The best quotes from The Master and Margarita. Master and Margarita quotes, aphorisms, phrases Bulgakov there are no evil people

…Nonsense! It will pass in three hundred years.

…never ask for anything! Never and nothing, and especially for those who are stronger than you. They will offer and give everything themselves!

... but here is the question that worries me: if there is no God, then, one asks, who controls human life and the whole routine on earth? - The man himself controls

…he wasn't verbose this time. The only thing he said is that among human vices, he considers cowardice to be one of the most important.

…what would your good do if evil did not exist, and what would the earth look like if shadows disappeared from it?

In the early morning of the fourteenth day of the spring month of Nisan, in a white cloak with a bloody lining, shuffling with a cavalry gait, the procurator of Judea, Pontius Pilate, entered the covered colonnade between the two wings of the palace of Herod the Great.

In our country, atheism surprises no one

After all, you think how you can be dead.

Which country's wine do you prefer at this time of the day?

Everything will be right - the world is built on this

Everything was mixed up in the Oblonskys' house, as the famous writer Leo Tolstoy rightly put it.

All power is violence against people.

The second freshness - that's nonsense! There is only one freshness - the first, it is also the last. And if the sturgeon is of the second freshness, then this means that it is rotten!

Do you judge by the costume? Never do this. You can make a mistake, and, moreover, very large.

Eyes are a big thing. Like a barometer. You can see everything in someone who has a great dryness in his soul, who for no reason, for nothing, can poke the toe of his boot into the ribs, and who himself is afraid of everyone.

Yes, man is mortal, but that would be half the trouble. The bad thing is that he is sometimes suddenly mortal, that's the trick!

Housekeepers know everything - it's a mistake to think they're blind.

Why chase in the footsteps of what is already over?

There are no evil people in the world, there are only unhappy people.

The most interesting thing about this lie is that it is a lie from the first to the last word.

History will judge us.

Each will be rewarded according to his faith.

A brick will never fall on anyone's head for no reason.

Love jumped out in front of us, like a murderer jumping out of the ground in an alley, and hit us both at once! so strikes lightning, so strikes a Finnish knife!

People are like people. They love money, but it has always been... Mankind loves money, no matter what it is made of, whether it is leather, paper, bronze or gold. Well, frivolous ... well, well ... ordinary people ... in general, they resemble the former ones ... the housing problem only spoiled them ...

Maestro! Cut the march!

We speak with you in different languages, as always, but the things we talk about do not change from this ...

I do not comprehend! We sat peacefully, quite quietly, had a snack ...

I don’t play pranks, I don’t touch anyone, I fix the stove, and I also consider it my duty to warn that the cat is an ancient and inviolable animal.

No document, no person.

No, wait... I know what I'm getting into. But I do everything because of him, because I have no more hope for anything in the world. But I want to tell you that if you destroy me, you will be ashamed! Yes, shame! I'm dying for love!

Never be afraid of anything. It's not wise

Never ask for anything Never and for nothing, and especially from those who are stronger than you. They will offer and give everything themselves!

Well, the one who loves must share the fate of the one he loves.

He didn't deserve the light, he deserved peace

She carried yellow flowers! Bad color.

I congratulate you, citizen, lie!

Excuse me ... would I allow myself to pour vodka for a lady? It's pure alcohol!

Go away. I haven’t drunk coffee yet, how am I going to leave?

It is easy and pleasant to speak the truth.

Festive midnight is sometimes nice to delay.

It's nice to hear that you treat the cat so politely. For some reason, cats usually say "you", although not a single cat has ever drunk brotherhood with anyone.

Manuscripts do not burn.

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Mikhail Bulgakov is known as the most mystical and enigmatic writer. He called himself "the driven wolves." Once he considered that among the 300 reviews of his works, only three were positive. But today, his novels are disassembled into quotes and aphorisms, they are read by millions of fans around the world, and the author himself is considered a great and talented person.

Bulgakov's quotes from his works touch on a variety of topics. He wrote about love, about women, about life. He also often reflected on the topic of good and evil. One cannot but agree with such a statement by Bulgakov as “what would do good if there were no evil?”.

"The Book of the Master and Margarita" is a mystical story about the present and the past, which are closely connected with each other. There is mysticism here, but there is also the truth of life, sometimes cruel and insidious. Bulgakov's aphorisms from this work will open to you the wonderful world of the writer, who had his own vision of a variety of things - religion, love, mysticism.

Love is another important theme that is found in all the works of the writer. According to the author, tender feelings are the most beautiful thing that can happen in a person's life. It is important to be able to support your soul mate, to live the life of the one you love. Perhaps, after reading these sayings, you will rethink your life a little, change yourself and change your values.

Do not try to seem better to people than you really are - you won’t stand on tiptoe for a long time ... but don’t try to seem worse than you are - you won’t sit on your haunches for a long time either ... ALWAYS STAY YOURSELF!

