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Chapter from
the book Classics of Spiritual Philosophy and
the Present (ed. Dr.Vladimir Antonov)
Revelations
from the Divine Teachers
Written down by Anna Zubkova, Mikhail Nikolenko, Maria Shtil,
Larisa
Vavulina, Svetlana Eremina, Vladimir Antonov
Translated by Dr.Mikhail Nikolenko
During the millennia of existence of human civilizations on the
Earth, many spiritual seekers aspiring to our Creator and following His
Teaching, achieved complete success on this Path.
They became Divine and merged with Him. And now, being Parts of
the One Universal God-the-Father, They help us — incarnate people who have not
finished the personal evolution yet.
This section presents conversations with such Teachers, which
can be useful from the standpoint of the methodology of spiritual development.
Contents
A part of pine forest with plenty of mushrooms is located in the midst of dense damp fir-greens. We find ourselves inside a giant Divine Spiritual Heart towered by the top of the hemisphere above the forest. But if to look deeper, It comes from the Infinity of the Abode of the Primordial!
One more Divine Teacher — a Representative of the Creator! We put off backpacks, sit on old fallen trunks of trees and take a rest a bit. We ask Him to recount about Himself.
“My last name on the Earth was Bartholomew. I was a Greek philosopher and cognized God-the-Father. I lived in Greece in 11-12 centuries A.D. Although I lived in Greece, I was a Catholic. I went through the entire work of the Catholic Church, but I cognized God because I came directly to Jesus. And Jesus directly began helping Me and got to Himself.
“Jesus shows the way to God-the-Father. Although hope for Jesus is as adequate as hope for Love of any Other Divine Teachers known to you.
“I know everything about each of you: in former years I watched your activities.”
“Tell about Yourself, Bartholomew, if possible.”
“Well… Let people know how through love to Jesus it is possible to cognize the Father.
“… I was born in a family of sincere and deeply pious people. I was named in honor of Saint Bartholomew, and the great significance was attached to this, which was connected in My childish perception with the destinies of Apostles, direct disciples of Jesus.
“I grew in a small Christian community. People of this community considered themselves as keepers of the traditions of the first Christians to whom the Gospel, the Teaching of Jesus, was preached by Philip and Bartholomew during Their apostolic service in Greece.
“In Greece, Egypt, and Syria during centuries there were schools and communities which tried to save the true Christianity.
“Realize that when the Teaching of Jesus got to the field of those who read and studied Plato and Aristotle or to savage customs and doctrines then the results were different. In some cases love, veneration for the Highest Truths, and hesychia were developed; in the opposite cases — crusades and the Inquisition…
“The latter, unfortunately, is more known to people…
“But those who studied philosophy before, i.e. people inherited the culture of ancient Greece, could not become crusaders or support the Inquisition.
“On the ruins of the antique spirituality the Teaching of Jesus gave those sprouts about which not many people know.
“Those traditions of Hesychasm which were developed in Christianity in small communities and monasteries remained after separation of two branches: eastern and western: Orthodoxy and Catholicism. But the memory about this in the history of the Catholic Church was almost obliterated. These are white sheets but not because nothing was written on them, but because it was washed, forgotten…
“I will try to narrate about this a bit…”
“Were You a monk?”
“No, a philosopher… I sought the Truth, I sought God. I studied both: the ancient philosophy and Christianity; I sought God by a mind first.
“When I realized that the Truth is not hostility and disagreements of movements but love, then Jesus began opening Me Himself. On this stage My “external” life was finished and the inner life began. The life of consciousness, striving by love for Jesus, began. The life of an “opened heart”, which converses with God directly, came…
“I did not know meditative techniques and methods except the cordial prayer the traditions of which are left alive in the community. Just unspeakable love overfilled the heart when Jesus came into it! This Revelation of the True Love at the silence of mind is great, splendid, and tremendous! A human heart extends to such a degree that it takes in the Lord!... To live like this is a great bliss!
“In that way I cognized Him. The Heart which became such that Jesus lives in It all the time approaches God directly. It was My life with Him. He came, and this became the most important; this became the only thing that was significant in My life! The questions which tormented Me before were no longer relevant; only the Heart of Jesus, which extended more and more in My heart, remained.
“My life became simple; only Jesus remained in it…, and then He took Me to Himself, to the Father…
“Lead people into Me! I will give them Myself, I will give them the opportunity to turn into great, flooded in Calm spiritual hearts! This is — the main thing! This is the base of true spiritual work.
“As a sky-scraper which has solid foundation reaches the clouds, in the same way a soul can reach unimaginable summits if in its base it has unshakable Love and Calm.
“Your task is to inflame hearts of people!
“It will be possible to say that you win a victory when your books at the international level are considered as classics of philosophical and religious thoughts and extracts be included in educational programs.
“The main thing is to teach people to love. In order to develop a spiritual heart it is necessary to fill it with love to everything living. Only in that way it is possible to transform the world on the Earth.
“And you can manage it! We all are ‘at your service’ in this business.
“… I repeat the eternal truths just in different variations. But using which words is it possible to tell what the Eternity and Infinity is? One can only cognize this by himself. This is My Existence, and it will never end! I am Love!
“And one more: always remember that in this world nothing but your love to Me belongs to you! This is your treasure, and it is yours by right! All your riches are — your love! Nobody ever will be able to take it away from you! It is impossible to steal, to take love by force; it can not be sold and inherited. One only can give love — sincerely and gratis!
“Love has an amazing characteristic: the more you give it, give to others, the more of it you have.
“But love is a ‘free bird’: it lives and grows on freedom. Such human notions as ‘I want’ and ‘my’ are opposite to love, because they constrain its freedom. All attempts to appropriate love are doomed to be failed. One can only accept it with gratitude, carefully and gently, as a great gift of the one who gives it.
“Love enters only one gates — the spiritual heart opened towards! And then the reciprocal wave of love arises in it, streaming outside. In that way love lives and grows.”
We are again on the former Finnish lands occupied by Russians during World War II. The Soviet troops — at the price of heavy casualties — manage to force out from here all incarnate Finish people. But Finish Divine Teachers, who worked here, remained and continue Their Work among people.
