Archimandrite Zacharias (Zakhar) is a well-known modern theologian, confessor of the St. John the Baptist Monastery in England, founded by Archimandrite Sophronius (Sakharov). Father Zacharias labored next to Elder Sophronius for more than twenty years and translated his books into Greek, and also wrote his own books, some of which have been translated into Russian (“Christ as the Way of Our Life”, “The Hidden Man of the Heart”). The portal publishes a translation of Father Zachariah's lecture, which he delivered on September 5, 2015 to the Orthodox youth of Romania, where he came at the personal invitation of the Romanian Patriarch Daniel.
The theme I bring to your attention tonight is the connection with God as the foundation of our connection with our neighbor.
In a person's life the most importance have two periods: the age of youth, when a person lays a solid foundation for his entire stay on earth - so as to redeem for his years the wealth of eternity - and then the age of old age, sealing the virtue and piety of his life with that crown of righteousness, which is the Lord Jesus Christ, the Righteous and the Eternal Judge will reward those who love His Coming to earth and honor His Gospel.
In youth, a person is filled with enthusiasm, full of zeal for the light of knowledge, longs for perfection, perfection, and, most of all, makes connections with his own kind, with his neighbor, which are able to reveal the value of his natural, natural gifts. And if a person does not stop trying to wisely redeem this time of life, receiving imperishable grace in return, then his old age will be inspired by zeal for the world there, which his heart longs for and which he hastens to achieve. She [old age] will be adorned with supernatural gifts and animated by a living hope in the merciful embrace of the Father of bounties and the God of all comfort.
This evening I would like us to dwell a little on connections with our own kind - a subject that is very interesting for all young people, but in fact - for all people. For these connections to be creative and life-giving, certain conditions must be met.
One who establishes a connection with another person must clearly know his origins, as well as his purpose and purpose. God created man out of nothing and directly by Himself, taking the dust of the earth with His own hands and breathing into his face the breath of life. God settled man in a paradise of sweetness and gave him a commandment to help him maintain humility and not go beyond the limits of his created nature. Only in this way could he remain in a living connection with his Creator and in the end fulfill his high destiny - to achieve spiritual perfection.
As long as man kept the commandment, he enjoyed intimacy with God and always dwelt in His presence, filled with gratitude, peace, and the sweetness of humble love. In the light of the face of God, Adam also had a harmonious relationship with Eve, which increased his joy and inspiration. Adam considered Eve to be his very life and more precious than everything around him in Paradise. Therefore, giving thanks to God for her, for the help given to him, he said: “Behold, this is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh” (Genesis 2:23).
Adam perceived Eve as a body from his body, and they were so pure before each other that although they were both naked, they were devoid of all passion and were not ashamed. A short time later, however, Adam and Eve allowed themselves to be tempted by the enemy to become gods and rejected the commandment of the Creator, which shook their connection with God, as well as the connection between them. Being lawless and a transgressor of the commandment, Adam also lost the feeling of generosity and friendship of God that he had before when he spoke with Him face to face.
Then, being both guilty, Adam and Eve hid from the presence of the Lord God in the midst of the trees of paradise. The violation of the commandment removed the primordials from the Creator and fulfilled their fear of death, which entered their lives as a just retribution for sin, as the Good God warned them from the very beginning.
However, between them there was no longer the former innocence and communion of love. When God meekly demanded from them an answer for their deed, they both rebelled against Him, condemning Him as guilty of their tragedy, and each no longer saw in the other his very life, as before, but only the cause of death.
Tracing the history of mankind as the Scripture presents it to us, we see that the bonds between people are becoming more and more tragic.
Tracing the history of mankind as the Scripture presents it to us, we see that the bonds between people are becoming more and more tragic. Once Adam's son Cain brought an unclean sacrifice to God, and therefore God was not pleased with him. Then, driven by envy and murderous hatred, he took the life of his brother. And since the whole human race now lived under the power of the fear of death, then, by virtue of self-love, in the struggle for survival, it did nothing more than destroy itself and, being in this self-deception, came into a state of all sorts of lawlessness.
Over the long centuries that followed, only a few righteous people managed to retain in themselves some of the features of the knowledge of God that the first-created had in paradise. They retained in their conscience a little of that light of reverence which is proper to have for God, and this gave them the strength to struggle in order to establish a relationship pleasing to Him. In the light of this connection, they were given a prophetic knowledge of the states that foreshadowed grace and truth, which had to descend from heaven in the fulfillment of times.
Patriarch Jacob was one of the Old Testament righteous men whose life can serve as an example for us. Wandering in the wilderness and enduring many evils there, the righteous Jacob wanted to return to the house of his father, Isaac. But he faced a terrible dilemma: if he remained in the desert, he would not be able to survive, and if he returned to his house, he would not escape the murderous severity and fury of his brother, Esau.
God gave Jacob a very important word: “Because you were strong with God, you will be strong with people”
It was impossible for a human being to get out of this impasse, and then, filled with sadness, he turned to God in prayer. He stood all night humbled himself in order to find grace before the Lord. At dawn, however, Jacob felt the approach of God and intensified his prayer, saying that he would not leave Him until he received a blessing from Him. And God began to speak to Jacob, giving him a very important word: “Because you were strong with God, you will also be strong with people” (cf. Gen. 32:28).
The next day, sealed with the blessing of God that he had received, Jacob went to meet Esau. Although he used to pursue him with a large army in order to kill him, but now he embraced him and, falling on his neck, kissed him and wept. And so they reconnected in brotherly love. And, as Scripture testifies, the blessing of God on Jacob was so strong that when he saw the face of Esau, it seemed to him that he saw the face of God (see: Gen. 33:10).
