A great man is one who collects knowledge the way a bee collects honey and uses it to help people overcome the difficulties they endure - hunger, ignorance and disease!
- Nikola Tesla

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
- Franklin Roosevelt

While their territory has been devastated and their homes despoiled, the spirit of the Serbian people has not been broken.
- Woodrow Wilson

Теслина вечна будност и вечни покој

Сваки народ би требало да зна не само шта никако не би смео да учини него и шта би све морао да учини. Кад је реч о великом, генијалном научнику Николи Тесли и о обавезама нас Срба према њему, онда би требало знати бар две ствари. Прво, да кључну обавезу бриге о имену и делу Николе Тесле не смемо никако препустити некоме другоме него да то мора бити у превасходној надлежности српског народа, његове науке и културе. Друго, Теслина генијалност, његови изуми и стваралачке идеје несумњиво припадају целом свету, свим људима и целокупном универзуму, али бисмо ми, припадници српског народа морали што чвршће и дубље да вежемо сопствену науку и културу за овог генијалног ствараоца како би се тиме непрестано подстицао интелектуални, стваралачки развој свакога од нас.

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Неопходно је, дакле, на све начине утврдити оно што наш народ веже за Теслу, за његово научно и духовно наслеђе. То истовремено значи да бисмо морали знати да је право место за починак праха великог Николе Тесле управо Београд, и то Врачар, на којем се уздиже Храм Светог Саве. Зато на том месту и треба, уз споменике Карађорђу и Светом Сави, да се нађе и споменик Николи Тесли. Врачарски плато би, осим тога, могао постати место на којем би се формирао најстрожи Пантеон оних који су за духовно-историјску судбину српског народа најзаслужнији.

Ваља изразити најдубљу захвалност Српској православној цркви на, пре више година исказаној иницијативи да Никола Тесла нађе свој покој баш уз Храм Светог Саве. Исто тако треба захвалити Влади Републике Србије и Граду Београду што су се, најзад, договорили око онога што бисмо, мање због Тесле а више због нас самих, морали да учинимо. Овим договором као да стичемо додатне разлоге за оптимизам у погледу будућности српског народа. Та будућност у великој мери почива на стваралачком уму Николе Тесле, па ћемо са учвршћењем веза са тим умом свакако имати више права и на саму будућност.

Проф. др Драган Станић,
Председник Матице српске

Извор: Матица српска


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Chris O. Divich

Major General Chris O. Divich is commander of the Air Force Military Training Center, Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. A major component of the Air Training Command, the center is responsible for commissioning high-quality second lieutenants through the Officer Training School; conducting basic military training for all personnel entering the Air Force, Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard; providing technical training in nearly 100 courses; and providing English language training for foreign military personnel.

General Divich was born in Doland, S.D., in 1934, where he graduated from high school in 1952. He graduated from the University of Kansas in 1956 with a bachelor of science degree in education and received his commission through the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps program. He completed Squadron Officer School in 1960, Air Command and Staff College in 1967 and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in 1976.

He entered the U.S. Air Force in September 1956 and in January 1958 completed pilot training at Reese Air Force Base, Texas. He served as a KC-97 pilot, aircraft commander and instructor pilot at Schilling Air Force Base, Kan., from March 1958 to October 1963. The general was then assigned to Dow Air Force Base, Maine, as a KC-135 commander and, later, standardization and evaluation pilot.

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Publishing

The Church at Prayer

by Archimandrite Aimilianos of Simonopetra

Publisher’s note

Many readers of the addresses of Elder Aimilianos, which have been published in the five-volume series, rchimandrite Aimilianos, Spiritual Instructions and Discourses (Ormylia, 1998-2003), have frequently expressed the wish for an abridged and more accessible form of his teaching. In response, we are happy to inaugurate a new series of publications incorporating key texts from the above-mentioned collection. Other considerations have also contributed o this new project, such as the selection of specific texts which address important, contemporary questions; the need for a smaller, more reader-friendly publication format; and the necessity for editing certain passages in need of clarification, without however altering their basic meaning.

Above all, the works collected in this volume reflect the importance which the Elder consistently attached to prayer, spirituality, community life, worship, and liturgy. Thus the experientially based works "On Prayer", and "The Prayer of the Holy Mountain", which deal primarily with the Prayer of the Heart, appear first, followed by the summary addresses on "The Divine Liturgy", and "Our Church Attendance". These are in turn followed by the more socially oriented discourses on "Our Relations with Our Neighbor", and "Marriage: The Great Sacrament". Finally, the present volume closes with the sermons on "Spiritual Reading" and "The Spiritual Life", which in a simple and yet compelling manner set forth the conditions for "ascending to heaven on the wings of the Spirit".

It is our hope that The Church at Prayer will meet the purpose for which it is issued and will serve as a ready aid and support for those who desire God and eternal life in Him.