Daniil Andreev "Rose of the World". Perhaps this is one of the most mystical works read by me. The book was written in the middle of the 20th century by a man who had been in the NKVD camps. It was there that he began to receive those visions, which he then carefully and in detail set out in a book.
rose of the world is not only the title of the book, The rose of the world is, according to the author's idea, the name of the future world religion, which will become the heir and successor of all existing religions, which will unite everything bright and pure on Earth. The rose of the world must become at the same time a secular and spiritual-religious power on the whole Earth, in single state . This is how Andreev imagined the development of earthly civilization.
But the Earth civilization has another way. And in your visions Daniil Andreev it also describes in great detail. This direction, the second way, is now chosen by the ruling elite of Europe and the USA. Moral decay, alcohol, depravity, combined with a harsh dictatorship will lead humanity to complete degradation.
This is already happening. The world is increasingly divided into black and white. Every year it becomes more and more difficult to stay in the middle. Each of us needs to choose where he is and with whom he is. We have already become so degraded that we cannot imagine the long-term consequences of our actions. Book of Daniel. Andreeva "Rose of the World" is valuable because shows us what will happen to us, to the Earth if we continue to lead the way of life that we are now.
In this book, everyone will see themselves and understand who they really are and what they are. Yes, there is an interesting chapter in the Rose of the World, in which Daniil Andreev describes the worlds after death. Since I have no idea how you can come up with all this, I am inclined to believe the author that this is true. Amazing waiting for you detailed descriptions light and dark earthly worlds. How many of them around you can not even imagine!
Daniil Andreev in his "Rose of the World" is replete with new, previously unknown concepts, such as: transmyth, shadanakar, demiurge, googr, metahistory, enrof, witzraor and many others. Because of this, at first it is not always clear what the author means, but there is a glossary at the end of the book, so there are no big difficulties. In addition, Andreev describes in sufficient detail the concepts themselves, and where such names came from.
Rose of the World the book is very unusual. If speak about practical use that she carries, then she gave me the understanding that our visible life is just the tip of a huge iceberg hidden under water. After reading the book, you will find out what incredible processes precede what is happening on earth. What battles and battles take place on the subtle plane of the Earth before at least one cannon fires at us. The Rose of the World gave me an understanding that for each of us there is an invisible battle between the light and demonic forces. And every second we are faced with the choice of whom to support, which side to take. Since then, when I read this book, I made the first conscious choice in my life - I want to be a warrior of light!
IN Rose of the World, unlike the book you will not find practical exercises, that's a theory. But what a theory! Thanks to reading this book, you will receive a new, comprehensive knowledge about the structure of our homeland - the Earth, about the patrons of the Earth and Russia and about their eternal enemies.
I can not say that the book is read in one breath. The new incredible information presented in the book does not immediately fit into the head, so it is better to read it with breaks. But, I can guarantee that after reading this book, your idea of the world in which you live will change dramatically.
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This book began when the danger of an unheard-of disaster was already hanging over mankind; when a generation that had barely begun to recover from the shocks of the Second World War was convinced with horror that a strange haze was already swirling and thickening over the horizon - a harbinger of an even more terrible catastrophe, an even more devastating war. I began this book in the darkest years of tyranny over two hundred million people. I started it in a prison that was called a political isolator. I wrote it in secret. I hid the manuscript, and good forces- people and not people - hid her during searches. And every day I expected that the manuscript would be taken away and destroyed, just as my previous work was destroyed, which took ten years of my life and led me to political isolation.
The book "Rose of the World" ends a few years later, when the danger of a third world war no longer rises like misty clouds from behind the horizon, but spreads over our heads, closing the zenith and quickly descending from it down, on all sides of the sky.
Or maybe it will cost? – Such a hope is warm in the soul of everyone, and without such a hope it would be impossible to live. Some try to back it up with logical arguments and active actions. Some people manage to convince themselves that the danger is exaggerated. Still others try not to think about it at all, plunging into the cares of their little world and once and for all deciding to themselves: come what may. There are also those in whose soul hope smolders like a fading spark, and who lives, moves, and works only by inertia.
I am finishing the manuscript of the "Roses of the World" in freedom, in gold autumn garden. He, under whose yoke the country was languishing, has long been reaping in other worlds the fruits of what he sowed in this one. And still last pages I hide the manuscripts in the same way as I hid the first ones, and I do not dare to dedicate a single living soul, and still I have no confidence that the book will not be destroyed, that the spiritual experience with which it is saturated will be passed on to at least someone.
Or maybe - it will cost, tyranny will never return? Maybe humanity will forever keep the memory of the terrible historical experience Russia? – Such a hope glimmers in the soul of everyone, and without this hope it would be sickening to live.
But I belong to those who are mortally wounded by two great calamities: world wars and sole tyranny. Such people do not believe that the roots of wars and tyrannies have already been eradicated in humanity or will be eradicated in short term. The danger of a given tyranny, of a given war, may be removed, but some time later the threat of another will arise. Both of these disasters were for us a kind of apocalypse - revelations about the power of the world Evil and its eternal struggle with the forces of Light. People from other eras would probably not understand us; our anxiety would seem to them exaggerated, our worldview morbid. But this notion is not exaggerated. historical patterns which has been burned in a human being by half a century of contemplation and participation in events and processes of unprecedented scope. And the result that has formed in the human soul as the fruit of the activity of its brightest and deepest sides cannot be painful.
I am seriously ill, the years of my life are numbered. If the manuscript is destroyed or lost, I will not have time to restore it. But if it ever reaches at least a few people, whose spiritual thirst will make them read it to the end, overcoming all its difficulties, the ideas embedded in it cannot but become seeds that give birth to sprouts in other people's hearts.
And whether this happens even before the third world war or after it, or the third war will not be unleashed in the coming years at all - the book will not die anyway, if at least one friendly eye passes, chapter by chapter, through its pages. Because the questions she is trying to answer will still excite people in the distant future.