However, Jacob received this blessing only after he wrestled with the Lord in prayer all night and humbled himself to the end. He humbled himself, however, even before Esau, for, having approached him, he bowed to him seven times to the ground. God responded to the humility with which Jacob struggled in prayer, giving him the word, which became for him the foundation and law, holding and strengthening every connection, making it bear incorruptible and enduring fruit in eternity: “Since you were strong with God, so with you will be strong among men” (cf. Gen. 32:28).
The prophet Joel also teaches us an edifying word that enlightens our minds and strengthens our hearts so that we establish a perfect relationship with God and all creation. He says: “The vine withered and the fig tree withered; pomegranate tree, palm tree and apple tree, all the trees in the field withered; and what is more, joy has become a reproach to the sons of men” (cf. Joel 1:12).
According to the words of the prophet, there is only one joy that deserves our reverence, and that is the joy that comes from God Himself, because it alone is perfect and complete. Being given by God, it works by the Holy Spirit. We give due honor to this priceless joy when we keep our lives and consciences pure by keeping the commandments. Then the heart receives strength with boldness and fear to stand before the face of Christ, who gives him the peace of reconciliation with God and His perishing comfort, which gives the soul assurance of its salvation in eternity.
If the joy of God reigns in our lives, then connections with people like us become a source of joy.
The holy and full joy that Christ promised to His servants breathes into them fear and wisdom not to rely on themselves, but to remain within the limits of their created nature and be able to use all that joy and comfort that creation can offer them for the glory of God and for sanctification. souls. But when people make true and undefiled joy, which flows from God, abominable, then all other sources of natural joy dry up and can no longer provide them with consolation, being deprived of the life-giving grace of God. They bring the anguish of self-love and the seed of corruption and death. On the contrary, if the joy of God reigns in our life, then the connections with those like us become a source of joy and become strong and full of creative inspiration.
But when a person unnecessarily relies on them [connections], then they themselves close the way for him to acquire supernatural gifts, which God gives out of His goodness and mercy.
We also state the same in relation to our relations with others. Without a solid foundation of our sacred connection with God, relationships with our likes will be weak, fragile, and ready to fall apart at any time and turn into an inexhaustible source of pain and anguish. That is why the Lord says that everyone a wise man who has comprehended the mystery of the Kingdom of God, brings out of his treasury the old and the new (see Matt. 13:52). In other words, he makes sure that the properties of his fallen human nature, that is, the old, serve to multiply the above-natural gifts, that is, the new, which God honors him on the path of spiritual renewal for His glory and for the salvation of all people.
Of course, everything that happened to the ancients was nothing but shadows that God had to make clear to us in the last days.
Absolute truth has been revealed to us in the person of the Lord Jesus, and we have come to know a perfect relationship with God and our neighbor. During His sojourn in the flesh, Christ revealed to us the bond of perfect love in the bosom of the Holy Trinity. The Son reveals and glorifies the Name of the Heavenly Father, the Father glorifies the Son and testifies that the Son is wholly in the Father, that the Father is wholly in the Son, and that He is the Son of His love, in whom He was pleased.
The Son glorifies the Father, and the Father glorifies the Son, and He does this immediately, naturally. And the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father, rests in the Son and glorifies Him, makes the life of the Son known, and instructs the disciples of Christ into all truth, that is, into the fullness of Divine love.
Christ revealed to us His Divine Person through connection with the Heavenly Father, keeping His commandment and obeying it, and thus remaining entirely in His love, and in relation to man He also showed perfect love: loving His own in the world, He loved them to the end (See: John 13:1). In order for the world to know that His love, both for God and for man, is true and perfect, Christ went the way of suffering and crucifixion on Golgotha. He descended into the tomb and even deeper, into the lowest parts of the earth, in order to fill the whole creation with His Divine presence and so that we could thus meet Him in every place and in every circumstance of our life. Being innocent and sinless, He became an oath for us in order to reconcile us with the Heavenly Father by His death and resurrection, and by ascending above heaven to give us the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
This wonderful God has commanded us to follow His example if we are to become His eternal possession. He humbled Himself and became the Servant of our salvation, giving His life for the sake of atonement, in order to deliver the whole man from the death of sin.
We know that the gospel of Christ was not received from man and is not according to man. The Lord Himself assures us that without Him we cannot accomplish a single good deed. Therefore, as He showed Nicodemus, we must be born again in order to comprehend His mysteries, fulfill His commandments, and thus become fit for the Kingdom of God. We understand, therefore, that in the state in which we are, nothing can help us fulfill our high destiny - to become sons of the Kingdom: neither the vanity of the world in which we live, nor the transient successes of the human mind. Moreover, we ourselves do not have enough light in our minds and strength in our hearts to reject all the filth and abundance of evil that we carry within ourselves and rise above the walls that block us.
We are not able to be in the presence of God in order to receive from Him the gift of the Holy Spirit and become a new creature that can do every good deed and have a pleasing relationship with our own kind. We will be blessed, however, if, convinced of our poverty and insignificance, we turn to God, realizing what honor He has honored us by turning His commandments and promises to us.
As the Gospel of Christ testifies to us, to those who received Him, who believe in His name, He gave the power to become children of God (cf. John 1:12). When a person receives the word of Christ, He renews his whole being. Being the seed of God in man, the word is established within him as the law of his life and no longer allows him to sin, because he is born of God. A person who is born again receives another mind, namely the mind of Christ, and also another understanding - that which is in Christ Jesus. Such a person receives a new heart, in which Christ indwells by faith. In other words, he rises to likeness with Christ and fulfills his destiny.
