Original Teachings of Jesus Christ

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Vladimir Antonov,

Ph.D. (in biology)

The OriginalTeachings

of Jesus ChristTranslated from Russian

byMikhail Nikolenko

2008


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ISBN 978-1-897510-27-8

Published in 2008 by

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This book presents an analysis of the Teachingsthat were le to people by Jesus Christ in His Incarna-tion. The Teachings are systematized in this book in ac-cordance to the main themes touched by Jesus.

The bibliographic sources used in this work are theNew Testament and some Apocryphal Gospels.The book is addressed to all people.

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ContentsGOD-THE-FATHER ...................................................................................................6

HIS EVOLUTION AND US .......................................................................................8

THE PROCESS OF CREATION. MULTIDIMENSIONALITY OF SPACE ......13

THE HOLY SPIRIT ..................................................................................................14

SKY AND HEAVEN .............................................................................................15

HELL AND PARADISE............................................................................................17

REPENTANCE ..........................................................................................................23

JESUS CHRIST .........................................................................................................27

JESUS ABOUT HIMSELF ..................................................................................35

SPREADING OF CHRISTIANITY .........................................................................37

FREEDOM OF WILL...............................................................................................44

DESTINY ...................................................................................................................47

INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT ......................................................................49

ABOUT ALCOHOLISM ..........................................................................................51

WORK OR PARASITISM? ................................................................................51

PEOPLE .....................................................................................................................55

PATRIOTISM ............................................................................................................57

WHAT IS MAN .........................................................................................................59

GETTING RID OF DISEASES ...............................................................................63


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MORALS AND ETHICS ..........................................................................................68

LOVE FOR GOD ......................................................................................................69

DO NOT STEAL, DO NOT LIE, HELP OTHERS ................................................71

LOVE .........................................................................................................................73

LOVE AND SEX .......................................................................................................78

MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE .................................................................................81

NUDISM .....................................................................................................................82

MAN AND WOMAN ON THE SPIRITUAL PATH ..............................................85

MINORITIES ........................................................................................................90

COMPASSION ..........................................................................................................91

STRUGGLE AGAINST THE LOWER SELF ........................................................94

MONASTICISM........................................................................................................97

MEDITATIVE WORK ...........................................................................................100

BIBLIOGRAPHY ....................................................................................................105


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The Teachings brought by Jesus Christ from God-the-Father came to us in the form of Jesus conversations

with His disciples and with other people, His appeals tothe Heavenly Father, descriptions of His deeds and mir-acles He performed, which are recorded in the Gospels.There are also writings of His disciples, which contain in-formation learned from Jesus, prophecies received fromthe Holy Spirit and God-the-Father, as well as personalopinions of the authors. Such writings are many, but not

all of them were included in the New Testament.However, there has been no complete and struc-tured description of Jesus Teachings that would discussin an orderly manner all the most important ideologicalissues. This was one of the reasons for numerous dis-agreements between the followers of Jesus Christ and foran abundance of striking perversions of His Teachings.

It is obvious that the work of making an integral

compilation of Jesus Teachings could have been suc-cessfully done only by a person who had fullled every-thing taught by Jesus, who had encompassed His Loveand cognized God-the-Father. Only this can be testimo-ny to the compilers competence.

The author of this book succeeded in reaching theend of the Path to God-the-Father, having studied the

methodology of advancing along this Path and havingbuilt with the help and guidance of God a stairwayof methods-steps leading to the Summit. In Russia, hestarted his work of saving people from the darkness of


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atheism at the time of the Communist Partys govern-ing, suered persecution and slandering, went throughCalvary, has been to the other worldtwice and cog-nized the Embrace of the Holy Spirit and God-the-Fa-ther without hindrance from the corporeal envelope; af-ter that he was returned by God into his physical bodyto continue self-development and service [5,6].

This book was wrien with the blessing of Godand under His guidance.

God-the-Father

He alone exists He has existed since all eter-nity, and His existence will have no end.

He has no equal either in Heaven or on the Earth.The Great Creator has not shared His power with

any living being, He alone possesses omnipotence.

(The Life of Saint Issa, 5:16-17)The Eternal Lawgiver is one; there is no other god,but He. He has not shared the world with anyone, nei-ther has He informed anyone of His intentions. (TheLife of Saint Issa, 6:10)

The Lord our God is all-mighty, omniscient,and omnipresent. It is He Who possesses all wisdom andall light. It is to Him you must address yourselves to be

consoled in your sorrows, helped in your works, and curedin your sickness. Whosoever shall have recourse to Himshall not be denied.

The secrets of nature are in the hands of God. Forthe world, before it appeared, existed in the depth of theDivine thought; it became material and visible by thewill of the Supreme.

When you address yourselves to Him, become againas children; for you know neither the past, nor the pres-ent, nor the future, and God is the Master of all time.(The Life of Saint Issa, 11:12-15)


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(He) is a Monocracy with nothing above It. Heis God and Father of everything, the invisible One Whois above everything, Who is in pure light, Whom noeye1can see.

He is the invisible Spirit. It is not right to think ofHim as you think of gods, or something similar. Ev-erything exists in Him. He is illimitable, since therewas nothing prior to Him to limit Him. He is immea-surable, since there was no one prior to Him to measureHim. He is eternal. He exists eternally. There

is no way to tell His quantity He is not contained intime

He is life-giving Life. He is blessedness-givingblessed One. He is wisdom-giving Wisdom. He is sal-vation-giving and love-giving Love.

He is motionless; He resides in calm and silence. He directs His desires into His ow of Light. He is

the Source of this ow of Light (The Apocryphon ofJohn, 2:25-4:25)He is the Original Spirit (The Apocryphon of

John, 4:35; 5:10,15).This is the message which we have heard from

(Jesus), and declare unto you, that God is Light, and inHim there is no darkness at all (1 John 1:5).

The blessed King, Who alone has immortal-

ity, dwelling in the Light (1 Tim 6:15-16).Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the

only wise God, be honor and glory for ever and ever.Amen. (1 Tim 1:17)

The majority of these words of Jesus were not in-cluded in the New Testament by the Church leaders at

the end of 4-th century aer Jesus visit on the Earth.And this predestined the deection of the majority of

1 No eye but the eyes of the Son (Ma 11:27).


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Christians from monotheism. They have almost forgoenGod-the-Father, though He and the Path to Him were theessence of Jesus preachings. Thus, their ontological, epis-temological, and methodological views became baseless.

Moreover, in Russia they developed an anthropo-morphic2concept of God-the-Father, which is a typicalfeature of paganism. It is illustrated on the icon Trin-ity, where God-the-Father is depicted as an old man sit-ting on a cloud. And to the right of Him sits Jesus.This notion was even accepted as the Orthodox Creed:

I believe (in) the Lord Jesus Christ, siing to theright of the Father.

But God-the-Father is not a ying old man. He is thePrimordial Consciousness, immeasurable in Its vastness,lling the whole universal space in His Abode, and notanthropomorphic at all. He is really innite. How canone sit to the right of the Innite?

His Evolution and Us

We, inhabitants of the Earth, are used to measuretime by days (the period of Earths rotation around itsaxis), subdivided in hours, minutes, and seconds, alsoby years, (the period of Earths rotation around the Sun)subdivided in months and weeks.

He universal has a dierent type of chronol-ogy. It is measured by Manvantaras, which cover bil-lions of years.

What part of the universe does a Manvantara em-brace? who knows it, except Him? And for us it is ofno signicance.

A Manvantara is a cycle of development that con-

sists of two phases manifestand non-manifest. The2Anthropomorphicmeans resembling the form of a human body.

This misunderstanding originated from the echoes of pagan notionsthat seeped into the New Testament (Mark 16:19, Col 3:1).


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rst phase begins with a creation of the worldand endswith an end of the world. During the second phase, thereis no Creation; there is only He and the building mate-rial for new Creations.

At the beginning of each cycle, He gradually cre-ates (materializes) dense substrate the maer of plan-ets. Then miniscule particles of energy are sowed onsome of them. They begin to evolve on the crystallinelaices of minerals, then continue developing by incar-nating into material bodies of plants, animals, humans.

In the end, they must achieve such a level of perfectionthat they become worthy to merge into the Creator andthus to enrich Him with themselves. He guides the pro-cess of their growth, grants them a certain degree offreewill i.e. the possibility to make a choice in educationalsituations created by Him, the possibility to choose theirpath. We even have the possibility to choose whether we

walk the Path of Evolution or the path of involution.He loves us like His children. And He constantlyoers us new possibilities for making right choices; weeither accept or reject them.

