Escape from this world (Part 2)

Even just flipping through the book, the reader will be able to take off or loosen some familiar, but hateful shackles and thus come closer to freedom, to change his life for the better.

Let a wise man come to me, not a liar, not a cheat, but a straightforward person. I instruct him, teach him Dhamma - in such a way that, by practicing the path he taught, he soon will know himself and see himself. So he really comes to the liberation from the bonds - in other words, from the chains of ignorance.

(Majjhima-Nikaya)

The book is intended not so much to read, how to study, research ourselves - how much we came to understanding the transcendent mysteries. It is a journey inward, on the roads of destiny, nomadic in the fields of knowledge, the work of sowing seeds and harvesting, activities that are long been considered the highest, - the acquisition of truth. Without giving final truth, we argue that it can be found, and look for it is obligatory. Referring directly to the hearts of seekers, the book tends to awaken in them an intuitive insight, lead to the discovery of the inner world, rich, inexhaustible, unique in its beauty and greatness, which is in each one. Saying "The kingdom of heaven is within you", the Bible reveals to us the only opportunity - an opportunity to soothe all the excitement over the acquisition of eternity. Repeating this, Eastern wisdom says "Paradise is close ...". No book provides a complete form of immortality, eternal and ineffable peace. However, the book will indicate where the search for the perfection starts, where the words of the call to awakening sound. And if there is no highest harmony in our hearts, we are just on the doorstep to the Wandering and Achievement, Acquisition and Admiration.

Delphic inscription reads: Know thyself, and thou shalt know the gods and the universe." The Hebrew Pentateuch repeatedly tells the words "Attend to yourself." Old Testament prophets and New Testament says the same.

With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early (Isaiah 26:9)

Hypocrites! The earth and the sky can discern how much time this will not recognize? Why did you and do not judge ourselves, what is right?

(Luke 12:56-57)

On the person you see? Who is confident in himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ's, so are we Christ.

Examine yourselves, whether you are in the faith; yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you? Unless you are not what they should be.

(2 Corinthians 10:7, 13:5)

In knowledge of their inner being - Christ - is the essence of the New Testament sacrament of communion.

But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of the cup. For any one who eats and drinks, eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.

(1 Corinthians 11:28-29)

According to the East and the Judeo-Christian apocryphal texts, the great sacrifice of body of Christ-Purusha (the universal man, Adam Kadmon, who was identified with the pre-existing Messiah) has formed the world, split into pearls.

However, Phaedrus, I think that such an interpretation, though being attractive, is the work of man with special abilities: he will work a lot, and good luck - not too ... For this, I have no leisure time at all. And the reason is, my friend, is in this: I can still can not, according to the Delphic inscription, to know himself. And in my opinion, it is ridiculous, not knowing yet that, explore strange.

(Plato, Phaedrus 229-230)

As Buddha taught, in this body, death and having a height no more than fourteen feet, but conscious and endowed with intelligence, is the beginning of the world, its development and its decline, and the way leading to its disappearance (which comes for the enlightened). The body, where the soul, i.e. Christ, lives, is a unique instrument of knowledge, which should be kept clean, and at the same time, the soul itself is an instrument of purification. Discovering yourself, you learn and the beyond. A man can know nothing about the nature of Nirvana and the possibility of immortality, unless he understands himself, having acquired this knowledge by experience. Being acquainted with his inner world, a man learns also the external world - as fused parts of the whole.

Knowing one God, embracing the universe, [man] shall be exempt from all bonds.

(Svetasvatara Upanishad 4.16)

God, found within, and at the same time t spread throughout the world, leads a person to freedom.

You should recognize this creature - and it can be infinite. It is not a man and not a woman, it is not asexual. What bodily [shell] it takes, by this it is guarded.

(Svetasvatara Upanishad 5.9-10)

Manifestation of the creator-demiurge are endless, duality lies in his very basis.

For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, should not be condemned with the world.

(1 Corinthians 11:31-32)

Knowing oneself, one becomes inaccessible and is not subject to the High Court. On the contrary, who took the trouble to make it in life, lived in vain, because he will not escape punishment.

And if someone leaves this world without seeing his world, this [world], like the unread Veda or undone deed, does not bring to him a benefit. And even if not awaring of it makes a great and noble deed, it dies in the end.

(Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 1.4.15)

Only conscious purposeful activity, through wishful thinking to himself, is salvific. Only self-determination on the path of perfection gives some results related to personal salvation. It is useless to be born and to die, if during a short period of time allotted to you, you did not do anything to realize the true right of a person - to go beyond the circle of causality in the phenomenal world and to come to a new level of freedom. Standard charity (external piety and good deeds) does not bring any fruit for eternity.

Not everyone who has everything, will know himself. However, those who do not know themselves will not enjoy what they have. But only those who know themselves will enjoy it.

(Gospel of Philip 105)

If the main goal of self-knowledge is solved, seeker is initiated and finds joy.

Happy are those of the earth-born people who have seen the mystery.

The one who was not involved in them will be forever to death

Have similar shares in gloomy underground kingdom.

(Hymn to Demeter 480-482)

The sacrament is to see during the life all the obstacles of death to win them by own conscious activity, striving for liberation. Initiated is one who has managed to kindle in his heart that spark in the fire of tapas.

Thrice happy are mortals who depart to Hades, having seen these rites, since true life is granted to them; for the rest, all that is there is evil.

(Sophocles)

Joy is always infinite. Evil coming to replace exists both in the form of life and in the form of death, but always finite and temporary. Without defeating evil through renunciation already in his life, after the death a man faces with a scary, and in the life - with a reward for his deeds. Perfection is to destroy the reasons of evil deeds, to destruct mechanism of accumulation and reproduction of evil. Death, which stops the evil and bad conditions, can be used for good - to defeat it itself.

[Only] the wise men, who see Him in themselves, [destined] eternal happiness, and not other ... Only knowing Him, [person] goes beyond death, there is no way [that would be] to follow.

(Svetasvatara Upanishad 6.12-16)

Anyone who has seen a supreme principle - a manifestation of God, infinite Perfection without beginning, needs no longer confirmation by other authorities. Salvation is once gained personal treasure that no one can steal or take as his share. Buddha does not transfer enlightenment to others, but only points the way to it.

He is who does everything, knows its own power, the wise, the creator of time, endowed with qualities, omniscient, lord of pradhana and conscious being, cause of knots, continuity and liberation in the cycle of life. Being such, He is immortal, endures as a ruler - wise, omnipresent, the keeper of the world, who always owns this world, for there is no other basis of [this] rule.

(Svetasvatara Upanishad 6.16-17)

Upanishads describe in detail the category of a supreme being - the Creator, which needs to be mastered for successful saving practices. However, they do not call to worship Him, that is, to create idols through which a man is seduced and deceives himself, realizing false religious purposes. On the contrary, all the practices are intended to destroy the boundary between the lower and the beyond, and to merge with the supreme. The purpose of yoga is defines as: Jiva should merge with Paramatman, alive being with the Beyond. The mechanism of erasing boundaries lies in the implementation of the principles: Thou art That, I am Brahma (the Creator), etc. All the elaborated system of exercises is given for anyone could attain higher by the inner path during this life, as the outcome of their efforts.

By diligent friction of thinking, [person] sees God like a hidden [fire]. As sesame oil in sesame beans, oil - in the cream, water - in the river and fire - in the piece of wood, so the Atman is comprehended within himself by who looks down on him in truth and asceticism. [He understands] Atman, permeating everything, like oil contained in the cream, - the root of self-knowledge and asceticism. This is the highest Upanishad of Brahman! This is the highest Upanishad of Brahman!

(Svetasvatara Upanishad 1.14-16)

God is not identical to a man, but he is present in a person, as well as throughout the world, and is the root of self-discovery. Yoga is a joint of the living soul, a man's person with the Atman. To start your own salvation, you have to find Him in yourself, but it will be only the beginning of the saving path.

For the LORD will again rejoice about you over you, as he rejoiced over thy fathers, if you obey the voice of the Lord your God, keeping his commandments and his statutes that are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn to the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all your soul. For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off, it is not in heaven, that you can say, "Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it to us, and make us hear it, and we do it? " and beyond the sea, that you can say, "Who shall go over the sea for us and bring it to us, and make us hear it, and we do it?" but very close to you this word: it is in your mouth and in your heart, to execute it.

(Deuteronomy 30:9-14)

There is no difference in religion and the teachings of different times and peoples in the question that God reveals to him who loves, listens, and seeks to connect to Him.

For a record before you call heaven and earth to life and death I tell you, the blessing and the curse. Therefore choose life, that you have lived and your offspring, love the Lord thy God, to obey his voice, and to cleave unto him: for in thy life, and the length of thy days, to put you on the ground.

(Deuteronomy 30:19-20)

To know yourself is the same as to know God in yourself, because in the other you will not find Him, but you can only come to the opposite - to the idolatry, the dangers of which are discussed in the Bible more than in detail. Well, still more ridiculous is an appeal: "Know the compilers of the book!" or bewilderment: "What have I to know in myself, live as lived, do not muzz. Physician knows me, what is in me. And neighbors know that I am a good person."

Let it not be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of the people, let there be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood, a man who heard the words this curse, bragged to his heart, saying, "I'll be happy, despite the fact that I will walk in the my heart", and lost so fed the hungry.

(Deuteronomy 29:18-19)

Here, as likes to tell Kamasutra, verses are given:

He wanted to erase the edge between what he was

And what seemed ...

(Shakespeare. Storm)

But could this our readers? Hopefully. You just have to endeavor, because there are no other recommendations with a more strong motive in the scriptures. Salvation is teaching of rational self-interest in the initial stages of the transition to a developed altruism.

If now we rubbed to ourselves in favor -

Become generous to our beauty.

(Shakespeare. Richard III)

Buy the truth and do not sell wisdom and teachings [instruction, punishment] and mind.

(Proverbs 23:23)

The main thing is wisdom:

Get wisdom, and with all thy getting get understanding. Exalt her, and she shall exalt thee: she shall praise thee, when thou dost embrace her, put it on your head an ornament, will take your crown of glory.

(Proverbs 4:7-9)

Expending is necessary (these are the laws of the genre), and if not now, then later. If later, then more - penalty percents run over. But what pleases me, that is huge benefit - of spending which is, in general, small.

Both life and wealth of the servants are completely in the hands of the lord.

He wants - all takes away. To argue with him is a sinful thing.

(Panchatantra)

And what for argue: He knows - we do not know. All the more, in a dispute truth is born, but relationship die:

Or you'll be polite to me,

Or I'll drew your screams

In ecstatic roar of the war.

(Shakespeare. Richard III)

Some important aspects of the problem of knowledge can be traced back to Goethe aphorisms.

Can we know ourselves? Not by contemplation, but by action. Try to do your duty, and you will know that you have.

Sadly, this idea is false, it relies on an incorrect understanding and offers salvation by affairs only. To do your duty, you must first know what it is. Activities should be based on the newfound truth, and then the path will be error-free. Contemplation is extracting the truth, a necessary first step, and the action - its implementation for own good - is to be followed by the second stage of a two-part journey. To act properly, you need to find untold. Then, despite all the troubles, the result is always good. Goethe mixes these steps to simplify the structure of the way, full of unexpected events and impressions.

Surely, who does not see this black in his early work, during Work of Stone, will not complete magistery; this can not be done without going through the stage of chaos, no matter what other colors he may have seen in the course of work.

(N. Flamel. Hieroglyphic figures)

The path will be successful only if its start was accompanied by a small blackening. This symbolizes communication with woman-wisdom, to find which is absolutely necessary for success.

It is not enough to have knowledge, also apply.

This is the basic principle of any spiritual practice. Unless the theory studied is not set in motion and action, it will not bring good fruits. All theoretical knowledge is required only to use them for own sake. If knowledge was based on flawed or false ideas, the results of the practice will be disastrous and sad. Hence come all the biblical warnings against false prophet preaching. The practitioner must learn to distinguish the true word from the false one, anticipating in advance the consequences of the application of a given doctrine: bitter mustard seeds will not let the sweet fruit. However, such an anticipation can only be given as a gift from above, and sweet fruits are not for everyone. Tortuous path is designed just for the righteous and holy, the end of which is always sad.

The question of the purpose, the question "what for?" - is certainly unscientific. Much further leads us the question " how?"

Then, what for are texts and scriptures? If there is no purpose, all equipment is meaningless. Necessary funds are given by God and always meet that goal, without this the activity becomes mechanical and meaningless, not leading to any result. The question "what for?" puts everything at stake; it determines the benefit of a man.

The correct view of the nature is useful for any practice.

In fact, the right view precedes the true practice and causes it. For any (false) practice, on the contrary, any nonsense will fit.

At higher levels you can not know anything, but you need to do, just like in a game knowledge helps little, but it all comes down to implementation.

Goethe once again to place the practice and denies the existence of truth underlying it. This is the limitations of the man who still does not know the truth, because he has not found it. Faust, Goethe's favorite hero, rewrites the Bible: "In the beginning was the action." However, the expectation is vain that the assistant who appeared out of nowhere and with which you can enter into a contract, will lead to good. Another's mind does not help to get rich; the other can give the method of comprehending the truth, but not the truth itself. Mephistopheles seeks only to get a slave; responsibility for the consequences of a contract will belong to the man himself. In other passage Goethe himself points out the consequences of such behavior:

People who do not have enough for the necessities, are busy with unnecessary.

To obtain a necessary and discard excess, one needs recognition, distinction. God helps only to those who are conscious. The same Goethe, who was trying to deny the truth, admits:

There is nothing worse than active ignorance.

Indian scripture tells how the king of gods Indra and representative of demons (asuras) Virochana come, independently and without knowledge of each other, to Prajapati - the lord of creatures, to get his superior knowledge of the Atman.

Look at yourselves (Atman) in a dish of water, then tell me what you do not understand about the self.' They looked in a dish of water. Prajapati asked them, 'What do you see?' They said, 'Blessed one, we see ourselves in reflection, from hair to nails.' Prajapati said to them, 'Make yourselves smart, well-dressed and elegant, and look in a dish of water.' They made themselves smart, well-dressed and elegant, and looked in a dish of water. Prajapati asked them, 'What do you see?' They said, 'Blessed one, just as we are smart, well-dressed and elegant, so these, blessed one, are smart, well-dressed and elegant.' 'This is the self,' he said. 'This is the immortal, the fearless: this is brahman.' And they left, their hearts at peace. Seeing them, Prajapati said, 'They are leaving without attaining or knowing the self. Those who have this as their inner teaching, whether gods or demons, will be defeated.'

Virocana went to the demons, his heart at peace, and taught them this inner teaching: 'The self must be glorified, the self must be served here. Glorifying and serving the self here, one attains both worlds, this one and that one.' So even here, today, they say of one who does not give, does not have faith, does not sacrifice, 'Alas! He is demonic!' for this inner teaching belongs to the demons. Folk make ready the body of the departed with alms, clothing and adornments, and think that they will win that world by means of this one.

(Chandogya Upanishad 8.8.1-5)

Materialist understanding of the world is only the first step, which is necessary to pass. Indra was not satisfied by the first answer of Prajapati and returned for further search of truth. Indra and Virochana look the dish with a smooth surface, which is a woman; one seeks in her so needed wisdom.

To the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy pregnancy; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children and thy desire shall husband, and he shall rule over thee.

(Genesis 3:16)

And the angel of the Lord said unto her, I will greatly multiply your descendants, so that it shall not be numbered for multitude.

(Genesis 16:10)

Acquisition of knowledge is just the process of pregnancy and childbirth of the women-wisdom. "I will greatly multiply" means the absolute amount of knowledge in the form of individual pieces of information. Bible does not skimp on such promises.

I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land of which I said, I will give unto your seed, and they shall inherit [it] forever.