The one who has acquired the mind of Christ understands the meaning of each person, and therefore never dares to tempt one of these little ones.
Thus a person acquires the mind of Christ. This means that he understands God's plan for every soul and with inspiration and zeal desires to cooperate with God in the great ministry of regenerating the sons of the Kingdom. He realizes the honor and mercy that the Creator showers upon him when he visits him from evening to morning and from morning to evening. He now understands what is the meaning of each person, and therefore he never dares to offend one of these little ones, that is, his brethren, since they have the same destiny as he has.
Just as Christ carried all mankind in His heart, prayed for all in a bloody sweat in the garden of Gethsemane, suffered, was crucified and resurrected for the salvation of the world, ascended to heaven, where he now intercedes for all of Adam, so also a man, born again, loves God with all with his heart and prays for the salvation of all, as for his own salvation. And again, just as Christ became the new Adam, in whose face everything was fulfilled, so the believer, knowing the new birth, becomes another Adam, another center of all creation, which he brings before God in fervent prayer. It is impossible for such a person not to respect his neighbor.
I said that a person who is reborn spiritually acquires the mind of Christ. As the holy Apostle Paul points out, this mind presupposes a sacred competition between the believers of Christ: which of them, having rejected his will, will humble himself more before the other, which of them will consider more honorable and love the other more than himself. In fact, these are the properties of humility and love that Christ showed when He came to earth, not so that He would be served, but so that He would serve and give His life as a ransom for many (see: Mark 10:45).
Believers also acquire these properties when they are reborn as the Father of the future age (see: Isaiah 9:6), the Author and Finisher of our salvation, the Lord Jesus Christ. Based on such an understanding and similar life principles, the bonds of the children of God will also begin to carry the guarantee of paradise in this life.
I also said that those who are born again acquire a heart in which Christ indwells by faith. According to biblical anthropology and Orthodox Tradition, a person's heart is the center of his personality. Choices are made in the heart, and all decisions are made in the heart. There God is revealed to him, and there He is pleased to dwell. There, a person touches God and God receives a sense of community with the whole human race. God makes the heart His footstool and expands it with His grace to embrace heaven and earth.
He who carries within himself the sacred expansion of the heart will never offend his neighbor - knowing that this will mutilate his soul - but will perceive him as his very life. And the connections that such a person establishes with others, as well as the words that he utters, will announce the grace of the heart. A surrounding. He knows the great secret of spiritual life: nothing is needed but to offer the Lord a humble heart, so that He makes it a pure heart, in which traces of the presence of God never disappear and which can move to where its hidden treasure is found.
A man who is pleasing to God has two enemies to beware of: pride and despair. He is wary of pride, knowing that it cools the heart and deprives him of the power to love. The proud man is so full of himself that nothing else can fit in him and he remains completely closed to others. The believer is also wary of despair, for it presents the God of salvation as powerless to conquer the evil within us and thus pushes him into the grave sin of blasphemy. Then life dries up in the heart, and it can no longer communicate either with God or with other people.
From these two misfortunes, that is, pride and despair, humility delivers us. Just as salt prevents food from spoiling and gives it taste, so humility keeps love always fresh and alive. It gives the heart a fragrance that pleases the Lord, and makes it worthy to become the temple of God and the abode of the Holy Spirit.
Just as Christ first descended into the lower places of the earth and then ascended above all the heavens (see: Eph. 4:9-10), so humble love sets steps or rises in a person’s heart. On the same steps that Christ walked in order to descend to man, man also steps in order to ascend to God. Then, led by the Spirit of God, a person abandons every sinful deed, purifies his soul from all thoughts and desires that are contrary to God, is healed from the infection of sin, multiplies his zeal for heavenly things, performs deeds that are pleasing to God, and penetrates into the sacred breadth of Divine love, Father and Son and Holy Spirit, ascends from strength to strength (cf. Ps. 83:8), becomes a child and heir of God and joint heir with Christ.
God knew that no one could himself receive the fullness of His gifts, and therefore did not leave a man devastated by sin, as he was, but sent His Only Begotten Son into the world, Who created for Himself a Body in history, that is, His Church, to which He gave all the glory and perfection of His gifts. We become members of the Church through repentance and faith in the word of Christ, subordinating our mind and heart to His saving will.
Each believer who repents is given a separate gift of the Holy Spirit. This gift is the bond that keeps us connected to the wondrous Body of Christ and makes us partakers of the gifts of all the other members of the perfect fellowship of grace: the saints in heaven, the elect of God on earth. The soul is enriched from this communion between God and man, it is for it the starting point that leads it and keeps it unforgettably on the path of truth revealed to us by Christ.
Relationships between the members of the Body are distinguished by the fact that they carry the stamp of love, which operates to the extent that we fulfill the commandments of Christ. Within this Body, according to the word of the apostle, we listen to each other in order to encourage to love and good deeds (see: Heb. 10:24). Spiritual perfection is possible only within the Body of the Church, [through] giving gifts to all its members. The apostle affirms the same thing when he says that only together with all the saints can we understand what is the breadth and length, depth and height of the love of Christ (see Eph. 3:18-19).
On a smaller scale, we see that the same spiritual growth takes place in the harmonious relationship in Christ between a man and a woman, when they both strive with humility to complete their gifts and thus achieve love that does not seek its own, the only one that guides them to the Kingdom of Heaven.
In relationships and fellowship with God and other people, in which we need to strive to fulfill our destiny, individual freedom is of great importance. As far as God is concerned, His freedom is absolute, since He can create from nothing. God is not deprived of anything and does not need anything. For all that, from the fullness of His love, He not only created man, but also, for his salvation, humbled Himself, taking the form of a servant (see: Phil. 2: 7), and did not fail to descend to the hell of hell.
