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To the Spirituality of Romania:

Monastery Prislop, Places of Arsenie Boca and Master Jesus in the Carpats
(Intimate impressions of Prislop - only for internal and tender using)

I have been asked by paticipants of a visit in the Prislop Monasteria on Thursday after the ending of
the 3rd International Anthroposophical Schooling Symposion in Simeria, if i would tell, what we
observed in Prislop. Here it is with some additions fitting to this theme.
The Observers have been Marius Gabor, Peer Dahlstroem, Agnes Hardorp, Thomas Mayer, Manfred
Schleyer, Raphael Kleimann and Dirk Kruse. The following describtions are an uncorrected summary
of impressions, not a cleared research! They are not authorizised by the others and only that what i
heard from them and observed by myself is written down here.
This observations are not for satisfying any curiousity, but for meditative recognizing and dignifying
the holyness and gifts we get from Christ, Father Arsenie Boca and the Romanian Spirit in our time.

The Monastery
Kilometers before Prislop is increasing a spiritual harmony in the landscape.
The nature directly in the monastery and around at the reflecting hillsides has refined and christic
etherforces, so that a harmonical moralic etherplace is created; we find also on the meadows behind
the water place and left from the way up to Arsenie Bocas place seldom pearly-clear chemical ether.
Partly it is not anymore this harmonic like 8 years ago, because of non-interest and rushing (non-peace
and non-interest on the nature) of so much visting-people and specially because the vanished
flowergardens beside the way to the church and at Arsenie Bocas most loved gardenplace (at the right
side from the way 20m in front of the church).
In general we have here many little and some bigger wonderful pure christic Elementarybeing.

The Church
There seems to be a radieastetic strong thin goldline going through the chrurch from the entrance
through the middle of he altar-room and a thin silverline from left- right through the altar-room, so it
seems they are crossing at the altar.

The blessed Springwater
The blessed springwater you can take near the church is extraordinary pure and lightful, the highest
christwater i have ever experienced.
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The Grave of Parintele Arsenie Boca
In and over the line of people waiting to come to Arsenie Bocas grave is a very pure astrality of inner
devotion, blessing and bliss; in difference to big prossesiones in bucarest where it seems only extreme
heartful and dense believers-astrality without much clear spirit, here it is a clear spiritual light over the
heads oft he believers - radiating.
At the grave of Arsenie Boca is beside dense devotion-astrality of many people a very high and
pure astrality streaming down from very high above, it carrys, like it,s most inner line, a very high
godly spirituality and takes very fine etherstreams with it.
The downstreaming seems like a holy cloak flowing down from intim cosmic heights, full of
sacrificial holy heartsubstance including a stream of soundether-, lightether and warmthetherbeings
with a fully purified astral consciousness.
The spiritual highness in it is so high, that we need something like a seeing through weeping a
inversion through seeing how far we are still away from the godlyness and in the same time how
strong and direct personal the love of Arsenie Boca and Christ is which can brings us to face Christ
at last.
This is a high form of perception, where Imagination (cloak-picture) and Inspiration (pure innerness)
inverses into a direct Intuition (being in th middle oft he huge grace of the godly love to us).
The downstreaming ray of godly light in the middle of that pure downstreaming astrality - is
unbelieveable pure; its personal but cosmic in the same time.
The godly ray or stream is coming from beyond the highest area of the spiritual world (higher
devachan / intention-world) out of the world of the worldword in front of the Trinity its the
lightform we can find also into the so called Land Shamballa (the Christland of holy light, streaming
and lifelyness iin which the Masters regenerate in being in Christs lovestreams).
The strongest impressions are getable from the first bench behind the grave.

The Eremits Cave
In the eremits cave throughwards the deep silent peace is preceiveable first the sacred zodiacmood of
eternal directedness allaround and then behind it the holy light of an unification of earthmother
Persephonea (an Aspect of Maria-Sophia) - and so the whole earthorganism including the human
culture with Christ.
So the cave leads directly into an Intuition of the grace of Christ in transforming time and space oft
he earthplanet eternally.
In front of the icons is experienceable a holy soft and bright golden astral-etheric streamin in the
direction from the door oft he cave into the wall right from the icons.
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Receiving the godly spiritual world through longer praying and meditating here can lead us into taking
part oft he godly heights as a permanent creation which in the same time is a permanent peace and
eternity.