These issues are not limited to the problems of war and state structure. But nothing will shake my conviction that the most terrifying dangers that threaten humanity now and will threaten for more than one century is the great suicidal war and absolute world tyranny. Perhaps the third world war - in our era - humanity will overcome, or at least survive in it, as it survived in the first and second. Perhaps it will endure, one way or another, a tyranny even more extensive and merciless than that which we have withstood. It may also happen that in a hundred or two hundred years new dangers will arise for the peoples, no less disastrous than tyranny and a great war, but different. Maybe. Probably. But no efforts of the mind, no imagination or intuition are able to draw the dangers of the future, which would not be connected, one way or another, with one of the two main ones: with the danger of the physical destruction of mankind as a result of war and the danger of its spiritual death as a result of absolute world tyranny.
There is an instance that for many centuries claims to be the only unswerving uniter of people, preventing them from the danger of a war of all against all, the danger of falling into chaos. Such an institution is the state. Since the end of the tribal system, at all historical stages, the state has been an essential necessity. Even the hierocracies that tried to replace it with religious power turned into varieties of the same State. The state cemented society on the principle of violence, and the level moral development necessary to cement society on some other principle has not been achieved. Of course, he is not reached and offered. The state is still the only proven remedy against social chaos. But the presence in humanity of ethical principles of a higher type, capable of not only maintaining, but also improving social harmony, is becoming clear: and, more importantly, ways are outlined for the accelerated development of these principles.
IN political history In recent times, two general human orientations, polar to each other, are easily distinguished.
One of them seeks to re-develop the state principle as such, to strengthen the comprehensive dependence of the individual on the state, more precisely, on the authority in whose hands the state apparatus is located: the party, the army, the leader. States such as fascist or national socialist - clearest example phenomena of this kind.
In the introductory first book, the author talks about historical context writing a treatise, its goals and objectives, on the relationship of the "Rose of the World" to science, art and religions and expounds its epistemology. In the second book, the writer introduces general system representations and terms necessary for understanding the rest of the text. Books three through six are devoted to the panorama of the Earth's multi-layered planetary cosmos ( Shadanakara). The picture created here (with the exception of the chapter "The Logos of Shadanakar") is static, anticipating the next five books, which set out metahistory Russia and, in particular, the metahistorical significance of the work of a number of the most bright figures Russian culture. The final book considers historical perspectives, concretizes the possibilities associated with the advent of the era of the Rose of the World, and, finally, contains the eschatological part of the teaching.
Cosmology
The Universe is a "multi-layered Universe", which consists of many worlds-bramfaturs. One of the bramfaturs is our Earth ( Shadanakar), others are the planets solar system(Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune). However, there are also dead worlds or "ruins of bramfatur": Mars, Mercury, Pluto. Each bramfatura consists of parallel dimensions similar to those of the sky (transphysics) and underworlds(infracosmos). Andreev also uses the term Enrof to denote our three-dimensional space (II:3).
This whole world is an arena of battles between dark and light spirits (monads). Monads are God-begotten (Logos, Zventa-Sventana, Lucifer) or God-created (VI:2). Some worlds (Orion, Andromeda Nebula) are controlled by angels, while others (Antares) are controlled by demons. Dark or fallen away from God spirits (demons) are forced to feed on psychic radiations created by suffering ( hawwah). To receive as much as possible a large number gavvaha was created by them infraspace .
Monads have a "material receptacle" etheric body ( shelt), which acts as an analogue of the soul.
In Andreev's work, there is never a mention of eternal hell, all the demonic worlds he describes can be destroyed or enlightened. Salvation of the soul is possible even from the deepest failures. However, the world is described Sufath, in which the death of the soul is possible, "the second death."
Zatomis
Zatomys(III:2) is the heavenly (ideal) world of metaculture. For example, for the Byzantine metaculture, the zatomis is Paradise. Zatomis is the abode of the synclite (patron saints) of one or another superpeople. Andreev describes the following metacultures and their corresponding zatomis:
- Atlantis (Andreev dates her presence in Enrof to about 12,000 - 9,000 BC) is called Maif(III:2);
- Gondwana, "whose centers in Enrof were Java, Sumatra, South Hindustan, now resting on the bottom of the sea," - Linat(III:2);
- Ancient Egyptian Metaculture - Ialu(Also Atheam) (III:2)
- "Babylonian-Assyro-Canaanite Metaculture" - Ziggurat Eanna(II:3; III:2);
- Jewish - Nihord(III:2);
- Chinese - Shang Ti(II:3; III:2);
- Indian - Mayor(II:3; III:2);
- Iran (Mazdeism) - Zervan(III:2);
- Greco-Roman - Olympus(II:3; III:2);
- Roman Catholic - Eden(II:3);
- European Northwest - Monsalvat(II:3);
- Byzantine - Paradise(II:3);
- Ethiopian Metaculture - Zatomis Junflay(III:2);
- Muslim - Jannet(II:3; III:2);
- Mahayana (Tibet-Mongolia) - Sukhawati(III:2);
- Malaysia (separated from Indian) - Aireng Dalyang(III:2);
- Japanese - nikisaka(III:2).
- Human culture - Arimoya(III:2).
- Heavenly Russia;
- Ancient Sudanese (in time, according to Andreev, localized between the ninth and fifth millennia BC, in space - “in the Niger Valley, in the region of Lake Chad and in Kordofan”) - Nambata(III:2);
- Pro-Mongolian (Amur region, Northern China 3 thousand BC) - Tsen Tinh(III:2).
