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Chapter 7

ABOUT GOVERNING THE WORLD

If someone started asking people: who rules the world? - then it can be argued in advance that ninety percent of the respondents will give a stereotyped answer: “God rules the world”, the remaining ten will give different answers, which will be based on various kinds of assumptions and hypotheses, and only the smallest number frankly admits their ignorance.

The last answer will be the most correct, because hypotheses and theories for the most part have no serious basis, and those who say that God rules the world, in essence, do not know what kind of God they assume and what God they are talking about.

Now it should not be a secret to anyone that concept of God changes with the development of people. The essence of the Immutable Cause does not change if our idea of ​​It changes. Our ideas are in direct correspondence with our development. The result of our development and our conception of God is one or another religious teaching corresponding to our development.

Let us take a primitive man or a modern savage and compare his concept of that Higher Beginning, which he honors out of superstitious fear of Him, and the concept of a modern civilized man who has reached spiritual development, who honors the same Beginning due to the recognized origin from Him and his connection with Him. Between the concept of one and the concept of the other there will be a whole gradation of intermediate concepts, but in each this case the concept of God will be created by man himself in accordance with his development.

What is human development, such is his god. Man creates his own god himself. Primitive man is ready to recognize as his god everything that exceeds himself, everything that goes beyond the framework of his limited understanding of the world. All incomprehensible and formidable phenomena of nature, according to his concept, are a manifestation of a deity who must be worshiped and sacrificed in order to appease him and make him merciful to himself. The need to see and touch his god leads to the fact that any product made of stone, wood or metal becomes for him a god, whom he will pray and worship.

There are semi-savage peoples and savage sects whose concept of god is so vile that their god, from our point of view, resembles more than the devil, but nevertheless they worship him and for them he is a god, because their rude and wild nature cannot imagine yourself another god.

As man develops, his concept of his gods also develops. From the abstract, they become more concrete. Gods appear with certain names, who are in charge of certain functions, the worship of which requires certain rites. Each people and each nation, developing independently, along its own lines of development, among certain geographical and climatic conditions, developed their gods corresponding to these conditions and characteristic of their national character and spirit. Thor or others northern gods created by northern peoples.

On the contrary, the poetic nature and mild climatic conditions of the south, which did not require a strenuous struggle for existence, contributed to the development of daydreaming, a penchant for poetry and the arts, and allowed an excess of unused physical forces to be directed to the development of the body and the Olympic Games, gave a completely different direction to human thought in creating it. conceptions of the gods. The result of easy and pleasant living conditions, which created a dreamy, sensitive to beauty, prone to the arts and poetry character of the people, on the one hand, and a developed cult of the body, on the other, was the appearance in ancient world special Greek mythology, with its host of gods, goddesses, muses, fairies and other inhabitants of the Greek Olympus.

We know that it was inhabited by beautiful gods and goddesses, whose sculptural images still captivate our eyes with the unsurpassed beauty of their lines and forms, which was a consequence of the conditions created and the way of life of the ancient Greeks. Each god was the personification of some human quality brought to perfection, and each person who reached perfection in some area became a god in this area.

The divine mixed up with the human there and proceeded one from the other. Gods - former people and humans are future gods. Such a worldview was the embodiment of the highest truth and divine wisdom, was the synthesis of all human quests and aspirations, the best completion of all his hopes and aspirations. The idea of ​​polytheism has never received a more beautiful, complete and correct expression anywhere, and it can be argued that only in Ancient Greece it took shape in the most truthful, poetic, beautiful forms.

In other countries, among peoples living in different geographic and climatic conditions, the idea of ​​honoring the Higher Beginning was expressed differently, depending on those or other phenomena of life and manifestations of nature that struck the imagination of primitive people. In Egypt, for example, the veneration of God resulted in the deification of animals. Egyptian temples and forums were full of images of gods in the form of animals or gods with human bodies, possessing animal heads, or with animal bodies, possessing human faces.

What struck the foreigner most of all, if he got into the holy of holies of the Egyptian temple, was that he met there not sculptural images of some god or goddess, but a live crocodile, a live cat, or some other animal.

This idea, so unacceptable from the point of view of modern human consciousness, of the worship of the Deity in the animal, in fact, in its essence, has the same basis as any other worship of the Deity. Since the One Beginning is present everywhere and in everything, does it really matter in what form a person honors Him? A person worships the One Beginning in front of a statue of Apollo or Diana or in front of a living crocodile, it does not matter. What matters is only the human consciousness, which in a beautiful statue can honor one of the aspects of the One Beginning, and in an animal it can honor a part of His life.

The worship of the Great in the small, of God in a disgusting animal, was intended to accustom the human consciousness to the omnipresence of the Deity, to the need to take care of every manifestation of His life, no matter in whom and in whatever it manifests itself, and the gods in the form of half-humans, half-beasts symbolized the unity of life , the unity of evolution, in which man occupies a middle position, a position between animals and God, and, leaving the animal, he must turn into God.

Thus, much of what in the beliefs of ancient peoples seems to us so strange, wild and absurd, upon closer study turns out to be full of deep significance, time has always been a religion, it was given only what each of these peoples in a given era was able to perceive.

In one Hindu scripture it is said: “Humanity comes to Me different ways, but no matter how a person approaches Me, on this path I welcome him, for all paths belong to Me. This beautiful saying contains the key to understanding the truth that it is not the form of reverence for the Higher Beginning that matters, but the idea itself, in whatever form it may be expressed.

It is not necessary to think that in its march along the path of evolution, humanity, developing various ideas about the Deity, always comes to polytheism, that the concept of the One God required other laws of development. The laws of development of life are always the same. Different living conditions, different nature, different character of the people, and as a result, a different idea of ​​God.

Along with the idea of ​​polytheism, which followed from the deification by man of the first stage of development of everything sublime, incomprehensible and frightening, the idea of ​​monotheism also developed. Such an idea has always lived among the nomadic tribes, who lived one life with nature, who always had the immensity of the heavenly vault before them and determined their path in the boundless expanses of the deserts according to the constellations.

It is generally accepted that Moses was the creator of the idea of ​​monotheism, but this is not so. The idea of ​​Unity of Command, Cosmic Unity was given to mankind from the earliest times in the Initial Revelation, the memory of which is stored and imprinted in the secret traditions, symbols, images and writings of all ancient peoples. Moses was, therefore, the creator not of the idea of ​​monotheism, but of the people who were entrusted with the task of uniting the heterogeneous ideas about the One Beginning, which lived among the heterogeneous nomadic tribes of the deserts, into one whole, into the veneration of the single aspect of the Deity as Jehovah, to consolidate the veneration of the One Beginning and One God in the masses. For this purpose, many nomadic tribes had to unite into one people, for which, in turn, some kind of core was needed and a Leader was needed. The appearance of the people, which served as the core for the unification, was prepared for a long time, and when the time came, the Leader appeared.

One of the leaders of the nomadic tribes who professed monotheism, Jacob, settled with his tribe for a settled life in Egypt, where his descendants multiplied, who made up a whole people, were eventually turned into slavery.

But the spirit of the nomadic people could hardly endure the yoke of slavery. He was always drawn back to the expanse of deserts. On the other hand, the idea of ​​monotheism, brought by Patriarch Jacob to Egypt, was preserved only among the leaders of the people. The main mass of the Jewish people turned to polytheism, and the undeveloped consciousness of the people honored not the idea of ​​God depicted in an animal, but the animal itself or its image for God, that is, the people turned to idolatry.

These reasons, in connection with the constant craving of the people for the expanse of deserts, played a decisive role in the fate of the Jewish people and served as a pretext for the exodus of the Jews from Egypt.

Then the great historical figure- Moses. A Jew by origin, but brought up due to the circumstances that the Bible tells about (see Exodus, 2), by the pharaoh's daughter at the court of the pharaoh, Moses had the opportunity thanks to this to be initiated by the Egyptian priests into higher secret knowledge, into that highest esoteric kind of religion that existed, as it still exists, for the initiates, at all times among all peoples, in contrast to the exoteric teaching that exists for the masses.

His thirst for knowledge and remarkable abilities endeared him to his teachers, the priests, but his inflexible will and introverted stern character instilled fear in them. It was clear to them that the combination of an inflexible will with the highest secret knowledge would create great power, which can become dangerous to themselves. By his adoptive mother, the pharaoh's sister, and some priests, he was even intended to take the throne of the pharaoh instead of the weak and incapable son of the pharaoh, Menefta, but Moses was called to fulfill a different, higher and more responsible role.

Having penetrated into the depths of divine wisdom, Moses considered it necessary to honor the One Beginning, from which everything came. Polytheism in the form in which it existed in Egypt did not satisfy him. He saw that the people for the most part, both Egyptian and Jewish, not understanding the complex symbolism of the established worship of God, honor their stone statues with animal heads for their gods, that is, they simply idolize.

Moses was very upset by the difficult situation in which the enslaved sons of Israel were, and the idea of ​​liberating his native people from Egyptian slavery was ripening in his head. Soon the case helped him in this decision. Seeing one day that an Egyptian was beating a Jew, Moses stood up for the Jew and killed the Egyptian. From point of view Egyptian laws he committed a great crime, for which he was threatened with severe punishment. This incident hastened his decision. He left Egypt and went into the wilderness, to the foot of Sinai, to the Midian priest Jethro.

At the temple of Jethro Moses lived for several years. Here he endured the heavy rite of purification, which was required of an initiate who had committed even an involuntary crime. Here Moses supplemented his knowledge with those that could be obtained in the Temple of Midian, here he wrote Sefer Genesis, or the Book of Genesis, and here he finally matured the idea of ​​liberating Israel from Egyptian slavery.

How the exodus of the Jews from Egypt took place and what events it was accompanied by, the Bible tells about this. From this narrative we see that Moses succeeded in accomplishing such an unusual thing - to bring an entire people out of the power of an organized, strong state - only because he could oppose the strength and power of his former teachers-priests with the strength and power of a greater potential.

Now Moses had a core, which was immediately joined by various nomadic tribes, subjugated and fascinated by the greatness of this prophet of the desert and his miracles. Later, this core was further enlarged by the remnants of conquered tribes and peoples, who were not completely exterminated during the conquest.

But Moses did not immediately lead the newly formed people to the "promised land", which was promised to the forefathers of the Jews. He led them on a forty-year wandering in the wilderness. Moses considered it necessary to isolate Israel from communication with other peoples for such a long time in order to curb this unbridled people, made up of semi-savage nomads, not accustomed to obedience and discipline, in order to melt the spirit of the people into a new way by trials, sufferings and punishments in order to eradicate they have adopted from the Egyptians a passion for polytheism and to establish monotheism.

He wearied them with passages, wearied them with heat and thirst, starved them to death; and whenever a murmur arose about the difficulties of wandering and rebellion against the authorities, there followed a severe punishment of the rebels and the discontented, and the miraculous appearance of water from a stone, manna from heaven, quails from clouds, as a sign of the power of that God who led Israel and to whom Israel owed to worship.