Is it vodka? asked Margarita weakly.
The cat jumped up in a chair from resentment.
- Pardon me, queen, - he croaked, - would I allow myself to pour vodka for the lady? It's pure alcohol!

People are like people. They love money, but it has always been... Mankind loves money, no matter what it is made of, whether it is leather, paper, bronze or gold. Well, they are frivolous ... well, well ... ordinary people ... in general, they resemble the former ones ... the housing problem only spoiled them ... (Woland)
(From the novel "The Master and Margarita")

Never ask for anything! Never and nothing, especially for those who are stronger than you. They will offer everything themselves and give everything themselves!

The one who loves must share the fate of the one he loves.

There are no evil people in the world, there are only unhappy people.

Why do you need the whole world if you don’t want to give it to anyone ...

Honesty always leads to trouble.

What is the secret of your peace of mind?
“In full acceptance of the inevitable,” the Master replied.

You are free... Am I holding you?
- No, what is the answer! No, you leave my memory, then I will be free ...

Listen to the silence, - Margarita said to the master, and the sand rustled under her bare feet, - listen and enjoy what you have not been given in life - silence. Look, ahead of you is your eternal home, which you were given as a reward. I can already see the Venetian window and climbing grapes, it rises to the very roof. This is your home, this is your eternal home. I know that in the evening those whom you love will come to you, whom you are interested in and who will not alarm you. They will play for you, they will sing for you, you will see the light in the room when the candles are burning. You will fall asleep wearing your greasy and eternal cap, you will fall asleep with a smile on your lips. Sleep will strengthen you, you will reason wisely. And you won't be able to drive me away. I will take care of your sleep.

The human personality is not so much the intellect, but above all will, character, and neglect of this cruelly avenges itself.

At first she cried for a long time. And then she became wicked.

Who told you that there is no true, true, eternal love in the world? Let the liar cut out his vile tongue!
We speak with you in different languages, as always, but the things we talk about do not change from this.
Evil lurks in men who avoid wine, games, the company of lovely women, and table conversation. Such people are either seriously ill or secretly hate those around them.
There are no evil people in the world, there are only unhappy people.
Difficult people these women!
A person without a surprise inside, in his box, is uninteresting.
Everything will be right, the world is built on this.
The unfortunate person is cruel and callous. And all just because good people mutilated him.
Do you judge by the costume? Never do this. You can make a mistake, and, moreover, very large.
Never ask for anything! Never and nothing, and especially for those who are stronger than you. They will offer and give everything themselves.
The one who loves must share the fate of the one he loves.

What is this ruin of yours? An old woman with a stick? The witch who broke all the windows, put out all the lamps? Yes, it doesn't exist at all. What do you mean by this word? It's this: if I, instead of operating every night, start singing in my apartment in a choir, I will be devastated. If, on entering the lavatory, I begin, pardon the expression, to urinate past the toilet bowl, and Zina and Darya Petrovna do the same, devastation will begin in the lavatory. Consequently, the devastation is not in the closets, but in the heads. So, when these baritones shout "beat the devastation!" - I am laughing. I swear to you, I'm laughing! This means that each of them must hit himself on the back of the head! And now, when he hatches all sorts of hallucinations out of himself and starts cleaning the sheds - his direct business - the devastation will disappear by itself.

The novel "The Master and Margarita" became the crowning achievement of Mikhail Bulgakov's work, bringing him posthumous worldwide fame. There is hardly a reader among us who will take the liberty of claiming that he has unraveled all the secrets and riddles lurking in the work. Indeed, The Master and Margarita is a book that can be re-read dozens of times, but never fully understood. Immortal, mysterious and witty, the novel is full of adventure, irony and, of course, wisdom.

"A man without a surprise inside, in his box, is uninteresting"

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"He who loves must share the fate of the one he loves"

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“Sometimes the best way to ruin a man is to let him choose his own destiny.”

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“Agree that only the one who hung it up can probably cut the hair?”

First publication of The Master and Margarita. Moscow magazine, No. 11, 1966. Photo from the site ru. wikipedia.org

“Never ask for anything! Never and nothing, and especially for those who are stronger than you. They themselves will offer and give everything themselves!

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"Insult is a common reward for good work"

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“Something, your will, unkind lurks in men who avoid wine, games, the company of lovely women, and table conversation. Such people are either seriously ill or secretly hate those around them. True, there may be exceptions. Among the people who sat down with me at the banquet table, sometimes surprising scoundrels came across!

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"The second freshness - that's nonsense! There is only one freshness - the first, it is also the last. And if the sturgeon is of the second freshness, then this means that it is rotten!”

Sergei Panasenko-Mikhalkin. "Farewell to Moscow". Illustration for the novel by M. A. Bulgakov "The Master and Margarita", 1995. Photo from the site ru. wikipedia.org

“Cowardice is one of the most terrible human vices. — No, I dare to object to you. Cowardice is the worst human vice."

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Be careful with your desires - they tend to come true.