- Mongolian - Yunkif(III:2);
- Dravidian (late formations of this metaculture include the cities of Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa) - Pred(III:2);
- Old Germanic (until the 12th century) - Asgard(III:2);
- Ancient Peruvian (pre-Inca) - Tokka(III:2);
- Ancient Tibetan (merged into Mahayana) - Bon(III:2);
- Himalayan (separated from India) - Gauripur(III:2);
- Ancient Australian - Yiru(III:2);
- Tolteco - Aztec - Taltnom(III:2);
- Yucatan (Maya) - Kartu;(III:2)
- Inca - Intil; (III:2)
- Indian metaculture of the Great Lakes region - Duffam(III:2);
- Polynesian (Hawaii, Tahiti) - Lea(III:2);
Metaculture of Russia
Since laying the foundations Roses of the World entrusted to the nations of the “Russian super-people”, its metahistory is given great attention (five books out of twelve are devoted to it). In the VIII-IX centuries. Demiurge Yarosvet and the cathedral soul of Russia Navna begin the formation of Russian metaculture, which is reflected in Enrof by the emergence of "East Slavic tribal unity" and the creation of Kievan Rus. However, in the 13th century, due to the threat of destruction of the metaculture under the blows of the Mongol Witzraor, Demiurge was forced to create the Witzraor Zhrugr, the demon of the Russian great power, in order to save it. Further history Russia is inextricably linked with the activities of the Zhrugrs, successively replacing each other as defenders and, at the same time, tormentors of metaculture. The first of these Demons, initially fulfilling the tasks of the Demiurge, unites the Russian lands, repels the neighboring aggressor Witzraors, but under Ivan IV the Terrible, his activity begins to be completely dictated by his demonic essence, which leads him to death and the onset of the Time of Troubles. The second Zhrugr associated with the Romanov dynasty dies in 1917. The third Zhrugr, the builder of the Soviet statehood, from the very beginning is an irreconcilable opponent of the Demiurge and all the forces of light, an ally and servant of Gagtungr, the victory over him should create the prerequisites for the appearance of the Rose of the World.
Unlike statesmen who act as Zhrugrov's tools, most Russian cultural figures are conductors of the will of the Demiurge Yarosvet, the most influential of them (Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Vladimir Solovyov) Daniil Andreev calls heralds, emphasizing their role as intermediaries between Heavenly Russia and the earthly world. Of the good spirits of Heavenly Russia, Andreev names Sirins and Hamayuns.
Theology
Andreev identifies the hypostases of the Father and the Holy Spirit (“After all, who can God the Father Himself be, if not the Spirit? Only the Spirit. And, moreover, it is the Holy, unlike all other spirits created by him”). Another hypostasis is the Son, while Andreev considers the Eternal Femininity (the Ever-Virgin-Mother) the third hypostasis.
Fall of Lilith
Redemption and salvation of Lilith will be one of the tasks Second Aeon, that is, the period of history after the Second Coming of Christ to Earth.
Further, “as for the legend of Adam and Eve, all layers, eras and hierarchies are so mixed up in it that it is better not to touch this legend at all.” So, for example, “if the myth of the rise and fall of Lucifer is considered in relation to the spiritual history of Shadanakar, it will lose its meaning. No events in the metahistory of our planet that could be reflected in the events of this myth have ever taken place. […] These events took place once on the universal plane, on a scale that exceeds all categories of our mind, that macrobramfatura that embraces the Universe.
The fall of Lilith, which took place long before the efforts of providential forces “separated the human species from the animal kingdom” with the aim of future enlightenment of the materiality of the Earth, jeopardized the fulfillment of this task and made it necessary to incarnate the Planetary Logos among people.
Christology
The mission of Christ was interrupted and did not fully achieve its goals. According to Daniil Andreev, “Christ should not have died - not only a violent, but also a natural death. After many years of living in Enrof and solving those tasks for which He accepted this life, a transformation awaited Him, and not death - the transformation of His entire being and His transition into Olirnu before the eyes of the world. Being completed, the mission of Christ would cause that in two or three centuries on earth, instead of states with their wars and bloody bacchanalia, an ideal Church-Brotherhood would be established.
Demonology
The demons in the "Rose of the World" are beings who have made an atheistic choice and are waging a continuous war against the forces of Providence in the Universe. Shadanakar is one of the many places where the battle takes place between the forces of Light and the demons that invaded here during the formation of the Earth. The main demon of Shadanakar, having the appearance of a huge terrible winged creature, Andreev names Gagtungr ohm. He, like almost all other demons, maintains his existence with gavvah - the suffering of people and other creatures. Voluptuous Demoness of the Moon Voglea on the contrary, it feeds on the radiations of lust (V:1). In addition to them, there are many more demons of a smaller scale: ryfry- hill-like "masters of magmas", welga, looking like purple living bedspreads, angels of darkness(IV:1). A special place in the demonology of the "Rose of the World" is occupied by the anti-human race igv(IV:3) - highly intelligent red-eyed humanoids with gray skin and webbed feet. Igvas are directly connected with the activities of the demons of great power and feed on the radiations of the “state complex of feelings”. Andreev believed that the igvas appeared in Babylonia from the crossing of the priest Nergal with Lilith. Also mentioned raruggi reminiscent of " Mesozoic lizards" (IV: 3) and Volgras(IV:2).
Another type of demons are Witzraors- "demons of great-power statehood" (II: 1), which are inherent in any tyrannical state. At the same time, by the nature of his being, the witzraor resembles both an octopus-like energy vampire and an egregor (VII: 3). different types demons may be at enmity with each other, as for example the Witzraors with the Welgs (VII:3).
Eschatology
Daniil Andreev describes the future era Roses of the World or the "golden age of mankind", the basis of which will be community Roses of the World, universal church-fraternity.
According to Andreev, the laying of the foundations of the Rose of the World, the transformation of the state into a spiritual brotherhood, the creation of interculture and interreligion - this is the meaning of the existence of the "Russian super-people", that is, the community of Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian and other nations, its mission. The future all-human society, based on achievements in the field of improving material well-being and social reform, as well as a new understanding of religious experience, will become much more spiritual and moral. A united humanity will not have a permanent capital, its functions will be performed in turn by various cities, including Moscow, Delhi and Tokyo (XII: 4).
