2. The Book of Knowledge. 5. 4. Eschatology

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

PART 2. ANOTHER REALITY

Day No. 5

CHAPTER 5.4. ESCHATOLOGY

It became a tradition to go to the roof at night after classes. I looked at the starry sky. Svetlana sat next to me.

“How is it all done, Alice? So many stars, planets, and humans. Unreal.”

“Nothing unreal.”

“How long did God create the world there, 7 days? Well, how can you do so much in 7 days?”

“Six days…”

“Why 6?”

“He worked for six days, and rested on the 7th.”

“Well, even less.”

“No, Svetlana, don’t take everything so literally. Every day of God is a certain period of time, which is not at all equal to our earthly day. The days of creation show the order of the Creative Force actions.”

“So what it was?”

“It was such a pulsating impulse of the Spirit.”

“Wait with the Spirit, where did God come from?”

“He always was, is and will be. His Spirit permeates every creature, so God is in everything, and everything is in Him. Except for those who don’t have His Spirit, the Black Magicians, for example.”

“But what did He make it all out of?”

“He creates out of nothing, what He wants and how He wants, being the true Creator. The true Creator can do everything. The process of creation is based on a chain of cause-and-effect relations, where He Himself is the First Cause and Primary Source of everything. So everything comes out of nothing. Everything you see around, and even what you don’t see anywhere… yet. At the very beginning, He wakes up from sleep and breathes out an energy impulse from inside to outside, that is, He emanates the Spirit.”

“What kind of Spirit?”

“Creative, because He wants to create. Being in constant motion, it vibrates and generates Ether. Ether gives birth to Air. Through the transformation of Air, light energy, called Light in the Bible, appears. From Air and Light, generating Heat, Water is formed as the origin of all life on the Earth. The Spirit of God was hovering over the Water…”

“Was the Earth always Earth?”

“Before our planet became round, it was a long trail of cosmic dust or fiery mist, moving and writhing like a Snake. That is, the cosmic matter from the Spirit takes the ring-shaped form of a Snake with its tail in its mouth. This is the emblem of Eternity in its spiritual sense and the emblem of our world in the physical sense.”

“Why a snake?”

“The Earth, like the Snake, sheds its skin and is renewed after each small cycle.”

“So what was in the beginning?”

“Our Earthly Reality, that is, the World Visible to us, is the final result of a long chain of creative actions of the Divine Forces, successively set in motion. The process of creation goes from the top down.”

“How is it, top down?”

“This is conditional, to make it clearer. First, what is closer to the Primary Source, God, appears, respectively, conditionally Above, or farther from you and me. Then what is Below, or closer to us, is created. Imagine Stairway to Heaven. We have to climb it to God from Below up. And the process of creation slowly moved along the Stairway in the direction of Top down. First, the Fiery Sphere (the World of Spirit), then the Mental Sphere (the World of Thought, knowledge, mind), then the Astral Sphere (the World of the Soul, feelings and desires), then the Physical Sphere (the World of Matter). We are here the latest and the most remote from the Primary Source result of creation.”

“The 10 Sephira… or whatever? What are they? Do you remember you said about their Tree?”

“In Kabbalah, these 3 Worlds or Spheres (Mind, Feelings and the Physical World) represent the Trinitarian Trinity, because each Sphere is trinity. Together with the First One (Primary Source = Fiery, Spiritual World), they make up 10. They are represented in the form of the Tree. It shows graphically the process of creation. In Christianity, the classification of Spirits is represented similarly by Angels and Archangels, 3 main classes, each has 3 divisions.”

“Is their 10 the same 10 of Pythagoras?”

“In general, yes. Because in both cases, 10 means everything.”

“Why are we all so different?”

“Is it bad that we are all different? Do you want to see a million identical Svetlanas, sadly marching in step? By the way, have you ever marched in uniform on the parade ground? I have. I can assure you, there is nothing divine about it! All God’s creations differ in their perfection according to their distance from Him, to their rung of the Stairway. At the same time, they are all connected to the Primary Source, from which they originate. God pervades everything. Except for those who have fallen away from Him, in whom there is no Divine Spirit.”

