2. The Book of Knowledge. 3. 2. Alchemy

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

PART 2. ANOTHER REALITY

Day No. 3

CHAPTER 3.2. ALCHEMY

After breakfast we were porcupines again.

“Alice, let’s get back to… Spirits,” Svetlana suggested. “That is, I wanted to ask you to tell me about the Spirit. I have always thought that Spirit and Soul are the same thing. But for some reason now…”

“The main religions of the world unconditionally recognize the existence of the Eternal in man, which is not subject to Death. In Christianity, the Holy Scripture speaks of both the Soul and the Spirit. Often people think they are one and the same. But if you read carefully, the Spiritual person is always opposed to person of the Soul. Man is a Trinity. The body is home for the Soul, as the Soul is home for the Spirit. Therefore, Spirit and Soul are not the same at all. The Spirit is a part of God, it’s from God and is not divided into parts. It’s eternal, immortal. Only worthy of Eternity and the Divine lives in it; there is not a single dark spot on it and cannot be. Nothing base and earthly interests it. It awakens when one is seven years old. By the way, at the Ordeals after death you are responsible for your sins, starting from the age of seven. The goal of the Spirit is to go through all the stages from the lowest to the highest: from the mineral to the plant, from the plant to the animal, from the animal to the human being. And so on up to the Supreme Archangel. And even higher. To finally join to God.”

“Where is Spirit in my body?”

“The Spirit is connected with you by an invisible shining thread from the moment of birth, but it is in the highest of your bodies, as if watching you from above. That is, it’s no need to look for it in the physical body. Imagine that you are travelling in a train and you see only what is in the window. Your Spirit is like a bird that flies above you and sees much more than the window shows. It knows what will be around every next turn. For example, after a tunnel the train is entering, or behind the bridge the train has not yet reached. Therefore, if the train suddenly stops and the travelers are asked to vacate it, there is no need to swear. Perhaps your Spirit knows that the bridge, you never reached just a little bit, is cracked.”

“And the Soul?”

“The Spirit owns the eternal, the Soul owns the temporary. The Soul is dual. One part of it, the Highest, strives for the Spirit, Divine Love, the other, the Lower, for earthly desires and feelings. Often, there is a conflict between them. The Soul is torn apart. One of the properties of the Soul is constant activity, development, movement. Either to the Higher or to the Lower. A soulful person through spiritual development can become a spiritual one. And vice versa, a spiritual person can turn into a soulful person by excessive enthusiasm for the Earthly Reality. There is actually nothing bad in the soulfulness and the natural bodily side of human life, but one should not allow oneself to be dominated by the subordinated. You need to cleanse your Temple of the Soul and subdue its Lower part to the Higher. Not the Earthly should command in this Temple, but the Divine.”

“Is a soulless man a man without soul?”

“A man without a soul is a corpse in a morgue. All living beings have a soul. The question is which one. The Soul is also called the Breath of Life. That is, if there is no Soul, the physical body has already died. Animals also have souls. The mentally retarded have a soul, too. As well as the insane. The Soul is a synonym neither for intelligence, nor for kindness. Everything that breathes and remains alive has a Soul. A soulless person is a person in whom there may be no Spirit, but there is indeed a Soul, only in its worst, Lower aspect.”

“The Spirit, as you say, is from God. And where is the Soul from, from the Devil?”

“The Soul, due to its dual nature, is the subject of the eternal struggle between the Devil and the Forces of Light. What a wonderful name you have, it means Light! So, there are three versions about the origin of Souls. Pythagoras and the Gnostics believed that all Souls already exist from the creation of the world and are in the space of the Other Dimension until the moment they enter the body. Christianity doesn’t share this point of view and considers it pagan. I believe that this is incorrect, too. The second version is the creation of the Soul by someone other then parents, but at the moment when the body is formed. Some of the Church Fathers share this view. Most don’t, because it doesn’t explain the similarity of the soul arrangement of children and parents. The third version is the origin of the Soul from parents. This version is more consistent with the Holy Scripture, but no one in Christianity can explain the exact mechanism, because the Soul is considered indivisible. But indivisible is in fact the Spirit, not the Soul. In the Soul of a child there is something both from the Soul of the mother, and from the Soul of the father, and its own, too.”

“What is the Soul divided into?”

