Ecopsychology

God Is Love

Jesus Christ gave us this highest formula, the key to cognition of God.

But why are there so few people who, considering themselves Christians, make use of this Truth for their spiritual advancement? Why didn’t this formula inspire masses of materialists to accept faith?

One of the reasons for this is that the distortion of the Teachings of Jesus Christ began as early as when the New Testament was compiled, which took place just several centuries after Jesus’ Incarnation on the Earth ended [9].

His Teachings were deprived of the part where Jesus talked of man as of an evolving consciousness, whose goal of development is attaining a Godlike state and then Merging with God-the-Father. The description of God-the-Father was also taken out of His sermons. But they included irritated demands of Paul regarding what one should and should not wear, as well as which hairstyle is appropriate. Also the Apocalypse, devoid of love and common sense, overflowing with threats of seas of blood and bowls of pus. (This is not only an opinion of the author of this book; the attitude of Jesus is the same [25]).

The result of this distortion of the Teachings of Jesus Christ was that the mass movement called “Christianity” almost from its very beginning ceased to be a religion of love — the love that God sent Jesus Christ to establish. We can recall the Inquisition, wars between the Orthodox and Catholics and crusades. In Russia we saw mass persecution of Old Believers, pogroms of Jews…

Outstanding Russian people — Alexander Pushkin, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Vladimir Vysotsky, and many others — although they acknowledged the existence of God, did not accept Christianity in this form.

Questions got raised also by “simple” people to which the Church could not give clear and perspicuous answers: how can one assert that God is Love if He promised these things in the Apocalypse, if what we see around us are wars, violence, cruelty, diseases, and suffering? No, if He is omnipotent and these things happen, if everything that surrounds us is evil, if I do not see any love anywhere, however I ask Him for it — then there is something wrong about this kind of faith, and I do not need a God like this!

It is important for us to realize that the fathomless abyss that appeared between the masses of “Christians” and God and that isolated people from Him and that opposed God to them, making them beg various mercies from Him — instead of inspiring them to change themselves in accordance with His Will and merge with Him in Love — this abyss has not been created by Him but by people who warped His Teachings.

In reality God is not somewhere far and high in the sky but, as Jesus said, the distance between the Abode of the Creator and every one of us is not greater than the thickness of finest paper [25]…

But in order to travel such a small distance to His Embrace of Love we have to become pure Love — like Him, rather than anger, fear, or selfish desire…

Emotions are states of the consciousness. This is a fundamentally important thing to realize.

We are consciousnesses, the energy of consciousnesses, not bodies and not minds.

God is also a Consciousness, although infinitely greater than ours.

And in order to fulfill what He wants from us, we just need to learn to live always in the state of subtle and pure love and to never exit from it.

God is Love. He has compassion for us. He is willing to help us, guiding us all the time on the Path to Him, to His Abode, to our ultimate happiness…

But we do not go to Him! Instead we squabble for the material welfare of this world, exhaust ourselves by hating others because they get dressed, have haircuts, etc. in a different way, or because they perform prayer bodily movements “different” from ours, or because their skin is of a different color or their nationality differs from ours…

… But God wants us to establish ourselves in the emotional state of love. And then — we can get in!

“Every Instance of Leaving
the State of Love…”

“Every instance of leaving the state of love results in accumulation of bad karma…” God told me this once many years ago. This statement can be put as a second point right after God is Love.

What is meant here? Is this just another threat? Will He punish me? Will He send a dangerous illness on me? Or will He cause me to suffer during my next incarnation?

No, this way of thinking is incorrect.

God never punishes anyone. He teaches us. We build our destinies ourselves. For example, we ourselves postpone the happiness of meeting Him. And we will continue suffering from our separateness from Him as long as we do not have love within ourselves. Various misfortunes are what we attract to us ourselves; this is not God punishing us.

I will give a couple of striking examples from my own life.

Once I saw an illegal publication of my book about David Copperfield, which was made not only without my consent and financial calculations, but this time its content was distorted — it contained some preposterous scheme inserted in the middle on my behalf…²

This exhausted my patience: I exited the state of love and disposed myself to a hard conversation with the delinquent publisher…

And in the evening of the same day I got inflammation of the gullet — esophagus: spasms were so bad, that I could hardly swallow…

In the morning I could see a big black spirit, which grasped my throat, stuck to it and would not let go, trying to strangle. I rush into the Abode of the Creator, returning to the state of love — instantly recalling: “Every instance of leaving the state of love…” And the spirit disappeared — the inflammatory process was gone almost immediately.

The mechanism here is the following. When we are in subtle states of the consciousness — we are out of reach of evil spirits: they are not capable of entering subtle eons. If we coarsen emotionally — then we immediately get closer to their state and become easy targets for their aggressive attacks.

About thirty years ago I had a much more dramatic experience. I discovered that my colleagues in Moscow in their activity suddenly started to twist into different direction behind my back [7]. I regarded this as a betrayal of God’s work by them. God Himself then ordered to immediately close the spiritual center that had been created in Moscow.

And that was actually all that I had to do in this situation. But I fell into a lingering state of anger towards them. And I immediately attracted devilish powers: without any obvious occasion I was attacked by a gang. After that I was on the verge of death of my body for a long time, suffering from severe pain. I experienced clinical death twice and ended up physically disabled for several years.

Only a “burning-through” of the destructed spine bones with the Kundalini energy, which I learned later, ensured an almost complete healing…

… In the same way, we attract either happiness or suffering for ourselves: if we enter the state of Divine Love — we get closer to God, if we take on coarse states — then devils and demons “stick” onto our bodies and we become sick and suffer.

This is how we punish ourselves for not complying with God’s Will.

Jesus Christ expressed this Will very clearly: love God and love each other — regardless of anything! [6,11]

The opinion that God allegedly has to provide us with material welfare of various kinds is absolutely erroneous. He never promised to do this for everybody… He is not a slave to us at all! He is — the Lord, the Master!

He loves us and tries to help us. But to help not in procuring earthly comfort, not in satisfying our selfish desires.

His Love is manifested in His guiding us to our ultimate happiness in Unity with Him.

He is the Master, the Absolute Lord. We need to learn, accept, and realize His Will and His Law. In this case we will live in harmony with Him. This Law is: the Way to Mergence with God is steadfast Love, and whoever abandons it loses the protection of God and falls a prey to hell-beings.

Let us obey His Will: this is in our interests — to go to God, having accepted His Law!

He created the entire Creation and every one of us — not for our sake. This constitutes His Evolution and His Life. And He is going to implement His Will firmly: if we want to go to Him — we have to live with love and to be happy, if not — we are going to suffer in our separateness from Him!