The deep Valley at the Cave
Going with our meditative perception into the peace of the whole valley and the peaceful forest up the
hill oposite of the cavehill, we can come to an opening of the timeline. Spiritual moods of our
Childhhood can stay in front of us. The valleymood-surrounding can open then to a sphere behind that
rememberings and the free outwardly Ether-Memorys around in the holy imprinted nature of that
area, the so called Akasha Chronic, can appear. It seems the we can have an impression specially from
the way in which Arsenie Boca prayed more independ from the daily order and connected more with
the timespirit. One strong impression was here: he builded a needed spiritual bridge in Europe from
the 30ties Christnearness over the horrible 40ties and the lost 50ties to the new spirituality of the
70ties (after the tumultarious opening in the 60ties) and the 21. Century.
It seems the peaceful surrounding oft he valley, but also everwhere on the hills which reflect directly
prislop, is gathered much more from the spiritual happenings there.

The connection to the near Retezat Mountains
Prislop lays in a strong geographical configuration. One main aspect is that the Retezat with its
pereceiveable heavenly stream from above - downstreaming from the Lake Bucura-Area, where
Arsenie Boca has been in godnearness and peace every summer for weeks alone with the world and
the nature, through the valley of Cabin Gentiana and Cabin Pietrele is sending a hightening
puryficating stream directly over the area of Prislop, too.

Addition I:
Comparison between the impressions of places of Arsenie Boca
Sambata de Sus, Prislop, Lake Bucura-Area/Retezat, Draganescu and Prislop - (by D. Kruse)
The first Monastery in which Arsenie Boca worked from 1939 1950 was Sambata de Sus on the foot
oft he Mountains between Sibiu and Brasov. The second was Pislop, where he stayed from 1950 to
1959, in the Hillarea at the northern foot oft he Retezat Monutains, south of Hunedoara. From 1968
1989 he painted the pictures of the little Church in Draganescu southwest of Bucarest. In the same
time he lived until his death in the little Monastery at the border of Sinai up near the Bucegi-
Mountains between Brasov and Ploesti.
Every of this places has a deep and touching atmosphere.
Sambata de Sus a nature-open and peaceful clearness with refreshing and clearing etherforces, astrality
and spirit. The vist can lift up and renew in a natural way (specially if we are aware oft he nature-
surrounding there too).
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Prislop through the grave-visiting intention of Arsenie Boca has deep etheric-, astralic- and
spiritual imprinting. The visit can help to find inner holy experiences of selfknowledge,
Christnnearness and transforming.
The Retezat (here only the area up from Pietrele, Gentiana to Lke Bucura has been perceived) has
unusual harmonic an christic ehteratmoshere and a downstreaming spiritual connection to the etheric
Christ and to Archais/Timespirits, and specially at Lake Bucura to Arsenie Boca. Here we can find
back the spirit in nature, relation to christic elementatry beings, transformative blessings fort he way
and the work on earth responding o our time and the timespirit.
At and in the Draganescu Chrurch we have a mild but intense atmosphere, like reminding us with
strong soul-spiritual intention onto our tasks in our time. Here we can build a soft receiving soulfield
fort he arriving of Christ and his support in us.
The monastry in Prislop, in which Arsenie Boca lived his last days, has a serious guidinglight gesture
in its atmosphere. Here we can come to more decided inner spiritual directions.

Outlook

There are other high personalitys to mention in the spirituality of Romania, also interesting Monchs
and Eremits still in the 20
th
century. The capturing of the spirituality in Romania in history and today
is still a big task.