A novel by Mikhail Bulgakov "Master and Margarita"- the brightest masterpiece and the most mysterious of the novels in the entire history of Russian literature of the XX century. A book that you can read and re-read dozens, hundreds of times, but never fully understand. The cult novel is full of adventure, mysteries, irony and infinite wisdom.

For the first time, the novel saw the light only 26 years after the death of the author, in 1966, and even then only in an abbreviated magazine version. The novel immediately gained popularity and was distributed in hand-reprinted copies until its official publication in 1973.

1. Who told you that there is no true, true, eternal love in the world? Let the liar cut out his vile tongue!
2. We speak with you in different languages, as always, but the things we talk about do not change from this.
3. The unfortunate person is cruel and callous. And all just because good people mutilated him.
4. Sometimes the best way to ruin a person is to let him choose his own fate.
5. A person without a surprise inside, in his box, is uninteresting.
6. Everything will be right, the world is built on this.
7. - Margarita Nikolaevna did not need money. Margarita Nikolaevna could buy whatever she liked. Among her husband's acquaintances there were interesting people. Margarita Nikolaevna never touched the stove. Margarita Nikolaevna did not know the horrors of living in a joint apartment.
   - In a word .. Was she happy?
   - Not one minute!
8. Understand that the tongue can hide the truth, but the eyes never!
9. It's nice to hear that you treat the cat so politely. For some reason, cats usually say "you", although not a single cat has ever drunk brotherhood with anyone.
10. Yes, man is mortal, but that would be half the trouble. The bad thing is that he is sometimes suddenly mortal, that's the trick!
11. Do you judge by the costume? Never do this. You can make a mistake, and, moreover, very large.
12. The one who loves must share the fate of the one he loves.
13. There are no evil people in the world, there are only unhappy people.
14. - Is that vodka? Margarita asked weakly.
    The cat jumped up in a chair from resentment.
    “Have mercy, queen,” he croaked, “would I allow myself to pour vodka for a lady? It's pure alcohol!
15. A brick will never fall on anyone's head for no reason..
16. “You are not Dostoyevsky,” said the citizen, confused by Koroviev.
    “Well, who knows, who knows,” he replied.
    “Dostoevsky is dead,” the citizen said, but somehow not very confidently.
    “I protest,” Behemoth exclaimed hotly. Dostoevsky is immortal!
17. People are like people. They love money, but it has always been... Mankind loves money, no matter what it is made of, whether it is leather, paper, bronze or gold. Well, frivolous ... well, well ... ordinary people ... in general, they resemble the former ones ... the housing problem only spoiled them ...
18. Never ask for anything! Never and nothing, and especially for those who are stronger than you. They will offer and give everything themselves!
19. The most interesting thing about this lie is that it is a lie from the first to the last word.
20. All theories stand one another. There is also one among them, according to which each will be given according to his faith. May it come true!
21. Nonsense! It will pass in three hundred years.
22. Which country's wine do you prefer at this time of the day?
23. My drama is that I live with someone I don’t love, but I consider it unworthy to spoil his life.
24. Cowardice is one of the worst human vices.
    - I dare to object to you. Cowardice is the worst human vice.
25. Never be afraid of anything. This is unreasonable.
26. The worst anger is the anger of impotence.
27. I'll tell you a fairy tale. There was one aunt. And she had no children and no happiness at all either. And here she was at first crying for a long time, and then she became angry.
28. Annushka has already bought sunflower oil, and not only bought it, but even spilled it. So the meeting will not take place.
29. What would your good do if evil did not exist, and what would the earth look like if shadows disappeared from it?
30. Whatever the pessimists say, the earth is still absolutely beautiful, and under the moon it is simply unique..

In a psychiatric hospital, Ivan, by force of circumstances insurmountable for him, was forced to take up the matter of the highest utility in all sorts of pre-crisis and crisis situations: rethinking their past life and intentions for the future. Thus, getting into the clinic for Ivan (as well as for many real people who are not able to escape with their meaningful will from the stream of fuss that drags them through life) was a providential blessing, because otherwise he would have written poems until the end of his days - “monstrous! » (according to his conscience), from which he himself was sick.

In the novel, this psychiatric hospital is a knot in which storylines are intertwined, containing various fragments of the story "about Pilate". This storyline is represented by three fragments:

The first (Ch. 2) can be conditionally called the “Gospel of Woland” - his narrative, reaching to clear evidence, about the events of the beginning of our era that took place on the 14th day of the spring month of Nisan in the city of Yershalaim, to Berlioz and Bezdomny, while the three of them were sitting on a bench at the Patriarch's Ponds, each in his own way "waiting for the tram";

· the second (ch. 16) is a dream that Ivan Bezdomny, pumped up with sedatives, had during his stay in a psychiatric hospital;

the third (chap. 25) - one of the burnt copies of the manuscript of the master's novel about Pilate, again materialized by Woland (during the materialization of the manuscript, Margarita, admiring Woland, froze stupidity: “Omnipotent, omnipotent!” - although only God is omnipotent and omnipotent).