(Exodus 32:13)

Higher states of consciousness, attained by intellectual and spiritual exercises, give only finite knowledge, which is only the veils, idols.

And I gave my heart to, to explore and search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of men to be exercised in it ... And I gave my heart to, to know wisdom and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this is - a striving after wind.

(Ecclesiastes 1:13,17)

As many times warned Solomon, the human wisdom is not to be confused with Wisdom - the wisdom of God.

Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly.

(Proverbs 16:22)

All the clothes will be thrown off (Job 1:20-21, Ecclesiastes. 5:14, 1 Tim. 6:7). In the Eastern tradition namarupa is false names and forms, the illusory body. Essence of mystery practices (where a person passed during life through divine and infernal states) is to understand the inner content and to become an ordinary (but transcending duality) man. This seeker does not need to go any higher or lower path. By itself, the most established in Ancient Greece ritual of Eleusinian Mysteries guarantees the Virocana state only.

Theme of salvation path is presented in the most vivid and colorful form and construed in detail in the eastern Buddhist tradition, although the same conclusions and positions can be dig in all religions. We present here for example a comment by following of the Wheel of Dharma Sutra (but not bowing the pious reader to Buddhism).

There are two extremes, O monks, which should not be followed by the ascetic. One is a tendency to all sorts of desires, vulgar as barn, low, peasant, popular, non-Aryan, senseless. Another is the propensity to exhaust itself, heavy, non-Aryan, senseless.

When a person is saved, he goes to the true reality. Monk (bhikkhu) is not just taking religious vows, but a seeker of truth, this can be any person; ascetic is striving for freedom. His world has the form of two, the pair of opposites. Putting himself to free flow of events and setting no obstacles, a person gets into one extreme - the recognition and satisfaction by all that is going on. In doing so, it is easy to get on the path of temptation and seduction, to enter into a blissful state and be lost there. To think only of low pleasures in the heavenly worlds is simple; proceed following to this recipe is available to anyone and requires no effort. Conversely, bhikkhu who deals infinite mortification, constantly bringing himself to exhaustion, renouncing all the best, gives his blessing God knows whom, and also goes pointless.

But neither the one nor to the other extreme is not a clone true middle road comprehended until the end of the Tathagata, the vision of the giver, the giver of knowledge, to calm, to knowledge, to enlightenment, to the repose of the leads.

Noble middle path that has been recognized by Tathagata is a process that takes place within the seeker. Tathagata is not a supreme being and not an idol, but the man's state. This is a student, seeking for the truth and salvation, coming as it is, without inventing own means of salvation, and not restricting himself by human moral categories. Following the path of liberation, he examines all quickly, pushing the ice of his existence as an icebreaker. Like the legendary worm Shamir of the Jewish tradition, he splits any stones and extracts particles of light for himself. Main way category is that going understands and comprehends all: the truth makes him free. Middle path leads to appease all manifestations of troubles, which are waiting for a man from two sides. Through the union of the two extremes and the way, a trinity is formed.

Basis of existence is composed of three elements: this, an obstacle and that. Depict the non-existence by zero or one. Then we will have to draw the existence by numeral three. So: dividing a single void in three parts, we obtain Trinity of the existence... If the obstruction would disappear, then this and that would be a single and continuous, and cease to exist.

(D. Harms)

Links (stages) of the path are identified by numeral eight (numerical transformations are important in the path of salvation).

A live for two weeks

Work for eight years,

But I will show, in fact,

What ascetic can do.

(Vladimir Vysotsky)

The person has also to pull the weight of the "five combustible piles" (skandhas) - the objects of affection, giving fuel for the fire of passion.

But, O monks, there is suffering... what is the addition of the suffering... what is the suppression of the suffering... that's the right path, which leads to the suppression of the suffering...

The Four Noble Truths of Buddhism are related to the basic concept of suffering (dukkha). Suffering is an unsatisfactory state on the way, the enemy, conditions to be overcome. One meets with them not only in the darkened worldly life, but on the spiritual path. World is continuously spinning in the triple sense wheel of permanent birth, development and destruction. All combined things are ceased - the world exists as a complex combination, mosaic, striping of dharmas (laws). Even the terrible apocalypse is a temporal being, the special time zone, which also obeys the laws of combination and termination.

When driving, the chariot wheel is rolling by only one point of the rim, and is resting only on one point; and quite similar, life of a living being lasts only until the thought lasts. As soon as that thought has ceased, one say that the living being has disappeared.

(Vishuddhimagga)

Life is the wheel of being and time, which touches the surface of manifestations by only one point: every moment an infinite number of elements being are composed in a particular combination. The next elusive moment, the wheel is detached from the contact point, the connection is broken, and the same elements produce new combinations. Under these laws the material world and human consciousness, and the world beyond exist; all the more the world of saving person is composite and temporary. Being is a constant process of recombination of states, nothing eternal and infinite exists, but there are rules of recombination. This is the unreality of the world: there are no things that are in the past (these combinations have long decomposed and converted to new), there is no future, because these things do not exist either, and there is not present which is placed between the illusory past and future.

Thus, O monks, a vision of things, being unheard before, opened for me, the wisdom, knowledge, clarity opened.

Those who have known the truth of the way, moved to the beginning of the process of salvation through understanding.

Those who go by middle [way] quickly pass the ocean [of being]. [Those] who go by two [conflicting] ways, will sink in the sea of samsara. Leave duality, stick middle path. The first way [gives] the coolness, the second the heat, both [ways] - the fire [of suffering].

(Kabir)

Noble middle path is described many times in the Bible.

Who then could go into the sea to look upon it, and to rule it, if he went not through the narrow, how could he come into the broad? There is also another thing; A city is builded, and set upon a broad field, and is full of all good things: The entrance thereof is narrow, and is set in a dangerous place to fall, like as if there were a fire on the right hand, and on the left a deep water: And one only path between them both, even between the fire and the water, so small that there could but one man go there at once. If this city now were given unto a man for an inheritance, if he never shall pass the danger set before it, how shall he receive this inheritance?

(3(4) Ezra 7:5-9)

Mountains and valleys, water and fire, darkness and light are divided high and low states.

And the sons of Israel, of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on his right and on their left.

(Exodus 14:22)

Jews (the elected people) are used to move through the energy ocean of this world in the median position between the two extremes.

So Balaam rose in the morning and saddled his donkey and went with the princes of Moab. But God's anger was kindled because he went, and the angel of the Lord took his stand in the way as his adversary. He was riding on a donkey, and his two servants were with him. And the ass saw the angel of the Lord standing in the road with a drawn sword in his hand, and the ass turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam smote the ass, to turn her into the road. And the angel of the Lord stood in a path of the vineyards, a wall on one side and the other side wall. Ass saw the angel of the Lord against the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall: and he smote her again.

(Numbers 22:21-25)

The donkey creates obstacle and turns off from the road three times (Numbers 22:33), corresponding to the three stages in the path of the Abrahamic religions. Angel sent by God to the human world, prevents passing the road as the enemy, Satan. Patristic literature does not miss the theme of the middle path with a nontrivial ethics too. Gregory of Nyssa wrote of the "royal road" (Numbers 20:17):

If thin trail is stretched between the two slopes on the edge of the ridge, for someone who goes on it, it is dangerous to swerve to the right or left of the middle, because by step in one way or another, the abyss is waiting for him. And the law wants that going after it did not leave the path, as the Lord says, cramped and narrow (Matt. 7:14), neither left nor right (Deut. 28:14). These words are a lesson to us, indicating that the virtues are in the middle. All the evil is happening or of a lack, or an excess of virtue ... That who lack chastity is disbanded and the one who has it in abundance, is burned in his conscience (1 Tim. 4:2) ... One who performs in this world his life, safely finishes this necessary journey of virtue, if he can stay on this truly great way, the beaten and the gray by virtue, never turning for blemish on the road.

(The life of Moses the Lawgiver)

Modern authoritative theologian Karl Barth speaks of three ways theology: dogmatic, critical and dialectical:

True dialectician knows that this center - living center of any theology - is incomprehensible and is "not visual," and therefore he would not give direct information about the center, because he knows that all of the information, positive or negative - is not really information, but always either dogma or criticism. On this rocky ridge he can just go and if he tries to stop, he would fall - right or left, but surely fall. We can only go on and on - a terrible sight to those who are dizziness, - to go, looking from one side to another, from the statement of denial and negation of the assertion, thus relating them to each other.

To go the way of knowledge, it is necessary to arm by the four noble truths, boldly take risks of faith and not be afraid of doubt. In the words of Zarathustra, "is dangerous to move, it is dangerous to stay on the road, dangerous look back, dangerous shudder and freeze."

Look - here he goes without insurance.

To the right of the slope - will fall, lost!

Just left of the slope - still does not save ...

But it should be, it is very necessary to go through four quarters of the way.

(Vladimir Vysotsky)

So, relentlessly biting into volumes of the book, hard-working and dedicated reader gradually comes to insight and unspeakable truth.

Buddha said: who sees that all arises, says it all exists, - one extreme, and who sees that everything is destroyed, says it does not exist - the other extreme, the truth is in the middle (Samyutta-Nikaya). In Hinduism, the three views with the three gunas - Rajas (activity, birth, creation), Tamas (inertia, darkness, destruction) and sattva (goodness).

"Going to the road ","going from the road, "

Going middle of the road ","go along the road "-

Under such names for Me

They favor the victim, being spread widely.

(Rigveda 5.52.10)

"Going to the road" are those who only feel for the way of salvation, hardly choose the means of salvation for themselves (e.g., begin to read spiritual literature, interpret it and talk to others, to resort to rituals). "Going from the road" are atheists, those who do not recognize and reject salvation, at best, assuming sufficient to be good and moral people. They give up the way, or proclaim aloud militant atheism, or move away from saving purpose silently, without even realizing it. "Going in the middle of the road" are those who are faithful to the middle way, comprehend and learn on the way to the goal, consciously extract benefit for themselves. "Going on the road" are fellow travelers who did not take the main ideas of salvation. They proclaim their devotion to higher ideas in words, but have no understanding, acknowledge God, but worship Him in a false, mechanical form or passively await salvation. So the servants and animals carrying the load go on the road. The entire world is living on these four principles (letters of the divine name); these four rivers still flow from the Garden of Eden.

But be aware - exhausting yourself by path

Mixing days and nights because of me,

To my heart you put down roots hard,

And you have nothing to be sick of it.

(Shakespeare. End - crowns the work)

The Old Testament usually speaks about the enforced action. God always separates the Jews from their homes and moves to a new location, in addition enticing unrealistic benefits. They plod on barren desert land as on the path of salvation, whether right or wrong - their patron (God or female Shekinah) will not leave them. One can connect to the highest category, an angel or hypostasis of God and necessarily pass on the road, making no personal conscious choice.

A: Oh heavens! What a cunning

Has brought us here? Or, perhaps, happiness?

F: Both things together: we were driven by

Intrigue, happiness - led here.

(Shakespeare. Storm)

Jews express their bitter disappointment, suffering in the desert. They have been deceived as chosen people - their pains last from the beginning of creation to the end of the world, so the promised prosperity and happiness can only be mentioned with bitter irony.

And when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the stream were very many trees on either side. And he said to me: These waters in the eastern side of the earth, come down to the plain and enters the sea, the waters shall be healed. And every living creature, reptile, where will [two] of the jet will be alive, and the fish will be quite a lot, because this water will go there, and the water in the sea shall be healed, and which will include the flow, everything is alive there.

(Ezekiel 47:7-9)

Stream is the way, the river of time, the flow of the world between the two extremes. The river flows toward the east of Eden, comes to the plains, the apocalyptic battle will be where in last times, and then the journey ends. Only those who pass all the triple way of salvation, having undergone division into two parts, and the connection, will find the good and the eternal life.

Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick ... then take another stick ... And join them one to another into one stick, that they are in your hand one. And when you ask your people "do not shew us what thou?" Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel with him, and put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in my hand.

(Ezekiel 37:16-19)

In the Hebrew text, instead of "stick", we read the word tree (the knowledge of good and evil - the split tree of life).

When you make one from the two, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the upper side as the lower side, and when you make male and female one, so the man was not a man and a woman was not a woman, when you make eye instead of an eye, and a hand instead of a hand, and a foot in place foot, an image in place of the image - then you will enter [the kingdom].

(The Gospel of Thomas, 27, cf. Eph. 2:14-16)

Why peace arises before consciousness as a single, permanent? Because the rest is not tearing apart into halves of what is really and what is desirable. This is not splitting apart of the established equilibrium, quiet shelter. Single is not shaking up grains of good and evil in own destiny under the pressure of the wind, meaning the need for change. The goal is to rise above the fractional state in the beginning of the reflection period, and then in the realization stage, to achieve merging of all into one.

Your speech is worth of your great peace of mind! Why be verbose? I was deceived, not understanding you!

(Jataka Garland)

So sounds conversation between inside and outside, talking of One and the many. The speech comes from the One that has great peace; verbosity means its fragmentation. Deceived are those who incorrectly perceived the speech.

The man knows God within himself, through his own body. All of the views of the Mosaic law are written in the body of the first man, Adam. They are extremely confusing, and non-freed man easily goes astray. Remaining only in law, in communication with Moses, a person can easily get lost, get entangled by duality horns in the Gnostic blackthorn where God came to Moses.

At the hour when Moses wrote the Torah, he wrote every day deeds. When he reached the statement: "And God said: Let us make man in our image, after our likeness," Moses said: "Lord of the World! I wonder why you give a reason for the fabrications of heretics." He said, "Write it down. Whoever wants to make a mistake, let's be wrong."

(Genesis Rabbah 8.7)

So, without much thought and reflection, there was a preparation of the book, which allows authors to absolve themselves of any responsibility after removing the impurities of doubt and fear. Moses, who was more heroic and tragic figure, described in detail the creation of the world, that is, events that took place in Eden. (Eden is the center for software development in the joint venture "Earth-Sky". In addition to the core, there have been developed also secondary packages: "East-West", "Good-Bad", "Joy-Trouble", and so on, etc.) In fact, the whole process is still going on inside each person.

As if coming to the carnival,

Immediately I picked off the mask...

(Goethe)

We do not keep silent about this. Actor and role are the man and the fate, play and scene are life and world, screenwriter and director are the pair of authors of the book. What man sows, that he shall also reap, that writes in his Destiny book as Scenarist, that shall he also reap as an Actor. So he will be evaluated by the audience (see ancestors, deities ...).

And the theater begins with a hanger. Coming into this world naked, we're also going out of him naked (Job 1:21, 1 Tim. 6:7). And the one who went to the last journey on the Path to Eternal Self-Perfection gets leading role in the play "The Battle in the Way."

I call to battle

All devils - but one by one.

(Shakespeare. Storm)

A: How is it that they travel? Sedentary life was better for them in the sense of fame, and in terms of revenue.

B: It seems to me that their difficulties stem from the latest innovations.

(Shakespeare. Hamlet)

We explain that the "latest innovations" are the signs of the Day of Judgment, the transformation of the fate of the world in last times. The rest of the leading actors of the troupe is as follows:

He that plays the king shall be welcome; his majesty shall have tribute of me; the adventurous knight shall use his foil and target; the lover shall not sigh gratis; the humourous man shall end his part in peace; the clown shall make those laugh whose lungs are tickled o' the sere; and the lady shall say her mind freely, or the blank verse shall halt for't. What players are they?

(Shakespeare. Hamlet)

Let us unfold the meaning:

King is holder of truth scepter, the anointed sovereign, the symbol of supreme power, the object of worship, the King of Kings.

Knight is on horseback, fighter, conqueror of enemies, the will to win.

Lover is the groom, the priest of love, Tantric, holding a bow with floral arrows Softly singing, Possessing a dream.

Humourous man is a madman, going to the end, not understood, following an unknown idea, a hermit from the barrel.

Clown is "Old fool law" and his followers-comedian performing the rules of moral discipline, obeying ban, ascetics, curbing the flesh.