Except moral law given to the Jews at Mount Sinai, and many rules given at different times regarding the ritual side of life and trifles Everyday life, Moses inspired the Jews with the idea that they are a special people, a chosen people who should not mix with other peoples. All this was necessary to keep the people in the idea of ​​monotheism and to prevent communication with other peoples, because any communication with other peoples led to betrayal of the One God.

Having freed the Jews from the yoke of the Egyptians, Moses imposed the yoke of the law on them, bound them with chains of various rituals, rules, punishing them with death for any violation of the law and severe punishments for any violation of the rules. Moses, as Leader and legislator, had a heavy task. From a nomadic tribe that was in long-term slavery and, because of this, learned many negative traits, create a people, lay the foundations of order, statehood, and construction in it. Therefore, harsh and harsh measures against Israel, in addition to the desire to keep the half-savage, rebellious and rebellious people in obedience, were dictated by the need to save the best element, which could become the seeds of the future people of Israel, from the worst element. Hence the severity towards the worst, for the sake of justice and mercy towards the best.

The entire forty-year wandering of the Jews in the desert was the struggle of the people against the Leader. The Leader won, because, despite the numerous falling away of the Jews from the veneration of the One God, during the life of Moses and after his death, the understanding of God given by Moses to half-savage nomads has been preserved to this day.

In the history of the Jewish people, we see the opposite of what happened in the history of other peoples in the creation of their own religious worldview. While other peoples, in most cases, formed their worldview over many generations over the centuries, the Jewish people the idea of ​​monotheism and the worldview associated with it were affirmed by force in a short period of time by such a powerful personality as Moses, by the most drastic and severe measures.

What was the one One God that Moses approved for Israel? What were the ideas about Him that formed in the minds of the Jews under the influence of the Law of Moses?

The God of Israel corresponded to the development in which the Jewish people were at that time. It could not be otherwise. Moses could not give them higher ideas about God, because they would not be accessible to the understanding of the people. Man's idea of ​​God, both ancient and even present times, is made up of his ideas about man. God is a Being possessing in the highest degree all human virtues and shortcomings. And since the man of the time of Moses was very far from perfection, could it be perfect god, since the measure of the idea of ​​God was an imperfect person?

Therefore, the God of Israel had the same cruelty, vindictiveness, intransigence, deceit and fickleness that Israel had. The God of Israel loved only the Jewish people and hated all other nations. In addition to the qualities inherent in the people, He possessed awesome strength and power, which the people saw and experienced more than once during the forty years of wandering in the wilderness.

The Christian religious worldview, which has outgrown such a primitive understanding of God, could never understand or accept the Jewish Jehovah, who created the whole world and all peoples only for the Jews, because this does not really correspond to the truth and the basic provisions of the laws of evolution.

Since the exact text of the laws of Moses has not come down to us, and what is now listed under the laws of Moses is the result of many distortions by many ignorant interpreters and translators, then it can be argued with good reason that the original laws of Moses did not contain any of those negative features of Jewish Jehovah, nor that special, exceptionally privileged position of the Jews among all the peoples of the world, which is drawn to the reader Old Testament in its modern form. Moses, as a great initiate who knew the foundations of Being, could not assert positions that contradicted these foundations. Only later, ignorant leaders of the Jewish people could introduce false ideas into the legislation of Moses. Desiring to bring good to their people, they thereby brought innumerable harm to it, because, by isolating their people from other peoples and directing their thinking in a false direction, they set many other peoples against themselves. This always happens when human invention makes a correction to the Truth given by the Great Teacher; whoever accepts this correction as true will invariably suffer.

But the monotheism approved by Moses was carried out only halfway. Those concepts of the One God that Moses gave to the Jewish people were unacceptable to subsequent peoples. Moses knew this and predicted the coming of another great prophet, who "will tell them everything that the Lord commands him, and whoever does not listen to his words, which the prophet will speak in the name of God, the Lord will exact from him" (Deuteronomy, 18:18-19 ).

The appearance of Christ among the Jewish people, foretold by Moses and other prophets, was intended to complete the work of Moses. Christ appeared to soften those cruel and harsh features of the One God, which Moses was forced to draw for the Jewish people. Instead of a harsh and punishing avenger, given by Moses, Christ gave the concept of a loving and all-forgiving God. Instead of “an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth,” “love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who despitefully use you and persecute you” (Matt. 5:44).

In addition to this main goal - to give a more sublime, corresponding to the development of people concept of the One God - the appearance of Christ among the Jewish people had the goal of freeing the people not from the yoke of the Romans, as the Jews believed, but from the yoke of the law, had the goal of weakening those chains of rituals, rites and the rules by which Moses bound uncivilized and semi-savage Israel.

The leaders of the Jewish people did not understand the liberating mission of Christ. For exposing their spiritual hypocrisy, for exposing their distortion and misinterpretation of the foundations of the Teaching, and for the fact that He wanted to free them from the slavery of rituals and rituals, they condemned Him to death for violating these rituals.

By bringing the sacrifice of Christ on the cross, sacrifices at temples were abolished, accompanied by the slaughter of many thousands of heads of cattle every year. But although the Jews did not accept this sacrifice, what was decided in the higher planes of Existence by the Higher Forces had to be fulfilled regardless of the desire or unwillingness, whether people accepted or not accepted this sacrifice. There was no independent Jewish people, there was no Jerusalem Temple in which sacrifices were made. Only one wall remained from it - the “wailing wall”, in front of which the Jews still mourn their thoughtlessness.

By not accepting the Teachings of Christ, the Jews excluded themselves from spiritual evolution. The yoke imposed on the semi-savage nomadic people by Moses many centuries before the birth of Christ, tightened even tighter by the interpreters of the Teachings of Moses, is carried by representatives of this people who consider themselves cultured people to this day. This is the karma of the Jewish people. Just as the rejection of the purified Teachings of the Buddha and the expulsion of Buddhism from India by the Brahmins gave rise to the sad karma of India, plunging the Hindu people into innumerable disasters and into the hopeless, unheard of slavery of their priests. It is now the turn of Christendom to choose its karma. If Christians accept the New Teaching, cleared of delusions, they will make an unprecedented advance in the history of the Earth in their evolution, if they don’t accept it, they will lag behind for many millennia, like the Jews.

Thus, it follows from what has been said that people's concept of God evolves along with the evolution of mankind. The higher the culture of people, the higher their conception of that Higher Beginning, which people call God. Monotheism must be recognized as a higher level of understanding of God than polytheism. The concept of God given by Christ, higher than the concept of God given by Moses.

Consequently, this or that understanding and veneration of God is not something unchanging, something permanent, but, being in direct accordance with our development, it is a variable and transient quantity. But a person who does not know the laws of evolution holds opposite views on this matter. He believes that loyalty to death to the faith in which a person was born is dignity and merit. He who betrayed the faith of his grandfathers and fathers is stigmatized with the shameful title of an apostate and renegade.

When people have to change their understanding of God and the religious teaching associated with it for another, they make a tragedy out of this demand for evolution. Changing the understanding of God is equated to betraying God and betraying the faith of one's grandfathers and fathers. But it would be possible to change God only if there were many gods, but since God is one, how can one change Him? As for the betrayal of the faith of grandfathers and fathers, then loyalty to the faith of grandfathers and fathers is good quality up to a certain limit, only until such time as there is, as in our time, the rise of the consciousness of mankind to a higher level. Then the zeal for the faith of grandfathers and fathers turns into ignorance, in which there is always more zeal than reason.

From the foregoing, a natural conclusion follows that the existing at the present time in Christian world The Christian worldview is not something unshakable, eternal, which must remain until the end of time. No matter how high the Teaching of Christ, but, distorted by people beyond recognition, it does not fulfill its purpose in this form. Moreover, nowhere is it said that Christ spoke the last word to the world. If we accept this as true, then we must reject evolution and stop at one point. Meanwhile, evolution knows no stops and has no limit.

That New Teaching, which, as a synthesis that unites all, is replacing all the old Teachings, is also not the last word to humanity. When the time comes to raise the consciousness of humanity to a higher level, the next Teaching will be given.

“We, Brothers of Humanity, are fighting for the Cosmic Magnet and the principle of life. Difficult times, but great times! In tension, in the midst of humanity's monstrous misunderstanding of the principles of Existence, We give New Testament. We call humanity to this Testament. In this great Testament lies the principle of Being! Let us say to mankind: “Honor the Beginnings; honor the Mother of the World; honor the greatness of the Testament of the Cosmic Magnet! Yes Yes Yes! So Maitreya says!” (Infinity, part I, § 227).

A new understanding of that One Higher Beginning, which people call God, in essence, can be new only for a person in the West, because the East has known for a long time what we are approaching now. The Eastern sages, who dealt with the resolution of higher problems and questions of Being, several millennia before the appearance of Christ's Teachings, developed a worldview that is similar in many respects to the worldview of the New Teaching, so if it is based on Eastern philosophy, then this only proves its truth.

All philosophical systems of the East, diverging from each other in understanding the secondary foundations of Being, unanimously recognize the main basis of Being as the One Reality, which, being outside the phenomenal Universe, is unattainable and inaccessible for human understanding.

This Basic Reality in India is denoted by the word Tat or That. That which has no name, no definitions, no aspects and attributes, for any attempt to comprehend and define the Incomprehensible can only belittle and humiliate Him. But some philosophical systems call That Brahman, Parabrahman, the Great Unknown, the Causeless Cause, the Absolute. When an Eastern sage who has reached such an exalted understanding, in a conversation reaches one of these concepts, trying to define That, he reverently falls silent, believing that the highest degree of reverence for Him, about Whom we know nothing, is silence, for every word about Him what has been said can only belittle Him.

The whole Universe and everything that is in the Universe is a manifestation of That. It is everything, and everything is It. Hence the expression: “You are That,” that is, a person, as the highest manifestation of That, is That. Some Eastern sages, trying to understand this Great Unknown, come to the conclusion through metaphysical reasoning that when the Cosmic Night sets in, when the entire Universe turns into a primary element, there remains a space that “contains everything and contains nothing”, which cannot be abolished. no metaphysical conclusions, therefore, we can say that space is That.

But when a new Universe is born, then the material for its formation is needed, so we can say that matter is That. But motionless matter could not create the Universe, therefore it can be said that motion is That. But movement not directed by reason and not subject to any laws could not lead to the creation of the Universe - therefore, it can be argued that reason or law is That.

In a word, whatever we take, everything is That, and That is Everything, which for the human mind will forever remain an unsolvable riddle and the Great Unknown.

In addition to the Basic Reality, or the Great Unknowable, some philosophical systems also recognize a Personal God, in Hindu terminology, Ishvara, the Creative Force that creates the planetary system, directs it and, upon reaching the task set by the evolutionary plan, destroys it. Each planetary system and each planet has its Ishvara or, in Christian terminology, its Logos.

