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nd General secretary of YSEE Vlassis G. Rassias. The lecture was held at the Hellenic philosophical institution "Hekatēvólos" on June 9, 2018, in Athens, Greece, where the temporary and recognized temple of the Hellenic ethnic religion is located. About the person: Vlassis G. Rassias (1959-2019) was an ethnic Hellenic economist, historiographer, artist, poet, translator, publisher, author of over twenty-five books and a leading figure in the Re-Hellenization movement in Greece. He has transferred both Salustios‘ Peri Theon kai Kosmou and Epictetus‘ Enchiridion into modern Greek. He was the co-founder of the Supreme Council of Ethnic Hellenes (YSEE), whose General secretary he was, and the European Congress of Ethnic Religions (ECER, formerly WCER). He represented the indigenous Hellenic tradition in many TV shows, radio broadcasts, magazines and at the Parliament of the World's Religions 2018 in Toronto, Canada. In his function as the General secretary of YSEE, he had given more than 150 lectures about Hellenism in several countries. Vlassis G. Rassias was a Stoic. "The Hellenic tradition is, like any other ethnic tradition, only accountable to itself and does not depend on what others think about it." Vlassis G. Rassias: From a lecture that was held at the Hellenic philosophical institution "Hekatēvólos" on June 9, 2018, in Athens, Greece. «Tradition has nothing to do with the so-called local colour or folklore, nor with the various local customs recorded by folklorists. Tradition has to do with the origins and transfer throughout the centuries of a set of notions, perspectives and conceptions that help people who are a living part of the specific tradition to interpret both themselves and the natural and moral environment in a very specific way. Tradition is a way of seeing and the knowledge transferred from one generation to the next, passing through the filters of social and moral differentiations and reaching its partakers always accurate and respected. Tradition concentrates in its essence everything that has been; all the ways, the narratives, the unspoken, the myths, the rites that have been expressed within its context in the past and at the same time all that have not yet been expressed but exist in a state of potentiality. At any given moment, tradition is complete and at the same time has the capacity to evolve. It embodies internal knowledge that co-exists harmoniously with every aspect of life: personal, collective, political. It is universal transfer and universal experience, given that the only thing that may vary among its different partakers is the extent and quality of this transfer and experience. Tradition is always objective (contrary to the subjective, individual perception and view). It is always ancestral and ethnic. It can never be imposed from one nation to another. There is no tradition shared by more than one nation.» Source: Supreme Council of Ethnic Hellenes (YSEE), What does the term παράδοση (paradosi – tradition) mean to you? (FAQ English), Question no. 13. URL: https://www.ysee.gr/faq-eng.html#13 (as consulted online on November 9, 2019). Hellenismos: A short introduction to Hellenic tradition https://scribd.com/document/436904447/Hellenismos-A-short-introduction-to-Hellenic-tradition Vlassis G. Rassias passed away https://hellenismos.org/2019/07/07/vlassis-g-rassias-passed-away/ Vlassis G. Rassias: On the nature of the ethnic gods https://hellenismos.org/2017/02/05/on-the-nature-of-ethnic-gods/ Other videos: Rassias: The Gods of Hellenismos are multiplications of the True Being – Ontos on (ENG SUB) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYMSqW484VA The meaning of life in Hellenismos (ENG SUB) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PMqL1f9OOA A definition of Hellenismos by the General secretary of YSEE (ENG SUB) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qmuyry96kZc Hellenic religion is interested in life, not in the hereafter (ENG SUB) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h26_-Zz3KA Interview with ethnic Hellenic author and stoic Vlassis G. Rassias (1959-2019) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiLB1V2qrIw