The religion of the Rose of the World will be devoid of asceticism and turned towards the feminine principle (Zventa-Sventana). Recognizing the existence of the One God, she will also honor various light entities. Various teachers of mankind, carriers of light missions, including Plato, Aristotle, Copernicus, Shakespeare, Wagner and Gandhi will also be revered.
The meaning of the Rose of the World in a metahistorical perspective is to reduce the number of spiritual victims of the Antichrist, who will be forced to go through the afterlife in the worlds of redemption; but the Rose of the World will not be able to overcome the consequences of the incompleteness of the mission of Christ and lead humanity to the fulfillment of its mission (which, as said above, is to enlighten the materiality of the Earth).
Middle Layers of Shadanakar
From each zatomis rises a so-called staircase. worlds of high duty. She leads to transmyth The with which the zatomis is associated. Just as zatomis is the celestial world of a particular culture, so transmyth can be called the celestial world of a particular religion. Just as peoples in Enrof arise as a kind of projection of the reality of zatomis onto earthly reality, religious communities appear as projections of transmyths. In Shadanakar, according to Andreev, there are five transmyths:
- The transmyth of Zoroastrianism is called Azur;
- Transmyth of Judaism - ae;
- Christianity - Heavenly Jerusalem;
- The transmyth of Hinduism consists of four layers - Niruddhi, Eroyi, the name of the third layer is not given, and the last one is called Shatrittva;
- Transmyth of Buddhism from two layers - Nirvana and the layer of dhyani-bodhisattvas.
Through the sakwala of the High Duty, not only the souls of people rise into transmyths. The communities of Shadanakar created by providential forces, in addition to humanity, include elementals, animals, daimons, angels and titans. The history of the community of titans as such has ended, and now their souls are being formed in other communities. The rest have “their own” sequences of worlds, similar to the human one described above, although their paths intersect in some universes - as, for example, elementals, animals and people coexist in Enrof. Something similar happens in transmyths. Here, in addition to people, animals, daimons, and, possibly, representatives of the other two communities are present.
A special group of middle layers of Shadanakar is sakwala of cosmic involtations. These are the worlds through which Shadanakar communicates with other bramfaturas - the planets of the solar system, the Sun itself, as well as the constellations Orion and Astrafire- the center of the Milky Way.
The Upper Layers of Shadanakar
Monads that have fallen into zatomis (for example, into Eden) can then fall into Synclite of the World where Mohammed, Ramakrishna, Ezekiel, Basil the Great reside. The Peace Synclite is associated with Elite of Shadanakar: Akhenaten, Moses, Ashoka, Nagarjuna, Lao Tzu, Francis of Assisi, John Chrysostom, Leonardo da Vinci (VI:1).
The summit of Shadanakar is formed by World Salvaterra(Empyrean), in one of which resides the Planetary Logos, in the other - the Virgin Mary, in the third - Zventa-Sventana. According to Andreev, "the one whose soul is touched by the reflection of the World Salvaterra becomes a righteous man and a prophet."
Infraspace
Otherwise, Andreev calls the worlds of the descending series worlds of retribution. They are created not by providential, but by demonic forces. As in the case of the worlds of the ascending row, the soul enters here as a result of the action of karmic laws. Their meaning is twofold. “The demonic purpose of the laws is to generate gavvah and paralyze the manifestations of the souls of Light that have fallen under them. Laws have another side, and that is their purifying meaning. This is the remnant of the most ancient bright pra-laws of the world-creating beautiful hierarchies; the goal of these hierarchies and all the light forces of Shadanakar is the softening and enlightenment of laws; the goal of the demonic ones is to make them even heavier.” Of all the communities of Shadanakar, humanity is associated with the most complex and differentiated system of worlds of the descending series.
Purgatory
In the described system of worlds, purgatory, according to Andreev, appeared last of all. The purgatories include nine worlds (Skrivnus, Ladref, Morod, Agra, Bustwich, Rafag, Shim-big, Dromn, Fukabirn - IV:2). As a person descends into ever deeper layers of his etheric body loses its original appearance, repeating the deceased physical body, the features are smeared. Conditions of existence gradually change from dreary to painful.
Magma
In magmas subtle bodies of a person are destroyed and replaced by "a spherical something from an animated inframetal". Five layers belong to magmas: Okrus, Gvagr, Ukarvayr, Propulk, Yrl (IV:2). Andreev placed Robespierre, Saint-Just, Malyuta Skuratov, Yezhov and Beria's associates here.
Core
Evaluation of the "Rose of the World" from scientific and religious positions
The worldview of the "Rose of the World" does not agree well with most modern scientific ideas, traditional confessions, in turn, cannot accept it due to the discrepancy between some of the statements of Daniil Andreev and religious orthodoxy. As a result, it is being rejected by both religious and secular researchers.
Orthodox authors treat the work of Daniil Andreev sharply negatively. An example is the article by deacon Andrei Kuraev, where he condemns the language used in the "Rose of the World" and, on this basis, denies her belonging to Christian tradition.
The scientific community generally prefers to ignore this book. The few scientists who write about her evaluate her as "esoteric", which is incorrect in relation to the "Rose of the World". Esotericism is secret knowledge, intended for initiates and capable of giving their owner some kind of spiritual power. No such knowledge is contained in the "Rose of the World". Attempts were also made to present the "Rose of the World" solely as a "poetic creation", but this view of it contradicts the categorical statements of Daniil Andreev himself, who insisted that everything he described was absolutely real.
Another group of opponents of this book are liberal publicists who see the proposed in the "Rose of the World" people's organization as a threat to democracy. As a result, at present, a balanced and objective criticism of the "Rose of the World" is completely absent. Almost all authors who write about it deliberately distort its content for their own purposes, attributing to Daniil Andreev ideas and statements that he does not have.
