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Life for God/How to Cognize God?

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How to Cognize God?

Vladimir Antonov

In order to really cognize God, not only understand this topic by the mind, which, of course, is also necessary, — one must develop oneself along two main lines of psychoenergetical improvement. This is a) refinement and b) the quantitative growth of the soul.

About Qualitative Development of a Soul

The qualitative development of a soul includes intellectual and ethical components, as well as refinement.

A detailed study and scrupulous application to oneself of God’s Commandments is a necessary prerequisite for serious work in terms of psychoenergetics. Studying and putting into practice ethical recommendations, given to us by God, one should earn the right, “get access” — to a direct transformation of oneself as a soul with the help of serious meditative techniques.

But it is also necessary to understand that God in the Aspect of Primordial Consciousness (the Creator) is by no means a terrible monster to be feared, but, on the contrary, the Tender and the Subtlest of all energy states in a multidimensional universe (more in detail in [5-22]). This is the first thing that must be learned, starting to study the methodology of spiritual perfecting.

Moreover, the lack of understanding of the last fundamental truth is usual for almost all mass religious trends that currently exist on the Earth. It went so far that some translators of such great literary works as, for example, the Bhagavad-Gita, translated the words that describe God as the Subtlest of all the subtle — as the least of the low. It turned out that the Greatest of all existing, the infinite in terms of space and time, God was called… “the least”! And this same mistake is characteristic for the translation not only of the Bhagavad-Gita!

Let’s consider, of what hinder us, what we could exclude from our lives with the purpose of refinement of consciousness. It is:

1. Even the very ability to enter into gross emotional states. To achieve this is possible through mastering the art of psychical self-regulation [18].

2. Ethically improper food: coarse energies from killed animals remain in the bodies of people eating them. Such energies can cause not only general coarsening of the soul, but also diseases in the digestive and other body systems.

The same, of course, relate to the use of clothes and other items made from the bodies of killed animals.

3. Close communication with rude people.

4. Location on energetically rough places — negative places of power [18].

5. Attunement with coarse non-embodied beings (the creatures of hell).

6. Attunement with coarse works of pseudo-art.

Cultivating the opposite to the enumerated will really bring us closer to the Creator — on our state as souls.

It is very important to understand that the energy purity inside our bodies, perceived by clairvoyance as light transparency, is necessary in order to enter precisely into the subtle and subtlest layers of the multidimensional space. From energetically dirty bodies, we do not have the opportunity not only to attune ourselves to and merge with the Representatives of the Primordial Consciousness — the Holy Spirits, but even to see Them by the sight of souls.

Direct free fellowship with non-incarnate Divine Teachers, Who in the past had become the Integral Parts of the Creator, is not fantasies or hypotheses, but a fully cognized reality for those who are rightly moving along the spiritual Path.

In particular, when the practitioner reaches a certain level of subtlety of consciousness, sufficient for easy perception of the Holy Spirits, the concrete Holy Spirits, manifesting Themselves for incarnate people in the form of Mahadoubles [17-19,39], first, become the Standards for us to train ourselves to life on Their Divine level of subtlety. Secondly, They can be personal Divine Teachers — quite really visible and audible. We can embrace, caress, merge with Them… And They will lead the worthy disciples further along the Path of perfecting — into the Abode of the Primordial Consciousness.

To realize the easiness of communicating with the Holy Spirits, you may see samples of writing from Their Words, Their biographies and the most important methodological recommendations, as well as poems and whole books of the highest spiritual value [9,12-13,17,21,29-36,39].

… You can hear from ignorant people: but what if you are aligned not with the Representatives of the Creator, but with the spirits of hell? How to distinguish?

The answer here is very simple: both Jesus Christ and all other Divine Teachers of both antiquity and the last centuries taught and teach now that the characteristic of God is Light, similar to the gentle sunlight [9,17-22,30-36,39]. This Light carries Divine Tenderness, Caress, Caring, and Wisdom; God is Love! (1 John 4:8, 4:16).

But the spirits of hell are visible as black mobile energy clots that carry in themselves and give to the embodied beings hellish emotional states.

