The Messianic Plan

The life of Adam and Eve before the Fall was a life in a celestial state of consciousness which enabled them to see the spiritual essence of the Universe and to have a perception of the whole of Creation as a Garden of Paradise.  They were allowed to eat the fruit from all trees in the Garden of Paradise except the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.  By eating the fruit of the trees in the Garden of Paradise, Adam and Eve enjoyed the wonderful spiritual taste of all three worlds of Creation.  After eating the fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, Adam and Eve fell from the celestial state of consciousness to the restricted material consciousness limited by earthly conditions.  The Fall actually was a descent from life in the second, celestial, world of the three-fold structure of the Universe to the first, material, world. This world is based on the fundamental principle of struggling polarities – spirit and matter, good and evil, joy and suffering, etc.  Entry into this world is symbolised by eating the fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

God, however, never left humankind without His support and blessing.  He sent His messengers, the Divine Masters, to show the way back to the higher states of consciousness in the celestial world.  The Teachings of the Masters, in accord with the historical epochs and different human cultures, brought an enormous amount of living knowledge about the three-fold structure of the Universe, the Divine origin of the human being and the Path of the glorious return to the celestial world.  We can recall here the Eight Steps of Yoga, the Eight-fold Path of Buddhism, the Kabbalistic Tree in Judaism, Rebirth in the Spirit in Christianity and Muhammad's Night Journey as a model for all Muslims.

So, in their First Coming the Masters sowed the seeds of great spiritual traditions which grew up and matured into Trees of Life, each giving the sweet fruit of a unique initiation – an understanding of the Truth about God, Creation and the path of ascension to the higher worlds.  The roots of these "Trees of Life" are on Earth in the form of a spiritual culture – Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Islam and others; the trunks and the branches are in the higher heavenly world and take the form of a particular structure of the celestial realms; the crowns are in the highest Divine world embracing the whole of Creation.  Thus, the Trees of Life sowed by the Divine Masters stretch up through the whole vertical structure of the Universe and help the devoted believers to return back to the higher worlds and to become micro-models of Creation.

The First Coming of the Masters can also be seen as the plan for building human life as a Divine Temple.  The foundations of this Temple are here on Earth in the form of a particular religion, with its credo and social structures; the building itself is the heavenly world revealed by that religion; and the dome of the Temple touches the foot of the Throne of God.  In essence, the historical evolution of each religion is the construction of the Temple, the plan of which was given by its Divine Master. The building of the Temple includes the process of unfolding all its potential in the form of theology, philosophy, ethics, arts, social structures, etc.  During this process of building which lasts thousands of years, great numbers of people enter through the gate of the Temple into the higher worlds, and in the Temple itself they receive the initiation from the Divine Master, the founder of the spiritual tradition.

The purpose of the First Coming of the Masters was to bring as many people as possible to the higher states of consciousness and to prepare humankind on Earth for its return to the Kingdom of God.  The return of humankind as a whole to the Kingdom of God, however, was predestined for the End of Time and for this purpose the Masters have to come again.  So, knowing the Divine plan for ascent to heavenly states of consciousness, most of the Masters predicted their Second Coming for the End of Time.  

The End of Time (or the End of the World) is a metaphorical term for the end of the life of humankind in its restricted, earthly consciousness and its rising with a new cosmic-spiritual consciousness into the higher celestial realms.  This is the end of the great metahistorical cycle of human involution on Earth after the Fall and the beginning of a completely new historical cycle of evolution in the heavenly world.

And now the End of Time is approaching, the Second Coming is happening and the Lord God Almighty blesses humankind to ascend to the Kingdom of God.  All predictions and prophecies from the world religions indicate that our epoch is the End of Time, the Judgement and the Second Coming.  This is because for the first time in known history humankind has become a colossal socio-cultural organism which has to be reborn like the Phoenix bird in order to fly towards the higher spiritual worlds.  

So, the time for the realisation of the Testament of Truth has come. The great Hindu-European cycle in the life of humankind which has lasted for more than ten thousand years is closing and a new majestic cycle of Divine Evolution is beginning.  In this critical time of human history, the Lord God Almighty activates the Testament of Truth and "makes all things new":

He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!”...“It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To him who is thirsty I will give to drink without cost from the spring of the water of life".  Revelation 21:5,6

Thus, the curse of God upon Adam and Eve after the Fall (Genesis 3: 16-19) is replaced by the great Blessing witnessed by St. John:

The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his servants will serve him. They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. There will be no more night. They will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, for the Lord God will give them light. And they will reign forever and ever.  Revelation 22:5

The One Who sits on the throne "makes all things new" through a majestic Divine Action which has been in preparation for hundreds and thousands of years.  In this action the whole spiritual hierarchy of the Divine Masters, manifestations of the Divine Feminine, archangels, angels and myriads of light beings participate.  For this action many holy scriptures and initiatic books testify.  Bright examples are the last chapters of the Book of Revelation by St. John which contain the mystical keys for the realisation of this Divine Action.