“Listen, kill me, I don’t understand how to produce something material with energy!”

“Why kill? Do you agree that thought is material?”

“Yes, it’s already a well-worn phrase.”

“Well, then, if our thought is material, what about God’s thought? One of the basic postulates of Magic says that nothing is accomplished except through the Word spoken in the Spirit. The power of His desire was expressed in the sound of the Magical Creative Word. God, unlike us, has the Almighty Will. His thought-will is instantly realized. Therefore, God created so many things that you and I have never even dreamed of.”

“And what was that magical word?”

“First, God said, ‘Let there be Light!’, and then He remembered about you and added, ‘Let there be Svetlana, which name means the Light!’”

“I need to remember it!”

“Would you like to experiment with this phrase? Don’t waste your time. In this case, it’s not the combination of letters that matters, they sound differently in every language of the world. Somehow, I’m not at all sure that God pronounced it in Russian. The power is not in these letters.”

“And in what?”

“In the Will… Let me tell you from memory how the process of creation is beautifully described in the East. The primordial Seven Breaths of the Dragon of Wisdom give birth to the Fire Vortex with their sacred, circular, spiral breath.”

“It looks like RAM swirling over broken glass, doesn’t it?”

“It looks like the torsion field… The Spirit is like a Horse, and the Thought is like a Rider. They make it the Messenger of their Will. It’s necessary to go through 7 areas Above and 7 Below. The chroniclers of Eternity outline the Triangle, the Cube and the Pentagram in the Egg, the Ring, called ‘Transgress me not’, for those who descend and ascend, advancing towards the Great Day

‘Be with Us’.”

“What Ring?”

“The boundary the Spirit cannot transgress if, for example, it lived in some kind of physical body, but didn’t fulfill all tasks on the Earth. It will return to the Earth, not allowed into the Highest Sphere.”

“What about the Day of Be with Us?”

“It comes when the Spirit is ready and allowed to go out of the Ring.”

“Okay, keep going…”

“The Spirit gathers Fire Dust, making Fireballs.”

“What’s that?”

“It makes a house to live on the Earth, the Soul.”

“Okay.”

“The spark of the Spirit wanders through the 7 worlds of Maya. First it stops in the First one and becomes a stone, then it passes into the Second and becomes a plant. Next – an animal, and then – a human being. The Silver Thread is getting stronger each time.”

“So I won’t turn back into stone?”

“You can turn into a stone man. Two in one. It’s much worse than being just a stone. And so the Flame says to the Spark, ‘You are Me, my Likeness and my Shadow. I clothed my Self into you, and you are my Incarnation until the Day of Be with Us, when you will become me and others, your Self and me.’ Beautiful, isn’t it?”

“Maybe it’s beautiful, but it’s not very clear.”

“So 7 Small Wheels appear, one giving birth to another…”

“What wheels?”

“Seven races that appear on the Earth in turn.”

“Stop! You haven’t told me anything about races yet.”

“Imagine a checkmark. The usual one you put in stupid questionnaires, marking one of the possible answers.” I drew a big tick in the air.

“And what does it have to do with it?”

“People who appear on the Earth seem to be sliding along this tick. First, they descend from the upper left point down – to the point of intersection of the left wing with the right. And then they rise up – along the right wing to the upper right point. Depending on the point where they are, these people are different in terms of the ratio of the Spiritual and the Material in them. The bottom point, the point of intersection of the wings, is sometimes called the Turning Point. It’s as if at that moment someone inserts the Key into the Door and turns it, turns it…” I said thoughtfully, falling into Another Reality.

“Alice, don’t go out! Stop…” Svetlana snapped her fingers in front of my eyes.