No, They do not revenge on Russians. The Perfect do not have such a quality as revengefulness. And moreover, God does not divide people by national characteristic. He is “international” and “interconfessional” in contrast to undeveloped people… But He forms destinies depending on the deeds performed by incarnate people… Those who committed serious crimes here and everywhere cannot reckon on favorable destiny unless they repent sincerely…
… Here there is firry-piny-birch forest with hills, gullies, and brooks… Two Divine Teachers are with us. Both — in Their past — are Scandinavian Lutheran pastors. We have known Them for years…
How did Their earthly names sound? One of Them is Pastor Larry in His last Swedish incarnation. Another One did not tell us His name; He only said that His Finish name is too difficult for us to perceive. Therefore, He suggested that we call Him Freddy as His American friends called Him in His earthly life.
They want to speak with us at first not separately but together, because Their destinies are very similar.
We ask:
“Tell us, please, how were You able to cognize the Creator and obtain the completeness of the Perfection?”
“We All were incarnated in this region not only once. Here was the exceptionally favorable environment for the attainment of the Perfection and not only from the standpoint of natural energy and landscapes…
“It was very important that a Lutheran priest-pastor was not separated from people. A pastor and his flock lived like one family. The community solved the common everyday economic affairs by united efforts. And always a pastor was the main figure in these affairs. This ennobled people, and a pastor by himself got priceless everyday experience of studying psychology of people who move to the common spiritual Goal. It was indeed his personal experience of cognition of human souls: to whom give spiritual knowledge, what everyone could or could not understand.
“Besides, Scandinavia is the land of lakes! One shore, another shore, water, boats… Life was such there! Moss-grown forests with berries and mushrooms, hares and squirrels… Measured life and natural economy. I wish this for you!
“What was the advantage of our pastors over Russian Orthodox ones? Including, it consisted in complete absence of drunkenness and in the natural communal life among forests and lakes…
“Here are, for example, boatmen at work. Without troubles and worries, without drunkenness and profanity, on the background of positive emotions all the life went on in nature. And this is very important! And a sermon pervaded all the life! We repeat: pastors were not separated from people, but they were all time in the common companionship. What was the difference of a pastor comparing with others? Why did this particular man become a pastor? Because he was chosen and sent to learn by the community. It was the man deliberately recognized by the community, who had been hold in respect even before he got the rank of a pastor.
“At the same time, there was minimum of rites. However, for meditative attunement to the Father and His Son Jesus Christ — indeed for this — a grand divine service took place. And each divine service was a celebration!”
“But what did you eat? Lakes, boats which you built… Does it mean that You were fishermen? And it is not known to us that present Lutheranism preaches the refusal of eating fish and meat…”
“Of course, none of Us did eat ‘slaughtered’ food.
“The concepts of ethically right nutrition, which were called usually Puritanism, originated not now. They existed long before the incarnation of Jesus Christ.
“But at the same time, none of Us ever forced anybody to this: every member of the community chose by himself what to eat. And We never regarded the fish based nutrition as a sin for people.
“We explained to others that a pastor should eat pure food, otherwise he would not be able to hear the voice of God. Some understood that this should be applied only to us, pastors, and respected. Others followed the example.”
“What kind of spiritual trainings did You use? Because without special multi-stage meditative practices it is impossible to cognize the Creator and become Him. Did You have incarnate Divine Teachers? Or did each of You rely personally only on help and spiritual guidance of God?”
“You do know this: We all were guided by Odin, like you are now.”
“But nevertheless, was there a succession through incarnate Divine Teachers?”
“Not everyone had it. But Odin helped all exhaustively.
“And concerning the techniques of meditation: it is possible to master very easily the whole highest buddhi yoga here, on this Holy Hill where you are now...”
“How do You evaluate the Lutheran Church which is in Finland now?”
“The conceptions of Christianity underlay exotericism of the Lutheran Church. And in the past it blended perfectly with that esotericism which was on the Finish land long before the coming of Christianity.
“‘Crusades’ were, of course, destructive. But in contrast to Russia, where all the good which existed before was destroyed completely by the Inquisition, in Finland some things remained.
“Lutheranism is one of healthiest, ‘democratic’ movements in Christianity. It does not consider the priesthood as the highest ruling caste. The thesis about ‘excuse solely by faith’ was proposed by Luther, i.e. the idea that a church is indispensable mediator between God and man was refused.
“And such sound Christianity combined very harmonically with those esoteric knowledge which was on the Finish land from the earliest times.”
“But is there in present Finland memory about this knowledge?”
“That church is full value which has not only exoteric external forms, but also true esoteric knowledge.
“However, you know how it is difficult to find man who is able to encompass both… Of course, the chain of the transmission of knowledge breaks sometimes…
“We were Those Who had esoteric knowledge.
“Official Lutheranism which exists now in Scandinavia is in general good, but the esoteric knowledge almost disappeared in it…”
… Then the conversation was continued by Freddy.
Freddy:
“Scandinavia! Lakes, rocks, fjords, giant firs… — subtle beauty of nature of the North! Here silent, strong, sturdy people lived.
“Here it is not possible to live a careless, lazy, and idle life. Such a life was considered as shameful, and it was difficult to find man who tried to live like this. And moreover, he usually became better quickly feeling the isolation from all others.”
“How did You cognize the mergence with the Father being a Lutheran pastor?”
“Through service to God I achieved the Divinity.
“And I had a wise tutor.”
“Did he teach You meditations?”
“No, he taught Me the most important — to live according to the laws of God.
“A true pastor lives taking care of his flock. And he not only explains the laws of God, but he lives according to them — according to the laws of love and kindness — teaching people by his own example.
“He helps souls unite with God and never stands between God and man.
“… And I also want to recount you about such everyday life with God which does not become ordinariness, which does not turn into the routine of ‘rules’ and rites.
“Yes, the strength of emotional contact with the Divine Consciousness is great! But I want to speak not about these moments of spiritual ecstasies, but about that life of people in which it is necessary to repair a damaged roof and boats, grow and reap a harvest, during our short northern summers, store up firewood for winter…
“It was a pastor who assumed care that people — at everyday labor — saved and cultivated love to God! And He helped to maintain the fire of that love, which burned as a candle burns, in every heart. The pastor kindled such candles in souls and watched that they did not become dim.
