2. The Book of Knowledge. 2. 2. World of Spirits

The BOOK of KNOWLEDGE,
a novel by Alexandra Kryuchkova
in the “PLAYING ANOTHER REALITY” series

PART 2. ANOTHER REALITY

Day No. 2

CHAPTER 2.2. The WORLD of SPIRITS

At 10:00 we went up for breakfast. Ludwig, the same man from the Baltics who had tried to warm me after my Sufi Dance, joyfully informed RAM about the traces of the nightly astral surgery appeared on his body in the morning. I asked RAM why, for the second day on the path, I felt myself walking where the Mayans had lived and not there.

“We are in the Place of Power, where everything intersects and merges into one, there is a Transition Point and Connection with other Places of Power, so you walk the path There, although you are physically here. I’ll show you more such places. For example, Mount Kailash. Or rather, its phantom. It’s smaller than Kailash, but exactly the same. You’ll see it tomorrow.”

We were twenty seminarians there from different countries, each for his own reason. Someone had arrived there for Knowledge, someone – because of illness. Vera, abandoned by doctors after tongue paralysis, had come from America. She had been working with RAM for several months, and she was already trying to speak. She always walked with a notebook to write what she wanted to say so that she would be understood. Looking ahead, I’ll tell you in confidence that at the end of the seminar she communicated perfectly without any notebook. Just a day before, a little girl with cerebral palsy, who had been brought to RAM by her mother, couldn’t walk, and that day she was running between us and, looking into everyone’s eyes, studied our Souls attentively for a long time.

RAM said that the girl would become a Great Healer.

***

After breakfast, we turned into porcupines again.

“Tell me about the Spheres, Alice. And about those who live there, Spirits,” Svetlana asked to pass the time.

“It’s not just Spirits. There is Another Reality with many different Beings. Another Reality permeates our world through. There are Nine Levels of Heavens, or Spheres, each of them is divided into sublevels according to the quality of vibrations. Our physical world with its matter is a low level. Next comes the Ethereal space, and then the most interesting, the Astral World.”

“Is it the place where Spirits live?”

“No, the Spirits don’t live there. This is the World of Feelings and Desires, not the World of Spirit. The Spirit implies the Divine, the Spiritual. In the Astral Sphere everything is illusory. Its subtle matter can take any form under the influence of the Power of Thought. Clothes, houses, nature – everything is created by Thought. Matter is like a ghostly mist. In the Astral World there are many thought-forms, or mental images, that people created during their life on the Earth, but did not have time to translate into reality. This is the closest level of Another Reality to the Earthly Reality. Its Lower Layers are the real Hell in terms of energy quality, the Highest ones are like Paradise. Souls and astral bodies inhabiting the Astral World live in strictly delimited spaces according to their energy. Those who get to the Higher Levels like it there very much, so many get stuck and are in no hurry to go further. The Lower Levels are inhabited by Evil Entities, due to their negative energies they cannot rise Higher.”

“So, where are the Spirits?”

“In the Mental and Fiery Spheres, and up. The Mental World is thinner than the Astral, respectively, the Fiery World is even thinner. There are no imperfections there, nothing dirty, only stairs for the ascent of the Spirit. The Mental Sphere is the world of Creativity, Art, Science. The World of the Mind, where new ideas, works of art and literature are created, inventions and scientific discoveries are made. If someone on the Earth can rise and look into the Mental Sphere, then, under certain circumstances, he will be able to take something from There to embody it in Reality. I have been there. I have a picture at home over a bookshelf, remember? The Sphere full of harmony, where very beautiful Music sounds.”

“And in the Fiery World?”

“In the Fiery World, matter is close to Light, everything is sparkling. It seems that the Fire is burning, but not the same as in Hell. Only highly spiritual Beings who have formed the Fiery Body can get there. Even higher, there are Spheres of Knowledge, Enlightenment and Spirit. But they are very difficult to explain and understand.”

“How far is it from the Earth?”

“In kilometers or in steps?”

“Well, at least in something.”

“People always try to measure by earthly standards what they cannot measure at all. Where the Other World begins, the laws of our Material World stop their action. And vice versa. What we consider a miracle here is the law of Another Reality. The Spheres are closer than you think, and at the same time, very far away. Space and Time are measures of the Earthly Reality. Time, for example, flows differently There. One second here can be Eternity There, and vice versa, 3,000 years There can fly by like one day on the Earth. There are no kilometers, but there is a state that either allows you to go to another level or not. The Lower Astral in general is all here.”

“Where?” Svetlana asked in surprise.