For the most part, it is precisely this story “about Pilate” that literary critics and readers, equally possessing a demonic structure of the psyche, identify with the theological views of M.A. then unseemly "lyrical heroes." This circumstance - the unseemliness of the "lyrical heroes" and the scenes in which this plot is revealed to the reader - and leads us to the opinion that the "Gospel according to Michael" is not disguised by him as the "Gospel according to Woland" or "a novel in a novel", written by the master , in relation to which all other storylines are the supporting basis and frame; and that the “Gospel according to Michael” is the whole novel in the interweaving of all its storylines without exception or giving selective preference to any one of them. At the same time, much, due to the specifics of the characters involved in the plot, is simply unacceptable to be understood directly and literally, since otherwise a logical approach to nonsense like the following is inevitable:

“In May 1939, Bulgakov made fundamental changes to this episode: Levi Matvey appears before Woland with request(highlighted in bold by V. Losev) Yeshua about Satan "taking the master with him and rewarding him with peace." Thus, in a later edition, Bulgakov departs from the concept of subordination of the “kingdom of darkness” to the “kingdom of light” and makes them at least equal in rights” (Viktor Losev, Comments on the publication of chapters from early versions of the novel in the Slovo magazine, No. 8 , 1991, p. 74).

We will comment on this episode later, and now we will return to the plot “about Pilate” as a whole. For those who are familiar with the New Testament texts, it is perceived as another version, repeating the New Testament messages, although differing from them in some details, which - depending on their correlation with other circumstances or their isolated consideration - seem either insignificant or extremely important. . At the same time, from the point of view of the majority, who are not the keepers of faith in the impeccable accuracy of the canonical biblical narratives, there are no particular discrepancies with the canonical texts in this plot. Everything is one at a superficial glance: arrested on the denunciation of Judas; the Sanhedrin sentenced to death and submitted the verdict to the procurator for approval; the procurator did not want to approve the death sentence, but under the pressure of the threat of a denunciation of him to the Roman emperor Tiberius, he became cowardly and approved the sentence; crucified along with the robbers; died on the cross; buried, though not in the right way and not there, as the canonical New Testament texts tell about it... Although this story does not contain, firstly, what Yeshua did before his arrest; secondly, what happened after the burial of the body, nevertheless, everything is recognizable, and what is not said is known from the common biblical culture. What's special here?

For the majority, the question does not arise to what extent what M.A. Bulgakov left in silence coincides with what is directly stated in the New Testament texts. Moreover, the question arising from the first one does not arise for them: how much do they coincide in what exactly diverge defaults on the one hand M.A. Bulgakov, and on the other hand, the authors, censors and editors of the New Testament texts?

But, in order to continue considering this storyline and related issues further, it is necessary to recall that many writers have argued that their characters live an independent life in their works, regardless of the will and intentions of the author of the work. This happens because the author, having conceived a character, imagines in his psyche a certain personality, endowing it, according to his understanding, with morality, knowledge, worldview and everything else that characterizes any individual. After that, a more or less independent algorithmic module is formed in the author’s psyche, which is an artistic image-character, which acts “automatically” in the plot, based on everything that the author provided him with in the “virtual reality” of the world invented by him. This concept of artistic creativity explains why, conceived and called to the character's personality operates in the plot more or less independently of the author himself, whose psyche works on the basis of a different morality, other knowledge, a different algorithm of thinking.

According to this understanding of artistic creativity, it is not the writer who, having created some kind of storyline, distributes its “theatrical acting out” between the characters, but the characters imagined by him “live a real life” in the author’s psyche, composing this storyline in the world he imagines in turn or in parallel, mutually complementing or refuting each other, while the author's inner vision is only present. At the same time, some characters, having a certain independence in the psyche of the author, can rely on the arrays of information common to them, known to the author, and allocated for some group of characters in his psyche; or through the psyche of the author to have direct access to the information of egregores, in which the author enters, even if he does not have conscious access to this information or denies the possibility of its existence somewhere other than in the world of his work. In such a concept and in the life practice of artistic creativity, the author is left with the task of providing a sufficient number of characters, correcting their personal qualities, and through this, the algorithms of their interaction in the plot of the work are adjusted. Sometimes a work is obtained on the first attempt in one breath, and sometimes it takes decades to set up the algorithms for the development of the plot and its individual fragments.

All this is similar to a computer game, but the creation of which and the development of its algorithms take place in the psyche of the author, and not in the computer software environment.

Only in this mode of creativity does a work of art turn out “as if it were alive”. When constructing the storyline by the author himself, with the subsequent distribution of its “theatrical acting out” between the puppets-puppets designed by him, painted as characters, a lifeless “music box” is obtained, which is set in motion by an energy “spring”, which first unfolds from the psyche of the author himself, and then from the mind of the reader.