Addition II About Arsenie Boca

Arsenie Boca (From Wikipedia)
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Arsenie Boca (29 September 1910 / on Michaelmas ! 28 November 1989) was a Romanian
Orthodox monk, theologian and artist. He was persecuted by the Communists and named among the
100 greatest Romanians.
He was born in Vaa de Sus, Hunedoara County, Romania, died at Sinaia Monastery and was buried at
Prislop Monastery in Silvau de Sus village.
Studies and formation
He was born on 29 September 1910, in Vaa de Sus, in what was then Austria-Hungary, and his
parents gave him the first name Zian. He studied at the Avram Iancu National High School,
graduating it in 1929. The same year he starts to study at the Theological Academy in Sibiu, which he
graduated in 1933. He received a scholarship from the archbishop of Transylvania to study at the
Institute of Bellearte in Bucharest. Meanwhile, he attended the medical classes of professor Francisc
Rainer and the Christian Mystics class of professor Nichifor Crainic.
Remarking on his artistic talent, professor Costin Petrescu entrusted him to paint the scene that
represents Mihai Viteazul from the Romanian Athenaeum. Sent by his bishop, he traveled to Mount
Athos for documentation and spiritual experience.
He was made a deacon on 29 September 1935 by metropolitan Nicolae Blan. In 1939 he spents three
months in the Romanian Skete Prodromos on Mount Athos. On his return, he joins the Brncoveanu
Monastery at Smbta de Sus, Braov County, where he takes his vows and is tonsured into
monachism in 1940. He was ordained priest and became the abbot of the Brncoveanu Monastery in
1942. As abbot he embellished and renovated the buildings of the monastery, but also enriched its
spiritual and cultural life, helping the theologian Dumitru Stniloae, from Sibiu, with the translation
into Romanian of the first volumes of the Philokalia, a collection of early Church fathers and
monastics in the hesychast tradition.
After the installation of the communist regime in Romania, Boca was persecuted by the authorities and
the Securitate, the regimes secret police. He was arrested several times for helping the anti-
communist resistance, displaced from Brncoveau Monastery to Prislop Monastery and then Sinaia
Monastery, banned from monasticism and Church activity and constantly under the surveillance and
harassment of the Securitate.

Father Arsenie Boca

Additioned informations (D. Kruse):
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Arsenie Boca had an Maria-Experience on the Mount Athos (to Athos see * downwards); she advised
him to go back and work in Romania.
In the Chaos of the second World War he had a Christ-Experience on a trainstation, seeing Christ
coming up to him as a beggar.
There are told many wonders he did, so he was appearing at other places when he was in jail, he was
answering peoples thoughts etc.
He was going every summer for weeks onto the Retezat Mountains, where he stayed at Lake Bucera
(Informations out of the DVD about Arsenie Boca from 2011, in Romania buyable the only DVD
about him with english Undertitels)
See (only romanian):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPp9S6k318o
As told in anthroposophic cicles Arsenie Boca was also in contact with Anthroposophists in Cluj (told
from an old Anthroposophist in Timisioara) and learned alot for his developement from them (so
also a noticed sentence of the Securitate which observed him); he was reading Anthroposophie and
was open fort he thought of Reincarnation in his later life. His painting-style in Draganescu is
influenced also from anthroposophical styles.
He painted a lot and was breaking with the normal iconagrafic style so in his later years the whole
chapel of Draganescu nahe Bucarest. He also painted partly own supersensitive seeings.

The rised Christ Painting from A. Boca in the Draganescu-Chapel
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A book with his paintings: Parintele Arsenie Boca Omul imbracat in haina de in si Ingerul cu
cadelnita de aur ! from Daniil Stoenescu
http://www.librariaortodoxia.ro/search/parintele-arsenie-boca/

*: Steiner said from the Mount Athos in 1908:
Who wants to come further (with a church) ... is better going into a greek monastry on the Mount Athos. ...in
the greek catholizism are laying germs for the future, and only here (not in the roman catholizism). ... the lower
layers of the priests but are corrupt ... . From the existing forms of christianity ... only the greek catholizism has
future. In the east all is still fluid. Into the greek catholizism all is Theosophy. .... But naturally the Theosophy is
more a whole . (In Ludwig Kleeberg, Wege und Worte Erinnerungen an Rudolf Steiner ... , J. Vh.
Mellinger Verlag 1961, S. 195)
So now 100 years later we can search if spiritual in the east all is still fluid! Another perspective to this
words and the Elementarybeing- and Christnearness in Easteurope is the view from Rudolf Steiner to East-
Europe: this eastern soul is able to see beings into a naturehappening , not only in the outwardly physical-
senseable but the astral-spiritual. Because of this the thinking of a tremendous number of beings in this special
spiritual world, which could be compared with the world of lightfairys. Specially interesting it is to see
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how under this influence of the east (there)has grown a much more developed Christunderstanding as in
Westeurope . (GA 121, 16.06.1910)
Monastry on Athos