“Of course, this is not a tick, but a circle, or rather a spiral, but it’s easier for you to imagine a tick. At first, man was an ethereal being, unreasonable, but super-spiritual and very big, a Giant compared to us Lilliputians. Then, still big and ethereal, but with the body more compacted, closer to our physical body. Spirituality in him still prevailed over rationality. In general, the mind has a slower and more difficult evolution than the physical form, the body. In the third round, man already has got a concrete body, first in the form of a giant monkey. He became more intelligent and cunning than spiritual. Then the mind reached its maximum level of development. The previously mute races, which communicated in the common language of the Soul (mentally), acquired human speech. Starting from the 4th race, the language improves, knowledge increases. The world is dominated by the results of rational activity, while spirituality is decreasing. We are now in the middle. We are the fourth generation. When I was on Athos, I found an icon named the 4th generation. It depicts 4 different-sized people, similar to a nesting doll, three women of different heights (Great-grandmother of Christ, Grandmother of Christ, Mother of Christ) and the baby Christ. I was told that there is no such icon, but the monks painted it as a hint to people. You and me are just at the lowest point of intersection of the two wings, at the Turning Point of the Key, after which matter, having reached the ultimate depth, begins to strive upward and becomes more and more spiritual with each new race. Each subsequent circle repeats the evolutionary work of the previous one at a higher level.”

“What about the people of the previous races? Were they Atlantes?”

“Before the Atlantes, there were Lemurs and…”

“All giants, right?”

“Bigger then we are today … Not only in height. With our sciences and technological progress, we are much lower, in everything…”

“How did ethereal people reproduce without bodies?”

“You are drawn to apples, Svetlana. Recall Eve… Before falling into matter, they didn’t reproduce in the way you used to think about it. In subsequent races, when the spirituality will prevail, they will gradually stop dividing everyone into men and women, there will be none at all. Everything won’t be the same as it’s now. There was no division into men and women before until a certain time. If you find yourself in Jordan, go to the Philadelphia Museum of History in Amman. Once this city was called Philadelphia. Nice name, right? Look carefully at the excavated figures of two-headed men with one body. These statues are almost 8,000 years old, if the calculations are correct. A hint is given to all of us. And their eyes are sad, so sad. What sad eyes they have.”

“Wait, say something else about the Key…”

“You can imagine it like this: there is a Wheel or a Circle of Zodiac Signs. Time is divided into great cycles, during each of which 12 transformations take place with the world by partial destruction by Fire and Water alternately. Although someone says – 7, someone – 4, but this is not even so important. As a result, if you look at the Zodiacal Wheel, during the first half of the cycles, the Earth and people become more and more material, conditionally until the Sign of Libra, when the Key turns. Further in the process of the second half of the cycles, the opposite happens: everything becomes more subtle and spiritual. When the end of the cycle is reached, there is a gradual dissolution, every living and objective form is destroyed.”

“Are these cycles called blizzards in the East?”


“Wow snail! And how long do these Day and Night last?”

“Day and Night of God are equal in time. About four billion years. The Day of God includes 7 own cycles, that is, the periods of existence of people on different planets in different circles. In each such cycle, there are 7 circles, and it is believed that on each planet, apparently, they are also in 7, 7 races change in turn.”

“Higher maths! Stop! Day and Night, so are there no blizzard then?”

“There are 4 centuries – yugas, through which mankind spirally passes. They replace each other in turn, like 4 seasons. The First century is the Golden Age, or the Age of Truth and Purity, the Age of Spirituality. It always goes first and returns when the Sun, the Moon and Jupiter are in the same Zodiacal House. Next comes the Silver Age, then the Copper Age, then the Iron Age. That is ours. The Iron Age is considered the hardest, since Matter prevails over Spirit. But then people will begin to transform, moving into a more spiritual state, and the Golden Age will come again.”

“Does a century mean a hundred years?”

“This is not a century in our understanding. These are periods, and they are not equal to each other. They are related to each other in a ratio of 4:3:2:1. But the exact duration is a great mystery. Although many tried to make calculations. Everyone thought in their own way, that’s why there were so many predictions about the End of the World with different dates.”

“For example?”

“For example, according to Chaldea, there are cycles of 21,000 years, which are divided into 2 periods of 10,500, at the end of the 1st period there is a small cataclysm, and after the 2nd – a global catastrophe. During the cycle of 21,000 years, the polar and equatorial climates gradually change places. The ocean moves to a new location every 10,500 years, like the Flood in the Bible. Someone says that the cycles are 13,000 years each. Someone else operates with other numbers.”

