Бесплатный фрагмент - The Power of Eternal Silence

INTRODUCTION

We all have moments when we are happy, when the noise is from home, everything works out, and we live in harmony with ourselves and the world around us. At such moments, Silence awakens in us. A person may not realize it, but it is his presence that gives the opportunity, at least for a while, to feel this incomparable state.

The sages previously claimed that Silence is inside each of us, but in a dormant state. It is not so easy to reach it and awaken it, but this is what maintains the meaning of an easy life. In the translation, the motif of a knight who sends out in search of his princesses is accidentally encountered, and you can also find a story when a princess or a girl is looking for her betrothed, a prince or a brother. Despite similar motifs that go back centuries, all these stories do not speak of the external wanderings of the heroes, but of their internal delights, in other words, the main characters are looking for their other half, a talking princess or prince, inside themselves. The plots of all these historical tasks return young men and women to their main mission on earth. But on a deeper level, they speak of the need for self-knowledge, immersion in your inner world, where the key to salvation lies.

By changing our attitude to the mental processes, we transform everything visible around us. Esoteric teachings say that man is a Microcosm; everything we see around us in the material world, the Macrocosm, is a mirror, that is, a reflection of our internal processes, our emotional state. By eliminating vices in the external kingdom, we saw their absorption in the external, material world. This is an ancient rule that has been working for millennia. It changes: «Transformations from the outside in relation to changes.» Those enlightened by the past claimed that all treasures are inside a person, and the external is a reflection of the internal.

Yes, according to secret teachings, everything important is inside, and by embarking on the path of spiritual development, a person can use hidden achievements and reveal his potential. And only when a person penetrates the wisdom of ancient knowledge and embarks on the path of self-development, comes the realization that he is like the main character, known for many motives, this hero has been looking for a treasure in distant lands all his life, and it turned out to be buried in his garden. It is especially worth noting that even if a person has achieved success, this does not affect any external circumstances — this is a reward for internal work. Many receive this reward unconsciously, having worked off part of their karmic debt or having some checks.

Unfortunately, the potential of 99.9% of people remains unrealized because their inner world remains unknown. Sages believe that inside each of us is buried a spiritual family, which a person has nurtured throughout his entire life, but because he has forgotten about it, the family is in its infancy.

In some mystical traditions, Silence within is considered one of the highest attributes of the Creator, Wisdom, which grants harmony and well-being to man. That is why the phrase sounds and is said in everything: «Big money loves Silence.» In the past, people knew about this, over time, ancient knowledge was lost, but grains were preserved in mystical teachings.

It has been known since ancient times that in order to become more successful, a person should find Silence, learn to swim against the wind, dive deeper than others. Since most people swim on the surface, the most valuable pearls are hidden at the bottom of the sea. This is the path that every successful person, every enlightened person, has chosen for themselves. They persistently went towards the goal, overcoming obstacle after obstacle, and at the right moments, Luck accompanied them.

In addition to financial well-being, the eternal Silence gives its followers a sense of comfort and peace. She takes care of those who have reached her gates, and at that moment she will definitely tell you how to get out of the labyrinth and go through spiritual harmony.

«Live in harmony. Don’t look for it outside. Don’t look outside for what can only be inside you. Harmony is peace in the soul, and it begins with you.»

(Shakyamuni Buddha, founder of Buddhism)

It is worth recognizing that the path to Silence is long and thorny, but the one who has passed it receives as a reward everything he wishes. However, the hero should be attentive to his desires and turn to wisdom only on important issues, the solution of which benefits not only him, but all of humanity. Desires should not be abused, because, seeing the manifestations of self-interest, the eternal Silence can refuse the spiritual hero or heroine, go down into a cave or hide in the depths of the sea, like a goldfish.

suggested citing the words of the monk Silouan the Athonite (1866–1938) about eternal Silence:

«There is an eternal Silence, which is also called the great Silence. It always abides in the world, but the world does not abide in It, because it has forgotten what Silence is. The Great Silence is constant, It has always fulfilled fullness and filled with Itself all that exists.

This Secret Silence lies at the basis of all that exists. It is always humble and quiet, but next to It all disturbing thoughts, desires and passions subside. Earthly prescriptions disappear, all vanity fades away and all pride is humbled.»

Silence makes the goal of creating a better world, so it helps those who have managed to curb their vain desires and ambitions. In ancient teachings it is said that the main obstacle on the path to Wisdom is egoism, vain desires and vanity. It was with the Ego that legendary heroes fought on the way to the inner king, as well as prophets of prophets in wars before receiving revelation.

To illustrate the limitation of the Ego, I would like to tell a story.

One day a man came to Buddha and said:

— I want Happiness!

Buddha replied:

— First, remove «I» — this is Ego. Then remove «I want» — this is desire. See? Now you are left with Happiness.

The more successful you are in the region with the Ego, the happier you will become. The Ego separates a person from true happiness, replacing it with momentary pleasure, which ultimately leads to suffering. Happiness leads to peace. Spiritual seekers need to learn to separate concepts. Pleasure and consumption are what European society cultivates, happiness is a product of spiritual work. Happiness is Silence within, it is not a synthetic, but a natural product. The more Silence, divine Light, we have in us, the happier we are — such is the formula.

Hearing the voice of Silence is not as easy as it may seem. A barrier or, as they say, a look at Silence, directing millions of thoughts spinning in the head. All these thoughts are servants, products of the omnipresent Ego, since the Ego causes desires, ambitions, thoughts that are expected, suggested, as they come to them. They are like clouds eclipsing the sun, so the spiritual seeker must learn to control the flows, and ideally — completely turn them off for a certain time in order to hear the Voice of Silence.

«Everything we are is the result of our thoughts.»

(Buddha)

As you can see from the above quotes, everyone who has learned the Truth speaks of the saving Silence that spits inside a person. That same voice that we do not listen to in the flow of endless thoughts and a series of words. Having embarked on the path of enlightenment, we directly connect with our inner wisdom, and it, like a guiding star, leads us to the goal. You can give it the right address, set a task, and it will select a route for you like a navigator in a smartphone, and will «drive» you itself.

Every successful person is endowed with Silence, although they may not suspect it. Some inherit it, while others, having gone a long way, awaken it in themselves. The search for this divine, mystical Light takes a different amount of time for each person, but even a little closer to Silence, you can see how your life and the world around you change. Almost all famous people who achieved recognition without outside help had to go through a difficult path to success. But this is where their advantages over others lie. The efforts invested are the path to the top of the pyramid, where the eternal Silence resides, or a deep-sea dive to the goldfish that fulfills cherished desires. In other words, at some point they received a reward for the stretch of the path they have traveled. You can inherit both fame and wealth, but in such cases the principle of «easy come, easy go» often applies. The same is with the inheritance of Silence — it can quickly «fall asleep».

It is important to know that the path to the top of the pyramid is in each of its own, there are no two identical roads, there is no formula, inside your Silence you should look for the path of trial and error. You can read books on this topic, you listen to these instructions of parents and loved ones, as well as spiritual instructors, whose advice can shorten your wanderings due to illness, but you must go the main part of the path yourself, no one else can do this.

As we learn later, according to the secret teaching, it was the forefather Abraham who was considered the first of the great spiritual heroes, since a response to the call of the Creator was discovered:

«And the Lord said to Abram, „Get thee out of thy land, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house…“»

(Genesis 12:1).

The forefather Abraham (original name — Abram) did not become a neighbor to the call of the Lord. He responded to it and pronounced his hometown, society, his father’s house, in other words, leaving his comfort zone to find his purpose in the world, or rather — to activate the mission entrusted to him. It is worth noting that this is not always justified, but mostly a spiritual journey, a search for his true «I».