Lady can be understood in two ways. In the negative sense, this whore, mind whoredom, false wisdom, temptation. On the positive side - Wisdom, Sophia, Bride, Our Lady, Grace.

Blank verse in the positive sense is regal Preacher of purity ("blank"). In the negative - a leper, lurching from one extreme to another.

And if someone does not follow the recommendations in this book, it may happen as ever. The question is not what fate comes, but by which writer it was written and what about. That's right, dear readers, you are already Dear Writers.

Will they say later, if become simple actors - and it is quite possible, if they can not find anything better - that their writers hurt them, forcing them to mock their own heritage?

(Shakespeare. Hamlet)

So let me tell you: you are guilty

That refused from supreme power,

Scepter and throne of your ancestors,

Hanging hereditary duty, their rights

And the burden of fame royal tree

Over his rotten branch.

(Shakespeare. Richard III)

Immersing into the biblical events and coming to Eden, one realizes the symbols of the world around and exercises self-knowledge, becoming an active spiritual being.

Both perform actions with its assistance - the one who knows it well, and he who does not know. However, knowledge and ignorance are different. For what is happening with the knowledge, faith, meditation, is more powerful.

(Chandogya Upanishad 1.1.10)

Only the personal conscious way ensures the fullness of salvation, in contrast to the usual mechanical action. Prajna and upaya (wisdom and method of operation) should be properly combined.

Do not judge severely

If we teach heresy!

Looking into a deep,

We get the answer to all.

(Goethe)

Inside himself, a man finds nothing but heresy and tangle of contradictions that he has to untangle himself. Seeker finds a true middle path, cutting shabby cloth of ridiculous existence by razor of renunciation. In fact, the term salvation is synonymous with renunciation - of world, affection, lust of destructive and vain being. Detached person continues to live, but by renouncing, no longer lives, but makes some saving practice, penance, exercise in perfection. Existing in the flesh, he died for this world, but was born for another. He's alive, but dead. But alive. He's dead, but alive. But dead. Hindu saying goes: "The world is clothes of God, give up it - you receive it back." We add: receive already the state of purification and novelty, clothing will be washed. The main rule applicable in this process is the denial, inversion, transition beyond, a particle not: do no tie, do not be tempted, do not indulge, do not enjoy, do not try, do not touch ... What exactly "not want" is not mentioned anywhere, it is expected to find themselves in own lives (and in our book). Only the main principle is heralded: "The blessing to renounced from desires" (Buddha), "Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him" (1 Jn. 2:15, cf. James. 4 4, Rome. 8:7). Let's confirm this idea by a special case of our simple, honest, open Reader who found a new approach to life following our example:

And because you yourself, sir, would be as old as I am, if you could, like crayfish, to go backwards.

(Shakespeare. Hamlet)

Do not sleep, do not eat, keep thinking day and night

About dead happiness and living afflictions.

(Shakespeare. Richard III)

And it is just now that our dear and guided readers understand the degree of responsibility that we take on, participating in the process of Education, Edification, and selfless service. Here is a solid foundation for your peace of mind.

And it does not hurt that the ancient sacred temples

Being staggered, dropped their dome

Something ringing and bright smoldered over us,

And the soul flowered as the dazzling sun.

(G. Vladychina)

How long understood our reader took guts on his cover, the book has no place of pettiness and selfishness, malice and stalk, such as:

Keep the imagination, do not rush;

The die - then we deem profits.

(Shakespeare. Richard III)

Yes, no one will suggest this:

Healing drink was ready

And we become to heal. Doubled suffering:

And who was recuperating, -

We did not think to ask about that.

(Goethe. Faust)

In the words of Shakespeare's Polonius, do you mark this, Reynaldo?

"In the beginning was the word", so the world is a phenomenon of literary and linguistic, artistic and tragicomic work. Here, the main rules are grammar and style, the main person is Editor. Then, what from, in this simple vaudeville, are troubles and burdens? Due to the imperfections of language, depravity of style which was used to write the script of our lives. And what from comes imperfect language? From lack of education of the writer, underdevelopment of his literary talent. Has he ever studied? Studied, but not there, not from those, and not that, and the knowledge were given to him methodically illiterate, without a good educational program of the district. And why ... And in Paradise it (district) is busy by own, more important tasks.

Oh, disgusting! This exuberant garden, which breeds

The mere seed; wild and wicked

Dominates in it. To reach this state!

(Shakespeare. Hamlet)

Now, if we have reached an understanding that gaps in education are to be filled, a look at the curriculum of the authors in order to know in advance what the reader is waiting for good things only.

So, today we stretch network.

Since we will be accompanied by success -

Serve Good, encouraging sin.

Help law by lawlessness.

Bed of vice becomes marriage bed.

(Shakespeare. End - crowns the work)

And here is the program:

1. To eradicate evil and bad attitudes from our readers.

2. To prevent the occurrence of bad and dangerous views.

3. To give a new, bright, useful.

4. To develop, strengthen and expand the good that is already present.

5. To familiarize with joy, to carry out training for the development of good humor, ease and freedom. To give the basics of relationships with the opposite sex in order to keep the holiday mood.

The program was developed, improved, fully tested on a group of Stakeholders in a few years and adopted for implementation. Author's assurances of its utility are included. Now, dear students, your task is to use this program, and our task - to help, methodically competently and without a doubt!

Why, what should be the fear?

I do not set my life in a pin's fee;

And for my soul, what can it do to that,

Being a thing immortal as itself?

It waves me forth again: I'll follow it.

(Shakespeare. Hamlet)

And do not frown, this is not good. Retrieved by authors for themselves and others, the result is positive. Or negative? Or positive? This swing is hanging in the heart of the indecisive. But further:

May be the devil: and the devil hath power

To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps

Out of my weakness and my melancholy,

As he is very potent with such spirits,

Abuses me to damn me.

(Shakespeare. Hamlet)

So, we need to have fun. Or do not need to have fun? We have fun. No, we will not have fun. We have fun. Yes. No. Yes.

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit dries the bones.

(Proverbs 17:22)

We have fun. Yes.

Nay, do not think I flatter;

For what advancement may I hope from thee

That no revenue hast but thy good spirits,

To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flatter'd?

(Shakespeare. Hamlet)

Carl Jung observed a surprising phenomenon: a person with unsound mind has dreams of neurotic character, which contain fragments of myths and. being told to adequately, represent the alchemical process. Other researchers have noted that the process is going on also for most normal people, sometimes in connection with the events of their lives. It was felt that this process is necessary for all. We say more: the construction or reading of the myth occurs in each person, not just in a dream, but in reality. That's the way of the whole world which is maya (illusion) - Dreams of God.

Who dreamed, blurts in reality.

(Panchatantra)

Couple "in a dream - in reality" forms a dialectic of unconscious (intuition) and discursive logic. Intuition is a woman, or a night, the logic - a man or a day. But at night the male is dominant, and female during the day.

The true symbolism is where a particular presents a general not as universal dream, or a shadow, but as a living revelation of the unknowable.

(Goethe)

However, such a revelation is really a dream, or a shadow. Living grasp of the incomprehensible occurs always in dream-like condition. To be acquainted with the Beyond truths is possible only in dream.

And who decides to interpret this dream is the donkey... The human eye has not heard, the ear has not seen, man's hand is not able to eat, the human tongue is not able to comprehend, the human heart is not able to express (1 Cor. 2:9) that it was a dream.

(Shakespeare. Midsummer Night's Dream)

All truth passes through the state of maya, the contemplation of a vision of dreams reality. The first stage of spiritual practices is the dream, the second - Awakening. The woman needed to reach the heavenly world, first results from the rib of Adam in a dream, ephemeral form.

For you would have filled me full with a stream of wisdom plenteous and fair; whereas my own is of a very mean and questionable sort, no better than a dream. But yours is bright and full of promise, and was manifested forth in all the splendour of youth the day before yesterday, in the presence of more than thirty thousand Hellenes.

(Plato. Symposium 176 e)

Moses refers here to the creator of the world - Jesus, who builds and sells pleroma with the help of female wisdom. Thirty thousand Greeks, in whose presence a feast takes place, are is 33,000 Vedic god, thirty pleroma aeons, saints of different religions. View dream means to touch the symbols which take the shape of angels or gods. Each angel represents a separate law.

Despite its unusualness and external illogicality, our construction justified by strict sequence of primary texts and from this point of view, have strongest probative; in addition, we can assure that the selection of quotes is not arbitrary, although not all the criteria are on the surface (some used machinery works silently, but effectively).

Who has not had the experience, he does not know much, but he who wandered, he multiplied the knowledge. I've seen a lot in my wanderings, and I know more than these mean.

(Sirach 34:10-11)

A sound framework distinguishes our book from most popular works, and mystical revelations and fantasies on such topics. The reality of the text is no less rich and vibrant, but sometimes leads to harsh and even cruel conclusions.

Readers of this article should also remember that there are just conclusions of Runeberg, but not his dialectical arguments and evidence ... The content is generally not too difficult, although the conclusion is monstrous.

(JL Borges. Three versions of Judas' betrayal)

Of course, we are not going to disclose the details of all the technical arsenal applied, not to deny the reader the opportunity to enjoy the nectar of his discoveries and creative blows-insight. Some categories discussed (e.g., eternal life, grace, oriental terms - moksha, nirvana) can not be interpreted in a rational principle, because their understanding is only based on own hard expressible experience. When our treatment says about supreme matters without reinforcement by texts, knocking from discursive-logic to abstract and poetic language, it is only a modest attempt to expand the vocabulary of the reader. Unfortunately, there is a danger of such vain attempts to overwork him by unnecessary pathos.

And there is no living excitement in the breast,

And there is no fire in the senseless eyes!

(N. Yazykov)

In the book, we do not give ourselves up to high delight, because they can quickly form idols in consciousness, and talk only about technical aspects of gaining wealth and attaining salvation as some very real states. To reach the beyond and take a worthy place in it, to become perfect, to know God and to participate in His works are the usual things that can be strictly defined and demonstrated. Texts contain not only descriptions of distant goals, but specific tools to get the desired results too.

Joy last, joy of premonitions,

To know that beyond the death is a world of being.

Dreams of perfection! In dreams and in art

Worshipping, I greet you.

(Bryusov)

All the efforts of those who seek are, in fact, not in vain. There is joy and true being for those who can get into it. Our promises will last the whole book, even though they may not be clear, and will soon become bothersome. In reality, these are not promises, but calls for the possession of something desirable. Here the reader should expect results from himself. To take, you need to do, "Who will go, he will reach." On the other hand, promising a lot in the beginning, in the subsequent volumes, we will speed up the pace to give more information, and it will gradually become clear that it one could not tell right now about all the things. The advantage of the concrete business book on the spiritual and personal matter is that it, like the fireworker guide, can help fuel the fire for the fireworks.

When the Gnostic, aware of shapeless, hardly expressible images and ideas of higher structures of consciousness, transforms them into words, formulates something, turns his speech to a non-gnostic - preaches, retells, prophesies, he uses techniques of "magnetization", "cohesion". In the first phase, including in the work the archetypes of non-cultivated fields of the audience, the speaker connects the major conceptual blocks by the parable magnet. Parable aggregates and organizes around it chaotically living images of the listener. It is assumed that he does not understand everything, but gradually matures to move on. Almost all canonical texts are built on this principle. So proceeds the chief Gnostic of Bible - God, saying:

You shall bring out your baggage by day in their sight, as baggage for exile, and you shall go out yourself at evening in their sight, as those do who must go into exile (resettlement).

(Ezekiel 12:4)

Take the girdle that thou hast got, which is upon thy loins, and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a cleft of the rock.

(Jeremiah 13:4)

Through the prophet, God is preparing a resettlement (exodus) for other people in the process of magnetization. Christ points to the way, seed, rock, fire, vineyard, using these symbols as crystallization centers of consciousness of listening. In the second stage, the Gnostic, addressing magnetized consciousness, begins to interpret - atomize, dismember, disaggregate mosaic, created by clutch; large blocks of coupled chaotic ideas (archetypes) are destroyed. After grinding, we have "clean sheet", purified substance - the energy of consciousness, which can be set in motion by the idea of any difficulty. In addition, a clean sheet is a springboard for expansion in the surrounding areas of darkness. This process, which takes place in the mind, has another name - the spread of leprosy (Lev. 13:13), that is, the purification of body image, of a wild set of unconditioned reflexes - the house in which lives substance, turned upwards in its movement. When cleaning of all the territories is complete, the baptism is finished and goes into a different quality - enjoying continuous flow, undeniable peace.

The plan of the tragedy is more important than the individual actions of the characters: Aristotle noted that either may take their place. Therefore, the lines of Bible stories are also fate lines of every person: they draw certain geometrical figures. These figures are some crystal faces, which are clean imageries, symbols, common to all religions. The lines connecting the stars of the sky in the constellation, are drawn by people, and everyone can draw them in own way. However, the world is one, so that in the astrological systems of different eras and nations constellations match. As Buddha told, the names may be different, but the essential form (a numerical expression of the laws) of the same. The heroes of the legends of the West and East have different names, but they are involved in the same process (the Eastern tradition says more about the abstract things, but the names of the parties, i.e., private and human, are more important for the West). That's the way of the harsh and, at the same time, great reality of the Bible - a program through which the world lives. Its implementation is restarted intermittently after a "reset."

Jewish woman, reading the Bible story of Joseph's sell by brothers, wept bitterly regretting him. A year later, when a new cycle of reading the Pentateuch started, she once again came to this chapter and was very angry concerning Joseph, "Fool, serves you right! You knew from last year, which a piece brothers made for you, - what for you again trusted to them?"

(From folklore)

The work of the program is just expressed in the eternal alternation of multifaceted symbols of one-being.

In my delirium, I am tormented by one

Infinity of some sharp lines

And continuous bell ringing

As the chimes clinging eternity.

I think that after the death of the so -

With agonizing hope of resurrection

Eyes stare into surrounding darkness

Looking for a long-familiar vision.

But in the primordial mist ocean

No voices, no green grass

But only cubes, diamonds, and angles

And evil, endless ringing.

(Gumilev. Patient)

Gradually introducing basic concepts and symbols, we will move to more complex stories, and they will be spread in waves which seem to never end. All the figures come from a single point - United Center - and then get into it. As in theoretical physics, such pictures-diagrams are constructed according to certain topological laws given by God.

I am mad in the forest of primeval Numbers!

I open my eyes: their miracles are all around!

I close my eyes, they in me!

And round the circle in countless combinations,

They slide into memories.

I'm dying, I'm gone,

Breaking face on the stone rocks.

(E. Verhaeren)

Sacred madness is the loss of moral categories of our phenomenal world, the acquisition of high hopes, for which the person is ready to sacrifice his life. The eternal law is expressed only by primordial number, it is always in the past, not in the present, it can only be moved closer. The law becomes visible as soon as the person begins contemplation and sees clearly the supreme. Close eyes means to move from the outer to the inner spiritual practices. Countless combinations are numeric circles, complex dynamic archetypes and combined symbols-images, actively turning combinations (in Kabbalah these are Partzufim). Memories are karma, accumulated fate of the world, the storage of unconscious. The mind of man is broken by the tables of the Torah.

Bible characters are living with full life (John 10:10), passing from one book to another. Key scenes are repeated at different turns of the spiral which connects both the motion in a circle and a forward motion; their heroes change the names as the masks that we help them to remove. It seems that the images multiply, but in fact the names alternate to give an impetus to the same event, to allow to see it from different angles. In an instant, the intersection of different times occurs. Plotting curves and broken lines, the trajectories come back to the beginning again and connect with God. Jung noted that the images of dreams of a man are moving in the same spirals.

Back on the escalator

And back on a leash

The trajectory of the loop

Over every such beauty

heights, voids, and sewage.