“The Soul is a unique and inimitable pattern, which is formed from many small particles, let’s conditionally call them atoms. Not arbitrarily and chaotically formed, but according to the Higher plan saying what kind of Soul should appear in the world, in exactly such a pattern, in order to fulfill its mission on the Earth. From this point of view, Christianity is absolutely right stating that the Soul lives only once. And I, and you, and anyone else are unique and unrepeatable. The Soul is formed from particles, like a chariot from its components. Each of them is not a chariot. The chariot is a set of parts put together in a certain combination. Each particle of the Soul is indivisible and carries some quality, its own. All together they form a Personality as a combination of human features. That personality during the earthly life develops and changes, moves in one direction or another. Creates, for example. Paintings. Or writes books. At the same time, it can be led by the Spirit (Divine Self) or by Devil (Lower and Earthly Self). Depending on what/by whom the personality, or Soul, is guided, either Light or Dark works of art are produced.”

“Is the Soul, or the Personality, eternal?”

“From the point of view of science, nothing is destroyed or arisen in nature, only the addition and decomposition of elements (particles or atoms) occurs. The Soul, or Personality, can, and ideally should, be eternal. But this is possible only when a person is Holy. That is, when the Lower Aspect of the Soul is actually absent, and the Higher Aspect is completely assimilated with the Spirit, which is eternal and doesn’t allow the slightest speck of dirt on itself. There are only few such people who have passed into the Higher Divine Spheres as a personality, completely preserved their earthly personality after the death of their physical body. These are Saints. Do you remember Elijah the Prophet ascended to Heaven in the Fiery Chariot? So, his chariot is the Soul-Personality, which he completely turned into a Fiery Body. And it’s an ingot of gold, the Divine Soul in fusion with the Spirit. This is the secret of the philosopher’s stone of alchemists: how to get gold out of metals, that is to get not destructible particles of the chariot of the Soul. However, Holy people turned every day of their lives into a Feat. Read sometime about what they had to endure. And you and I are engaged in such nonsense on the Earth.”

“What happens with ordinary people, non-Saints?”

“Hard topic, isn’t it? Personality encompasses all the features and memories of one physical life. Sooner or later, after leaving the body, the Soul will begin to disintegrate into the particles of which it consists, just like the physical body. All the Lower will get stuck in the Lower Astral and will eventually be destroyed. Everything Light will rise to the Middle and Higher Layers of the Astral. It depends on where you are attracted to. If the Soul lives by thoughts, desires and feelings, all this is the subject of the Astral World. If a person has a highly developed mental body, he will be drawn to the Mental Sphere.”

“Stop, let’s say I get into the Astral. In a good one. Will I live there forever or return to Earth?”

“The Soul will live in the Astral. It can stay there for a long time. Several thousand years. We all want to preserve precisely those individual properties, those personal characteristics that separate us from others and make up our Personality. But sooner or later, anyone’s Self will also fall apart.”

“Completely?”

“Well, completely it will be for the not Divine, not worthy of Eternity. Your Spirit, being a part of the divine immortal Spirit – God, will separate from the Soul-Personality, taking the best you developed as a memory of it, to return to Earth and continue to develop this and something else, but already in another Soul or Personality with its unique set of particles. For example, geniuses, quite possibly, have been developing their talent for many lives in a row in order to give it to the World once.”

“So reincarnation does exist.”

“It exists for the Spirit, not for the Soul. Any Soul lives only once. It’s unique and unrepeatable.”

“What about Karma from past lives?”

“After each Personality-Soul, there remains a trail of causes generated by its life on the Earth, which cannot be erased from the Universe until they are replaced by lawful consequences. If during one earthly life of the Spirit, for example, in your personality, there is not enough time to pay, the payment will follow the reincarnated Spirit in the next incarnation. But it will be already another Personality, not you. There will be something good and light in it to be developed, but, as a rule, it’s a completely different person. The Spirit is the same. A new Personality will be formed in accordance with the goal of your Spirit. It’s the Spirit who chooses which Soul will become its house next time. Which house is more suitable for the implementation of its goals.”

“It’s somehow very sad. I kept digging up my past lives to understand why the one who was with me at the airport…”

“Listen, if we are not given something from Above to know, there’s a reason we must not know it. I have a friend. She considers every life situation and people she meets along the Path exclusively from the point of view of their direct connection with her in some of her past lives. Since she is not able to remember all her lives herself, she continues to pay crazy money to those who tell her in detail about her another past life. Perhaps, purely psychologically, it became easier for my friend, but … Believe me, even if you think that you are on the Earth not for the first time, most of the situations we have now are related to our present life. Start with it, and you will see that you can change your life for the better without diving headlong into the depths of ages.”