“His sermon was concrete. He chose for conversations those themes which were important just now.
“The lives of all, their hopes and thoughts, were plainly visible to him. And the pastor endeavored to do such that everyone with his, pastor’s, help learned to perceive oneself always on the palm of God, that all people knew that God knows all their thoughts, hopes, and acts.
“The pastor taught to live in openness, nakedness of the soul in front of God, Who is not a severe judge who will punish for sure after death, but Who is the kind Great Father Who is always near, always ready to help in life, and will not leave at death.
“It is Lutheran Church that through removing a priest as a ‘mediator’ between man and God, made God real and close for every man! A pastor was just an assistant and spiritual adviser, but not a mediator.
“A pastor also united separated families into one whole family of people living with God.
“… Divine services in the communities were always celebrations which gathered all and allowed people to feel commonness, oneness of all in front of the Heavenly Father.
“And a pastor every time during divine services tried to fill oneself with the Holy Spirit in order to be as full-fledged conductor of the Truth of God as possible. In that way, gradually the Mergence became stronger…
“… The natural life in work and in unity with nature helped Me greatly in cognition of the Father.
“It is known to you how beautiful and tender the northern nature is! It does not have splendor and bright colors of south, but instead it allows one to feel the subtlety and purity, to fill oneself with silence and transparency!
“In My opinion, it is the best of all to experience and cognize God in such transparent silence!
“I grew up among firs, pines, and birches in the same way as you did. And I loved nature very much in that region where I was incarnated.
“But I also sought the highest predestination, the highest meaning of existence of everything. The luck of complete knowledge about the Highest burdened Me…
“And although the New Testament revealed Me a lot, it did not give Me complete satisfaction, because it did not give the exhaustive information about the most important: about the meaning of our earthly lives and about where and how to find the Creator.
“In that time I accepted the title of pastor mostly because of desire to help others, to support them in life, inspiring them with self-belief, with belief in their strength, advising to be strong, not step back in front of difficulties.
“ … I grew up rooting gradually in the purity and calm, flooding by the consciousness and attuning to the purity and calm of forests and lakes… And after some time, this lucid, wide state became usual, natural for Me.
“The aspiration to God helped Me advance further. I aspired to Him and often felt the touch of something that brought amazing tenderness… In that way the conscious contact of the soul with Him became possible for Me…
“Before this I believed in His Existence sincerely. But now I understood that I could really experience His presence in My life. This gave Me enormous joy, new strength to advance further!
“I began aspiring to be in constant contact with Him in the depth of My spiritual heart which ‘flooded’ at landscapes.
“After years of such trainings, I leaned to live in the constant Mergence with Him.
“Afterward, from the state of Unity with Him I began looking by His eyes at people, at life situations in which I was engaged.
“During many years of the Mergence with Him, I got accustomed to this to such a degree that could not think about Myself as about a separated from Him being.
“And when the life of My physical body came to the end, I just flowed into Him completely and forever.”
“What do You consider the most important for those going to You?”
“Individual ‘I’ cannot become Me! It has to dissolve, disappear!
“One has to dissolve the boundary between oneself — as a separate ‘I’ — and Me.”
Pastor Larry:
“I incarnated in Scandinavia for several times. I love northern lands! Transparency, purity, and strictness of northern nature create particular unique harmony of beauty!
“I went to God gradually: step by step, incarnation by incarnation, developing Myself as a consciousness, transforming Myself into Love. The conditions of the north teach people to be strong, firm, and courageous, to help each other.
“In the last incarnation I was a Lutheran pastor in a small village in the north-eastern part of Sweden. It consisted of several houses located in a valley of a river. And around there was a forest consisted manly of high firs with garlands of cones. Squirrels, hares, bears, foxes inhabited it in numbers.
“Measured life with nature helped perceive calm, accustomed to the silence of mind, to the submersion into the inner quietness.
“In this small village I was not only a sole spiritual teacher, but also a sole well-educated person. I loved very much these frank, honest people and assumed all the care about them. I was a teacher and doctor. I taught children to read and write, healed diseases knowing many medicinal herbs, and handled the delivery. People asked Me for advice and support; they trusted Me…
“It was the state of a soul giving itself to others and wishing nothing for itself. I gave Myself, My love to these people and taught them to appeal to God in every moment of day-to-day life.
“At the same time, I stayed one by one with God, because I could not rely on somebody else except Him.”
“Tell us, please, about Your meditative experience…”
“Odin taught Me to meditate through mergence of the consciousness with surrounding nature and dissolving in it. And through this, I gradually submerged Myself into the depths of the multidimensional universe. There, in the Primordial Depth, I cognized the Father: the Purest and most Tender Living Endless Light of the Primordial Consciousness.
“And afterward, as soon as I became mature in His Abode, I learned to be this Light and come, being It, to people.
“In that way, mergence with the Father rose up to the moment when I stopped to exist as a separate being.”
Divine Finn
“I lived here, on the Finish land, long before the Lutheran Church originated …”
… He is showing the beauty of northern nature of that time:
Here there is a settlement near a lake. Flocks of geese and swans come down on water, float, reflecting in its calm surface… Finish girls are on the shore… Their eyes are lucid; their braids are bright… Quiet, measured, and harmonic life… He is showing Himself: bright curly hair, blue eyes, tall, broad-shouldered, with strong and gentle arms He is raising a happy child, a svelte beautiful wife is rejoicing together with them…
“I was born and lived in love. I was provided with great strength and radiated quiet joy. Such I came to that life.
“I built houses. Work always went well in My small team. I was in a way a hero for people around. It was considered that I built houses in which happiness and luck settled, that prosperity and joy would be in such a house, and children would be born strong and sturdy. I was called to build in the neighborhood and far away… I lived in love-joy, and people longed for Me…
“But once everything changed. People wearing iron clothes, with spears, swords, and… crosses came to our land.
“Our people did not have army; we did not have warriors as well… Among others My wife and children as well as all My natives were killed…
“I was not killed, but taken captive and led to slavery in that region where people speak another language…
“I managed to escape, releasing many others. We went far away in forests, but a chase, nevertheless, caught us. Almost everyone was killed: no one who put up resistance was left alive.