(J. Dyagileva)

Conversely, the same names connect person from different "ages" (once again we recall that in fact the biblical reality is timeless). By their common destiny, these characters are merged into one person under the laws of actor play. In fact, Jesus Christ, Joshua, the disciple of Moses, and the high priest Joshua from the Zechariah book are the same person, as well as the patriarch Judah, and Judas Iscariot; Moses' sister Miriam, the mother of Jesus and Mary Magdalene ... Evidence van be always found regarding the specific episodes of Scripture.

Consonance of words are not random!

Let sayings far,

In them are unsolved mysteries of

Always living language.

(Bryusov)

Many-dimensional (multisheet) structure of the world justifies quick flipping of the Bible during interpretation process, and this action may seem feverishly disjointed, like Tarot divination. As explained by Buddha, the nodes on the handkerchief can be unleashed only in reverse order of their knotting. The latter does not coincide with the apparent historical sequence. Any name in the Bible has a unique numeric content and means one who makes some important iterative process, a large stage in the life of mankind.

We sketched picture which may seem pessimistic - too much seems predetermined. However, only the knowledge (understanding of the real situation) allows one to properly raise the question of the right exit and freedom. It gives a huge advantage in this world, and beyond, helping to find the only way that leads to life (Matthew 7:14).

See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

(Psalms 138(139):24)

For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

(Psalms 1:6, cf. Jer. 32:19)

The same stories in different books of the Bible (or different scriptures) can have different finishes, and to choose the good and correct (1 Thess. 5:21) is in our hands. This is very important: we'll go the chosen path themselves. The text is not just a description of life, but its most important part, the tool of experience. According to M. Mamardashvili, the only way to change a situation - to unravel it in the space of the text. "Dimensionality" of such a space is wider than that of any physical or imaginary world.

When a person suffers, he must understand his actions, and if he did not find in them sin, he can explain the suffering by his poor studying Torah, and if this assumption is not true, then it probably suffering due to love of God.

(Talmud, Berachot)

One may throw accusations of mysticism, but a simple denial of this reality does not go away. Even some academic scientists who try to work hard with the text (for example, the founders of semiotics - the new humanitarian science about the symbols) approach closely to this understanding.

Evaluation of an image, whatever it may be - the most high or low, - can easily turn inside out during the motion (rotation, dance) at different turns of the spiral. For those who know the higher geometry, it can be explained: the left and right are reversed in going non-orientable surface in which the inner and outer side are the same, for example, a MЖbius strip or a Klein bottle. The last area, by the way, was used by Levi-Strauss to describe mythological structures of the world (the body of God). These exercises are very useful for the recovery of consciousness.

Just imagine some wriggle surface and the movement of meaning deciphering - reversing surface. Well, there are such paradoxical figures in geometry. There, they look like a smart play, but in the spiritual life, most incredible of abstract geometry is realized... Only exteriorization of ambition takes us out of this infernal cycle of repetition of malice, hatred, human divisions, etc.

(M. Mamardashvili. Psychological topology of path)

Our flat thinking can catch glimpses of truth in this infernal (i.e. essentially hell) world only coming up to some image from different angles, as to the edges of the crater, or a black hole.

And the Lord said, Behold a place by me, and stand upon a rock: And it shall come to pass, while my glory, I will put thee in a cleft of the rock and cover you with My hand until I have passed, and I will take away my hand, you shall see my back, and face my not be seen [you].

(Exodus 33:21-23)

In addition, as rigorous mathematical theorem prove, approaching to "essential singularity" point, you can get any result ... Indulge in a one-sided interpretation, we are bound to hang out between two extremes - from right to left, to go wobbly gait.

The legs of the lame hang loose: So is a parable in the mouth of fools.

(Proverbs 26:7)

We have to go into higher and lower, fall and get up.

Oh dear friend, dear crutches,

To which paradise you have led lame!

(M. Kuzmin)

To some extent, all of this is inevitable: cloven hooves, along with the ability to regurgitate the cud is the biblical sign of clean animal, a symbol of the duality, of binary form, the splitting of the original consciousness. Hoofs, animal shoes, provide a firm footing on the ground, i.e. the material, and also the relationship with the ancestors, contact with the underworld.

You may eat any animal with divided hooves and that chews the cud.

(Leviticus 11:3)

But the truth is that the approval process has not yet acquired the purity (purity itself is also just extreme). For the most part is about the same as it was with Buridan ass, which was not able to satisfy their hunger.

Issachar is a strong ass, lying between the channels of water.

(Genesis 49:15)

Two channels is the division of a unity into two categories: God acts as a law, through the category of commandments and prohibitions, high and low, good and evil. Buridan ass lies, exploring the law and being engaged in theory, but in the end he is not going anywhere to escape and be saved. Nobody gets benefit from this law.

Silly soul is usually reeling from side to side ... and she believes that the truth.

(Teachings of Silvanus. Nag Hammadi)

These are manifestations of human morality and self-righteousness.

The wisdom of the prudent man is to understand his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

(Proverbs 14:8)

So is foolish - to lead constantly to confusion and keep in doubt. Good or evil? True or false? What have we to wait, pleasant or serious? But our reader is not such, he is mature and determined, he "shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their hooves in pieces" (Zechariah 11:16). To correctly understand the sentence, let's interpret it, separate into components, merge into the mind wind. Meat is the body, the flesh of the law, a code of regulations, mobile forms of forces, remote living principle of being. Fat is a bull for slaughter, the lamb of sacrifice on the altar of perfect knowledge. Bull is a symbol of the human person, who gives himself to the beyond:

I call a Brahmin who is powerful, like a bull, noble, courageous, victorious, has great wisdom, is free from desires, perfect and enlightened.

(Dhammapada)

Since in this process an old and decrepit is dying and a new one is born for the beyond, there is a phrase in the Bible: "killing an ox is the same as killing a human being" (Isaiah 66:3). The matter is to kill a vicious, imperfect beginning, destroy bonds, remove the restrictions of human morality. Priest of this action and at the same time the victim is the practicing person.

And the inside of the victim and his legs shall he wash in water: and the priest shall burn all on the altar is a burnt offering, a sacrifice of a sweet savor unto the Lord.

(Leviticus 1:9, cf. Jn. 13:10, Eph. 5:2)

Tear off the hooves means to eliminate ambiguity of human morality, which is an abomination for God (Luke 16:15), to stop flouncing between good and evil, to destroy mental whoredom between the two extremes. At the same time - be free from family ties by breaking relations with the ancestors. "Whoever does not hate his own father and mother ... can not be my disciple" (Luke 14:26), "Follow me, and let the dead bury their dead" (Matt. 8:22).

In order to understand our book and collect the puzzle, the reader must learn to monitor not only one idea, but go all the roads at once, simultaneously. This is possible for an eagle soaring in height, in another dimension. In the traditional description, the collection of higher truths is presented as heavenly network where each node is a precious crystal; each face reflects the brilliance of all the rest. Separate stone network is the archetype, the myth, the firmware of the world, a set of rules, the deity, complex of ideas and powers. Contemplative person, seeking for higher truths, inevitably falls into the space of the labyrinth without the input and output, which has not a dense body, but only the structure woven of the feelings and ideas. Being seen only by the inner vision after the necessary training, the network is a fatal trap for carried away by higher contemplation, false final stop on the way in a beautiful and bountiful land. But the same network provides the only happy possibility - to overcome the quicksand of endless ideas and find the continuation of the path on the other side. Who has not been there, does not acquire higher knowledge - yet the new world begins with Eden. As the Buddha said, " accept all the bad as counsel to achieve excellence." But the final destination is far away, so you should at least read through this book, which is also based on the principle of the crystal, graph, cell network.

No! .. Once I got out of a lover,

Decent this blessing time,

Then should I become a villain

Cursing the fun of our idle days.

I wove a snare: by skillful interpretation of

Dreams, absurd rumors drunken chatter

I sparked death hatred.

(Shakespeare. Richard III)

We add: hatred that is felt by seeking perfection to his dark, oppressive top - sin.

Knowledge gained during the study of a single piece of the world, the world of the beyond, can be also compared with diamond, the crystal, transparent in all directions, solid and indestructible, consistently combining all opposites. But for ambivalent, split human consciousness any phenomenon appears in black and white, the continuity is broken, and the knowledge in the verbal expression takes the discrete fractional form of lies.

What good is it, if you give them "whole"?

The audience pinches it to pieces.

(Goethe. Faust)

At least, that's how a person perceives the infinite. A tool for eternal understanding things as they are. is to transform the non-dual consciousness is eternal.

By pincers of this wisdom that is

Diamond, he pulls out contradictions of will.

Unravelling loops of all fantasies

He disbanded the network of ignorance,

And who was connected, here it is, without chains.

(Ashvaghosha. Life of the Buddha)

For those who tend to get stuck in a dualistic understanding, the Bible makes a serious warning.

A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

(James 1:8)

Woe to timid hearts and hands of weak and a sinner, walking in two ways!

(Sirach 2:12)

Here, of course, the duality of good and evil is meant. True fear of God, which is closely associated with faith and love, just destroys it.

Do not be suspicious of the fear of the Lord and not to start him with a double heart.

(Sirach 1:28)

The Lord of hosts, Him you shall hallow; let Him be your fear, and let Him be your dread. He will be as a sanctuary, but a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense to both the houses of Israel, as a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And many among them shall stumble; they shall fall and be broken, be snared and taken.

(Isaiah 8:13-15)

And do not boggle before your lord,

Otherwise God, the master of all masters,

Will punish you for your duplicity,

Make you kill each other.

(Shakespeare. Richard III)

When a simple unsophisticated "man from the crowd" refers to a perfect knowledge - the Word, he is frightened and lost, and just in case prays. Or, conversely, he is inspired, lights up, becomes calm: "I read the book, have become even wiser and now will offer to God reasonable praise and even a bit of praying, bow and light a candle." But so praying and asking for blessings, the person ignores again (very serious) warning of Buddha: "Whoever does not understand my teaching, he is praying for me." Light truth becomes dark ritual, and for easy going and splendor, is lubricated by incense of leaf words:

god is greater than man people will pray to god and he is pleased with him all that god is doing with the man to bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living can not be god for a lie or a true injustice almighty god will not do wickedly, and the almighty pervert judgment and who runs with all the universes because his eyes are upon the ways of man's god is powerful if they obey and serve him shall spend their days in prosperity and their years in pleasures here god exalteth by his power to remember that praise his deeds that people see god's great and we can not know him listen to his voice, and the sound coming from his mouth god thunders wondrously with his voice makes the great things we can not comprehend wonderful is perfect in knowledge neighborhood god awful splendor of the court, he is excellent in power, and in plenty of justice therefore yes awe before him and let people stand in awe these are wise of heart

[When Elihu stopped talking - the Septuagint] the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind and said, Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

(Job 33-38)

Words of Elihu, recalling the speech of some Christian preachers contain banal truths and outright blatant flattery before God. In some places they have even a parody character. He who has slightly succeeded in contemplation of transcendent truths, begins with enthusiasm to preach the law. But praise to God and the kingdom of heaven is empty speech. According to the apocryphal "Testament of Job," God condemns Elihu from the clouds, saying that wild animal speaks from his mouth. It is the feminine chatter, words of unwise, which cost nothing. We also note that the "words without meaning," utters not a Gnostic, the exclusive prerogative of the Gnostic is a reasonable speech:

Heart seeketh knowledge mouth of fools feed on folly.

An honest witness tells the truth, but a false witness tells lies.

Folly brings joy to one who has no sense, but whoever has understanding keeps a straight course.

The way of life to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.

(Proverbs 15:14, 12:17, 15:21, 15:24)

Some advices from the Bible directly warn from passion by ritual and ceremonial forms of "salvation" (Ecclesiastes 4:17, Ezekiel. 8:6-18, etc.). While laughing at the sacred is, generally speaking, prohibited, to laugh at idols is charged to the credit (Talmud, Megillah). These include all the primitive human ideas about God.

The culmination of the Indian epic Mahabharata is the battle on the field of Kurukshetra (aka Armageddon and also apocalyptic events in the desert during the exodus of the Jews, ended by holocaust), which was the struggle between two sides - black and white, high and low, good and evil. In the end, both sides are destroyed - the Pandavas and the Kauravas. No doubt, our vices should be finished immediately.

After all, who is their leader? He is just, o friends,

Bloody oppressor and murderer.

He appeared and established on the blood.

He did not analyze means, but, reaching

Destroyed all those who had means.

He is fake diamond, whose shine is bright

Only by the sparkle of stolen throne.

From the beginning he was an enemy of God.

(Shakespeare. Richard III)

Many teachings and exhortations have sounded from the pages of this book, and more else will sound, "because my words are not exactly a lie: before you is perfect in knowledge" (Job 36:4). Trick is in that to not allow yourself too much and observe safety precautions.

No, one do not confuses our spirit with empty dreams!

After all conscience - nonsense. About her repeat only cowards

Scaring those who are strong and brave.

Fist is our conscience, sword is our law.

Next, in a fight! We can not go back.

When not in heaven - disembark all together in Hell!

(Shakespeare. Richard III)

We will relax later.

Praise be to the Creator and our weapons,

My victorious friends!

Battle is won. bloody dog is hanged.

(Shakespeare. Richard III)

Lets' move on.

Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you only? We speak before God in Christ, and all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.

(2 Corinthians 12:19)

We will try to say a word to you - do not be hard for you? However, who can withhold himself from speaking?

(Job 4:2)

The authors' intentions concerning the reader are serious enough, and the initial position is invulnerable (they seem to have lost all sense of modesty, and measures). Either way, the basis for their belief is true Scripture.

A: Is this the way you answer the high priest?

B: If I said something wrong," Jesus replied, "testify as to what is wrong. But if I spoke the truth, why did you strike me?

(John 18:22-23, cf. Acts. 23:2-5)

It is unlikely that our critics can find other designs for discussed problems, as well as worthy arguments, except a vague dissatisfaction and the usual references to the authorities.

And in the boiling pot of former slaughterhouses and troubles

So much food for our little brains!

We assigned our enemies on the role of traitors, cowards, Judas

In the children's game.

(Vladimir Vysotsky)

Faced with a difficult truths in an unusual form, the readers like children turn to their emotions, and start to get angry, looking for external enemies. By this they only show their unresolved problems. Emotional assessments are bad assistants in the study of Scripture which describes not the persons, but the objective processes. For established themselves in their prejudices, to read the book will be very difficult. They will try to isolate themselves from the truth by wall of ignorance. However, ignorance of the law is no excuse: according to Socrates ignorance is just sin. To feel the reality of the truth of Scripture, it is not necessarily believe in them. Grabbing the hot iron ball, one will burnt harder if he does not know what it is hot (Questions of Milinda).

They will boldly call you disordered curse,

Protecting name of evil quite intact.

(AD Kantemir)

More difficult it will be for someone who, being himself defiled and unable to no good works (Titus 1:15), is always looking for an unclean (Romans 14:14). He will find a reason to condemn thoughts expressed here, which will inevitably turn against him (Romans 14:23). Betraying the anathema of the book, some malicious people might think that they successfully escaped the hands of the king's death, offering bribe to this executioner by their pious indignation. In fact, it turns out differently: worshiping sordid idols and attempting to denigrate the noble ideas, they themselves will be blamed for the false words.

The sooth and the truth - your judgments are for us.

(Qumran)

However, even becoming the prosecution, the truth is not useless - it will speed up the process of personal maturation. Being a double-edged sword, penetrating into the heart of man (Hebrews 4:12), the word of God should be spoken and can not be left powerless (Luke 1:37, Isa. 55:11). At some point, the reader may get a tough choice (e.g., as suggested by Dostoevsky, between Christ and the Truth).

Behold, this [Christ, the Logos, the Word] is appointed for the fall and rising of many in Israel and for a sign to be opposed.

