PSYCHOLOGY, MONOTHEISM, POLITHEISM AND MAN'S PATH

Orlin Baev

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I began writing a paper to answer the question "Wherefrom does the word "Amen" come being mentioned at the end of every Christian prayer?" And then the screen of my computer went dark and all my text was lost. I don’t believe things happen by coincidence. Unlike contemporary science I think that everything is a result of cause and effect. Now I am writing in Word and hope to be able to develop my statement without my text vanishing into nothingness.

Around 1400-1350 BC in Egypt the pharaoh Amenhotep came into rule, adopting the name of Khu-n-aten and today is known as Ehnaton. Amenhotep abolished the cult to polytheism and the idols and established a cult to the Sun and the one god. The researchers of comparative religion and historians think this to be the first attempt that we know of to introduce oneness of God - monotheism. In the early Egypt there was cult toward the gods of superhuman origin, perhaps extraterrestrial - astronauts from higher civilizations one of whom was Amon or Amen, or to the Sun - Ra. Later both concepts united in one - Amon-Ra. During the rule of pharaoh Amenhotep IV in Egypt an important post was held by the statesman Moses (Moshe, Mosse). Man with strong charisma, led by the brotherhood - the brotherhood that invisibly has always ruled our planet; Moses organized and led out the Jewish people to their destiny.

Deviating from my main theme and continuing reflection on my initial question that led me to think on such topics of global significance, I would mention the following: common practice in Egypt was to mention the name of the worshipped god at the end of the prayers - Amon (Amen). Being descendant of the Egypt tradition and religion the Egyptian Moses gave the Egyptians this practice to finish the prayer phrase with the name of the god. During the period of Judaism the practice was transferred also to Christianity being pronounced according to the linguistic distortion as Amin, Amen, Omen, Eimen. Here it would be appropriate to make the reference to the Egyptian word formation Amon-Ra and the Indian Om-Ram. Like Ra, Ram is also a sun-god, and one of the meanings of omkara - Om is perhaps a name of real divine figure. Similar is also the etymology of the proto-Bulgarian Tang-Ra. The parallels are many and one and the same figures are worshiped in diverse and distant cultures under similar or identical or different names. Are there many Christians who know that mentioning Amen at the end of their prayer, they pray to an astronaut representing a higher civilization who appears to be god to the wild primitive men?

In the process of evolution and formation of man up to his present day state of being which has passed through several races during the eons, there have always been present cosmic beings at different stage of development. In creating the body, intellect and emotions, the spiritual potential and energy of man, cosmic hierarchies take part. Man has never been alone. The Earth has never been isolated from the Cosmos in any perspective of its existence. The knowledge and connections with cosmic life have just been temporarily forgotten and have been available only to single Sages among people. In the earlier human races there was open availability to knowledge and the way to it was meant for everyone. Later on, in the present fifth race, perhaps because of the destructive potential of humanity and its inability to control its beastly aggression and egotism, or perhaps aiming at intentional keeping mankind blind and separate from the cosmic organism, allowing for the manipulation and use of the human herd by not very benevolent essences, KNOWLEDGE about the universe, humanity and its place in the pulsation of the universal organism was hidden, veiled and directly distorted.