If a person still cannot develop spiritually, then every day he wanders through the very nature of illnesses from the Holy Scripture. The same fate awaits those in whom the Silence, passed on by inheritance, has fallen asleep due to the unwillingness to grow spiritually. That is why many rich people have stopped leaving such a state to their heirs, pushing them to an independent path, looking for Silence, Luck inside.

The enlightened of the past compared Silence to the speech of the Creator. Long meditations, multi-day practices of silence, sincere prayers led them to the cherished goal, the awakening of the inner Silence, the Voice of God. Operating with the ancient knowledge set forth in this book, modern spiritual seekers also get the opportunity to discover God’s wisdom in themselves, which leads them to the cherished goal by the shortest route. This wisdom, like a satellite, sees the situation on the roads from above, and not from outside the car cabin, and, working on information from different roads, points out the best way, while others continue to remain in multi-kilometer traffic jams.

«It is absurd to think that anyone but you can make you happy or unhappy.»

(Buddha Shakyamuni)

As you will learn further, all the enlightened ones strove not for the spontaneous creation of divine Light, not for its artificial manifestations, but for the ability to acquire it at their own discretion. For the skill of acquiring divine Light they were called enlightened, in contrast to the ignorant, wandering in spiritual «darkness».

This is what the German writer Hermann Hesse says about inner Silence:

«There really is a silence within you, a sanctuary where you can retreat at any time to be yourself.»

Perhaps you have already tried some methods of spiritual search or used their advice, but everything turned out to be ineffective. Do not despair: this book will serve as a breath of fresh air in your life. All the methods described in it are based on secret teachings and biographies of European heroes. The main difference between this mystical knowledge and ordinary knowledge is that it seeks to change your inner world, and after these small changes in the outer world.

It is important to understand that there are no easy paths to spiritual enlightenment, and everyone who promises to lead you through them is lying. There is only one path — the one that was taken by European heroes, as well as other great teachers of humanity. Without careful work on yourself, self-knowledge, self-control, it is extremely difficult to achieve any results. The whole world is inside, and most importantly, everything is in our hands.

In the book I will quote famous sages of the past, phrases from statements, in explicit or hidden form, where it is said about the divine Silence and its most important transformation in the life of not only spiritual heroes, but also their other halves. Despite the fact that in traditional religion, literally interpreting the Scripture, patriarchy prevails, the secret teaching speaks of the exceptional role of women in the fate of not only men, but also the future Savior.

The secret of eternal Silence is revealed to us not only in Scripture, the sages of the East also strive to know the mystical Light, hearing the Voice of Silence within themselves, we will also become acquainted with their practices on the pages of these books.

If we return to the conversation about the enlightened past and present, who, unlike financially successful people, strive to awaken the Silence consciously, then you probably notice the main feature of a wise, enlightened person — he is calm. Silence and serenity reside within him. Everyone can achieve such a state of harmony and peace, overcome worries and adversity. All that is needed for this is an article on the path of spiritual enlightenment.

As soon as a person sets out on the path of searching for Silence within himself, changes begin in his external life. These are processes of interaction. If before he wandered in the dark, now he forms a candle, then a lantern, and then a spotlight. One day, the clouds of negative thoughts will go away, and a bright sun will appear from behind the clouds. Everything around him will please him, and he will penetrate into calm.

«Peace is within you, do not look for it outside.»

(Buddha Shakyamuni)

As you have already understood, a person can inherit Silence, reveal it accidentally or relying on some external factors. But the goal is to do it intentionally, consciously. Only in this case it will always be there and at the right time will be able to give you valuable advice, show you the right path in the stormy sea of reality.

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Before moving on to the first chapter, let me make a short digression and tell the background of the manuscripts.

The first thing I would like to say is that the knowledge presented in this book is important for spiritual seekers; for those who believe that in addition to the material world, there are also higher spiritual worlds. As we understand from the importance of the chapter, the main difference between the spiritual worlds and the material world is that there is no war and restrictions there. Knowing this, the enlightened of all ages have renounced war, so that the ideals they sang about would become dominant at a certain moment in history on this planet, the farthest from the Infinite Light.

Knowing about the existence of another reality, enlightened statements that they lived in the material world and did everything to make a clear connection between the soul, the true «I» and the body, the shell that the soul receives upon arrival in the material world. The great spiritual teachers claimed that their kingdom does not belong to the current world, since the values that they profess are about equality and justice for the whole world, about non-resistance to evil, that is, the rejection of the army elected to preside in the spiritual world.

What is particularly impressive is that I did not publish the book «The Power of Eternal Silence» for selfish reasons. The fee that comes to me from the sale of each copy, as I did initially at the publishing house, was equal to one cent. The cost of books in various online stores depends on the printing of the manuscripts by the publisher and on the price tags of the store; I have nothing to do with this process. I would like to hope that this book will be available to every spiritual seeker.

It is important to note that in the book «The Power of Eternal Silence» many excerpts from esoteric treatises of the 13th century are published for the first time in the last 800 years. The sages previously claimed that secret knowledge about the external world of man does not belong to any one people, it is the property of mankind. They were presented in ancient Egypt and the East many thousands of years ago. If we talk about the Jewish people, then after the Exodus from Egypt, the Jewish people were honored to be the custodians of different levels of the Holy Scripture, among which, of course, was secret knowledge.

That is why one of the great teachers says to humanity: "...for salvation is of the Jews», meaning by «salvation» the secret teaching, the keeper of which is the Jewish people. Only it, since it happened 2000 years ago, is capable of awakening the Savior again.

The rulers of the earth have persecuted the spiritual teachers of mankind for thousands of years, as Pharaoh never persecuted Moses, because they decided to share secret data with the people. The rulers of this world strive to keep mankind in ignorance, at best, in order to provide them with access only to religious knowledge, which in itself, as history shows, is not able to awaken the Messiah.

Enlightened by the past, it is proven that the literal interpretation of the Holy Scripture is only the first stage in the development of the future Savior of mankind, spiritual revelation, the secret teaching is spiritual awakening. In other words, they are not enemies of each other, but a step towards spiritual awakening. From the meaning of the chapters, we understand that, according to the enlightened of all ages, esoteric knowledge does not contradict religious knowledge, but before their transformation.

In ancient books it is said that the elegance of the messengers of Light, penetrating into the true laws, will certainly be revealed, such is the law of the genre, the script of the universal performance. But since no one knows in which generation this will happen, maybe in the following years, or maybe in ten years, the mission of spiritual seekers is to preserve the ancient principles for future generations.

said a few more words to say about the future Savior of humanity. Each of the confessions awaits its own Messiah, but the secret teachings say that this will be the Savior alone for all, who will stand against the dark forces. In Kabbalah it is emphasized that no one knows from what nation he will come, what color his skin and religious affiliations will be, but it is said that he will be able to defeat the forces of darkness, establishing on earth an equal and just world without war and war.

To sum it up, Silence is our connection to the Highest Wisdom whose voice was hidden. In ancient Egypt, it was associated with the All-Seeing Eye, the radiant Delta at the top of the pyramid, which had 49 spiritual steps. In mystical teachings, the path to Eternal Silence is known as the road to a higher state of consciousness, the ascent through the spiritual worlds.

CHAPTER ONE

The Path to Eternal Silence

We live in the age of technological progress, and there is no escape from it. The flow of information that falls on us every day from TV screens and smartphones causes a feeling of noise and anxiety. As a result, a person gets tired faster, problems with sleep and rest arise, a feeling of inner emptiness arises. Over time, it becomes increasingly difficult to take care of yourself, and this applies to relationships with friends and loved ones who interfere with everyday activities.