In particular, He gave us Holy books containing in-structions on how we should live. If we follow them, webecome more and more perfect and closer to Him. If wedo not comply with them, it may result even in becom-

ing more distant from the Creator. Pain and sueringare the means that He uses to point out our errors. Andthe intensifying feeling of happiness, as we approachHim, serves as an indicator of our success.

We have to try to become perfect as (our) Heaven-ly Father is perfect (Ma 5:48) and merge into Him assoon as possible: He calls us into His Embrace, to the

supreme bliss of being in Him, in Mergence with Him.Blessed are you who have known temptations andee from them! Blessed are you who are reviled and notesteemed on account of the love your Lord has for you!


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Blessed are you who weep and are oppressed by thosewithout hope (for salvation), for you will be released fromevery bondage! Watch and pray that you do not come tobe in the esh (again), but rather that you come forth fromthe bondage of bierness of this (earthly) life. (And)when you come forth from the suerings and passionsof the body, you will receive rest, and you will reignwith the King, you joined with Him and He with you,from now on, for ever and ever! Amen. (The Book ofThomas the Contender, 145)

To progress faster in our self-development in thedirection to God, we can try to fall in love with Him. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all thesoul, with all your mind, and with all your strength(Mark 12:30) For it is the emotion of love that aractsand unites a human consciousness with a human con-sciousness, and a human consciousness with the Con-

sciousness of God.

* * *In the year 553, the leaders of the Christians com-

munities established by that time, gathered for a coun-cil and decided by a majority to exclude from theTeachings of Jesus that part where the meaning of ex-istence of humans and other living beings on the Earth

was explained from the evolutionary standpoint. Thusthe Teachings were deprived of their integrity and com-pleteness. Aer that, people unable to nd answers tomany naturally arising questions began to fantasize. Forexample, they decided that the cause of our suering onthe Earth is the sins inherited from Adam and Eve, andtherefore we are absolutely hopeless sinners; no eorts

on self-perfection can help or are necessary, for it canonly seduce us into the sin of pride All we can do isto keep praying to patron saints and to Virgin Mary,


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begging them to beg Jesus Christ to have mercy on us,so that He sends us to paradise instead of hell

But such beliefs cannot save anyone from hell, sincethey are directly opposite to the Teachings of JesusChrist. He taught that people have to make eorts on per-fecting themselves. In particular, He said: The King-dom of God is being preached (by Me), and everyone ismaking eorts to enter into it (Luke 16:16). He also nev-er called us back to paganism.

We will continue discussing this subject in the fol-

lowing chapters, and now let us look at a few examplesof what Jesus said regarding souls development in thecourse of its consecutive incarnations.

Watching a performance of talented singers, He toldHis disciples: Where do their talent and skills comefrom? They could not possibly acquire such a perfectionof voice and knowledge of the laws of harmony in the

course of just one short life. Is this a miracle? No. Every-thing arises from natural laws. Many thousands of yearsago, these people mastered their harmony and (these)qualities. And they came again to learn more (Tibet-an Gospel).

And when the disciples asked Him about John theBaptist, Jesus replied: And if you are willing to acceptit, he is Elah who was to come. They who have ears,

let them hear. (Ma 11:14-15). On another occasion, Hesaid: Elah has already come, and they did not rec-ognize him Then the disciples understood that He wastalking to them about John the Baptist. (Ma 17:11-13).

In between incarnations, said Jesus, righteous hu-man souls resurrect in the non-material world and neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the

angels of God in Heaven (Ma 22:30).In a series of many incarnations, a human being de-velops in three main directions: intellectual, ethic, and


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psychoenergetic ones. The rst line of development is themost dicult one, taking the longest period of time.

Dierences between people in the level of intellec-tual development are well known not only in psychia-try, which classies people into a number of categories:idiots, imbeciles, morons, physiologically feeblemindedpeople, people with serious mental defects (partial de-mentia, schizophrenia, paranoia, etc.) and the rest.The intellectual dierences can also be clearly seen inthe religious eld.

For example, some people are only capable of per-forming prayerful bodily movements and panhan-dling for Gods sake. In Russian Orthodoxy the fol-lowing verbal construction is widely used: to pray atsomething. This means to make standard bodily move-ments when facing an object of ritual value.

People of a higher intellectual level are capable of

studying the Will of God for us and doing the necessarywork on perfecting themselves, primarily from the ethicstandpoint.

But there are people who are able to encompass theentire profundity of the knowledge about God; throughself-sacricial work such adepts achieve Godlikenessand merge with God, nishing thus the personal evolu-tion.

The reason for these dierences between peoplelies not only in peculiarities of the intrauterine devel-opment and childhood diseases, and not even in the up-bringing or education, but primarily in the evolutionaryage of the soul and the eorts on self-perfection whichthis soul has already made.


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The Process of Creation.

Multidimensionality of SpaceDuring the non-manifestphase of a Manvantara,

there are only the Primordial Consciousness of the Cre-ator and building material for creation of maer andsouls protoprakriti and protopurusha (see [4,5,8] formore details). The process of creation begins with localdensications of protoprakriti, which forms dense sub-

strate for organic life to exist on. She came forth, she appeared before Him in the shine of His light,she became the womb of everything (The Apocry-phon of John 4:25-5:5)

The duration of the process of a world creationisnot measured in days, but in epochs; six days of theworld creationis an example of an incorrect translation

of the Bible. (If we admit that these were days in theusual sense, then it follows that the creation of the worldtook place about 6000 years ago. But archeological dataindicate that people have existed on the Earth for abouta million of years).

In the Gospel of Phillip, spatial dimensions are calledin Greek eons.

To explain fully with words, for example, the nature

of the multidimensional structure of the Earth is impos-sible. One can only say that in the depthbeneath each ma-terial object there are layers of increasingly subtle, pure,tender, clear light. These layers can be cognized onlywith the help of special methods of development of theconsciousness. This is a Path of gradual renement ofthe consciousness, strengthening and crystallizationof

the consciousness at each of the levels achieved. This isthe Path to cognition of the Creator.The end of the worldis an inverse process of disin-

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He willed it and the world (of the Creation) ap-peared. In a Divine thought, He gathered together thewaters, separating from them the dry portion of the globe.He is the principle of the mysterious existence of man(i.e. human corporeal form), into whom He has breatheda part of His Being. (The Life of Saint Issa, 5:18)

He is life-giving Life (The Apocryphon ofJohn, 4:1)

(He) has existed since all time and will still beaer the end of all things (The Life of Saint Issa, 8:6).

The Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit is the Creator manifesting Himselfin the Creation through spiritual Adepts Who achieved

full Self-realization (=God-realization) and merged intoHim, and through Those Who have not entered into theAbode of the Creator yet but have achieved Mergencewith the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit supervises the activity of otherspirits of earlier stages of evolutionary development. Healso guides all successfully developing seekers, for ex-ample by giving them prophetic information. Jesus said

the following about this: But when He, the Spirit ofTruth, comes, He will guide you into all truth. He willnot speak on His own; He will speak only what He hears(from the Father and Jesus) (John 16:13).

Long before Jesus said these words, the Holy Spir-it participated in the preparation of Jesus coming (Ma1:20) by giving people miraculous signs about His spe-

cial mission (Luke 2:25-35; 3:21; Ma 3:16); later the HolySpirit took part in organizing Jesus work on the Earth(Luke 4:1).


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Sky and Heaven

Where does God live, where can one nd Him? Theoverwhelming majority of people involved in primitiveforms of religion answer this question by pointing upto the sky, just as they raise eyes and hands when pray-ing.

Where does the belief that God is above originatefrom? Maybe the reason is that on the Earths surface onesees suering and temptations while in the sky tran-

quil clouds, endless expanse, caress of the Sun, mysteryof the Moon and distant stars?

But Jesus laughed at such speculations: If yourleaders say to you: Look, the (Fathers) Kingdom is inthe sky! then the birds of the sky will precede you.

Rather the Kingdom is within you and outsideyou (The Gospel of Thomas, 3).

(And) those who seek should not stop seeking un-til they nd. When they nd, they will be disturbed,they will marvel, and (having seled in the Kingdom)will reign over everything. (The Gospel of Thomas, 2)

So, what does it mean within you and outsideyou? And why the one who has found the Kingdomwill be disturbed and will marvel?