Even with modern science advancing in different directions man is still thought to be something of a bio-robot. Actually, we are immortal eternal essences, limited by the transient existence of our physical structure, which serves to be a channel of mind in the conditions of the heavy and slow vibration - the protoplasmic body and its systems and brain. Despite the fact that science rediscovers some natural laws, despite the wonders done by genetic engineering, man still does not know even what is going on at the neighboring planets from its own solar system, knows nothing of their inhabitants and is far from knowing anything about the existence of minds at another level of vibration... And not only does not man know, but he does not even want to know - as true zombie contemporary humanity obediently fulfils what its Masters command - subordinating to the beastly nature of the mammal body, man is inhabiting - identical in essence to every animal kind and herd. And these are commands which nowadays are being spread by the modern technical achievements, media, mass information and kept on by financial energy control (money being energy) over states and their politicians. Lately triggering the impulses of beastly nature, of the unconscious, is done in a direct way by the media, flooding the world with violence, aggression, lust (sex is the basic creative energy of every being in the Cosmos, but its proper use is an art of itself) and lie. In the not far distant past but nowadays too a great part of humanity has been subordinated to the manipulation of what has been called "religion". The word originates from the Latin root "redigare" which means "reconnect". Time ago there was no need for humanity to reconnect to universal knowledge, the connection was alive and permanently available. Later on, when human intellect developed at the expense of immediate vision and knowledge of the structure of things, the need to reconnect to the lost knowledge appeared. This connection is scientific in essence and there is no place for mysticism, fanaticism and blind believe in it. The connection seemed like that at the beginning because there was a need for it being stimulated during the second half of the race of Atlantis. But later on it was distorted because of the beastly state of human egotism, as well as under the direct control of external powers of a civilization far more developed than human one - at its stage of development at that time. Atlantida has been a subject of many books; I recommend the theosophical sources - the books of Elena Blavatsky, Any Bezant, Charles Ledbitter. The situation knowledge - distortion - ignorance got repeated at the next stage of the poor tormented humanity - in the time of the fifth race. At the beginning of their existence - in the lands of ancient Sumeria, in the Ind and Nile valleys, in the American lands, as well as on the whole planet, knowledge was open and accessible to everybody - connection to the information of cosmic order which could be directly experienced by every one who would wish to make the effort to develop. Later on, again under the influence of powers interested in human blindness and ignorance, manipulating the lower nature of man, in order to control him, knowledge was again made secret, access to it was left to minority of Initiated and the path to it was traced through systems of gradual steps called religions. At its origin the religions were pure and unaffected by the efforts to manipulate and control human mind. But later on it became their reliable instrument.

A brief precision - nowhere in this brief paper do I evaluate facts or give an opinion. I am only giving an objective view, analysis and synthesis on the information accessible to me from books and my own intuition and sensibility.

In a deep structural perspective of Being, there is unity between the functioning systems and structures in "life", however illusory it may be as a projection of REAL life - a life at different longevity of the wave, with different frequency of vibrations and closeness to the Source! The main harmonious structure of Being, which serves the purposes of its manifestation has always been called Brotherhood! The Brotherhood is hierarchical according to the level of consciousness of the careers of individual life at a different level of manifestation of the Cosmos. These simple truths are part of the esoteric, innermost knowledge. In its manifestation life and being are dual and the extend of unity or separation between the two poles of life - plus and minus, attraction - repulsion, masculine-feminine, in-yang - is in proportion to the proximity (if we could use time-spatial terms to describe processes which are beyond the time-space continuum) or distance from the Source of Life. The Brotherhood is one but its manifestations in the tough matter are two - the Brotherhood of Light and the Brotherhood of Darkness... The initial Brotherhood uses the methods and manifestations of both of them! In a more harmonious universe the dual opposites would manifest just as two parts of the Whole in the same way in which man and woman represent the two halves of the human being. How, when and why the state of natural dichotomy has changed in intentional evil and fighting it good, we do not know. We have the allegory about the fall of Archangel Lucifer. Whether this is a fact or just a tale with hidden meaning, we do not know. The Initiated are those who know! The difference between the natural bipolar state and the intentional opposition between the two poles of the oneness is fine but essential. This is a depth question, which requires more quality and not so much quantity information, which I do not possess. It seems the virtual space of the Universe was infected by a difficult to heal and stubborn virus. But let us come back to the more specific dimensions of our small planet and its three-dimensional space, in which our eternal minds function, highly limited by their physical bearers!

In the history of development of religions some of them and especially the monotheistic ones pretend for superiority to their "heathen" sisters - the polytheistic religions. Whether they are right or their pretenses are due to infantile misunderstanding and pride? As I mentioned above, the first known attempt at initiating monotheism in the time of the fifth race - this was the solar cult originated by Amenhoten IV who doubtless was Initiated. Lasting only during the life time of its originator, the cult vanished from the lands where it appeared after the death of the pharaoh. The cult to monotheism was rooted in the consciousness of another Initiate - Moses. Brought to Judea it found stable place in the newly established religion and later separated into its two branches - Christianity and Islam founded by the Initiates Jesus and Mohamed.