“Right there, behind your shoulder. One’s horns are sticking out. The Forces of Light and the Forces of Darkness see us all the time. They don’t sleep, being always here. If you don’t see them, it doesn’t mean they aren’t here. It’s customary to say higher – lower, west – east. People need to explain everything in the categories they are used to perceive information. But Heavens are not at all the sky above your head.”

“Okay. It’s very difficult for me. And Spirits, where did they come from?”

“From Heavens, Svetlana, from Heavens. Spirits were created before all creatures, as well as the Spiritual World itself, before the Material World. In Christianity, Spirits are also called morning stars, since they are the first creation of God, although there is no exact indication of the time of their creation in the Holy Scriptures. Spirits are rational, spiritual beings, distinct from God and from man. Real beings, not imaginary. They can be likened to the Spirit of man. They have reason, free will and feelings, but are incorporeal. Spirits are freer than people. They don’t need languages. Their communication is purely mental. They move instantly with the power of their thought. Now the Spirit is in one place, and immediately there in another, though it cannot be and act both here and there at the same time. But, despite this, the Spirits are still limited in the Space, in the sublevels of the Higher Spheres, because they themselves, like people, are all different. And the Forces of Darkness, as I have already said, are not allowed to reach the Higher Spheres.”

“Do they eat anything?”

“If my Third Eye serves me correctly, today they have you on the menu. They feed on energy. The Forces of Light feed on Light. They are Light themselves. And they transmit the Divine Light freely pouring through them to others. Light carries Life, which is Love.”

“Alice, tell me about the Spirits, please. Something concrete. You are still going all around!”

“How shall we go? Bottom – Up, or Top – Down?”

“From the Lower Spheres – Up.”

“Great. Excellent mark to you. There are no Spirits in the Lower Spheres.”

“No Spirits? You’ve just said, there are a lot of beings in the Astral! And now it’s empty!”

“No, it’s very dense there… So, the first category of those in the Astral World are the Entities belonging to the Mineral and Plant Kingdoms. They cannot be called Spirits, because they don’t have a Spirit. They have their astral bodies. These Entities have only one of the natural elements (Air, Water, Fire, Earth), they manage. Nymphs (and undines, mermaids, watermen) are responsible for the Water, Sylphs – for the Air, Dwarves – for the Earth, Salamanders – for the Fire. All these are creatures known to us since childhood from fairy tales. Who is in charge here in the mountains? Dwarves, because they are fond of rocks, mountains, underground spaces, all kinds of stones… Rocks, trees, flowers, everything in the Mineral and Plant Kingdoms is under the control of such Entities.”

“So do the Dryads really exist?”

“Yes, they are the stewards of the wood. When I was a kid and spoke with flowers, bushes, trees and even grass, I knew that each bush and flower has its own Elf, a certain creature using the flower’s body as a house. It seemed to me so obvious, understandable and known to everyone that I wrote a story about the Elemental Entities and read it to my cousin. The one who later began to work with the insane. Her reaction was inadequate, from my point of view. Then I realized that people are Beings who don’t want to know about the existence of other Beings, different from them, so one should be always on guard with people.”

“Are they kind?”

“People or Entities? Both different. The most dangerous are Salamanders. They are explosive because they are fiery. In general, they all have a very changeable mood. Swimming in a lake, for example, as soon as you close the Third Eye a little, you step on the tail of some Mermaid… Of course, they can be friendly, but offended by any nonsense, they immediately bite you… Just like me. Delicate natures. Don’t hurt them. It’ll cost you more. Paracelsus wrote a lot about such Entities. Apparently, like me, he didn’t get enough fairy tales in childhood. There are a lot of interesting and informative stuff in fairy tales! Sylphs, for example, dwell on the tops of mountains, dancing in the air, don’t know grief. But as soon as they fall in love with a man, goodbye, Mountains! – they are already waltzing around him, whispering the most beautiful verses, trying their best to make a poet out of him. And the man’s hearing is not very good, so all sorts of rubbish is born. Imagine how offended they are!”

“Do they ever die?”

“They do, unfortunately. You’ll shout something to me in the mountains, and, as luck would have it, some sylph is just flying past. Poor thing grabbed her heart and… Their life span is from 300 to 1,000 years. But they are significantly inferior to a person in intelligence, although they have the ability of rational activity. They are specialists in their own segment of the Element. Although they love to play pranks. For example, they are able to read images they find in the memory of alive people, and take similarities with them. Therefore, if you arrange spiritual seance, pass my hello to the Sylphs. Maybe they’ll whisper some more poems to me.”