How more people tries to live without sin, the more he is freed from the obstructions of passions. No one can force God, but He does not impose His will on His thinking creatures. Likewise, a person who has found grace before God does not want to limit the freedom of any mortal, but he also does not want his spirit to be under the dominion of another. He seeks to become like Christ, Who conquered the world with His humble love and draws to Himself of good will all those who, by will and in total freedom, agree to follow Him.
The freedom that a person born of the spirit seeks is not political or social, but exclusively spiritual - the freedom of the heart.
The freedom that a person born of the spirit seeks is not political or social, but exclusively spiritual - the freedom of the heart. The more he is sanctified, the more free he becomes. Holiness, therefore, is not a moral principle, but exclusively and entirely spiritual, ontological. The saint is not the one who managed to have an impeccable behavior from a moral point of view, but the one who keeps the word of Christ, gathering in himself the grace of the Holy Spirit.
When a person's heart begins to open to grace, it takes root in him. And since it is the very root of his being, when by grace a person becomes the master of his heart, he becomes the master of his whole being. Thus, he builds the temple of God in his soul. He is free and no longer wants to sin, not because sin is forbidden or morally inappropriate, but because he does not want to destroy the temple of God that is within him.
If we want to have a living relationship with God, that is, to love Him with all our heart and always be in His presence, we need a heart that is pure, free and unoccupied. And the heart becomes free when we destroy the law of sin in it by repentance, and the commandments of God become the only law of our being. The soul is then given a state of Divine perfection and love, in which it cognizes unceasing prayer to God and, through it, love for one's neighbor.
Such a prayer confirms that a person is the image and likeness of God, honoring and loving at the same time his neighbor. The Word of God inspires in us the desire to put our brethren first and consider them above ourselves. Love for His word keeps us steadily on the hard path of His will. Thus, for us the word of God always remains the word of the cross, leading us from the abundance of spiritual life to the freedom of dispassion, giving peace to our being.
The need for communion with the Highest has accompanied humanity throughout the history of its existence. Many people who are dissatisfied with the narrow confines of ordinary material life still live in our time. Philosophers, hermits, ascetics, clergymen and simple believers - all, one way or another, recognize the existence of God. And they not only recognize it, but try to get to know it, to establish contact with it, to find a thread connecting with Him, or, at least, to turn to Him with various requests.
The need to know God lies deep in our soul and can wake up at certain periods of life. For everyone, this need appears, is expressed and experienced in a unique way for a particular person.
One of the characteristic ways of manifestation of the need to establish with the Highest is dissatisfaction with ordinary human life. A person can have everything that an average person can dream of: a good family, work, financial well-being, health. Only all this does not please a person, there is a longing for something else and nothing is able to appease it. And he fails to find a hobby or other activity that would change his restless state. Calmness and meaning are found only in the spiritual.
In some cases, a person may become aware of this need while living through very difficult or tragic situations in his life. Then there is a sharp reassessment of values, and habitual and ordinary hobbies and occupations cease to satisfy. In an instant, they may seem small and insignificant compared to something that has not yet been discovered and is just beginning to appear.
There are many ways to establish a connection.
1. Find a teacher.
Communication with a person who has achieved more in the spiritual field is a very important part of your personal progress. A lot depends on who you imitate and who you follow. The teacher transfers not only his knowledge and shares methods, but also transfers the most important thing - his inner state! Many examples are described in religious literature when a student attains very deep knowledge simply by being near the teacher.
Here, however, many seekers face numerous dangers. Trust in a person who is skilled in selfish manipulation can lead to unfortunate consequences for the seeker. Finding your teacher is the cornerstone of your spiritual quest.
Listen to your feelings. Communicating with a true teacher should bring joy and inspire you to change your life for the better.
Look at other students of your potential teacher. In the gospel, Jesus recommends by fruits to distinguish true teaching from false. Do other students develop positive qualities? Are they becoming wiser and more loving? How are their lives changing?
2. Study the literary sources devoted to the knowledge of God.
Now in stores you can find a sea of spirituality, psychology, extrasensory perception, the development of superpowers, etc. Not every book can be recommended for the study of such an important issue. Many of them can lead astray, especially those written by modern authors with the aim of getting rich quick.
There are proven sources that serve as a beacon for many generations of seekers: the Gospel, the Lives of the Saints, the teachings of the Christian righteous, the Bhagavad Gita, the Vedas, etc. These sources provide comprehensive information about spiritual quests, allow you to know the essence of the relationship that should connect a person with the Higher principle.
3. Trips to holy places.
In each religion there are especially revered places that believers tend to visit. Staying near shrines gives rise to aspiration to God, strengthens contact with Him, cleanses from worldly conditions. In some cases, visiting such places and turning to the saints associated with them can help cure complex diseases and solve problems.
4. Establishing a connection with God.
Each religion or religious tradition offers its own, purely inherent ways of spiritual work. These are individual and collective prayers, religious chants and meditations. Some traditions use ways that are unusual for us to establish a state of prayer. For example, the Sufi tradition uses a kind of whirling for this, shamans use dance and the sounds of musical instruments, and in India you can learn about hundreds of ways to meditate.
Our Orthodox tradition is more characterized by prayer – a sincere appeal to God as a way to get closer to Him.
In order to establish a connection with God in the way you choose, the regularity of conversion is important. A strong connection does not arise from the performance of rituals from time to time, but is gained by constant efforts.