Why do anxiety and other unpleasant emotional reactions appear? What is the reason for this? The whole problem is that a person has separated himself from the inner Divine Mother, Silence. This can be compared to how a boat of an adult youth sails away from a quiet parental harbor and heads into the unknown, causing fear. In other words, the further a person moves away from the Divine Mother living inside him, the more anxious he is. Here it is necessary to clarify that even wealthy people who are closer to Silence than others are not insured against anxiety. They may not have worries about financial problems that haunt the bulk of the earth, but they also have many insurance policies. Basically, wealthy people worry about the future, the stability of their financial well-being, and that they do not lose the standard of living that they are performing. But since successful people are closer to Silence, they increase the anxiety that ordinary people have to a lesser extent.

The path to the top of the pyramid is open to everyone. The main thing you need is to awaken spiritually and become a winner of your earthly mission. This is the only way to happiness and harmony. All other solutions are compatible or completely invalid. Only the salvation of technology will lead to the transformation of your life in the outside world. This is the truth for more than one millennium.

It is important to understand that in addition to the matter that radiates a person into the world, there is also a divine mother in his soul, whom she misses greatly while in the body. This is what causes sudden sadness in people, caused without any particular reason. The root of all problems and worries is due to the separation that occurred at the moment of our appearance in the world.

It is never too late to come to the Divine Mother who dwells within us; her doors are open to everyone.

«Every morning we are born again. And what we do today will be of the greatest degree.» (Buddha)

Don’t put it off. Start changing your life here and now. The closer you get to Silence, the more life problems will arise in the past. The ship will start leaving stormy waters, the clouds will make room for a clear sky. Life will be transformed. The main thing is to set a goal and come to it day by day.

«When a man does not know to what port he is heading, no wind will be favorable for him.» (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)

But most people got lost in this world and continued to stand behind the glass of Silence. That is why it is believed that the impact wanders as if due to natural disasters and cannot get to the promised land. All these wanderings, which grow into accumulated interference and noise, can negatively affect mental health. Enlightened all religious calling people return to Silence to find within themselves, since only it is capable of granting mental balance and comfort. Great inventors drew their ideas from it, composers and writers — inspiration for brilliant formations, prophets and worms of information about future events.

gave me a quote about Silence from the famous composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:

«Music is the silence that lives between sounds.»

How to increase wisdom, the soul languishing in the human body, the connection with its Divine Mother, Eternal Silence and cries, being in a world alien to it. Intuitively, a person strives to return back all his life, since in the morning of his mother he was most protected, so the soul strives to return to its Divine Mother, Eternal Silence, to feel peace and harmony.

If we make a small digression and move on to the secret doctrine, then in esoteric teachings it is said that by visiting synagogues, churches or temples, a person returns to the bosom of the mother. That is why it is so good and calm in prayer houses, there is a sense of comfort and protection. It is human nature to seek solace in the final construction. And, understanding this, spiritual teachers of the past called for the construction of prayer houses and temples throughout the world, so that man, or rather his soul, could at least temporarily come into contact with the divine Mother. That is why many phrases say: «Return to the bosom of the Church.» We will return to the esoteric side of this issue in the chapters.

There are two paths to Silence: requiring spiritual development and financial-emotional. The world path is all the ways that differ from the spiritual and can lead to a gradual increase in pleasure. If a person does not realize that this is only a temporary solution and that he needs to seek comfort and an improvement in the emotional state within himself, this can at best lead to a mild addiction, in a state of rest — it causes a compulsion.

Today, there is much talk about compulsive behavior, which is characterized by the absence of a rational explanation for one’s actions and deeds. A person begins to control his mind and does not realize how much he makes purchases and eats. He goes to the store for one thing and immediately buys many things that he does not need. The same thing with nutrition: instead of his norm, a person eats more, without controlling the amount of food consumed. At some point, he himself may understand that he makes many unnecessary purchases or overeats, that this harms his financial situation or harms his figure, but he cannot do anything.

Before we get into the importance of controlling your actions on the path to Silence, let’s look at a few examples of how people try to deal with anxiety, fear, and worry:

— make compulsive purchases;

— light, not controlling the volume of food;

— aimlessly sits on the Internet and social networks.

To understand the root of the problem, we should examine each of the points in more detail. It is important to know that in addition to spiritual practices, when turning to Silence occurs consciously, each person sometimes comes into contact with inner Silence and comfort without realizing it. As we said above, this can be added during shopping. You are probably familiar with this pleasant feeling, that inner Light, when you feel good and calm. During shopping, our inner comfort awakens, that is, we feel inner Silence, a moral state, but after a while we are separated from it again, and apathy sets in. In order to return this divine Light, a person was forced to make more and more new purchases.

This is because over time the level of pleasure from shopping decreases, and in order to get more pleasure again, you need to make more purchases. But not everyone has the opportunity to increase the volume of purchases. However, those who have it, and a greater number of impressions no longer bring pleasure, emotional devastation sets in. This is the very state of breaking with Silence. The Divine Light again said to the body — Silence, that is, the human soul, fell asleep again.

In some inner feeling of Silence, the divine Light manifests itself when they win competitions or get a promotion. This feeling of reality, confidence in their strength and tomorrow indicates that the Luck of the person visiting them. But such processes are not eternal, but on the contrary, are significant events. It is impossible to constantly maintain this level, and therefore, when the routine sets in, a person begins to feel apathetic. In order to get in touch with Silence again, he needs to once again cause an external influence, once and increase their dose. For example, to take first place not at school, but at the city Olympiad, to buy not one item of clothing, but two. A person is ready to do a lot to return that Divine Light inside, that exceptional feeling of confidence and comfort. In his opinion, he becomes Light-dependent. A person begins to study his life only by those moments when he felt good, when he was at the top, when the Inner Light was in him. Because he cannot climb the mountain again, he begins to feel sad, because he has returned to the ordinary level, has come down from heaven to earth. This is said in almost all secret teachings.

Despite the fact that there is nothing reprehensible in shopping, because a meeting with Silence is bought with one’s own money, over time, internal satisfaction changes, changes with a decline in strength and apathy. To return to an elevated state, you need to make more and more new purchases. In some countries, shopaholics have already begun to be treated, since such people cease to control their actions, act instinctively, plunging into psychological dependence on new acquisitions and considering financial difficulties.

The same applies to most gambling, intimate relationships and other human dependencies. Meanwhile, feelings become dull, and a person begins to conduct some kind of experiments, hoping to return their emotions. But this path will only lead to greater devastation, burnout.

«The awareness of one’s imperfection manifests itself in perfection.» (Johann Goethe)

Consciously or reflexively, we all come to Silence: some do it, they overshop, overeat and sometimes even resort to various manipulations, which is strictly prohibited. The sages say that in the spiritual worlds, as well as in this one, there are guards. And if you unexpectedly receive pleasure, then you will be pursued in the spiritual world and, having seized, will be forced to testify, limiting its boundaries. Unlike spiritual seekers who smoothly appear in this world, those who secretly penetrated there are rudely thrown off. Therefore, for those who try to obtain Light, resorting to various manipulations, euphoria quickly gives way to prolonged depression and irritability. They want to return there, to feel the inner part of Silence again, at least for a moment. Illegal intrusion into the world of Silence through various kinds of manipulation is very dangerous not only for the physical, but also for the mental health of a person.

«He is strong who controls his weaknesses.»