To worship one supreme divinity, who even could not be visually presented and is so powerful, that nothing in creation can be a problem for him since he is the creator, this is an obvious advantage. This concentrate consciousness towards one point of concentration - which makes the Way to the divinity easier. He, the divinity, is always with his follower, everything is in his power and little is expected from his follower - nothing more that faith... Interesting it is why still at the end of each prayer Christians glorify the name of the astronaut Amen who even infinitely advanced in his evolution, has nothing to do with the Absolute, about which the Christians talk?

Understood in depth, both systems - monotheism and polytheism - are one and the same with one difference of the point of view. If one makes the effort to get to know the main world religious-philosophic- psychological systems, which eventually develop human potential, the researcher will be amazed how beside seemingly different names and concepts, different psychological approaches of work with the mind according to the inclinations of one or another people, the same facts about the structure of man are found. The Cosmos and the processes of interrelations between the different parts of the topic of the individual cognitive apparatus and the respective spheres of Being. One and the same cosmic hierarchies, beginning from the mineral kingdom, passing through the plant and animal kingdoms, the human one and a series of finer in manifestations and spheres hierarchies always get on top of them a divine couple creating Being as a child - forming together a trinity standing for one and the same unknowable Absolute behind them - this is what Judaism, Christianity and Islam speak about, as well as Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism and Shintuism, Zoroastrianism, Vedanta and Sankha, Yoga and Daoism, Theosophy as well as many other not so popular systems of knowledge of American or African origin.

In the so called monotheistic religions, the primary focus is on the supreme Trinity and the non-manifested unknowable majesty, the Absolute, Ain Soph Aur, about which one can talk only through ... silence. In polytheistic systems, the main emphasis and focus of the searcher's mind directs towards the Road of gradual progression to the more subtle structures of consciousness and life, passing through the more and more subtle Hierarchies of the Cosmic Brotherhood, in order to eventually achieve the state of the supreme unknowable Absolute, Parabraman and Mulaprakriti, Tao, Truth, etc. For an impartial investigator, there is no difference between monotheism and polytheism. There is difference for the underdeveloped cognition of the unprepared and insensitive self-consciousness with narrow outlook that allows only one of the sides of the coin to be seen. As in the parable of the blind men, who touched the different parts of one and the same elephant, but argued that it was something totally different from what the other had touched, the shortsightedness of the prejudiced observer also hinders his/her overall vision from the practical identity not only of the various psychological-religious -cognitive systems, but also of knowledge as a whole. And knowledge is always scientific! What makes the religions unscientific, fanatical and dogmatic, is the lack of common sense in their followers, and what turns science into ossified arid soulless system is the heartlessness of its practitioners! One deep development in science always merges with the Truths, known by religion from long ago, and one scientific movement along any religious road, based on common sense and warm heart, is always based on facts and phenomena of purely scientific value and essence. I have always been stunned by the narrow-mindedness and blindness of the people - both as vision and contact to these simple Truths, which naturally vibrate in space and are available to each inhabitant of the life scheme, from each level of its manifestation. Truths - universal by their nature, which the sensitive heart senses, the clear mind enlightens, and the harmonic will experiences!

Anyone who seeks knowledge, power and love, knows that there are two types of road to them - as they say in "The voice of silence" and in "Two roads": Road of Eye and Road of heart. Exoteric road and Esoteric road. Knowledge and behests for the masses, which are essentially misleading, and knowledge and road for the seekers, who are ready to make drastic changes in their lifestyles, to transform their feelings and enlighten their thoughts!

The inmost road of the heart is essentially identical, regardless of the external form of its manifestation in the different parts of our small planet! The different systems of the exoteric road around the world are similar ... In the latter, the deep Truths are presented in parabolical, allegorical form, with parables. The heart of these parables cannot be understood until one gathers courage, potential and aspiration for knowledge that will make him/her go on the internal road. Furthermore, he/she is deliberately kept away from the internal road until he/she proves he/she is ready for it with thought, words, feelings and deeds. Here are two interesting methods used by the Brotherhood, this Brotherhood, that leads the planet. I intentionally do not divide it into good and bad, black and white, because both ultimately are guided by the third one, the Cosmic Brotherhood, which rules them both.