Influence on contemporary artistic culture
The images of other worlds and supernatural beings described in the "Rose of the World" are used mainly by science fiction writers or authors who gravitate towards this genre. For composers and musicians, in turn, the national-historical motives of Daniil Andreev's work turned out to be interesting.
- In the first book of the cycle of the Russian writer Vasily Zvyagintsev - "Odysseus leaves Ithaca" there is a direct reference to the system of worlds of Daniil Andreev:
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- We can say that with this work he put himself in the ranks of the greatest thinkers of mankind. However, when you read it, you can make own opinion. Now you are interested in the cosmological component of his theory. In some ways, it exactly coincides with reality. The very power of providence is amazing, especially since he did not have and could not have any facts while sitting in prison.
The influence of the "Rose of the World" is noticeable in other works of the writer, for example, the image of the emperor of vampires in the novel "Batman Apollo" resembles the demon of American great power described by Daniil Andreev.
- In the novel by Dmitry Bykov "Ostromov, or the Sorcerer's Apprentice" main character, Daniil Galitsky, one of the prototypes of which was Daniil Andreev, discovers (or creates) a system of world order similar to that described in the Rose of the World. The ideas of Daniil Andreev were also reflected in the literary and journalistic writings of Dmitry Bykov, in particular, he describes the cycles of graceless Russian statehood in full accordance with the Rose of the World.
- Vasily Golovachev's novel The Messenger uses many images borrowed from The Rose of the World. The protagonist wanders through the "fan of the worlds" - Shadanakar, fights with Lucifer and his assistants - the great igvas, uses the help of the "mage" Yarosvet. At the same time, V. Golovachev is characterized by a free artistic rethinking of the ideas and images of D. Andreev, his universe is not a copy of the world order described in the Rose of the World.
- In the work of the conceptual writer Vladimir Sorokin, there are motifs borrowed from The Rose of the World, for example, in his novel The Blue Fat, images and ideas from the chapter The Prince of Darkness are woven into the fabric of the “alternative dystopia” created by Sorokin.
- In Pavel Komarnitsky's novel The Rain Maiden, the action takes place in the worlds of the descending and ascending series closest to Enrof, described in accordance with the Rose of the World. main character, Marina, saves her boyfriend killed in Afghanistan, voluntarily going down to purgatory with the help of the inhabitants of the light layers of Shadanakar.
- In Pyotr Vorobyov's novel "Gorm, the son of Herdaknut", names and images from the "Rose of the World" are used to create the mythology of a fictional civilization. The gods Yarosvet and Sventana are present in the pantheon, and the protagonist performs mystical journey to one of lower worlds, where he meets a dead rarugg.
- Science fiction writer Oleg Lukyanov, after meeting with the "Rose of the World", devoted the last seven years of his life to the creation of the fundamental work "The Myth of the Planetary Space". In it, he presented a detailed analysis of the ideas of Daniil Andreev in the context of both modern scientific and religious ideas. Exploring the myth of the "Rose of the World" with the help of his concept, O.M. Lukyanov concludes that he could "contribute to the cultural and economic revival of Russia."
- In May 1998, the world premiere of the oratorio-mystery by Alexander Soynikov "Rose of the World" took place in Irkutsk, in St. Petersburg the oratorio was performed on April 26, 2012 in Smolny Cathedral. On March 17, 2017, the mystery play was performed in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory by the Bolshoi symphony orchestra them. P. I. Tchaikovsky under the direction of Vladimir Fedoseev.
- November 8, 2009 in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, the premiere of the symphony of the composer Sergei Zhukov "Navna" took place. The symphony was written under the influence of the "Rose of the World" and is one of the parts of a large cycle, conceived by the composer based on its motives.
- The name of one of the modern musical groups sounds like "Zventa Sventana". The group was founded in 2005 in Moscow by Khristina Kuznetsova and Alena Romanova, performs creative arrangements folk songs, created with the help of both Russian folk and electronic instruments.
- In Yaroslav Taran's book “The Rose of the World or Rodonism? (remembering the future)" held a philosophical comparative analysis the main provisions and branches of "Rodonism" and the Rose of the World, on which the forecast for the development of various interpretations of the Andreev myth for the future is built. In particular, the emergence of a new interactive art that brings together Daniil Andreev and Herman Hesse, the "Rose of the World" and "The Glass Bead Game" is predicted.
- Evgeny Moroshkin's book "Two Centuries of Proto-Russianism" is devoted to some ideas of the 10th book "Roses of the World". Proto-Russianism is a term put forward by Daniil Andreev; considered in the book as one of essential qualities inherent in Russian culture and Russian mentality. The work of Yevgeny Moroshkin discusses a number of artistic phenomena that were of key importance for the cultural self-determination of Russia during the 19th and 20th centuries, and Russian art as a single, holistic spiritual and creative stream that has many parallels and interactions between its individual channels - literature, music, painting and other forms of creativity.
- A fan of the ideas of Daniil Andreev is the Russian science fiction writer Anton Vilgotsky.
When using the word "truth", we rarely try to define the concept itself. Truth is that theory (doctrine, view) that expresses an undistorted idea of the object of knowledge. Truth is an undistorted reflection in our mind.
But the objects of knowledge are known from us, and not from ourselves. Known truth is relative truth. absolute truth universal. absolute truth Big Universe commensurate with the subject of knowledge. Such a subject is called the Absolute.
God is "in Himself", as the Object of knowledge. His Absolute Truth is available only to Him.
Private truths have several variants of personal ones. The larger the object of knowledge, the more options relative truths. At the same time, the truth in the minds of a number of related subjects is almost or completely identical. If this were not so, people would be deprived of the opportunity to understand each other in anything.