An example of this kind of psycho-mechanical mobile structures, vampirically working at the expense of the reader’s energy, are “Demons” by F.M. Dostoevsky, who himself admitted that this novel of his is the result of constructing a plot with predetermined results. M.A. Bulgakov’s “Master and Margarita” turned out really “as in life”, but not a dead vampiric psycho-mechanical construction.

Therefore, before proceeding to the consideration of the nested plot “about Pilate”, it is necessary to list the main characters of the entire novel that are directly in contact with this plot:

First of all, this is an anonymous narrator, who is given by the author to be a witness to the development of all the storylines of our time, to view the dreams of other characters , read their thoughts, and then talk about it, intertwining various storylines with each other;

· Woland, representing the image of Satan, formed in the psyche of M.A. Bulgakov himself on the basis of informal theological education in the family and his own observations of the flow of events in real life;

a master, the essence of which is clear without any special explanation: he was engaged in science, fell into a "crisis of the genre", as a result of which he moved away from scientific research and began to resolve his moral and ideological problems (inner contradictions in the psyche he was aware of and not aware of) in artistic creativity, which led him to another crisis, in which he got stuck hopelessly;

Margarita, has nothing to do with the intellectual and rational development and provision of the plot “about Pilate” with information about the facts of the religious history of mankind: in relation to this plot, she is one of the first passionate about him readers and, perhaps, the “muse” that directly inspired the master to work, since psychologically, and above all emotionally, the master was almost completely dependent on her.

· Ivan Ponyrev, the bearer of the literary pseudonym "Homeless", which could be called in parallel with his main pseudonym and the second pseudonym: Madhouse.

But if these were characters who, in relation to the plot “about Pilate”, can be called primary, then in this storyline itself there are secondary characters, not in the sense that they have secondary significance, but in the sense that they themselves - such as they appear in the novel are the offspring of the named primary characters: Woland, Bezdomny, the master, from whose faces the plot of the storyline “about Pilate” takes place in the novel. As a result, Pilate himself, Yeshua, Levi Matthew, the head of the sanhedrin (Sanhedrin - in a different transliteration; translated into Russian - the supreme council), the high priest Kaifa, turned out to be secondary characters. Therefore, one should distinguish when an anonymous person speaks about one of them. narrator (witness to everything he describes), and when someone else from the primary characters speaks about them. At the same time, all the primary characters associated with the storyline “about Pilate” are united by certain arrays of information common to them, which are inherent both in the psyche of M.A. Bulgakov himself and available through the egregors to which it was closed. Based on the arrays of this information, primary characters act, and from them they select information about secondary characters, in accordance with the morality, worldview, algorithms of the psyche and other personal capabilities of each of the primary characters given to them by M.A. Bulgakov. These arrays of information are based on both real history (mostly memorable egregorially), and its reflection in historical myths inherent in the culture of mankind, which differ in many respects from real history, since myths express the understanding of history by people, and not God's Providence, which is carried out in global historical process, in the predetermination of its meaning by God himself.

As a result, the storyline "about Pilate" develops as a mutually acceptable compromise between the primary characters, and it finds its reflection - discreet, as in real life, - Providence of God; more precisely, not Providence itself as such, but a characteristic-figurative idea of ​​Providence that has developed in the psyche of M.A. Bulgakov, corresponding to what was said in Ch. 19 of the 1st Book of Kings and displayed by him in the plot of the novel.

Neither Woland, nor the Madhouse, nor the master dispute the fragments of the plot presented by the other two narrators, and the coincidence is such that the personal copyright for the novel "About Pilate" goes to the master, who captured on paper what hovered in the collective unconscious of the fictional Bulgakov the world in which the life of the primary characters proceeded. Moreover, of these, only Woland's consciousness was a contemporary of the events described in the story "about Pilate", as a result of which everything else can be considered partially as satanic intrusions into the psyche of those who evade God's guidance. But since Woland himself acted within the boundaries of the providential allowance from Above, then his story is not useless and not meaningless for those who are sincerely determined to find the truth.

Of course, Woland hid everything from what he knew, acquaintance with which he considered harmful for the implementation of his intentions both in relation to his interlocutors personally, and in relation to all mankind. Somewhere he has lied or given the opportunity to be deceived by others; blurted out something harmful to himself out of pride, proceeding from the prejudice that "these stupid people" would not understand what he was saying as they should, in which opinion Berlioz immediately provided another reason for Woland, directing his feet under the tram. Woland blurted out something about the limitedness of his worldview and limited ability to foresee the consequences. Well, the main thing:

Throughout his history of falling away from God, Satan himself repeatedly fell into self-deception, as a result of which both his memory and the algorithms of the psyche could not help but accumulate a fair amount of errors and delusions that he is not able to identify and eliminate, persisting in his being out of tune with God .

This means that, in essence, M.A. Bulgakov, not being a recognized certified theologian, worked on the problem: substantive examination the possibility of imitation of the Revelation from Above by Satan within the limits of the fundamentally possible allowance of Satan for such an action. Theologians of all creeds, without exception, depart from it both in relation to what they themselves preach and in relation to what other believers profess and preach.