“The great strength contained in My body allowed Me to survive in spite of severe wounds…
“… A Great Teacher, Who lived secludedly on an island of a large lake, picked Me up. He had been healing Me for a long time…
“He was a follower of the Teaching of Odin; He was one of the successors of knowledge about the Greatest One. He was old and dreamed of leaving a successor who would be able to comprehend what was revealed to Him.
“It was difficult for Him with Me… I did not want to listen about love and God; tears came from my eyes when I recalled about what I saw… I was ready to go and to die in order to release My people…
“But He promised to teach Me great power and tell how to help people.
“He spoke also that it is permissible to teach how to possess great power only that one who became great love…
“… And I began learning from Him, learning of great love…
“… Before this I experienced Myself as the one who loved our mother-Earth. I loved its forests and lakes, expanses and tender beauty.
“But now the Great Teacher taught Me to love anew: not perceiving Myself as a material body anymore. Now I rose by the expanded consciousness above the surface of the Earth and experienced My new hands, having great power — the power of tender love. I also learned to submerge by this new body of the consciousness into the Light of the consciousness of the mother-Earth…
“The Great Teacher told Me about the One, about His laws, about the meaning of human life, about how the One helps people through Those Who became One with Him…
“And He led Me to the One.
“I cognized now that God is Happiness, Joy, Love!
“I realized that God indeed one and only one for all people…
“My Great Teacher, having passed Me His knowledge, fulfilled by this the last work of His earthly life and went into the One, detaching easily the last fibers of the Consciousness from the body…
“And I became a Teacher on the Finish land.
“Old people, children, youth came to Me. As if the pictures of My stories became alive… I spoke about what man should be, spoke about Universal God ― the Father of all existing, and spoke about His Great Love.
“I also gathered and taught those few who were able to cognize more…
“… Afterward I became One of Those Who supported from the non-incarnate state the ideas of Reformation of church ― the wave of Lutheranism. Indeed this faith became, in contrast to the first wave of the perverted Christianity implanted violently by conquerors, the light road for growth of souls on the Finish land.”
… Divine Finn is embracing us by Himself. His distinctive feature is shining and flowing joy of Divine Love! The Flow of His Divine Power is taking us and lifting above the Earth. The consciousnesses are expanding over a winter forest in Mergence with His Purity and Joy. His gentle and strong arms are caressing and inviting to the Depths…
John the Baptist
We were invited on a certain date to the forest place of power of Danish Lady.
It is the morning. Having come, we do not recognize Her… And Her face was not seen, and the energy was Divine but different, not as She has…
Only after some time, we, having understood, begin laughing together with Her… It turned out that Divine John combined with Her by the Consciousness!
“John, we waited for meeting with You! Tell, please, about Yourself. When You were incarnate at the time of Jesus, were You Divine already as now?”
“Not exactly.
“I was quite big by the size and strength consciousness, when proclaimed to Israeli about the advent of Christ. I was a prophet as well: I could experience and hear God. But I could not say about Myself as Jesus did: ‘I and the Father are One.’”
“Afterward I was incarnated in Australia, and was an owner and captain of a merchant sailing ship…”
… John is showing the sea … and a sailing ship…
“You ask how did I develop Myself further? — I ‘blew up sails’…
“It was very appositely on the Path of My further spiritual growth to learn to ‘catch the wind’ by the sails…
“At the beginning I did this operating the sails of My ship. And afterward in meditations I became ‘a sail’ by Myself, creating it of Myself. And I was the ‘wind’ as well which blew up the sails…
“Do you remember how you learned Pranava — Mergence with the Flow of the Holy Spirit, combining this with the meditation ‘Sail’?
“In the same way I merged with Pranava: at the beginning with the horizontal Flow above the surface of the sea or land. Afterward I did it at an angle, from the subtler eon, and then I did the same almost vertically.
“In that way I became the Flow coming from the Abode of the Creator.
“And afterward when I left the body forever, the Creator took Me into Himself…
“Briefly, such My path was. And now I continue My work from the non-incarnate state mostly in Australia and Oceania. This is My area. Now a lot of promising souls are incarnated and growing there.
“Now you know everything about Me.”
“So, was it You Who taught us Pranava somewhen?”
“No, it was not Me. But these methods are standard. They are the elements of the ‘obligatory program’…”
“John, do you want to tell something to the incarnate people through us?”
“Yes.
“I see the true Christianity in you; that Christianity which corresponds with the Teaching of Jesus Christ given by Him then and also to His opinion now.
“But why the faces of many other people become gloomy when they hear the name Jesus. It should be changed! Jesus is neither an icon nor a statuette! He is Living Divine Joy!
“I cannot look at pursed lips, cold eyes, and austere faces of parishioners in temples! It is painful for Me when with the name Jesus people kill, burn, beat, when, shielding by this holy name, they defile the sexual love in which people can give one another the highest manifestations of tenderness…
“They say: ‘God suffered, and you must suffer!’ No! God is not suffering! God is love! Joy and bliss are His Essence! And you should create exultation of love and joy inside yourself! When pronouncing the name Jesus, joyful and tender calm should fill your hearts!
“Jesus does not visit these churches where there are gloomy faces and lackluster eyes. He is only with those in whose hearts the light of love kindles when His name is pronounced.”
Apostle Matthew
We are in the forest of remarkably tall and slender firs,
birches, and aspens. Everywhere around hazel hens are singing joyfully. They
want to talk to us, regarding us as their guests.
We are enjoying the forest sattva!
In summer here, in the contrast to the surrounding forest, one can gather many chanterelles. But now it is winter, December. Nevertheless, without much effort we gathered many mushrooms. At this time of year, it is not chanterelles but oyster mushrooms that grow here. Oyster mushrooms usually grow on the alder tree. But there are no alder trees here, so they have grown on birches…
… However, we have come not to the hazel hens and not for gathering mushrooms. Here the Divine Teachers — apostles John and Mark — are waiting for us. And for the first time, apostle Matthew is also present. We even did not know that He also lives in the Abode of the Father! All They, together with Divine Finn, Ushastick, and Dobrynia closely stay here around one of the favorite places of Jesus Christ — His place of Samadhi.