“What does a man consist of in general?”

“80–90% of water. Of various bodies, principles. Each of us is a small Universe, or rather, the Universe in miniature.”

“Well, tell me about the bodies, please.”

“Top down or bottom up?”

“Upwards.”

“The physical body is a construction of atoms held together by the will of the Spirit. As long as the Spirit considers the existence of a given body necessary, it keeps in it the Soul, or the breath of life. In fact, the physical body is an automaton, a robot. It has no its own life, because it’s set in motion by the activity of the Soul. As I have already said, without the Soul the body is dead. Even the brain is an instrument of Soul and Spirit. A musical instrument that is played. The instrument will never make sounds by itself. The physical body is built according to the etheric body. The etheric body has almost 100% external resemblance to the physical body. Its task is to saturate the physical copy with energy. Cosmic energy, prana. Each part of the physical body is permeated with ethereal threads, these threads are called the Network of Nadi, and the Life Force flows through them. The etheric filament system is similar to our nervous system. The etheric body is in continuous vibration due to the constant movement of subtle energy through the chakras, channels and meridians. It also allows a person to perceive more subtle matters at the level of feelings. If suddenly the etheric body separates from the physical, the person faints or dies. Usually it is the etheric body that is seen as a ghost when it comes to the phenomenon of a double. A healthy etheric body is usually light blue in color. In the East it’s considered to be the Principle of Life and is called the mysterious word ‘jeava’. The life span of the etheric body after the death of the physical body is very short. The astral body is the conductor of the Soul, it is also called the body of desires and emotions. All our experiences associated, for example, with unrequited love, earthly desires to live in a luxurious cottage, emotions about a quarrel with someone and other passions from the realm of feelings – they all belong to the astral body. It’s constantly shimmering with different colors of the rainbow, depending on what emotions we are experiencing at the moment. Each negative emotion immediately spoils the picture, so emotions should be controlled. Controlled, not suppressed. It’s better to splash them out on something external, for example, on a sheet of paper, without harming one’s own body and the bodies of those around. The astral body looks like a foggy formation and after death passes into the Astral World, where it’s subject to disintegration after a while. The mental body is responsible for mental processes, including thinking. It’s not sufficiently developed in everyone, but it’s well formed in people engaged in science and any other mental activity, in intellectually highly developed individuals. When a man thinks, his mental body expands. This is the body of Thoughts and Knowledge. Every thought leaves a mark on the glow of the mental body. After death, it decomposes in the same way as the previously mentioned ones. The four listed human bodies are mortal. The only question is time. There is the Higher Spiritual Beginning, consisting of three Principles: the Fiery Body (the body of the Higher Soul), developed exclusively in Highly Spiritual People (the fiery Chariot of Elijah the Prophet), and present as the embryo in the others, the Higher Soul (Divine Love), the carrier of the Spirit, located in the center of the heart, and the Spirit itself. Usually the energy of the Higher Trinity is perceived by clairvoyants as a violet beam above one’s head. The Spiritual Immortal (eternal and Divine Spirit) is exactly the Fiery Body + two Higher Principles. All the best, brightest in you, Svetlana, which is worthy for Eternity, will pass into the Fiery Body, as into the Treasury of all physical incarnations of the Spirit, which uses your body on the Earth today.”

“Let’s leave this question for now … Better tell me, but what’s glowing?”

“Light bulb on the ceiling. If the light is turned on.”

“Well, when people see the light around a person or the colors of the rainbow, do they see a separate body?”

“Not separate. Subtle bodies mutually penetrate each other, existing one in another, like a nesting doll. The final union of all human bodies occurs at the age of seven. Pay attention, the same 7 years. All the bodies together form one’s aura. Many people can see it. I don’t know for animals, whether they see or not, but they feel absolutely unmistakably, that’s why they never attack Light People. The color of the aura helps to understand a person, to determine his spiritual level. You can see one’s problems and diseases. A lot of things. Even thoughts circulate there, magicians read them like an open book.”

“So the aura is the color of a person?”

“It’s radiation, vibration, color, invisible essence, energy. It’s present not only in humans, but also in plants and animals. Near an unhealthy aura flowers wither quickly, things can break, objects can fail.”

