SELF-KNOWLEDGE: A FACTOR IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE INDIVIDUAL AND OF THE NATION The path of development of a person, as of a nation, begins with one and the same important question:«Who am I?», «Who are we?»…For the individual this is the question of self-knowledge; for the nation, that of national self-consciousness. A person cannot… Read more: SELF-KNOWLEDGE: A FACTOR IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE INDIVIDUAL AND OF THE NATION

ABOUT THE WORDS «PAGAN» AND «IDOLATER» In the Haykian teaching, Man is the result of the material and biological history of the Universe, one who possesses the Creator’s qualities – consciousness, ideas – and who creates values.Since time immemorial Man has been shaping: building, sculpting, depicting – embodying his conceptions, his values, his high moral… Read more: ABOUT THE WORDS “PAGAN” AND “IDOLATER”

ARMENIA AGAINST ROME(PART 6) «Just as in the works of Shakespeare, in Rome we seek ourselves, the mirror of our own being. And perhaps that is why it so bewitches everyone»… (Avetis Aharonyan) Standing in Rome before the column of Marcus Aurelius, Avetis Aharonyan set down his reflections, the last part of which we present… Read more: ARMENIA AGAINST ROME (PART 6)

ARMENIA AGAINST ROME(PART 5) Standing in Italy, in Rome, before the column of Marcus Aurelius, Avetis Aharonyan calls to mind the tempestuous history of the Armenian past.Below is the continuation of the passage taken from the written account of his reflections upon those episodes. The beginning is in the preceding publications… 5BELLO MAXIMO – THE… Read more: ARMENIA AGAINST ROME (PART 5)

ARMENIA AGAINST ROME(PART 4) «Rome is a succession of the deeds and the shatterings of giants, one that stuns a man. Here the mightiest and the most complete of human passions have clashed with one another.Man – that eternal enigma even to himself – one day entered here, like a tempest, upon all those stages… Read more: ARMENIA AGAINST ROME (PART 4)

ARMENIA AGAINST ROME(PART 3) A nation preserves its existence not only by political power, but also by culture, by national memory, by creative force… In his travel reflections, Avetis Aharonyan addresses the role of the historical past and of national culture in the shaping of a new identity.In Italy, before the monuments of the past,… Read more: ARMENIA AGAINST ROME (PART 3)

ARMENIA AGAINST ROME(PART 2) «Igdirmava, 1866.Even a man possessing the most elementary and meagre acquaintance with Armenian literature knows that this proper name, lost and forsaken among those distant plains, set side by side with a date a hundred years old, signify only and always the Swarthy Aramazd of Armenian literature, that is to say… Read more: ARMENIA AGAINST ROME (PART 2)

«ARMENIA AGAINST ROME»(Part 1) The writer, publicist and political figure Avetis Aharonyan, who spent his childhood and his youth in Igdirmava beneath the «mysterious gaze» of Masis, was in Paris in 1919-1920, at the Peace Conference, together with the members of the two Armenian delegations,in order to present the struggle of the Armenian people and… Read more: ARMENIA AGAINST ROME (PART 1)

«THE NAVASARD GAMES» The scant fragments of songs rescued from the most ancient Armenian epic, handed down orally from age to age, «by word of mouth», later appeared in manuscript codices, bringing down to us the breath and the spirit of far-off days… «Who would give me the smoke of the chimney,And the morning of… Read more: THE NAVASARD GAMES

«JESUS OF NAZARETH» (M. TERPETEREAN) In the April 1929 number of the magazine «Hayrenik» there was published M. Terpeterean’s article «Jesus of Nazareth», which we present below. IT MAY BE DECLARED without reservation that Christianity is the greatest revolution in history. Over approximately half the surface of the world, one third of civilized humanity labourstoday… Read more: JESUS OF NAZARETH (M. TERPETEREAN)