Machine-assisted translation. The original Russian publication is linked below.
The word "spirituality" is associated with the concept of spirits. A person, in fact, is also a kind of spirit - a being that came here from other layers of reality and which was introduced into the physical body and collided with the physical world. Man is a creature of dual nature, a spirit in a body. And this spirit, at the beginning of its journey, sees the world and interacts with the world through the body. This is how it grows, becomes denser, and is structured into a certain object.
The physical world is three-dimensional. And initially, human consciousness is three-dimensional. It remains in this state for thousands of years. A certain habit of seeing the world and communicating with the world from this position is formed. But from the 4th caste level there is an expansion of the spirit, an expansion of consciousness. There is an exit beyond the boundaries of physical space. Consciousness begins to feel the world in an additional dimension. Initially, this coordinate is associated with the etheric body and time. A certain ability to feel the world arises. And not only in space, but also in time. And we say that spiritual growth occurs. There has been an expansion of consciousness.
Then consciousness begins to sense the physical world with some additional organ. Consciousness itself is such an organ. And there is an overlay of some additional signals on the familiar picture of the world. Moreover, these signals are not always associated with physical objects. There is a feeling of objects, structures, energy flows that do not exist on the physical plane. This is called the spirit world. Essentially, the spirit world is everything outside of three-dimensional reality.
The difference between a magician and a person is that the magician uses this channel consciously. He learns to control it. It begins to isolate the signal received by consciousness directly, and first it examines this signal. And then examines its influence on the signal source. The magician notices after some time that when his state changes, the incoming signal changes. There is a certain dependence between one’s state of consciousness and external objects. And magic is associated with the conscious management of this addiction. We are talking about working in the spirit world and multidimensional interactions. This work leads to a certain result. This result can be external and internal.
The external result is due to the fact that the magician, working with consciousness, sees that there is an opportunity to influence the world, situations, the body, people, their behavior, the future and even the past. The question of how legal all this is, to be honest, bothered me. All people do is influence each other all the time, they just do it through the physical body. The magician does this through consciousness, that's the whole difference. Moreover, the magician does this more subtly and on a higher scale.
The internal result is due to the fact that the spirit itself is transformed. Mastering multidimensional interactions, he forms in himself certain mental profiles, structures that allow him to live outside the body. This is called spiritual development. And it begins with the development of spiritual vision - 2 minor arcana.
Then we can talk about certain rules and etiquette associated with spiritual interactions. Each level has its own rules. But, in essence, these are the same rules, which simply look different for different states of consciousness. What is the essence of these rules?
In magic, a person is considered as a certain part of a larger organism. This organism is moving somewhere and developing. For a person we can talk about planetary consciousness. And planetary consciousness has a certain structure - an agreement. A certain law is dharma. And everything a person does is somehow related to this law. There are different attempts to formalize this law, but, in essence, we are talking about the same principles everywhere. There are certain actions that are contrary to society and the universe. Then a certain force is born that opposes man. And a person is forced, as it were, to fight all the time with this force. This is called going against the grain. And there are actions that, on the contrary, seem to fill the sails of consciousness, and some force picks up a person, and he moves without resistance.
What is associated with etiquette is simply the formalization of rules, observing which you do not conflict with the external environment. For example, you can’t steal or covet someone else’s wife. Why? Well, go ahead, try to steal something or steal someone else’s wife, it will turn out that you will have to hide, look around all the time, they will try to catch you and hit you on the head. Such tension will be due to the fact that you have entered into some kind of conflict with the external environment.
Moreover, the external environment exists in several versions. On the one hand, there is a society of people that is quite heterogeneous in terms of the law. Here, on the one hand, there is a natural law common to all people, which depends on the biological species of man. And there is a certain artificial environment associated with artificial egregors. And there is a non-human region of the planet, which is associated with the concept of channel angels, with the genius of the Earth. This is like a systemic part of dharma.
Dharma is a Hindu concept and subsequently a Buddhist one. Buddhism grew out of Hinduism. But the concept of law, it was everywhere. In Egypt there was a goddess Maat associated with the law. For the Hellenes it is Themis, for the Romans it is Justitia. In any culture there is a certain deity who is responsible for the law; they somehow talk about the law of the Universe, about all sorts of rules and morality. And if you look, they say the same thing everywhere, just in different words.