(Mahabharata, ancient Indian epic)

To regain control over actions and the thought process, a person will gain awareness. Without a signature and recording of current experiences, he continues to wander chaotically in life. To better understand the conscious perception of the world, I gave an example that everyone has probably encountered. We will talk about overeating and weight loss in modern society. Even the previous generation consumed an order of magnitude less food, but people were quite healthy and strong, despite the low level of education. In modern psychology, the problem of overeating these days is associated with unconscious consumption of food, that is, a person increases control over the mind, liquid. We overeat to drive away negative thoughts that torment us, «eat away problems», that is, take in more food than the body requires. And this leads to improper metabolism and weight gain, which has become one of the problems of humanity in the 21st century.

«To enjoy good businessmen, to create true happiness for one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first tame and control one’s garden, the mind. If one can control one’s consciousness, one will be able to find the path to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to one.» (Buddha)

It is important to understand that a person has prepared a new portion of happiness when it is needed. It is like meeting a favorite mutation, who is sitting in the next room and waiting for you to finally remember about her. She responds to your request with delight, listens attentively and gives wise advice.

With the birth of a baby in the material world and the cutting of the umbilical cord, this connection is lost, but internally a person returns to this state throughout his life. This is where the allegorical meaning of the Fall motive is hidden. We have lost our place in paradise and we do everything to return, at least for a moment, to where we are calm and comfortable, to come into contact with Silence.

Yes, internally we always go to the Light, to pleasure, to a meeting with the Divine Mother. A person builds his model of behavior in such a way that, according to the current lesser possibilities, he more often observes the comfort regime.

While shopaholism, overeating and promiscuous sex were widely discussed in the 20th and early 21st centuries, the last decade has seen the emergence of an additional tool that is revolutionary and addictive — the Internet.

There is never enough information in the world today, and people have to follow it to stay up to date with events: news, exchange rates, weather, the latest fashion trends and much more. This makes a person more restless and takes away some of his attention, which is why nervous breakdowns break out into the atmosphere, a person can lose respect.

But it should be recognized that in the modern world it is impossible to exist without smartphones, the Internet and other means of communication. This is part of our life. In order not to drown in the volume of information and achieve success, it is necessary to learn to control this process and deepen the time of personal development, spiritual development. According to the latest research, people spend most of their time online ineffectively. Therefore, it is necessary to use the Internet exactly as much time as is required to solve certain problems, and the freed up hours contribute to family and spiritual practices.

«Only he who is different from himself is free.» (Friedrich Schiller)

If we talk about Internet addiction, the desire for recognition and getting that very authoritative Light, then we can compare the pleasure of new purchases with a successful post or photo on social networks that have gained a lot of likes and comments. Perhaps they attracted close attention to a person or made him popular at work, in the family, in the city. He thought about the surge of strength and said: «Finally, luck has found me, and now it will always be like this.» But when the next photo gets fewer likes, that is, attracts less attention from others, his strength begins to leave him, and the person thinks: «What else can I do to again arouse the interest of subscribers?» Adults are able to calmly approach home conditions, but for teenagers this can become a psychological trauma. Therefore, in pursuit of likes, young people take pictures on the roofs of trains rushing at high speed, on the edge of steep cliffs, jump from heights. All this is done with only one goal — to again attract attention, to gain some influence and attention. But now, experts, realizing that this is dangerous, have begun to talk about therapy for Internet addiction.

These questions are raised in the book not with the purpose of exalting some and humiliating others. All calls to «highlight» the problems of modern society and push a person to change. The first thing that a spiritual seeker should understand on the path to Silence is that depending on and unconscious behavior, he can move away from the main goal, and only having learned to control them, he will be able to further climb the mountain of Silence. This is the integrity of one of the main commandments of the enlightened: «Know thyself.» This saying was written on the wall of the Temple of Apollo in Delphi, where the Delphic Oracle was located. Without deep and honest self-analysis, the efforts made will not have the desired effect.

«It is easier to wrap the sky in a small kerchief than to attain true happiness without knowing oneself.» (Vedas. Upanishads)

It is necessary to understand that most of the problems described above can be adjusted by recognizing them and starting to act consciously. A person needs to regain control over the mind, this will create internal order and return Silence to your life.

All the sages of the past spoke about the conscious performance of actions, because this is how you can temporarily stop the flow of thoughts and allow a person to some extent to control his life. You might not suspect, but all the requirements and rules, starting with eating, prayer, carried out in your way, have a secret whole — to make people more conscious. If every time before eating a person thinks about what products this dish is made of, whether he washed his hands thoroughly and so on, he will turn off the flow of thoughts for a moment and wake up. And the more often he does this, the more successful he will be in the presentation of life. Some religions even have instructions and recommendations on how many times, in which direction of the world and at what time to pray, with which foot to put in bed, with which hand to start washing hands and much more. All this, of course, is not done just like that. In addition to the religious meaning, at a deeper level this is the goal of repeatedly awakening a reasonable person in order to make his life more conscious.

You ask why I pay special attention to tracking the constant presence? that, according to the enlightened past and all the secret discoveries, awareness is one of the main companions, guides to the world of harmony and Silence.

«If we are not aware of what is happening inside us, then from the outside it seems to us that it is fate.» (Carl Gustav Jung)

What mindfulness will give you:

* control over actions;

* control over words;

* control over actions;

* mind control;

* control over life.

Metaphorically speaking, you will stop crossing the road to a street where there are no traffic lights and cars are rushing at high speed, go to an area where everyone follows the traffic rules. Many changes in a person’s life, after, having known himself, he begins the path to Silence.

«Just as a mirror shines when protected from dust, so I, who have known myself, shine with mind and body. They are always and eternally full of happiness.» (Vedas. Upanishads)

Awareness is a certain control over the tormenting intelligent fluid. The main problem arises in the fact that it does not want to know itself, does not want to expose the deep causes of its problems. People cope with routine, with thoughts wandering uncontrollably in their heads, and therefore are afraid to be alone with Silence, turning on the TV or calling on the phone. Silence scares them, despite the fact that it is precisely this that gives peace and comfort.

When you start doing the practice, see how frightening and unusual the Silence speaks at first. That is why the sages recommend approaching it gradually, climbing the spiritual ladder. During the first meditation, you may have problems and inconveniences, do not be afraid of this. Why does this happen? Why, when a person closes his eyes and tries to notice, does he get scared? It is all because the Silence is in the darkness, in a cave, and people arriving in the material world are trying to reach the light. But those who have made the journey see that a person in this world wanders in the dark, and the true light is next to the Silence. Only a meeting with the inner Divine Mother can give us happiness and peace of mind.

«There is no happiness equal to peace.» (Buddha)

I would like to draw your attention to one last detail, Silence is not silence, as it may seem at first glance. In the process of silence, you continue to think the same way as when you eat your interlocutor, but the flow of thoughts still rushes in different directions. That is why these two concepts are not Christmas.

Silence is outside, in a closed room. But it is also inside, when we begin to control the thought process, our mind becomes silent and allows the word of the Highest Wisdom to penetrate.

It is this Silence that spiritual teachers spoke about. Having learned the power of Eternal Silence, a person will never be the same again. All great people of the past and present have come into contact with it at some point.

«Perfect music is silence, and musicians are in the business of creating simple frames around that perfection.» (Sting)

A person should climb the mountain of Eternal Silence not with the help of various manipulations, but with persistent spiritual work. It is not without reason that all the sages meditated for months and even years in deserted places: deserts or caves. They did the very thing that is discussed in this book — they went to their inner Silence. Yes, the path to it is not fast, but it is an inner true road.