Father of Heaven and Mother of God

One interesting method of exoteric religion that supports its follower in the infantile regression of his/her impulses, is the cult of Father of Heaven and Mother of God. During his/her growing up, the defenseless child has not yet a mental filter, able to transform the incoming difficulties, pain, unpleasant impulses from the surrounding world. This determines the extreme importance of pregnancy first of all, and afterwards of the first seven years of the life of the child. Everything he/she experiences in this period leaves an indelible imprint on the rest of his/her life. The parents are key figures in the life of the infant. Incontestable supreme authority for the developing consciousness, their characters, behavior, as well as just their presence remains as a deep matrix imprint in the mind of the child. This imprint of the impact of the parental authority from the first years of life is subsequently pushed away to the boundary between the consciousness and unconscious, in a border area of the consciousness, which Freud calls foreconsciousness, and later, perhaps not quite appropriate from esoteric, but quite satisfactorily from his point of view, he calls - super-self. I will call this mental institution foreconsciousness in order to have the honor to keep the notion superconsciousness, which, at first sight, is very similar to the super-self, for the supreme structures of consciousness, which are to be revealed. The foreconsciousness involves all our attitudes to the authorities, such as they will be in our whole lives in the way they are formed in our childhood. It also involves our need of an authority. Freud also situates conscience in this mental institution, with which I, despite all my insignificance, dare not to agree, and I trust its signals, which, in my humble opinion, come from superconsciousness, in the way it is understood by the esoteric psychology ... One, though already an adult and separated from his/her parents from long ago, still needs the presence of authorities, in front of whom he/she to feel as a small child, trust them and rely on their decisions and actions. This is a common fact. In practice, this is a common infantilism. When someone bothers to self-analyze him-/herself, he/she realizes the field of forconsciousness, understands the relations and mental fillings, which have fixed in the process of his/her upbringing towards his/her parents, and which now, in an adult state, manifest in him/her as the need of reverence to and followinfgof an authority. Such a person gets rid of this internal dependence and takes his/her life in his/her hands, i.e. he/she directs the impulses of trust in the authority and the need of such to his/her own psyche. If he/she is a spiritual seeker, such a person does not stop there, but continues to reveal the secrets of his/her psyche and relying mainly on himself/herself, continues to penetrate into its sunny and shady regions!

When in any religion, it is talked about father of Heaven or mother of God, in fact, it is a psychological trick, quite well known by its founders. If someone argues that under these concepts we mean the Creator, we will answer that for Him the sole concept from our current point of view can only be silent striving toward the more and more subtle regions of His creation, and thus to Himself! And the Father and Mother, about whom it is talked in the exoteric religions, are nothing else, but the pushed into our foreconsciousness schemes of our need and our attitude to authorities! In the esoteric tradition, it is known and the effort of the mind is directed towards the development of the own internal power, energy body, character and skill to work with the emotions. But, even in some of the esoteric schools, especially in the west, the worship to "Father of Heaven and Mother of God" is kept. It may also serve the needs of the real internal development, if its essence is understood and the center of the impulses, directed to these concepts is transferred from the foreconsciousness into the superconsciousness! Are these skilful psychological methods, applied to the human society from long ago, good or bad? They are neither one nor the other. They are just tests, puzzles that must be revealed by the one who wants to go on the "Road"! And probably there is a reason for applying such methods to the wild humanity - savages make fire with fire, when thеy are not ready!

I do not think that there is a place for the old approaches - humanity, or at least one considerable part of it, is mature enough to obtain access to Knowledge, to join the life of Cosmos and take the full predetermined role of a Cosmic inhabitant?

© Orlin Baev
© Galina Markina - translated from bulgarian
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Orlin Baev. Transpersonal psychology. Sacred sexuality. Varna: LiterNet, 2010.