(Luke 2:34)

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The severity of the material and a serious level of tasks suggests that the book is not like not only to some, but to many, and it is not too difficult to predict the full range of individual responses to it, including very angry looks (Proverbs 25:23). Subconscious mechanism involving some protest forms is in the people themselves. The reaction of the public opinion, which is still less interesting, will be the same as in all times.

While in you the flattering color of news will not fade,

People, always to news varnish, will honor us,

And clever will like naked truth force.

Did the color fall? Much of the readers will already award,

What my cheeky mind lechers in you.

(AD Kantemir)

The charges against us are often a consequence of hurt pride and a perfectly legitimate desire to protect the natural human right that defines the motives of most people. However, true altruism is not to spread the small goodness in the human world, but offering to God, love for God, obedience to the Supreme. Selfishness is all that is done for himself, when God becomes merely a convenient tool and an element of personal existence. The reader will need some effort to the realization that there are things more important than liberal (or, conversely, dogmatic) values. The inexorable time pushes to this understanding, and loose or firmed in sectarian ideas will have difficulty.

Their anger and rage senile are

Already powerless these days -

So let them now rave

At their own coffin!

(Minaev)

If we approach the matter more simply, the answer to the certain level criticism is universal and quite rude:

Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.

(Proverbs 26:5)

The Fool (aka agnostic, though "believer") will never be clever and he needs we speak plainly about it. For his own good.

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Only those are able to find the truth, which are looking for it - that in itself provides an open mind and a willingness to accept. Through the study of the book many can even partake of the fruit of the truth (or bite, as did Adam and Eve in paradise). The acquisition of fruit (Buddhist term) will require more effort. In general, the reader is in any case will have to go through fairly serious challenges, overcoming his ignorance, pride, jealousy and other bad habits.

- You know, you can show idiot to a lot of people.

- Many people would call you an idiot, too. You are probably stalking hidden purpose to send buyers to where your companions sell lamps, or perhaps you do not want me to get lamp.

- I'm worse than you think. Instead of promising you "lamp shop" and promote your bare suggestion that you will find there a solution of your problems, I first check to see if you know how to read. I want to know if you had already come close to such store or lamps were purchased for you otherwise.

Two looked sadly at each other and left.

(Idris Shah. Tales of dervishes)

For those who do not know what they want, our promises may sound rather ambiguous, and they will not receive no external satisfaction in the near future, because they did not satisfy their desires, did not used the work, did not pay attention. So that these are out of luck, they can not do and get. In fact the main problem of the highest semiotics (gnosis) is the organization of a dialogue between two principles: the searching and dark, prospector and gold rock, chipper and wood, water-carrier and river. If there is not dialogue, but our passivity, then we have a cooperation between the two matters - the pursuer and the donkey, the executioner and a thief, the juicer and a lemon.

Embarrassed by strange language,

A muzhik walked being confused,

And rapprochement of progressive with a muzhik

Ended at this stage.

One of them went "home"

Being stirred by conversation,

Another would have walked home,

But his house burned down in the winter.

(Minaev)

House, burned-out in the winter, is the image of the root problems solved incorrectly in the main period of life when a choice and a search of saving issue in himself took place. There is no home for someone who does not take care of himself in time. But there was. But burned. The same motif is the most persistent in the Bible: "Repent", "Save yourselves from the wrath of God," etc. And that is most interesting, the scriptures, one and all, argue that each person in his life has a stretch of road where he knowingly and without the interference can do the most important choice. And Buddhism determines all human life as precious, since only a human can realize the perfection, and with no time limit: "A person is never too old for the truth ..." Heaven is for those who built it, in the hell stay those who planned and carried it despite the difficulties. As by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection (1 Cor. 15:21). It is time to think about the people.

I love thou so much, that will not pause

To send thy soul to heaven,

If heaven will accept my gift.

(Shakespeare. Richard III)

To solve the problem of gaining freedom, we have to formulate an ethics of its search. Whoever did it, gets also ethics of acquiring knowledge. Mastered the knowledge possesses also practical means. The process of liberation takes place in several stages, the first of which is the morality (in the East - sila-paramita), that is the correct formulation of ideas, awareness of the ethical need for search of salvation. Only then truth is acquired, which is the most dangerous thing, as embodying it a person gets in his hands a powerful weapon, including the possibility of the destruction of the world (and himself).

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The result of the spiritual practice depends on true comprehension. The finder of a proper and weighty truth can move far. All is determined by inquirements of a person, by how much he wanted and succeeded. If you agreed to half of the results and small presents of fate, you can not expect from it the best gifts. Stopping the moment like Faust, a person loses the ability to move on. But he still has to go, and better, if in the right and not in the wrong direction. Anyone who is looking for simple pleasures in the beyond, will incline to the mirror waters as Tantal, and his thirst will only intensify, and digestion will disturbed. In our book, everyone will see a part of himself, thus it can serve as an effective tool for self-diagnosis.

Five thousand bhikkhus, Bhikshuni, Upasaka and Upasika rose, bowed to the Buddha and left. Why? The roots of sin in them were deep and complacency big. They thought they had found what they have not found ... With this fault they could not stay in the great assembly. Honored One was silent, did not stop them ...

Buddha said, "Sentient beings present in my assembly have no leaves, there remained only those who are pure and not covered by errors. Shariputra, it is very good that these people full of complacency have gone! Listen, truly I will preach for you."

(Lotus Sutra)

Addressing the crowd, and even the nearest disciples, who were offended by "strange words," Jesus said, "Will ye also go away?" (John 6:66-67). It will be very difficult to read all volumes of the book up to the end, but this is not required - it is sufficient if the reader will find something useful to him (or in him) and stop in time, reaching the desired personal level in this harsh game. In order to change the man's fate for the better, it is often sufficient to understand only one word.

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In a sense, the book could not be not written: the nature of does not like emptiness. Though without great enthusiasm and joy, the authors do their modest debt. However, also not without pleasure.

Son of man, I made you a watchman unto the house of Israel, and thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.

(Ezekiel 3:17)

But almost criminal,

as a loss of face,

abstaining from speech

for a dumb liar.

(Yevgeny Yevtushenko)

Another reason is objective and unbiased approach, strictly scientific method of surveying, and mapping of ideas of the book to the moment.

Again, O Lord, You came among us

For information on the ground - what should become of it.

(Shakespeare. Richard III)

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Also more personal motives are possible (at least theoretically). Besides the moral obligation, they suggest promising both carrot and stick.

For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast of, for necessity is laid upon me, and woe to me if you do not preach the Gospel!

(1 Corinthians 9:16)

Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;

Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:

Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.

(Job 20:12-14)

In all ages, the main motive of public-benefit action was intention of all to give the good to all their own, to instruct in a good and lead to a better. Promoting this high concept, no conditionality was taken into account.

Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint;

But happy is he who keeps the law.

A servant will not be corrected by mere words;

For though he understands, he will not respond.

(Proverbs 29:18-19)

Considering the long history of the matter of overall salvation and numerous unsuccessful attempts by others to complete the work, taking into account that the end is not near, but the time would be, we made one more effort for the sake of the common good.

Do not strain your mind by

Unraveling the mysteries.

I'll tell you myself what happened;

You will soon understand everything. In the meantime,

Surrender to pleasure, experience happiness.

(Shakespeare. Storm)

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Our first thought when we decided to write this book was, "What for write it? So much has been written. Probably, to write is not needed. Or needed? If the reader will not understand and will not accept, this is wasted labor and travail. Maybe he knows more than we do? No, he does not know, for sure. Just we have to fascinate him by good. Who needs that? Everyone needs, without exception..."

A: I'm all sorrow, there is no more my strength!

Can we leave from here?

B: At the very least, we must agree

That intimate poetry is with them.

(Goethe. Faust)

Have patience, dear friends, just patience. "That the soul be without knowledge, it is not good" (Proverbs 19:2). Since we know that, we apply directly to the soul, to its dark top. Well, for example, like Freud, who elevated interpretation to the rank of clinical medicine. Meanwhile, a symbolic description of the feminine source is given in the Bible:

Son of man, a riddle, and tell a parable unto the house of Israel. And say, Thus saith the Lord God: A great eagle with great wings, long feathers, fluffy, colorful, came unto Lebanon, and took the top of a cedar ...

(Ezekiel 17:2-3)

I do not know what to say. World is milled.

Eagles get nowhere, sparrows - expanse.

When clowns get out in princes,

Lords have to go into buffoons.

(Shakespeare. Richard III)

These examples are given here in order to indicate the variety of techniques of interpretation, the multiplicity of ways of working with texts: by analogy (as often the kings asked Buddhist teachers, "make a comparison"), through the "splitting", an indirect conclusion, "direct entry" (into Pardes of Torah, i.e., in Kabbalistic paradise), and so, what possibly will be said later.

I would present stronger arguments too

Whenever in deference to whom Coy

The boundaries of language I would not bet.

(Shakespeare. Richard III)

The Bible gives many examples of how attempts to penetrate and explain, and of refusal of knowledge:

There are three things that are too wonderful for me, and the four I do not understand: the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a serpent on a rock, the way of the ship in a sea, and the way of a man with a maid.

(Proverbs 30:18-19)

On the way, we have already pointed out the eagle, serpent is the Son of Man (John 3:14), rock is the stone where the church is built (Matt. 16:18); ship is the ark sailing through the deluge, when there is the washing away of dirt at the end of the world period; union of man and woman in a blissful union is the bridal chamber. Our book tells about all this in the following volumes.

The answer is still a mystery;

It is not the goal, but only laying of

Mighty way ...

(N. Matveeva)

It is pity, the book has the potential to be endless.

Though you grind a fool in a mortar, grinding them like grain with a pestle, you will not remove their folly from.

(Proverbs 27:22)

But we are not in a hurry to despair because of someone's individual small failures:

Thank you, fellow citizens, friends:

By unanimous shouts of approval

You give a witnesses, how you are wise.

(Shakespeare. Richard III)

Of course, separate attacks, criticism and rebuttal are possible and even inevitable against written by us, and knowing this, we have forgiven all in advance.

God have mercy, no one shouted.

As rocks, as dumb idols,

Stared at each other, being pale.

I began to blame them, asked the mayor,

What means their obstinate silence;

He told me: the people of the speeches, they say, was not used

But accustomed, say, to listen to herald.

...

I'll ask you to forgive me for

That, being immersed in the prayer vigil,

Have released a friendly call not immediately.

(Shakespeare. Richard III)

And the distance between saying and giving ear is to be within reasonable limits.

But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men and needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man.

(John 2:24-25)

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King Solomon, speaking about the four things, is repeated by Buddhist Jataka of reed for drinking, which gives a number of indications to the only true solution of very complex problems, as well as useful advice to readers:

We add that in the World Age, which lasts to this day, there are four age-old phenomenon. You ask, "What?" These are: first is a hare on the moon who abides there until the end of World Ages.

The words "World Age" mean that in present, and in the past and in the future world - always - four miraculous events will be. These four faces, which are manifested by Lord, describe a secret of the four-letter name of God (Tetragrammaton). Rabbit-bodhisattva, whose image is on the moon-mirror is Jacob, the Jewish patriarch seeing the mysteries, contemplating the stars. Moon, dressed in white robes is the sky goddess, edifying and revealing secrets. She was worshiped by the ancient Jews, being symbolically Shekinah. Implementing mirrored yoga, the rabbit jumps into the fire and just in this way gets to the moon. Thus, in true self-sacrifice, he achieves his goal - personal perfection.

The second is the fire, which until the end of the Age will not touch the place spared by forest fire, as described in the Jataka of quail.

The main character in the late period of the world is fire, which, being emitted from the third eye of Shiva, destroys and burns the entire world. However, the fire did not affect the quail, who barely stands on two weak legs and is praising by his weakness (cf. 2 Cor. 11:30). The merit of the righteous is that he is not at war with God, but is guarded by Him and thus will never die. To be saved, you must generate the correct thought, go to abdicate, accept and cease all attempts to defeat this fire.

Third is home of potter Ghatikary, over which up no drop of rain will spill to the end of Age.

Being under the rain means to get to trial, that is, to the deluge coming from the top. The Word of God as a punishment falls on the sinner, who dug a deep hole with burning coals for himself. Potter, educational of human lives (Jeremiah 18), is going to judge the world in hell, where the fire never goes out. This is the destiny of Moses in all ages; forced bath is not threatened for him, because he mastered the Law and will no longer condemn God. Once endured, he became untouchable.

And finally - stalks of cane that grows around the lake near Nalakapany that they continue to the end of the Age of hollow inside. Here are the four miracles that have been, are and will be in this World Age.

Life energy is circulating inside the hollow cane stem - Sushumna channel in the spine of the individual. The void in the stem is the Buddhist doctrine of emptiness that was born in ancient Egypt. This is the perfect doctrine of universal and eternal relativity, which, in contrast to the dead words, gives insight of transcendent wisdom (Prajnaparamita). At the same time, emptiness is only one of the transcendental qualities, a tool to describe the properties of God, for Whom nothing is constant and stable, there is no opposition of good and evil.

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Before our book, all are equal - erudite scholar, and smart philosopher, and sophisticated theologian, and a simple, uneducated (but reasonable) man. When any experienced and wise seeker of truth comes in contact with it, he will get something important. Even if he was faced with similar ideas a thousand times before, he could not find them for yourself.

In his old age he was known as Elder Losaka Tissa; he was always unlucky, and but little was given to him. The story goes that, no matter how lavish the charity, he never got enough to eat, but only just enough to keep himself alive. A single ladle of rice seemed to fill his alms-bowl to the brim, so that the charitable thought his bowl was full and bestowed the rest of their rice on the next. When rice was being put into his bowl, it is said that the rice in the giver's dish used to vanish away. And so with every kind of food. Even when, as time went by, he had developed Discernment and so won the highest Fruit which is Arahatship, he still got but little.

(Losaka Jataka)

We discussed the symbol of food, to fill the stomach means to learn the truths and digest the secrets. Begging are earthly people, the poor in spirit who come knocking and looking for insight, turning to the scriptures. In response, something is given, but always - somehow not too much. Just some insight comes from above to the seeker, it almost immediately disappears. Just one hand gives, getting dream of happiness, the other hand takes away, emptying the cup of consciousness. This is the mechanism of false hope from Pandora's box, temptation and seduction. Even when a person takes possession of the law and develops inner vision - the ability to produce the most spiritual sustenance, and then acquires other higher abilities and reaches any selfish ends, including the fruit of arahatship (personal holiness), he can not feed himself. So it was with our reader - all his knowledge, dedication and dreams forever turned to dust. But it lasted only as long as it he did not pick up this book. Generously applying spiritual food without measure (John 3:34), we provide also something different, saying:

"Come, brother Tissa," said Sariputta, "'tis I must stand with the bowl; sit you down and eat. If the bowl left my hand, everything in it would vanish away."

So the venerable Elder Losaka Tissa ate the sweets, whilst the exalted Captain of the Faith stood holding the bowl; and thanks to the latter's merits and efficacy the food did not vanish. So the Elder Losaka Tissa ate as much as he wanted and was satisfied,

(Ibid.)

By our arguments, methods and sequence of presentation, we help to every intelligent man, opening the book with a good intention, to see the problem in its active form which is the most useful to him in person.

... The people stood in their place. And he read in the book of the law of God distinctly, and connected explanation, and the people understood the reading.

(Nehemiah 8:7-8)

Holding the bowl of consciousness of the reader, we will, as necessary, to pour spiritual knowledge into it, up to his full insight. However, if our readers will again be frivolous to wander at random 'spiritual' literature or seek assistance in various religious organizations and societies, to "lock in" their faith by rituals, all this grace will suddenly end, and a waste of time and effort will start again.

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On the other hand, the authors, being experienced in such matters, do not intend to take on too much responsibility.