In all existing beliefs that recognize a Personal God, He is revered as having three Persons: among Christians - Father, Son and Holy Spirit; among the Hindus - Brahma - creating Vishnu - preserving and Shiva - destroying.

Some religious-philosophical systems, like Buddhism, do not recognize the Logos as God, on the grounds that the Creator, Preserver and Destroyer Logos, being a manifestation of the same Great Unknown, having gone through the same human evolution that we are going through, is subject to the same immutable cosmic laws, like any other manifestation of That.

No matter how high the functions of the Creative Force, or Personal God, no matter how infinitely long His life is, but, at the onset of Cosmic Night, when the entire Cosmos turns into a primary element, all Personal Gods, whose number is infinitely large, also pass into non-existence. . Only the Great Unknown remains. Plunging into oblivion last, the Personal Gods, with a new breath of the Great Unknown, awaken to being the first and begin to create a new, more perfect Universe.

The Christian religious worldview does not have such precise and definite statements about the Basic Reality as the Eastern peoples have. Christian ideas about God are generally confused and unclear. The opinion of Christian theologians that the religious worldview of Christians, at the latest, is the most correct, is the result of error. It could be so if the Teachings of Christ were correctly understood and not distorted.

It can be argued even more, it can be argued that Christians do not have not only correct, but generally no ideas about the Basic Reality, about the Great Unknowable, from which everything emanated.

Although many Western philosophers in their metaphysical attempts to embrace the immensity reach the unity of life and the infinity and unknowability of the Divine, such a higher understanding of the foundations of Being, accessible only to a limited number of philosophically educated people, does not reach the consciousness of the masses of the people thanks to the teachings of the Church, which interprets these questions otherwise, as a result of which all higher philosophical systems and hypotheses are suppressed by the teachings of the church and cannot be taken into account.

According to the Christian Creed, the Christian God the Father is the Almighty, the Creator of heaven and earth - therefore, this is not That to which Eastern religious and philosophical thought has not given any name, for It is incomprehensible to the human mind.

On the one hand, the word Almighty seems to speak of the Basic Reality, but at the same time He is the Creator of heaven and earth. Therefore, it is the Creative Force, or Logos, but every Logos is the result of evolution (Humanity is not our planet, but another, which completed its evolution before ours), but not the First Cause. There are as many personal Gods or Logoi as there are solar systems, and perhaps even more, while Christian theologians attribute the creation of the entire Universe to our Logos, who created our solar system, which is certainly not true, because it does not correspond to the laws of evolution.

Having misinterpreted the words of Christ “God is a Spirit” (John 4:24), the Christians made of God the Spirit not a principle, not an idea, like Eastern philosophy, but some kind of spiritual Being, rewarding this Being with all the highest human virtues that this Being, in their opinion, should have. The savages imagine their God in exactly the same way, with the only difference that the God of the savage possesses the highest virtues of a savage, and not of a civilized man.

In fact, the words of Christ "God is a Spirit" meant not a spiritual Being, but the Breath of God. God is the Breath or Life of the world. The Universe and life in the Universe is the result of the Breath of the Great Unknowable. The Western world, having made a Being out of Breath, calling this Being a very unfortunate name for God and attributing all sorts of attributes to Him, identified Him with the Personal God, with the Creative Power.

So the breath of a person is not a person, but his life principle, without which the existence of man himself would be impossible, because since there is no principle on the basis of which a person could exist, how could he exist? In the same way, how could the Cosmos exist if there were no principle of its existence – the Breath of the Great Unknowable?

Thus, the principle creates the conditions for the appearance of a being, but the principle itself is not a being. Therefore, attributing to the principle the prerogatives of being is the greatest error into which the Western world could fall, devoid of understanding the foundations of divine wisdom. It can be argued that the Egyptian, who revered God in the animal, understood the idea of ​​God more correctly than the European of the twentieth century, who was proud of his high culture. By ascribing all sorts of qualities to the principle, the Western world has created a myth, created a God such as has never been and never is.

Turning to God with prayers and requests and calling their imaginary God love, mercy, compassion, wisdom, omniscience and similar other names, the Western world, in essence, turns to the principle or law with prayers, because there is no God as a spiritual Being, and the Western world does not know the idea of ​​the Great Unknowable.

Having identified God, or the Great Unknowable, with the Creative Power, or Personal God, Christianity not only did not create the highest religious worldview, as it believes in its conceit, but plunged the Western world into incalculable disasters, directing their religious thinking along the wrong path.

To christian god, which, according to the doctrine christian church, is love itself, compassion and mercy, countless reproaches of injustice and cruelty have always been and are being carried, since the believing Christian does not know that the blows that comprehend him are the action of cosmic laws, but not of God.

Misled by misconceptions about God, the believing and suffering Christian often asks many absurd questions about God, such as: Why does God allow any outrageous crime to be committed if He is omniscient? Why doesn't God stop some egregious abuse if He is just? And sometimes, seeing the faces of people who died in catastrophes, distorted from horror and suffering, a person sends not reproaches to God, but scolding and often turns away from Him forever, thereby causing irreparable harm to himself. All this happens due to the false teaching of the church, which teaches that God is a Being who watches over everything, knows everything and sees everything.

Another reason why Christian theologians made a Being out of God the Father, presumably, was the words of Christ, who said: “I and the Father are one” (John 10:30). And also the answer of Christ to the Apostle Philip to his request “Show us the Father”, namely: “He who has seen Me has seen the Father” (John, 14: 9).

Christian theologians believe that if Christ the Son is a Being, then the Father must also be a Being. But Christ called the Father not a Being, but the Basic Reality, the First Cause, the Great Unknowable, which is one with everything that is in the Universe, and every Being that is in the Universe is His son. What Eastern philosophy has not given any name, Christ called the Father, and it is difficult to come up with a better name, for He really is the Father of all that exists. From Him everything began, and everything comes to Him in the end.

Just as the Christian world did not know the Father, so it did not know the Son. The ideas of Christians about God the Son, whom Christ is considered to be, are even more vague and fantastic. It can be said that the Christian Nicene Creed is a complete fallacy. None of the provisions of the Creed about God the Son corresponds to the truth and is the result of fantasy and legends.

But if you remember when and by whom the Creed was compiled, then there will be nothing surprising in this. It was compiled by representatives of the Christian Church when they had already lost the highest secret knowledge, the secrets of the Kingdom of God, because in the Creed compiled by them, knowledge of the foundations of the universe is completely absent. If they, although to a small extent, had true knowledge, then the Creed would have turned out differently. The laws of evolution establish the need for the periodic appearance among people of the Higher Beings, the Teachers of humanity, who, coming into the world for the purposes of evolution, give humanity an impetus for further development. Christ was such a Teacher of mankind, but Christian theologians made the One Son of the One God from the Teacher of Christ, that is, such a Being, which does not exist in the Universe.

Having made Christ the Only Begotten and Consubstantial Son of God the Father, that is, the same God as God the Father, or, in other words, not what He really is, Christians attributed to Him functions that Christ did not perform, namely: the creation the entire universe. Thus, the Christian worldview has two Creators: God the Father - the Creator of heaven and earth - and God the Son. “God the Father created everything by His Son, as by His eternal wisdom and His eternal Word” (Christian catechism. About the second member of the Creed).

If, however, we recognize God the Father as the First Cause, then God the Son is the First Cause, for He is the only begotten and consubstantial with the Father.

Thus, either two Creators or two First Causes are obtained, that is, an obvious absurdity.

If the compilers of the Creed at that time knew how the worlds are created, they would not have attributed such an overwhelming task to one Person. The worlds are not created in seven days, as the words of Moses are naively understood by many Christians who do not possess true knowledge even at the present time, but each Creative Power, the number of which is infinitely great, is working on the creation of one world, one solar system, millions of years, having at its disposal millions of higher and lower Forces subject to Him.

Just as the personality of Christ is fantastic in the minds of Christians, so is His birth. The birth of Christ from the Virgin Mary is a beautiful legend that has passed into Christianity from earlier religious cults. In the same way, at the instigation of the Higher Powers, according to Hindu legends, immaculate maiden Devaki gives birth to the Hindu Christ Krishna, and the maiden Maha-Maya gives birth to Prince Siddhartha, who later became Gautama Buddha.

The appearance of any extraordinary Being, such as Christ, Krishna, Buddha and others, is invariably accompanied by the appearance of legends about their extraordinary birth. From beautiful legend Christians made a dogma, which was included in the Creed as an indisputable truth. Meanwhile, only that which is consistent with cosmic laws is true. Cosmic laws know no exceptions and no extraordinary births other than the existing ordinary ones.

Exactly the same value is another dogma invented by people - the dogma of the Immaculate Conception. In Cosmos there can be no vicious and immaculate conceptions. Any conception, or birth of life, is the greatest mystery, inaccessible to the human mind, is a manifestation of the creative forces of the One Beginning that is in us, the divinity inherent in us, and cannot be vicious. To recognize any conception as immaculate means to make all other conceptions vicious, it means to make perfect cosmic laws imperfect. But imperfection and vice lie not in cosmic laws, but in human thinking, which it tries to replace the eternal unchanging divine truths with its wretched human invention. Nevertheless, “such a persistent mention in all the legends of all peoples about the immaculate conception of the Higher Beings must have some basis. In fact, it is so, but not as it appears to a believing Christian. And while physical conception and birth cannot deviate from the laws established by Nature, spiritual conception can be subject to another, higher law. Therefore, the occult immaculate conception is the great Cosmic Truth and Mystery, which we have not yet been given to know.

Thus, neither the Christian God the Father, as a Spiritual Being, nor God the Son, as the One Son of the One God, does not exist. It exists only in the imagination of Christians clouded by false ideas. There is the First Cause, the Great Unknowable, which Christ called the Father, the worship of which does not require any beliefs, or temples, or rites, which, as Christ taught, can be honored only in spirit and truth, and there are the Creative Powers of the Cosmos, to which Christ belongs, which together form the Heavenly Hierarchy ruling Cosmos.

The Creative Force that created our solar system is the only God in whose hands is the fate of our solar system and everything that is in it, beyond whom no requests and prayers go.

Although, as already mentioned. The Teaching of the Buddha does not recognize the Creative Power or the Personal God as God on the grounds that the Personal God is the achievement of evolution, but the Buddha, who Himself approached this stage, could decide so, but in relation to us, at our present stage of development, the Personal God, The Creator of our solar system stands so immeasurably high that honoring Him as God is a reasonable recompense.

