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The universal space is inhabited by living self-aware energies, called souls, spirits, or consciousnesses. “Lumps” of some of them are small, some bigger, while others are large. But there is also the largest Consciousness that occupies the entire boundless universal space — this is God-the-Father, Who is also called the Creator, Jehovah, Savaof, Allah, Iswara, Tao, Primordial Consciousness, Adibuddha, etc. Consciousnesses of different level of evolutionary advancement abide in different layers of multidimensional space, which are called eons in Greek, lokas — in Sanskrit, etc. These layers range by the level of their subtlety-coarseness, similar to the radio waves of different frequencies: waves of different frequency ranges do not interfere, although they exist within the same space. Layers of multidimensional space have borders, which resemble a partition plane between transparent oil and water poured in the same glass vessel. This is how the borders between some eons really look like. In the deepest layer of the multidimensional universal Ocean of the Absolute resides the Unified Consciousness of the Creator; this is the layer of the subtlest Consciousness. At the opposite end of the subtlety-coarseness scale there are layers of hell, inhabited by devils and demons — the coarsest souls; this is hell. Thus, there are numerous layers-eons between the two ends of this scale. Throughout their individual evolution units of consciousness (souls) move from one layer to another in both directions, finding their abode either in hellish eons, or paradisiacal, or intermediate ones. But we have to strive to get into the subtlest eon, which is called the Abode of the Creator and located “deeper”, than paradise. Life of God consists in His Evolution, i.e. continuation of the positive development of His Universal Organism. This is the reason why He creates material worlds in various parts of the universe and then settles tiny particles of His energy into organic bodies on planets, which are suitable at the particular time for the existence of the latter. These particles should grow and merge back into Him and enrich Him in the end. Their growth starts on the crystalline lattices of minerals, continues in the bodies of plants, animals, and then those of humans. Each of us has come through multitude of incarnations in his personal evolution — before getting in his current human body. And our task for now is to make maximum efforts in order to become worthy of Mergence with the Creator in His Abode. It is clear to us now how we should love God, isn’t it? We have to do everything we can to attain Divinity ourselves and to merge into Him, and also to help other people in doing this. We advance towards Divinity by means of: — Cultivation of love for all living beings and for the Creator, — Refinement of ourselves as consciousness so that we can move into more subtle eons — away from hell and closer to the Abode of the Creator. — Intellectual self-perfection: accumulation of knowledge about the most important, training of the thinking abilities, intellectual creativity etc., — Increasing the power of our refined consciousness, which is directly proportional to the size of its “lump”. An individual consciousness has the ability to increase quantitatively (to grow). It grows in the course of incarnations as it enters physical bodies of increasing size. But at the human stages of the evolution of an individual soul this growth is accelerated if a person leads an intense life in any area: from physical labor, to intellectual work, to healing, etc. But there are also special (esoteric) methods of acceleration of the quantitative growth of consciousness that consist in various types of meditative training, which are especially effective if conducted in combination with athletic exercises and on special “power places”. One must remember that an increase of the size and power of a coarse consciousness will make a devil out of a person and will determine a quite “stable” life in hell for him. It is only growth of a refined consciousness that has a real value. What, then, leads to the coarsening of consciousness and what — to the refinement of it? There are both external and internal factors. Among the former is the introduction of certain kinds of energy into the organism from outside: either coarse or refined. For instance, eating bodies of killed animals, prolonged stay inside coarse energy fields, generated by coarse people, powerful voltage transformers and similar sources — all this coarsens consciousness. Communicating with refined people, getting attuned to the subtlest natural phenomena and works of art contribute to refinement of it. But what is even more important in this process are the person’s own emotions. Emotions are nothing else but states of consciousness. They are generated in special energy structures of the human organism — chakras. (Electric processes, registered in the brain merely reflect these states, since the brain does not generate them but only takes part in the processing and transferring of corresponding information to various organs of the body and layers of the multidimensional human organism, as well as between the consciousness that lives in the physical body and the outer environment). All emotions and their nuances can be ranged along the subtlety-coarseness scale. To coarse emotions belong all manifestations of anger (from fury — to irritability to jealousy to emotion of condemnation) and fear (from terror — to anxiety). Subtle and the subtlest emotions are represented by all kinds of love, especially by tenderness (including sexually-colored one). It is not by chance that the New Testament is permeated with this topic: “Love one another with mutual affection…” (Romans, 12:10), “Greet one another with a holy kiss” (2 Cor.13:12), etc. As to the controlling of one’s emotions, any attempts to hold back one’s anger or to force oneself to kiss people whom one does not love would be very ineffective. But a radical solution to this problem can come through practicing methods of psychic self-regulation, based on influencing one’s own reflexogenic zones of emotional-volitional sphere. Among these are methods developed within our School [10 and others]. The most important reflexogenic zone of the human organism is chakra anahata.