We have already discussed the multidimensional

nature of the Creation. All spatial dimensions exist righthere in the multidimensional depth beneath any ma-terial object, be it a stone or a tree or our planet or ahuman body. This is true also for any volume of spacewhere there are no dense objects but only air. This iswhat is meant by within and outside us.

Thus, in order to nd the Abode of the Creator, one

has to direct the search not upward but depthward. First,inside ones own body by transforming the emotionalsphere: renouncing coarse emotional states (rst of all various forms of enmity: not only anger but also con-


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demnation, envy, jealousy, etc.) and cultivating subtleones (rst of all all kinds of emotional love: tenderness,caress, ability to admire the beautiful and to aune to it,etc.). Usually, success in this work can be achieved withthe help of cleansing and development of the chakrasand meridians.

The further renement of the consciousness is per-formed in the spiritual heart. The initial container of thespiritual heart the anahata chakra is a volume ex-isting on the subtle planes within the chest of the body.

The spiritual heart is a bioenergetic organ that producesthe emotions of love. The ability to move the concentra-tion of the consciousness into the spiritual heart enablesone, in particular, to live in the world of light and love.

Jesus said about this: Blessed are the pure inheart: for they shall see God (Ma 5:8). Enter into yourtemple, into your heart. Illumine it with good thoughts

and the patience and immovable confidence whichyou should have in your Father (The Life of Saint Issa9:12).

Aer the cleansing of the chakra anahata with thehelp of special methods, one can easily cleanse the wholeorganism: the organism has to be made so pure that itlooks transparent to the spiritual eyesight.

Having puried themselves in this way, spiritual

adepts gain the ability to see the Divine Consciousness,to see not with the physical eyes but with the eyes of theconsciousness. This can be realized inside the expandedspiritual heart.

Now let us get back to the subject outlined in thetitle of this chapter: sky and Heaven.

It is not by chance that the wordHeavenis dier-

ent from the word sky. Assigning the same meaning toboth of them is a misunderstanding caused by religiousignorance.

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Though these eons are present everywhere aboveus as well there is no sense in trying to nd them bylooking up or even by ying up. God in the Aspect ofthe Creator and of the Holy Spirit is present in the sub-tlest spatial dimensions, which cannot be perceived withthe physical eyes. One can see Him only having renedoneself (as a consciousness) to His level of subtlety; onecan see Him not with the eyes of the body but with theeyesight of the consciousness.

* * *Not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord, willenter the Kingdom of Heaven, but only those who dothe will of My Father Who is in Heaven! (Ma 7:21)

Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gateand broad is the road that lead to destruction, and manyenter through it. But small is the gate and narrow is the

road that lead to the (True) Life, and only a few nd it!(Ma 7:13-14) One who seeks will nd, and for one who knocks

it will be opened! (The Gospel of Thomas, 94)

Hell and Paradise

Apart from the material plane and the eons of Heav-

ens mentioned above, there are other spatial dimensionsthat exist on the opposite (with respect to the Creator) endof the coarseness-subtlety scale. These are the layers ofhell.

One can perceive them on some negativeplaces ofpower.

Places of power[4] are characterized by the presence

of some kind of dominant energy from non-materialworlds, which aects the state of embodied beings, in-cluding people.


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Places of powercan be classied into positive andnegative ones, according to their positive or negative ef-fect. There are positiveplaces of powerthat are extreme-ly favorable for certain spiritual work or for healing. Neg-ative places of powerallow one to know what life invarious eons of hell looks like.

The sizes ofplaces of powervary from one meter toseveral kilometers.

It is important for us to understand what determinesthe state and the spatial dimension (i.e. hell or paradise)

where people nd themselves upon the death of theirphysical bodies. The answer is quite simple: in the oth-er world, people remain in the same state to which theyaccustomed themselves while living in the physical body.One continues to exist in this state until the next incar-nation, which usually happens aer hundreds of years.This is why it is extremely important to master the con-

trol of ones own emotions and not to live like an animalreacting reexively to pleasant and unpleasant outer fac-tors and to impulses of the body.

Various emotional states can be classied accord-ing to the scale of coarseness-subtlety.

Among the most coarse ones are hatred, fury, spite,horror, fear, despair, anxiety, jealousy, depression, resent-ment, feeling of being suppressed by someone, grief of

separation, etc.To the middle range one can assign such states as

haste, impatience, sport or work excitement, sexual pas-sion (passionate desire), etc.

Among the higher states of consciousness, there istenderness (including sexually colored one), the statesthat arise when one aunes to harmonious phenomena

of nature (morning, spring, coziness, calm, songs of thebest bird singers, playing animals, etc.) or to appropriateworks of art.


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There are even higher states of consciousness. Theyare not present among the earthly emotions, and thereis no earthly thing that can induce them. They can becognized only in the higher meditations of Mergence withthe Holy Spirit and with God-the-Father in His Abode.

Out of the three groups of states listed above, therst is called tamas, the second (intermediate) rajas,and third sava. Tamas, rajas, and sava, as earthlyaributes, are calledgunas. The highest categories aretranscendent to the gunas.

Man has a possibility to ascend from one guna toanother and to higher levels by making spiritual eorts,but also can descend.

It should be stressed that the point here is not onlyabout the ability to feel certain emotions, but about statesof the consciousness habitual for a person. And the stateshabitual at the moment of the death of the body deter-

mine ones destiny for hundreds of years.Let each of us think: Do I want to stay for so longin the states of the rst category among other beings likeme?. This is what hell is.

If we blame for our emotions them other peopleor certain circumstances we are wrong. We ourselvesaune to these bad people or circumstances, whereas weshould aune to God, to the Divine that can save us from

hell. Apostle Paul said about this: Shrink from evil,cleave to good! (Rom 12:9).

For the same reason one should keep to the follow-ing principles:

Love your enemies, bless those who curse you, dogood to those who hate you, and pray for those who in-sult you and persecute you (Ma 5:44)

Sele maers quickly with your adversary! (Ma5:25)Blessed are the peacemakers (Ma 5:9)


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Do not resist an evil person. If someone strikesyou on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. Andif someone wants to sue you and take your tunic, let himhave your cloak as well. If someone forces you to go onemile, go with him two miles. (Ma 5:38-41)

Do not judge (Ma 7:1) Do not condemn! (Luke 6:37) Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but

cannot kill the soul! (Ma 10:28) Give to everyone who asks of you. And from

those who take away your goods do not ask them back(Luke 6:30).

Who are wise and understanding among you? Letthem show it by good life, by deeds done in the humil-ity that comes from wisdom. But if you harbor bierenvy and selsh ambition in your hearts, do not boastabout it or deny the truth. Such wisdom does not come

down from Heaven, but is earthly, unspiritual, of thedevil! (James 3:13-15)They who claim to be in the light but hate their

brothers or sisters are in the darkness! (1 John 2:9)Bless those who persecute you, bless and do not

curseDo not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do

what is right in the eyes of everybody

Never avenge yourselves!If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty,

give him something to drinkDo not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil

with good! (Rom 12:14-21)Why do you judge your brother? Each of us will

give an account of oneself to God. Therefore let us stop

judging each other. Instead, make up the mind not toput any obstacle in brothers way. (Rom 14:10-13)


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If someone is caught in a sin, you who are spir-itual should restore that person gently. But watch your-self, lest you also be tempted! (Gal 6:1)

Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, butwhat is good for necessary edication, that it may im-part grace to the hearers! (Eph 4:29)

You must rid yourselves of all such things asthese: anger, rage, malice, slander, and lthy languagefrom your lips! (Col 3:8)

Do not repay evil with evil or insult with in-

sult! (1 Peter 3:9) But anyone who hates a brother or sister is in the

darkness and walks around in the darkness. They donot know where they are going, because the darkness hasblinded them! (1 John 2:11)

Such actions would not bring you to salvation, andyou would fall into that state of moral degradation where

the, lying, and murder pass for generous deeds. There is one miracle which is possible for (any)man to accomplish. It is when, full of a sincere belief, mandecides to root out from the heart all evil thoughts, and toaain the Goal man forsakes the paths of iniquity! (TheLife of Saint Issa, 9:17; 11:8).