Many Western theologians and philosophers consider Buddhism to be an atheistic teaching on the grounds that Gautama Buddha in his Teaching does not speak at all about either the Personal God or the Basic Reality. But “Gautama did not deny the existence of “That”, he simply accepted It without proof, as the basic axiom truth. Moreover, in his system, he clearly indicated the existence of Parabrahman, or the supreme Brahman, that is, Brahman in the aspect of Non-existence and Non-Manifestation ”(Yogi Ramacharaka. Religions and secret teachings of the East)

Western thinkers believe that the more often you remember the name of God, the better, and the one who does not mention the name of God several times in every phrase is an atheist and an atheist. But still in ancient law It says, "Do not remember the name of your God in vain." The big question is who honors God higher: is it the one who shakes His name without any need and says about Him what he does not know, sowing false ideas, or the one who, recognizing the Great Unknowable as the Truth, worships Him once and for all in spirit and reverently honors Him in her heart, saying nothing about Him?

It follows from what has been said that the Christian religious worldview is full of errors. Meanwhile, Christians believe that they have created such a perfect understanding of the world that it should be accepted by other peoples. In other words, Christianity, which emerged from Judaism, has all the data to repeat the mistake of the Jews. Just as the Jews, deceived by their chosenness, closed themselves in their shell like a snail and imagine that the whole world should enter into the shell with them, in the same way Christians, convinced of the perfection of their worldview, believe that the whole world should become Christian, in view of which attempts to convert "pagans" to Christianity never ceased.

But one should not think that only Christianity is guilty of distorting the Teachings of Christ, that other peoples have preserved in purity the religious teachings they have adopted. It should not be forgotten that there have always existed, as they exist now, clergymen and priests, who, having assumed the role of mediators between people and God and transmitters of the will of the Gods to people, turn any religious Teaching to their own benefit and into the enslavement of the people. Let us recall in what kind of spiritual slavery Jewish rabbis hold the Jewish people, Catholic priests hold Christian Catholics, Brahmins hold Hindus.

In India, which is a classical country of freedom of thought and freedom of belief, this freedom of thought and belief is achieved by the fact that every most absurd teaching is recognized as true if it recognizes the caste advantages of the Brahmins. Therefore, next to philosophical systems that amaze with their penetration into the foundations of truth and the depth of their religious and philosophical thought, there are crude forms of superstition and fetishism, there are savage sects that worship the devil, but they are not persecuted, because the sacred rights of the Brahmins are recognized. Meanwhile, Buddhism is recognized in India as unfaithful because the Buddha spoke out against castes and against the enslavement of the people by the Brahmins.

“In the desire to preserve their caste advantages, Brahmins in ignorant communities and villages stop at nothing. They implant the most terrible superstitions among the masses and use them to intimidate the people and to strengthen themselves. Their dominance is terrible and lies in the prerogatives of their power, for the most essential functions of life cannot be performed by anyone except a Brahmin. Hence their power. They interpreted the law of reincarnation exclusively for their own benefit, declaring themselves "twice-born", i.e. initiates, which in reality is not, and at the present time they give this initiation for money to anyone, without distinction of caste. In this conglomeration of superstitions and rituals that have lost their original meaning, one can hardly find sparks of once great knowledge” (see Letters of E. Roerich: from 26. 5. 34).

In the same way, the high Teachings of the Buddha, based on the enlightened human mind, which called for compassion, for mercy, for the brotherhood of all people, for active love in general, is distorted by the lamas so much that the mind and active love are replaced by prayer mills, with which a person is freed - for a fee. , of course, from the need to pray, from the need to love someone and do something.

If we recall at the same time medieval indulgences, by buying which a person was freed from all sins, both past and future, it becomes clear that people in their understanding of the foundations of Being either did not move at all, or moved very little. Now, just as in the Middle Ages, any absurd teaching finds followers, and any charlatan with any stupidity can captivate a person in the direction he needs.

If a transitional time like ours is hard for humanity in general, then it is especially hard for priests and worshipers. If each individual person is responsible only for himself, then what enormous responsibility do the shepherds take upon themselves, who lead the spiritual children who have trusted them? The fate of not only him personally, but also the fate of the people who trusted him, depends on the direction taken by the shepherd. Speaking in church language, you can go to heaven with him and hear gratitude and blessings, or go to hell and hear reproach and curses.

The situation is truly tragic. The fear of losing everything that belonging to the old gives if the new does not come prevents joining the new; stay with the old - lose everything if the new comes. Therefore, the majority of shepherds, who are shepherds only in name, at all times have always fought against any new teaching, declaring it false beforehand. It has always been advantageous for such shepherds to keep peoples in the dark, for their well-being was built on the darkness of the people, and every new trend and new Teaching, shaking the ground under their feet, deprived them of the benefits they had already acquired. The Pharisees of the time of Christ are a classic example of such shepherds by name, who, as Christ said, “will not enter the Kingdom of God themselves and will prevent others from entering” (see Matt., 23:13).

But the good shepherds, who have always been and always are, for if they were not, then the world could not exist, who, as Christ said, "lay down their lives for the sheep" (see John, 10: II), such shepherds they will not fight against the New Teaching. They will accept it as the only way out of the terrible stalemate in which the modern world finds itself.

To that Great Unknowable, which Christ called the Father of all that exists. The new Teaching adds a new concept - the Mother of the World. The root cause is positive on one pole, negative on the other, therefore in the Universe, there are two beginningless Beginnings: Spirit and Matter, positive and negative, male and female. As the combination of positive and negative electricity gives a spark, in the same way only the combination of spirit and matter gives essence, and the combination of male and female principles; gives fruit.

The laws for the manifestation of life in the Cosmos are the same from the very top to the very bottom. Studying the laws of the birth of man, we study the laws of the birth of the Cosmos. Just as man is a combination of spirit and matter and the result of the fusion of the male and female principles, so is the Cosmos. Like a father on earth, or masculinity, cannot give life to another being without a mother, without a feminine principle, in the same way, the Father of the World cannot give life to the World without the Mother of the World, without a feminine principle. Only the union of the Father, or the Single Spirit, with the Mother, or the Single Matter, gives fruit, gives the Son - the One Universe. Therefore, not the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, but the Father, the Mother and the Son, for as above, so below is the basic law of the universe.

In addition to the new concept of the Mother of the World, the New Teaching speaks of Infinity, of the beauty and grandeur of Infinity, exceeding the imaginary beauty and grandeur of imaginary gods. It speaks of Cosmic Mind, about the Cosmic Magnet, about the Intelligent Cosmic Energies, about the Matter Matrix, about the Matter Lucid, about the Creative Forces of the Cosmos.

It gives complete freedom to the modern and future enlightened person, if he finds it necessary to honor some abstract principle for his God, to honor Him either in Infinity, “containing everything and not contained in anything”, or in the Beginningless Spirit, or in the Beginningless Matter. , or in the Cosmic Heart, or in the Cosmic Mind. In a word, in what he desires.

The Great Unknowable, or the Beginning and the End of everything, must be hidden from the understanding of people forever. This is the greatest wisdom. There must be Something that stands above the highest human understanding, which, with its mystery and unknowability, should forever captivate and beckon a person to itself, for only the incomprehensible and mysterious attracts to itself, yet deciphered and understandable ceases to have an attractive force and is reduced by a person to his level, to the level of everyday life.

There must be a striving for cognition of the Unknowable, for it is the guarantee of evolution and the highest goal and meaning of life, but cognition itself will always elude us, for the cognized God would cease to be God. Complete knowledge of the Unknowable would mean the end of evolution, the end of life in the Universe, the end of the Universe, because if the goal is achieved, then there is nowhere to strive; and what other equally lofty goal could a man set for himself instead of the achieved one?

The Great Unknowable, or that Unknown God, whom, as the Apostle Paul said, the ancient Greeks revered without knowing, cannot be known with the mind, but must be recognized with the heart. You need to accept Him into your consciousness and, without building man-made temples for Him, without establishing rituals, building for Him miraculous temple in your heart, to honor Him in spirit and in truth, "for such worshipers the Father seeks for himself." So said Christ (John 4:23).

Thus, to the question posed at the beginning of the chapter, who rules the world? - you can give the following answer: the world is ruled by the Creative Forces of the Cosmos, which together make up the Heavenly Hierarchy. Those personal and only Gods of the Essence that exist in the Universe. As has been repeatedly said, there are many of them, but all of them have reached the divine state, having passed through human evolution. All of them obey the One, who is at the head of the Heavenly Hierarchy. They are all the Sons of God and the Saviors of the world, for such a name is given to anyone who has reached the divine-human state and has dedicated himself to serving the world.

There is not a single higher Being that could be outside this Hierarchical ladder or that could reach it not by evolution, but by some other, independent way. But at what step of this Hierarchical ladder each Hierarch and each Teacher is, we do not need to know. Therefore, disputes about whose God and whose Master is superior are utterly useless and meaningless.

“Jacob's ladder is a symbol of Our Abode” (Leaves of the Garden of Morya, vol. II, § 88). This ladder, connecting heaven with earth, leads to the Highest. “The Most High Light is unbearable, but the Hierarchy unites with this dazzling Peak. Where one could even go blind, there the Hierarchy builds up with the enlightened spirit. Love is the crown of Light” (Hierarchy, § 281).

The Cosmos, as the Son of the Unknowable Father and the Unknowable Mother, can be likened to a tree, for the analogy between the highest and the lowest in the Cosmos is complete. Just as a tree, remaining itself, produces an innumerable multitude of seeds, each of which contains not only the potential possibility of becoming the same tree, but also the possibility of producing an unlimited number of the same seeds, in the same way everything in the Cosmos is its seeds. The seed of a tree strives to become the likeness of its parent, the same tree, and if it does not become one, then it dies and serves as fertilizer for the tree that gave birth to it. The laws of development of life in the Cosmos lead to exactly the same results in all other forms of the One Cosmic Life.

Man, as the highest manifestation of the creative efforts of the Cosmos, has long been called by the sages of mankind a microcosm, or a small cosmos, a reflection of the Universe and the image and likeness of God. Human body is a reflection of the Universe, or a small cosmos, and the human spirit is the image and likeness of God, its Creator. But the human body has been turned into a small Cosmos by the efforts of the Creative and elemental forces of nature, while man must turn his spirit into the image and likeness of God by his own efforts. He must become like his Father, become a creator, and create likenesses of the Universe, small worlds, or, like a seed of a tree that has not turned into a tree, must perish and become fertilizer for the Cosmos. Thus, man becomes a god and a creator or fertilizer. There is no other way out. The existence of an innumerable number of Creative Forces in the Cosmos indicates that already many people, like seeds that have given fruit, have reached the image and likeness of their Creator.

Thus, if we can accept the First Cause, or the Great Unknown, as an abstract Beginning, then we must accept the Heavenly Hierarchy as a reality, for the reality of the Heavenly Hierarchy is witnessed by all scriptures, numerous phenomena of life.

The hierarchical principle, or the guidance and subordination of the lower to the higher, is the same eternal and unchanging law of the universe, like all other cosmic laws. The hierarchical principle of controlling the Cosmos follows from the mystery of cosmic life. Cosmos is a living and complex organism, all parts of which, for their coordinated activity, need to be controlled by the One, which, by uniting their activity, would direct the diverse action of His various organs towards a single goal.