In romanian language:
Arsenie Boca (De la Wikipedia)

Printele Arsenie Boca la Mnstirea Smbta de Sus
Arsenie Boca (n. 29 septembrie 1910, Vaa de Sus, Romnia d. 28 noiembrie 1989, Sinaia, Prahova), printe
ieromonah, teolog i artist plastic (muralist) romn, a fost stare la Mnstirea Brncoveanu de la Smbata de Sus
i apoi la Mnstirea Prislop, unde datorit personalitii sale veneau mii i mii de credincioi, fapt pentru care a
fost hruit de Securitate. A fost unul din martirii gulagului comunist, nchis la Securitatea din Braov, dus la
Canal, nchis la Jilava, Bucureti, Timioara i la Oradea. A pictat biserica din Drgnescu (la 25 Km de
Bucureti).
Arsenie Boca este considerat de ctre unii din ucenicii si ca cel mai mare duhovnic roman al secolului XX.
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La
mormntul su de la Mnastirea Prislop din ara Haegului, se perind zilnic sute de pelerini.
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Cuprins
1 Biografie
o 1.1 Studiile i formarea
o 1.2 Hirotonirea i tunderea n monahism
o 1.3 Contribuia la colecia Filocalia
o 1.4 Prigoana i martirajul dup gratii
2 Scrieri
3 Note
4 Bibliografie
5 Legturi externe
Biografie
Studiile i formarea
S-a nscut la 29 septembrie 1910 la Vaa de Sus n judeul Hunedoara. A urmat Liceul naional ortodox Avram
Iancu din Brad
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, pe care l-a terminat ca ef de promoie n 1929. n acelai an, Zian Boca (cel care avea s
devin Printele ieromonah Arsenie Boca) se nscrie la Academia Teologic din Sibiu, pe care o absolv n 1933.
Primete la recomandarea profesorului Nicolae Popovici o burs din partea Mitropolitului Ardealului Nicolae
Blan pentru a urma cursurile Institutului de Arte Frumoase din Bucureti.
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n paralel, audiaz cursuri la
Facultatea de medicin inute de profesorul Francisc Rainer i prelegerile de Mistic cretin ale profesorului
Nichifor Crainic de la Facultatea de Teologie din Bucureti. Fascinat de lucrarea Scara dumnezeiescului urcu
scris de Ioan Scrarul o traduce n limba romn n doar 5 luni.
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Aceast traducere nu a vzut lumina tiparului.
Remarcndu-i talentul artistic, profesorul Costin Petrescu i-a ncredinat pictarea scenei care l reprezint pe
Mihai Viteazul de la Atheneul Romn. Trimis de chiriarhul su, Nicolae Blan, cltorete la Muntele Athos
pentru a aduce manuscrisele romneti i greceti ale Filocaliei. Aici are parte de o experien duhovniceasc
formatoare pentru viata de clugr pentru care optase nc din anii studeniei de la Sibiu.
Hirotonirea i tunderea n monahism
a 1935 ca absolvent al Academiei Teologice a fost hirotesit cite i ipodiacon. Pe 11 septembrie 1936 este
hirotonit diacon celibatar de ctre mitropolitul Nicolae Blan.
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n anul 1939 petrece trei luni la Schitul
Romnesc Prodromu de la Muntele Athos, apoi este nchinoviat la Mnstirea Smbta de Sus (judeul Braov).
n Vinerea Izvorului Tmduirii din anul 1940 este tuns n monahism. n 1942 este ridicat la treapta preoeasc i
numit stare al Mnstirii Brncoveanu pe care o renoveaz schimbnd nfiarea locurilor.
Deja din 1940 declaneaz la Mnstirea de Smbta de Sus ceea ce s-a numit micarea de renviere
duhovniceasc de la Smbta, despre care Nichifor Crainic spunea: Ce vreme nltoare cnd toat ara lui
Avram Iancu se mica n pelerinaj, cntnd cu zpada pn la piept, spre Smbta de Sus, ctitoria voievodului
martir Constantin Brncoveanu!. Devine renumit ca mare duhovnic, printele Cleopa va ncerca s ia legtura
cu el prin scrisori interceptate i confiscate de Securitate. n iarna anului 1944 profesorul Nichifor Crainic
verific la Smbta de Sus traducerea stareului Arsenie Boca i a lui Serafim Popescu din Filocalie. Ultimul
traduce Marcu Ascetul (v. Telegraful romn, 15 ian. 1991). La publicarea n comunism a primelor patru volume
din Filocalie numele lui Arsenie Boca nu mai este menionat. Fiind prigonit de Securitate, nu este amintit nici n
Istoria Bisericii Ortodoxe Romne de pr. Dr. Mircea Pcurariu (Ed.Stiinta, Chisinau, 1993).
Contribuia la colecia Filocalia
l ajut pe printele profesor Dumitru Stniloae (fostul su profesor de la Sibiu) n demersul de a traduce
Filocalia. i pune la dispoziie manuscrisele aduse din cltoria la Muntele Athos, l ncurajeaz la lucru, recitind
textele, realizeaz coperta coleciei, susine lucrarea pentru tiprire prin numrul mare de abonamente pe care le
procur. n prima ediie a volumelor, Printele Dumitru Stniloae l numete pe Arsenie Boca ctitor de frunte al
Filocaliei romneti.