“What about the Mayans?”

“The Mayans kept their own calendar. They too considered time cycles, being well-informed in astronomy and astrology. The Mayans observed the position of the planets in the Houses. They had several calendars, not only solar, but also lunar. Each month, day and hour had corresponding signs-totems. According to the interpretations of our contemporaries, it turns out that we live in the Era of the Fifth Sun. It started three thousand years before our era and will last until December 21, 2012. The new cycle starts after February 19, 2013.”

“So when is the real end of the world?”

“It depends on what you mean by the words End of the World. I have already said that in the course of the existence of the Universe there are many cardinal changes leading to the almost complete renewal of the Earth. The Flood has already happened, but it isn’t equated with the End of the World. Small cataclysms have been and will be at the end of each period. There are many of them, the End of the World is one.”

“And when does it come?”

“In the evening…”

“What evening?”

“Before the Night, the Night of God I mean. The Bible says that the End of the World will find many of us living on the Earth.”

“How could they say such a thing 2,000 years ago to those who lived then? They were to die a long time ago. People don’t live so long!”

“People, yes, they don’t, I agree. The spirits of people who once lived tend to periodically return to the Earth to continue their Path…”

“Is the Apocalypse the End of the World?”

“It’s a book. By the way, I gave it to you with the comments of an Orthodox priest. You hid it somewhere. Probably in the farthest corner of the farthest shelf of your bookcase. That’s how we move everything into the Subconscious, everything that can somehow interfere with our peace of mind. This is a book about what happens when the history of mankind ends. It was a revelation to St. John the Theologian on the island of Patmos. The book consists of 22 chapters.”

“Two plus two equals four!”

“Symbolic, I agree. Then a whole doctrine about the End of the World appeared, called Eschatology.”

“So what’s in the book?”

“There is a Book in the book. There was the Book sealed with 7 seals on the throne. And no one could open it either in Heavens or on the Earth.”

“What book?”

“The Astral Tablets, in which the Chronicler Spirits record every moment of the life of everyone and everything in the Universe. The Wise Memory of God… So, before the End of the World, the seals from this Great Book will be removed one by one. 7 angels with trumpets will appear, each in turn will begin to blow, and blood will flow, and fire will start burning the Earth, and the stars will fall into the seas, and the waters will be poisoned, and epidemics will begin, and earthquakes, and … In general, the Seven Bowls of God’s Wrath will spill onto the Earth in turn. And every island fled, and the mountains were gone.”

“Will it be all at once?”

“People guess, what it will be: a comet falling from the sky, or an earthquake, a volcanic eruption, a tsunami, water poisoning, epidemics, a nuclear war. You can see a lot of things in the Book. All virtual scenarios are on the verge of materialization. The question is which one will come first. Science considers several options at once. Someone says that the most dangerous thing is the fire that fills the interior of the Earth.”

“What do you think is the most dangerous?”

“People, Svetlana. Astrologers look at the location of the planets and compare. For example, during the time of the plague in the middle of the 14th century, the planets were in Houses in which they are not expected in our near future. Accordingly, the epidemic does not seem to threaten us yet. On the last day of Pompeii, during the eruption of Vesuvius, Pluto was in Pisces, although Pluto may still be in Gemini. It visits Pisces in 2036, if I’m not mistaken, and Gemini – in 2129. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki happened with Pluto in Leo, a similar thing is possible with Pluto in Aquarius, it stays there after 2020.”

“Alice, is Pluto the main enemy of mankind?”

“No, you didn’t understand anything. The main enemy of mankind is mankind itself.”

“Well, what will happen next if there is no longer a small cataclysm, but the true End of the World?”

“Next… Strange noises are coming from all sides as the harbingers of the Night. Twilight rises on the horizon. The Sun is setting beyond the 13th degree of Makara.”

“What the hell is Makara’s 13th degree?”