“The legend of the Giant holding the Earth is not superstition, but the memory of the One who accepted the burden of responsibility for the Earth. So in every action there is a single one who has taken responsibility on his shoulders. One, with the cooperation of others, constitutes a balance. Like a spinning top in motion, one must keep the rhythm of motion…” (Hierarchy, § 54).

The entire diverse life of the Cosmos, with its evolution and all the harmonious order that we observe in the universe, is carried out with the help of the Hierarchy. Millions of Hierarchs of various levels of power, strength and power take part in the creation and control of the Cosmos, but God alone does not know this, as many Christians mistakenly imagine.

“When a new race gathers, the Gatherer is the Hierarch. When a new step is being built for humanity. The Builder is the Hierarch. When a stage appointed by the Cosmic Magnet is built on the rhythm of life, then the Hierarch stands at the head. There is no such phenomenon in life that would not have its Hierarch in its grain. The more powerful the level, the more powerful the Hierarch!” (Hierarchy, § 399).

The concept of the Teacher and the concept of the Hierarch are alien to the humanity of the Western world. Western man is accustomed to honor God, but the God whom he honored in essence has always been one of the Hierarchs, or Teachers of humanity. The New Teaching, replacing the concept of God with the concept of the Teacher, returns to the Western world this lost correct idea of ​​the Supreme Being, which is precisely the Teacher of humanity.

If the Hierarch who led the Jewish people and whom the Jews call Jehovah, through Hierarch Moses said: “I am your God, and let there be no other gods besides Me” (Deuteronomy, 5: 6-7), then it was necessary for a people such as Israel was at that time. The next Hierarch - Christ - washed the fishermen's feet and never called himself God, but the Son of Man, the Son of humanity, the perfect fruit of humanity.

The next Hierarch, who gives the world the following, the New Teaching, says: there is no need to deify the Teacher. "He will be the one who gives best advice life” (Agni Yoga, § 43). Speaking of the Hierarchy, the Teacher calls the Hierarchs the Brothers of humanity. “We are the Brothers of Humanity” is a phrase that is repeated many times in the Teaching.

In this way. The brothers of humanity, as humanity develops, introduce it into a new circle of concepts and, giving it more accurate and correct ideas about the universe and about the Forces that rule the Cosmos, they bring us closer to Themselves, calling themselves at present not our Gods, but our Elder Brothers. Instead of worshiping God and sacrificing, which was necessary millennia ago for our ancestors, we are only required to recognize the Hierarchy and honor Them as our Elder Brothers.

“Work hard, do good, honor the Hierarchy of Light” – this Our Testament can be inscribed on the palm of even a newborn. So simple is the Beginning leading to the Light. To accept it, you only need to have pure heart"(Hierarchy, § 373).

“When the world has plunged into the darkness of denial, then, of course, we must expect the destruction of the old, worthless foundations, for how can the world be reborn? How can humanity wake up, if not by shaking all worthless foundations? After all, only when the affirmed, new great principles of Hierarchy are realized by mankind, it will be possible to affirm the salvation of mankind. Thus We intensely impel the planet to the principles of the Hierarchy of Good. The loss of higher concepts must be compensated, for each lost principle brings cosmic upheavals. Thus it is necessary to regenerate humanity by the principle of Hierarchy” (Hierarchy, § 411).

“Only by a renewal of thinking can humanity comprehend a new planetary step. After all, what spatial tension surrounds the planet! After all, only before the great cosmic battle were there such formidable omens! Therefore, only when Our Hierarchy is affirmed can humanity be saved” (Hierarchy, § 412).

“What thorns people themselves weave into the wreaths of life! What forces people spend on opposing the principles on which life itself rests! How many unnecessary thorns surround people, turning their life into a regression! 'Cause people won't understand supreme wisdom having not understood, first of all, the law of Hierarchy, that on which all life rests; that by which the world progresses; what constitutes evolution; that on which the best stages and pages of history were composed. Thus, humanity cannot escape from the great law of Hierarchy. Only self-destruction can give the direction along which the Hierarchies devoid of understanding go. Thus, thorns directed against Hierarchy turn into a dark path. Thus, the great law of Hierarchy must be guarded as the leading principle” (Hierarchy, § 414).

“Hierarchy is planned cooperation—this is how one could call this part of the Teaching, but we are not afraid if you use the ancient Greek word Hierarchy. If someone interprets it in his conventional understanding, he will only prove that his brain is not ready for cooperation” (Hierarchy, § 416).

The Hierarchical Beginning of Cosmic Governance has been so widely put into practice that not only, as has already been said, there is not a single cosmic undertaking that would not be headed by a Hierarch, but there is not a single being in the world that would not have its Leader, or, as they are called in the Christian world, the Guardian Angel, who All belong to the same Hierarchical chain of Higher Beings.

In the life of every person there were such unusual cases when he could suffer or die, but the Leading Hand removed danger from him if this case was not part of a mature karma that should be fulfilled. A sensitive person in such cases cannot but recognize the guidance of the Higher Forces. A spiritually undeveloped person explains such phenomena by chance, most often he attributes this to himself, his resourcefulness, his courage, but no matter to whom a person attributes such cases, the Leader does not leave him.

Everyone has a Leader according to his consciousness. The higher a person is in his development, the higher the Leader is given to him. Under the Guardian Angel one cannot necessarily understand some separate Being from the Higher Spheres, but for the most part it is our own spirit, our higher self, which is often defined as conscience. Some have friends or acquaintances who have crossed the line before them, who sometimes interfere in their lives, helping and guiding them.

The Great Spirits, the Hierarchy of Light Forces, the Great Intimate Brotherhood, eternally guarding human spiritual needs and evolutions, should be recognized as the true Guardian Angels of humanity. Some of these Guardian Angels, of course, in the rarest cases, become the leaders of individual personalities, but Their ray is constantly striving in an unremitting search for awakened consciousnesses and kindled hearts in order to support and guide them. But in our age, unfortunately, the “guardian angels” of the majority have become dark possessors of the lower spheres, whose voice is easier to perceive, because it never runs counter to our earthly desires. But woe to those who allowed such an approach.

When the Teaching speaks of the Hierarch and the Teacher, the Highest Hierarch or Celestial is not always meant, but often it is the earthly spiritual leader that is indicated. The Teaching says: “All have a Teacher on earth” (Agni Yoga, § 103). It is the earthly teacher who can be a link with the Hierarchy of the Higher Forces.

“In all religions, a parting Representative was given to those leaving the Earth, in the form of a Saint or an Angel, or a deceased relative. This confirmed the existence afterlife and the need for a leader. One must get used to this idea of ​​the need for a Leader. So in all religions Mentorship and Teaching were established. Therefore, when we speak about the Teacher, We remind of what is inevitable. The Teaching can live or turn into the arms of death. But how easy it is to blossom life by turning to the Light” (Hierarchy, § 62).

“All peoples knew about the Guardian Angels and preserved traditions for thousands of years. All the Teachings knew about the Powerful Patrons of mankind, who led the nations. Why has our time renounced the Higher Leaders? When did the World exist without Patrons? And how can humanity be affirmed by the concept of the absence of a Leader? The basic principles of Being are intensified by laws; manifest Guides, and the cosmic laws do not change, but grow with cosmic affirmation. Therefore, the Patrons of mankind and the almighty Goddess Fortune create the fate of mankind. The consciousness of this great law can impel humanity to the Chain of Hierarchy” (Hierarchy, § 234).

“Therefore, every striving leading to the unification of the student with the Teacher leads to the knowledge of higher laws. The student who does not want the Teacher acknowledges his ignorance, for he suspends his development. After all, every force that draws the spirit upward is a force of development. How will we expand our consciousness and elevate our spirit if we do not accept the Hand of the Hierarch? The manifestation of self-conceit so perniciously delays progress, therefore it is worthy to point out to all those who speak of excessive devotion to the Teacher, that only through the strength of devotion to the Teacher can one achieve the refinement of consciousness” (Hierarchy, § 128).

"Inevitably meet with special type people who go berserk at the mention of the Masters. They are ready to believe in brazen stock market speculation, ready to believe in any fraud, but the idea of ​​the Common Good is inaccessible to them.

Look closely into the pupil of these people, you will find a running shadow in it, and they will not stand your gaze for long - these are secret dukpas (Here: sorcerers, servants of darkness. - Approx. ed.). Often they are more dangerous than their obvious counterparts.

Even if you send them a purse of money, they will remember a non-existent debtor. Even if you keep them from death, they will write thanks to the police. Even if these seemingly well-intentioned people were brought to the very border of Our Settlement, they would declare what they saw as a mirage. If they did it out of ignorance - but the reason is much worse.

Beware of them! Most importantly, take care of your children. From them children's ulcers. They are going to school. For them, historical fact and the law of knowledge do not exist. When meeting ulcerative children, ask about the quality of the teachers” (Leaves of the Garden of Morya, vol. II, § 340).

“How many unnecessary phenomena people create for themselves! How many unnecessary karmic difficulties they create for themselves! And all just from unwillingness to accept the Hierarchy in the heart. Thus, all affirmations can enter into life only when the consciousness can accept Hierarchy. Every evil in the world arises from opposition to the great principle of Hierarchy. Each victory is gained only by the principle of Hierarchy, therefore one must thus affirm oneself on the affirmed Hierarchy” (Hierarchy, § 276).

“When the connection with the Lord is strong, you can move mountains. Striving for Hierarchy will create that culture, about which much is said. Dead are those who think that by means of earthly Maya they can create strongholds! Just as unreasonably as children from mud dream of laying down a fortress! Truly, only the world of the spirit is durable, for it is indestructible and indestructible! It can be pointed out that the first sign of culture is the absence of personal strife” (Hierarchy, § 146).

“Low thoughts were depicted as reptiles. Nothing can match these scum of consciousness more. Is it possible to sit quietly on an armchair, knowing that there are poisonous snakes and scorpions under it! It is necessary to free oneself from reptiles, and above all along the line of Hierarchy. Condemnation and blasphemy against the Lord are irreparable. Everyone who condemns the Hierarch must remember that his frivolity and crime will litter his karma for many centuries. Indeed, if there is only one way to the one Light through the Lord, then only extreme ignorance will allow the destruction of this the only way. One must place striving for the Highest as the essence of life and adopt a sacred attitude towards this salvific striving. By belittling the Hierarch, one can condemn oneself and cause fatal harm to many loved ones – it is time to remember!” (Hierarchy, § 57).