The Spiritual Heart
The spiritual heart is the organ that is responsible for generating emotions of love. This is the most important part of the human organism. It abides primarily in chakra anahata, which is called also as the middle dantyan. This structure is what spiritual seekers of Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, and most likely representatives of other religious schools, have trained and worked with. However, strange as it may be, there are numerous attempts to determine its location, including quite preposterous ones. Some early Christians believed that it was located in the physical heart. Or someone shared their “firm conviction” in a book, that the spiritual heart, unlike the physical one that is located in the left part of the chest, is located in the right part of it. On the schemes contained in the foreign books, translated into Russian and published by “Ananda Marga”, the spiritual heart was for some reason was depicted as located around the stomach area, and some incompetent Russian authors accepted this opinion. But it is clear that if one spends one’s whole life developing the stomach area by means of various psychic techniques, one is not going to advance a bit in gaining the ability to love cordially. In reality, the spiritual heart starts growing from the center of the thorax, and when is developed at least a little — it occupies its entire volume. During the first centuries of the Christian era many true spiritual seekers used the method, known as the “Jesus prayer”, for developing this organ. They started to diligently repeat a certain variations of the following prayer all day long: “Jesus Christ, our Lord, Son of God, have mercy on me!” in an attempt to invoke and perceive Jesus-the-Sweetest (the Most Beloved). And in some of them — usually after years of such practice — this prayer would involuntarily “get down” from the head to the thorax and… — the person would suddenly realize what love really is. As a result, his whole life would change dramatically starting from this moment [4,37,64]. But in the following centuries — as the Christian movement degraded — this method was gradually forgotten. In Russian Orthodoxy the opinion started to prevail, that the secret of the “Jesus prayer” had been “lost”… However, by using the scientific method we were able not only to discover the secret of opening up the spiritual heart, but also to work out techniques that allowed almost everyone who wanted to learn this to accomplish this task in one or two months or even faster. The system of methods that we created has already helped thousands of people to accelerate their personal evolution. How one can do it (even by oneself), we have explained in detail in a series of our books [10 and others].
Chakras
God is Love. And in order to get closer to Him, to become a part of Him by merging into the Primordial Consciousness, we also have to become Love. I can also put it in other words: the Primordial Universal Consciousness, the Creator, is the “Universal Anahata”, the Unified Spiritual Heart that is being constantly replenished by spiritual hearts of seekers from all inhabited planets of the universe, who attain Perfection and merge into Him. This is why the Straight Path to one’s own complete spiritual Self-Realization that consists in the Mergence with Him, involves the development of oneself as Love in qualitative and quantitative aspects. It is only through this that we can merge into Him. Other valuable qualities of an individual consciousness (soul) may be considered as auxiliary, supplemental to the function of the spiritual heart, which contribute to its full and correct realization. In the Chinese spiritual tradition the spiritual heart is called the middle dantyan. It is located in the center of the human organism. Two other dantyans are “attached” to it from above and from below and support its activity and development: the lower supplies it with power, and the upper carries out primarily an intellectual function. The dantyans are composed of chakras, each chakra playing a certain role in the life of the organism. Chakras are functional organs of consciousness (soul); they develop in special areas within the body. The middle dantyan consists of only one chakra — the anahata. The upper one — of three. The sahasrara and ajna chakras are responsible for intellectual function, while vishudha (that adjoins anahata) — for aesthetic appraisal. The lower dantyan, which is also composed of three chakras, represents the “power plant” of the organism. Its upper chakra — manipura — is located in the upper abdominal area — in the region of the solar plexus and digestive organs: the stomach, the pancreas, the liver, and some part of the intestinal tract. Among other functions it performs is the accumulation of energy derived from food. Another chakra of the lower dantyan — svadhisthana — (located in the lower part of the abdomen) is responsible for the reproductive function and generation of emotions associated with it. Whether a person is energetic or not depends on the condition of his manipura. Using special techniques of cleansing and development of manipura [10] one can eliminate sluggishness and sleepiness, as well as pathological excitability, fidgeting, and irritability. While manipura is responsible for ensuring high activity of the organism, correctly developed svadhisthana is on the contrary — for refinement and peace. One of the emotions that are the most important in the beginning of spiritual Path — sexually colored tenderness — is experienced as a result of interaction between svadhisthana and anahata, the same is true for other most subtle emotions that a person experiences during harmonious communication with children, enjoying the subtlest natural phenomena (especially at spring dawns and dusks). When the organism is overfilled with the subtlest emotions, these energies get partially reserved in a special repository connected with the lowest chakra — muladhara. The energy accumulated there is called kundalini. This is an extremely important energetic reserve of the organism; it is accumulated and stored from one incarnation to another. One day it can — provided that the soul is mature enough and under auspicious circumstances — contribute to the breakthrough of the soul into the subtlest eons and Mergence of the individual consciousness with the Consciousness of the Creator (see [7] for more detail). The fact is that kundalini is the Atmic energy, in a qualitative sense identical to the Consciousness of the Creator. I must mention that, being in an as it were “archived” state (in computer terms), kundalini is located not in the physical body, but in the akasha eons inside our planet*. It is not connected with the coccyx in any way (which sometimes is asserted in many dilettantish books on “yoga”), and neither bringing it up to the body nor moving it through it can be induced by beating with the coccyx against the floor or by shaking dancing. Special methods of spiritual practice allow a person to combine the three lower chakras into one “power block” that is called “hara”. From this moment on the growing spiritual heart starts to receive an adequate supply of power from below. Thanks to the latter the person gains the ability to accelerate the expansion of his spiritual heart beyond his body — up to the size of Earth, then — of our galaxy…, the entire universe… No chakras are “bad” or “good” (ignorant fantasies about which one may find in some publications). All chakras must be developed — in structural and functional terms — up to the full realization of their functions. But let us try never to forget that the main chakra that should always be focused on and paid special attention to, is the anahata chakra — with its function of Love.