“Makara means the tenth Sign of the Zodiac, Capricorn. The Sun is setting and will never again reach the Sign of Pisces. By the way, if the Sun still passes one degree per day in those days, the nightmare will last 40 days. A symbolic number. Gradually the light fades, the Sun flickers and goes out, the heat decreases, the number of uninhabited places on the Earth increases. The air becomes more and more rarefied. Sources of water dry up. The ocean exposes the bottom. Plants are dying as well as people. The planets are barely moving in space, fading one by one. Matter is dissolving.”

“Dissolving? How?”

“Like sugar in a cup of tea… All the synthetic substances of the Earthly Reality will be the first to disintegrate. They are created artificially and cannot be transferred to Another Reality. Everything will return to the state of a chaotic set of elements, atoms, from which it was created. The Indians build houses from natural materials to keep them undestroyed, undispersed. Then the Darkness of the Universe returns. God falls asleep. Here is the Night coming.”

“What will happen to the Spirits?”

“When the Morning comes, a new world will begin to develop. The spirits of all beings, except those who have managed to slip beyond the Ring of Transgress me not, will return to some new Earth to complete the interrupted cycles of transformation. Those who have completely passed the mineral kingdom will go to the vegetable kingdom, those who have already been in the vegetable kingdom will go to the animal kingdom, and those for whom the animal kingdom is a passed stage will immediately become humans…”

“And when will the Second Coming take place?”

“Do you want to get the exact date from me? No one will tell you. And if someone does, go away from him. In the Apocalypse, Christ descends to the Earth and imprisons the Devil for 1,000 years in the abyss. The Quran says that the Prophet will appear a second time, but he will live like an ordinary person, preaching Islam. Then he will die and be buried in Medina, where a grave has already been prepared for him.”

“Well, I understand, everyone talks about the same thing, but in different words. Why does the Devil go into the abyss for only 1,000 years?”

“Conditionally a thousand years. It’s the period of the reign of the Saints and those who hadn’t taken on the seal of the Beast, the righteous. This is called the First Resurrection. The others await the Last Judgment in the meantime. This fragment of the Apocalypse formed the basis of the doctrine of chiliasm about the millennial kingdom of Christ on the Earth, in which some see the Golden Age of mankind, described in the East. Buddha of the Future, Maitreya, will come as a Teacher when the Golden Age, the Life in the Spirit, comes.”

“And then?”

“In a thousand years, the Devil will be released and will begin to gather peoples for war. Then there is the Last Judgment and the Second Resurrection. Everything in the Apocalypse is written in a very complicated way. Let everyone understand the way one feels. The Book means something different.”

“Wait for now about the meaning! What will happen at the Last Judgment?”

“We will read books. In a big reading hall with high bookshelves, and with a huge, huge fireplace… A real one… With Fire… Well, or a stove… Everything done by us will become obvious to everyone.”

“And what will be then?”

“Great shame, Svetlana. For me, and for you, and for everyone.”

“How do you think it will happen? So many of us lived here, we can read books for centuries!”

“What’s your hurry? It doesn’t matter how. Perhaps the Information Field will open. Few people have access to it now, but there is nothing secret that one day would not be revealed. Both acquaintances and strangers, we all will recognize each other, and learn everything about everyone. All our desires, deeds, words, thoughts… The tangle of cause-and-effect relation will unravel. So we’ll understand why, what and how it happened in this world.”

“Well, we’re not so bad after all…”

“If we were not so bad after all, we would not be observed here and now. Then they will announce those who are worthy of Eternity. One hundred and forty-four thousand. Put a dot.”

“So few people?”

“Too many people, considering that there are actually far fewer Saints.”

“And where will they go, Saints?”

“They will fly, not go, because the former land has passed, and the sea is no more. To the City in the form of a cube, its length, width and height are equal. There are three gates on each cardinal direction, and 12 angels at the gates. The wall of the city has 12 foundations with the names of 12 apostles. The gates are never locked. There is no one else to lock them up, since nothing unclean will enter the City. It looks like made of glass and gold, all sparkling, as precious stones. And there is no more need for either the Sun or the Moon…”

“Do you believe in this City?”