Jesus here, as well as on other His places of power known to us, is always present and available for conversation. The unique feature of this particular place of His is that here He helps one to activate not only the spiritual heart, but also the front meridian. This meridian plays a very important role in the functioning of the emotional sphere and allows one to experience fully the Divine Bliss. Here Jesus also helps the worthy students to substitute all energies in their bodies with His Bliss…
Jesus speaks about the Bliss which one cognizes on this place thus:
“Such am I. Such is every One of Us — Those Who entered the Creator completely and became His Integral Parts.
“Bring here, to Me, everyone whom I entrust to you!”
… Then Jesus switched our attention to His Disciple — apostle Matthew.
“… How did You attain the Father, Matthew?”
“It happened not in the incarnation which is known to you.
“After it I was incarnated in England and sailed the seas. I loved the Ocean of the Creator, embraced It with Myself; as a consciousness I submerged into It together with the head — and became It.
“Jesus helped Me. He led Me into Himself. Since the time when He accepted Me as His student, He has always been with Me.”
“What do You do now?”
“I give silence, wipe tears of those who want to cognize Me, but are not capable of doing this yet… I submerge those who are mature into Myself, caress them in Myself… And I help to remember about Me those who are walking the Path to Me…
“… Formerly, for a long time I had been seeking promising souls on the seas around the British Isles, but everything was in vain. I carried the youth on My Hands, thought about them as of sea cadets of Jesus Christ. I called them so and gave to understand that this name is bestowed upon them. And some of them did understand this… But having grown up, they became completely absorbed in the material plane. And that — remained in their minds just as a childish game!…
“This is why now I am with you.”
“What would You advise us, Matthew?”
“The spiritual situation on the Earth is very lamentable! People do not know and do not want to know what God is and where to seek Him… This must be changed!…”
“Was Your Gospel distorted?”
“No, it was not. Only some words can be translated better.”
“Could You tell about Your incarnation at the time when Jesus Christ was on the Earth?”
“I prefer that you perceive Me as the One sailing the seas, loving the earthly oceans and the unearthly Ocean. I like this image more!”
“When were You incarnated in England?”
“In the twelfth and seventeenth centuries…”
“Were You incarnated two times?”
“No, only one.”
“?”
“This is a joke! I had a wife. As the captain of the ship, I could take her with Me on journeys.
“Later, she, too, attained Me in the Abode of the Creator!
“In the next incarnation in the seventeenth century, she was a hefty man. He also sailed. And He did everything as I told her: repeated Me, repeated My Path completely.
“When she was My wife, her name was Clara. And the next time…”
… He came to us to show that appearance of His: a broad-shouldered man with a beautiful muscular body, a face radiating joy, and very gentle charm…
“You were acquainted with Him, although did not converse at that time. It was to the northwest of this place several years ago…
“He began as a sea cadet. He was the only sea cadet of Jesus Christ who dedicated Himself to Me completely — and cognized Me!”
“I, Mark, greet you! With all My heart — I am with you! And with
My hands I help you to carry the load which you shouldered.”
“Mark, You have told us that You, like Mathew, after living on
the Earth at the time of Jesus, was incarnated again — in England. Tell us,
please, who were You when You came to that incarnation? And how did You cognize
the Creator?”
“I had no memory about the past incarnation in the mind. Yet,
there is also the memory of the soul, consciousness. Born in England at the time
of domination of Catholicism, I felt Myself a caged bird. The soul, which has
touched the Great One, cannot be accustomed to living in a cage, even in a very
comfortable one!
“Imagine: the name of Jesus would cause rejoicing in My heart,
while the church — repulsion in the soul! I had no possibility even to read the
Gospel which I wrote in My past incarnation…”
“Who did teach You when You were incarnated in England?”
“Jesus…
“All of Us, Who had come into contact with Jesus, next time were
born with hearts in which Jesus lived. Wherever We were — Jesus was always with
Us. He had ‘breathed’ into Us the True Life — and we ‘flew’ to other lands, to
other lives
carrying the Light of Jesus in Ourselves. Like ringed birds, We all were
betrothed to the Love of Jesus…
“Do you remember, I told you once that after resigning from the
post of ambassador, I began receiving messages from God?… I
began hearing and seeing Jesus then!”
“Tell about this in detail, please!”
“I was an ambassador. Once, before starting on a journey with a
mission from the embassy, I came to a temple and prayed that God gave Me
strength and ability to speak the words which are pleasing to My Lord… I thought
that I was asking for the affairs of My embassy…
“But suddenly, bright Light flooded everything around… — and I
saw Jesus…
“He said:
‘The work which you do is not the one you must do, My beloved
Mark!… You should ask from Me words of other kind; you should concern yourself
with other kind of affairs!…!…
‘I will fulfil your request, though in a way other than you
expect: I will teach you — what to do and how to speak…
“Resign from your post and hand over your affairs. I will
entrust you with a different post — to be My Messenger! From now on, you
will do what your Lord wants!
“… When I had resigned from My post, they counted Me insane… and
allowed Me to leave to a family castle to live there in seclusion…
“Since then, only Jesus remained in My life. It was enough to
utter His Name and He immediately manifested Himself, filling with Golden
Shining everything around Me and inside Me. He became more real than
everything material that surrounded Me… And I talked to Him — Living! He showed
Me My past life…, the episodes of His life… He called Me gently by My former
name — Mark…
“Then He began to show Himself differently — as Universal, One
with the Father! He taught Me meditations of Mergence with Him and submerged Me
into the Father.
“I asked Him:
‘How can I help people?’
“He answered:
‘Look: I have touched many souls, and everyone who aspires to Me
receives My help — as you do.
‘There is a transforming touch of God on a soul after
which the former life in sins and vices becomes impossible, unthinkable for it.
It is called the moment of truth.
‘Very few people are ready for such a touch. I will help
you to find them. One has to learn to see them —and see the moment when one may
touch the soul of man, giving him such a touch…
‘You gave Me your heart forever — and I give you forever Mine,
which is One with the Father. I will be always with you, in you. I will give you
the words to tell about My Truth. I will give you the Strength of Spirit which
cannot be shaken by trials. I will teach you to see the moment when with
My Fire you may touch souls.