“How can I see it?”

“You are all about your own, about the girlish. I told you so many times not to stick your finger into the socket, but you stubbornly stand on your own … Two hundred years ago it was discovered that some objects, placed in a high voltage field, begin to glow. In 1959, an inventor from Krasnodar, a certain Kirlian, published a rediscovery of an already known phenomenon. You can take a picture of the aura if you put your finger on the sensor. Many people think it’s nonsense. I don’t know, but it’s a matter of fact that the aura exists and is visible to those who see it. If you want, you can use the old-fashioned method without a camera and a sensor. Look at the person not point-blank, that is, without focusing on his facial features, but as if in the distance, shift your vision from the Earthly to Another Reality. At first, it’s easier with a white or light wall behind the person.”

“So are the chakras we are waking up us here with needles, these holes in the aura?”

“Imagine a plastic bag. Pour water into it and make a hole. Conclusion: a hole is a bad thing. Especially in the aura or in the chakra. Chakra in a normal state should be closed.”

“On the contrary, I read somewhere they need to be opened!”

“Chakras, Svetlana, must be closed, as well as the doors to the house, but they should work in full, that is, function properly. If the chakras are open like windows, it’s 7 times worse than opening just one Third Eye, which, by the way, is a chakra.”

“So is chakra a door?”

“Chakra is a Wheel that must be constantly rotating. The energy center at the junction of all human bodies. All chakras are located on the axis of the spine – along the central energy channel. In each of them, the Life Force is accumulated and distributed among the corresponding organs for which this chakra is responsible. There are 7 main chakras, 21 medium and 49 very small ones. Chakras are often depicted as a Lotus flower with a different number of petals. If the chakra is undeveloped, the flower looks down offended. Only the topmost chakra, the 1,000-petalled, above one’s head always looks down with its petals, and its stem goes to Heaven. Conventionally, to make it simple, 7 chakras can be divided into two categories: under the Diaphragm, the Lower Triangle, or the Trinity, and above the Diaphragm, the Higher Triangle, or the Trinity.”

“But there are 7 of them!”

“Yes, the fourth chakra is in the middle between them. Let’s start from the bottom up. The first chakra is our support, located at the coccyx, at the lowest point of the Spine. The source of the Life Force, which is controlled by the Kundalini Serpent. Such a cunning snake, curled up there in a ball, dozes for the time being, hiding its true face. It’s better, of course, to wake it up. When it wakes up, it spirals up the spine, running through all the chakras to the Highest, where it gushes and falls back at a lightning speed, filling all the centers with the Higher Spiritual Energy along the way. When the Serpent moves upwards from the first chakra to the seventh, the Highest, the physical energy is transmuted into spiritual.”

“Have you ever felt it running like that inside?”