Perhaps, some readers may object: To stay awayfrom evil and to care only about ones own salvation is

egotism! And what about wicked people then? shouldwe let them do all kinds of bad things?!.

You are wrong: we are speaking about states of theconsciousness, rst of all. Even ghting against crimi-nals, against the most abominable human behavior if this is our duty, it can be done without hatred, fury,aversion, but in the state of emotional calm and aune-

ment to Divinity. And by hellish emotions we can onlydo harm both to ourselves and to friendsIt is also important to understand that strong emo-

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elds around it, which aect other people and can evenmake them ill.

If we follow the Christs principles, we will notbe accustoming ourselves and other people to hell evenwhen participating in earthly bales.

Let me repeat that the above said does not imply thatone has to stay away from social life, from the needs ofother people and not only of people. There is no greaterlove than this: to lay down your life for your friends!(John 15:13), said Jesus. Yet, when doing this, one should

not feel hatred, anger, or contempt, but feel calm andlove and keep the aention on the Highest Goal theHeavenly Father. It is in this way that Jesus went to Hisdeath.

While being in physical bodies, we can volition-ally change our habits of living in particular emotionalstates with the help of the methods of psychical self-reg-

ulation and various meditative techniques. We can alsoreceive help from other people in order to become asgood as possible. But once the body has died, it is im-possible to change ones status. And no one will be ableto help. Jesus Christ did not take sinners out of hell;prayers of saints or of anyone else cannot do it either.One can change ones own destiny only by oneself whenliving in the physical body.

* * *Our destinies in the contemporary or future incar-

nations are aected by our vices. For example, if we ig-nore pain of other living beings (not only of people) andmake them suer, then God will weave us away from thishabit. How? By placing us in situations where we will

suer pain ourselves, so that we can by experiencingpain learn to be compassionate to the pain of others.In this way we program our destinies to become hell


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on the Earth, but in such conditions it will be muchharder to rene emotions.

So, what should we do to get rid of vices that de-stroy us? Repent!

Repentance

John the Baptist started his homilies with preach-ing the necessity of purifying oneself through repen-tance (Ma 3:2,6). It was rather new for his audience: at

that time, Jews had a very peculiar form of liberationfrom sins. Once a year at the Easter time, they symboli-cally would shi their sins into lambs, then kill theselambs-sinners as an oering to God and eat theirdead bodies. Obviously, this kind of absurdity only in-creased their sinfulness in the eyes of God.

No, ones sins cannot be shied to anyone. One can

wash them away only with ones own sincere repen-tance.It is repentance followed by an intellectual self-anal-

ysis that is the main purier of the soul.God always shepherds us as His ock of sheep

(Jesus oen used this allegory) on the pastures of theEarth. He wants to make us perfect, so that we becomeworthy of enriching Him. This constitutes His Life; it is

with this purpose that He creates material worlds. AndHe will never leave us, no maer if we want to know aboutHim or not, if we love Him or not, if we strive to becomeperfect and merge into Him or not.

Geing closer to Him through eorts on self-per-fection brings true bliss to the seeker. Particularly pun-gent are the rst contacts with the Divine Consciousness.

Then, longer and longer periods of Mergence with It bringthe Highest Bliss. These are the greatest rewards for ourachievements on the spiritual Path!


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But if we do not obey His Will, if we go in the op-posite direction, we doom ourselves to suering. Thissuering is the reward for disobedience.

And the rst thing we can do to save ourselves fromsuering is to repent.

Neophytes in religion (to whom God is not LivingReality, but some abstract entity) quite naturally mayask: how should we repent?

Some people believe that one can repent only to apriest. And it is only through a priest that one can get

remission of sins.But the truth is that there is no remission of sins

whatsoever. It is a wrong approach to the problem. Theproblem of repentance must be considered more seriously it is not how to beg forgiveness, but how to get rid ofvices. Consequently, the mechanism of repentance must bedierent. The religious ritual mentioned above is suitable

only for children, beginners, and weak-minded adults.In some Protestant Churches, the penitential workis organized much beer. Aer the necessary prepara-tion, believers repent before Living God, without inter-mediaries. The solemnity of the situation and supportof the congregation contribute to the intensity of theemotion of repentance.

But not all people can come to such communities

or to truly wise spiritual counselors, who can explainwhat one must repent of and how. Therefore, let us dis-cuss the basic scheme of penitential work.

First, one has to gain an understanding of the fun-damental maers of religious philosophy: what is God,what is the Evolution, what is the meaning of life. Thenit becomes clear why we have to work on ourselves, what

ideal we have to aspire to, what qualities we have to cul-tivate in ourselves and what qualities to get rid of, whatis really a vice and what is only considered as a vice bypeople but not by God. For this purpose, it is good to be-


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gin with studying the words of Jesus and learning to dis-tinguish Jesus Teachings from what people have fanta-sized on the subject of Christianity. Learn from Me!(Ma 11:29), said Jesus.

Sometimes one may hear the statement that the 10commandments given by God to people through Mosesare the commandments of Jesus Christ. If you comeacross such preachers, stay away from them: they haveunderstood absolutely nothing, but try to teach others.In reality Jesus Christ gave Teachings about God and

about the Path to Him which are much more profoundthan the whole Old Testament. They consist of tens ofprecepts-commandments.

And one more thing: if we think that we are goodas we are and that there is no reason to change ourselves,then we are so far from the real spiritual work that we donot have even a slightest idea about its purpose. Because

everyone from beginners up to highly advanced ad-epts can nd in the Teachings of Jesus Christ possi-bilities for self-improvement.

Now let us discuss self-analysis. What people callsins is not the main point. Sins are but manifestationsof our vices features of the character, qualities of thesoul. Sins help in the recognizing vices, but it is vicesthat one has to struggle against, not sins. And this is not

a one-day job To remodel oneself i.e. to remodelthe soul by cleansing it of bad qualities and instillinggood ones into it requires years of arduous eorts.

In order to discern beer a particular vice in one-self, it can be useful to trace all manifestations of this vicewhich occurred in the past all sins of this line startingfrom childhood. And when this work is done, God may

give us a chance to look into past lives in order to see thevices roots originating there.The process of revealing vices and recalling specic

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But if in this process you suer emotionally fromself-pity because of the future retribution, then you areon a wrong way.

We have to feel compassion not for ourselves but forour victims all those whom we made suer physicallyor emotionally. And then we have to re-experience men-tally each situation anew, but this time correctly.

If it is possible to redress the wrong in some way even partly we must certainly do it. If we ask forgive-ness from God but ignore an existing possibility to re-

dress the misdeed, we cannot expect a positive result: suchrepentance does not look sincere.

There can be no substitute for penitential work.The belief that one can get rid of vices through practic-ing meditation and various cathartic techniques is er-roneous. Even if one was provided with an opportunityto enter the eons of the Holy Spirit or even to experience

the Embrace of the Creator, this does not burn ones vic-es away. They remain and keep manifesting themselves.This statement is not a hypothesis but reality.

Therefore, I advise you to stay away from such no-vations as the method of shouting out vices (it impliesthat all one needs to do is just to yell loudly, coarsely, andfor a long time, in a company of associates, best of all);and from such dubious tricks of geing rid of vices

as the following invention of a Russian pastor (beforethe Perestroika he was an instructor in a regional Com-munist Party commiee); he preached: Kill spiders! Youwill have 40 sins remied for each spider you kill! It isbest to stay away from such fools, in order not to becomeblind men led by a blind guide (Ma 15:14).

As a conclusion of this and previous chapters, let

me repeat the main points:People go to hell not as a result of some misdeeds,but because they accustomed themselves to living in hell-ish states of the consciousness during their earthly lives.


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And misdeeds violating the principle of non-causing un-necessary harm to other living beings predetermine theearthly hell.

The rst and essential method of saving oneself fromfuture hell is repentance tracing in oneself all vicesthat cause ethical mistakes (sins) followed by the feel-ing of remorse; the basis of repentance is empathy withthe victims of ones own sinful behavior.

The true purpose of repentance is not to beg for-giveness for oneself but to get rid of vices.

The second direction of initial spiritual work is therenement of the consciousness. It starts with the cor-rection of the emotional sphere: refraining from coarsenegative emotions and cultivating subtle positive ones,as well as accustoming oneself to paradisiacal states ofthe consciousness instead of hellish ones.

Jesus ChristMany people (at least in Russia) considering them-

selves Christians believe that Christis something likeJesus last name. Thus, these two words (Jesusand Christ)become closely related in their minds.