What Is God
Almost all people that live on our planet believe in the existence of God (although degrees of their faith differ). Nevertheless, people may assign different meanings to the word “God”. The main meaning of this word is — the Primordial Consciousness, the Creator. But, God may also be viewed as the Absolute — i.e. the Creator and His Creations that He created out of Himself. In this sense, it would be correct to say that God is All (the term “Absolute” — by its origin — means “Absolutely All”). It is very important to take into account these terminological nuances: since many people who fell under the influence of false religious sects of Indian origin are convinced that since God is All — one must not do anything: believing that one is a part of God is enough to consider oneself a person who has attained Self-Realization. But such opinion is erroneous, since our evolutionary Goal is God in the aspect of the Creator, and not the Absolute. Some people may regard only one particular Divine Teacher as God. For example, some may say, ‘Our God is Jesus Christ!’, or ‘Our God is Krishna!’, or ‘Our God is Babaji!’, or ‘Our God is Sathya Sai Baba!’… While in reality all of Them are Parts of one Unified God-the-Father, the Creator, the Primordial Consciousness. One may encounter the extreme degree of absurdity when talking to some Orthodox parsons: ‘our God is Jesus Christ, while Muslims have their own, a false, of course, God — Allah!’. But Allah is the same God-the-Father, to Whom Jesus Christ called us! It is just His name sounds like that in Arabic! Anyone who achieved the Mergence with God-the-Father in His Abode and established themselves in that state becomes a part of Him. (Philip, an apostle of Jesus Christ, gave a detailed account of this [9], while methodological details can be found in [11]). And there can be no disagreements or disputes among Parts of God-the-Father. Divine Teachers — Parts of One Universal God-the-Father — are numerous; we know only a few. Some of Them attained Divinity in Atlantis, ancient Egypt, China, India, and other countries, Their names having been forgotten. Names of Others have remained in the memory of incarnated people, but information about what They were doing and preaching may have gotten replaced by myth-type fantasies. This may be the origin of “gods” of ancient Egypt, Rome, Greece, India, Russia, and other countries. This point of view was expressed by Paul Brunton [20] in regard to Egyptian Osiris and Tot (Tehuti). We had a happy opportunity to receive the most important spiritual initiations from Surya, Who was worshiped in ancient Russia and India as God of Divine Fire and sunlight.
About Communication with Divine Teachers
When trying to establish first contacts with Divine Teachers beginning mystics often meet with some type of misunderstanding. The main reason for that is that these people are unable to correctly identify their Interlocutor and to critically assess the information they receive. First, a certain spirit (even a hell being) can pretend to be a Divine Teacher. Divine Teachers Themselves sometimes speak in such a manner that could be understood in two ways; They do it on purpose — in order to develop ethic qualities and intellectual abilities of Their disciples, as well as to probe their level of development by these criteria. There are several ways one can recognize Divine Teachers. The main criterion is the Divine Level of Refinement of the Consciousness. They usually appear in an anthropomorphic form consisting of Divine Fire — the subtlest, non-burning flame-like tender goldish or white Light. A spirit who has not attained Divinity cannot accept such a form. But in order to be able to see Divine Teachers like that one has to get close to Them by the level of refinement of the consciousness. This is not easily achieved. And until it is, one must assess the information obtained by mystical means very carefully. It must be necessarily checked against the precepts and instructions of God that we can find in the holy books. Many people who do not do this get into the traps set by hellish spirits and end up in mental hospitals as a result of their contacts with “cosmic teachers”.
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We have already discussed that in order to realize the meaning of our lives as humans, to realize our Love for God that should manifest in the desire to serve Him, cognize Him, become like Him, and to merge with Him in the Embraces of Eternal Love, — we have to grow ourselves as spiritual hearts and to refine ourselves as consciousness.
But there is another aspect of self-development that needs to be understood and fulfilled. I am talking about the destruction of one’s lower self (ego).
Lower self is a part of a person that manifests itself as a feeling of separate existence, isolation from the All, from the Absolute.
A large number of vices are manifestations of a pathologically inflated lower self. Among these are greed, the desire to take possession of what belongs to others, arrogance, pride, conceit, resentfulness, anger, revengefulness, jealousy, self-admiration, attachment to material objects, and so on.
All this creates trouble and pain to both other people who surround such a person and to him. He cannot be loved and respected by people. Moreover, actions performed under influence of this kind of emotions form a negative karma (destiny) for him. While coarsening of consciousness, which inevitably results from the domination of coarse negative states, steers the development of such a person into a demoniac pattern and determines for him hell after death.
This is why Jesus put such a great emphasis in His preachings on the importance of conquering the “sticking out” lower selves of His disciples. In particular, He taught never to sit on the “high” place, to think “big” of oneself; on the contrary: He said that he who is willing to serve people should feel himself as their servant. (More details you may find in [9]).
Lao Tse, Krishna, Gautama Buddha, and Babaji taught the same. Today this is taught by Sathya Sai Baba [9].
The opposite qualities to those of the “protruding” lower self, which is proud, boastful, arrogant, self-admiring, touchy, rude, hasty, revengeful, envious, irritable, angry, greedy, lascivious, — are simplicity and humility (humble thinking of oneself) [8-10].
The studying of spiritual literature, in particular “The Philokalia” [37], can help in acquiring these qualities. The mistakes that a person discovers in himself must become subject of a thorough intelligent repenting, which we have discussed in detail in books [4-8,10].
But the ultimate solution of this problem can come only through practice of meditation.
The point is that it is impossible to be in the Divine eons as a separate entity: one can be there only in a “dissolved” state, the state of “non-I”. When a drop of water gets into an ocean it must dissolve in it, disintegrate into molecules. If this does not happen — then the drop will not be identical to the ocean and will not become a part of it, no matter how many times it dips into or swims inside it.
The same is true for us: for the sake of Mergence with our beloved Creator we have to sacrifice our selves — they have to die. Only in this case we can associate with His Self — our Higher Self.
… But let no one think that it can be accomplished as a result purely mental process. No. In order to realize the Mergence with the Creator one has to go a long Path of purifying oneself of vices and refining the consciousness. One’s love for the Creator has to be so strong that it would enable one to renounce all “earthly” goals. One has to get into the highest eon and to bring up the Atmic energy kundalini to and move it through the body. Upon coming through the body it merges into the Creator. Starting from this moment a person may consider a part of “himself” as already being in Him [7]. And all that remains to accomplish is to learn to shift the concentration of self-awareness in That part of oneself and to dissolve There along with it.
And then, being Him, we need to learn to act from Him using our physical bodies… In this case we become like our Divine Teachers.
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Once God told me:
— A death of your body is possible tomorrow. Be ready.
And after some time He added:
— You should have more humility.