‘The Father can live in you as He lives in Me!’
“I fulfilled this commandment of Jesus.
“I found those few to whom I could give His Teaching in
all its fullness.
“Jesus also dictated a book through Me, which became a textbook
for Me and some of My disciples…
“But what I had done, unfortunately, did not remain among people
for a long time…”
“I am glad that you came here…
“Do you remember how on this place, when Vladimir brought you here, you for the first time could see Jesus with the eyes of the soul and received His blessing to continue your efforts… You were at the very beginning of the Path to the Father…”
“I do remember it… I remember it in all details!
“Philip, please tell about how You saw Jesus for the first time.”
“Well…
“At that time, we had been waiting for the advent of the Messiah for a long time…
“… One day My sister ran into the house crying:
‘Philip, He has come!…’
“She could say nothing more…
“Many people went to the open space out of the village, where He wanted to speak.
“A lot of people had gathered, but there were no usual hubbub and bustle; everybody waited…
“Suddenly, amazing transparent silence fell.
“And Jesus began to speak.
“He spoke not loudly, but it seemed that His soft voice sounded not outside, but inside everyone who listened… And whatever far from Him people stood, they could hear each His word…
“… Later, many times I experienced that amazing state when Jesus submerged all the listeners into His Consciousness and spoke with each soul as if one-to-one, however many people were around… And everyone knew that Jesus spoke personally to him…
“… When the sermon was finished, people dispersed overfilled with what they heard. They walked in silence as if fearing to spill the invaluable truths with which Jesus filled their souls.
“And I… could not move: My legs as if stuck to the ground…
“I did not know how I would live further without Him… Everything I had been doing before, had lost its meaning…
“But only He could teach to do the things about which He told…
“Jesus came to Me Himself and called Me by My name as if He knew Me… He asked, do I want to follow Him?…
“I answered:
‘I do, Lord! Wherever You go — take me with You!…’
“Jesus touched My shoulder and said:
‘Come, you may follow Me…’”
“… Philip, tell us please about how Jesus taught…”
“It is difficult to convey it with words… He taught by all His life; He taught by each His deed and word!…
“He exposed in us that which was imperfect. He taught to root out vices in oneself, because one cannot approach the Father having not become the Pure Light!
“He taught meditation: taught by submerging us into His states, by explaining how to enter them, how to retain them in whatever hard conditions our bodies are.
“Commissioned He one of us to do something, worked He Divine miracles in our presence… — every His word and deed changed something in those who listened and followed Him.
“Since the time we met Jesus, we had no life other than the life with Him. Everyone renounced everything they had in the earthly world — in order to follow the Lord!
“But this was not enough to become One with the Father, as Jesus taught. One has to renounce also the ‘self’…
“He did not have much time…
“… We had to complete the transfiguration of Ourselves and to cognize the fullness of being in Mergence with the Heavenly Father — when We were walking to different countries carrying His Teaching to people. And Jesus was always with every One of Us…”
“Do You want to say something more, Philip?”
“I would like to, but there are no words in the world to express this… I would like to tell about the Love for Jesus… I will tell about this without words to anyone who addresses to Me… I am ready to help all who seek Jesus, who seek the Father!
“Jesus and many other Sons and Daughters of the One Father breathed life into those your undertakings which will create a new spiritual spring on the planet Earth! We All are glad to give Our help to you!”
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Meditation Cross
(Unrhymed literal translation
from Russian)
The Cross of Jesus is the entrance
To the Abode of the Father!
Beyond the Cross, beyond your back —
There is the Gate to Heaven!
There, behind the Wings of the Cross —
There is the Heart of Jesus!
The Heart of Jesus opened
The Embrace of the Father!
Whatever happens here —
There is always behind your back
The veil which was torn then;
It is the Gate to Home!
In the Bridal Chamber
There is the Shining of the Creator’s Light!
Here the Sons and Daughters
Cognize the Father!
There — All Who cognized Him
And became One.
There — the Perfect Light, the Creator —
The foundation of Everything!
Jesus opened wide by Himself
This Shining Path!
By the Living Vine He manifested to the world
The Essence of Universal God!
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“I have been waiting for you! Listen:
“By the moment when We saw Jesus for the first time, We had heard a lot about Him from John the Baptist and had been waiting for His coming. But despite the fact that We had been anticipating it and preparing Ourselves, nevertheless a miracle happened — the great miracle of being with Him, Living!
“None of Us was ready for encompassing at once the knowledge which Jesus brought… He taught Us… He taught when He was speaking or keeping silence, when He was edifying others, when He was eating together with Us meager food shared equally, when We had no place to stay overnight, when people were praising Him and when they were blaming Him… Every moment of being near Him was education for Us…
“I would like to recount one episode… It was before the beginning of Our apostolic Service. Once, Jesus sent some of Us to heal and to preach in a village, but He Himself did not go with Us…
“We walked joyfully and proudly: Jesus entrusted Us to heal with His Power!
“In the village, We tried to speak like He would speak and repeated His words. Then We began to heal… But nothing happened… There were no miracles… We only incurred ridicule:
‘Where is your God?! You are deceivers!’
“… We came back disgraced…
“Jesus met Us with words:
‘Where is your faith? Where is your love? Where was your Father when you were healing?’
“We answered:
‘He was with You…’
‘If He is with Me and not with you, Andrew, then who will heal? You?
‘When you are doing His Work — the Father rather than Andrew must be in your body! It is the Father that gives the blessing and power; He does the work with your hands! If there is no His Will, words cannot help: the lame will remain lame, the blind will not recover the sight…’
“And Jesus said to Us:
‘Go back!’
“We answered:
‘We cannot, because nobody will believe us there anymore! Let us go to other village…’
“Jesus said again:
‘Go back and let the Father go in each of you! Do not be afraid of ridicule! And if they want to beat you, also do not be afraid! Do not be afraid of death! Do not be afraid of pain! Heal those pointed by Him and show on them His Power and His Love! I will be with you!’