But the fact is that Christis not a last name but rath-er a title or a post. Christosis a Greek word; its Hebrew

equivalent isMoshiach, orMessiahin modern spelling.By these words they call the One who comes to the Earthfrom God-the-Father as a Part of Him to give helpof the highest Divine level to incarnate people.

In order to understand this phenomenon correctly,one has to comprehend well all that was said in the pre-vious chapters: that God-the-Father is One Consciousness

and, at the same time, He is a totality of former humanConsciousnesses merged into Him. These Conscious-nesses were individualized in the past, but aer aainingfull spiritual self-realization and merging into the Father,


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They dwell in His Abode in the state of mutual mergence,forming a single Whole. This idea is expressed in theGospel of John (1:4): In Him (in the Father) was life; andthe life was the Lightof men. There is a statement aboutthe same in the Gospel of Philip (87): The Children ofthe Bridal Chamber (the Abode of the Creator, where onemerges with Him in Love) have one name (i.e. all Theyare God-the-Father now). But They former humanbeings who became coessential with the Father arecapable of individualizing Themselves again for a time

in the form of the Holy Spirit if it is necessary for the pur-pose of fullling a certain task of the Father.

Therefore, it is correct to say that Jesus Christ is aPart of God-the-Father and that it was not always likethis Jesus also has a human past. When was it? inthis or one of the previous Manvantaras? it does notmaer. It is only important that upon aaining full Per-

fection and merging with God-the-Father, He came topeople from the Abode of the Father as a Part of Himwith a Mission of helping them.

There were several Christs on the Earth during thehistory of mankind. They came to the Earth at dierenttimes and to dierent nations, creating every time a hearthof spiritual culture, giving knowledge about God, aboutthe meaning of human life on the Earth and the Path to

the ultimate Goal. Jesus Christ was One of Them.From the description of Jesus childhood, we know

that even at the age of 12 He astonished teachers of Je-rusalem with His wisdom in a religious conversation(Luke 2:42-52).

The further period of Jesus life is described in twosources: The Life of Saint Issa3, Best of the Sons of Men

and in the Tibetan Gospel. This is what is wrien in theformer:

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When Issa had aained the age of thirteen years,the epoch when an Israelite should take a wife, the housewhere His parents earned their living by carrying on amodest trade began to be a place of meeting for rich andnoble people, desirous of having for a son-in-law youngIssa, already famous for His edifying discourses in thename of the Almighty. Then it was that Issa le the pa-rental house in secret, departed from Jerusalem, andwith merchants set out toward Sind (4:10-12).

In every land that Jesus visited during these years

India, Tibet, Persia He healed the sick, raised peo-ple from the dead, opposed paganism, and preachedabout Universal God-the-Father and about the Path toHim. His favorite audience was people of lower socialranks; later it was the same in Judaea.

In the homilies in India, in particular, He taught:Worship not the idols, for they hear you not. Lis-

ten not to the (four) Vedas, for their truth is counterfeit.Never put yourself in the rst place and never humiliateyour neighbor.

Help the poor, support the weak, do ill to no one,and covet not that which you have not and which yousee belonged to another. (5:26-27).

In Persia, answering questions of the highest priestof the Zoroastrian faith, He said the following:

Even as a babe discovers in the darkness its moth-ers breast, so even your people, who have been led intoerror by your erroneous doctrine and your religious cer-emonies, have recognized their father in the Father ofWhom I am the prophet.

The Eternal Being has said to your people throughthe medium of My mouth: You shall not worship the Sun

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The sun rises in order to warm you during yourwork; it sets to allow you the repose which I Myself haveappointed.

It is to Me, and to Me alone, that you owe all thatyou possess, all that is to be found about you, above you,and below you..

But, said the priests, how could people live ac-cording to the rules of justice if it had no preceptors?

Then Jesus answered, So long as the people hadno priests, the natural law governed them, and they pre-

served the candor of the souls.The souls were with God, and to commune with

the Father they had recourse to the medium of no idol oranimal, nor to the re, as is practiced here.

The Sun is acting not spontaneously, but ac-cording to the Will of the invisible Creator, Who gaveit birth.

The Eternal Spirit is the Soul of all that is ani-mate. You commit a great sin by dividing It into a Spiritof Evil and a Spirit of Good, for He is only God ofGood, Who, like the father of a family, does but good toHis children, forgiving all their faults if they repentthem.

The Spirit of Evil dwells on the Earth in the heartsof those men who turn aside the children of God from

the right Path.Therefore I say unto you, beware of the day of judg-

ment, for God will inict a terrible chastisement uponall those who shall have led His children astray from theright Path and have lled them with superstitions andprejudices! (8:8-20).

Also there is an account of some words that Jesus

said to Tibetans:I came to demonstrate the human potential. WhatI do (let) everyone will be doing. What I am (let) every-


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one will be. These boons are for every nation, (they are)the water and bread of life. (Tibetan Gospel).

Jesus returned to the land of Israel only at the ageof 29 (The Life of Saint Issa, 9:1). It is that which He didand said there that became well known to the future gen-erations.

Upon returning to the native land, Jesus with severaldisciples-assistants began to travel visiting many townsand villages. He worked wonders such as healing sickpeople and raising people from the dead, preached in syn-

agogues, in houses, in the open air about what the Heav-enly Father wants people to be.

Thousands of people listened to Jesus, witnessedmiracles and got healed of their diseases. Some of themgave up their earthly occupations and joined Jesus inorder to travel with Him and to learn from Him.

He taught them by explaining the Path to Perfection

and by demonstrating the methods of spiritual healingand meditative techniques.No doubt, He wanted to nd them as people to

whom He could give all the highest knowledge about theFather. He wanted them to enter the Abode of the Fathertogether with Him. Father! I want those you have givenMe to be with Me where I am! (John 17:24)

But when He said something that exceeded their

ability to comprehend, they surprised Him with theirlack of understanding; many le Him doubting the ad-equacy of His words and even His sanity (John 10:19-20; 13:36-38; 14:5-7; 16:17-18; Luke 9:54-56, etc.)

Even His mother and brothers once came to the placewhere He was preaching to take Him home, for they de-cided that He was insane if He is saying things like that

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male disciples (one of them was Judas Iscariot who be-trayed Him later) and Mary Magdalene.

And where were the crowds of thousands of excitedcommoners who listened to His sermons, ate the food thatHe materialized for them, and got healed of various dis-eases?

It turned out that these crowds did not need theTeachings about the eorts that one has to make in orderto enter the Kingdom of God. They wanted Jesus only toheal, to pay aention to them (Luke 9:11)

Jesus saw this and began to avoid the crowds. Crowds of people came to hear Him and to be healed oftheir sicknesses. But Jesus oen withdrew to lonely plac-es (Luke 5:15-16).

Yes, He healed some of them, but it could not con-tinue like this forever. He wanted people to learn the truefaith, to make personal eorts on becoming beer. Then

the diseases would go away by the Will of the FatherYou faithless and perverse generation, how much lon-ger must I be with you, bear with you?! He cried oncebecause of hopelessness of this situation (Luke 9:41).

And the crowd, being stirred up against Him by thepriests, got angry You look for an opportunity tokill Me, (only) because there is no place in you for Myword! He said once trying to bring them to reason

(John 8:37)But it was too late: the crowd of resentful wanting

primitive people got more and more angry because theycould receive more but were given too lile

Soon, the same people yelled to Pilate: Crucify, cru-cify Him! (Luke 23:21).

And they having taken the Lord pushed Him as

they ran, and said: Let us hale the Son of God, now thatwe have goen authority over Him! And they put on Hima purple robe and made Him sit upon the seat of judg-ment, saying: Give righteous judgment, you King of


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Israel! And one of them brought a crown of thorns andset it upon the Lords head; and others stood and didspit in His eyes, and others bueted His cheeks; and oth-ers did prick Him with a reed, and some of them scourgedHim, saying: With this honor let us honor the Son ofGod! (The Gospel of Peter, 3:6-9)

Why did the clergy not accept Him? There wereno formal dierences between them and Jesus as to thefaiths basis: they spoke about the same God-the-Father,they referred to the same Jewish Bible

But in reality there were very important dierencesbetween them: Jesus preached Living God, Whom Heknew very well personally; while the priests only be-lieved in God without knowing Him. With the help ofreligion, they secured a good social rank and materialwell-being for themselves and therefore wanted to pro-tect the foundations of their confession.