… Winter. Morning. It is still dark. I walk down the road with a backpack. Along the sides of the road there are high walls of packed snow that has been cleared off the road.
All of a sudden I see headlights: a tractor is rushing at high speed by the shoulder of the road right towards my body. It is impossible to jump aside to the road: there is a dense traffic there. I am pressing into the snow wall hoping that the tractor will pass by. No: it proceeds without slowing down or turning aside. A deliberate run-over attempt! At the last instant I jump on the snow wall, cling onto it — hoping that the body does not start sliding down! The vehicle flashes by within less than an inch of my feet. I survive! If the body had slid down — the severe injuries would have been inevitable.
I walk further, thinking. An ordinary man would have burst with negative emotions: offence, spite, a desire to avenge oneself, etc. Or rather, it is his lower self that would have burst. How did he dare?! Bustard! Catch him! Punish! And if it is impossible to catch and punish — it all translates into prolonged stress, stenocardia, high blood pressure, stroke, infarct, etc. …
In cases like that it is best to recall the words of Juan Matus that he said to Carlos Castaneda (see the review in [9]):
“A (spiritual) warrior could be injured but not offended. For a warrior there is nothing offensive about the acts of his fellow men…
The other night you were not offended by the lion. The fact that it chased us did not anger you. I did not hear you cursing it, nor did I hear you say that he had no right to follow us. It could have been a cruel and malicious lion for all you know.
To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of the warrior’s spirit. It takes power to do that.”
Sufis say [86] that there are three types of people:
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People who are capable of engaging in a serious spiritual practice.
If we get stuck in the conflicts that representatives of the first two groups thrust on us we will not only lose such a precious time that God allotted us for self-perfection in these our bodies. But we also run the risk of growing embittered, accustoming ourselves to anger… and becoming like them — without even noticing it.
Temptations to get involved in the conflicts, in which interests of the lower self are being vindicated, are a sort of “filters” that stand in the way to the Abode of the Creator. Only those who are free of self-centeredness can pass through them.
… Looking back at my life I clearly realize now that I could not have accomplished anything serious either for myself or for other people if I had not learned to ignore insults, slander, betrayals, and even murdering of my body performed by a gang created by my former student who had refused to follow the fundamental principles of spiritual practice [4,10].
… How many people in today’s Russia have the only dominant in their life: hatred towards those who depraved them of their savings in bank deposits and investments in various financial “pyramids”! But what sense does it make to dedicate years of one’s life to this “warfare” of emotions? There is no way one can retrieve the money, anyway: it is simply gone, regardless of the courts’ verdicts in one’s favor. But we have this life not for wasting it in the attempts to draw our money to ourselves. It was given to us so that we could draw ourselves to the Creator!
But anger, even “righteous”, — can lead us only to hell.
… I also know very well what a desperate (as it seemed then) lack of money is.
When KGB prosecuted me for my religious convictions — in the “soviet” times, I sometimes had to collect and turn in empty bottles from the streets.
Or when my body was crippled by that gang and I was disabled for several months — I also had no money. I could not even receive any “sick leave” compensation: the center where I had worked before it happened had been closed by me. And my “best friends” who used to travel with me tens of kilometers to the woods and even to seminars in Moscow (from Saint-Petersburg) decided that they could not receive anything from me anymore and thus lost any interest in me. At that time, when it was not them, but I who needed help, it turned out that I lived “too far away”: one long hour of traveling by subway… In this manner God showed me the true nature of those to whom I was going to dedicate my life…
At that time we lived together with my mother on her pension. But she died soon: her heart could not withstand the view of her son’s crippled body…
But God used to say all the time then:
— Do not worry about money! Come to Me! I will take care about the rest.
And He ordered me to write books: the first one, then the second, the third… Every time publishing them turned out to be a problem. But the resolution would always turn up somehow. Along the way He introduced me to new (for me) types of people: liars, thieves, those who were willing to do something for other people only for money, or primitive people who would set to leading others on the “spiritual path”…
But I also met those who saw a long-awaited Good in me, and the Creator behind me — they would begin to help me, although they lacked the resolution necessary to make their own spiritual efforts…
He also brought to me those who were able to effortlessly master the most complex things and demonstrated an absolute devotion to the cause. They were the people, who, as Krishna said in the Bhagavad Gita [9], already sought for the Creator in their past lives; and now He was presenting them with buddhi-yoga through me — so that they could get close to and merge into Him soon.
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Everyone chooses their own abode themselves: some choose hell, some — paradise, while the others — the Abode of the Creator.
It is a pity though, that there are so few people on Earth, especially in our long-suffering country, who posses sufficient knowledge that would allow them to make a deliberate choice…
“There is no life except for the life to come!” — this is how one of the most important and fundamental themes for meditation is worded in the Quran [9]. In other words, this life in the body is but a preparation for the life “on the other side”, which usually is much longer than the one on the Earth. And one must live one’s earthly life having a profound understanding of mechanisms of destiny formation, the true meaning and the Purpose of life, and the ways of their realization.
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By the way, did you notice the difference between creation of good or bad karma, on one hand, and mechanisms of determination of the “afterlife” abode?
In this respect one should understand that certain ethically significant actions, words, and thoughts form the corresponding type of karma. By means of forming our destinies in accordance with this rule God seeks to disaccustom us to the evil and to make us cling to the good.
But whether we prepare ourselves to live in hell, paradise, or Divine eons after the death of our bodies — this depends on the levels of subtlety-coarseness scale (of states of consciousness) to which we accustomed ourselves during our lives in the physical bodies on Earth.
Our being associated with some particular religion or even our faith in the existence of God — do not (directly) matter in this case.
I had numerous chances to make sure the latter is true by observing the “post-death” state of people whom I knew very well.