Consideration of this problem cannot destroy or eradicate the true faith, but is dangerous for the enslavement of society by the cult of all kinds of social magic. Accordingly, avoiding consideration of this issue, professional theologians of all faiths thereby testify to their lack of freedom, and as a result, to falling away from the Truth: “If you continue in My word, then you are truly My disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free”(in the paraphrase of John 8:31, 32).

How the master reacted to everything told and inspired in his thoughts is known from the very same novel. Once in a psychiatric hospital, he stole the keys from the nurse Praskovya Feodorovna, which is one of the characteristics of the real thieving morality of the master, and with their help entered the ward where Ivan Bezdomny was burdened by himself. After Ivan, whose impressions had not yet been erased, it must be assumed experiencing , word for word, retold the master “The Gospel of Woland”, the master exclaimed: “Oh, how I guessed! Oh, how I guessed! By this, he recognized for himself the complete truth of the "gospel from Woland" that coincides with his novel about the events that took place in Yershalaim at the beginning of the current era.

In our understanding of being, if a person is interested in the relationship between God and humanity and allows questions raisedGod willing before him in line with the consideration of this problem, sincerely, without dissembling before his conscience, then with God's help these problems will be resolved righteously, and a person cannot become depressed, run away from people, become mentally ill or obsessed: he will become more and more cheerful, embracing more and more aspects of life with his sanity growing stronger in righteousness.

That is, everything that happened to the master indicates that something is false in his morality and, as a result, in his psyche. Therefore, at least, he did not understand the truth of what he himself wrote, wading through the veil of false obsessions from Woland and the lies that have accumulated in the current culture, and, as a maximum, what he wrote is somewhat false.

To answer essentially questions of this kind, it is necessary to consider two components of the master's novel:

· the one that repeats the testimonies of the canonical New Testament Gospels;

the one that contradicts them.

Let's start with the contradiction. To the prosecutor's question:

My? - the arrested “Yeshua” hastily responded, expressing with his whole being his readiness to answer sensibly, without causing more anger. “Before that, the centurion Mark Ratslayer led Yeshua out of the colonnade, where Pilate was conducting an interrogation, hit him with a whip, and explained how it is required to behave in front of the procurator.”

The procurator said quietly:

Mine - I know. Don't pretend to be more stupid than you are. Your.

Yeshua, - the prisoner hastily answered.

Is there a nickname?

Where you're from?

From the city of Gamala, - the prisoner answered, showing with his head that there, somewhere far away, to his right, in the north, there is the city of Gamala.

Who are you by blood?

I don't know for sure, - the prisoner replied briskly, - I don't remember my parents. I was told that my father was a Syrian…”

Yeshua's answer to the question equally denies both biblical and Koranic evidence about the birth and childhood of Christ, according to which he knew his parents, knew about his conception by a righteous virgin from the Holy Spirit, which is unnatural in terms of everyday life.

In the version of the events of The Master and Margarita, Yeshua is an ordinary person, of which there are many, but who differs from the vast majority in that he is purposefully active, joyful and fearless with faith and trust in God , as his further answers to Pilate show, and generously shares his knowledge and understanding of what is happening and prospects with all those around him who are ready to listen to him, without making exceptions for anyone.

After Yeshua helped Pilate by curing him of a migraine attack, Pilate ordered to untie him, and the conversation continued:

“What do you want me to swear? - He asked, very animated, unleashed.

Well, at least by your life, - answered the procurator, - it's time to swear by it, as it hangs by a thread, know that!

Don't you think you hung her, hegemon? - asked the prisoner, - if this is so, then you are very mistaken.

Pilate shuddered and answered through his teeth:

I can cut this hair.

And in this you are mistaken, - the prisoner objected, smiling brightly and shielding himself from the sun with his hand, - agree that only the one who hung it up can probably cut the hair?

So, so, - Pilate said with a smile ... "

The hint is made very transparent and is expressed in Russian in the proverb “we all walk under God”, and without His Holy will, it’s not that no one’s life will be cut short, but not a single hair will fall from the head. And all the behavior of Yeshua in this dialogue shows that he happily entrusted his life, death and afterlife to God.

So, so, - Pilate said with a smile, - now I have no doubt that idle onlookers in Yershalaim followed you on your heels. I don't know who hung your tongue, but it is hung well. By the way, tell me: is it true that you came to Yershalaim through the Susa gates on a donkey, accompanied by a crowd of mob, shouting greetings to you like a certain prophet? - Here the procurator pointed to a scroll of parchment.

The prisoner looked at the procurator in bewilderment.

I don’t even have a donkey, hegemon,” he said. “I came to Yershalaim exactly through the Susa Gate, but on foot, accompanied by one Levi Matvey, and no one shouted anything to me, since no one knew me then in Yershalaim.”