If you long in your heart to fellowship with God, then, no doubt, you will be able to find a suitable way for you to realize this desire. You can also ask God to show you the way.
Good luck on your journey to knowing God!
Dear ones, what prevents you from hearing your higher mind? You are so used to living the old way, not feeling your divinity. You forgot how it is - to know everything, not to get sick, to love unconditionally ...
You have already received your experience of “loneliness” - life in separation from your spiritual family, from your higher aspects, from God…
And it's time to leave this experience, you have already learned enough, understood and realized. You have learned to choose Light even in the midst of impenetrable darkness...
And you need to let go of everything that prevents you from returning back to your divinity. And first of all, your human mind, your ego, interferes with you.
The human mind lives with old patterns and patterns of behavior, duality, the struggle for survival ...
The human mind will go away on its own in time as you gradually replace it with the higher intelligence of your divine aspects.
It will not happen instantly, but very powerful transforming energies are coming to the planet to help you.
connection with vyA, these cosmic energies also need your help - your desire to live in a new way, according to the laws of the Universe is necessary ...
And you also need to learn to listen to your higher mind, my dears. And I will try to push you to this in my messages.
First of all, in order to hear your higher particles, you need to “calm down” your chatty mind, your ego…
The ego is part of your human mind. It wants to control you, to be your master... It clings to you, doesn't want to let go.
It contains old three-dimensional programs, thanks to which it divides everything around: into its own and others, into right and wrong, into dark and light ...
The ego justifies many of your bad personal qualities and actions, believing that it protects you and your psyche ...
It, in its own way, takes care of you so that you feel your importance, value, increasing your pride and vanity ...
It nurtures your grievances… It tells you how beautiful, priceless you are and you don’t care about others, dividing you not only with your higher aspects, but also with people on different grounds: by skin color, by nationality, by religion…
And only YOU can silence your Ego! You are his Owner, and he listens only to YOU!
Inform your Ego that it is not right by giving it specific examples, life situations for which you have your new divine decision ... Let it be not once, not twice, but many times ...
AND THE EGO WILL ACCEPT YOUR CHOICE!
The more you explain and tell him: what and where does not suit you, how you now want to live, according to what principles and laws, the faster it will understand you.
Do not be angry with him, but fill him with your Love...
It will replace all its old life principles with new ones - yours, it will stop dividing everything, it will become your friend.
He really doesn't want to lose you. It will help you, but in a different way, in a new way... It is possible...
And when you learn to be the master of your ego, you can always ask him to be silent when you want to be in silence. When you want to connect with your higher mind...
My dears, no one will do it for you, only you yourself ... You can hear your higher mind, Higher Self, Soul ... only in complete silence of consciousness, when nothing disturbs you, does not care, when you are filled with inner peace, when you do not have negative energy...
And you can create this harmonious state to connect with your highest particle, you can do everything. There are many practices and techniques to calm your mind. Explore, find what works for you.
And I offer you my practice.
PRACTICE
When there are many thoughts in your head or even one, and you need to be in complete silence, you want to hear a hint, an answer from your higher mind, Soul ... try to imagine that your thoughts are floating clouds ...
And you can disperse them all, remove them from the horizon. You can blow and they will scatter in different directions, fly away far, far away ... You can remove them with invisible hands, as you wish. Remove them all.
And thus you clear your mind.
Now ask a question… You might ask, “What do I need to know today?”
And listen... listen... to the words of your Soul, your higher mind..
Don't worry if the first time you don't manage to get your thoughts out of your head for a long time or hear the answer. This needs training. If you apply this practice every day, then you will definitely succeed.
And I, my dears, will continue to help you set up a connection with your higher mind, with your Soul, with your Higher Self… I will help you return your divinity…
Your loving Father God.
ENERGY CLEARING CORRIDOR.
Today I felt a cool breeze blowing on my face. But at the same time, I am in a closed space where there is no wind or any draft ...
So it was already - it opened the energy corridor of purification again. I requested information from the subtle plane and received a positive response.
At present and until June 20, a powerful cleansing energy corridor is open. It includes people who follow the spiritual path, who want to get rid of their inharmonious qualities.
This energy cleanses the planet of accumulated energy debris, helps people free their subtle bodies from unnecessary "dirt"...
A person who gets into it unconsciously can feel a cool breeze on his body, a vibrational wave, energy spiraling ...
As if someone is blowing in the face or in another part of the body, but at the same time there is absolutely no source of draft or just wind around. Someone can feel the energy penetration through the whole body. There may be slight dizziness.
This is how the cosmic cleansing energies blow. They permeate your entire being, blowing out all the energy dirt.
You can independently get into this cleansing energy corridor even after June 20. But right now, when it is fully open, it has a very powerful cleansing power.
PRACTICE
In order to get into the energy corridor of purification, it is necessary to imagine how you are standing in the middle of an endless tunnel located in another space, on a subtle plane...
It has neither beginning nor end... The walls of this corridor have round shape, as if you are in a pipe that is larger than your height.
Feel the breath of this space. You seem to be in an energy extract and now the energy is blowing in your face, passing through your entire body.
List all your inharmonious qualities that you want to get rid of. And this flow of energies will help you, take them away…
Feel how it permeates your entire being, envelops all your subtle bodies, passes right through, bringing out all your inner dirt.
Feel the purity and grace. Your subtle bodies are now cleared of gross dark energy.
Dear ones, use this cleansing energy, this corridor. It will help you become purer and brighter... will bring you even closer to your true divine essence.
With love, Magda.
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The importance of the beginning ... The way you make the first gesture or the first step, in what mood, with what intention - the results that you will achieve throughout your life, successes or, on the contrary, failures, depend on this.