One of them was a famous scientist, who was a determined and staunch atheist. But he dedicated his life to doing Good, heroically and self-sacrificially helping people with that highest knowledge and methods that he possessed. His predisposition for atheism was determined by the fact that he lived in Russia during a cruel era of “militant atheism” bearing a gruesome “Jew” stigma and that of all religious concepts he was familiar only with the Orthodox one, which could not possibly satisfy him as an intellectually highly-developed person.
He was leaving his body being a decrepit old man, suffering because of this, realizing with a deep sorrow that his “end” was coming. And one can only imagine how astounded he got later on discovering that there was no “end”!
Shortly before his leaving he called me on the phone with a clear intention to say “good-bye”. (We used to work together for a long time). Summing up his life he was saying very sincerely:
— I have lived an honest life, Vladimir! I have also given all of myself so that people would live better!
Then I made another attempt to steer the conversation into topics related to God and the immortality of the soul. But he was reluctant to talk about it, he was totally occupied with personal results of his life. The dialog did not happen…
Now he often visits me together with his wife — a kindest beautiful woman who left this world shortly before him. They are in an excellent state and their abode is paradise. They would stay watching me doing something, and then exchange opinions between each other. Sometimes, addressing me, he says:
— Right, Vladimir! Right!
Having to live in a fascist Russia both of them suffered much. And, of course, they could not accept that degenerated “Christianity” which had contrived to officially damn all Jews and had treated them in a more or less hostile manner ever since. They endured everything humbly, never slipping into bitterness and exasperation. They just silently wondered at the moral primitivism that was surrounding them. And they were right. Now they live in paradise.
But one of his closest colleagues, also a scientist and a Jew by the nationality of his physical body, who did very much during the last years of his earthly life to bring people closer to the understanding of the soul’s immortality and who wrote many works on parapsychology and psychic self-regulation, — he had lived in an endless bustle. He made the self-assertion with other people his habit, developed super-mendacity (he could become tangled in lies even in the course of one conversation, laying himself bare), insisted that “man is an autonomous, closed system”, did not think about God and conform his life to His Existence, developed his lower self to such an extent that it was full of various vices “sticking out”, and ended his earthly life of a brain disease in the United States where he had hoped to find peace, having had escaped from the Russian hell (he collapsed and died immediately upon coming off the ladder of the airplane onto the American land). Now that he left his body he can be seen as a “warped”, dark being, still devoid of peace. Hell is continuing for him… (I am saying this with a great sorrow: this man helped many people on Earth to start seeking for the true Freedom. But it turned out that he did not seek it himself).
Another couple of examples — two singers of past several decades who were well-known in Russia and who contributed significantly to the liberation of the country from the tyranny of the Communist Party and KGB.
Igor Talkov, who used to sing quite ordinary songs about earthly love, upon maturing started to sing in a rich, bold, and beautiful manner about political freedom, about God. And soon he died as a hero for the other people’s freedom. He spend last years of his earthly life in a triumphant and confident union with God, being strongly assured in the continuity of life — with or without a body… And his current status in his new life without a body is quite high. He is still beautiful!
But another Russian bard, a Talkov’s contemporary, who had written and sung a lot more wonderful, glorious, and wise songs, than Talkov had, and who also died in the struggle with Russian evil, who struggled but never found peace, harmony, and tranquil and tender love — he is still in this “psyched out”, “ruffled” state. He is still living in this “I-am-lacking-air!” kind of emotion. And with the desire to rush on horses “along the brink of the precipice”… But where he is now — this is not needed; it is — inappropriate there... And hence — his unquenchable anguish…
What a pity! But no one can help him now: after death a person remains in the same state to which he accustomed himself during his life in the body and in which death caught him.
And let us, my dear readers, keep it in mind: even performing great sacrificial feats in a state of exasperation, without inner Peace and Love, but with a feeling of dissatisfaction of our lower selves we may improve our karmas, but we do not get closer to God. As we do not realize the purpose of our lives and fulfill the Plan of the Creator in full.
God does approve of heroism and feats. But these feats should not be a sort of personal rebellion (although righteous), but rather conform to the profound philosophical understanding of the Plan of our Creator regarding all of us who live in bodies on Earth.
How many people could have benefited if they had timely received this knowledge! What a huge number of brilliant souls could have avoided making tragic mistakes that had such a devastating impact on their destinies!
But, every one of us can choose to help make tragedies like this less frequent, to help other people, so that they could stop making grave mistakes because of their lack of the true religious knowledge.
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... I have never been seriously or for a long time interested in spiritism. I was drawn towards the cognition of the Creator. However, I have had numerous contacts with non-embodied people and animals.
In particular, many Russian physicians who graduated from Saint Petersburg Pediatric Institute certainly remember my mother — Irina Grigorievna Antonova: she had a medical education and taught physiology for several decades. Those who knew her during her life on Earth would be pleased to know that now she continues to fulfill doctor’s duties, wearing a white doctor’s smoke and a phonendoscope around her neck. The last time I saw her she helped a woman who was being reanimated. Irina Grigorievna comforted the woman when she found herself “on the other side”, in the world of the non-embodied consciousness, and explained to her that she was alive, only in a different way…
That woman got well after that and now continues to live in her physical body.
… My mother was prepared by me to her own transition. When she left her body — peacefully and painlessly — she made sure that I did not need her help and went to look for her husband, who left his body several years ago (I wrote about his life and circumstances in which he left in the book [4]). Later she returned, upset, complaining that she had been unable to find him anywhere…
But one day — someone helped her, apparently — she did find him! It turned out that he had just incarnated again. Used to helping people during her embodied life, she attempted to start caring about him. But… later she came back to me in grief:
— He is not interesting to me!
He was only two months old at that time…
— He does not understand anything yet!.. — she complained.
These were her first steps in getting used to the non-material existence.
Later, as we already know, there appeared more serious responsibilities for her.