This is a refutation of the scene of the solemn entry of Christ into Jerusalem on a young donkey to the joyful exclamations of the crowd “Hosanna! Hosanna!”, as the biblical confessional tradition of churches named after Christ insists.

“Don’t you know such people,” Pilate continued, not taking his eyes off the prisoner, “a certain Dismas, another Gestas, and a third Bar-Rabban?

I don’t know these good people,” the prisoner answered.

Now tell me, why are you always using the words "good people"? Is that what you call everyone?

Everyone, - the prisoner answered, - there are no evil people in the world.

This is the first time I hear about it,” Pilate said, smiling, “but perhaps I know little about life! You don’t have to write down the rest,” he turned to the secretary, although he didn’t write anything down anyway, and continued to say to the prisoner: “Did you read about this in any of the Greek books?

No, I came up with this on my own.

And you preach it?

The doctrine proclaimed by Yeshua and openly preached by him about the universal kindness of people knows no exceptions both in relation to all people in the aggregate, and in relation to each person personally.

He does not know, among other things, in relation to Mark Ratslayer, who severely beat him, and Judas from Kiriath (Iscariot), who provoked him, at the instigation of the owners of the Sanhedrin, to violate the Roman law "on insulting majesty." This is not blindness to the question of who Yeshua is really dealing with (a sincere follower, a benevolent disciple, or a notorious provocateur), as is understood by many.

It is a PRINCIPLE OF LIFE KNOWING NO EXCEPTIONS and assuming that God knows to whom He brings Yeshua to and whom He brings to him; the duty of Yeshua, first of all, before God is to convey his understanding of the Truth-Truth to everyone with whom God allows him to meet. This principle is designed to be followed in his life by every person in all circumstances without exception.

And in relation to him, the question of whether the historically real Christ was conceived as all people in the copulation of a man and a woman, which is reported in the Gospel of Woland, or was conceived of the Holy Spirit, as the New Testament texts and the Koran affirm, does not matter. . In addition, the incarnation of Christ, conceived from the Holy Spirit, as can be understood from the Bible, is not the most amazing incarnation. It describes another incarnation of the vicar of God on Earth, not only without a father, but also without a mother. In the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Apostle Paul, ch. 7 writes the following:

"1. For Melchizedek, the king of Salem, the priest of the Most High God, the one who met Abraham and blessed him, returning after the defeat of the kings, 2. to whom Abraham separated even a tithe from everything (see the book of Genesis, ch. 14:18 - 20), - firstly, according to the signification of the name, the king of righteousness, and then the king of Salem, that is, the king of peace, 3. without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life(highlighted in italics by us when quoting: but still, Melchizedek was not raised to the rank of a deity even with all these miraculous properties of him), like the Son of God, remains a priest forever. 4. See how great is the one to whom even the patriarch Abraham gave a tithe of his best spoils.

That is, the question of the method of incarnation is far from being as significant for life as it is presented to the flock of the church named after Christ. The question of the nature of the conception of Christ lies in a different area: if historically it really happened that in the era of the first advent there was not a single couple of men and women such that their heredity (bodily and spiritual) would allow a person to be born and grow up who would be free from delusions of the era and could manifest to everyone else that ideal of the dignity of Man, which is predetermined by the Most High God, the Creator and Almighty, so that all people comprehend this undistorted ideal and embody it each in themselves, then God brought this ideal to life by the conception of Jesus Christ by the righteous Virgin from Holy Spirit.

But the churches named after Christ, having focused the attention of the church-goers on the sacrament of the conception of Jesus, substitute their teachings about this event, which no one but God can repeat, understanding of the issue of life principles, which Jesus followed in life in communion with all people and which, with God's help, everyone is able to follow in their life. And this is the anti-Christian essence of any supposedly Christian cult. And as a result of this centuries-old policy of church hierarchs and their behind-the-scenes masters, one of the censures of one's neighbor for his inherent spiritual and material generosity and disinterestedness towards others in society translates into a deliberately malicious form : "Christ was found ..." and similar ones, in which the assimilation of a person to Christ for certain good qualities should be perceived by him as an insult and censure.

In addition, M.A. Bulgakov’s accusations of blasphemous (from the point of view of those who call themselves “Christians”) refusal to recognize the fact of the conception of Christ from the Holy Spirit are groundless, no matter what church literary critics say about this. It should be noted that the version of the conception of Christ from the Holy Spirit in the plot of the novel is directly disputed by the materialistic atheist M.A. Berlioz in his lecture on mythology for Ivan Bezdomny, and besides, it is also expressed in one phrase in the Gospel of Woland. The only difference between the version of Berlioz and Woland is that Berlioz did not know Christ during his lifetime and therefore disputes the very fact of his existence in the past; and Woland talks about Yeshua, whom he saw in life, as about an ordinary righteous man left by God, pursuing at least two goals in his story:

Firstly, to forget one of the unpleasant facts of God’s direct intervention in earthly affairs, as a result of which the Blessed Virgin Mary gave birth in a supernatural way. Man in all the fullness of his dignity;

and secondly, so that it would be disrespectful to others in earthly life to trust God and place their hopes in Him, to build on God in vain Judas sin of betrayal of the righteous who trusted him.