What did these foundations consist of? They con-sisted of a number of detailed religious ceremonials,rules of everyday life and repressive measures againsttheir transgressors4.

If there is such a confessional structure with tem-ples, impressive shows in the form of worship services,an ideology pervading the whole society, and fear of Godsretribution inculcated in the minds of people, then the

priests of this confession become very exasperated ifsomeone disturbs this way of life: if this person saysthat it is wrong and that the priests are hypocrites whodo not know God but deceive people

It is always the case with mass confessions, whichput the emphasis on ritualism and rules of conduct andinevitably forget Living God

4 F.W.Farrar carried out a special historical study on this subject[24].


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In Judaea at that time, the one who opposed reli-gious hypocrisy was Jesus Christ a Messenger of God-the-Father.

Jesus knew from the Father that the end of Hisearthly life was coming. He knew also what kind of deathHe was going to die.

Could He avoid it? Of course, He could! He couldsimply leave Judaea together with His disciples, and allwould have been satised; people would have seleddown and forgoen about Him.

But He did not leave. Why?Because if He had done it, no one would have re-

membered about Him aer a few years, there would havebeen no Christian Churches, no New Testament

This is why the plan was dierent.The plan was, rst, to fulll all the prophecies about

the earthly life of the Christ-Savior to come to the ex-

tent that not one of His bones will be broken and theywill look at the One they have pierced. That is, whenthe soldiers broke the legs of the two criminals cruciedtogether with Jesus to make them die before the night,Jesus had le the body already, and the soldiers justpierced His side with a spear (John 19:31-37)

Second, His death and the days that followed weremarked by many miracles: darkness fell too soon, the cur-

tain of the Jerusalem temple got torn in two by itself(Luke 23:44-45), Jesus body disappeared from where itwas placed, Jesus several times appeared to His disciplesmaterializing a body, He had conversation with them, edi-ed them.

But people were astonished most of all by the evi-dent Resurrection of Jesus from the dead. Though these

people were religious, they did not understand that aerparting with the body every man arises in the other worldwith self-awareness in the non-corporeal form (Ma 22:30).Jesus proved this and did actually much more: with His


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Divine Power He dematerialized His body taken downfrom the cross and then several times materialized it againfor some time.

His disciples, Paul, and then many others devotedtheir lives to preaching about the Son of God Who came tothe Earth, was crucied, and then arose, Who taught aboutthe Heavenly Father and about how to enter His Abode.

Jesus about Himself

I came from God! (John 8:42) He sent Me! (John 8:42) I have come down from Heaven, not to do My

own will, but the Will of Him Who sent Me! (John6:38)

As the Father knows Me, I know the Father!(John 10:15)

I and the Father are one! (John 10:30)The Father is in Me, and I am in the Father! (John10:38)

I declare to the world what I have heard fromHim! (John 8:26)

I declare what I have seen in the Fathers pres-ence! (John 8:38)

The One who sent Me is with Me; He has not le

Me alone, for I always do what is pleasing to Him! (John8:29)

I can do nothing on My own! (John 5:30) I love the Father! (John 14:31)Righteous Father! I have known You! (John

17:25)I came to bringFireto the Earth, and how I wish

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I am the Light of the world. Whoever follows Mewill never walk in darkness! (John 8:12)

I am the gate; whoever enters by Me will besaved! (John 10:9)

I came that (you) may have life and have it abun-dantly! (John 10:10)

I am the good Shepherd. The good Shepherd laysdown His life for the sheep! (John 10:11)

I lay down My life for the sheep! (John 10:16)My sheep hear my voice; I know them, and they

follow Me! (John 10:27) Learn from Me and you will nd rest!

(Ma 11:29)I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life If you

have known Me, you would have known My Fatheralso! (John 14:6-7)

I know from where I came and where I go

(John 8:14)Where I go, you cannot come (now) (John 8:21).For this reason the Father loves Me because I lay

down My life in order to take it up again. No one takesit from Me, but I lay it down of My own accord. I haveauthority to lay it down, and I have power to take it upagain. I have received this command from My Father.(John 10:17-18)

Abide in My love. If you keep My commands,you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Fa-thers commands and abide in His love! (John 15:9-10)

Whoever is near Me is near the Fire, and whoeveris far from Me is far from the Kingdom (of God)! (TheGospel of Thomas, 82)

Whoever loves father or mother more than Me is

not worthy of Me; and whoever loves son or daughtermore than Me is not worthy of Me! (Ma 10:37)I still have many things to say to you, but you can-

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I go to the Father, because the Father is greater thanI! (John 14:28)

Spreading of Christianity

As we discussed already, to the regret of Jesus, Hedid not manage to nd people who could quickly be-come similar to Him. The apostles probably were thebest people in Judaea, but their psychogenetic age wasnot high enough to allow them to comprehend entirely

and immediately the Divine knowledge.One of the examples is a rebuke that Levi gave to

Peter in the time aer Jesus le the earthly life: Peter, youare always hot-tempered! (The Gospel of Mary Mag-dalene, 18:5).

It is known also that Peter was prejudged againstMary Magdalene because she a woman was one of

the favorite disciples of Jesus and was especially likedby Him (The Gospel of Thomas, 114).That is, Peter in the course of apprenticeship with

Jesus had not learned to control his emotions, to live incordial love, had not abandoned arrogance

Aer the crucixion of Jesus, His disciples shookup by His death and the miracles that followed tried tocontinue His work as much as they could. All they

preached, and many of them started to work with theirown disciples. For this purpose, most of them stayedamong Jews. But Apostle Thomas went through Syria tothe East, and where he could from India to China established Christian communities. Syrian and IndianMalabar Churches established by him exist till now (seemore details in [11]).

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Some of Jesus disciples wrote their scriptures,which have survived to the present day. They were Mat-thew, John, Thomas, Peter, James, Philip, Judas (not Is-cariot), Mary Magdalene, Nicodemus, also Paul and in-direct disciples of Jesus evangelists Mark and Luke.

According to the Gospels, John and Mary Magda-lene were the favorite disciples of Jesus. The Gospel writ-ten by John is one of the best in quality and volume. Heis also the author of three Epistles to disciples. The rstEpistle contains many valuable precepts and pieces of

advice.But John also wrote two texts, which are very dif-

ferent from the scriptures mentioned above. The rst ofthem is called The Apocryphon of John, the second one isThe Revelation of John the Divine(Apocalypse), which isincluded in the end of the New Testament.

The Apocryphon was wrien by John soon aer

the crucixion of Jesus, i.e. before he wrote his Epistles.One can see from it that though John was carefully writ-ing down all precepts of the Teacher, though he encom-passed the most important aspect of Jesus Teachings the cordial love, he did not manage to comprehend withhis mind during the time of communication with theincarnate Messiah the essence of His appearance on theEarth, and the essence of the Father Who sent Jesus. He

asks God questions like these: Why was the Savoir ap-pointed? And why was He sent into the world by HisFather? And who is His Father Who sent Him? (TheApocryphon of John, 1:20).

And he receives answers about the nature of theFather, the Holy Spirit, Christ, about the creation of theworld

But then he is put to the test on intellectuality, whichis typical of prophetic contacts: aer about one third ofthe text, the narration changes its character, there arephases without any meaning or value The Gods inten-


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that in me rst Jesus Christ might show forth all long-suering, as a paern to those being about to believe onHim to Life Everlasting. (1 Tim 1:12-16).

But all this happened aer the crucixion of Jesus.Paul never met incarnate Jesus and only some time laterhad personal contacts with His disciples. But aer ac-cepting Christianity, Paul yielded himself entirely toGods guidance and with all his remarkable energy be-gan to work on transguration of himself using, amongother things, meditative methods granted to Him by

God.In addition to this, God assigned Paul with a spe-

cial mission to bring the new faith to the pagans of theRoman Empire outside Judaea.