… I have already mentioned that not only people, but also animals can live in the “other world”, and one can really communicate with them: there, communication occurs on the thought level, without using words. Paradise and hell also exist for them. As in case of people, their status can be easily determined using clairvoyance according to the level of refinement of the consciousnesses: light ones are inhabitants of paradise, while gray and black ones (in terms of the color of the soul) are those who live in hell.
Hellish animals very frequently can be found in the bodies of incarnate people as demons, which cause certain kinds of diseases. One of the reasons for this type of their behavior consists, apparently, in their feeling of resentment, because those people caused them pain or killed their bodies. In other words this represents the mechanism of manifestation of the negative karma for people who eat bodies of killed animals.
But “paradisiacal” animals, who are free of malignancy, revengefulness, but on the contrary — who used to be full of love during their lives in the bodies, continue to live there in joy and happiness.
I had a chance to communicate with the dogs, who used to be my friends and assistants in my scientific research. I initiated the first contact with them, who were killed by other scientists after my studies had been completed, when I repented deeply of my forced betrayal of them. But they… — were just jumping around joyfully and licking my hands and face.
— We will be protecting you! — this was their sincere desire, which could be easily perceived without words: being transferred directly from one consciousness to another.
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From the History of Religion on the Earth
Atlantis
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Judging from the information that has appeared during the recent years [20,21,53,55,87,89], the pre-Deluge events that were described in the Bible and several other ancient books of the East, took place in Atlantis. This was the paradise on earth, mentioned in the Bible. The Creator inhabited this land with evolutionary advanced souls, who lived in the bodies for several hundred years and whose bodies were larger than those of modern human beings.
But outside Atlantis, there lived another type of people, which modern scientists call paleoanthropus. It was to them that the Biblical Cain was expelled for the murder of his brother Abel; he found those people there and left among them numerous descendants.
The Atlanteans possessed the highest spiritual and technical knowledge, their bodies differed considerably from those of the paleoanthropus people. When they met people of other continents the latter would take them for Gods.
Modern people, except for several small groups, perhaps, can be considered a product of genetic mixing of the Atlanteans and paleoanthropus people.
The racist concept that claims superiority of some races over others is absolutely invalid: the color of the skin, which is determined by the congenital, genetically fixed amount of melanin pigment contained in it, protecting the skin from the excessive solar radiation, depends exclusively on the original habitats of the particular groups of people. The closer it is to the equator the more intensive the ultra violet radiation is and the greater amount of protective pigment the skin has to contain; and vice versa, the closer it is to the poles — the lesser amount of melanin is needed, thus the skin is lighter, since it needs to absorb as much ultra violet radiation as possible.
Atlantis was called the paradise on earth not only because it was located in an exceptionally auspicious climatic zone (the Atlantic ocean at the latitude of the Mediterranean Sea), but also (which is much more important) because the Atlanteans possessed the highest spiritual knowledge and was familiar with methods of spiritual self-perfection. This was possible because God would send just highly advanced souls to incarnate into the bodies of the Atlanteans.
But as time went by, in this “paradise on earth” there appeared those ugly social phenomena, when certain people start to turn back in their evolution, to cultivate egocentrism, to seek power over the others, to proclaim themselves to be the “most high”, the superior, and to defy God… (This process was reflected in the legend about the “fallen angel”… But there have always been people like that: both then and now).
This phenomenon was especially dangerous since the Atlanteans possessed the magic knowledge, the misuse of which (applying them against Evolution) could lead to tremendous cataclysms, that could ruin life on the whole planet. The black magic was widespread, and those people started to seek usurpation of power… At that time God made a decision to destroy this hotbed of mystical contagion. He devised the Deluge of Atlantis.
Those of the Atlanteans, who remained steadfast devotees of God, were informed by Him beforehand and moved out of the doomed continent: some to America, some to Europe, Africa, and Asia. There they started to originate new centers of the highest spiritual culture. Such centers are known in America, Egypt, and Tibet.
And Atlantis submerged into the ocean.
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From the Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean
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There is an ancient text, survived till our days, written by one of the inhabitants of Atlantis — Thoth the Atlantean. It is titled The Emerald Tablets [66].
Below is presented a selection of main excerpts from this remarkable spiritual work.
In the Emerald Tablets, Thoth the Atlantean gives information about the geography of the Atlantis islands, including their names, and about the state structure. Yet, its most valuable part is a description of the spiritual Path presented in a disguised (for incompetent readers) form.
About the destruction of Atlantis, Thoth says known things: confidential knowledge was imparted to unworthy people and the latter began using it for evil purposes. Also they adopted bloody sacrifices — and this resulted in numerous incarnations of hellish beings among people. That is why God decided to destroy this decayed oasis of spiritual culture.
The islands of Atlantis submerged into the ocean in two stages. Before the second stage, Thoth the Atlantean — one of the Highest Spiritual Adepts of Atlantis, who knew Mergence with the Primordial (the Dweller) — was ordered by the Primordial to gather a group of Atlanteans similar to Him and move to Egypt, called Khem at that time.
The Primordial advised Thoth thus: “Go forth as a Teacher of men! Go forth reserving the records (with Teachings) until in time the Light grows among men! Light shall You be all through the ages, hidden yet found by enlightened men. Over all Earth, give We You power, free You to give or take it away.”
Working with the people of Khem as an Emissary of the Primordial on the Earth, Thoth the Atlantean manifested Himself to them also in the form of a Pyramid.
He explained that the Path to Mergence with the Primordial, which Thoth Himself had traversed, anyone can strive to traverse. Yet, there are obstacles on this Path; they create difficulties for travelers: these difficulties prevent the weak, fool, and ethically unworthy from going further. Go! But do not take with you the unwise, insincere, weak!
Thoth the Atlantean gives basic recommendations for initial harmonization of the chakra system. For fulfilling just this recommendation He promises health and longevity.