He lightly scribbled something expected by groundlings [audience orchestra] or Holy Spirit dictated, and making a fortune, threw the pen, almost at random presenting us as inexhaustible pages, and retired...

(JL Borges. Page of Shakespeare)

After becoming acquainted with our work all the burden, both personal and global, will inevitably fall on the shoulders of the reader, even that one, who now holds the book.

Think about whether it is time, my friend, my dear,

Go to meet my speeches,

Do you want the world escaped unexpectedly adversity?

After all, if at the eternal grave

I have to shut up these words,

That judgment day will drag on for years.

(Goethe)

In the Day of Judgment, words will be weighed, through which one is both justified and condemned. If readers who have long remained in idleness, take over this weight and start a useful spiritual work, the painful process of judgment of the world may take a very long time. We very much look forward to their new forces, but at the same time provide for any scenarios.

I'll tell you a story with a mystery, and you solve. If you understand it, but will not say a clue, then the great sin will fall on you. Well, if you do not understand, then sin will not be.

(Twenty-five stories by Vetala, cf. Jn. 9:41, 15:22)

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Beyond the core, the curious reader may a number of smaller questions to authors on their own position and circumstance. Of course, here too, it was not without some secondary problems that are inevitable in our world.

Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuade me to become a Christian. Paul said, I would to God that you never know how many, not only you, but also all that hear me this day, and altogether such as I am, except these (?) bonds.

(Acts 26:28-29, cf. Phil. 1:13)

Being free, St. Paul "has become all things to all men, that he might by all means save some" (1 Cor. 9:19-22). Comprehensive answer to personal questions usually is not given, so did Christ (Matthew 27:11-14; sense of silence of Jesus at the trial before Pilate will become clear only towards the end of the book). However, we will give one more piece, useful for the self-determination of the reader.

If you say, I am a Jew, no one moves. If you say, I am Roman, no one was worried. If you say, I am Hellene, a barbarian, a slave, a free - no one shudder. If you are [saying]: I am a Christian - [all] shake. If I could [get] a sign that [the Archons (?), i.e., the power of this world] would be unable to bear - a name!

(Gospel of Philip 49)

The apostles themselves, far from being liberated from the power of Caesar, find it difficult to answer the question of who they are. They only list their qualities and conditions and express their intention to become true Christians. Anyway, the name is not just a self-designation, or social status, it implies involvement in the actual processes and active participation.

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We present further possible criticism in our address.

You taught me to talk

In your language. Now I know

How to curse, - thanks for that.

Let the plague will carry both of you

And your tongue.

(Shakespeare. Storm)

There are good reasons to suspect that the authors did not apply any systematic work and all the more so specific literary tricks, and a book was being written by itself.

In general, it was as if a friend of mine, which I told you, had intended to write something, because he kept a lot of cards and leaflets, probably expecting that in the end they will stick together without much damage ... perhaps expecting that this sketchy information ever shed light on inner workings ... [obscenity]. Of course, if the whole mass of cards and leaflets will connect to something sensible, what did not actually happen, for reasons partly clear from the documents themselves.

(J. Cortazar. Manuel book)

Authors should recognize that this preparatory work, although more intense, actually took place. Then our work was the "organized in best way and elsewhere fixed many times" (Grimmelsgausen. Simplicissimus). Because we do not rely on innocuous secular documents, but, to put it mildly, on serious literature, there is every reason to hope for a happy outcome, rather than just leave the reader in the chaos of construction site. Bonding of material should happen in his mind to give rise to a new organism. In natural-philosophical language, this process corresponds to the creation of the world (planets, stars, the universe, ...), in this case - the personal world, and in modern biology it is described as mitosis, cell division, the implementation of the gene pool.

Who has put wisdom in the heart, or who hath given understanding to the mind? Who can number the clouds by wisdom and keep bottles of heaven, when the dust turns to mud and boulders stick together?

(Job 38:36-38)

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The reader will find in this book vitrified ash - knowledge, survived after previous combustion of the world, i.e. apocalyptic burning of matter by God. They act as the remnants of interpretations, relating to scattered fragments of Scripture. In some ways, a critical approach is right: traces of the hidden meaning are found only in the meticulous reading of the Bible. When, during the study of sacral texts, people record personal discoveries on the paper, they only carry randomly selected commands and their sets from world hard drive to their home computer, basing on their naive notions of space, time and causality. However, they do not know and can not know how to actually the program, that combines these commands, works, though they are actively involved in the work by their own destinies. In order to understand something, we have to interpret (divide in fractions) strongly mixed material, artificially connected by external historical canvas, which by no means exhausts the content. However, we are trying to implement more - to build a new, perform the alchemical process of melting (as history has shown, those who were engaged in Gnosticism, sooner or later come to alchemy to realize their knowledge).

I alloyed ghost of truths in slender nonsense.

(Voloshin)

Primers are the sparks of understanding, and as a result there occur solid clods, stones (i.e., understood meaning units). Restoration of a new real world from kaleidoscopic fragments requires wandering between apparently unrelated episodes of Bible, between parallel stories, apparently (historically) independent events and destinies of people. For the missing elements we have to turn to other sources. In this way, the ancient and seemingly faded texts are transformed into an active form that is irresistible for any reader. Constructive program described is not brought to an end, and the sense of chaos is inevitable until over-cleaning is funished.

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The topological structure of the book is not easy: the presentation is accompanied by a large number of citations that are on the crossroads of different themes and ideas. Some reference sequences of the text fragments, as well as keywords-symbols that represent cross-cutting themes of the book (and are the subject of detailed interpretation), are marked by Italics. At first sight, our method of work includes an element of chance and unpredictability.

Six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

Again, out of place, King and Jack wormed...

Solitaire comes out! Half of cards are again in the rest.

And it lasts many wild years!

(S. Kirsanov. Divination)

However, we must remember that in serious cases nothing happens accidentally. As for it will be at the end, will tell the reader - from personal results, since all said below-above should not leave him on the sidelines as idle observer.

Solitaire ... turned out. Taking off each card, he

Showed very distant after millennium, day ...

(Ibid.)

The book is not finished, because it is open on all sides. Another model of it is described by Borges in "The Book of Sand" (sand grains are discrete truths that have not melted yet). This is a book with no beginning or end, with an infinite number of pages that can be opened at any place and read each time in new way, and the reps will never be. If there is a cross-cutting theme in our text, it has a tendency to go around and come back (hopefully with some useful results) to the point where the reader began his feat, with a risk of being permanently lost. For completeness of such feelings, it would be useful to remove the numbering of sections and pages of the book, but, for technical reasons, and especially because of the lack of skill, we postponed this improvement until the next, expanded, edition.

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And yet, it is enough to be hypocrite and shy, it is time to honestly say that this work is not some popular little book, but a comprehensive treatise, seriously guide in Sacral Semiotics, Tantric Synergetics, Relativity Oculism, Universal History of Secret, Transcendental Gastronomy, Astral Geography and Unlimited Tourism, Blessed Aesthetics, Applied Sex Geology and All-Purity Balneotherapy. Yes! And no questions to ask! And Our Reader, the most intelligent, thoughtful, comprehensive, all-developed and gifted, will find in it (the book) answers to any his questions, interesting and important for all. If one has no questions yet, we just want to help him with the book and, under our support, to further strengthen and develop his talents and, of course, an outstanding diligence. And who did not read our book, then let he be so. Things that are known... Smart people will find something to say about those.

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We are making efforts to give, together with the treatment, the antidote to it. Yet the Gnostic character of the book is fraught with danger to stuck in it at the uncritical and dogmatic learning certain "dangerous" ideas, e.g.., scandalous and heretical. These are all no-trivial thoughts from the point of view of the pious, but an inexperienced person who is reliable "protected" from all.

Do not tempt foreign tongues, but try to forget them:

All the same, you do not will manage to bite the glass teeth.

Oh, how painful is flight of another scream -

For the wicked delights, dashing payment guards.

(Mandelstam)

But it does not worth to overestimate this problem: at the vulgar level, all these motives have long been at the hearing, being unconsciously perceived and naively repeated by modern mass culture, which itself is creatively impotent. The best defense here is a conscious attitude; teaching readers to it is also in our mission. As for authors, the time of the wicked delights has long ago and irrevocably gone. At least, in the performance of their work they felt plain tire, rather than addicting and captivating charms and temptations.

And as consciousness manifested,

Steps and voices silenced, as well as

Talks about the mysteries of the different religions,

And worries about payment for line...

(A Block)

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To return to the Father, the modern prodigal son can not avoid trials, which began on his way for a long time - after eating the apple and the expulsion from Eden.

My son! If thou come to serve the Lord, prepare thy soul for temptation.

(Sirach 2:1)

No one will enter the kingdom of heaven, which has not passed through the temptation.

(Agrafa - saying by Jesus, not included in the Gospel: by Tertullian. De baptismo)

The implementation of this process will happen easier after reading, and therefore this option is preferred. So we try again to calm the most cautious readers.

No, my timid watcher,

Dear scout! I'm not a demon,

No tempter, by tester,

Whetstone, compasses, lot, plummet. To measure right, to weigh right

I want hearts - and into the viscous look

I dip the eye,

Laying talk as net...

Cutting up live furrow,

From bright stars of my love

In the foreign soul, as in new one,

Sow the seed - the star.

(Vyach. Smith)

Even falling on good soil, the seeds may not come up immediately, but only ripe painfully, after a long time. But the result is worth of the effort - it will be a spark of pure flame. The Indian Kama Sutra lists 64 forms of knowledge, like 64 hexagrams of the I Ching, and (in some versions) 64 main yoga asanas. Sixth of the knowledge of Kamasutra is unfolding of rice grains and flowers. Rice grains symbolize the souls of ancestors, these are the seeds that go into the earth, the underworld and become the hidden knowledge, which is to germinate. By compiling tracks from the grains, understanding of the underground world knowledge, forming a series of ancestors takes place. Flowers mean heavenly knowledge, which still relies on the ground. White lotus grows from black mud, but is not sullied by it.

O sweet sounds! You call powerfully

Me out of the dust, again in other spheres!

Call those whose souls are not callous,

And I - I hear the news, but I have no faith!

(Goethe. Faust)

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No wonder we are comparing the book with the network (mathematically speaking, with intricate graph). The similarity is not only external, structural, but also functional. Every truth sees the other through a complex system of relationships (as opposed to tree, not only vertical, but also horizontal). The network is thrown far enough into the sea - in the subconscious mind, passing through the weakened logic control of excited and hopeful reader. Jataka of superstitions mentions Brahmin nicknamed the "guess the tissues." Cloth (Latin textum, like text) is a doctrine, a set of ideas and meanings, entangled and intertwined to get the whole veil of maya (illusion), and the Brahmin is Moses, the one who examines the law.

God revealed to Peter in the canvas clean and unclean

Creatures, and my book reveals the same to you.

(Goethe, cf. Acts. 10:10-15)

Canvas, which saw St. Peter, was gray, consisting of interwoven black and white threads. Therefore, we also need to consider the ideas of high and low level, and not be limited by inspired slogans. Network is woven by shuttle fluctuations in different directions. In the maze of right and wrong, good and unwholesome lives and deeds, over the centuries material is accumulated for Judgment, where the network will finally be dissolved.

Temptation [by knowledge?] initially is similar to the web, then it becomes a solid tackle.

(Talmud, Sukkah)

At the first contact with the divine one feels only touch of a weightless cobweb, which links to the beyond world; it can caught only angels and butterflies. Then the network is growing and falls into our world.

Seeing this, Simon Peter fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, Depart from me, Lord! because I am a sinful man. For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the catch of fish which they had taken was also James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said unto Simon, Fear not: from henceforth thou shalt catch men.

(Luke 5:8-10)

Fishes, shining like silver are the souls of the ancestors, the main treasure of the world. As you know, Jesus was able to extract directly coins from fishes (Matt. 17:27), that is the individual fates, separated from the sansara being ocean.

And Anthony fished in triumph

Carrion that weighted

Your clever diver to his hook.

(Shakespeare. Antony and Cleopatra)

The apostles learned from him to catch all the creatures by the law network, up to the highest kings and gods, devastating other worlds, so Peter was enought to horror. Now it was time to move on to communicate with the world of the living.

For among my people are found wicked men: guard, as birders, fall to the ground, put a trap, they catch men.

(Jeremiah 5:26, cf. ABB. 1:15-17, Eze. 13:18)

Christian apostles act not only at sea but also on land. The same mission to capture and save the souls of men is now available for our readers.

What's the buzz, what's the hubbub, Ananda? Did fishermen pulled network?

(Chatum Sutra)

Effective preaching, which attracted living beings on the path of salvation, has grave consequences for the person who utters it: he will not hear in his address nothing but noisy censure and charges (violation of the customary way of life, causing disease, broken families ...).

Kami faith is captured, but not learned.

(Shinto proverb)

Only a dead knowledge can be learned, the letter of the law; preaching true faith gives a continuation of life (John 10:10).

So liars weave a network of hundreds of threads running down from the language, as from the shuttle, and as if the fishermen fish, entwine dupes by them.

(Somadeva. Ocean of Legends)

The authors again can be suspected in some vested interests, although not the most vile, and in an effort to collect tribute from the readers of the book in any form. In fact, only voluntary giving can benefit for both parties.

Rusuy set free ten thousand fishes. They were born in heaven and gave him forty thousand pearls.

(Buddhist canon)

Moreover, small mutual gifts should not overshadow the main goal - to achieve the One, that is, the kingdom of heaven.

The man is like a wise fisherman who cast his net into the sea. He pulled it from the sea full of small fish, among them the wise fisherman found [one] more [and] good fish. He threw all the small fish in the sea; he easily chose the large fish. He, who has ears to hear, let him hear!

(The Gospel of Thomas, 8, cf. Matt. 13:45-48)

In any case, the technique of fishing should be used appropriately.

Can you pull in Leviathan with a fishhook or tie down its tongue with a rope?

(Job 41:1)

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Alarmed reader can be comforted by the fact that no one invites him to become a follower of the new religion.

Lord Mahavira said to Gautama:

When the seer sees the Dharma itself, he sees it through a network of words. Guess is a network of words, closing the window. From this indirect observations, sects and systems come. The path proposed to you, Gautama, is the direct path of the seer. Be vigilant and be seer of dharma.

(Uttaradhyayanasutra, Jain religion)

Issues of religion as a social institution are not treated by the possibility, if not required: our matter is personal understanding, based on the eternal texts. As the ancient Romans told, tua res agitur. Thus, the typical reaction to our book, "I am able to understand it, but how will be reading about these passions for others..." - Is in vain, though outwardly is noble feeling. "Let them be for you alone" (Prov. 5:16). The true (spiritual) religion should treat own constructions with a certain sense of critical humor to give a possibility of going beyond itself. By this it differs from the sects, professing strict systems of dogmatic assertions and constraints that are not substantiated by Scripture, but invented by people. Thus, the authors did not intend to hold anyone in the orbit of their interests and ideas, despite possible concerns:

Meanwhile, he spends time in the fables, and

Best juice comes out of our bag into his one.

(AD Kantemir)

On the contrary, we want to give to the reader the personal use of the golden key to open new shiny personal horizons.

I am the door: who enters by Me, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out and find pasture.

(John 10:9)

All the ways to freedom will be open in front of him.

The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but can not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

(John 3:8)

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On the other hand, those, who are eager to use any means their irrepressible forces, may try to use the book for the foundation of new religious organizations - the potential inherent in it, in principle, is quite good for such mundane purposes.

Am I not God? Light and grace is

All round me! Here with wonderful depth

All the creativity of nature is before me!

(Goethe. Faust)

A ready-made models and examples for writing liturgy of Your New Temple is more than enough in the book:

Put the whole world on stage,

People and creatures - magnificent series -

And through the earth from heaven to hell

Go steady!

(Ibid.)

We come again to the fact that even in the church, organized by ourselves for finding peace for the future, there is no such rest. To find it, we have to find the truth, the same truth, which will solve all the issues.