Paul preached ardently, created new Christian com-munities, argued with religious leaders of pagans. Manytimes he was beaten to death, but each time God returned

him into the body, and Paul again strove to ght.Paul wrote many Epistles addressed to various Chris-tian communities. In these Epistles, there are themes socontradictory that some historians even proposed a hy-pothesis that moral teachings were added to the Epis-tles by another person: so dierent in style and intellec-tual level their various parts are. But the explanation ofthese contradictions logically follows from the contra-

dictions of Paul himself.He simply could not manage to change himself com-

pletely. To transgure into a whole Divine person, hewould need 10 years of serene apprenticeship. But Paulhad no such possibility, and he was struggling ardentlywith his former character at the time between givinghomilies, being beaten, wandering hungry and frozen,

or being imprisonedSo let us forgive him that highest Revelations fromGod he alternated with hatred against homosexualsand adulterers It was also him who, for the rst time


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in the history of Christianity, declared an anathema adamnation on behalf of the Christian Church (1 Cor 16:22) contrary to the Teachings of Jesus.

His Epistles did a lot of good to mankind, but theyalso became a powerful temptation for future genera-tions of Christians even more powerful than the Apoc-alypse of John. Because being included in the New Tes-tament, they legitimated not only tenderness, kindness,harmony, forgiveness, but the opposite qualities as well:hatred, angry intolerance to those who are not like me,

damnationsIt is Paul and John who developed an absurd theo-

ry that one can wash out ones own sins with anothersblood, with anothers suering. (We discussed this in thebeginning of the chapter Repentance). They stated intheir Epistles that innocently killed Jesus was a Lamb ofGod allegedly sent by God-the-Father as a sacrice to

Himself as atonement for the sins of people Sincethe law was weak as it acted through the esh, God sentHis own Son in the likeness of sinful esh as a sacricefor sin (Rom 8:3), The blood of Jesus Christ, HisSon, cleanses us from all sin (1 John 1:7), He is thepropitiation (for God-the-Father) concerning our sins,and not concerning ours only, but also concerning the sinsof all the world (1 John 2:2), He was revealed that

He might take away our sins (1 John 3:5) As a re-sult, it turns out that it is enough just to come to believethat Jesus was indeed a Christ this is all we need to do:then our sins are remied and paradise is guaranteedfor us

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to the persecutors to die on crosses for the faith in orderto become like Christ at least in this

How much it is dierent from the contemporarybelievers who call themselves Christians, but are notcapable of making eorts on improving themselves, forexample cannot give up smoking

By the Will of God and thanks to personal feats ofthe apostles and other heroes, Christianity spread withtime over a major part of Europe and then over the bothAmericas, Australia; there are many Christians in Asia,

Africa. Today about one third of the Earths populationprofesses Christianity.

And now we have to come to an important un-derstanding: the word Christianityhas two fundamen-tally dierent meanings: Christianity as the Teachingsof Jesus Christ and Christianity as what it was made tobe by people in particular countries at particular histori-

cal epochs.From the very beginning of Christianity and up toour days, there were true followers of Jesus among peo-ple considering themselves Christians, and there werepeople who just disguised themselves as Christians forthe sake of satisfying their vile passions: the desire torule over others, to rob, to torture, to kill There wereand are people who understood nothing of the Teachings

of Jesus but consider themselves true believers; proba-bly they are in the majority Yet this book is not aboutthe history of earthly Christianity, but about the Teach-ings of Jesus Christ.

Freedom of Will

One may ask: how did it come that God allowedbad material to be included in the New Testament?The answer is: one of the main principles of Gods

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dom of will, i.e. the right to choose ones own life path.Do you want to go to Me? If yes go! Take My hand,I will help you! If you want to go in the opposite direc-tion you may go, of course, but try to nd Me anyway.I will be constantly reminding you about Me

To where man aspires with the mind and conscious-ness is an important indication for God about how tohelp this person. For the sake of applying this princi-ple, God allows including tempting information evenin Holy books which describe the True Path.

We can consider this as lessons on psychology givenby our Highest Teacher. These lessons include frequenttests on how much we have advanced spiritually, on thelevels of our intellectual and ethical development.

In relation to the above said, it is appropriate to givea few excerpts from the New Testament. The rst one isfrom the rst Epistle of Paul to Corinthians (6:12): All

things are lawful to me, but not all things prot.The same was said by Jesus: Woe to the world be-cause of the things that cause people to sin, (but) it isnecessary that such things come (Ma 18:7).

The principle of the freedom of will implies thatthe results of each stage of the educational process arereviewed periodically instead of punishing or reward-ing for each decision taken by the person. To illustrate it,

Jesus narrated a parable about a sower (Ma 13:24-30):A man sowed good seed in his eld. But while the

man slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel among thewheat. But when the blade had sprung up and had pro-duced fruit, then the darnel also appeared. So the ser-vants of the householder came and said to him, Sir, didyou not sow good seed in your eld? Then where have

the darnel come from? He said to them, An enemy didthis. The servants said to him, Then do you want usto go and gather them up?. But he said, No, lest whileyou gather up the darnel you also root up the wheat with


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were a paradise on the Earth, then we would have no pow-erful stimulus to advance somewhere else.

On the contrary, we should remember that we haveto live on the Earth actively, not lazily, otherwise He willhurry us through pain for our own good.

The life on the Earth is not the True Life. It is onlya short educational course, a possibility for us to becomebeer, to correct our destinies for the sake of the life tocome, to get closer to the Ultimate Goal.

And if there were no wars and other calamities, then

it would be impossible to display self-sacricial hero-ism for sake of others or, on the contrary, to betray as aresult of being afraid of pain or death of the body

Earthly cataclysms are but an accelerator of the evo-lution of people involved in them. It is an opportunityto become beer.

DestinyIt was mentioned already that the evolution of each

soul goes on for many thousand years, and intervals be-tween consecutive incarnations are longer than periodsof life in the embodied state. From this it follows thatthe main life of every one of us goes on in the non-cor-poreal form; from there we observe all wandering in the

material illusions of many other incarnate people.But when an incarnation begins, during the years

of early childhood we forget completely everything thatwas before the birth on the Earth: the life in the newincarnate state is too dierent from the previous life,because the perceptional capabilities of the conscious-ness aer incarnation into a physical body get signi-

cantly reduced. The consciousness becomes capable ofperceiving only that part of information which it re-ceives through the material organs of sense of its newbody; the former freedom of movement at the speed of


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scientic and technical aspects, is a very good possibil-ity for applying the mind and developing it.

The translation of the New Testament (into Rus-sian, for example) is far from being perfect. The profoundmeaning of some statements of Jesus was cut o bytranslators, who were incapable of understanding Hisideas.

But one error in the translation had a disastrouseect. It is the phrase Blessed are the poor in spirit, fortheirs is the Kingdom of Heaven (Ma 5:3). Many read-

ers concluded from it that Jesus preaches the intellectualprimitivism and parasitism.

But Jesus meant a completely dierent thing! Hesaid about the future blessedness not of panhandlingparasites, but of people who renounced striving for ma-terial wealth and who did it not due to laziness, drunk-enness, or other reasons like this, but due to spiritual

creed due to spirit and not in spirit.Those will be blessed in the Kingdom of Heavenwho renounced possessing earthly things, renouncedseeking earthly wealth because the Heavenly Father willbe their Wealth if they dedicated themselves to aspiringfor Him. Do not lay up treasures on the Earth, butlay up treasures in Heaven for where your treasure is,there will your heart be also (Ma 6:19-21), this is

one of the most important postulates of His Teachings.Regarding wisdom, Jesus taught the following: Ig-

norance is the mother of all evil for us. Ignorance willresult in (spiritual) death. Those abiding in the Truth willbe perfect when all the Truth is revealed (to them). Howmuch it is stronger than ignorance and error! It givesFreedom.

Logos (Jesus) said, If you know the Truth, the Truthwill make you free. Ignorance is slavery. Knowledge isFreedom!


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I will show to you a more excellent way! (1 Cor 12:29-31)

We did not eat any mans bread freely, but weworked with labor and travail night and day not be-cause we do not have authority, but to make ourselvesan example to you, to imitate us. For even when we werewith you, we commanded you this, that if anyone doesnot choose to work, neither should that person eatAnd if some do not obey our word by this leer haveno company with them yet do not count them as en-

emies (2 Thes 3:8-15) But we beseech you, broth-ers to work with your own hands, as we commandedyou! (1 Thes 4:10-12)

All people have to work. Jesus worked. The one whodoes not work to provide oneself with living and to helpothers (if able do it) is a parasite without chances of ap-proaching God.

So the question is: should we encourage the para-sitism of people by indulging them? Do we harm themor help them by this?