CHAPTER TWO

Eternal Silence in specific texts

He immediately remembers every time Silence is mentioned in the texts. The fact is that in all religions it is mentioned under different names. In some esoteric teachings, where Silence is given a special place, it is called the pair of God, the female aspect of the Creator, the second half. In monotheistic religions, where God is one and one, it is called an attribute of God, or the divine Voice, the voice from Heaven.

As the sages believe, the closer we are to Silence, the better and clearer we can hear its voice. This divine Voice, broadcasting the highest revolution and giving revelations, differs from what we constantly hear in our heads. Enlightened recommendations, in order to be worthy of a higher level of revelation, a person needs to muffle the voice that he constantly hears in his head, raise his consciousness to a higher level. It is important to understand that the power of the mystical voices that sounded in a person depends on how highly spiritual the seeker has climbed the pyramid of Silence, that is, some inner work he has done. But be that as it may, all esoteric teachings pay attention to a certain mysterious Voice that spoke with the enlightened and prophets.

If in the Jewish tradition the Voice from Heaven is not spoken of in the Scripture itself, then in the Gospel this mystical voice is spoken of directly.

I will give two quotes from the Gospels of Matthew and John.

«And behold a voice from heaven saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.» (Matt. 3:17)

«Father, glorify your name.» Then came a voice from heaven: «I have both glorified it and will glorify it again.» (John 12:28)

I would like to draw your attention once again to the fundamental differences between a religious rite and an esoteric one. In religion, this Voice is heard from the outside, while in mystical teachings it is not an external, but an internal voice. It can only be heard in solitude or in high rooms. The path to the divine Eye is thorny and winding. Eternal Silence is hidden in each of us, according to one version — in the heart, according to a more mystical one — in the pineal gland. The Savior can lead us to Silence: Horus in Egyptian history, Jesus in Christian history, Irenaeus in Gnostic history, and the Messiah in Jewish history. Only by following the restoration of the Savior will a person learn to overcome all difficulties, rise to the spiritual pyramid and meet his divine essence.

In essence, all religions talk about the same thing: there is a whole world inside a person, and in order to see improvements outside, transformations from within are necessary. This is the formula for a new person in a new century. Many teachings and religions talk about the transition to a new Era, calling it the era of Aquarius, others — the era of the Holy Spirit, and in secret teachings the Era is called the era of inner Silence by some or the era of Eternal Silence. A person, as a microcosm, can prepare himself for the coming changes, so that the new reality does not take him by surprise. It is proposed to cite the full version of the quote about Eternal Silence by the monk Silouan (Simeon) of Athos (1866—1938), not abbreviated as in the introduction:

«There is an eternal Silence, which is also called the great Silence. It always abides in the world, but the world does not abide in It, it has forgotten what Silence is. The Great Silence is constant, It has always fulfilled the fullness and filled with Itself all that exists.

This Secret Silence lies at the basis of all that exists. It is inaudible, but from it is born everything that we hear. The Great Silence abides in the deepest heart. It is always humble and quiet, but next to It all disturbing thoughts, desires and passions subside and earthly formalities disappear, all vanity fades away and all pride is humbled.

The Great Silence is inconspicuous and modest, humble and humble, but it does not allow anyone to rule over it and no one subordinates it to itself. It always remains free and gracious and will remain with us invariably the same forever, as promised to us by our Lord Jesus Christ — «and the promise that he promised us is eternal life.» (1 John 2:25). For He abides in the pure heart as Love, which is endless Silence and the endless peace of the Holy Spirit.»

Alas, existence has forgotten about the eternal Silence, but despite this, the enlightened of all states continued to sing of Her. In Eastern traditions, She was preserved as the third eye, which was never hidden. At the beginning of time, people were endowed with this invisible external organ, and therefore had the gift of prophecy and special intuition. During the activation of the third eye, a person was in silence most of the time, information was transmitted over a distance by means of silent thought. But then, due to human ignorance, the word appeared, the third eye was hidden, and humanity turned into spiritual darkness and ignorance. The same motive is known to us in the story of the Garden of Eden, when, having bitten an apple, the first people took a place in paradise, where they had the opportunity to directly communicate with the Creator, and in more modern interpretations — in fairy tales about how the princess, having bitten an apple, went into a deep sleep. This princess is also commonly called the princess-soul or the beauty-soul, since she resides inside everyone in a sleepy state, and only by awakening her, even for a short time, a person will step by step begin to return his consciousness to a higher level. The path to this is not short, but everyone who begins to develop these abilities in themselves will have competitive advantages in various manifestations of life. He will become calmer, his actions will be more balanced, and the results of his internal transformations will continue among those around him.

«He who contemplates his own nature becomes a Buddha.»

(the fourth principle of Zen)

Four thousand years ago, the forefather Abraham laid the foundation for the religion of monotheism, and two thousand years ago, Jesus of Nazareth began a new era — Christian or, as it is also called, spiritual. Each of these eras, which lived for 2000 years, prepared human consciousness for the Era of the Holy Spirit.

Over the past 4,000 years, religion has played an important role in the development of man. It gave commandments that for many centuries introduced moral standards for a civilized society, and most importantly, it prohibited human sacrifice, giving it great importance to life. Having proclaimed the ideas of humanism, religion was able to defeat barbarism and create a just society. But in the new, spiritual era, humanity must rise to the next level of development. This is the goal of completely defeating war and war, awakening the necessary spiritual qualities in oneself. But it is impossible to do this without secret knowledge that can raise consciousness to a new level.

«There is no better way to live than to live in the pursuit of becoming more perfect.»

(Socrates)

If all world religions care more about the soul, help to improve and purify it, then secret teachings talk about the awakening of the spirit, this is their fundamental difference. No matter how a person is, without spiritual knowledge, he will never be able to win in war and injustice. Those endless wars in the last millennium, some of which occur on the basis of religious tendencies, are additional confirmation. Only a spiritually developed person will learn the situation from the outside and stop making a profit. In other words, so that people do not exterminate each other, but begin to coexist in an equal and fair world, they must receive a new level of knowledge, which will complement religious education, will become its next step.

It should be noted that esoteric knowledge has a meaning beyond anything you have heard before. Only it hinders the invisible thread that will lead you out of the labyrinth of suffering into a new, just world. It is important to understand that this is not intellectual knowledge, and success in this cannot be limited by the number of books read, it is a spiritual experience that is individual for everyone. Gnosis is special, secret knowledge that awakens a new spiritual essence in a person, a superman. Having absorbed gnosis, a person rises to a new level of consciousness.

This can be explained using the example of fitness training. Let’s say that everything related to religion helps to build up triceps, while spiritual knowledge builds up biceps. Only when an athlete builds up his triceps and biceps, his arms will look symmetrical. A person familiar only with religious literature can also be compared to a football player who plays only one well. Fans of this sport know that even an average player must have sufficient control of the ball with both feet. Without special knowledge, a person lives an incomplete life, and only by living gnosis in himself, he was able to make the transition to a new muscle, the one that was atrophied, and came to the desired goal.

«The world is blind; there are only a few who can see; a few, like the poultry, are freed from the nets and kept in a state of bliss alone.»

(Buddha)

It should be especially noted that almost all esoteric teachings are based on the Holy Scripture, and each of them recognizes its truth. But one of the main differences between secret schools and the official religion is that the official religion interprets the Holy Scripture literally, and the secret teaching allegorically. We will have to analyze those moments from the Scripture that directly or allegorically speak of the spiritual perception of Silence.