Are you surprised: "How can a small detail determine the whole sequence of circumstances?" But watch yourself. If you set off on a journey in a state of unrest, you are setting off chaotic forces within you. And if in this state you go to work or to visit someone, then the closer you get to the goal, the more restless you are. And then you will make awkward movements, utter rash words. How much damage is done, the consequences of which then have to be corrected ... if it is still possible to correct! And vice versa: when you make sure to take the first step in a state of calmness, harmony, then the further you move, the more you feel that you have found the right behavior, say the right words. Whatever you do, always make sure you start well.
= Teacher Omraam Mikael Aivanhov, "Thoughts for every day_2016, JUNE 1" =
I am often asked to explain who an Initiate is. I can only answer that the Initiate is a person who has begun to understand that he must give an increasing role to the mind, understanding, which is the ability of the higher mind. Every day he concentrates, reflects, meditates. He constantly seeks advice from the Spiritual principle in himself, asks him to lead himself, to enlighten. People develop when they get used to always turning to the higher in their searches, requests, then the energies in them change the direction of their movement. Until then, they are held in the lower areas of consciousness, where they provoke errors, disorder and destruction. But as soon as people get used to turning upward, looking for their goal above, their thoughts, feelings, actions are transformed by the forces of their higher mind, and they embark on the path of Initiation.
= Teacher Omraam Mikael Aivanhov, "Thoughts for every day_2016, May 31" =
By creating man in His own image and likeness, God made him as strong as He Himself. So why does a person show such weakness? Because he doesn't know what his strength is. His strength is not in the ability to demand, to impose himself, but in the ability to say no. This means that no one in the world can force him to do what he does not want. Even if all hell were to unite against him to force him to act against his will, he could not do it. And even God cannot force a person! That is why, if he knew where his true strength is, he could resist any temptations, any temptations, would not commit a single negative deed. He is weak and makes mistakes only because he agrees to it. The dark entities of the invisible world have the power to tempt and test a person. God Himself gave them such power. But a person always has the opportunity to say no to evil. And only ignorance of their Divine origin makes many so weak.
= Teacher Omraam Mikael Aivanhov, "Thoughts for every day_2016, May 30" =
Entering the path of true evolution, you are like a traveler crossing a border. Since you are carrying with you a lot of various luggage accumulated over thousands of years, the border guards stop you and say: “Our friend, the road is long and difficult, all these items that you are loaded with are bulky, useless and even harmful, you must leave them here ". And they force you to get rid of everything heavy, dark, which prevents you from vibrating in unison with the purity and light that you aspire to. This border crossing is not easy, as it is always painful to refuse. But since you want to go up, it's important for you to come to terms with this price. Be persistent, and soon you will pass through another customs, the border of another region, and so on, until, completely liberated, you will reach that Divine country where you will connect with the Source of eternal life.
= Teacher Omraam Mikael Aivanhov, "Thoughts for every day_2016, May 29" =
What could be easier than washing your hands? But in fact it is not easy, there is nothing insignificant, if you do it consciously. The water we touch is the material embodiment of the invisible water circulating in the universe. And so you can get in touch with this cosmic water, asking you to purify it. And since she also has a great power of receptivity, absorption, you can entrust her with your best thoughts, feelings, desires related to you and to all people on earth. It feeds on them and spreads them wherever it flows.
Some will protest: "Talking with water to make our desires come true? You advise us to act like pagans!" No, there is no more paganism in this than in the prayers of Christians in front of a statue or image of a Saint. When you turn to water, it is not because you consider it to be a deity that will grant your prayers. Water is a support for your inner work, a support all the more effective because it is alive, living the life of God Himself. And this is also true for earth, air and fire.
= Teacher Omraam Mikael Aivanhov, "Thoughts for every day_2016, May 28" =
From the earth to the stars, the entire universe obeys the law of hierarchy, that is, the grossest, heaviest elements accumulate at the bottom, while the lightest, purest elements tend to rise. This is a physical law that operates in the same way as on a mental level. A student who knows this law strives to rise as high as possible with the help of meditation, contemplation, prayer in order to catch particles of subtle matter from which he will build his subtle bodies. And since energies and beings are connected with these particles, the purer they are, the more alive and radiant these energies and beings are. And thus, by replacing the used particles of his body with new ones, the student thereby opens the door of his soul to meet the guests who will bring him the most wonderful gifts.
= Teacher Omraam Mikael Aivanhov, "Thoughts for every day_2016, May 27" =
You will never move forward if you do not stop from time to time to review your life, reflecting on what you have done, what you have said, in order to realize your mistakes and mistakes. Of course, you will come to conclusions that will not please you, you will be sad and even ashamed. But it's better than being ignorant. It is because of this that we feel the need to become better. However, in order for this sadness not to become destructive, it is important for you to restore balance. How? Rejoicing for other people. Such a positive attitude will prevent you from falling into discouragement or even despair. Look for beauty and goodness in all people, and especially in those who, with their talents and virtues, contributed to the evolution of mankind. Take them as a model, an example to follow. And then, as soon as you realize your weaknesses, your shortcomings, you will direct your thoughts into the future, you will even be able to see yourself as the owner of those virtues that you value so much in others, and you will never lose courage again.
