, but with a fatal bias in the banal mysticism, this bogoraspolozhen, but not very talented ...
What to say about our day: nowhere you can not find a greater concentration of vulgarity and pretentious hypocrisy than thin. exhibitions devoted to highly spiritual matter and more chatter than the speeches of the current enthusiasts sublime spirituality of art.
You can simply write off these diseases at the time by the objective of the tragic contradictions in the search for God, which he himself had so brilliantly said Ilyin, but which, however, could not think of a better outcome in the new reality than famine, pestilence and cataclysm - as educational measures for excessively razironizirnichevavshegosya (language intact ?<!--~ a ~-->) humanity. But can these diseases and treat: there are rumors that they had completely removes passed the night of the powder exhibited in the Louvre cockroach.
PS. Ivan Ilyin if I hung in his living room
picture with poor Petrushka, the condemned by the world's evil cackle mob, it is not out of pity for Petrushka, because he sharpened his teeth on the carnival element in culture, including its chief among the defendants for the artistic chaos of modern times.