“… And We went. People laughed at us. And stones flew. But each of Us felt the Light of Love of Jesus and the Power of the Father… and even stones flew past…
“Mockers did not come to be healed. Came the miserable who had great love for the Lord. And they said:
‘If He wills, heal me a sinner!...’
“And they were healed. We praised Jesus and the Father and said:
‘Go and do not sin again!’
“And the Power of Father was in Us.
“In this way We mastered the law of the Higher Power: There must be no one between the one whom you are helping and God: any trace of ‘I’ does not allow the Power of the Father to flow… The Father can manifest Himself through your body only if there is no you as a lower self.
“It could not be mastered at once. But with time, it became more and easier to be a Vine!”
“When You went preaching — without money, without any support except God — how did You get by, how did You survive?”
“We thought about this least of all. Sometimes We were given a feast, sometimes — a beating. In this way We went preaching with Jesus; in this way each of Us went afterward according to His lot…
“And if We remained hungry, it meant that the Bread of the Lord had not satiated the souls to whom We had come, and We grieved only that they remained hungry…
“Or, if the seed of Lord’s words fell on rocky soil, how We could grieve for being stoned, if We knew that the seeds of His Love would not sprout there?!
“It is easy to live with absolute faith! Jesus taught Us this: If you have to accept the death, then you accept it. If God prolongs Life, then you serve Him!
“It is so easy! — to trust absolutely Him, Who is with you and in you! Your strengths, your hands, your mouth, your thoughts serve Him, and all the rest He will provide to you: all that He considers necessary for you…
“Each day of life increased His Glory and brought Us closer to Him!
“The more time passed the less of the former Andrew remained in Me, and the more was of Andrew the First-Called — Jesus’ Andrew, Andrew-Son of the Heavenly Father…
“And, crucified on a cross, True Andrew preached. And when the guards wanted to release Me, they could not even come near…
“I was coming to Jesus!
“The Father willed so: I was going away — into Him!...
“… It was easy for Us! It was much easier for Us than for Others Who reached the Father! Since We saw Jesus for the first time, He was with Us.
“We were not like rivers which have to make their way. No: We merged with a great River which had already made Its way to the Ocean. Jesus showed Us the Way! We walked nearby; We walked with Him just a bit behind! It was easy for Us!
“He showed the Way and gave the power to walk! He taught Us to unite with the Power of the Father! And each of Us wished to complete His Path and enter the Abode of the Father as Jesus did. The cross death was desired by Us!
“We walked the Path of Jesus!
“We carried His words to people!
“We did what He entrusted to Us!
“Jesus was always with Us!
“And now We are — with Him — in the Heavenly Father!”
* * *
“The first feat of a soul on the Path to the Father is the feat of being aware of His constant presence. Then one begins to live feeling oneself before Him. Then ‘on His scales’ one weighs all thoughts and deeds…
“The second feat of a soul is the feat of serving Him. Every thinking and deed must be done for Him. Through mergence of the first two feats one realizes full devotion to Him.
“The summit of soul’s life is the third feat — Mergence — when you give Him yourself entirely and do not think about yourself anymore, forgetting the personal — in the Great Love for Him. Then the great sacrament of Joining, Reunification is possible. When everything that was me becomes love and is given as a gift to Him — then the giver disappears because he has given away everything, including himself.
“The one who comes into Him says: ‘There are only You — Father!’
“The One Who comes out from Him says: ‘I and the Father are One!’
“And then the Highest becomes possible — that which Jesus demonstrated to people by His life. This means that One realizes the Mission, being not individuality anymore!”
“Jesus was with Us; Jesus was in Us; He united Our hearts in Himself! Through the Love of Jesus — We became One with the Father! The Heart of Jesus became the Heart of every One of Us!
“The Love of Jesus smelts, transfigures, heals!
“God is Love! Jesus demonstrated this to people!
“Receive His Love into your hearts! This is the Love of the Father! This is the Love of every One of Us!
“Here — in His Abode — All Who have cognized Him are One!
“… I will help everyone who wants to master the Love that Jesus said about. It is enough just to address to Me recalling My name.
“I am One with the Father, and there is nothing impossible for Me. By the Power of the Father, I will create everything what is needed for teaching, all favorable conditions for development of My student. There is no power in the universe which can thwart this!
“But let him who asks Me for help, whom I will guide, make on his part all due efforts; without this the successful advancement is not possible!
“He must be sensitive in order not to overlook My hints and guiding signs.
“He must be brave to believe in the possibility of the direct guidance of God and follow it in his life among atheists and pseudo-believers.
“He must be freedom-loving to be capable of breaking away from habitual ‘earthly’ things and climbing to the heights which others consider unreachable.
“After all, is it possible to become Him Who was Jesus in a lesser way?”
Jesus Christ
“I am equal among All Who form the Essence of the Father. And
there are no ‘less equal’ and ‘more equal’ among Us! Because We All are One!
“And, as anyone of Us, I represent the Father, independent of by
which Name one calls Him.
“My Essence is known to you. Yet, so few people understand this!
Thus, there are so many evolutional ‘recoils’, tragedies of individual souls and whole nations! Hence the evolutional perspective of the planet Earth is so low now!”
* * *
… When I say the name Jesus, the sun begins shining through the clouds of cold grey day… He came, and
the room became filled with the light of the Divine Consciousness…
“Why are you afraid of speaking on behalf of My Name? By what I am worse than Others?”
“I am afraid of harming by inaccuracy of my perception… Because it is written, said so much about You … Do we need more?”
“Why are you not afraid of speaking with Others? You do know Me! And why do you think that those who wrote about Me two thousand years ago knew Me better? Look, I am here with you now!
“It is about this that I want to speak! I would like to say this to people who love Me, seek Me, but for some reason dare not appeal to Me directly! I want to change this existing situation when ‘Jesus’ is an icon for ‘praying’, when about Me only the Bible can speak,
despite the fact that it was changed and interpreted by people…
“I am Living! I am here, in your room! I am at that moment with many of My people! Because I am omnipresent! Because I and the Father are One!
“I would like to give cordial intimacy, possibility to communicate to all who love Me, to all who seek Me!
“I want to speak now, with your help, about the reality of Jesus for everyone!