Truth has as many variants as there are perceiving subjects. All our "truths" are only approximations to truths.
Teachings that contain false statements bring the whole system into the category of negative values. Such teachings are called "left hand" teachings.
The history of religions is dominated by the rejection of a number of previously achieved truths, and new row passed off as absolute. This observation is especially true of the replacement of pagan religions by systems of monotheism. The preservation of such customs in the context of expanding horizons led to the creation a large number sects.
To a polished mind, certain religious experiences may seem strange, distorted, or immature. For example, the idea of reincarnation, inherent in Hinduism, Buddhism and esoteric Judaism (Kabbalah), is rejected by orthodox Christianity and Islam. The "non-universality" of the idea is a stage-cultural aberration of consciousness.
fallibility religious dogmas lies in claims to a universal, universal, cosmic significance - a fact affirmed by dogma is imposed on all mankind, as if without this there is no salvation. As a result, there is a disagreement between groups of world religions that seems insoluble. In fact, in order to remove the "contradiction" it is necessary for each of the parties to renounce their claims to the universal exclusivity of their idea.
The historical reasons for the irreconcilable contradictions between religions lie in the unlawful absolutization of any thesis.
One of the main dogmas of Christianity, the doctrine of the Trinity of the Godhead, was rejected by the founder of Islam, because of the suspicion of reminiscence of polytheism, and most importantly, his own spiritual experience did not reveal any indication of such a truth. Another example. Ever since Christianity and Islam have existed, they have continued to fight against paganism. Mankind has become accustomed to the idea of incompatibility between monotheism and polytheism.
Religions of Semitic roots, which affirm the existence of spiritual hierarchies, developed angelology and demonology to the smallest detail, limited the diversity of these hierarchies to a few personalities that were included in medieval schemes. As if the recognition of the hierarchies of nature or the spirits of the people could shake the unity of God the Creator more than the recognition of His other beautiful children - angels and archangels, as well as demons.
Unfortunately, this ancient misunderstanding has not been clarified until now: nothing has remained of ancient polytheism for a long time, but intolerance, devoid of any wisdom, manifests itself whenever the Semitic root of the church expresses its judgment on issues of Hindu, Chinese, Japanese, Tibetan systems.
Human limitation declares one doctrine to be true, and the rest to be false: “If God is one, then the other gods are impostors. This is either demons, or a game of human imagination. What a childish thought! The inscription of the word * god * sometimes with a capital letter, sometimes with a small letter speaks of the differences in the content invested in this word.
In polytheism: “great spirits”, “great hierarchies”, in a number of cases lead to misunderstandings, because many of these gods are not spirits, but powerful beings that have material embodiment in other layers of being. It is like the traveler's reasoning about the mountain, that the mountain is exactly what it seemed from his side, and the testimonies of other travelers about its other sides are false and absurd.
Many Japanese who profess Christianity remain faithful to Shintoism. Without any blasphemy, this is possible and even quite natural - the experience of Christianity and the experience of Shintoism, it is about different things. Shinto - national myth- an aspect of religious revelation, addressed to the Japanese people and only to them. In Shintoism, one cannot find answers to questions of a universal nature: about the origin of evil and suffering, about the ways of cosmic formation. He speaks only about the metahistory of Japan, about its metaculture, about the hierarchies of people-leaders who have risen in higher worlds just from Japan. This is not a psychological paradox, but a harmoniously complementary experience of the truth of various religions.
Union between Christianity and other religions - this is one of the historical tasks of the Rose of the World - interreligism.
So look:
the light that is in you
is there darkness?
Luke 11:35
Introduction
The book "Rose of the World" was written by the poet and writer Daniil Leonidovich Andreev (1906 - 1959), the youngest son of Leonid Andreev - philosopher and writer, ideological and aesthetic predecessor of Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. Leonid Andreev at one time enjoyed the notoriety of the author of "pessimistic" and "terrible" stories. He died in obscurity, before reaching the age of fifty, at the very height of the revolution in Russia 1 .
After the death of his father, Daniil Andreev was brought up by his Moscow aunt. After graduating from a gymnasium in Moscow, he studied at higher literary courses, after which he worked as an artistic designer of exhibitions and museum expositions 2 .
The book "Rose of the World" was created during the stay of Daniil Andreev in the Vladimir prison, where he was placed as a political prisoner, sentenced for anti-Soviet activities to 25 years in prison. In the Vladimir prison he spent 10 years of his life (1947-1957). The source for writing "The Rose of the World" was mystical revelations, which, according to the author, visited him during his imprisonment 3 .
From the mid-1970s, "Rose of the World" was distributed by samizdat, from the beginning of the 90s it began to be published in Russia in thousands of copies. Now, among the followers of the New Age movement, there is hardly a person who is not familiar with this book.
The "Rose of the World" in its content is ideological in nature, it attempts to consider those questions that all religions have sought to find answers to during the history of mankind. Among these questions are the following: What is God, what is the origin of man, what is the purpose of his life, etc. The staging itself is so important issues draws the most close attention any person who sincerely tries to solve them for himself. If science speaks of the temporal, then religion speaks of the eternal, and a lot depends on its teaching, first of all, the fate of man in eternity. To recognize a lie as truth would be to commit the greatest mistake of one's life.
Considering all of the above, this work sets itself the following goals: to acquaint the reader with the main doctrines of the book "Rose of the World", to investigate the degree of objectivity of the assessment of Christianity proposed by Daniil Andreev, to compare the teaching of Holy Scripture with the ideas of the "Rose of the World" and to try to determine the teaching of the "Rose of the World" based on Holy Bible. Since the "Rose of the World", according to Daniil Andreev, should delay the coming of the Antichrist, at the end of our work we will attempt to assess the validity of such an impressive claim by the author.