One of the most striking examples is the story of the leader Jacob, who is the forefather in the dream. According to the secret teachings, the main meaning of life is to develop spiritually and begin to ascend the spiritual level, which is allegorically described in the dream of the forefather Jacob. Or, as we have already said, to ascend the pyramid of Silence in order to experience true happiness. It is proposed to cite the description of this dream from the Book of Genesis (28:10—12):

«…10. Now Jacob was released from Beersheba and sent to Haran,

11. And I came to a certain place, and stayed there for the night, because the sun had set. I took one of the stones from that place, put it from my head, and easily put it in that place.

12. And he saw in a dream, and behold, a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven; and behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.»

This dream has a special meaning for spiritual seekers, as it marks the path to the Supreme Wisdom, to that same radiant delta at the top of the pyramid. It allegorically speaks of the way a person can rise through his inner work, rising through the divine spheres and with a certain persistence, and the holistic minds touched the Silence. In the process of rising, the spiritual seeker receives an ever higher level of knowledge from angels, that is, spiritual teachers, his consciousness expands, and he becomes a superman.

It is worth noting that the motif of the radiant delta is found in Jewish and Christian traditions. But their main difference from the esoteric teaching is that inside the delta, located at the top of the pyramid, is depicted not an eye, the All-Seeing Eye, the tetragrammaton, the four-letter name of God, but sometimes God the Father or the Mother Goddess. This sign can be seen in many temples, as well as in paintings by famous artists of the past, which depict the ascent of the ladder from the dream of the forefather Jacob, based on ancient knowledge.

Engraving from Piscator’s hearings — «The Son of Jacob» (1643)

«Jacob’s Ladder», Greece; 16th century (Greece, Athos, Dionysiou Monastery)

Frans II Francken (1581–1642) — Jacob’s Ladder

James Tissot (1836–1902) — Jacob’s Ladder

Delta with the Tetragrammaton (altar of the royal chapel of the Palace of Versailles, France)

Each spiritual seeker should gradually climb higher and higher up the spiritual ladder to touch the divine Light, the Supreme Wisdom. The summit is steep, and a person will slide down more than once, but he must find the strength in himself and continue to climb the mountain.

Most people are at the lowest point of evolution, others, like Sisyphus, climb and slide down again, that is why there is so much war in the world. When humanity rises one, two or three steps in development, it will completely abandon war. People begin to treat the life of their neighbors, the surrounding nature, animals and insects more carefully. The world is transformed, the golden age of equality and justice is coming. All the enlightened ones abandoned war, and called on their followers not to resist it, because the achieved achievement was achieved, and only water can extinguish the fire.

We are standing at the threshold of a new time, an era of spiritual revolution, when the governance of the world will pass to people with an awakened consciousness. They must accept their contribution to the foundation of a new, just society. Such a world existed at the beginning of time, and this period was called the Golden Age, but due to human ignorance it was destroyed. After this Divine Mother hid herself, her daughter, the princess-soul, who dwells in this world and in each of us, fell into a deep sleep. In other religions, the soul awakens, and its subsequent meeting with the Divine Mother, as we have already said, is associated with the third eye, which was closed long ago due to human ignorance. This mystical eye, just like the Divine Mother, bestowed harmony on people, endowed them with the gift of foresight and perception of reality.

Secret teachings also say that the material world is like a rational teenager who is constantly developing, it is a kind of macrocosm, we can conditionally call it the Cosmic Man or Divine Mind, inside of which we are. Some esoteric schools say that a person represents different parts of his body, that is, I, of which he was blind, and others say that people are in the mind of the Cosmic Man, and each of them represents a certain thought. That is why it is considered a reason to take the side of Light thoughts. As the Cosmic Man matures, the microcosm also develops, that is, humanity, which is in it. In the process of evolution, this divine Mind went through several stages of formation: the embryonic state, childhood, adolescence and now, conditionally, youth. As it matures, new interests arose, the range of hobbies expands. The macrocosm of children’s literature moves into something more serious, he begins to get carried away by electronics and robotics, that is, with the transformation of the higher mind, the material world is transformed. Our civilization develops in parallel with the Cosmic Man, and therefore an intellectual leap is inevitable. But the question is whether a person will be able to move to it smoothly or through shocks.

Let’s get back to you, for example, with sports. In the process of working on the first step, that is, studying the results of the book, the teenager unconsciously touched the second group, but now he set himself the goal of consciously paying special attention to it. Religion was supposed to prepare the higher Mind for the main esoteric knowledge. In the same way, he first studies numbers, then arithmetic, and then moves on to algebra. Mental and spiritual knowledge do not infringe on each other, do not compete with each other, on the contrary, they strive to complement each other and smoothly lead the hero to various results in space, learning in the vastness of the vast universe.

«A precious stone cannot be polished without friction. Nor can a man manage to repair it without a sufficient number of difficult instruments.»

(Confucius)

In secret teachings, Silence acted as a pair of the First Father or, as they also say, the highest attribute of the Creator. In monistic religions, God is one and single, and all attributes, such as wisdom, categoricalness, severity and others are collected in the general image of the Creator. Therefore, the Voice from Heaven, which spoke with the great prophets, calls God. But, as it is said in traditional religion, at a certain moment the Creator hid from this world, and his revolution was to be announced by Bat-kol (literal translation from Hebrew: «Daughter of the Voice»).

It is this voice, which in Scripture is also called the Voice from Heaven, or the Voice of God, that brings the revolution of the Creator, the Servant of the connecting thread between God and his creations. Through Bat-kol, the Creator announces the revolution to the conscious, awakened man and guides him to salvation. This same voice spoke to the prophets, the great kings and the enlightened.

In Kabbalah, there are two levels of revelation: the «Great Voice», which is called the voice of the Eternal Silence, what is called in the secret teachings the Voice of the Eternal Silence, and the second is the «Daughter of the Voice» (Hebrew «Bat-kol»). The book of Zohar says that this voice is not external, but internal, and when the Holy Scriptures talk about the Voice of God, the voice from heaven, these are internal processes. The Voice of the Eternal Silence is female, it was heard in the Garden of Eden, but later it was hidden, and in this world one can only hear the voice of her daughter, Bat-kol.

Book of Zohar, Bereshit Bet:

«Rabbi Simon (Hebrew: Shimon) said: «Just as the Torah is between two houses (two women). The first is Upper and hidden, sealed, the second is more open. The first is also called the «Great Voice», the one mentioned in Deuteronomy 5:19: «The Great Voice that was no longer heard», that is, the Great Voice that was hidden.»

And the Zohar continues:

«It is the inner Voice that cannot be heard in video speech. It speaks constantly, but it can never be heard. The Great Voice is the voice that speaks in secret, it is the subtle inner voice that can no longer be a voice.»

In Gnostic literature, Eternal Silence is given close attention. It existed long before the Aeon Logos (Word) appeared. Silence, which in Gnostic teaching is called Aeon Sige (eternal Silence), has a daughter, in another version — a sister, whose name is Ennoia (Thought). In Gnostic history, Ennoia, the first thought of the Creator, at some point became proud and ran away to create independently, but, having descended into the material world, was captured by the archons, the dark streams that she herself created. The archons continue to hold her captive, not allowing her to return to her parents.

In Greek mythology, the separation of the Aeons of Sige and Ennoia or the Aeons of the elder and younger Sophia corresponds to the myth of the separation of Demeter and Persephone. In this story, Persephone was declared by Hades, the god of the underworld. She missed her mother Demeter very much, but could not renounce Hades at that time, and Zeus’s messenger Hermes acted as a savior. Hermes descended into the underworld, rescued Persephone and returned his Demeter. If we touch on another, more distributed Gnostic story about the transformation of the Pleroma (wholeness), then in it the cause of the fall was the proud Aeon Sophia (Wisdom), as a result of which her daughter was cast out of the Pleroma into Kenoma, and the whole story takes place around their future reunions, the elder Sophia and her daughter, the younger Sophia-Sirim. In the secret schools, these myths illustrate the process of inner salvation. Their goals are to constantly remind people of the main mission, the salvation of the soul, to approach the «harlot», about her return to paradise with the help of Hermes. To better understand the Gnostic view of internal processes, I will cite fragments from the book «Song of the Sirim».