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Prigoana i martirajul dup gratii


Arsenie Boca la Mnstirea de la Smbta
Dup ocuparea rii de ctre armata sovietic, Printele Arsenie a fost arestat pentru prima oar la Rmnicu
Vlcei pe 17 iulie 1945, dus la Bucureti i eliberat pe 30 iulie 1945 pentru c nu i-a fost gsit nicio vin. Apoi
a fost arestat n 14 mai 1948, pentru vina a-i fi ajutat cretinete cu hran pe lupttorii anticomuniti din Munii
Fgraului. Att pentru aceste bnuieli, ct i datorit notorietii sale printre credincioii cretini, este
schingiuit o lun i jumtate, silit s dea repetate declaraii, fiind apoi eliberat (v. G.Enache, Printele Arsenie
Boca n atenia poliiei politice, Ed.Partener, Galai, 2009). Mitropolitul Nicolae Blan l strmut de la Smbta
la Mnstirea Prislop n noiembrie 1948. Acolo devine stare, iar dup ce slaul s-a transformat n mnstire de
maici, a rmas ca duhovnic, cu ntreruperi n perioadele de arestare i anchetare (1950, 1951, 1953, 1955, 1956).
n 1959 comunitii au risipit obtea i printelui Arsenie Boca, deja martirizat prin nchisori i la Canal, i-au
interzis activitatea preoeasc pn la moartea ce a survenit dup torturarea sa de Securitate. Fiind nainte vztor
cu duhul el las mrturie a supliciului din care i s-a tras moartea, pictnd la Biserica din Drgnescu scena
supliciilor Sf. tefan cel Nou, pomenit pe 28 nov. (data morii Printelui Arsenie).
[necesit citare]