Summary of the teachings of the "Rose of the World"
According to Daniil Andreev, the teachings of the "Rose of the World" are "an interreligious, all-human church of modern times" 4 . It "is not a closed religious denomination, true or false. Nor is it an international religious society like theosophical, anthroposophical or Masonic, composed, like a bouquet, of individual flowers of religious truths, eclectically plucked from all kinds of religious meadows. It is an interreligion or a pan-religion, ... the universal teaching..." 5 .
What are the tasks of "Rose of the World"? The author sees as immediate tasks: "... unification the globe into a Federation of States with an ethical supervisory authority over it 6 , dissemination material wealth and high cultural level on the population of all countries, the upbringing of generations of an ennobled image 7 , the reunification of Christian churches 8 and free union with all religions of a bright orientation 9 , the transformation of the planet into a garden, and states into a brotherhood 10 . But this is only the first task. Their implementation will open the way to solving even higher tasks: to the spiritualization of nature" 11. Daniil Andreev continues: "... common goal Roses of the World, more precisely - that giant spiritual process, which began millennia ago and only a stage of which is the Rose of the World - and so, the goal of this process is enlightenment on 12 Shadanakar 13 "14 .
But the role of the "Rose of the World" is not limited to this. Daniil Andreev writes that humanity is threatened with two dangers: "... with the danger of the physical destruction of mankind as a result of war and the danger of its spiritual death as a result of absolute world tyranny" 15 . The "Rose of the World", as the author believes, is a means to prevent these dangers, or at least reduce their impact. He writes: "... the experience of history brings humanity to an understanding of the obvious fact that dangers will be prevented and social harmony will be achieved not by the development of science and technology in themselves, not by the overdevelopment of the state principle, not by the dictatorship of a "strong man", not by the coming to power of pacifist organizations of the social-democratic type, swayed by the historical winds now to the right, now to the left, from impotent fine-souledness to revolutionary maximalism, but by the recognition of the urgent need for a single path: the establishment of some spotless, incorruptible highly authoritative instance over the World Federation of States, an ethical, extra-state and supra-state instance, for the nature of the state is non-ethical in its essence" 16 . "Rose of the World", according to Daniil Andreev, is the doctrine and the future supranational organization that should solve these problems.
At the heart of the doctrine of the "Rose of the World" is the idea of the multi-layeredness of all celestial bodies. Each planet and star is like a layered cake. For example, according to Daniil Andreev, the Earth has more than 240 such layers. The world in which we live is called enrof, but it is not the only one. Both above it and below it there are other worlds parallel to it and connected with it. The worlds differ from each other in the degree of materiality, as well as in the number of spatial and temporal coordinates. The whole set of different material layers of one celestial body is called bramfatura, the bramfatura of the Earth is called shadanakar.
In the concept of the "Rose of the World" there is no difference between spirit and matter, they differ by stages, and not naturally. Spirit is liquefied matter, matter is condensed spirit.
The idea of God 17 "Roses of the World" is blurry, but in in general terms as follows. God is an unchanging, inexpressible striving that directs all monads towards evolutionary development, i.e. to merge and dissolve in itself. God is omnipresent, and also polar, it is impossible to understand what the essence of the polarity of God is. God is a spirit, a spirit is a subtle energy poured into the space of the cosmos.
The Lord creates monads 18 from his essence, therefore the nature of the monads is identical to the nature of the creator. The difference between the monad and the creator is that God is omnipresent, and the monad is not omnipresent, but the author claims that the monad can simultaneously reside in different places. The monad is the higher "I" of man. According to the teachings of the "Rose of the World", there are two types of monads - God-born and God-created. The difference between them is that the divinely created monads by nature possess consciousness, they are destined by God to control the cosmos. It is stated that God-begotten monads cannot fall away from the creator, although it is immediately said that one such monad, Lucifer, nevertheless fell away. The main goal of the monad is to merge with the creator. Monads develop, overcoming the temptation to self-affirmation at the expense of other monads. All monads are in God, being a part of it. The "universal plan of providence" leads to the perfection of the monads. By "providence", apparently, Daniil Andreev understood the total will of the forces of light, i.e. light monads, helping in the development of other, evolutionarily lower monads. Upon reaching highest goal evolution, when a monad merges with a god, it retains its own "I" 19 . The Lord continuously creates new monads. Cosmos is the field of becoming monads. At the same time, monads are present not only in humans, but also in animals and even in microbes. Conscience is the voice of the monad in man 20 .
As the "Rose of the World" teaches, when creating in enrof, the planetary demon Gagtungr distorted the laws that govern organic matter, tightening them. Gagtungr strove and is striving to subjugate enrof to himself. The tightening of laws increases the suffering of people. Demons, on the other hand, feed on the radiations of human suffering: the more people suffer, the more demons absorb their energy and the stronger they become. Emissions of hatred, malice, greed, lust of people and animals penetrate into the demonic layers, making up for the loss vitality various classes and groups of their inhabitants. But the radiations of these sins "feed" the demons of only individual demonic communities. The radiation of suffering and pain - it is called gavvah in the "Rose of the World" - saturates crowds of demons of almost all types and ranks. Gawwah is their food. The goal of the hierarchies of the "powers of light" and in general of all the "light forces" of shadanakar is the softening and enlightenment of laws; the goal of demonic forces is to make them even heavier. Enrof is a battlefield of dark and light forces, they are fighting mainly for control over the minds of people.
The planetary demon Gagtungr managed to intervene in the process of the creation of mankind and laid in people the so-called eitsehore - the "seed of the devil", through which he introduced a particle of himself into them and gained power over them. Original sin, from the point of view of the "Rose of the World", just consisted in introducing eitsechore into human nature. "The essence of the eitsechore lies in the tormenting desire, irresistible for the possessor himself, to absorb everything in his own self" 21 .
