The Second Coming of Zoroaster - III

Source: ♥ From Heart to Heart ♥: UNITY VERSUS SEPARATION

Exploring the Past, Present and Future in Human History

From the perspective of the third, macrocosmic level, the core of the work is to contemplate and revive the human cultures of the past, to analyse and penetrate spiritually into contemporary human culture and to anticipate and foresee the coming new celestial culture on Earth. Thus, we will strive to envelop the past, the present, and the future in the historical

development of human cultures on Earth from a macrocosmic, celestial perspective. Obviously, the work which lies ahead is enormous, but full of excitement and challenges. To illustrate this type of spiritual work, we offer a few examples related to the past, the present and the future of human culture.

Illuminated by new cosmic-spiritual consciousness, we will be able to contemplate and to understand many 'secrets' in human history. From a spiritual, meta-historical perspective, the whole of human history and the history of each nation in particular, will be opened up like a living book, and we will be able to read in this book the spiritual story of humankind. In other words, the time-coordinate of human history will be revealed and it will become like a fourth dimension of human life on Earth. This dimension opens the reality of the 'cultural-historical universe'. This universe comprises all nations and their cultures, each one of which has its own collective Soul and historical destiny represented by the National Spirit, its Heavenly Guide, as well as its own purpose and place in the evolution of the human race. When the 'greatness and the wealth of the nations is brought into the city', a magnificent vision will be revealed - a great panorama of cultures, societies and nations with completed or incomplete meta-historical missions. This panorama portrays rises and falls, creativeness and destructiveness, peace and war - a dramatic picture of the evolution of the human race on Earth.

An amazing example of such a meta-historical panorama we find in the book The Rose of the World written by the great twentieth century Russian mystic, Daniil Andreev. He was blessed to be able to contemplate the destiny and interrelationships on both the physical and celestial planes of more than thirty cultures in human history going back thousands of years. His book also contains an extremely rich ontology of the vertical structure of the Universe, of the three-fold structure of human cultures and of the new manifestation of the Divine Feminine. It could be a very substantial help not only for the work on Step Eight, but for the whole journey on the Path of the Divine Rainbow.

The opening of the time-coordinates of human history as a fourth dimension is the process of resurrection on a planetary level. By reading the spiritual history as an open book, we will realize that all good deeds of the generations from the past are recorded and await the illumination of humankind in order to be resurrected and integrated into the new celestial culture on Earth. We could compare this process of resurrection with the great transformation of the human being that occurs in the act of illumination. When this happens, the human being is able to contemplate all his or her past incarnations on Earth and to integrate the spiritual essence from them in his or her new cosmic-spiritual path as an initiate.

So, being born of the Spirit, and feeling as a son or daughter of God, the human beings change their lives and enter into a qualitatively new stage of evolution. In a similar way, when humankind as a whole is ready to return to the Kingdom of God, it will embrace all its history like various incarnations and, integrating the spiritual treasures from the past, humankind will embark on a new celestial path - it will shift from earthly evolution to heavenly evolution, from pre-history to real history in the Spirit. As a result, by developing a new cosmic-spiritual consciousness, humankind will experience the mystery of the transfiguration of the Earth and the mystery of Resurrection and Judgment as a living reality.

For instance, in The Rose of the World, D. Andreev depicts the drama of the Russian history in the twentieth century and the great battle between the light forces of Christ and the dark forces of Antichrist. It is absolutely amazing to read the interpretations of concrete historical events such as the Revolution in 1917, the Second World War and others, about the destiny both on Earth and after physical death of many well known leaders, politicians, poets, painters and musicians (such as Lenin, Stalin, Block, Mayakovski, Rimsky Korsakov and many others), shown by the author from a celestial vantage point. According to D. Andreev, Stalin, whom he suggested was a reincarnation of the Great Inquisitor from the Middle Ages, was one of the main candidates for the mission of Antichrist at the End of Time; the other, much less 'successful' candidate was Hitler. He reveals, on the other hand, that the remarkable Russian composer, Rimsky Korsakov, was an initiate who in his opera, The Legend of the Invisible Town of Kitezh and Virgin Fevronia, glorified the great apocalyptic event - the coming of the New Jerusalem and the saving mission of the Divine Mother. The coincidence between the visions of D. Andreev and the appearance of Our Lady in Fatima just before the Russian Revolution is staggering indeed. In her messages Our Lady warned about the coming dark forces in Russia and expressed her confidence in the ultimate conversion of Russia.

Certainly, people not only of Russia but of the whole world will reflect on the main historical events in the twentieth century. Based on the writings of D. Andreev, B. Douno, R. Steiner, A. Bailey, M. Blavatsky, E. Roerich and many other initiates, they will aim to comprehend contemporary human history from a celestial vantage point: as a great battle between the forces of good and evil, light and darkness, Christ and Antichrist.

The twentieth century is the climax of this great apocalyptic battle between the Light forces and the dark forces. With God's help, the Light forces will conquer the darkness and will open the space for the reality of the New Heaven and the New Earth to come. When we embark on the Path of the Divine Rainbow and meet the Second Coming, we are invited to join the forces of Light and to participate in this great apocalyptic event.

There are many predictions about the new human culture emerging from Russia. The Master Beinsa Douno, R. Steiner, Alice Bailey, M. Blavatsky, A. Spengler and many other initiates left descriptions of the new human culture in general and the mission of the Russian people in particular. The Rose of the World, for instance, was written with the main purpose of revealing the mission of the Russian people in the coming new culture. In his book D. Andreev dedicated many chapters to describing the essence of the new culture and to the integration of all religions. The very name of the book itself refers to this integration: each one of the religions is like a petal in the Rose of the World.

D. Andreev discusses many culturological topics in reference to the coming new culture such as:

- The new spiritual education of human beings;

- The organization of the new organic society;

- The main trends in the development of the arts and science;

- The integration of all spiritual traditions and the organization of religious life;

- Humankind’s new type of relationship with the Earth and Nature and the essence of its mediatory function from which this new relationship stems.

It is a joyful experience to read Andreev's description of the projects in Heaven for the creation of the new human culture and to anticipate their implementation. Most of these descriptions are so clear, detailed and convincing that they would need only a little more work to make them models for the transformation of the contemporary earthly culture into a heavenly one.

Our work towards the transformation of the earthly culture can also be greatly enriched by the spiritual legacy of Rudolf Steiner, Alice Bailey and by the writings of many initiates within the New Age stream. Their visions contain almost all elements, principles and key ideas for the approaching new culture. Based on all these visions, we have to create a clear, working conception of how contemporary culture can be transformed and to find our own place and mission within this process. In all our visionary work we will, of course, be guided by the Living God because He is the inspirers of the great renewal of the world and He brings into existence the reality of the New Heaven and the New Earth where we have to establish our celestial culture.

The Light which Zoroaster lit approximately 2 500 years ego is still burning. There are still about 100 000 Zoroastrian followers scattered all over the world. With his initiatic book The Rose of the World the Great Russian mystic Daniil Andreev inspired thousands and millions of people to participate in the blossoming of the Rose of the World – the sacred heart of humanity on Earth!