n 15/16 ian. 1950 este a treia oar arestat. Face detenie administrativ, fiind dovedit vinovat, pn pe 23
martie 1951 la Canal. Eliberarea s-a datorat Patriarhului Justinian care i-a semnalat lui Teohari Georgescu
pericolul revoltrii fgrenilor. De Rusalii n 1953 este din nou anchetat, apoi este arestat la Timioara, Jilava,
Oradea pentru 6 luni din 5 oct.1955 pn n aprilie 1956. n 1959 i se nsceneaz nereguli financiare pentru a fi
scos abuziv din monahism i pentru a i se interzice s slujeasc la altar (post-mortem, n 1998, se revine asupra
deciziei din 1959). A urmat pribegia la Bucureti, unde a fost tot timpul inut n marginalitate. Cu cele dou
licene ale sale, una la Belle Arte i alta la Teologie, n-a fost admis dect ca muncitor pictor bisericesc, pn
cnd e pensionat n 1968 cu o pensie de mizerie. A fost permanent supravegheat de Securitate. Din 1968 pn n
1984 picteaz biserica de la Drgnescu. La Sinaia, din 1969 i-a avut chilia i atelierul de pictur, unde s-a
retras dup 1984 i unde a i nchis ochii, la 28 noiembrie 1989, n vrst de 79 de ani. A fost nmormntat, dup
dorina proprie, la mnstirea Prislop, la 4 decembrie 1989 prorocind c aici va fi loc de pelerinaj.
Mormntul printelui Arsenie de la mnstirea Prislop constituie azi unul din importantele locuri de pelerinaj din
ar, n ultimii ani numrul de pelerini venii pe 28 noiembrie fiind de 30 000 40 000 de oameni.
Scrieri
Dup cderea comunismului au fost publicate mai multe din scrierile sale care circulaser n manuscris (i
adesea n mai multe forme). Printele Arsenie Boca a avut darul prorocirii. nainte de ocupaia bolevic ar fi
spus: Nu va trece mult vreme pn cnd vor intra secera i ciocanul n ar i nu vor iei aproape jumtate de
veac. Despre perioada post-comunist a spus c puini vor fi nevndui.
Printele Arsenie Boca, Crarea mpriei, ed.ngr. de Zamfira Constantinescu, Editura Episcopiei
Ortodoxe Romne a Aradului, 1995
Printele Arsenie Boca, Lupta duhovniceasc, ed.ngr. de Ion Cismileanu, Editura Agaton, Fgra,
2009
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Printele Arsenie Boca, Trepte spre vieuirea n monahism, Editura Teognost, Cluj-Napoca, 2003
ISBN 973-85376-6-5
Printele Arsenie Boca, Cuvinte vii, Deva, 2006
Note
1. ^
a

b
Printele Arsenie Boca Primii pai pe Cararea Impriei, 22 noiembrie 2010, Amos
News, accesat la 18 iunie 2013
2. ^
a

b

c

d
Manoliu, Ion Costin: Pe urmele Parintelui Arsenie Boca Cartile si icoanele sfintilor,
n Formula AS anul XXII, nr. 1001, ianuarie 2012, p. 22-23. Accesat la 27 iulie 2013
Bibliografie
Printele Arsenie Boca n Arhivele Securitii, vol I,(coordonatori Dr. Florian Bichir, Romeo
Petraciuc, Raluca Toderel), editura Agnos n colaborarea cu Consiliul Naional pentru Studierea
Arhivelor Securitii (CNSAS), 2013
Arhim. Serafim Popescu, Mrgritare duhovniceti Din nvturile Printelui Arsenie Boca, Editura
Pelerinul, 2002
Arhim. Serafim Popescu, Omul zidire de mare pret Din nvturile Printelui Arsenie Boca, Editura
Credina strmoasc, 2009
Nichifor Crainic, Memorii, vol.II, Ed. Muzeul literaturii romane, Bucuresti, 2001
Arsenie Boca Fotografii i ziceri (12 fotografii, scurt biografie, 103 ziceri), Editura Teognost, Cluj-
Napoca, 2005 ISBN 973-87255-0-X
Alte mrturii despre Printele Arsenie Boca, ed.ngr. de Ion Cismileanu, Editura Agaton, Fgra, 2008
Mrturii din ara Fgraului despre Pr. Arsenie Boca, ed.ngr. de Ion Cismileanu, Editura Agaton,
Fgra, 2004
Ioan Gnsc, Printele Arsenie Boca, mare ndrumtor de suflete din secolul XX, Editura Teognost,
Cluj-Napoca, 2002 ISBN 973-85376-5-7
Printele Arsenie Boca Biserica de la Drgnescu: Capel Sixtin a Ortodoxiei romneti, Deva,
2005
Dan Lucinescu, Printele Arsenie Boca- un sfant al zilelor noastre, Editura Siaj, Bucuresti, 2009
Noi mrturii despre Printele Arsenie Boca, Editura Agaton, Fgra, 2005
Printele Arsenie Boca, obiectivul Bratu, Editura Patmos, Cluj-Napoca, 2009 recenzie
Legturi externe
[1] Printele Arsenie Boca i teologul George Racoveanu, n arhivele Securitii
Printele Arsenie Boca scrieri, coresponden, lucrri iconografice i sculpturale
Arsenie Boca site dedicat
Printele Arsenie Boca pagin pe Facebook
FOTO Tainele casei de pe munte a printelui Arsenie Boca, 21 august 2013, Daniel Gu, Adevrul
Fotografii Arsenie Boca fortografii i biografie
Asociaia Ieromonah Arsenie Boca asociaie cretin ortodox
Fundaia Cretin Arsenie Boca pentru o Romnie binecuvntat.
Rost, numrul 20, octombrie 2004 numr tematic al revistei, dedicat lui Arsenie Boca
O Sintez A Lucrrii Printelui Arsenie
Sfntul Ardealului Printele Arsenie Boca
Sfantul Arsenie Boca, 16 aprilie 2009, Marius Vasileanu, Romnia liber
Sfantul de la Sambata de Sus, 5 aprilie 2004, Jurnalul Naional
Arsenie Boca, pictorul de suflete, 7 decembrie 2008, Augustin Punoiu, Ziarul Lumina
Printele Arsenie Boca urmrit de Securitate i pe patul de moarte, 19 august 2012, Florian Bichir,
Evenimentul zilei
Zeci de mii de oameni la mormntul Printelui Arsenie Boca, un brbat scnteietor cu ochi de un
albastru infinit, 27 noiembrie 2012, Adrian Ptruc, Evenimentul zilei
Pictura profetic din biserica Drgnescu, 5 aprilie 2009, Daniela Crlea ontic, Jurnalul Naional
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Arsenie Boca, omul lui Iisus, cel care a dus o lumnare aprins prin furtun, 4 mai 2013, Mihai Mincan,
Adevrul
20 de ani de la trecerea la cele venice a printelui Arsenie Boca, 28 noiembrie 2009, Dr. George
Enache, Ziarul Lumina