Jesus Christ is the planetary Logos, one of the God-begotten monads. He is the divine intelligence of the shadanakara bramfatura. He is the leader of all the forces of "light" in shadanakar. The planetary logos has repeatedly incarnated on Earth, the last time was incarnated in the image of Jesus Christ. In this last incarnation, according to the "Rose of the World", Jesus Christ could not fulfill his mission to the end: "As far as metahistorical knowledge allows understanding of the tasks of Christ that faced Him in His earthly life, so far they can be defined as follows. Communion of mankind of the Spiritual Universe instead of conjectures about it with the help of speculative philosophy and solitary forebodings; disclosure of the organs of spiritual perception in man; overcoming the law of mutual struggle for existence; unfolding the iron ring of the Law of Karma; abolition of the law of violence and, consequently, of states in human society; transformation of humanity into a brotherhood overcoming the law of death, replacing death with material transformation, raising people to the level of God-manhood. Oh, Christ should not have died - not only by violent, but also by natural death. After many years of living in Enrof and solving those tasks for which He accepted this life, A transformation awaited him (the transformation of the materiality of his physical body. - V.P.), and not death - the transformation of His whole being and His transition to Olirna 22 before the eyes of the world. Being completed, the mission of Christ would cause that in two or three centuries on earth, instead of states with their wars and bloody bacchanalia, an ideal Church-Brotherhood would be established. The number of victims, the amount of suffering and the time for the ascent of mankind would be reduced immeasurably." 23 So, Jesus Christ died without completing His mission, which affected all mankind and the Church created by Christ. What are the consequences of the incompleteness of His mission? "The incompleteness of Christ's mission affects and in the fact that the material principle in nature and the carnal in man did not wait for the enlightenment intended for them on a universal scale, and not only in the nature of Christ Himself. And, having remained unenlightened, they were thrown out by the Christian Church beyond the boundaries of what was embraced by it, what was accepted and blessed by it. The sacraments of baptism and communion cut off the neophyte from the pagan justification of the self-sufficing carnal principle; no other comprehension, higher, was given. This ascetic tendency of Christianity, hardly softened by the compromise institution of the sacrament of marriage, this polarization of the concepts of "spirit and flesh", which Christianity entailed in all the cultures embraced by it, and which led eventually to a non-religious era of civilization - all this was not a mere accident or at least a phenomenon of only one historical plan. On the contrary, this reflects a peculiarity characteristic of Christianity in its metahistorical destiny, a peculiarity predetermined precisely by the abruptness of Christ's mission in Enrof.
Most importantly, no fundamental shift took place in Enrof at all. Laws remain laws, instincts remain instincts, passions remain passions, illness remains disease, death remains death, states remain states, wars become wars, tyrannies remain tyrannies. The formation of the Church in humanity, burdened by the former self and not protected from dark inspirations, could not cause that rapid progress - spiritual and moral, which would have taken place if Gagtungr had not cut off the life of Christ "24. However, the Rose of the World claims that in two -Three centuries the planetary logos will come again 25 .
"Rose of the World" recognizes the laws of karma and reincarnations, has a positive attitude towards magic and the occult 26 . But it is strange that all this does not at all prevent Daniil Andreev from asserting, for example, the following: "... magic is utilitarian and selfish in its very essence" 27 .
The "Rose of the World" describes in detail the "subtle geography" of shadanakar and how the events that took place in the "subtle worlds" manifested themselves in the history of Russia.
As mentioned above, main goal The creation of the "Rose of the World" was a delay in the onset of the world dictatorship of the Antichrist. Since the very concept of "antichrist" was borrowed by Daniil Andreev from Christianity, we invite the reader to get acquainted with Christian teaching about the antichrist.
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1 Vanderheel E. Mystics of the 20th century: Encyclopedia. M., LLC "Publishing House Astrel"; Ed. Myth. P.348.
2 Ibid. pp.348-349.
3 See: Daniil Andreev. Rose of the World. M., Another world. 1992. P.55.
4 Ibid. P.15.
5 Ibid. P.16.
6 Representatives of the new interreligion "Rose of the World" should control the activities of states.
7 i.e. education of generations on the ideology of "Rose of the World".
8 Provided they recognize the teachings of the "Rose of the World" and change their creed in the light of its doctrines.
9 All those who recognize the "Rose of the World" as the leading spiritual force and submit to it.
10 A typical utopia of most secret societies.
11 Daniil Andreev. Rose of the World. M., Another world. 1992. P.18.
12 Transformation of the world by the forces behind the "Rose of the World". At the same time, the transformation must be both social and spiritual. By "enlightenment" is meant a change in the spiritual nature of a person as a result of exposure to radiation, the energies of the force behind the "Rose of the World", submission to this force.
13 Leonid Andreev calls the totality of different material layers of a celestial body bramfatura, the earth's bramfature is called shadanakar.
14 Daniil Andreev. Rose of the World. M., Another world. 1992. P.28.
15 Ibid. C.4.
16 Ibid. C.8.
17 The teaching of Daniil Andreev about God, as the reader will see below, is fundamentally different from the teaching Christian Church, which prevents us from capitalizing the word "god" where we are talking about the "god" of the "Rose of the World".
18 We will talk more about monads in a separate chapter.
19 Although this does not follow from the logic of the doctrine. The goal of the monad is to merge with God, the nature of the monad is identical to the nature of God, therefore, complete merging with him means any loss of one's "I". Probably, Daniil Andreev really wanted the teaching set forth in the "Rose of the World" to become acceptable to Christians, which forced him to put forward positions that in no way correspond to the logic of his own teaching.
20 Daniil Andreev. Rose of the World. M., Another world. 1992. P.91.
21 Ibid. P.276.
22 Olirna is the "country of the dead" in the subtle world. The place where the "soul" goes after death.
23 Daniil Andreev. Rose of the World. M., Another world. 1992. P.226.
24 Ibid. P.230.
25 Ibid. P.238.
26 Ibid. P.24.
27 Ibid. P.223.
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