What is anthropotheosophy?
Anthropotheosophy is not new. It is a continuation of what was expounded in its time in the teachings of Hermeticism, then the Pythagoreans, then the early Gnostics, and touched upon by eminent philosophers of the ancient and medieval world. The Rosenkreuzers continued the development of these ideas. Closer to the present day are J. P. Blavatsky, R. Steiner, J. and N. Roerich. In Lithuania, these ideas were developed and spread by Vydūnas. So these eminent people were born in Europe, and many of them worked in Europe. This means that all these teachings are primarily aimed at the mentality of people living in Europe.
In every age, the same Essence has been transmitted in different ways, through teachings and names that correspond to the consciousness of the people of the time. However, all these teachings contained general truths that explained the unwritten cosmic laws.
There are more intelligent, thoughtful people alive today than in the past. Naturally, they have questions that would not have arisen a millennium or two ago because of simple ignorance. In the old days, it was enough to say: “Believe”. Now that is no longer enough, because man knows and thinks. He is no longer satisfied with dogmas that have no basis in fact, that “it is so”, “it is written”, etc. This is how anthropotheosophy came into being, for the thinking man who lives now, and for those who are being born now.
Anthropotheosophy is not a product of the human mind, and therefore should not be associated with the person of Audronė Ilgevičienė (cosmic name – ASTRAJA), who wrote these teachings in the anthropotheosophy books, nor with any other person who has ever lived on Earth. She is connected to a formation of which many persons who have lived on Earth or who are living now may be part. All parts of that entity, no matter what they were or when they were, have always represented the essential signal of that entity. It is this signal that has united all those individuals, bringing their lives and works together in the one word CONSCIOUSNESS.
This Word can accommodate immeasurable distances and widths. It can give birth to divine music, inspiring paintings, consciousness-raising literature. It gives birth not only to Ideas, but also to individual systems with their own worlds. All this has always been spoken of in its own way by those who have been involved with the Word. The texts of anthropotheosophy are therefore the signals of the Word Consciousness materialised in a form accessible to man.
For people who are superficially familiar with a lot of information, the question arises: what is the need for anthropotheosophy if the most important truths have already been spread to people or, as the Indian gurus say, all the necessary books have already been written?
The Spiritual Essences, who are commonly known as the World Teachers, say that this has been and will continue to be necessary because human consciousness is changing, and the same ideas must be communicated over and over again. This is done through all the world’s religions and spiritual movements, sending souls prepared for this work about every 50-60 years. This is done because man is skilled at distorting what has been passed on while the transmitter is still in the body and adapting it for his own convenience after he has gone.
Anthropotheosophy is by no means a religion, nor is it a new faith or spirit quest whose proponents seek to create their own institutions. Anthropotheosophy is a worldview that can be close to the heart of any person who worships any deity, who practises any spiritual practice. This is, in itself, what many of the thinking people of this time are like. They simply have not yet found a name for their worldview.
Anthropotheosophy is the human perception of divine wisdom ( anthropos – man, theos – god, sophia – wisdom). The anthropotheosophist accepts the whole cosmos, the Earth and what is on it, including himself, as a single living organism. Planets, stars, galactic centres, meteorites or comets, rocks and mountains, oceans and rivers, trees and plants, animals and birds, as well as the human being himself, are alive for him, because they belong to the same system, exist according to the same patterns: they all breathe, and therefore live, and, if they live, they have consciousness. Only the stages in the evolution of their consciousness differ.
Anthropotheosophy is introduced so that people can learn to distinguish and sort through the rubbish of the internet and literature, so that they can learn to listen to themselves and not to those who shout louder. That’s why it is bold, revealing what was previously only half-revealed. Time demands it. For some, it will reveal what they already suspected, and therefore further clarify what is important to the seeker, while helping them not to get lost in the labyrinths of spiritual business. For others, it may annoy them by revealing their inner essence or confronting them with a dogma that is rooted and useful.
Anthropotheosophy books have presented and explained many phenomena and phenomena unexplained by reason. All this is in order that the seeker may form a backbone of inner values and learn the arithmetic of the working of any Evil. In this way the inner strength grows. This is how Faith grows, which comes through the knowledge of the Essence of all things. Such a person becomes immune to all direct, mental, neuro-linguistic and other manipulations.
The ancient scriptures is the wisdom behind seven locks. Which lock shall be unlocked depends on the ones who read and undersatand them. The first lock is for the one who knows the letters, the second – for the one who can compose the words, and the third – for the one who understands the text. And only from the fourth does Knowledge of what is written there begins. Knowledge has nothing to do with dogma, because they are antipodes. So it is dogma that has opened the second lock and is beginning to open the third claims to have found the Truth… But dogma has always been the handmaiden of misunderstanding. It is what dogma defends.
Anthropotheosophy is a key that can help unlock many locks, no matter if you wanted to unlock ancient scriptures or other sacred texts. But it’s not enough to put the key in that lock. Passwords are required starting with the fourth lock. They are heard only by the heart that is opening. It will not open without faith.