The New Humankind

On a socio-cultural level (the level of human civilisation) humankind has to become God's people on Earth and the greatness and the wealth of the nations has to be brought into the Holy City, the New Jerusalem (Revelation 21: 26).

Each nation has a three-fold structure similar to that of the human being: body (personality), soul and spirit. On the earthly or material level, every nation develops by forming a socio-cultural organism which consists of various systems such as economic, political, cultural, religious, educational and so forth. These systems are very closely, organically interconnected and, altogether, form the 'organism' of the human society which, in order to develop and reproduce itself, enters into relationship with the socio-cultural organisms of other nations and with all kingdoms of life on Earth.

Every nation also has its National Soul which is like a bouquet of human virtues and qualities that the nation develops over centuries and expresses through religion, morality, the arts and science.  Each nation makes a unique contribution to humankind's treasury of spiritual qualities.  Together the National souls comprise the essence of humanity in the Heart of God – that is, in the reality of the Universal Soul.

Furthermore, every nation has its National Spirit who leads the nation and its destiny according to the Divine Plan.  Each nation has a mission which it unfolds over the centuries of its development on Earth and the National Spirit, an emanation from the Divine Universal Spirit, is the inspirer of this mission.  The 'kings of the earth' referred to by St. John are the National Spirits who hold the keys to the spiritual wealth gathered by each nation along its historical path.  So, when the time comes for humankind to return to the Kingdom of God, its 'kings' will bring forth and manifest the spiritual wealth of the nations. In other words, every National Spirit-Guide will present the spiritual richness of his people in front of the Throne of God.

The process of transformation of the earthly culture into a heavenly one is similar to the blossoming of the human soul and the awakening of the higher Self. Just as a human being first develops a personality and self-consciousness within the human culture and later transcends this level of existence to enter into the higher worlds, so human society develops its socio-cultural organism based on the earthly culture and later it has to transform its earthly culture and enter into the ring of cosmic-spiritual civilisations. Then human society ceases its absorption with itself, becomes an organic part of the heavenly civilisations, and starts to blossom in the reality of the Universal Soul and the Universal Spirit.

In order to blossom spiritually, however, the existing culture, which has developed on the basis of 'cosmic illusion' (maya), has to be illuminated and transformed.  The substance of contemporary human culture is dense, thick and heavy because egoism, materialism, separation, division and narrow-mindedness are woven into its very fabric.  It has developed within the limited confines of such fundamental structures as ego-personality, self-consciousness, material life, and so on.  Almost all human relationships and socio-cultural structures, and subsequently the destinies of societies and nations, are functions of these categories.  This ego-based earthly culture has to be illuminated, spiritualised and transformed so that a new type of civilisation can be established.  The new heavenly culture has to be founded on different archetypal structures such as the higher Self, super-consciousness, spiritual life, harmonious relationships with the Earth and Nature, and so forth.  

When the opening of the souls of the nations begins and humankind realises that it is one Divine cosmic-spiritual organism, the Rose of the World will start to blossom.  The Rose of the World, introduced by the great Russian writer and mystic Daniil Andreev,  is a poetic image of the integration of all religions, of all spiritual paths and traditions.  Each one of them is like a petal of this cosmic Rose with an exquisite spiritual fragrance. It is a symbol of the heart centre of all humankind which now opens and begins to blossom.  The beauty and fragrance of all spiritual paths and traditions come from the depths of the collective heart of humankind – the Centre of its Divine origin in God springing from the Universal Soul.  This heart contains inexhaustible potential, shines with all the colours of light and love, testifies to the infinite and passionate, always new and deeply moving Divine Love. By fulfilling the Testament of Truth, this sacred heart of humankind will be opened through the great blessings of the Living God, Who creates everything new.