“Are there any representatives of the Animal Kingdom There?”

“Is my Moony Cat, in your opinion, a dogs’ tale? Animals have a Soul that resides in the Astral after leaving the physical body. Their spirit is not yet developed. They are one step behind people. Both they and we are climbing the Stairway to Heaven. I think there’s only one ladder. And those who are climbing… Listen, Svetlana, have you ever wondered, how does the ladder endure us all?”

“Alice, if There are all these Entities, then Human Spirits should be There as well. No?”

“There is also something human in the conditionally Lower Spheres, but, as I told you, not Spirits.”

“Okay, what should we call them?”

“You don’t have to call anyone… First of all, there is a place where there are Pre-images of future people, psychic embryos of those who are to be born on the Earth. It’s not something concrete yet, but something abstract that already exists There, in order to one day acquire a material form here. The prototypes, unlike the Entities of the Mineral and Plant Kingdoms, have particles of each of the Elements. But they have no Spirit, they don’t enter into communication with people. They seem to exist, but they don’t yet.”

“Who else?”

“There are Lower and Higher Layers of the Astral. There is a conditional division of all the dead, as if by a Line, which usually cannot be crossed either there or back. Below the Line, there are the Worst Spheres, the Middle and the Highest are above it. On each side of the virtual Line, there are many levels and mansions. But I don’t want to go into details now. Remember that there, above the Line, stay Souls (not Spirits!) of ordinary people, who, thanks to a not too sinful life on the Earth, stay There in their astral body until the moment when it’s also dropped. It’s possible for them to descend under the Line into the Lower Spheres, but it is categorically undesirable, because it makes them feel bad, they become dirty. Under the Line, at the levels closest to the Earth, there are half-decomposed astral bodies of all kinds of wicked sinners. There was no Light in such people. They cannot rise above their ceiling. These are the so-called Evil Spirits, but the Spirit left the sinner, returning to its Source in the Higher Spheres, perhaps even before the death of the physical body. All earthly passions, all the bad and evil made by a person during his lifetime, cannot cross the Line. It settles under it. Evil Entities will sooner or later decompose, atom by atom, disintegrate completely. They know that and don’t want to put up with it, trying in every possible way to prolong their lives at the expense of the energy of those living on the Earth. In fact, they are Astral vampires.”

“How do they get energy?”

“They are interested in the dirty energies of negative thoughts, feelings and emotions. They can provoke people to murder and suicide. They are also attracted to places where drug addicts, alcoholics and any other people addicted to earthly passions hang out. For example, in bars, casinos and so on. Often they come to those who perform summoning Spirits. They like to induce Fear, because people also release negative energy from fear.”

“And those who didn’t die naturally?”

“Everyone is given a certain amount of energy and a life period on the Earth. If for some reason it’s interrupted ahead of schedule, the Soul can wander in the Lower Spheres near the Earth until the very time of the Transition comes. In any case, pay attention: we are not talking about the presence of Spirits in these Spheres. Spirits live exclusively in the Higher Spheres, where there is no Darkness. In general, it’s wrong to say Evil Spirits. It’s easier for people to call so bad beings of Another Reality, but this is not true. There are no Evil Spirits at all, because Spirit is Divine, Holy. There are Evil Beings or Entities. The Spirit is something Divine, Holy, Higher and Light. The Higher Forces, therefore, are always Light. Among the Spirits there are Chroniclers. They record every deed, thought and everything that was, is and will be into the invisible Book of Life, or the Tablets of the Astral Light. The Secretaries of Eternity. In Egypt, they were supposed to stand in the Halls of Amenti, as accusers of the Soul before Osiris. There are Spirits of Human Races, those who preceded our race. There are Spirits of Planets and Stars, Guardians of the Seven Spheres. They control the celestial bodies, influencing the destiny of people. I think I don’t have to explain you now that summoning these Spirits is an absolute waste of time.”

“What about the Angels, the Archangels?”

“Spirits, yes. They are part of a host of Spiritual Beings. Light ones.”

“Do I have a Guardian Angel?”

“Every person from birth has a Guardian Angel, or Guardian, who is always nearby, even during sleep, until the moment of death and after it. He accompanies us to Another Reality. He knows everything about us: both bad and good, writes down good deeds in the Personal Book of Life, sees what we really need, and takes care of our salvation. He drives away the Forces of Darkness from us, protects us from troubles and accidental death, sometimes sends warning signs. If a person goes to the abyss, the Guardian Angel cannot physically take him by the hand and stop him, since he doesn’t have a physical body, but he can send the right person at the right time to the right place. If you suddenly want a cake, it’s unlikely that he will run to buy it for you in the bakery. However, he can let you that sometimes… He encourages us to the Good. Clever thoughts communicated to us from Above are one of the gifts of Another Reality to man. If we don’t feel the presence of the Guardian Angel nearby, it’s only because of our inattention to him.”