There is a certain ancient source associated with ancient civilizations, and all traditions in one way or another go back to it. What does this mean? Well, let’s say there are five cosmic Buddhas of wisdom in the Vajrayana, which describe the nature of space. It's like five demiurges. Five aces of the elements in the minor arcana in Sephirotic magic.
There is a mandala that depicts all this. And this mandala, in fact, describes our Universe. In our school, the Universe is described by the minor arcana. We are talking about a kind of cross, the center of which is connected with the ether, with life. And the broadcast is shown all around. Having gone beyond the circle, we move in one of four directions. We go deeper into the elements. From deuces to aces. And the center is associated with the balance of the elements. Moreover, we consider the center itself as a kind of perpendicular axis, upward along which there is movement associated with life, and downward with death. There are, as it were, two states of the ether: life and death.
But this, say, is also in the Chinese tradition, in Taoism - Wu Xing. There 5 phases look like this: wood - fire - earth - metal - water. Today I was in the Hermitage, there is an exhibition going on in China. And there is a picture on display where 8 immortals go to a feast with the goddess, who distributes peaches associated with immortality. And in this picture, exactly 5 of these elements are shown not even in hieroglyphs, but in symbols - like icons.
And here, by the way, it’s a little confusing. I just more or less remember and feel the Chinese tradition from past lives. And I understand her. And if everything is clear with fire and water, then what is earth, wood and metal? It would seem, well, wood is life, earth is earth, but what about metal? But our correlation in translation is a little clumsy. And here metal is earth in relation to our model. This is density and structure. Then what does the hieroglyph mean that is translated as our land? And this is life - there the earth goes in the aspect of soil. Moreover, there is also the meaning of the hieroglyph as a square and a center, that is, all four elements are a square. And wood is air. There this hieroglyph is considered as a certain process of development, transformation, movement into the future.
The elements of the alchemists, they are associated with this tradition. Alchemy came to Europe precisely from Chinese internal alchemy. Then it was transformed into an external one in Europe. In India, Tibet, Japan, the Hellenes, etc., everywhere there is an idea of the five primary elements, the five elements. But there are some things that are present only in this tradition, and they are not found anywhere else.
Let's say, in India there is a model that describes the chakras. Magicians, they already see these centers. They don't really need these models. But students, people who are trying to enter magic, need support to gain experience. And it turns out that knowledge is scattered. There the chakras, in China the meridians and the energy of the body are well described. And this is the basis of healing. The American tradition describes the assemblage point well, the management of perception. In Europe, hermeneutics is also Kabbalistics. In Egypt the zodiac and the Tree of Sephiroth. Kabbalism, by the way, is this tradition associated with Moses and Egypt. Only later it was greatly transformed due to the movement of Kabbalists, who were Jews, around the world. The Celts preserved the knowledge of the Druids for a long time. The northern tradition is associated with runic magic.
All this information is connected with ancient civilizations and the guardians of these civilizations. And gradually this information is lost. We are moving further and further away from the original point. There are fewer guardians. And it turns out that in order to collect some kind of mental profile associated with some tradition, you need to interact at different points with the system. One does not have all the completeness.
From here, in ancient times, the idea of a kind of spiritual journey arose, which later grew into a pilgrimage - visiting sacred places with the goal of changing. Nowadays, in order to come into contact with some point, it is not necessary to physically go somewhere. It is enough to learn to isolate your consciousness beyond the boundaries of the physical body - a mental exit - and get attuned to these points. The magician can tune into anything he can imagine. Previously, these ideas, the system of settings, it was very secret knowledge. A person was given settings as something sacred. Some books, paintings, objects were used for this. We now live in an era of information abundance. On the one hand, we have begun to value information less, on the other, great horizons and prospects are open to us.
In our school, the Teacher initially laid down an approach in which a person is taught the basics of magical interaction, and then the picture of the world is expanded in breadth. They are brought into interaction with all traditions and egregors. Initially, a certain basis is created that allows you to process the sensations that arise during these contacts. A certain filter is a mental profile. And due to it, information is already growing during interaction. And there is a growth of consciousness. A full-fledged magical picture of the world emerges, on which you can fixate and build a certain way of life associated with conscious evolution. This approach underlies our platform. First, the foundation is created, and then specialization comes.