“The deniers of Hierarchy will come again and call it the leadership of violence. Again you will say to them: “Hierarchy has nothing to do with violence. She is the revealer of the law. We are against every kind of violence. We do not direct energy without the consent of the employee. We know the worthlessness of everything superficial, striving from outside. Like a builder, We call for co-workers. But whoever does not need Our boat, we offer him to cross the ocean even on a bamboo reed. But people are often so afraid of any cooperation that they are ready to plunge into the mud, just not to touch the Highest. You will have to separate a lot from people in the Hierarchy. They will rather accept Infinity, for they do not feel their responsibility before it. But the inevitability of the law of Hierarchy disturbs the thin, selfish mind.

Learn not to insist where you see that the path is polluted. You can't go against karma. But many foolish people have sinned against Hierarchy, hence the foam of their irritation” (Hierarchy, § 410).

Opponents and enemies of the Hierarchical Principle have always invented pitiful fabrications in order to belittle the great significance of the Hierarchy and the Teacher. How on negative sides of the Hierarchical Beginning, it is indicated that when a person submits to the Hierarchy, he loses free will and my individuality.

But "he who is afraid of losing his individuality does not have it" (Hierarchy, § 167). A person can only lose what he has. Whoever does not have individuality has nothing to lose, and whoever has it cannot lose, because this would be contrary to the laws of evolution. The goal of evolution is the development of consciousness, but not its enslavement. Our Teachers, Hierarchs, create and develop our consciousness not in order to take it away.

“They will ask: “How do you mention the Creator, whom you do not know?” You will say: “Historically and scientifically we know the Great Teachers who created the quality of our consciousness.”

“Recognizing the influence of the Masters' ideology, do you restrict your freedom? ” - You will say: “The quality of freedom is wonderful; if it exists, it cannot be limited by anything.” It is possible to shackle the body, but nothing can diminish the consciousness, except for ugliness ”(Leaves of the Garden of Morya, vol. II, § 322).

The law of free will - one of the great cosmic laws is violated only by people on the earthly plane. The leaders of humanity, the Higher Beings, are the guardians of cosmic laws, but not their violators. Only at the lower stages of development, when human consciousness is not yet developed, are unconscious beings forced to follow the laws of the development of life by force, but when human consciousness is developed, then free will, being the greatest achievement of evolution, is at the same time the main factor in the further development of man.

A conscious person may not take a single step in his further development if he doesn't want to. In his development, he gets only what he aspires to. The answer comes only when there is a request. He cannot receive a Teacher for his faster development if he does not want it.

Our Elder Brothers – Hierarchs – invite us to cooperate with Themselves for the benefit of evolution. In the implementation of such cooperation, the Brothers of Humanity give only the direction and indicate the path along which evolution must follow, but the evolution itself must be formed by human hands. Therefore, the loss of individuality and deprivation of free will is out of the question. On the contrary, when striving for a common goal and true cooperation, a person can not only show all his individuality, but also preserve his greatest value - free will.

“The student should not be obsessed and the Teacher an enslaver. Meanwhile, the realization of the Hierarchy and the coordination of actions, the combination of free will with the recognition of the Teacher is required. Usually weak minds are confused. Of course, conditions and restrictions are contrary to freedom in its vulgar sense.

But awareness of expediency and culture constitute the great significance of the Teacher. To accept the understanding of the Teacher will be the passage of the first gates of evolution. There is no need to introduce supermundane premises into the concept of the Teacher. He will be the one who gives the best advice of life. This vitality will embrace Knowledge, Creativity, and Infinity” (Agni Yoga, § 43).

Relationship between teacher and student. The teacher gives instructions within the limits of what is permitted. He raises up the disciple, cleansing him of old habits. He warns him against all kinds of betrayal, superstition and hypocrisy. He imposes tests both visible and hidden. The Teacher opens the gates of the next step with the words: "Rejoice, brother." He closes with the words: "Farewell, passerby."

The student chooses a teacher. He honors Him equally with the higher beings. He believes Him and brings Him the best thoughts. He guards the Name of the Teacher and inscribes Him on the sword of his word. He shows the diligence of labor and the mobility of achievement. He meets trials like the light of the morning and directs hope to the shutter of the next gate.

Friends, if you want to get closer to Us, choose a Teacher on Earth and give Him guidance. He will tell in time when the key is ready to turn in the gate. Everyone, have a Teacher on Earth” (Agni Yoga, § 103).

In addition to the Hierarchy of Light and Good, there is hierarchy of darkness and evil, a hierarchy of dark forces that are fighting against every good and every bright undertaking. Due to the fact that the First Cause is bipolar and has two Beginnings, everything that came from the First Cause is also bipolar, and every principle in the Cosmos has two poles - positive and negative, and every concept has an opposite.

Just as there is finite and infinite, potential and actual, positive and negative, attraction and repulsion, so there is power and impotence, reason and irrationality, heat and cold, light and darkness, good and evil, etc. to infinity. But all these oppositions are oppositions only in our conception, for everything emanating from the First Cause is not good or evil, reason or irrationality, strength or impotence, but is transformed into these concepts in accordance with our desire, in accordance with our striving and attraction. Therefore, we can say that between the poles, between good and evil, between Light and Darkness, between reason and irrationality, there is a free will of a conscious being, which determines the path of this being.

A part of rational beings, rushing in the opposite direction from Light and good, into the polarity of darkness and evil, formed a hierarchy of evil, a hierarchy of dark forces, which, being enemies of Light, wage a stubborn and fierce struggle against It.

Despite the fact that any religious teaching speaks of dark forces and enemies of Light, the decline in the authority of the Church, due to its ever more open delusions, on the one hand, and the flourishing of positive science and a materialistic worldview, which rejected the existence of an invisible world, on the other, have done that. that belief in the existence of dark forces and evil spirits is interpreted as a funny medieval delusion, as a result of superstition and ignorance of an unenlightened people.

But ignorance in this case is not on the side of the people, but on the side of science, because everything that the people once believed in exists. The lower astral plane is full of all sorts of disgusting-looking semi-conscious monsters, which, in the full sense of the word, can be called fiends of hell. In addition to them, the Astral and Fiery Worlds are inhabited by the spirits of the elements, performing complex and great work in terms of evolution in the corresponding elements of nature. All these gnomes, sylphs, undines, salamanders, who lived in the minds of people as mermaids, fairies, brownies, forest, water, were once friends of man and lived near him. At present, thanks to their non-recognition, thanks to ridicule and mockery of them, they have withdrawn from man and become, if not his enemies, then indifferent to him. By alienating them from himself, a person harmed both himself and them. Himself - by the fact that he lost their help; to them - by the fact that they delayed their evolution, because, living close to man, they accelerated their evolution, since the next stage of their development is the human condition.

Next come reasonable dark forces of varying degrees of development, which form a dark army, a hierarchy of darkness, which has the same organization as the Light Forces have. Just as the White Lodge and Its Adepts exist on earth, so does the Black Lodge with its Adepts and its ritual of initiation into Adepts.

Of course, the medieval idea of ​​dark forces as creatures that necessarily possess horns, a tail, and goat hooves does not correspond to the truth. The variety of forms of the lower dark forces of the astral plane does not exclude the possibility of horns and hooves, but on the physical plane the dark forces look like people, and on the higher planes of Existence they can take the form of angels of Light.

“Angels, both good and evil, are surrounded by an extraordinary radiance; the difference between them is in the expression of the eyes: the eyes of heavenly angels are ablaze with love and reason, while looking into the eyes of the angels of the underworld is extremely difficult ”(E. Barker. Letters from the living deceased).

By excluding from the consciousness of people such an important factor of life as the existence of dark forces hostile to man, positive science rendered a bad service to man, but a good service to his enemies, because the exclusion from the field of human consciousness of the existence of an enemy weakened the resistance of man and strengthened the position of his enemies. It can be argued that the greatest victory that the dark forces have won over man in the last century is the denial of their existence. The New Teaching frees people from this fallacy of science, giving the first step towards overcoming the enemy by recognizing his existence.

At present, when the onset of the Light Age is approaching, the struggle between Light and darkness is tense to the last degree. The battle between Light and darkness, taking place in the Higher Spheres, in which all the forces of our solar system are involved, is gradually moving to the earthly plane of Existence. In this battle (which is the Armageddon proclaimed by the Revelation of St. John), we all take part: either on the side of Light, or on the side of darkness, for every person, in addition to being subject to the influence of his dual nature, pushing him either towards good, or towards the side of evil, is subject to the influence of either the Higher Light or higher dark forces, and must inevitably become either on the side of Light or on the side of darkness.

“The whole world is divided into blacks and whites. Some serve consciously, others by nature, and still others are a gelatinous mass, unsuitable for anything. The Black Lodge is strong, because a powerful potential is needed to fight the Light. It is not wise not to evaluate the strength of the enemy, especially when the Kali Yuga they love is coming to an end. Of course, this is a decisive battle, and care must be taken that delusion and seduction do not touch the weak. It has long been said where the main lodge of the dark ones is located” (Hierarchy, § 109).

“When the fate of the planet is decided, the forces are located along the poles of Light and darkness, therefore every spirit must protect itself from cowardice. To stand on the side of Light means to go with Us under the Banner of Hierarchy; to walk with darkness means to walk under the burden of the manifested black banner. Thus, during the battle, one must fieryly realize Our Power and build a lawful affirmation of life. Only in this way can the challenge of the dark ones be accepted, for when the spirit has immunity against cowardice and betrayal, then victory is revealed. Thus, let us affirm ourselves on the Hierarchy (Hierarchy, § 147).

“Thus We have a list of those who follow the Hierarch, who go against the Hierarch, who openly go against the Highest. Of course, the life of everyone who goes against the Hierarch at least a few times becomes very complicated, for such is the law of life. Therefore, one must realize how important it is to follow the Hierarch. So the important time needs to be approved. Thus one must have an understanding of manifested time. Thus We affirm the New World. Of course, the dark ones are mad and afraid, but We are more powerful than darkness. Thus, all dukpas are self-destined to perish” (Hierarchy, § 409).

“There is a delusion that the dark ones are the antithesis of Light and therefore inevitable, this is erroneous. Darkness, the antithesis of Light, is nothing but unmanifested Chaos. The Dark Ones humiliate the manifestation of the struggle of the creative Light with Chaos. It would be enough for humanity to manifest Chaos and cooperate with the Great Spirits in this great struggle. But the dark ones reduced the overcoming of the unbridled elements to the selfishness of the rebels and began to cause Chaos, instead of turning it into a labor force. This crime is great, and the desire to put out the Light cannot be considered an antithesis. The creative overcoming of Chaos or the "Dragon" is a constant feat. But the battle with the dark ones is only a spasm that impedes movement. The darkness of Chaos is a means for mental creativity, but the duel with the hierarchy of the dark ones is only a missed deadline, so necessary for creation. But more than that, the dark ones constantly evoke powerful elements without knowing, of course, their control” (Hierarchy, § 168).