= Teacher Omraam Mikael Aivanhov, "Thoughts for every day_2016, May 26" =
Spiritual science always teaches us how to transcend ourselves. But this, of course, should not be taken literally, since we cannot separate from ourselves, everything is within ourselves. It is our consciousness that rises to reach more high levels. When you feel as if you have risen very high, up to the stars, as if you have come into contact with the Divine light, in fact it is within yourself that you have moved further, higher, one might say deeper. What you have achieved is your higher self. It is it that gives you endless possibilities to create in oneself new forms, purer, more harmonious. To designate the realities of the spiritual world, we have to use a specific language, the language of the physical world, as if we are talking about space with its distances, volumes. But in fact, everything happens in us, in our Higher Self, our Divine Self.
= Teacher Omraam Mikael Aivanhov, "Thoughts for every day_2016, May 25" =
In all countries, there is a tradition to bring something to the people we come to visit: a gift, flowers, sweets, etc. This is very ancient tradition, based on the law - never appear to anyone empty-handed. But it is even better to go towards people with the desire to bring them the good of your heart and your soul. All our gestures are meaningful, and therefore it is important to be careful not to greet someone in the morning with an empty vessel in your hands, otherwise you will bring him emptiness for the rest of the day. When you have a meeting with a friend, never hold an empty basket, bucket or bottle in your hand. If you absolutely must bring a vessel, make sure it is not empty. You can simply pour water into a bucket or bottle, which in the eyes of the Creator is the most precious thing. And greet this person with the thought that you bring him health, joy, fullness, all blessings.
= Teacher Omraam Mikael Aivanhov, "Thoughts for every day_2016, May 24" =
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Like the Supreme Family, each person has his own Spirit, Soul and Body. The spirit is the spark of Svarozhye, the most precious gift of the Supreme Family, the ray of Light Alatyr, our true self. The Spirit, like the Soul, is what a person is in reality, a superconsciousness, a free beginning in him. He is a direct embodiment of the Higher Power, which leads all living things to the improvement and development of the Soul. It is the Spirit that communicates with the world of Rule. It guides in a person the desire to learn and the desire for creativity. The spirit is also manifested by the desire for development and self-improvement. As a part of the Supreme, he constantly strives to return to his Divine state.
All living things receive their spirit as a slice of a single Spirit-consciousness of the Kind of the Most High. This universal Spirit, embodied in the image of the Falcon-Kin, is located at the highest point of the Universe, at the top of the Kin Tree. The Tree of the Family is the embodied Universe, the body of the Almighty. Therefore, the Spirit of man consists of the Divine Veda, the light of knowledge and wisdom of the Most High, which is replenished by the Light of creation. It is no coincidence that a person's desire to search for and know God, because the path to God is the main meaning of his life. To know God is to know your own essence. Therefore, one of the main tasks of the spiritual path of the Native Orthodox Faith is to help people to know their Spirit and find themselves.
In order to understand, deeply understand what the Spirit is, we must know and understand God, because the human Spirit is a drop in the boundless Ocean of the Spirit of the Supreme Kind. Just as we cannot fully know the essence of the Almighty without uniting with Him to the end, so we cannot fully know the essence of our Spirit, remaining in the Body. Realizing that everything develops in the likeness, we know the Almighty in His manifestations (Native Gods), we can also know the Spirit through its manifestations in man.
The very first manifestation of the Spirit in man is conscience. She is the voice of the Spirit, which quietly but surely tells us whether we act right or wrong in the most difficult situations or at the moment of making a responsible decision. Being a manifestation of the Spirit, conscience is a burden for wicked people, from which they seek to get rid of. From his birth, a person through conscience knows whether he has done good or evil. This happens because the Spirit in the form of conscience constantly reminds of the destruction of the inner harmony and the descent onto the dark path. Spirit through conscience always prompts the best option solutions, an option that leads to the common good, not to immediate gain. Therefore, the Orthodox Rodnover must always listen to conscience - the voice of his Spirit, to do good and righteous deeds. By maintaining harmony and justice in the Universe, we maintain harmony and justice in our own Soul. By embarking on the path of Vedic Orthodoxy, a person embarks on the true path spiritual development, tested by hundreds and thousands of generations of Ancestors.
When the Spirit does not develop, the consciousness is directed only to the search for bodily goods, as a result of which the Soul becomes callous and the Spirit turns to stone. Then a person can become a cold and cruel destroyer of the world. A mind that thinks without a heart is a reliable barrier to the freedom of life. Therefore, the Native Gods bequeathed to us to know the world with the heart through Faith and the mind through the Veda.
Only in life's ups and downs do we feel the existence of the Spirit in ourselves. When such moments pass, our world changes, and the feeling of the Spirit never leaves us. At the moment of spiritual insight, we clearly feel the presence of the Spirit and kinship with the Source of Life. Enveloped in many bodily shells, the Spirit sprouts for many centuries until it penetrates into the consciousness of a person, and then a person becomes light - enlightened. It is through the Spirit that a person can receive intuitive insight, rise above bodily existence and receive knowledge and happiness of the world of Rule. A person who has a sufficiently bright and strong spirit, after training and passing the appropriate number of Initiations, receives the Gift of Vedanya - the opportunity to constantly receive knowledge from the world of the Gods. When a person's Spirit is revealed, then a constant channel of Divine Cognition is established between him and the Gods. Then a person is in the flow of knowledge, a deep understanding of the essence of things that come to him from the Light of the Family. At the same time, he is able to prophesy the future, heal and work miracles. A person needs to go through many of the toughest trials and improve himself until the Spirit manifests itself in Light and Joy. For the most important thing that we must learn while living in Yavi is a constant, calm, joyful state of being and the knowledge of any of its manifestations. The spirit of the Orthodox Rodnover should be above the everyday manifestations of the bodily world, in the essence of creation itself (events, situations, the world), then it becomes its ruler.