But the same nonsense betrayal of God the righteous who trusted in him, starting from the stage of Predestination of the existence of the Universe, erect on God and churches named after Christ. M.A. Bulgakov, speaking in the person of an anonymous narrator, leading the narration of the novel-parable, did not express his own opinion on the issue of the conception of Christ, leaving each reader of the novel to answer it sincerely, according to his conscience, but as can be seen from the comments on the novel, most literary critics, when answering this question, identify themselves either with Berlioz or with Woland, attributing their characteristic views to M.A. Bulgakov.

And further: promotion to rank immaculate exclusively the conception of Christ by Mary the Virgin from the Holy Spirit is indeed one of the blasphemous, satanic provisions of church doctrine, blasphemously implying in silence that all other conceptions of people are doomed by God himself to be vicious. The conception of Christ by the Holy Spirit is miraculous and real immaculately. But also immaculately(although devoid of the halo of a supernatural miracle) any conception human spouses to whom God has bestowed His Love. And such a conception should become the norm in the life of society. Any conception that took place without God-given Love, that occurred only on the basis of working out the algorithm of copulation of a man and a woman under the guidance of exclusively animal instincts or an excess of energy out of boredom, is vicious, regardless of whether such a conception occurred in a marriage ritually consecrated by the church or whether it happened in fornication of spouses or bachelors.

The justification for the statement "evil people do not exist" in the novel is also simple:

“These kind people (…) didn’t learn anything…”

In other words:

Evil - in a vicious culture where there is no righteous upbringing and where people learn the truth by mistakes,- is objectively inevitable, as a result of which it is objectively inappropriate to lay responsibility for it on any of them; such accusations are unjust and unjust, no matter what any of the people have done and whoever accuses him of it.

Such a view, despite its seeming simplicity, however, does not relieve a person of the obligation to strive for righteousness, and is not a declaration as a norm of connivance to a vicious lifestyle and the cult of vice, as it seems at first superficial glance: Yeshua himself sincerely lives in harmony with his conscience, and his activity is aimed at transforming the morality and psyche of everyone with whom he communicates, no matter how low the people around him fall, and no matter how evil they do.

The vast majority of those who do not agree with the teachings of Christian churches and who are familiar with the New Testament episode "Christ and the Sinner" (John, ch. 8), consider themselves free from the mission of finding the truth and enlightening those around them, and therefore such forgiveness is regarded as corruption carried out by default society and youth by the “obvious” (for them) impunity of vice. In Christian churches, the doctrine of forgiveness really turns into a means of corrupting society with impunity for an undeniable vice, due to the fact that the churches are bogged down in the swamp of dead dogmas, into which the Patriarchal dams turned the living teaching of Christ.

The statement "there are no evil people in the world" is just a statement a fact hidden in the depths of the existence of the Universe, the realization of which obliges everyone who understands this to develop and give people a true teaching about life, on the basis of which the goodness inherent in all of them will ineradicably manifest itself. But this is only the intra-social side of what Yeshua said - his sociological doctrine, which he puts into practice with all his activities in all circumstances without exception:

“But, for example, the centurion Mark, he was nicknamed the Ratslayer, is he kind?

Yes, - answered the prisoner, - it is true, he is an unhappy person. Since the good people mutilated him, he became cruel and callous. (...) If I could talk to him, - the prisoner suddenly said dreamily, - I am sure that he would change dramatically. (…)

I see that some misfortune has happened because of the fact that I spoke to this young man from Kiriath. I, hegemon, have a premonition that misfortune will happen to him, and I feel very sorry for him.

I think,” the procurator replied with a strange smile, “that there is someone else in the world whom you should pity more than Judas of Kiriath, and who will have to do much worse than Judas! So, Mark Ratslayer, a cold and convinced executioner, people who, as I see, - the procurator pointed to the mutilated face of Yeshua, - you were beaten for your sermons, the robbers Dismas and Gestas, who killed four soldiers with their relatives, and finally, a dirty traitor Judas - are they all good people?

Yes, the prisoner answered.

And the kingdom of truth will come?

It will come, Hegemon, Yeshua answered with conviction.

It will never come! Pilate suddenly shouted in such a terrible voice that Yeshua recoiled. (...) he raised his commanding voice, calling out the words so that they could hear in the garden: - Criminal! Criminal! Criminal!

Yeshua Ha-Nozri, do you believe in any gods?

There is only one God, - answered Yeshua, - in Him I believe "I believe and trust Him, we will add when quoting."

So pray to him! Pray harder! However, - here Pilate's voice sat down, - this will not help ... "

In fearless faith in God, at one "pole", and in disbelief in God, arising from various fears, regardless of faith in God or unbelief in Him, on the other “pole” - the limits of differences between all kind people. There are no evil people in the world.