Anthropotheosophy, as was already mentioned, is divine wisdom perceivable by man.
“Man cannot comprehend the wisdom of God,” some of you will say. In its entirety of course not. But you find the words “perceivable by man” in the definition. This means that it is possible to comprehend the wisdom of God in parts. Those parts reveal themselves to the one who seeks that perception.
How is perception sought? The intellectual seeks it with his mind believing that it is the sharpest, most precise, and most correct instrument that can explain everything, even the mysteries of God.
Yes, I tell you truly, that instrument is very useful. It is a scalpel, but not an X-ray. Without the X-ray the surgeon would not see how to use the scalpel more perfectly in order to completely remove cancer. The physical eyes cannot see and the fingers cannot touch all the spreading cancer cells. Unfortunately, it is not always possible to determine the exact seed-plot of the disease without X-rays.
Therefore think if those, who consider that an instrument can explain everything, are not amusing.
So how can the divine wisdom be explained? What is that instrument that can simultaneously perform the function of an X-ray, and if necessary – the function of other special devices that have not yet been invented? That instrument is the object of anthropotheosophy. Only with its help does the Cognition of what the Mind cannot cognize due to its limitations open up. This object has no boundaries, therefore the more deeply one realizes that the object may have no boundaries , the more broadly one begins to perceive it. Cognition and Wisdom are the components of that object. A person who seeks to perceive this object must become the object himself. The more consciously and deeply he becomes it, the more divine wisdom opens up to him.
Therefore, anthropotheosophy claims that “divine wisdom perceivable by man” is in fact the perception of that wisdom to the extent that a specific person is able to open himself to the object of anthropotheosophy and ultimately become it himself.
Now it remains to name the object of anthropotheosophy. It is conscious.
Conscious is the entirety of trans-personal factors that define the inner essence of any object.
In this case, the object can be any cosmic body, as well as, of course, anything in or on the Earth, such as man himself. An object should be considered not only what is visible, but also what is invisible but emits its own wave.
Trans-personal factors are everything that physical eyes cannot see when looking at an object, that cannot be determined by the body’s usual senses. This is how broadly, based on its own experience and knowledge, the object sees the world, how deeply or shallowly it understands the world, is able to perceive and be in it.
Conscious is everywhere. Anyone has it or can acquire it. It seems to the mind that something that is seemingly inanimate cannot have a conscious. This is not so. Cosmic bodies, planets, and everything that is in them and around them have a conscious. Conscious differs only in its breadth and forms of realization. It can also be partially taken over or acquired by things created by a conscious object (e.g., a human).
The difference between the inherent and the acquired conscious is that the inherent consciousness has no limits in its evolution, while the acquired conscious can only evolve as much as the object that created it is able to evolve.
Let us explain. All worlds with everything that is in them received their Evolutionary beginning in the General Conscious, which you call God. You say: “God created the worlds.” We will examine this in detail further, but for now we will just say this: since they were all created by God, hence any of His creations can acquire His consciousness through evolution, because those creations came from Him.
In this case, Eastern spiritual teachings speak of “returning Home,” that is, to God, to the General Conscious, to the Great Light, to Nothingness, or whatever you want. Since we should consider a person as a creation of God, or the General Conscious, as well, it means that man certainly has the opportunity to perceive the wisdom of God more and more deeply and broadly in the many stages of his evolution. This perception comes with the realization that a person is not just a physical body that is visible, and the usual five senses, but that he is only a conscious. This self-realization is an infinitely long and not easy Path to God, or the Path Home.
Let’s contemplate further. In order to provide for the existence of his body, a person needs things. He creates them. In this way, he becomes the Creator of those things, or God. Therefore, all his creations, whether it is food, clothing, a machine, or anything else, can only have the conscious that their Creator has. The same is true with the artistic creations of many people, no matter what form they are presented in. This means that the broader the conscious of a person who is becoming a Creator, the more awareness his creations will spread to those who will use them, and the more all-round benefit they will have. The narrower the conscious of a person, the narrower the conscious of his creations will also be and the less awareness they will spread to those who use them. Therefore, the more conscious a person becomes, the more he chooses whose food to eat or even whose clothes to wear… This is because by becoming the energy of conscious he feels more and more deeply the energy of the environment, the negativity of which hurts him.
Unfortunately, think, my dearest ones, how many intelligent people start destroying instead of creating today. This is also done by the creation work which they put the energy they posses into. There are those who do not understand this, but there are those who do it consciously.
Anthropotheosophy will help to understand the importance of the conscious Path to those who seek this understanding, and will show the dangers that lurk for the gullible. Dangers are in no way separable from vices. They especially thrive when they are tried to be transformed into virtues.
A conscious life – this is what anthropotheosophical knowledge and the teaching based on it lead to. Many paths to the Truth are offered to the man of Earth, but understand, dear ones, the truer the Truth, the less it promises or invites, because its job is simply to be and to enlighten. It is like a lighthouse on the seashore: a ship may sail to it, but it may not sail as well. It neither entices nor calls. It shines – you either have seen it or you have miss it…
The reflectors of truth, or masks, invite and entice in every way, promising what is important to the seeker. They attract with desires and aspirations. All who have not recognized their masks that cover their true Self respond to them.
Have you thought about how they ended up on your face? Was it not the desire to be important, recognized, understood, or simply good, or maybe the desire to be liked that put them on? Why did it happen? To what inside you was it important?
Understand that only by recognizing your masks and finding the motives for wearing them will you be able to take them off. Only then will you penetrate towards your core , hidden deep in your heart.
That is when you will become aware.
That is when you will begin the True Path to divine wisdom, or the Path Home.
Only then will you understand that all the paths up until now were only imitations of the Path or simply not Yours. If you do not recognize your own imitations, you cannot recognize imitations of the Path as well… That’s just the way it is.
You ask: how to distinguish what is real from is not?
I already answered: only by recognizing the real from the fake within oneself…
Once recognized, one will also have to understand that many paths open up to the seeker of Knowing and Truth, but only one of them is suitable for him. Having felt it, one no longer questions it, but tries not to stray from it.
This is the Beginning, later becoming Your own Big Bang, in the Process of which that which is not You falls away and then Everything begins to form from Nothing. This Beginning needs to be set in motion.
Therefore, one who starts to set this process in motion tries to live consciously. Such a person having seen a lighthouse is already able to not let it out of his sight. For the one who is acting the masks one has seen and their removal, the lighthouse imperceptibly slips out of the sight and is replaced by the searchlights of other ships.
The more conscious a person is, the more he is drawn to values that reflect fundamental cosmic principles. The more deeply these values are perceived, the less wealth of the world or goods of the invisible worlds-lures can draw him.
Understand, for someone who carries the rules of heaven in their heart, paper rules are no longer necessary. Such a person will know and do.
The learning of consciousness begins when a person can no longer do any work in a dismissive manner. He can no longer break his word and, of course, harm others. Answer: isn’t this enough? Most people don’t need anything else. However, there are a handful of those who are destined either now or at some point in the future to become the carrier of the cross. Such people learn with joy to sacrifice their life to those values, and if necessary, to die for them. These are our beacons. You cannot imagine how many lives it took for them to be like this and what the price of such work is. It is enough that it is known by us and them.
Those of you whose karma has allowed you to see and recognize them are safe. They are our Heralds. Your Lighthouses. It is us who guide them. Their job is to explain in their own way WHERE one comes from and how one returns THERE.
2007 02 27
Vilnius
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Excerpt from the book Astreja “Anthropotheosophy. Divine Wisdom Perceivable by Man”, Volume I, “Tiamata”, 2010, p. 19–24.