“Let every person, who is reading these words now, experience Me now standing behind
him or her, and, having filled with love, asks Me to enter his/her heart ― the spiritual heart…
“I will be with everyone now ― with everyone who wants this!
“The Light and Love of the Father go with Me into you!
“This is yours by the right of the children of our Heavenly Father!
“If you want, I will come always, always when you call Me into you heart!
“You will learn to recognize Me!
“You will learn to see Me!
“You will learn to hear Me!
“I will be helping you!
“I will teach you the laws of God, the laws of Love!
“I am always ready to be with you!
“I am nearby! I am ready to be in your spiritual heart! I am as real now as I was real when I spoke with Paul!
“If the Light of Love is burning in your heart, then I am already in you!
“Give this Light to people!
“I have repeated this many times through prophets! I came to the Earth for this
purpose, so that My and Father’s Love may dwell in your heart!
“You ask how you can know that this is true, that I am actually now with you? Look: I am answering your question… And it will be in the same way always if you desire this! I will come, I will help, I will answer your questions, because I love you!
“It is for this purpose that I was on the Earth 2000 years ago! It
is for this purpose that I am here now! I would like to show once again the Path to the Abode of Our Heavenly Father ― your and My Father! Love is the Path to the Father!
“You can begin right now to learn Love! Experience how My Love and your love strive to shine for all from your heart ― to those who know Me and those who do not!
“Do you know by what you are different from Me right now? I am just bigger: My Heart is the whole Ocean of the Father Which gives Love. But you are just learning to do this.
“I love you! And what about you?
“Yes?! It means you did this! But do not praise and pride yourself, because it will
have to do much more!”
* * *
We are in the winter forest. Everything is filled with quietness. The morning begins. Soon from the horizon the sun will
appear. But now the light is just embracing the white trunks of birches and sinking in
the verdure of firs. Mist from the melting snow covers sleeping earth with a soft coverlet above
the snow blanket… Everything is sleeping… Calm and silence…
I enter the place of power where Jesus is always present. His Light here fills a clearing. This Light, like sunlight, is the Light of Jesus’ Love. It is felt by birches and firs which grow here: they differ from trees which stand around
by their particular beauty and power.
A hare perplexed by my coming, with great reluctance, looking back at me discontentedly, leaves
this place. It slept so cozily in the Love of Jesus…
… In contrast to almost all people, many animals feel very well the Holy…
… Jesus… He approaches His Face to me…
… The majority of people are used to beleive that one can communicate
with Jesus only in temples… But He is omnipresent!
And there are special natural places — the places of power, holy places — where this
can be done especially easily. Here one can perceive words of Jesus, merge with Him by the consciousness, dissolve in Him in the easiest way…
… The meditation is “There is no me, only Jesus is”…
Now Jesus begins speaking:
“Try to experience how many souls I hold on My hands on all continents of the Earth, how many people call Me: ‘Jesus, Lord, come to us!’ This is My ‘field’ on which I work. This is
the ‘field’ which I sown, and now there is a multitude of souls who are devoted to Me.
“… The climate on the Earth is inhospitable now. I am glad that in the silence of your northern forests one of the Branches of My Love ― your School which indeed My School as well ― sprang! Hesychia and love, which fill spiritual hearts, are the base of the Straight
Path to the Father! This is what you can give to the world from Me! Do this for Me, do this for the Heavenly Father!
“It is necessary to unite people in their love to the Father! One
has to explain them that not new Pharisees, but Living God ― the One and Loving Heavenly Father ― helps everyone who directs the eyes of the soul to Him!
“Love transfigures souls! Transfiguration and purification of souls in love allow the Light of God to warm and consecrate life of such people!
“Create love on the Earth!
“And do remember: it is a basic right of a soul ― to become one with the Father!”
“Tell us, please, more about Yourself if possible…”
“To the incarnation known to people I came from the Father! I came to fulfill what was predicted in the Scriptures and demonstrate the love of the Heavenly Father to people. I came to show the Way to people by all My life.
“… The body of boy-Jesus, educated in traditions of Judaic faith, could not at once comprehend all knowledge about the future course of life, all
fullness of Father's Wisdom and Power. I felt inside Me Great Love and Power, coming from the depths of Me, but it was not yet the knowledge that I
am the Messiah to come, about Whom it was said in the prophecies…
“In that earthly life, I had to unite with the Father in such a way that Power and Love of the Father could be manifested freely to the world through My body; also in order that great miracles would be possible!
“Yes, miraculous phenomena occurred in My life since birth. But
manifesting consciously the Will and Power of the Father is another thing; I had
to master this. It was necessary in order that My broad preaching to people —
preaching of the laws of Father’s Love — may be possible!
“The laws of Jews of this time required to avenge, hate, and kill… But I knew and carried Love of the Father to people!
“… From a certain age, having cognized the silence inside My spiritual heart, I began speaking with Him.
“And gradually, having expanded in the Infinity of the Creator, I began to perceive Myself as the chosen by Him for the Great Work.
“When I reached the age of thirteen, He led Me travel to many countries where I received the spiritual knowledge accumulated by humanity, including meditative techniques which are necessary to lead the worthy to the Father…
“… I cognized the Teaching of Gautama Buddha — the laws of love and compassion,
the laws of non-attachment to earthly things.
“… I cognized the Teaching of Krishna about the Way of bhakti — cordial love to the beloved Creator. And I saw that there is no other way which allows one to cognize God
but the Way of the spiritual heart.
“…In Egypt I received initiations and understood the truths about the necessity of keeping the secret which protects the highest stages of the Path from the unworthy.
“I cast away easily ‘husk’ of rites and legends submerging Myself into the essence of the Teachings…
“I preached and taught by Myself in different countries. There are stories about My earthly life which were not included in the New Testament. They can reveal to those who are interested the details of that part of My life… But this is not the main thing…
“Afterward I came back to Judaea in order to begin that part of My Service about which almost all people on the Earth know now. I brought
to people Love of the Father and His Teaching, and later received death, then I rose, demonstrating through this the omnipotence of the Father!
“I showed the Way! And may it be cleared and extended further by your works — this Path to the One Father!”
Yours affectionately, Jesus.
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