“Formerly they served black masses and erected statues to Baphomed, now they have become more dangerous, because, imitating Us, they abandoned many rituals, but turned to the power of thought. It is difficult for them to fight with Us, but in case of separation of the student's thinking, they can do harm. When he indicated to rally around the Lord, he advised what was very necessary. In general, one should look at My Decrees as urgent advice, it is time to understand that I am giving the Teaching not for the coming sleep, but for the saturation of all life” (Hierarchy, § 1 10).

“When all cosmic forces are tense, there can be no retreat without destruction. When the light ones are grouped around the Light and the black ones are grouped around the darkness, there is no retreat. Therefore, when workers want to win, they must, like a powerful force, gather around the focus, yes, yes, yes! A simple physical form is maintained only by the cohesion of the particles; how much more powerful force coming from the revealed Hierarch! Therefore, those who wish to win must adhere tightly to the Shield that shelters them, to the Hierarchy, only in this way can one win. Only in this way is it possible to survive the phenomenon of turmoil in the formidable time of reorganization. Let's remember it!" (Hierarchy, § 111).

“After the election of the Lord and Guru, there can be no retreat, the path is only forward; and sooner or later, easily or difficultly, you will come to the Teacher. When the blacks surround you and close their circle, there will be only the way upward, to the Lord. Then you will feel that the Lord is not somewhere far away, but a silver thread above you, just reach out your hand! You can meet without the help of blacks, but more often only a besieged person reaches for a silver thread and only in trouble learns the language of the heart. One must feel the Lord and Guru in the heart!” (Hierarchy, § 112).

“Of all the principles leading to the expansion of consciousness, the principle of Hierarchy is the most powerful. Each apparent shift is created by the principle of the concept of Hierarchy. Where can the spirit go without the Guiding Hand? Where can the eye turn and the heart turn without Hierarchy? “…” Thus let us remember our spiritual Leaders. Thus let us honor the law of Hierarchy” (Agni Yoga, § 668).

Thus, from the hierarchical principle, or the guidance of the lower by the higher, it follows that we, as lower beings, are led by higher ones, but there are beings both Light and dark above us, and since each of us has a leader in his own consciousness, according to his own striving for good or evil, it is natural that one can have as one's leader either a representative of Light or a representative of darkness.

The free will of a person is the factor that decides the whole fate of a person, including the question of his leader. Human free will is considered inviolable. No one can be forced to follow the path of goodness and Light by force, but what are human thoughts, desires and aspirations, he attracts this kind of force to himself as his guide.

The Higher Light Forces guide us and protect us from the intrigues of the dark forces only as long as we are on the right path. With the deviation of a person towards evil, he loses the protection of the Light Forces and inevitably falls under the influence of the dark ones, who, considering him theirs, will protect him from any penetration of Truth and Light to him. “Whoever is not with Us is against Us,” Christ said (see Matt. 12:30). Who does not go to the Light, he goes into darkness. There are no other ways. Such is the law of the universe.

At the present time, when a decisive battle is taking place between the Light Ones and the Dark Ones, a battle in which the fate of our planet and all of humanity is being decided, everyone must give himself a clear account: where is he going, whom does he consider his leader, to whom does he wish victory? These frightening questions, one solution or another of which determines the fate of a person, cannot be deflected from oneself without solving them. It is necessary to treat them consciously. An unconscious attitude towards them is giving oneself into the power of the dark ones, for the Light Ones do not need the unconscious.

The subjugation of people and the mastery of them by dark forces takes place on the widest scale. As it has already been said, in order to carry their ideas into the world, the dark ones use the power of thought in the same way as the Light Forces. For intercourse with people, the dark ones use intermediaries. Between a person and a dark force in each case there are at least three mediators, so that, as one of the books of the Teaching says: “You don’t see black ones, but gray and almost white ones!” (Hierarchy, § 284).

The New Teaching, speaking in such detail and clearly about our enemies who want our death, facilitates the fight against them, for the awareness of the enemy is the first step towards overcoming him. But for a person, overcoming invisible enemies without a Teacher is an impossible task. Only the Teacher, who sees and knows them, can help a person in this difficult and unequal struggle. But for this you need to recognize the Teacher as your only fortress and protection, as your only intercessor and helper, because a person has many enemies, but he can have only one Teacher.

“They say -“ we love and honor ”, but they themselves remember only as about the former snow. Sleep is their master! But the hour is coming, and He will become life and food. As lightning cuts through the darkness, so will the Image of the Lord be bright. As a treasure they will keep every word from Above, for there will be no way out. And few who, knowing the Light, will be defiled by darkness. There is much darkness around, and there is only one way to the Lord. Remember the Lord!” (Hierarchy, § 113).

“No one comes to the Father, as soon as through Me” (i.e. Teachers. Approx. A. Klizovsky), Christ said (John, 14: 6). And “if there is only one path to the One Light through the Lord, then only extreme ignorance will allow the destruction of this only path,” says the new Teacher (Hierarchy, § 57). It's time to understand it. It is time to resolutely isolate ourselves from darkness and take the side of Light. “It is time to say to the Light: “I am going - your helper, and I will stretch out my hand to the sun itself” ”(Leaves of the Garden of Morya, vol. II, § 270).

Sands, bandages, chases and evil forces - all this can be seen enough in the new adventure blockbuster directed by Alex Kurtzman "The Mummy" produced by the Universal Pictures film company. It premiered in the Russian-speaking space on June 8, 85 years after the release of the original film and 18 years after its 1999 remake.

Starring Tom Cruise (Nick Morton), Sofia Boutella (Amanet), Annabelle Wallis (Jenny Halsey) and Russell Crowe (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde).

The main plot is as follows: Nick Morton, a special forces soldier in northern Iraq, goes on a treasure hunt and finds himself in a strange underground cave, where he finds a sarcophagus with the mummy of an Egyptian princess. Together with anthropologist Jenny Halsey and a group of soldiers, the find is sent to London by air. However, an incident occurs in the sky and the plane crashes, in which Nick and the mummy manage to survive.

By the way, this is the first time in the long history of films about mummies, when a woman plays a revived mummified evil, which gives the picture a sort of light feminist touch. The bottom line is that at one time fate treated Princess Amanet unfairly, and now, after five thousand years, she wakes up from sleep, gains freedom, and now nothing will prevent her from unleashing all her fury on humanity. It's hard to stop even whole army, since the resurrected mummy commands the elements and is well acquainted with magical rituals. Fortunately, there is a man who can compete with the angry daughter of the pharaoh. True, he does not immediately suspect about his destiny. A nasty surprise awaits Amanet in the form of an eccentric expert on the ancient world.

If we talk about filming, then the viewer is definitely waiting for a classic of the genre. To be honest, we are already spoiled by special effects and horror films of various kinds, so the walking dead running after the heroes, waving the remnants of the sleeves of their clothes, seemed a little funny to me. Which does not detract from the excellently filmed scenes in the air during the crash and underwater episodes. Good and apocalyptic footage. But at some point, an ironic thought nevertheless comes to mind: “This is what happens if you really annoy beautiful woman(even if she is a mummy)." And on the same topic, Nick’s phrase addressed to the princess sounds: “Sorry, we will never be together, and it’s not about me, but about you.” Nothing surprising - the young lady behaves rather peculiarly, in every possible way encroaching on her chosen one. True, her goal is to give him power over death. Well, how it ends, see the movie.

Pleased and sweetheart Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Hyde. In the film, he studies biochemistry, neurosurgery, is interested in infectious diseases and, among other things, is a lawyer. His remark sounded interesting: “If evil is pathogenic, then a cure must certainly be found.” It would be nice if this happened in our reality. In this scenario, the focus is on moral aspect struggle and coexistence of good and evil within a person. The same Henry at the end of the picture reasonably states: “Sometimes only another monster can defeat a monster.” But what will prevail inside the creature in the end - a man or a monster? This question is still open.

Moreover, Universal Pictures started a big project, in which, following Marvel, Walt Disney Pictures and Warner Brothers, they decided to create their own new cinematic universe - the Dark Universe ("Dark Universe"), which will be inhabited by various heroes, telling about such characters in subsequent films, like The Invisible Man, Dracula, Van Helsing, The Wolf Man, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Phantom of the Opera, Frankenstein, etc. Well, the Mummy was released first on the battlefield.

Well, the start is not bad, but the real interest is the continuation. At the end of the film, you want to know what will happen in the next series. And it looks quite successful and encouraging.

From the history of the film

Written by Jon Spaihts and Christopher McQuarrie. This reboot of The Mummy differs from the classic trilogy in its approach to mythology and the fact that the action takes place in the present day.

The film's slogan "Welcome to a new world of gods and monsters" is a quote from the film Bride of Frankenstein (1935), which was also produced by Universal Pictures. That film starred Boris Karloff, who played the role of Imhotep in the original The Mummy (1932). In addition, this phrase was used when they came up with the name for the film Gods and Monsters (1998), which starred Brendan Fraser, who, in turn, starred in The Mummy (1999).

Filming began on April 3, 2016 in Oxford and then partially filmed in Surrey, London. The production team later moved to Namibia, where they filmed the last scenes in two weeks and finished filming on August 13, 2016.

The weightless scene was filmed realistically, without the addition of computer graphics. It took 2 days and 64 takes. It all happened in France, not far from Bordeaux, in a real plane, which rose to a height of about 13 kilometers, and then the engines were turned off for 20 seconds to create a feeling of weightlessness. In these seconds, the shooting was carried out. Almost everyone, except Tom Cruise and Annabelle Wallis, was very sick at the same time, but the actors were very pleased that the scene was filmed live, without the use of computer graphics.

Tom Cruise was casting for the role of the protagonist of the 1999 film, but director Stephen Sommers preferred Brendan Fraser to him. And now, 18 years later, Cruise is still playing a major role, but in a reboot of the franchise.

This is not the first horror film featuring Tom Cruise. He previously starred in Interview with the Vampire (1994). However, this is the first collaboration between Tom Cruise and Russell Crown.

The mummy's appearance and gender were changed after the filmmakers saw the scene of the Apocalypse appearing after the credits of X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014).

Universal Studios at one time occupied a leading position in the horror genre. Beginning with the film Dracula (1931) and the next few decades, the studio was known for projects in this genre.

It remains to be added that the film "Mummy" can be viewed at the "Belarus" cinema until June 21 inclusive.

Irina DARINA

Who still rules this world? If God, then why in the prayer "Our Father" there is a line: "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven." Why is the devil called the prince of this world?

Priest Afanasy Gumerov, a resident of the Sretensky Monastery, answers:

In the sacred New Testament books, the word world is used in two meanings: 1. cosmological and 2. spiritual and moral.

1. The world of God, the cosmos created by the all-wise Creator, the whole universe. This world has its own laws and enduring beauty. He was meant by the Lord when he said: “Truly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world, it will be said, in her memory, and about what she did” (Mark 14:9). God loves this world so much that “he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life” (John 3:16). God is the Lord of heaven, earth and the underworld, i.e. the entire created world. The psalmist speaks of this: “If I ascend to heaven, You are there; if I go down to hell, and there you are. If I take the wings of the dawn and move to the edge of the sea, and there Your hand will lead me, and Your right hand will hold me ”(Ps. 139: 8-10).