“What kind of attention should be given to him?”

“Talk to him mentally as often as possible, ask for advice and help. Just don’t ask him for cakes. And don’t forget to thank him. His Voice is the Voice of the Heart. There is one ‘but’. The Guardian Angel is close only to those who are drawn to the Light, and moves away from those who have betrayed themselves to the Forces of Darkness. The Guardian Angel belongs to the Forces of Light and, following the law like attracts like, won’t be able to return to a person until he sincerely repents of evil deeds and cleanses his heart of all dirt. The human body is the Temple of the Spirit. There are no sinless people – only the Saints are sinless, so sometimes our Temple is about to collapse from the Evil Force that we let into it. But even being away from a person, the Guardian Angel never forgets about him and until the last moment doesn’t lose hope for his salvation. Only the possibilities to help us are limited by the number of our good deeds and our desire to change ourselves and be filled with Light. When we finally leave the physical body, the Guardian Angel meets us and takes us to Another Reality, where he testifies how we passed the exam of life in the Earthly Reality, as a result of which we get the appropriate mark in the Diary. And they will send me, a loser, somewhere for re-examination.”

“Alice, do you really believe in Guardian Angel?”

“I believe that He exists, He is a Spirit, and everyone has one’s own.”

“And who else of the Light Forces can we turn to?”

“To the Saints. They are also There, in the Higher Spheres. The Saints are the Apostles and the entire council of the righteous and saints. All of them, once people, lived on the Earth in their bodies. But their heart and mind were in Heaven. Saint means God’s, the one in whom the Holy Spirit, the Divine Light Energy, operates. They immediately passed into the Higher Spheres. Or almost immediately. Now they can help us in doing good deeds. If we address them. And if we deserve to be helped.”

“Are there any Saints who are responsible for something specific?”

“They are all Saints. Anyone can be addressed. Although people invented their classification. It’s difficult for people to live without classifications. For example, we are now on a journey. Both in the Earthly and in Another Reality. Travelling. Travelers are patronized by St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. We are students. St. Sergius of Radonezh helps students. If you want to help the one you showed me at the airport, turn to the Holy Righteous John of Kronstadt. He heals from alcoholism. Those who heal people with herbs usually turns for help to the Monk Agapit of the Kiev Caves. I have been there, at his relics. If you are in the Lavra, be sure to visit the Caves.”

“And who else – for what?”

“The deputies should pray to St. Hypatius of Gangra, the Tax Police – to the Apostle Matthew.”

“Kidding again?”

“Not me. The people who cannot do without it. I didn’t invent about the deputies, I read it in a book, a church one. Seriously… The Holy Martyr Tryphon helps with work. If you want to cast the demons out of you, ask the Holy Martyrs Cyprian and Justina. Cyprian himself was once a Black Sorcerer. In case of insanity, turn to St. Simeon the Stylite. He lived twenty-seven years on a stone, without coming down. First, Simeon went to a monastery. But he was expelled from there, because he had very strict rules and the monks didn’t like him. So Simeon decided to live on a stone. I have been to that stone. Amazing energy. But I couldn’t live that way.”

“If a person dies unbaptized, can one pray for him?”

“To the Holy Martyr Uar. He lived in Alexandria, Egypt. In fact, if you don’t know who to turn to, remember that each person receives the help of the Saint in whose honor he was named. But you should feel to whom to turn to for help.”

“Who else is there, besides the Guardian Angels and the Saints?”

“Angels are the Spirits closest to people. There are also Archangels. Many people often call all Light Spirits Angels, but it’s incorrect. They are Spirits. According to the nature of their activity some of them can be called Angels, that is, Messengers, since they are often sent to Earth with news. Light Spirits are servants of God, the Higher Power in the Universe. They have a hierarchy. Spirits differ in their perfections and perform different work. There are three levels of Light Spirits, each of which has sublevels. Among them there are Heavenly Teachers, Masters. In Christianity, they say that the Archangels know the will of God about each person, so they, for example, are good advisers when choosing the right path. The most important of the Archangels is Michael, he leads the army of the Warriors of Light and helps in the fight against the Forces of Darkness.”

Dr. Ma silently entered the room and removed needles from us. A call was heard in the corridor, “Everyone into the hall!” And we went to practice ‘panthers’.