When the process of the awakening of the National Spirits-Guides begins, humankind will ascend to the highest Divine World and will bring its spiritual treasures before the Throne of God:  

"I did not see a temple in the city, because its temple is the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb.  The city has no need for the sun or the moon to shine on it, because the glory of God shines on it, and the Lamb is its lamp. The peoples of the world will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their wealth into it." (Revelation 21: 22-24)

After finishing its Hindu-European cycle of evolution, humankind will return to the Kingdom of God enriched by many spiritual experiences and various initiations.  Each initiation, however, regardless of the time it was given to humankind, is not lost from God's memory, but remains to shine throughout eternity as a spiritual jewel.  After its return to the Kingdom of God, humankind will resurrect all initiations through which it has passed and experience them as the 'many rooms in the Father's house'.  Thus, by the grace of God, it becomes possible to go beyond the stream of cultural-historical time and to transform dyachrony into synchrony.  In other words, humankind can rise above the cycle of the cosmic-spiritual seasons in its evolution and encompass the whole macro-structure of the spiritual Zodiac in which the various initiations find integration.

In principle human beings, who were created in the image of God, should not have descended to the lower cycle of involution – i.e. entered the previously described cosmic-spiritual year of life in earthly consciousness.  However, after the Fall, due to the power of cosmic law, humankind descended into the material world and had to undergo a very long and painful meta-historical process of involution and evolution through the spiritual seasons.

Naturally, after humankind has completed its process of ascension and has reached the zenith of its earthly evolution, i.e. when it enters the new cosmic-spiritual 'Summer', humankind will not descend again but will start a qualitatively new cycle of spiritual evolution in the celestial worlds.  When the same archetypal structure of the cosmic-spiritual Zodiac is projected onto the first, material, world of the three-fold structure of the Universe it determines  long historical periods of involution and evolution which last thousands of years.  When however it is activated in the second, celestial, world, the structure of the cosmic-spiritual Zodiac determines the pattern of just one spiritual year in the life of humankind which gives initiatic fruit twelve times a year – once every month. Then, in the highest Divine world the structure of the cosmic-spiritual Zodiac manifests itself as the wholeness of the Holy City of Jerusalem with its twelve gates and the Throne of God which shines as the eternal spiritual Sun upon the City. On this level the cosmic-spiritual Zodiac becomes a Divine archetypal structure which can be contemplated in one single act of illumination.

By ascending to the new higher cycle of evolution, humankind will fulfil its original Divine purpose envisaged by God from the beginning of time – going not through various painful historical epochs of earthly life, but from initiation to initiation in the celestial realms. This is why, in the Kingdom of God the enlightened humankind will appreciate completely and enjoy fully the fruit of the Tree of Life which grows on each side of the River springing from the Throne of God in the Heavenly Jerusalem and giving fruit twelve times a year:  

"The angel also showed me the river of the water of life, sparkling like crystal, and coming from the throne of God and of the Lamb and flowing down the middle of the city's street.  On each side of the river was the Tree of Life, which bears fruit twelve times a year, once each month; and its leaves are for the healing of the nations."  (Revelation 22: 1-2)

The Tree of Life here could be interpreted as the living cosmic-spiritual Cross of Immortality, where the vertical axis represents the three-fold structure of Creation, while the horizontal axis represents the reality of the Heavenly Jerusalem, with its twelve Gates leading to the Temples of the world religions, as the Kingdom of God with many mansions. The fruit of the Tree of Life, which it bears twelve times a year, once each month, are the initiations of the world religions in the cosmic-spiritual Zodiac-Mandala, which will be appreciated more and more deeply by humankind in its new cycle of evolution.

Thus, the Tree of Life, growing on each side of the river in the Heavenly Jerusalem, and the Tree of Life within the human being refer to the same mystery of life, but on a different scale: on a microcosmic level as the mystery of immortal life of the human being and on a socio-cultural level as the mystery of life of all humankind. Then the Tree of Life on a macro-cosmic level is the mystery of life in the New Creation, i.e. the reality of the New Heaven and the New Earth, which the Lord God Almighty will reveal to the New Humankind.