But let no one conclude from the above said that weshould never give anything to others. We should give,and not money only. This is a manifestation of our love.But we should give to those deserving it. This will be adeed of wisdom.

Let us remember the words of Jesus: Jesus said,Blessed are those who have toiled: they have found the(right) life! (The Gospel of Thomas, 58).

People

Jesus came to the Earth with the purpose of help-

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the end that however much is said to the crowd of dis-ciples about the Supreme, the majority of them cannotcomprehend it, and at the rst occasion they manifest aninclination to reduce it to primitive religious games oreven worse; some of the disciples are even disposed tobetray and kill the teacher who self-sacricially helpedthem.

But this does not mean that it is useless to helppeople. One must help, but should not expect promptresults. The development of young souls goes on slower

than their evolutionary mature leaders want. And thestudents have time before the harvest.

The discussed psychological paerns of behaviorof people of dierent evolutionary ages explain alsomany social processes and phenomena for example,manifestations of political or religious fanaticism, alsothe ability to understand what patriotism is.

Patriotism

The wordpatriotismoriginates from Greco-Latinpater father. This word denotes the feeling of mem-bership in some social community family, tribe, na-tion, state, religious movement, etc.

The more primitive the social environment is, the

more pey features people use to divide themselves andto associate themselves. And this results in more conictsin such an environment.

Inating of patriotic ideas in large national or re-ligious associations can lead to an increase of nazi (fas-cist) moods. They captivate a part of the society inclinedto aggression, which is represented by the least evolu-

tionary developed people. If the masses of primitive peo-ple excited with fascist ideas are led by powerful diabol-ic persons, then it may result in large-scale wars with thepurpose of destroying or enslaving lower (or called by


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other similar epithets) nations and taking over theirproperty and land.

In other cases, the ideas of patriotism can be usedwith the purpose of defending from enemys aggressionor liberating the country from the occupation.

But the highest patriotism means peoples associat-ing by the idea of feeling God-the-Father as the HighestHierarch, and the homeland for them is His Creation oreven the entire universe. In this case, all people and otherincarnate and non-incarnate beings are members of one

family brothers and sisters of various age, children ofcommon God-the-Father, Who loves everyone.

And this is really the case; this is the actual situa-tion in the universe. But people intoxicated with egoismand hatred, blinded with craving for earthly things can-not understand this. And quite oen such people are theoverwhelming majority of the society

In all nations that Jesus Christ visited, He preachedthe idea of Godcentredness, patriotism, where the Pateris God-the-Father. In The Life of Saint Issa, Best of the Sonsof Menone can nd some information about His homi-lies in India and Persia.

For example, He said to Indians: He alone haswilled and created, He alone has existed since all eter-nity, and His existence will have no end. He has no equal

either in the heavens or on the Earth. The Great Creatorhas not shared His power with any living being Healone possesses omnipotence. He willed it, and theworld appeared. In a Divine thought, He gathered to-gether the waters, separating from them the dry portionof the globe. He is the principle of the mysterious exis-tence of man The Eternal Lawgiver is one; there is no

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He preached the same to Zoroastrians in Persia: Itis not of a new god that I speak but of our HeavenlyFather, Who has existed since all time and Who will beaer the end of all things (of this Creation). He is Godof the good, Who, like the father of a family, does butgood to His children, forgiving all their faults if theyrepent them.

It is to Him that you must address yourselves tobe consoled in your sorrows, helped in your works, andcured in your sickness. Whosoever shall have recourse to

Him shall not be denied. When you address yourselvesto Him, become again as children! (8:6,17-19; 11:13,15)

The same was taught by Jesus in Judaea, whereHe advised people to love the Heavenly Father and feelthemselves as His children.

Apostle Paul also said: I bow my knees to the Fa-ther of Whom the whole family in Heaven and Earth

is named (Eph 3:14-15).

* * * If one looks at the Earth from the depth of the

multidimensional space, it resembles a chicken egg with-out the shell, immersed into tender light. The whitearound the yolk are the strata of the Holy Spirit. Andin the deep beneath them is the substrate on which He

landed us, so that we can grow and mature up to the levelwhen we become able to see Him, to fall in love with Him,to aspire to Him, and to infuse into Him. Why should webe hostile with each other then, instead of directing allof our aention to Him to our Heavenly Father, thePurpose of every one of us?

What Is ManIn the book Genesis of the Old Testament, there is

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image. Some people, who believe that man is a body, con-cluded from it that God-the-Father has the appearanceof a human body. And they began to picture Him in theform of an old man siing on a cloud.

But man is not a body; man is a consciousness, aself-aware unit of conscious energy dwelling temporarilyin a body or outside it. And God, too, is a Consciousness.

An ordinary man is a small consciousness. But Godis the Innite Ocean of Consciousness of the whole uni-verse.

And the task of every one of us is to aain qualita-tive Godlikeness and sucient growth of the amount ofthe consciousness, and then to infuse ourselves into thatOcean and become one with It.

However, it is not enough to become intelligent andlarge. Man sent for self-development into the world ofmaer gets accustomed to living in dense spatial dimen-

sions even without a body. And these dimensions areso distant from God-the-Father that He even cannot beseen from within them. When one lives as a spirit in thenon-corporeal form, one cannot move into subtle spatialdimensions. So, people-spirits, who are far from Perfec-tion, can only know something about God, but theyhave never seen or experienced Him.

In order to cognize the Creator, one has to become:

a) intellectually developed to be able to compre-hend where and how to go to God, given that the Pathto the Abode of the Creator is much more dicult thanany path on the Earth,

b) ethically perfect so that God allows approach-ing Him, otherwise He does not allow it,

c) strong, because one needs tremendous power

and stamina to move from one eon to another; the powerin question is not the power of the body, but the powerof the consciousness. Moreover, the consciousness has tolearn to live in the state of the Creators subtlety. Devel-


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opment of the coarse power of the consciousness meansmovement to the direction opposite from the Creator.

The task of knowing subtle spatial dimensions isfacilitated thanks to the multidimensional structure ofthe human organism (not of the body, but of the organ-ism); the material body is only one of the layers of theorganism. One can say that every man is representedpotentially in all subtle realms. But it is not the same aswhat occultists describe in their books; there is no pointin taking seriously the names they invented for several

non-material bodies that every man allegedly has.But the Holy Spirit (1 Cor 6:19) as well as God-the-

Father (1 Cor 3:16-17) indeed dwell in us They abidein the multidimensional depth beneathour bodies; theKingdom of God is in your midst (Luke 17:21), said Je-sus. And it is enough just to dive But most peopleneed years or even many incarnations for fullling this.

We discussed the methods of the renement of theconsciousness. It starts with the correction of the emo-tional sphere: geing rid of coarse emotions and culti-vating subtle ones. Then one has to cleanse and developthe spiritual heart and then other structures of the or-ganism. Aer this, one continues this work outside thematerial body, inside ones expanded spiritual heart.

The most important part of the human organism is

the root(Rom 11:16,18). It is a connection link betweenthe chakra anahata inside the body and the Abode of theCreator. By exploring gradually this structure of the or-ganism and the multidimensional space around it, onemay realize the fact that every incarnate person possess-es a multidimensional framework, which one has toll with the consciousness growing from the anahata

chakra in the process of spiritual Self-realization (= God-realization). Having fullled this, one gets a possibilitynot only to enter the Abode of the Creator for a time butalso to sele there in Mergence with Him.


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Now, it is easy to understand what is meant by thestatement in the Old Testament that man was createdin the image and likeness of God: the human organismwith its multidimensional nature represents a kind ofsmall model of the universal multidimensional Abso-lute.

The human organism has a remarkable feature:the energies it receives from outside (from the materialfood, rst of all) may be used not only for support of thevital functions of the body, but also for the growth of

the consciousness. Thanks to this, the consciousness cangrow as muscles grow due to the material componentsof the food.

Let us note that it is working muscles that grow.And on the contrary, non-working muscles atrophy. Itis the same with the consciousness: it grows (if it re-ally grows and not weakens due to dominating negative

emotions or long exhausting diseases) in that spatial di-mension where it works. Special work aimed at the re-nement, deliverance from aachments to maer, and atthe growth of the consciousness is called meditation.

All processes of the transguration and develop-ment of an individual consciousness are possible onlyin the incarnate state, for it is through the organs of thebody that we obtain energy needed for these processes.

In other words, the organism is a kind of factory whichconverts

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