History of Pleroma and Kenoma

1. The Beginning of the Pleroma

The first was the Unborn Father, also called the First Father. He had many other names, including the First Principle, the One, the Silence, Bythos, the Bottomless, the Abyss or the Depth. This unborn, eternal and perfect Aeon was long before the universe came into being. The First Principle had a pair, which was called Sige (Eternal Silence), also called Ennoia (Thought).

Despite the fact that the incomprehensible First Father remained silent all this time, love overwhelmed him, so Love is one of his names. At some point, wanting to share this wonderful feeling with someone else, he decided to create his own offspring of Aeons.

Wanting to give the Aeons the best that the Creator had in himself, he placed in the womb of Sige the family of his future offspring, after which Sige emanated from herself the first pair, the syzygy of the Aeons. These were Nous, who are also called the Only Begotten, the Beginning of Beginnings and the Father of the Aeons, in other words, the root of all the Aeons, as well as from him successively all the other Aeons and Aletheia.

This was the first tetrad, the four higher educational institutions of the Aeons:

The First Father and Sige (Silence);

Nus (Mind) and Alethea (Truth).

After some time, the second pair of Aeons Nous and Alethea, wishing to imitate the First Father in everything, emanated from themselves a new pair: Logos and Zoe. Logos is considered the beginning of the Pleroma, the Aeons and all sources of creativity.

Logos and Zoe, in turn, performed Anthropos and Ecclesia.

This is the second tetrad:

Logos (Word) and Zoe (Life);

Anthropos (Man) and Ecclesia (Church).

Together they united the first eight Aeons, the Ogdaod.

The producers of the pair Anthropos and Ecclesia, Logos and Zoe, emanated ten more Aeons, which made up five pairs.

Here are their names:

Bitios (Depth) and Mixis (Mixing);

Aatgeros (Eternal Youth) and Genosis (Unity);

Autophyes (Essential Nature) and Hedone (Pleasure);

A kinetos (motionless) and syncrasis (mixture);

Monogenes (Only Begotten) and Macaria (Happiness).

The pair Anthropos and Ecclesia also emanated from themselves six pairs, twelve Aeons, the last of which are Teletos and Sophia.

Here are their names:

Parakletos (Comforter) and Pistis (Faith);

Patrikos (Father) and Elpis (Hope);

Metricos (Motherly) and Agape (Love);

Ainos (Praise) and Synesis (Intellect);

Ekklesiasticos (son of Ecclesia) and Makariotes (Bliss);

Sophia (Wisdom) and the Desired Teletos.

2. Events in the Pleroma

These fifteen pairs, thirty perfect Aeons, founded the Pleroma, that is, the fullness, the integrity of the First Father. Of all the Aeons, only Nous, the Only Begotten, could enjoy the boundless grandeur of the Creator. He also had the honor of being initiated into the secrets and plans of the First Origin. For all the other Aeons, the First Father is always invisible and incomprehensible.

The descendants of Nus reverently fulfilled the commandments they received, the main one of which forbade not only introducing themselves to the First Father, but even thinking about him once again, since his greatness was incomprehensible to the descendants of Nus.

With each generation, the Aeons moved further and further away from the Source, the Root of all things, and, despite the prohibitions, secretly wanted to know more about the Creator of everything, about the First Principle. The descendants of Nous were tormented by questions: who is the culprit of all the Aeons? Why are they born in pairs? How did they get to the Pleroma? And why did the First Father reveal himself only to Nous?

Despite all these conflicts, international ones were set by the Aeons, they immediately humbled themselves, and none of them was going to violate the ban, until one moment the youngest of the Aeons, who came from Anthropos (Man) and Ecclesia (Church), whose name was Sophia (Wisdom), wished, despite the ban, to know the Origin. Having become proud, she pronounced her pair — Teletos and, led by passions, rushed to the incomprehensible First Father, the Source of everything.

Sophia was driven by pride, not love, as she thought. She was convinced that his action was admired by other Aeons, who could not solve similar problems, afraid to break the ban.

Despite all the obstacles, in her quest to know the greatness of the First Father, she rushed further and further. She almost managed to approach the Source, but the Inner Limit (Oros), guarding the peace of the Creator, stopped her. It reminded Sophia that the First Father is incomprehensible, and returned her back to Teletos.

3. The appearance of the younger Sophia, Sirim

Although Sophia returned to her mate, her act had consequences. In our quest with the incomprehensible First Father, she gave birth to a formless entity, previously unknown in the Pleroma, which may mean an Aeon without a mate. Sophia thinks to hide this entity, which is also called a miscarriage, fearing that her imperfect creation will be expelled from the Pleroma.

When the Aeons learned of Sophia’s formless fruit, they were terrified, thinking that such offspring awaited them too. The Pleroma, where the Aeons were born in pairs from the male and female essence, was engulfed by a wave. The harmony that had reigned since its foundation was broken, and since Sophia, in a fit of passion, had violated the prohibition and given birth to a child without a pair, it was decided to expel the younger Sophia from the Pleroma.

Having learned that her child had been banished, Sophia tried to protect him and begged the First Father for forgiveness, but as soon as she had violated the prohibition and given birth to a formless Existence, her stay in the Pleroma was forbidden, her prayers were not brought to justice. In order to calm the Aeons, who frightened Sophia with the sight of the child, the First Father produced another Aeon Limit, not paired and not female, who was also called the Cross. The Aeon Cross, unlike Oros, performed the duties not of the internal Limit, guarding the chambers of the First Father, but of the external one, that is, it had to be protected by the entire Pleroma and the Aeons located in it, from external incompleteness, Kenoma. The external appearance of Limit cleansed Sophia from passions and separated from her the formless miscarriage, who was also called Sirim. After these events, the purified Sophia remained in the Pleroma and was returned to Teles, and her child, the younger Sophia, Sirim, was led outside the Pleroma, or, as they say, cast down into Kenoma. In order to protect the Aeons from imperfection in the future, the First Father ordered the outer Limit to ascend the Cross, erected at the entrance to the Pleroma, and guard the approaches to it.

4. Events in Kenoma

During the fall, Sirim saw the light of the Pleroma and sealed it in her memory forever. In the void and visibility, in the place called Kenoma, she suffered greatly because the warrior quickly returned.

In order to restore order in the Pleroma, the First Father gave Nous and Aletheia the emanation of a new pair of Aeons, whose names are Christ and the Holy Spirit.

Their goal was to calm the Aeons, restore order in the Tribe and subsequent care for it. Christ and the Holy Spirit once again reminded the inhabitants of the Pleroma of the laws of the First Father and His incomprehensibility, and also reported that this very incomprehensibility is the royal order, the Kingdom and the eternity of the Pleroma.

Having accepted the instruction of Christ and the Holy Spirit, the Aeons regained their peace, and only Sophia continued to pray to the First Father for simplicity. Meanwhile, the other Aeons inhabiting the Pleroma joined her prayers, and the all-merciful First Father took pity on Sophia, promising through Nous that in the future her child would return to the Pleroma and unite with his mate.

The thirty Aeons rejoiced at this news and, wishing to express their gratitude to the First Principle, decided to create a collective Aeon in His honor.