“I do believe that we will not all die, but we will all change. The world won’t be destroyed, it will pass from a mortal to the immortal state, the spiritual one. The Earthly Reality will disappear like an illusion, and only Another Reality will remain, with Another Earth and Another Sky. That’s when everyone understands that Another Reality is real.”

“You know, I still don’t understand how we will die at the End of the World.”

“What difference does it make? Does it change anything? You can’t spread straws. Death tends to come from where you don’t expect it at all. It’s the great wisdom of God. Perhaps not a Flood or a physical Fire, as we know it, but another Fire will purify the Earth with vibrations. The fields, for example, magnetic ones, and the level and frequency of vibrations will change. The energy of the Cosmos affects people in such a way that those who don’t correspond to the Light will die themselves. Only people who are highly developed in the Spiritual way will remain. It’s an exam, where you cannot use a cheat sheet. And no one can be deceived. Everyone is exclusively for himself, throughout the school program, not one randomly pulled out ticket in mathematics. And nobody will help you, nobody.”

“How can the magnetic field change?”

“Not a question for me. Perhaps the poles will move.”

“What do you mean, move?”

“Well, do you get tired of sitting in one place from time to time? So they suddenly get bored, get up and go to look for another place, a more comfortable one. They say that now the mass of ice at one of the poles is growing, and if this continues, the Earth will have to find a new centered point of its axis.”

“Why?”

“So that it can rotate more comfortably. Imagine you are dancing with a heavy backpack on your shoulders. You’ll try to throw it off in every possible way. Although, perhaps, it won’t find a new Axis. Or it won’t search it at all. For example, if the Earth’s crust slides on its own over the bulk of the interior. But I think the Axis has already changed often, and the poles have jumped from place to place, too.”

“Okay, let’s say the magnetic fields change. And what does this threaten us with?”

“With the same Another Reality. Someone says the electricity will suddenly disappear. Internet, mobile phones respectively… Refrigerators will stop working… Electric stoves… Think at your leisure what will happen then… By the way, Svetlana, can you make fire without a lighter? I can’t…”

“So will it come the Night?”

“Sooner or later, it will, one hundred per cent.”

“And then, the Morning?”

“Yes.”

“You know, there’s a lot of things I don’t understand. For example, why was the Apocalypse written so complicated? Why no one can say for sure that the End of the World will happen then, there, and so-and-so. And then it will be like this…”

“We were actually told much more than necessary. God is very kind. He loves us and cares for us. God revealed even what could have been left behind the scenes. People are always short of everything, although there is already too much information in life. But they delve into the details, engage in miscalculations instead of living. Go your own way and do good. Man is enemy to himself. We know and remember too much unnecessary things, but what we really need to know and remember, we don’t know or don’t want.”

“What do we need to know and remember?”

“Many monks have a sign in their cells, Memento Mori. Just one thing to know and remember, Svetlana. Agree, remembering one thing is not so difficult. Moreover, we are not talking about combining the binary Fibonacci series with any other mathematical progression or memorizing the entire progression by heart.”

“So what to remember?”

“That each of us has his own Exam of Life. And it doesn’t matter when or where it takes place. Next year or later, on the Earth or in Heavens. Don’t think about rewards or punishment, but be full of Light as much as possible. Use the right to choose the Path when you take the next step. Live as if every new day is your last one before the Exam of Life.”

“And how should one live?”

“Do you want me to list the Ten Commandments of Christianity, the main points of Buddhism, or the vision of a righteous life in other religions of the world? I’m not going to do that. Because, firstly, you can read them yourself in the relevant Scriptures. Secondly, I have no right to tell anyone how to live. It’s impossible to live in this world and be pink and fluffy, but we should try to be good.”

“Well, give me some example of what exactly to do!”

“The maximum of the good that you can do. And not for yourself, so dear to you Self, but in general. Each has its own way. For example, start with the simple. Talking to someone, imagine that you see this person for the last time.”

“It’s so simple!”

“It’s simple, but not as easy as it seems at first glance.”

“What else?”

“Remember what you did during the last year worthy to tell about it at the Exam of Life.”

Svetlana got lost in thoughts. So did I. We returned to the room in silence. I wished her good night and fell asleep.