Addittion III To Master Jesus in the Carpatians an esoteric attempt
The special empathic spiritual substance of Romania, and even stronger in most parts of the Carpatian
Mountains, which was also a main theme in the Folksspirit-Work in three seminars with D. Kruse in
Bucarest in 2012 13 seems to be connected mainly with the secret spiritual substance of Master
Jesus.
If we look up to the character of the Boddhisattvas in the way Rudolf Steiner did, we can have
impressions oft he huge peace and the cosmic smile of Buddha, the deep wisdom of Zarathustra, the
all-connecting spirit as a Worlds-breath of Skythianos and the transformation of evil through love
from Manu.
Coming nearer on our spiritual path to the atmosphere of the main two masters of Europe, Christian
Rosencreutz and Master Jesus, we can have two main impressions.
The deep puryfied martyrsubstance of clear innerness of Christian Rosencreutz which can lead us also
to clear inner steps of imagination, inspiration and intuition on a spiritual path.
And the warm I-am direction to intim brotherhood in a holy empathic Gods-Friendship in Master
Jesus.
As Steiner told this Master have Etherbodys which we can take with the right spiritual ripeness like
clothes.
About Master Jesus now Steiner told, that he has to do with the more intim in the human soul
(GA 2 6 4, Esoteric Hour Berlin, 26. Juni 1906) and with the principles of brotherly love which
grow into the future (GA 264, Esoteric hour, Kln, 12. Februar 1906).

Steiner told also how Master Jesus has been the Godsfriend from the Oberland in the middleage
which was coming to a circle of 12 from Switzerland, partly also to Strassbourgh in France near the
german border. The famous mystican Johannes Tauler was among this 12 persons.

Steiner said Master Jesus and Christian Rosencreutz are incarnated in every century. Master Jesus is
not incarnated only for 12 years in every century and he is always incarnated in the passage from one
century to an other
(all findable in GA 264, Chapter: Out oft he speaches about the Masters of wisdom and the
according of feelings, here: out of personal Talks with Rudolf Steiner from Friedrich. Rittelmeier and
Wilhelm Rath)

Interesting for Romania is now the answer Steiner gave to Rittelmeyers question, if Master Jesus is
incarnated and where. Steiner said that he is living in the carpats and that he (Steiner)n stays spiritually
in contact with him ( findable also in that chapter in GA 264). The Carpats have also parts in Slovakia
and the Ucraine, the largest parts are in Romania.