Spirit is the grain of the Soul. The human soul is "alive" - a particle of Life itself, the embodiment of the creative Power of the Almighty. This is a kind of bud of the Tree of Life, an acorn that falls down to germinate in a new higher quality. The soul is directly connected with the personality of a person and carries two principles: Light - Vedogon Svarogy and Dark - the darkness of Navi. In order to live forever, the Soul must constantly develop at the expense of good deeds, sacrificial service to the earthly and heavenly race, increase the part of Light and Fire in itself. When a person does not live according to the Truth, creates falsehood and destroys the world around him, this makes his Soul dark and heavy. Therefore, after the death of such a person, his Soul can fall into the Dark Nav. When the Soul enters Nav, it inflicts suffering on itself: falsehood and the evil that it has committed fall on it with the heaviest burden and bring unbearable mental suffering.
The constant births of living beings in the world of Reveal form the basis of Coloroda. Coming to the corporeal, material world, the Souls develop, evolve, giving each Body a more perfect consciousness. The pinnacle of the process of incarnation of the Soul is its birth in the Human Body. Depending on the level of their development, the embodied Souls create varna-levels in the human society: uninitiated workers, vesey-masters, knights and those in charge. Finishing their stay in human bodies, Souls begin to be born in the higher world of Rule.
Only the recognition by a person of the unity of the earthly race, the Heavenly Family and the Supreme Family gradually leads the Soul to incarnation in the spiritual world of Rule. If the living being, residing in the Human Body, does not turn to the service of God and does not strive for a higher being, it gradually descends into the lower worlds of the Dark Navi. The highest goal of the life of an Orthodox Rodnover should be boundless love for God and one's family. In this state, our Soul is so united with God that it receives happiness and joy, regardless of the test that the Almighty assigns for it.
Speaking of the Body, we must understand that the Body carries the knowledge of the development of the Explicit World. Its main task is for a person to survive, to adapt to life in society on the basis of desires, instincts and opportunities. Possessing the brain, it strives to achieve material well-being and self-preservation. The body has a constant connection with the Soul, therefore it is under the influence of both the light and the dark. The light principle leads a person to perfection and taking control of the Body for the sake of a higher goal, while the dark principle seeks to destroy the bodily essence through bad habits.
The body is the perfect weapon of the Soul and Spirit, therefore, the Orthodox Rodnover must constantly maintain it in good condition, improving and knowing it through the main bodily manifestations of the elements - fire, water, earth and air. A healthy and strong Body is the basis of the peace of the Soul and the joy of the Spirit. The supreme goal of the Slavic Native Faith, Vedic Orthodoxy, is to achieve the trinity of Spirit, Soul and Body. The truth is to make them more perfect in integrity.
Basically, the possibilities of the physical body are very limited. And when we trust the Body more in a simple everyday life, we close ourselves to the Spirit. Some religious associations, on the contrary, lead their followers to the realm of the Spirit and Soul, suppressing the corporeal nature. They offer, through asceticism and severe restrictions, to actually abandon real life. And therefore, a person, following one of these paths, does not fulfill his Higher Destiny. That is, the Soul, after the death of the Body, has to be reborn in order to fulfill what it came to this world for.
For Orthodox Rodnovers, fate is something that we choose or change by interacting with the Native Gods and directly with the Goddess Karna. The task of the Native Orthodox Faith is to bring the Spirit, Soul and Body of a person to unity, that is, to establish such a balance between them that none of the three principles is suppressed. To do this, we use certain spiritual practices in the rites of the Native Orthodox Faith. From the very birth of a child, they help the Orthodox Rodnover to maintain and develop this connection and unity.
Continuation - Righteous qualities of a Slav
based on materials from the book: Bogumir Mikolaev - "The Testaments of Svarog. The Vedic Wisdom of the Ancestors."
Hello, I AM El Morya.
I again come to those Souls who are able to hear me and apply my recommendations to action.
We continue your training for the formation of a new consciousness.
Your consciousness is able to contain a lot of information, and most importantly, to form new elements and structures for evolutionary development. You are able to integrate various information and energy flows in yourself.
Today I will give you a method of attuning to your source of the Divine primordial energy — the Divine source, without which you would not be able to exist. He gives you the opportunity to live in embodiment, he is the source of your strength. When a person’s connection with him is interrupted, then illnesses appear in a person and strength goes away.
Ask your I AM presence to reconnect your Soul, your physical and subtle bodies with the source of the original Divine energy that is present in you. Thank the Creator, your Higher Self, Soul, source for the possibility of transformation.
At first, you may not feel significant results. But, restoring the connection gradually, in a month you will notice that your strength is returning to you, and as if the life-giving moisture fills and purifies the Soul. You may also feel pain in the navel area. Your source will wake up and pour into you the energy of purification and resurrection. The gradual resurrection of your bodies and Soul will begin. Do this exercise every day for a month.
Along with the resurrection of your consciousness and your Soul, you combine all the Divine parts in yourself, resurrect the God-man. This is a deliberate and long-term work. Having received even insignificant results, you will no longer be able to turn back, because you will more and more tune in to the Source of Divine Love.
When your Soul is able to act, guided by Divine principles and accumulated experience, you will feel the extraordinary fullness of life and the freedom of your consciousness from all the circumstances, fears and conflicts that previously haunted you. The movement of the Spirit will seem natural to you, and you will wonder how you could live without this movement and constant striving for purity, Light, Freedom and lightness before. Although every step is given to you with great difficulty, but is not this what you promised when you went to Earth? Haven't you sworn that you will replenish the legions of Light and will faithfully serve for the benefit of all people and the planet?
Your Souls remember everything, ask them.
Lord El Morya.