Then one has to seek the methods of mastering diving as a soul into “star worlds” and other spatial dimensions, which are “vacant to all seeming, yet hidden within them are the keys…” Then the worthy seeker cognizes the Light of the Great Fire — this is one of the Forms in which a seeker perceives the Primordial, having approached Him.
Later Thoth the Atlantean was incarnated — again in Egypt — as Hermes Thrice-born*. “I began preaching to (these) people the beauty of religion and Knowledge,” wrote He. This treatise of His ends with passionate appeal to neighbors: “O people, men born on the Earth, who indulge in drunkenness and sleep, ignorant of God! Sober up, cease your surfeit, awake from your dullness!… Why… do you give up yourself to death while you have power to partake immortality?!”
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Directions of Thoth the Atlantean:
Preserve and keep the command of the Primordial:
Look in your life for disorder. Balance and order your life. Quell all the chaos of the emotions and you shall have order in life.
Conquer by silence the bondage of words.
Keep ever your eyes on the Light!
Surely in time, you will be one with the Master, surely by right you will be one with the Master, surely by right yet will be one with the All.
Know my commandments! Keep them and fulfill them, and I will be with you, helping and guiding you into the Light!
Out of the darkness shall you rise upward, one with the Light.
Follow and you shall be One with the All!
Light comes only to him who strives. Hard is the Pathway that leads to the Wisdom, hard is the Pathway that leads to the Light. Many shall you find the stones in your pathway: many the mountains to climb toward the Light.
Man, know that always beside you walk the Children of Light. Open to all is Their Pathway, open to he who will walk in the Light.
Suns are They and Lords of the Morning, Children of Light to shine among men. Like man are They and yet are unlike,
Many the dark shadows shall fall on your light striving to quench with the shadows of darkness the light of the soul that strives to be free.
Many the pitfalls that lie on this Way.
Seek ever to gain Greater Wisdom.
Attain — and it shall be Light on your way!
Light is eternal and darkness is fleeting. Seek ever, O man, for the Light. Know ever that as Light fills your being, darkness for you shall soon disappear.
Open the soul to the Brothers of Brightness! Let them enter and fill you with Light!
Keep ever your face to the Goal!
… Open the soul, O man, to the cosmos and let it flow in as one with the soul.
Man is in process of changing to forms that are not of this world. Grows he in time to the formless,… (to live on a higher) plane. Know that you must become formless before you are (one) with the Light,
Listen, O man, to my voice, telling of pathways to Light, showing the way of attainment when you shall be one with the Light!
Search (first) the mysteries of Earth’s Heart! Seek the Flame of the Earth’s life! Bathe in the glare of this Flame!
Know, O man, you are complex, a being of matter and of Fire.
Let your Flame shine out brightly! Be only the Flame!
Seek ever more Wisdom! Find it in the Heart of the Flame! Know that only by (your) striving can Light pour into your brains.
Only the one who of Light has the fullest can hope to pass by the guards of the Way.
Rather should you seek to gain of your own Light and make yourself ready to pass on the Way.
Wisdom is hidden in darkness. When lit by the flame of the soul, find you the wisdom and be Light-born (and then), — a Sun of the Light without form.*
Grow into One with the Light! Be a channel of (Divine) order to the world!
Seek, O man, to find the great Pathway that leads to eternal Life as a Sun!
Know, O man, you are only a soul. The body is nothing. The soul is everything! Let not your body be a fetter!
Cast off the darkness and travel in Light! Cast off your body, O man, and be free, be truly Light that is one with the (Higher) Light.*
Know that throughout the time-space Consciousness surely exists. Though from superficial knowledge it is hidden, yet still forever exists.
The key to worlds within you can be found only within.*
Open the gateway within you, and surely you, too, shall live (the true life)! Man, you think that you live, but know it is life within death. For as sure as you are bound to your body, for you no life exists! Only the soul which is free (from the material world) has life that is really a life! All else is only a bondage, a fetter from which to be free!
Think not that man is earth-born, though come from the Earth he may be. Man is light-born (light-like) spirit! But, without knowing, he can never be free!
Darkness surrounds the Light-born. Darkness fetters the soul. Only the one who is seeking may ever hope to be free!
(… Let you be) a Sun of the Great Light! Remember and you shall be free!
Great Light that fills all the Cosmos, flow you fully to man! Make of his body a Light-torch that shall never be quenched among men!
Hear and understand: the Flame is the source of all things.
Seek to be One with the (Great) Sun!*
Hold your thought on the oneness of Light with the body of man.
Light is (the Source of) life, for without the Great Light nothing can ever exist! Know, that in all formed matter, the Light always exists.
Know, O man, that all space is filled by worlds within worlds.
Deep beneath the image lies my secret. Search and find in the Pyramid I built.
Follow the key I left behind Me. Seek and the doorway to (true) Life shall be yours! Seek in My Pyramid, deep in the passage that ends in a Wall.*
Know that in the Pyramid I built are the keys that shall show you the Way into (true) Life.
… Dig and find That which I have hidden! There shall you find the “underground entrance” to the secrets hidden before you were men.
… Know we that of all, nothing else matters excepting the growth one can gain with the soul. Know We the flesh is fleeting. The things men count great are nothing to Us. The things We seek are not of the body but are only the perfected state of (your) souls.
When you as men can learn that nothing but progress of the soul can count in the end, then truly you are free from all bondage, free to work in a harmony of Law (i.e. in accordance with your predestination).
Know, O man, you should aim at Perfection, for only thus can you attain to the Goal!
Know that the future is never in fixation but follows man’s free will! Man can only read the future through the causes that bring the effects.
Know that your body when in perfect balance (harmony) may never be touched by the finger of death. Aye, even “accident” may only approach when the balance is gone. When you are in a balanced equilibrium, you shall live on in time and not taste of death.