2. The world is a part of humanity that has fallen away from God: “He [the Comforter], when he comes, will convict the world about sin and about righteousness and about judgment: about sin, that they do not believe in Me” (John 16: 8-9). The affairs of this world evil (John 7:7) and subject to judgment. According to St. Apostle "the whole world lies in evil" (1 John 5:19). That is why he says: “Love not the world, nor the things in the world; if anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him” (1 John 2:15). The world hates the disciples of Christ. The Savior calls them to courage: “In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer: I have overcome the world” (John 16:33).

The devil is called the prince of the world (John 14:30), ruler of the darkness of this world(Eph. 6:12) because he rules over the part of humanity that has fallen away from God. People who are far from spiritual life, even to a small extent, do not realize how much their deeds, thoughts and even feelings are guided by ruler of darkness and his servants. They are convinced of their "freedom" and really do not like to hear about it, considering it all far-fetched. However, this is open to the spiritual gaze of the saints. “Abba Anthony told about himself: I saw all the nets of the devil stretched out over the earth; seeing this, I sighed and said: woe to the human race! who can free himself from these networks? To this I was told: humility is saved from them and they cannot even touch it. otechnik). St. Macarius the Great writes: “God watches over him who, in the jungle of this world, in any case, beware of snares and snares, who with fear and trembling works out his salvation(Phil. 2, 11), with all diligence bypasses the snares, snares and lusts of this world, seeks the Lord's help and, by the mercy of the Lord, hopes to be saved by grace ”(Spiritual Conversations. Conversation 4.5).

The words Thy will be done, as in heaven and on earth- a prayer request. We pray to the Heavenly Father to enable us to fulfill His holy will on earth. Tertullian explains: “We cry out that Thy will be done, not because anyone could interfere with the will of God, but we pray that His will be done in all of us.<...>So that we can fulfill this, we need the will of God (in favor and help).

These are not empty words. The devil really rules the world. He has put his paws on the entire globe. And he rules on Earth not directly, but through his proteges - the highest state and political figures, financiers, diplomats, military men. Witches and sorcerers render him an invaluable service.

Now the reign of the devil is visible. The impure ones control all social life on Earth: drug addiction, prostitution, the arms trade. Everything they have is aimed at destroying the family as the basis of society. Now in funds mass media there is propaganda of homosexuality, drug addiction, lesbianism. The representatives of these minorities are the heroes of our time.

The devil controls discipline in the fourth dimension

The word of the devil is the law for the whole world of the unclean (and now for our world). To ensure that these laws are strictly observed, the position of the Prosecutor General has been established. They have a chief judge, but I have not met with him yet. They don't have prisons. If the devil or demon violates the laws in some way, then they are skinned alive, and high-ranking figures are exiled to Solovki (they have such people like ours).

Do the unclean have their own God?

I once asked Elizadra about this. And she answered me that God is the same for them and for us, but the kings are different. And the devil is our king. And when I killed the thirteenth Satan, he shouted to me that I could not defeat him, he would rise from the ashes like a Phoenix. Still rising. The 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th Satan also flew. We have to constantly fight with these animals. In fact, they are very intelligent beings. You can discuss any topic with them. But they are very arrogant; obligatory inherent quality is arrogance. But it is worth taking care of them, as they immediately become so cute. Let go - again rude.

By what laws do the unclean live?

They live according to the laws of our society: they get married, quarrel, make peace. The unclean, like people, know how to betray. Someone was bypassed by title, position, someone offended someone ... The main task of evil spirits is to shake the faith and morality of people, to force them to serve the devil.

Do the unclean have their own army?

Yes there is. The demons have regiments and legions, there is also a demonic guard. Only thirteen demonic guards regiments. They pick up demons from 3.05 m to 3.20 m tall. The strongest regiment is number 13. At the head of each regiment is a demon colonel.

In addition, there are six demonic guard legions. The growth of demons in them is from 3.25 m to 3.4 m. The strongest is the sixth legion. At the head of each legion is an imp-general. The number of the demonic regiment is 1000 demons, and the legion consists of 666 demons.

They even have awards and distinctions. They can be promoted in rank and position, given a title. The more harm they do to people, the more generously they are rewarded. The main reward for demons is wings, which the devil rewards them with. But such awards are very rare. There are also badges of distinction. The most important order is the "Skull with bones" of three degrees. "Skull with bones" of the first degree is made of pure gold. And for special merits, the devil rewards his wards with a six-pointed diamond star.

Why the unclean army?

To fulfill the tasks of the devil, to protect high-ranking evil spirits. At the direction of the devil, his subordinates arrange natural disasters, destroy people.

Do the unclean have a governing body?

They have a government run by Satan. This government includes thirteen demon ministers. In addition, there are thirteen demonic advisers in various directions.

There are no idly staggering demons now. Each is registered in his own department. For example, there is an agency dedicated to pushing people to commit suicide; an agency trying to send people to jail; an agency that gives people heart attacks and strokes, failures, etc.

How do impure people control people on Earth?

First, they are recruiting people who can take big leadership positions in the future. They conclude an agreement with them that a person sells his soul in exchange for something that will fulfill their instructions. In response to this, evil spirits promote such people through the ranks.

Secondly, they drive demons into people, simply put, they zombify. It is these people who carry out the will of the unclean on earth.

Thirdly, they can physically destroy a person, inflict various serious illnesses on him or make him an alcoholic.

How strong is the power of the devil on Earth?

People simply do not know how strong the power of the devil is on Earth. The gospel says this:

“And entering the house, they saw the Child with Mary, His Mother, and fell down and worshiped Him; and having opened their treasures, they brought him gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

And having received a revelation in a dream not to return to Herod, they departed by another way to their own country.

When they departed, behold, the Angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph and said: Arise, take the Child and his Mother, and flee to Egypt, and be there until I tell you; for Herod wants to seek the Child in order to destroy him.

He got up, took the Child and His mother by night, and went into Egypt” (Matthew 2:11-14).

At one time, Elizadra (the devil's wife) told me that she made every effort to ensure that my books were not printed, because she knew what threatens the unclean. But my books are published and, I hope, help many people to learn about the world of evil and teach to resist it.

In my life, I repeatedly had to meet with Beelzebub, Satan, Lucifer, Asmodeus, Belial, Elizaddra, and I had to meet with the devil himself.

About meeting with Satan

I'll tell you about the meeting with Satan. I first met the thirteenth Satan in 1992. Before getting to Satan, I had to meet the demon Vaska.

One sick woman came to me, from which this demon spoke - the head of satanic intelligence and counterintelligence, this is a very big position. At that time, I knew almost nothing about the world of the unclean. He told many interesting things. In particular, that they had long known about me, that I would be treating, they also knew approximately even the place of residence. They looked for me among the faithful, among the priests, among the monks - they did not find me. I didn't even go to church until I was 33. I have only been involved in herbs since childhood. And when my grandmother told me about witches and sorcerers, I did not believe; considered what witches and sorcerers could be in the twentieth century. It turned out everything was true.

Fairy tales, tales, legends carry a lot of information about another world unknown to us. Extraterrestrial civilizations live in parallel with us, side by side, but we only believe in them according to myths and legends. I decided to prove the existence of another world that exists in parallel with ours in practice.

I had interesting conversations with Satan. He told me such things that at first I did not believe him. For example, that Karl Marx was a Satanist and dedicated poetry to Satan. Now I have found these facts in books.

Satan then told me that the socialist ideas were thrown to Marx, they are impure, so that he would develop them and put them into practice.

Satan also told me about Lenin. When Volodya Ulyanov was eighteen years old, the unclean ones instilled in him a demon - not strong, but very smart. Basically, the devil dictated to Lenin ideas about society and writing books. When Lenin completed his task, the unclean removed him, and Stalin was put in his place.

The devil told me that Stalin was his own son. I recently read that Stalin had webbed feet, which is a sure sign that he was born from an unclean one. That is why Satan put him at the head of the Soviet state, which occupied 1¤6 of the land.

A few years ago, the notes of Lenin's attending physician became public, from which it is known that before his death, wild cries and screams escaped from Lenin. Doctors could not determine what it was connected with. In fact, it was the demon who expressed his joy in this way.

What the unclean ones said

I have already said that at the very beginning of my healing journey, I had to clash with the demon Vaska, who sat in one young woman. This damage was done to her by her mother-in-law on the second day after the wedding, feeding her pies from mice. This woman could not walk. When the patient was brought to me for an appointment in her arms, a voice came out of her: "Well, that's it, I'm finished." Thus spoke the demon Vaska. It was his spirit, and the demon's body was in the fourth dimension.

I had not only a fight with him, sometimes we also had discussions. Vaska had a fast-moving career; at the age of 536 (according to the time of the fourth dimension), he took a high post. He told me: “Sanek, I am a full general. I have six shoulder straps on each shoulder and six skulls on each shoulder strap. After all, in my life I sent about 500 human souls to the next world. In which I just did not sit in my life. During the war years, he served as a German lieutenant. Do you know how many people we shot with him?! And after the war, his wife Elsa, who was a witch, and I quickly sent him to his ancestors. The last time I sat in a woman who lived in Smolensk region. I removed her literally in a year, she loved to drink very much. According to Vaska, he was especially fond of Russians, because they drink a lot of vodka and swear a lot.

Often Vaska said: "I am a noble demon." And again: “You know, Sashka, if there were no evil, you people would not be able to appreciate the good. And we are evil for you.” And in fact, when there is some kind of comparison, when there is evil, then you can appreciate the good.

He also said that there are places on Earth - cursed for the unclean, but holy for people. In these places, one can be treated and protected from the unclean (meaning monasteries, miraculous icons, holy lakes and reservoirs).

I remember how at the beginning of March 1992 I arrived from the Pochaev Monastery. At the meeting, my wife said that she could not sleep all night: in the dark, something in the form of a piece of jelly hit the window and crawled along the glass (and I have protection in the windows - special knives, thanks to which the unclean cannot get it).

Vaska said that it was Satan's second cousin who came (he is a homosexual, he used to be in Grishka Rasputin). I went to look at the windows and saw traces of huge hooves under the windows in the flower garden. Think for yourself which animals can walk under the windows at night, especially in the city.

When Vaska was finished, the daughters of Satan, Fenka and Sonya, spoke from the sick woman. Dealt with them quickly. Satan himself entered the arena. In order to finish him off faster (and I already had some experience), I had to take this patient to Pochaev three times. It was impossible to bring her to the relics of St. Job. The woman resisted, screamed and growled. When the monk, who was near the relics, said: “Go away, demon, to the outlines, to the swamps,” Satan growled from the patient: “My place is on the throne.”