We can ask how this brotherlove substance of Master Jesus in the carpats in the 20th century is
connected with the schooling of brotherhood from the Blacksea- Mysteries in the early middlegage
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which Rudolf Steiners described in GA 155, Christ and the human soul, in the 2. Lecture to
Theosophic Moral in Norrkping on 29. May 1912.
If we experience the carpats, we can be astonished how in Romania, which has the most Monasterys
per head all over the world (like an european Tibet), in the carpats are findable strong christic ethter-
and astral atmospheres.
By experience (D. Kruse) in Paltinis, South of Sibiu in the carpatian Mountains, where Steiner was in
the Holy Nights at the end of 1889 with a slide (and rumours say he met his master one night, when he
was going alone out with the slide), we have a very brotherly female atstrality all over the lonesome
valleys and foorests.
In the valley near the monastery Voronet in the Bucovina we have a tremendous fine and religious
density, nearness and diversity of so many elementary-beings here we can see how it should be in
nature, every space is filled with many beings in an easy and inspirng way we can feel in comparisn
how awful empty are nowaddays many culturelandscapes.
Near Fundata in the Carpats south of Brasov we find a high spiritual atmosphere, so that we can think
easily transforming spiritual thoughts.
In the Retezat, south of Hunedoara we find heavenly harmonical naturespirituaity which can transform
hearts and destinys. Other parts oft he carpats can show the spiritual diversity of this mountains
always connected with a brotherly, soft and empathic basical mood.
So enlarging the recalling of experiences- it is an intim impression in Easteurope - where under
this influence of Christ has grown a much more developed Christunderstanding as in Westeurope
. (GA 121, 16.06.1910) that ripe spiritual Personalitys like Arsenie Boca in Romania or Peter
Dunov in Bulgaria (Paneurythmy etc.) worked strongly through and with this etherbody of Master
Jesus.
Already 1908 Steiner had said about the spirituallity of Easteurope, in connection with the esoteric
wisdom of higher personalitys which are conncted with the Mount Athos Monasterys: In the east all
is still fluid. (In Ludwig Kleeberg, Wege und Worte Erinnerungen an Rudolf Steiner ... , J. Vh.
Mellinger Verlag 1961, S. 195)
Interesting is also that the godsfriendship in Easteurope leads to an intim friendship to nature, so that
this eastern soul is able to see beings into a naturehappening (Steiner in GA 121, 16.06.1910).
It seems the themes of nature-connection and the building of new brotherhoods, which Rudolf Steiners
called for often, are specially a door also for Romania and Bulgaria.
Another big theme is the connection to the Boddhisattva Skythianos which will lead the futuredoings
in Easteurope a theme from Rudolf Steiner which was described largely in S. Prokofieffs Books
about Sophia and the easteuropean Mission. (Sergej O. Prokofieff, Die geistigen Quellen Osteuropas
und die knftigen Mysterien des Gral, Verlag am Goetheanum (also to Skythianos work in the different
culturetimes and his todays and futurework with the souls of Easteurope in Part I)

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One result of the Folkspiritwork about Romania in 2012 13 is similar to the words of Steiner. We
found as a fazit there this impressiones :
The Etherbody of the Romanian Folkspirit - in an specific epic horizontal airyness, wideness and
openess, where all spiritual can connect deeper in an easy way.
The Soul of the Romanian Folkspirit as an originality that works with soft skills, empathic weaving,
and with penetrating pure passion, a soul of empathic mystic sensitivity, that leads in a natural way of
brothers and sisters to a religious unifying.
It is the Romanian Folkspirit with its open christic embracing gesture that connects flowingly width
in horizontal way, and the same cosmos and earth and can teach this among the earth-nations.
(See the Script D. Kruse, The Spirit of Romania)

I am sure that the idea of an european forum of spiritual schooling in the carpathian area, which was
coming up in the work with Anthroposophic Society (Council and Collegiu - the house of the Paxinos
high up in Sinaia) from 2008 2010 and the Anthroposopical Schooling Meetings in Simeria from
2010 until now are part of the evolutionary spiritual streaming in Easteurope.
May the ripening towards next steps work well.


Dirk Kruse
24. August 2014
dirk.u.c.kruse@gmx.d