When you have learned to hold your own balance, then shall you draw on the balance of (the Heart of) Earth. Exist then shall you while Earth is existing, changing in form, only when Earth, too, shall change: tasting not of death, but one with this planet, holding your form till all pass away.
… Three are the qualities of God in His Light-Home*: Infinite power, Infinite Wisdom, Infinite Love.
Three are the powers given to the Masters: to transmute evil, assist good, use discrimination*.
Three are the powers creating all things: Divine Love possessed of perfect knowledge, Divine Wisdom knowing all possible means*, Divine Power possessed by the joint Will of Divine Love and Wisdom.
Darkness and Light are both of one nature, different only in seeming, for each arose from the Source of all. Darkness is disorder. Light is Order. Darkness transmuted is Light.
This, My children, your purpose in being; transmutation of darkness to Light!
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Egypt
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Now we have sufficient historical information about functioning of the ancient Egyptian hearth of the highest spiritual culture [13,15,20,55,87 and others].
The Egyptians received that knowledge directly from the Atlanteans. It included description of the Supreme God (the Creator, the Primordial), Who manifested Himself both as Ra (Living Divine Fire, Which illumines inhabitants of the highest planes of the universe) and as Amun (another — the non-Fiery — manifestation of His). The Egyptians also knew the way He could be practically cognized and possessed methods of self-transformation that allowed one to attain Divinity.
Pharaohs were spiritual leaders of Egypt. The Supreme Priests of the Great Egyptian pyramid, which was constructed by the Atlanteans with the purpose of being an educational center (but not at all as a sepulcher), were their assistants, who were responsible, in particular, for the practical training of candidates for the initiation.
From the population of the country the Supreme Priests selected those who were worthy of receiving the highest spiritual knowledge and then trained them. For the rest of the population ritual religious ceremonies, intended for strengthening faith and raising morality, were mostly conducted.
The list of principal steps of spiritual ascent, which worthy disciples were taught in Egypt, consisted of initial purification of consciousness abiding in the body, followed by the stage-by-stage cognition and exploration of increasingly subtle layers of the multidimensional space, up to the Mergence with the Consciousness of the Creator.
The order of these stages and the interim results of their mastering turned out to be amazingly identical to that, which God was teaching us here, in Russia, at “power places” in and near Saint Petersburg thousands years after those Egyptian mysteries took place. This clearly indicates that these stages are universal in nature.
The ancient Egyptian civilization also helped many souls to attain the complete Victory in their evolution. This was possible, among other reasons, because the priests, always bearing in mind the tragedy of Atlantis, made all efforts to prevent unworthy individuals from getting access to the highest psycho-spiritual techniques.
“They kept their knowledge in the strictest secrecy, so that the name “Egypt” itself became associated… with the greatest mystery.
… The majority of those who had ever knocked on the doors of the temples of the mysteries, had never gotten admitted there; out of those who were admitted many overstrained their nerves or simply grew reluctant to undergo initiation because of increasing level of difficulty of the tests which they had to pass before this. Thanks to this process of winnowing out — a sort of natural selection — the mysteries turned into one of the most closed institutes of antiquity, and the secrets that were hidden behind the tightly closed doors of the temples, were confided only to those who had made a solemn vow never to bring them out of there. Everyone who had managed to get through those doors till the rest of their lives belonged to the secret society of people who continued living among the uninitiated masses, but pursued higher goals”. [20].
… But the Egyptian civilization perished, nonetheless, — for the same reason as the Atlantic one.
In the beginning of the decline of the highest spiritual culture in Egypt what was distorted is the very fundamentals of religion. Most importantly, the primary purpose of the spiritual efforts — the Mergence with the Creator — was forgotten. And what was taught is merely a practice of “monadic” existence of the individual consciousness outside the body.
Later, as in the case of Atlantis, black magic came to take place of spirituality.
Paul Brunton writes the following about this [20]: “… The prophecy of Hermes Trismegist — one of the most ancient prophets — came true. He said:
“Oh, Egypt, Egypt, of thy religion nothing will remain… but graven words, and only the stones will tell of thy piety. Symbols of wisdom will be erroneously called gods, and Egypt will be found guilty of worshipping the monsters of hell”.
With time the control of the mysteries transferred to unworthy egotistic individuals who sought to use the tremendous authority of the mysteries to their selfish ends. Even noble pharaohs sometimes bowed before their wicked will. Numerous priests started to engage in performing horrible rituals and using sinister incantations of black magic and turned into agents of dark forces of evil. Some of them transformed into… sheer devils in human form, who invoked the most disgusting hell personages for their no less disgusting purposes. In the most sacred places spirituality was driven out by witchcraft. In the conditions of spiritual darkness and chaos that set in Egypt, the mysteries soon lost their original character and lofty purpose. As time went by, finding worthy candidates for initiation was becoming an increasingly difficult task, thus their number was constantly decreasing. And the moment came when possessors of the highest knowledge… started to rapidly disappear, leaving for other worlds without coming back. The wicked people took their place. Those few who stayed longer than the others could not perform their spiritual mission, as before, all they could do is to mourn over their unfortunate lot. Always prepared to die, they were closing their sacred books, sorrowfully but quietly abandoning the temples and underground vaults, and taking a last look at their ancient abodes were silently leaving …
God decided not to destroy the whole Africa because of that. But Egypt got involved into warfare with its neighboring countries, lost its independence, and as the conquerors were replacing one another the ancient culture got completely destroyed.
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Today Egypt is a peaceful, stable, and prosperous Muslim country with mystic Sufi schools present [20,86,89].
Unfortunately, the welfare of the people of this country is being disturbed by terrorism of Muslim “fundamentalists”, who seek to establish control by means of violent obtrusion on people of their opinion as to the way they should live…
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Maya
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The Atlanteans who moved to the American continent also created a hearth of the highest spiritual culture there. In particular, they built sanctuaries for spiritual initiations that had a form of pyramids.
Special research [5,