So you, being jealous about spiritual gifts, try to enrich them for the edification of the church. So, speaking in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret.

(1 Corinthians 14:12-13)

Inside the church, we gain salvation through the truth for themselves, but for others it is necessary to prepare the way to the beyond through the cross.

We prayed for charter

And just composed his fingers.

The glory to departed God,

Prepare new crosses.

(A. Barkova)

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Despite the resistance of the objective reality and the biblical material (see Old Testament), we occasionally try to make turns to optimism and inspire the reader's faith, which would help to continue his hard work.

There in no darkness, no death in this world.

We all are on the seashore,

And I am one of those who choose the network

When there is a shoal of immortality.

(Ars. Tarkovsky)

Do not assume these calls being insincere; as events unfold we set more ambitious targets, aiming far beyond the beach. Wonderful chariot is capable of flight.

Stretching out the thread, go after the light of air space!

Pay attention to the paths full of light, created by prayer!

Weave without nodes the work of glorifying!

Become Manu, breed divine race!

Tie the leash to the axes, o employing Soma!

(Rigveda 10.53.6)

When all the threads unite in a single garment, painful contradictions disappear and complete understanding is reached. The one who has found it to be saved. The network will disappear and will become a valuable pearl necklace.

Go looking for her, and she will reveal herself to you. Take hold of her and don't let go. Then you will discover the peace of mind she offers, and she will become your joy. The signs of slavery you wear will become signs of royal majesty. Her chains will be your protection, and you will wear her yoke like a magnificent robe. You will wear Wisdom like a splendid crown.

(Sirach 6:28-32)

Mystery of salvation is a crossword puzzle that we have to unravel ourselves, having only sketchy information; the rest is yet to get. One who does not want to start the process of unraveling and spends the time allotted to him, waiting for a magician who will fly to him in the blue helicopter and bring all the answers, would get nothing. One can only sympathize with those who remained in chains of inculcated doctrines, Scripture foretells grief for them.

Education for a crazy is shackles on his feet, and the chains on his right arm.

(Sirach 21:22)

Lights are rushing to the call, preparing death to us:

These seem resigned wanting carry away in fraud

Likened to heaven holy ambassadors

And their wicked lies are like singing of angels.

(Goethe. Faust)

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The image of the network, draped over the world, is closely linked to the image of God. Indra network consists of precious crystals. As the biblical prophets say, God covers the earth by network and introduces his people there.

Behold, I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah ... and stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line of Samaria.

(4 Kings 21:12-13, cf. Lamentations 2:8, Ezek. 40:3, Zech. 2:1)

The Law measures, cuts and divides the world into a thousand pieces-sections. The country, fighting for the rule of law, will itself bound by it as by a network-trap.

Inhaling mold of sects, wandering among the trickiest lines;

Until the honestly prison does not quench,

And invisible worms eat

Ceremonial hall of haughty mind.

(E. Verhaeren)

Trickiest lines are canons, lineages, from which the network is interwoven. Sects (heresies, divisions) acquire their own traditions and rituals that will soon start to seem eternal - covered by old moldy. Worms are snakes, which are on the head of Medusa the Gorgon (female wisdom). Haughty mind is vainly seeking to use its knowledge of the law in the fight against the Almighty. Gnostics believed that the Old Testament is a network straddled by God.

This God, extending one by one the many networks, ranging them in the field.

(Svetasvatara Upanishad 5.3)

By the way, remember that the "loop and network" is the Christ (Isaiah 8:14-15), i.e. the Word of God, which gives us not only salvation, but many trials and temptations. According to St. Ephrem the Syrian, loop swept Judah's neck when he came out of a network of Christ, which were apostles.

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There occurred a chariot, bright, moving at will, drawn by geese and cranes, entwined by mesh with bells and smelling by marvelous aroma.

(Aranyakaparva, Ch. 246)

Network is the pleroma, the fullness of being, bells emit charming and attracting sounds to awaken the faith and begin the process of personal reflection. Ezekiel chariot is pulled by higher ideas - geese, their two wings representing the relative and absolute truth. Generally, birds are information media, inner voices, angels, symbolizing the flight of thought and conducting the interpreting knowledge. As discussed in the poem by Sheikh Attar, thirty birds make up the great bird Simurgh, although without realizing it.

So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul. If you found it, then there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

(Proverbs 24:14)

In the Bible (and not only in the Eastern texts) we can find optimistic fragments about going beyond any barriers, which is possible with the proper and reasonable approach:

Keep me from the snares set for me, from the snares of the wicked. But the wicked shall fall into his net, and I will move.

(Psalm 140:9-10)

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Ahmed Al-Tartushi ("The lamp of the authorities", op. By J.L. Borges) tells this parable:

A prophet once walked near a stretched network. The bird sitting beside said, "Did you meet such a simpleton, like the one that pulled this net to catch me, clearly seeing it?" On the way back the prophet saw that the bird hit in the net, and was surprised. She replied: "When the appointed moment comes, we have already no eyes, no ears."

When the readers understand the connection of the submitted material with their own lives, it will be hard to leave its study.

The prophet is snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred is in the house of his God.

(Hosea 9:8)

As described in the Jataka about consent, quail-Bodhisattva (caring, loving, compassionate mentor) taught the birds to raise the net and take it from the fowler, consistently flying. Then quails left the network on a bush of thorns, where it was very difficult to get it out, while they themselves were released. But birder, taught by his wife, waited for their quarrel and struck up a network:

Consistently acting, the birds carry the network

But just they quarrel - they all will hang in it.

Only Bodhisattva with his entourage departs in advance from the network.

Blind is the world. Few see here clearly. Like a bird freed from the net, few go to heavens.

(Dhammapada 174)

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It seems we again get too carried away by explanations and warnings. Another methodological tool is offered here by Indian Panchatantra:

Refrain from the unnecessary threats:

Doubly dangerous is warned enemy;

Not wasting words, try

Deal with the enemy unexpectedly.

Interpretation is the revelation of the secrets; the war is finding weaknesses at the level of ideas, prophecy is a threat. When an experienced opponent knows how to defend himself, even experienced enemy does not know how to attack.

When they shall go, I will let down my net upon them, as birds of bring them down, I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard.

(Hosea 7:12)

As a result of work of Moses on the interpretation of the Torah law, all the road is littered with quails - used and destroyed truths, celestial bird-messengers.

And the wind picked up from the Lords, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, a day's journey on one side and a day's journey on the other side of the camp, as it were two cubits from the ground.

(Numbers 11:31)

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Novelty, relevance and practical value of the book (the requirements for a thesis for a degree), and the word "modern", rendered in a subtitle, can be once more explained as follows. In the book, the Jewish method pesharim is used - interpretation and disclosure of secrets of biblical fragments by their application to the present situation (in the Qumran texts - to the destiny of the community). Or, more simply:

The book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him, and he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written: The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor, and sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, sight to the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord.

And he closed the book and gave the attendant, and sat down, and the eyes of all in the synagogue were fastened on him. And he began to say unto them, this scripture is fulfilled today in your hearing.

(Luke 4:17-21)

Salvation is "here and now" (John 5:24-25), lost opportunity will no longer be repeated.

From atheism to God is one moment.

From zero to the total is one moment.

Take care of this precious moment:

Life is no less, no more than one moment!

(O. Khayyam)

One (single) moment is the Last Judgment, where God is seen as the main actor. At this point, all the forces of the world wake up and complicated transformations occur quickly. Atheism is an attempt to win at this point the state of God through His word, through the law and the tables, to destroy all own obligations, all the hopes and promises. This is the fine line of faith, when it is necessary to do everything. The true believer is ready to make the jump, and therefore remains in that state of atheism, but does not worship idols.

In a time accepted I heard you, and in the day of salvation I have helped you. Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.

(2 Corinthians 6:2)

Year of our Lord is the end of the period of the world, unseen spreading to all people, even though they usually think of it unconsciously, and in different ways. In Judgment Day events take place with tremendous intensity.

Alone the busy day on the battlefield,

And our harvest will be the eternal peace.

(Shakespeare. Richard III)

Judgment is not yet flowing at one moment, but lasts a certain period, when long-tied knots are untied in the correct sequence. People continue to live, but at this time there occur the signs of a gradual loss of old qualities and the emergence of new witness. Into the book of life, deeds are being written that will determine the fate of man in the world to come. However, this serious time is just for a loud call to freedom.

Once a famous rich man fell sick, but none of his friends come to see him. Peoples from entourage told him: "All the people owe a debt to you and fear that being appeared before you, remind you of their duty, and you demand its immediate return." Then the rich man said, heralds, "Go into the city and proclaim everywhere: Such-and-such puts everyone on notice that no one owes to him. Neither now, during his life, nor to his children - after his death."

(Abul-Faradzh. book of entertaining stories, cf. Rome. 13:8)

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In the last days all occurs in the form of ghostly unreal events, and people do not believe anything, because at that time transformations of the beyond take place. People participate in them not just by bodies, but by their destinies, which are typically not investigates and not seen. The beyond is the space of fate, of karma savings recorded in the Book. Signs of ongoing intensive processes will be watched by everyone, but only a few will see their sense - who are deliberately included in them from the beginning. All others will only dimly perceive a change of their own destinies as a consequence of common destiny.

You say mysterious and scary.

In your eyes is a threat. How you are pale!

Who sent you? Why are you both here?

(Shakespeare. Richard III)

We answer: archaic form of our calls should not be an aesthetic barrier for the reader. The word which did not come down to the person and not awaken him, is initially dead. Having missed some truth, he loses his life into an equivalent size. Anyone who sees this truth as outdated and useless dooms himself to equal insulation from eternal life. Only that lives who gave the seed of life to the truth in this world. Truth is the most effective amount of technology in the world, its life currency, the best way to become rich.

Our language was heavy coat

And too smelled old.

(Vyazemskiy)

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The Bible contains a program, according to which the weighing of lives and hearts of all beings occurs. Our book is a short reference regarding the last days and offering a simple model of the world during the period of the intermediate state, when the Judgment takes pace the desert (Ezekiel 20:35-38). Although the experienced reader will be inclined to take some of what we said with irony, appeal to him not to lose time sounds more than serious.

As the core, summer dies,

The song is sung, drinking is prohibited.

In the purple chariot

In another edge it goes.

(Alim Keshokov)

Song is complete contents of the book; as the summer is not easy, but belongs to the Lord, you need to hurry and do not lose rate.

The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.

(Jeremiah 8:20)

Both Eastern scriptures and prophets of the Bible say that the end of our time is the autumn harvest, ripening seeds for a future world where human responsibility increases many times.

Then saith he to his disciples, 'The harvest is plentiful but the laborers are few; Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.

(Matthew 9:37-38)

When the harvest turns white (John 4:35), a second stage of the reaction comes: all goes to dead stones, white as leprosy spots (se Old Testament). Now the search for the truth of words is over, everything will be reduced to theorizing philosophies and schools, and then to the earth church. These organizations will only benefit from another's harvest. So it often happened in the past, including the recent.

Give me one summer, o the mighty,

Only one fall to ripe song,

And, by sweet game being filled,

I meekly give in to death.

(Gelderlin. To the park)

World is an endless series of cycles of birth, development and decline. Expected at the end of the world, second coming of Christ is in fact the first coming of the next world period.

Here is that which thou shalt offer upon the altar: two lambs annual [blameless] every day constantly, one lamb you shall offer in the morning, and the other lamb you shall offer in the evening ... and with the same drink offering him a sweet savor, a sacrifice to the Lord. This is a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle of the Lord.

(Exodus 29:38-42, cf. Eccl. 11:6)

You can, of course, and give cause to go on as usual, lying on the stove like Emelya.

Do not worry, that pit will be

What's the matter science dies:

The field will be plowed itself,

Rye will rise without the plow.

(N. Zabolotsky)

After crossing the desert (the dead zone) pleroma will work again itself, but that will not mean reaching the land promised...

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As has often been repeated in New Testament texts, the apocalypse is happening today. In order to know how to save, you need to understand the devastating events actually happening all around us, to know the objective cause of death of the world and to indicate its indirect signs.

But on that day the Lord shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye sons of Israel, shall be gathered one by one.

(Isaiah 27:12)

Jewish people (Israel, the Church), elected by God to do certain things, going into a single beam, like rods, designed to punish.

Without a lord there is no servants, and without servants - no lord.

Their relationship is indissoluble, they are fused together.

(Panchatantra)

To find the force acting in the world, performers are to be linked by mutual responsibility. Hence come the constant fear, anxiety and greed of the biblical Abraham, and all the chosen people. Yet these loyal aides of God enthusiastically say:

The single and peculiar life is bound,

With all the strength and armour of the mind,

To keep itself from noyance; but much more

That spirit upon whose weal depend and rest

The lives of many. The cease of majesty

Dies not alone.

(Shakespeare. Hamlet)

King of Kings, Mighty God dwells among the 12 tribes of Israel (or, equivalently, the 12 apostles of Christ) as the ark. The people exercise community sacrament, receiving from God all his ideas and inspiration. Jews reach full self-denial, having no own destiny, but only realizing the supreme will expression (although, as we shall see, in fact, their fate is a double ...).

By his long intemperance

King destroyed the royal flesh.

How painful it is ... So he took to his bed?

(Shakespeare. Richard III, cf. Rome. 6:6)

Indo-buddhistic views enthusiastically describe the One God (Nirvana, the Body of the Buddha) as an absolute infinite blessing, higher Radiance and Pleasure; in Him there is no suffering, anxiety, illness, fear. But in the end of times biblical God destroys the world, and the whole system of such representations by His anger.

Faith, no; as you may season it in the charge

You must not put another scandal on him,

That he is open to incontinency;

That's not my meaning: but breathe his faults so quaintly

That they may seem the taints of liberty,

The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind,

A savageness in unreclaimed blood,

Of general assault.

(Shakespeare. Hamlet)

Representing God as a state of blissful consciousness, where no idea is prohibited, we give a His naive idol-like description. When someone wants cheap and easy salvation, he thinks about not pure divine state, but the unbridled pleasure of narcotic buzz, and even without hangover. God seems to move freely in space, without beginning, devoid of any restrictions and competitors. No one can tame such a leviathan, everything is possible for him. He extends his qualities and attributes it to all through the lower portions of his Self which are inextricably linked to the world.

The cease of majesty

Dies not alone; but, like a gulf, doth draw

What's near it with it: it is a massy wheel,

Fix'd on the summit of the highest mount,

To whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser things

Are mortised and adjoin'd; which, when it falls,

Each small annexment, petty consequence,

Attends the boisterous ruin. Never alone

Did the king sigh, but with a general groan.

(Shakespeare. Hamlet)

Since all fates are merged, parlous state of the Jews (and therefore of the whole world) is the disastrous state of their Lord. God is the soul of the world, filling it (Talmud, Berachot). Every man is a particle of manifested God and is associated with Him in the state of agony and terrible torment. Own Self can be seen as individual or collective, as a person, family or nation.

What time came anyway: good luck, misfortune,

And yet self-preservation is a law of kindness.

(Panchatantra)

Collective salvation will never happen, but in the last times collective extinction will begin. The trouble will be common to all, and everyone should escape from it himself. Anyone who does not wish to be saved and will remain passive, will be digested in this meat grinder as cannon fodder, as a raw material for new worlds. Offer of salvation is addressed to everyone, although it is to be interpreted on different levels.

Yet so far hath discretion fought with nature

That we with wisest sorrow think on him,

Together with remembrance of ourselves.

(Shakespeare. Hamlet)

The deceased is prince of this world, conquering the earth in the last days, but being himself under authority of death law.

And hell is bound by law?

Here's the news! Well! Well, maybe

With you one may enter into a contract?