God is Love — and therefore, in order to approach Him as souls, we must exclude even the very possibility of egocentric emotions, thoughts, and actions! On the contrary, God invites us to learn to love others who are worthy of it — like ourselves and even more than ourselves! An example of this was shown by Jesus Christ, Who gave Himself to death on the cross — for the sake of people to imprint what the Creator taught us through Him, Jesus.

What is egocentrism? It is the desire to appropriate someone else’s, the ability to flaunt before others, to despise others, to look “down” at them, to mock, hate, envy, be jealous, desire to take revenge on offenders, the habit to blame emotionally those with whom we disagree.

Desire and willingness to give and help in everything good those worthy of this, also to forgive, rejoice in the joy of others, to sacrifice oneself for their sake — these are the qualities that we need to develop in ourselves.

… I will give an example. I met with people who are always late for all meetings. And they justified themselves with the following formula: “But I’m always late!”. One of such women even exclaimed with obvious self-admiration: “I only once in my life managed to come on time, but… not where I needed to be!”.

What is behind this way of thinking and behavior? We will see in those people ugly lower “I”, which is able to take into account only its own convenience: “Should I expect, if I come earlier than…?”

I know from my past how it is unpleasant to wait for a late person. Therefore, not wanting to cause inconvenience to another or others, I myself always come in advance.

And while waiting, I never get irritated, but I stay in even calm.

And then, I make a conclusion about the expediency of continuing contacts with those who are accustomed to being late.

… To find a stable inner peace in any unfavorable situation — this can be learned through mastering the art of psychic self-regulation, where the emphasis is on the development of the spiritual heart. This can be read in detail in almost all our books and even seen in the films.

Mastering the functions of the spiritual heart — this is the core of the whole Path of spiritual perfecting! Without this, there is not the slightest opportunity to get close to the Creator in a serious way! The spiritual heart is the organ that produces the emotions of love! And, in order to become closer with God, Who is Love, everyone should strive to develop oneself as a spiritual heart!

… Considering this topic in the historical perspective, I note that this was understood, in particular, by the Christian Hesychasts* [18]. The development of this trend by us allowed to determine our methodological achievements as the modern developed hesychasm.

Of course, this knowledge is not at all the “property” of those who consider themselves Christians. On the contrary, this knowledge is universal and is fundamental for all true spiritual branches.

On Quantitative Development of a Soul

Now let us consider the topic of quantitative growth of a soul.

As already mentioned at the beginning of this article, a soul has the ability to such growth. And the achieved size of a soul largely determines its ability to perform effective activity — both among incarnate beings, and in intangible worlds.

From what has been said above, it should become clear that on the Path of perfecting it makes sense to strive from the very beginning to grow oneself in the most subtle layers of the multidimensionality. If we do this in the crude layers of the universe, then we are predestining ourselves to further life in hell — the “rubbish heap” of the Evolutionary Process.

It is possible to refine oneself by exoteric techniques, for example, through attunement with subtle and subtler phenomena of nature.

But there is the main way of correct quantitative growth of a soul through the work with the spiritual heart. It needs, firstly, to “open” the chakra anahata (middle dantyan) and then gradually increase oneself as a spiritual heart (for details, see [18]).

It must also be understood that the upper and lower dantyans are exactly auxiliary to the main dantyan — the middle one.

The main function of the upper dantyan is the intellectual ability. And the lower one is the base of power aspect of development.

At the corresponding stages of spiritual growth of a concrete person, everything valuable, accumulated in the upper and lower dantyans, is brought into fusion with the developed middle dantyan. In this way, an integral, huge, and powerful individual consciousness is formed, capable of functioning far beyond the limits of the living body, which continues to live in health on the Earth.

The next task of such a person is to master the Mergence with the Primordial Consciousness and then help the incarnated beings — from the Unity with the Creator.

We have talked in our books and films a lot about concrete methods of quantitative development of self-consciousness.