Each gave the best that was in it, and so, to the glory of the Creator, the perfect Aeon was created, which gave the name Irenaeus (in the Hebrew version, Yehoshua — Jesus). This Aeon is not paired, but only male, since its pair is the younger Sophia, Sirim. Together with Irenaeus, twelve angels also came into being, who were to accompany him everywhere and protect him. This common fruit of the Pleroma was also called Logos, Christ, High Priest and Savior, since he was to find Sirim in the future and save him, after which he would return him to the Pleroma.

The formless, powerless Sirim, who was in Kenome, did not know that her mother was simpler and that a new Aeon, Irenaeus, was created for the glory of the First Father and for her salvation.

5. Design of Sirim

After Christ and the Holy Spirit in Europe were the whole of the Pleroma, they were given another mission. They were to descend into Kenoma to give form to the younger Sophia.

Arriving in Kenoma, also called dangerous and the kingdom of Darkness, Christ found the unformed younger Sophia. She was crawling on the ground, since by the force of her nature she could not even rise. Christ formed Sirim, who is also called passions older than Sophia, after which she acquired the form of a female Aeon, but not a pair. In the future, uniting only with the male Aeon, Irenaeus, they created a new, perfect pair of Aeons. Having completed their mission, Christ and the Holy Spirit hastened to return to the Pleroma.

The younger Sophia, having become an almost perfect Aeon, began to seek those who had given her form, and rushed after Christ and the Holy Spirit to Pler, but the outer Limit, guarding the approaches to Krome, blocked her path and ordered her to return to Kenoma.

Sirim was again in darkness, for the light had called to her church. Feeling lonely, afraid and sad, she wept bitterly, climbing to those who had formed her. The Pleroma took pity on Sirim and, to comfort her, sent to her the «collective fruit» of the Pleroma, the Aeon of Irenaeus, accompanied by twelve angels.

Arriving at Kenoma, Irenaeus reshaped Sirim, but this time in accordance with gnosis. He then separated from Sirim the passions that oppressed her and created from them the root of all creative abilities.

6. Creation of the universe, the material world, all living things and man.

After Irenaeus had pronounced it, the purified Sirim began the process of creation from the passions separated from her, giving birth to three elements: hylithic (material), psychic (mental), and pneumatic (spiritual).

Having left herself the spiritual element, from the spiritual creation she created her son Demiurge, the Creator of the universe, all the rest of the creation from the two natures — the spiritual and the material — he already performed. The pneumatic was incomprehensible to him, and therefore he knew nothing about his mother, the younger Sophia, considering himself the Supreme God of nature.

Secretly tuned generation Demiurge began the process of creation. Having separated the two elements: the spiritual and the material, which had previously been united in Kenoma, he created from the spiritual seven heavens, archons, archangels and angels. When the spiritual worlds and the archons who ruled them were formed, Demiurge began to create the material world from the hylithic element.

Behind all this was the plan of Irenaeus the Savior, which Sirim carried out through his son.

Having completed the process of creation, the Demiurge took his place above the seventh heaven, where he occupied his throne. He became proud and declared himself the Creator of the Universe. Since the Demiurge still did not know about the existence of his mother, since in the power of his spiritual nature he could not see and understand the spiritual, he was called Samael «the Blind God».

Sirim, who is also called Mother, Jerusalem, the younger Sophia, and also Ogdaod, since she resides in the eighth heaven, continues to invisibly guide her son. The eighth heaven is also called the Celestial Jerusalem or the level of display, since Sirim, who resides there, is between the universe created by the Demiurge and the Pleroma.

7. Man. Three kinds of humanity (the threefold nature of man)

…The lifeless body of man was the first to lie in the Garden of Eden, until the Demiurge decided to open the soul in him, that is, the spiritual element, thereby reviving him. This man is called differently in different cultures, his name is Adamas or Adam.

The man created by Demiurge remains in paradise. He mixed in himself the painful (spiritual) and hylithic (material) elements, until the younger Sophia secretly from Demiurge gave him the pneumatic (spiritual) element. Knowledgeable people become acquainted with the seed or ray of pneumatic light.

Having learned of this, the Demiurge became inflamed with jealousy towards the man who, unlike him, was awarded the pneumatic element, the spark of light of the Pleroma, and expelled him from paradise into the material world.

Thus, man, endowed with the elements of the elements: pneumatic, vital and hylithic, found himself in the material world.

These three elements are also commonly referred to as the threefold natural personality or representatives of the human races.

Here are the three types:

1. Gilics (material) — I, in whom the gilic element predominates. These are material people, followers of the Prince of the world today, the Devil. They cannot save themselves in the power of their nature.

2. Psychics (spiritual) are people of all religions who follow the Holy Scriptures and the commandments received through the prophets. When they leave this world, they can be awarded a place between heaven and hell by their actions: righteous actions in heaven, and sinners in hell. They have freedom of choice and salvation through their virtue.

3. Pneumatics (spiritual), also called Gnostics, are those who follow the spark of light of the Pleroma received from Sirim. Pneumatics are saved in the power of their spiritual nature.

8. Savior. The Mission of Christ, Irenaeus. Redemption

The goal of the pneumatics in the material world is to shape the soul nature through gnosis, so that this nature awakens within man, grows as a family, and rises to the Higher Worlds. After the family realizes this through special knowledge, gnosis, the younger Sophia will leave the eighth heaven and enter the Pleroma, where she will wait for others like her, Irenaeus. Having united, they created a new pair of Aeons.

The spirits of the Gnostics watch over the Pleroma for the younger Sophia.

The Demiurge takes the place of his mother in the eighth week. Following this, the souls of virtues from different nations will enter there, those people who lived in accordance with the commandments and Scripture.

The third hylithic element will be the destruction of the all-consuming fire along with this material world.

CHAPTER THREE

Eternal Silence in the Mythology of Ancient Egypt

The fact that the mind of the macrocosm and the mind of man were captured by the dark forces is also allegorically stated in Egyptian mythology in the story of Osiris, Isis, Horus and Seth. As is known from the myth, at first Egypt was ruled by Osiris, as well as his wife Isis, through whom he proclaimed his revolution, and there was peace and harmony, the Golden Age. But then Seth, the symbol of the dark forces, killed Osiris, and Isis hid in a cave. According to another version — in a hut in the Nile Delta. There she gave birth to the divine child Horus. The grown-up Horus declared his rights to the throne, and a long-term struggle for the Egyptian throne began between him and Seth.

In esoteric teachings, the myth of the confrontation between Set and Horus is given special significance. The moment when Set killed Osiris allegorically characterizes how a reasonable person controlled dark thoughts. This period of time symbolizes the transition of a child into adulthood. Set, that is, bad thoughts and justification, having settled in a reasonable person, replaced the reign of Osiris and Isis, in which peace and harmony reigned.

If we transfer this story to our reality, the microcosm, then in the secret teachings Osiris symbolizes the human mind from birth to 13 years. At this time, he was sinless and thought that he was pure, reasonable. Then the world of youth, which according to religious canons became a man, conditionally at 13 years old, is gradually taken over by Seth. Allegorically, Seth kills Osiris, and Isis, the divine inner voice, hides from Seth’s persecution in the Nile Delta. From 13 years to 21 years, that is, for eight years, power in the mind passes from Osiris to Seth, this is the period that is called «transitional age», until conditionally at 21 years old, as in the case of esoteric teachings, the Savior does not arise within the youth. From this moment on, a long-term struggle between Seth and Horus begins in the human mind.

Illustration from the book «Seth and Horus. Two Gods of Ancient Egypt»