(Goethe. Faust)

All go to hell because of the law which exists in the world, not in spite of it. On the other hand, due to the same law every human being can get in the door to improve their lot by turning it to his advantage. Those who apply the law should not enter any contracts with anyone. Warning of possible tragic mistakes, the Bible calls us to life, not to death.

You say, "We have made a covenant with death and an agreement with hell did: when the overflowing scourge passes through, it will not come to us - because we have made lies a haven for themselves and deceit'll cover myself" ... And your covenant with death is collapsing, and your agreement with hell shall not stand. When the overflowing scourge shall pass, you will be trampled.

(Isaiah 28:15-18)

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In the last days, on earth, in the guise of ordinary people there live elected representatives of all kinds, great leaders and patriarchs who have immeasurable power. All souls who lived from the beginning, are now gathered again on the earth, so many nodes are intertwined at one point and each has a unique opportunity that will soon disappear. In the words of the famous theologian, church teacher and heretic Origen, just this world (aeon, age) is the end of the ages. Anyone now is the king of his people, who is at the top of the colossal ancestors' pyramid.

You and your descendants belong to the Father who exists from the beginning; this is from above, from the non-dying Light their souls came. For this reason, the rulers can not come close to them, because the Spirit of Truth is present in them. And all those who come to knowing this, exist immortally among dying humanity.

(Hypostasis of the Archons. Nag Hammadi)

Only that belongs to Father's house and is his offspring, who moved to this sonship state by own, and was not just elected is taken. The evil rulers can not approach him, because he has the Spirit of truth, and owing to knowledge of truth he gains immortality.

Do not give up on my teaching or acquire ignorance, not to mislead their people ... If a few good rules, as you see it, how much better entitled, dominating every meeting and every nation, and in every way you are exalted divine Logos, once you become a master of any force that kills the soul.

(Teachings of Silvanus. Nag Hammadi)

People are all ancestors, the whole race of the man. If the villain appears in the race, the whole race is perished, and when a hero or saint, - the whole race is saved (Exodus 20:5-6). In recent times, when the benefit is almost completely used up, all is reduced to the rest of the world fates, which is written as a personal destiny of one man - the King Messiah. With such a burden he is born, embodying God and being connected with the history of the world by an infinite number of threads (Col. 1:19, 2:9).

I am pointed by dusk

By thousands of binoculars on the axis.

(Boris Pasternak. Hamlet)

Every action of this hero has a great meaning - dealing with his personal salvation, he converts and saves entire world. In this (and not subordination to the inert majority) is the true Christian collegiality and communion sacrament.

All of you, all of you -

you were silent during your long life,

and here you are shouting hundreds of votes

dead, but alive,

in me - the last, the poor,

but having tongue for you,

and every drop of blood

is close to you, hears you:

and now all of you:

cute, silly, touching, intimate,

are blessed by me

for your tacit blessing

(M. Kuzmin. My ancestors)

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It is in our watershed and split time, truth is extremely important. Although we predict no signs of external disasters, the possibility of salvation will be lost in the coming century. The truth will be not needed: it will not save the lost and not kill the saved (cf. Rev. 22:11). Active personal relationship, i.e. becoming like Christ, gives us the last chance, and just now.

In our age of desperate doubt

In our age of patient by unbelief

When shadows go thicker

On wild world of the earth, -

Oh, if only in a terrible division,

In which we are destined to live,

There is one more Revelation,

There is a surviving link.

With great mystery of the afterlife,

So we see, believe it -

Departure of the soul, which is like to you,

The outcome from our darkness.

(F. Tyutchev, cf. Jn. 17:11-16)

Citizens of the third millennium, fed up with promises of a better future, can not be satisfied by the seemingly understood historical eschatology concept. It lies in the fact that it proposes to wait in vain unless sometimes God or Christ appears, being called to reconcile and correct all (Matthew 24:23-26). In fact, this appearance can only be the arrival of the Antichrist (1 Jn. 4:3-4). The kingdom of God is in the hearts, the apocalyptic Armageddon battle will take place on the earth unnoticed. However, the person is required to have care in the study of law, and the distinction of time.

With less need of words, it is necessary to hear better

To distinguish in the darkness measured motion of the Moment;

That there are no signs either on earth or in the sky,

That God-Savior did not come down to the people,

But that the silent will take their lot!

(E. Verhaeren)

Recall here also the words of the prophet, promising, but invoking to the responsibility:

Behold, I will do a new thing, now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

(Isaiah 43:19)

For the appearance of God occurred in the observed (unreal, illusory) world, one first needs to perform the corresponding work with the text, on which our rivers just will flow. Of course, the word "I", seriously spoken by anyone, refers only to God.

The conventional wisdom is that this poetry

is optimistic about the future.

But the Father-mind says:

No need to herald future!

It is just now. This.

Your deepest needs and desires

are happy by energy of the moment

here, in your hand.

(Rumi)

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Hopefully, in the next verses the reader will find not only a vague image of the authors of the book, but also himself. This will allow him to understand: he also lived and worked not in vain.

Last days of desolation shall come,

Earthly power shall turn suddenly;

Residues of miserable generations will leave

To heat and the sun, to the far south.

And our towers, cities, strongholds

Will suffer from the voice of Doomsday,

Winning light does not shine in the desert,

Trains do not thunder on rails.

But in these last days of desolation

There is - I know! - the brave among people.

He will disturb sleep of proud buildings

Break the silent darkness by the light.

Reading names of mart and sanctuaries

Having learned from the inscriptions the faces,

The stranger will penetrate deep into the stacks,

Open the mysteries of the ancients, our books.

And day and night he will in trouble

Imbibe broadcasting, hidden in the dust,

Search for truth, the dream of God,

And the songs - hymns to earth candy.

Wished friend of unknown centuries!

You're shaking, you're shocked by happened!

Give heed to me, O hear these lines:

I was, I thought, I was like smoke ...

(Bryusov. During Desolation)

To gain Nirvana/Moksha/Eternal Afterlife, you need an intense outlet out of this physical you are confined to. Best way to go out is to go through an intense death. Only through martyrdom, through intense deaths throughout your various earthly lives, will you be fully be able to get out of this cycle of unending suffering.

You get crucified. You get beheaded. You get flayed alive. You get slaughtered in a slaughterhouse built for you. You get eaten alive. You become meal for the predators. Still you come back. Gaining Enlightenment through Buddha and Mahavira method is just one of the way to escape from this prison mentally, but you need physical escape too.

Kill yourself many times to become eternal. Only fools fear death.

There is no easy way out of this.

What is religion?

a system of beliefs and practices (Worldviews) that provides values (Ethics) to give life meaning and coherence (Purpose) by directing a person toward transcendence (God/god)

Five Major World Religions

KEY: Revelation from God

Monotheistic: common source

Christianity

Judaism

Islam

Hinduism

Polytheistic:

Buddhism

Judaism: The Basics

-Beginning: Call of Abe - the Hebrews

-YHWH - 1 GOD, with and for his people

Sacred Texts = Tanak

• Torah (Pentateuch)

• Nebi'im (Prophets)

• Kethubim (miscellaneous writings)

-Mission: Faithfulness to YHWH and to his law

Islam: The Basics

-Beginnings: Muhammad told to recite!

-Allah (Arabic for God)

Transcendent Unknowability, numerically one, messenger is Muhammad

-Mission: Submission to Allah

-Sacred Text: The Qur'an

Sacred only in Arabic

The spoken word of Allah

Also: Scrolls of Abraham, Torah, Psalms of David, Gospels of Jesus

Five Pillars of Practice:

Confession of Faith

Ritual prayer

Giving

Fasting during Ramadan

Pilgrimage

Hinduism: The Basics

-Beginnings: Vedic Hinduism (1200 BC)

-gods: Millions! Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva

-Sacred Text: Vedas, Upanishads, Bhagavad-Gita

-Mission: Depends on "Way" of Hinduism

Works: Advance through caste system (karma)

Knowledge: Meditation, Om

Devotion: devotion!

-Above all: Moksha: liberation from existence

Buddhism: The Basics

Beginnings: Siddhartha Gautama's chariot ride, renunciation, and his enlightenment at the Bodhi tree

god: enlightenment? Buddha? Bodhisattva? Nirvana?

Sacred Texts: Buddha's sermons, other monastic writings

Mission: Four noble truths, Eightfold path, Ultimately: Enlightenment, Nirvana

-Nirvana: "to blow out, to extinguish"

-Found in life and in death

Muhammad & Mecca

-Born in 570AD

-Receives first recitation in 610AD

-Flees in 622AD

-Returns as conqueror in 630AD, rededicated Ka'ba to Allah

Orthodoxy vs Orthopraxy

Orthodoxy:

Orthodox belief or practice. authorized or generally accepted theory, doctrine, or practice.

Orthopraxy:

Correctness or orthodoxy of action or practice. The belief that right action is as important as religious faith.

Orthodoxy: Five Articles of Faith

1. The belief in only one God, whose messenger is Muhammad.

-He has transcendent unknowability

-His numerical oneness; Qur'an stresses that He is not Three

-The unpardonable sin is associating any created thing with the transcendent God (shirk).

2. Belief in God's angels. There are four archangels:

-Jibra'il (Gabriel), the agent of revelation

-Mika'il (Michael), friend of the Jews

-Izra'il, the angel of death

-Israfil, who will blow the trumpet on the day of resurrection and judgment

There are also jinns: invisible, intelligent spirits that can be good or evil; they can sin/repent.

3. Belief in God's inspired books.

God has sent down inspired books for the guidance of peoples. Five are mentioned in the Quran:

the Scrolls of Abraham, now lost

The Torah of Moses

The Psalms of David

the Gospels of Jesus

the Qur'an of Muhammad

The Quran is an exact copy of God's book in heaven, recited by Gabriel to Muhammad.

As the most recent, the Qur'an is most authoritative.

4. Belief in God's prophets and messengers.

-God guides humankind through His prophets

-The Quran mentions 25 prominent prophets, of which 21 are biblical figures.

-All prophets had the same basic message: the oneness of Allah and submission to His law.

-No nation is without a witness, and so ignorance will excuse no one in the day of judgment.

5. Belief in life after death and the day of judgment.

-There will be a last day. God will judge all men.

-Judgment will be according to each man's works.

-Each one will be rewarded if his good deeds outweigh the bad, or otherwise punished.

-Reward will lead to paradise; punishment to hell.

Orthopraxy: Five Pillars of Practice

1. The confession of faith.

When done sincerely before a judge or two witnesses it suffices to make one a Muslim.

2. Five compulsory daily prayers

Prayer facing Mecca and spoken in Arabic.

3. Welfare contribution

2.5 % of one's wealth (though not compulsory in all communities)

4. Fasting during Ramadan

Abstinence from food and drink and from sexual relations from sunrise to sunset. Exceptions are made for the young, the old, the infirm, and pregnant women. Ramadan is the ninth month in the lunar calendar.

5. Pilgrimage to Mecca - The Hajj

Once in a lifetime obligation. Every step towards the Kaaba blots out a sin.

The origins of religion

• Religion originates from within the human person/culture (evolutionary, or subjective)

• Religion originates from outside of human conscious (original monotheism)

Evolutionary Approach

• As human beings/culture has evolved so has the concept of religion.

4 Legitimate desires in life

•1. Pleasure

•2. Success

•3. Duty

•4. "infinite being, infinite awareness, infinite bliss"

- When Atman (the divine within a person) is united to or equal to Brahman (the infinite, formless god of the universe)

- Liberation...

Moksha: Hinduism's Ultimate Goal

-Existence is a perpetual journey. The "escalator" begins as a single cell, journeys through all life forms, ending with Moksha.

-Moksha: release from existence; escape into the divine.

-Brahman-Atman relationship is one: Infinite being, awareness, and bliss

Achieving Moksha is achieving union with Brahman, the world soul.

Yogas: Four Paths to Liberation

• Way of Works

• Way of Knowledge

• Way of Devotion

• Way of Experimentation

Way of Works

= Caste System

• Brahmins (priests)

• Kshatriyas (warrior, ruler)

• Vaishyas (merchants, artisans)

• Shudras (laborers, servants)

• Untouchables (not recognized as a caste, that low)

Way of Knowledge

• Begun by revolutionary kshatriyas in 6th century B.C.

• A way focused on what we know rather than what we do

• Upanishads: ("sitting under") central scripture

• Identification with Brahman through reflection:

- Listening, to the sages and the scriptures

- Thinking, about language, action, being

- Becoming, letting the Atman within become "all-in- all"

Om: The essence of Brahman is captured is the vocalization of Om.

Way of Devotion

• Less focus to works or asceticism and more to devotion.

• Devotion to one of the millions of Hindu gods

• Major Catalyst for this movement: Bhagavad - Gita (200 BC - 800 AD)

• Primary form of Hinduism today

Ways of experimentation

Combination of first three paths. Using all three ways, instead of just one, to achieve enlightenment.

Hinduism in Summary

• A religion born out of Indian history and way of life

• A belief in millions of gods to worship

• Though behind all these gods is Brahman: World Soul

• Four legitimate goals suggested for human life - Pleasure

- Success

- Duty toward others (community)

- Ultimate Goal: Liberation from existence (moksha)

• Four ways to achieve these goals: Works (karma), Knowledge (meditation, OM), Devotion (or love of a particular god), Experimentation (discover the Atman in oneself and it's connection to Brahman)

Buddhism

• Grew out of Hinduism

• Similar to the "Way of Knowledge" yet of a different goal.

Land of Buddha

Place: NE India

Time: 6th Century BC

Siddhartha Gautama

• Born in 624 BC

- Father was a great king

- Lived a sheltered life

Gautama's six year quest for liberation/enlightenment

The Chariot Ride

• The four sights:

-Old Age

-Disease

-Death

-Religious Affiliation

then Renunciation...

"I cut off my hair and beard, donned the yellow robe and went forth from home to homelessness."

• For five years he practiced extreme ascetism

- Diet: one grain of rice/day or excrement

- Chaffing clothing

- Standing in odd positions for days

- Sitting on a couch of thorns

- Laying in a cemetery amid rotting bones

Enlightenment at the Bodhi Tree

In the 6th year of his quest he decides to eat a bowl of rice and sit at the tree until he dies or is enlightened.

While meditating, distracted by Mara (an evil Hindu god)

He ignores Mara and begins to realize that he is trying too hard.

He is desiring enlightenment too much.

He forgoes desire, is enlightened, achieves Nirvana. Samsara is over.

Nirvana: Life's Goal

• means: "to blow out or extinguish"

• But what is extinguished?

• Desire...

• thus Nirvana is bliss

• To be found in life and in death

The Four Noble Truths

• The truth of suffering (dukkha)

- refers to anything that is temporary, conditional, or compounded of other things. Even something precious and enjoyable is dukkha, because it will end.

• The truth of the cause of suffering (samudaya)

- the cause of suffering is craving or thirst (tanha). We continually search for something outside ourselves to make us happy. But no matter how successful we are, we never remain satisfied.

• The truth of the end of suffering (nirhodha)

- through diligent practice, we can put an end to craving. Ending the hamster-wheel chase after satisfaction is enlightenment (bodhi, "awakened"). The enlightened being exists in a state called Nirvana.

• The truth of the path that frees us from suffering (magga)

- in Buddhism there is no particular benefit to merely believing in a doctrine. Instead, the emphasis is on living the doctrine and walking the 8- Fold path.

The Eight-fold path

The 8-fold path towards enlightenment: "a course of training, a moral undertaking"

A preliminary step: right association.

E=Effort (right effort)

V=View (right view)

I=Intention (right intention)

L=Living (right livelihood)

S=Speech (right speech)

C=Concentration (right concentration)

A=Action (right action)

M=Mindfulness (right mindfulness)

Mahayana (:big boat) understanding of Enlightenment

• Enlightenment is not finding oneself in extinction of desire, as Buddha taught...

• But true enlightenment comes in finding oneself in absolute compassion

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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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