On Teaching Spiritual Practices

The masses of people of different faiths spend so valuable time, given to us by God for self-improvement, on various nonsenses — sometimes very malicious, sometimes just meaningless. In this way, they try to satisfy their “spiritual hunger”. Some of them drink urine, considering it as “a method of spiritual perfecting”, others torture their bodies, others jump through camp-fires and participate in other similar rites… This and much more can be combined into a group of exoteric absurdities.

But there are also esoteric absurdities. For example, the “smearing” throughout the whole body of energy mud — from the untreated chakras of the lower dantyan by means of “orbit” motions. Or training oneself to concentrate one’s own consciousness at the point between eyebrows. Or the search for God “at the point above the head”. Or attempts to master “astral flights” with the help of psychedelics, called drugs…

We met pathogenic “healers” and “yogis”, that only staying next to which caused diseases, and ignorant people in these situations fell into fainting… Those “healers” learned black magic under the guise of “Buddhist practices”… The essence of those methods was to surround and fill their bodies with “angry deities”*, i.e., in fact, with devilish non-embodied beings… So they not only harmed other people, but turned themselves into devils…

Many such distortions could still be listed. As an example, some of the techniques of “modern psychology”, where it is necessary, for the sake of supposedly spiritual help to other people, to humiliate, insult them, scoff at them in every way… Sense? — this supposedly should lead to the destruction of their “lower I”… And this is done for the money, collected from the victims themselves…

What motivates such actions of those who introduce all this dirt? Usually — a combination of ignorance with an aggressive desire for leadership, plus a thirst for fame and money…

… Although there are also sincere and unselfish spiritual leaders who devote their lives to trying to help others. Turning to them, I ask them to consider the following:

Esoteric techniques should not be taught to everyone! They must be dosed in accordance with the ability of each adept to assimilate the intellectual and ethical components of spiritual work!

All people differ, including by age not only ontogenetic, but also psychogenetic. And the longest time — among all functions of the soul — the intellectual function requires for its development.

And without a properly developed intellect — the ethical principles, offered to us by God, cannot be understood and mastered.

Moreover, to put on a young as yet soul a burden of complex knowledge and responsibilities before God — may become an unbearable burden for such a soul. And then such a person can, for example, start “fooling”, yielding to vanity. Or, when such one ceases to understand the essence of the program, this one begins to hate the teacher, accusing him or her in lack of love and that everything he or she says is a lie.

Let us understand that such situations are detrimental to the fate of those who were “overfed” with information: for example, their hatred is programming them to hell.

It turns out that such a teacher — in inexperience — does not benefit others, but harms them, introducing them into temptation.

In any healthy spiritual school, an incomparably larger number of people start to learn than get to the top. The majority should receive only those portions of skills and knowledge, to which they have grown in their personal evolution. And let them grow up, accustoming themselves to life at that stage of the “ladder” of spiritual ascent, on which they have already climbed.

Mastering the initial methods of working with the spiritual heart is not contra-indicated to almost anyone, including children of any age. These methods are detailed in our book [14]. As for the higher levels, it is with them one must display high caution.

Spiritual knowledge and methods can be transmitted in the form of practical trainings — or, for example, through books.

I already spoke that it is erroneous to impose information on someone, who has not yet matured enough for this.

If people just read books about the same — they will not read what they do not understand, they will just postpone such a book for later. In this case, harm will not be done to them.

My personal experience in teaching psychic self-regulation and practical ecopsychology has allowed me to understand all this and draw these conclusions. That is why I do not conduct any practical classes for many years, but I only talk about this knowledge, as well as in this book.

Attempts by followers to find independent solutions, based on the existing at their disposal descriptions of the entire Path, — develops them more than if they received practical experience without applying serious personal efforts.

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God constantly spoke and tells people about the need to develop love in oneself — as a function of the spiritual heart! This is what all the Divine Teachers of the past and of the present taught!

Why do people not wish to fulfill these Guidelines of our Creator? Instead, a lot of people are ready to strive to become pupils of any monsters offering their services!

Working on the books and articles of recent years, I saw my task in trying to build the totality of accessible spiritual knowledge, received by mankind from God, in the form most convenient for learning and mastering.

Was it successful? I think, yes. But, if someone does not agree with this, I will not be offended. I do not know how to be offended.