“And running, and crawling, and gushing, and snoring in a ball… In general, the spinal column contains a triple channel of life – a tunnel through which the Snake crawls back and forth. Between the centers (chakras) somewhere in the tunnel there are 4 invisible partitions, which ideally should dissolve naturally through the purity of our life, the subordination of emotions and feelings to the Higher Centers above the Diaphragm. But the average person still has partitions, that’s why the Snake sometimes wants to rise up, but hits its head against the wall and gets angry, since it hurts. Therefore, the pain can reverberate in our physical body in the place where the Snake hurt itself. We need to have Will, Divine Love and Intelligence. Kundalini can also be described as an energy that is activated by the Will. The second chakra, sacral, is responsible for our earthly creativity: the creation of children and earthly love. This center was highly activated by the Lemurians, overly accentuated. In general, the instinctive craving for earthly love is the desire to reunite with the Divine, because There we are all One. But people don’t think much about it. In the Higher Triangle, the chakras above the Diaphragm, this center corresponds to the Fifth, Throat chakra. It’s also responsible for creativity, but at the highest level. If someone has an unhappy love, the energy of the second chakra either accumulates in excessive amounts, because it does not find a way out, which leads to illnesses, or, conversely, is present in insufficient quantities, which also will cause nothing but illness. To cope with not mutual love, it’s necessary to transfer excessive energy from the Second Chakra to the Fifth and to create. Paintings, poetry, prose, whatever. Very often, many people subconsciously use this mechanism of transfer, or, scientifically, sublimation. The third chakra is located in the Solar Plexus. It’s responsible for the Astral Force and works with our emotions, feelings and desires. The astral or desire body, and accordingly the center of the Solar Plexus, was developed in Atlantis. Through this center flows the energy of emotional reactions, impulses. This is the most restless place in the body. Sensitive people often suffer precisely because of the imbalance of energies in the Third Chakra. The nervous system, stomach, liver, gallbladder, pancreas – they are all under the control of the Solar Plexus. All the earthly feelings that are inherent in our personal, egoistic Self accumulate there. The emphasis must be shifted from the Third Chakra to the Fourth, to the center of the Heart, in order to transmute the individual into the social. For example, a selfish feeling of love for one person into Divine Love for all in the Universe. So, we have dealt with the Lower Three Chakras. Next comes the Fourth, just mentioned, the Heart Chakra. It’s responsible, in particular, for the circulatory system and for blood, for the vagus nerve and for the heart itself. It corresponds to the Heart of the Spiritual Sun, the source of Light and Divine Love (the Higher Soul). A person living with the energy of the Fourth Chakra begins to serve others. Above the Diaphragm in the Higher Trinity in man, there are the Throat chakra, the Third Eye and the Thousand-Petal chakra. The Throat center is responsible for creative energy, sound, the creative word, self-awareness, and other mental creative processes. It’s the level of the Mental Body. Associated, in particular, with the thyroid gland, the respiratory apparatus. Focuses the intelligence aspect of humanity. When people listen to music, they automatically wake up their Throat Center. Many people seriously engaged in any kind of creative activity, have the Fifth (Throat) chakra energy united with the Third Eye, the Sixth chakra. The Third Eye is Power, Love, Light, Intuition, Vision, Wisdom. As a rule, it’s closely connected with the left physical eye of a person. Many people with the Third Eye studied sacred geometry There. Depending on what the energy of the Sixth Chakra is used for (Black or White Magic), certain heart diseases and tumors can occur. In fact, the Third Eye brings together the creative energy of the Throat Chakra and the Divine Love of the Heart (Creativity + Love = Magic). Stimulation of this chakra can lead to vision loss and mental disorders. The Third Eye Chakra in the form of the Lotus, unlike the others, has only two petals that look like two wings to the left and to the right of the Eye, as a symbol of Two Ways of Magic, White and Black. The highest, Thousand-Petal Chakra doesn’t come into contact with the physical body, located above it, above the crown, and symbolizes the Spirit, the Spiritual Will, the Divine. It’s connected with the pineal gland. If a person is spiritually developed, the pineal gland emanates Rays of Light that appear around his head. The highest chakra is the organ for the synthesis of the energies of Will, Consciousness and Creativity, of all Divine aspects. All the energies concentrated in it give a powerful radiation, connecting us with the entire Universe. The Thousand-Petal Lotus is our Spiritual Sun, which sometimes illuminates us with Sparks of Divine Fire. If we deserve it. Each person is under the control of either the Lower or the Higher Triangle. Ordinary people have centers under the Diaphragm more developed and active, because their Consciousness is focused mainly on the earthly and personal Ego. The Initiates in Knowledge have the Thousand Petal Chakra vibrating.”

“And what about you, Alice?”

“Sometimes my Third Eye itches so much that tears flow down like a river. Rare people have an awakened Higher Chakra. At such level of human development, there is only one concern: how to merge with God. When a person focuses on a particular chakra, the whole world for him is colored by its energy. This is the lens through which he perceives the World. The degree of vibrational activity of the corresponding organs and the general receptivity of the physical body depend on the state of our energy centers. If the centers through which the energy flows are motionless (the wheel doesn’t rotate), partially awakened and slowly rotating, or, on the contrary, operate at an excessively high speed, the flow of energy to the organs is either insufficient or too high, which sooner or later manifests at the level of the physical body in the form of some disease. If the Thousand-Petal Chakra is awakened, a person can consciously work with the chakras, directing the energy in the right rhythm or redistributing it. The goal of every Spirit, incarnated on the Earth, is to shift the accents from the centers under the Diaphragm through the Solar Plexus to the centers above the Diaphragm. In fact, this is the secret of the Philosopher’s Stone of the Alchemists. To melt the Lower into the Higher in order to become an ingot of Gold, Divine Fire, the Fiery Chariot of the Spirit…”

Doctor Ma silently entered the door. She removed the needles from us, but Svetlana and I remained silent for a long time, until the cry in the corridor brought us out of the trance, “Everyone to the Roof! The carpet is ready!”