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Spirit creates an idea,
The idea — the destiny,
Your destiny — your risks.
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(to book: Zhivetin Vladimir “Risks for religious systems”)
Problems of risks and security take place almost in all spheres of
being and living activity of the human. That is why study of the laws
that specify the risks is the matter of principle for all systems of the
society. When scientists discover contradictions between science, philosophy and religion, they, as a rule, refuse to build united knowledge
and teachings overcoming the contradictions. They cognize their own
truth and prefer not to change their own spiritual world when contradicting the spiritual world of the surrounding medium. Such way is
often specified not so much by the personal desire as by the personal
essence (humanitarian or naturalist) [34]; thus each goes his own way:
a naturalist does not include spiritual problem into his creativity, a humanitarian goes into religiousness and becomes indifferent to scientific knowledge.
Today, when barrack-like socialism is dead with its ideologists,
people leave atheism and go into religion. It is the sign of a new stage
of development of the religious worldview on the 1/6 part of the Earth
land. V.I. Vernadsky [20, p.332] noted: “The mankind lives in a deep
crisis of religious consciousness of the society. Old religious concepts
must be deepened and transformed, first of all, under the influence of
growth of scientific thought”. According to Vernadsky, the human in
his anthropological, social and historical knowledge is a highly imperfect system (an object), a «crisis» system, to some degree. He proposed
an idea of creation of a science concerning life within the universe.
The mankind develops and improves itself. Now it is a system consisting of the theosphere, the sociosphere and the biosphere. Knowled417
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ge and skills are distributed via continuity, from generation to generation; the mankind increases the volume of knowledge via philosophical
and moral search, art, science. Psychoenergy correspondingly develops, consciousness get wider, the human deeper and deeper cognizes
his egoenergetic processes that are intrinsic part of him during the life
time and after death.
The role and the place of spiritual knowledge is emphasized in [70]:
«Civilization generated special notions of honour and duty before God
and humans, filled categories of freedom and law as well as stages of
interrelations with contents… gave their own interpretation of the nature of power and state, of motive forces of history. All this created
different systems of law, of moral basis of economical activity and
motivation towards labor and wealth, political institutions, own understanding of nation and fatherland. Promotion of the own system
of values, spiritual mastering the world basing on the own understanding of the world history – all this has been the main non-material
motion force of the world history. Disbalance between large civilizations instantly generates the impulse to spiritual or another expansion».
Hence, state and nation are indivisible from spirituality and religion
that possess ancient traditions, as a rule. And any attempts to impose
a state power system from another culture based on other knowledge
not inherent to this ethnos, this society – all they are condemned to fail.
Spirit of certain personalities often lives behind in its development
the spirit of the society which is always inhomogeneous; it induces the
conflict between a personality and the society. Spiritual perfection is
the main value of a human, the pivot of his personal property. Human
evolution is directed towards formation of the basic value – unity of the
egoenergy which includes the spirit, the soul, the mind and the body.
Historically, the soul, the spirit and the analytical mind was conescutively formed in the psychoenergy. Today’s society more and more
takes into consideration the individuality of a human thus improving
the operation of his psychoenergetic space by uniting its subsystems.
Interrelations of the sociosphere and a human specify the development,
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lytical mind generates the «informational mind» – a spiritually-analytical center of the egosphere [31] which is able to understand spiritualmaterial problems of the mankind.
Human spiritual life which specifies moral-ethical and psychical
self-improvement in the tangible (worldly) sense, creates the spiritual
development. Spirituality and spiritual development is the basic goal
of the theosphere. The higher level of spirituality, the more successful
being of the society, the higher morality is. The lower level of spirituallity, the harder life of each member of the society is. Christianity plays
a great role in the theosphere created by the mankind.
Christianity contribution into the spiritual culture of the mankind will be considered by the example of several basic truths of Christianity; its greatest role in development of the spiritual culture of the
mankind will be shown.
The profound meaning of Christianity is love and forgiveness to
all, including the call for inter-religious dialogue.
Christianity has been approving the spiritual dignity of the personality of every human being independently on his gender, nation,
age: all human are the children of God and all equally deserve the
commandments of Christ.
The Christian idea about mercy and charity is what was absent in
the heathen society of the late antiquity.
Spiritual heritage is based on those teachings of Christ that were
colligated by St. John as follows: «God is love».
These and other truths of the Christian dogma possess great spiritual
significance for all people; they were introduced into human consciousness to a degree greater than any other western religious doctrines. This is the greatness of Christianity in comparison to which
everything rest is negligible.
Religion created the science devoted to correct and virtuous life
called ascetical theology [59, p. 328]. It studies the objective laws of
spiritual life; and the terms of implementation of the spiritual life laws
include the signs of the right way. However, both the Christians and
the mankind in general have no knowledge about this science today,
whereas it has been “the science of sciences” in the past, before the
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schism of the society into the religious and the temporal ones. Ascetical
theology can be a firm basis for formation of the process of renovation of
the world spiritual life (Matthew 5:13) and for the world (Rom 8:19-21).
The role of Biblical Scriptures is essential as it is the Planet’s mind
created before the New Time. This is a godsent field; these teachings
are essential for people to build the Intelligence of the sociosphere,
the Intelligence of the mankind and to bring closer the epoch of establishment of the noosphere and the sociosphere of the sustainable development of energies. The history of theology development showed
that modern priests are unable to overcome the problem of the Spiritual life of the Planet – formation of the principles and the laws of
the sociosphere of Intelligence.
Today, the social environment controls the legal fundamentals of
the society. Religion should control and form the morality by means
of human spiritual and soul energies using religious teaching and religious systems based on them that are able to create spiritual energies
of the society via the human and thanks to him. Opposition of the
human soul and the soul of the mankind is the source of improving of
both of them. What was yesterday belongs to the mankind; what the
human created today he considers as new. That is why they oppose
each other. History knows a lot of formations with structures containing rules and laws of religious teachings in the sociosphere and, first
of all, in state power systems. The results of mutual influences of state
power systems and religious teachings are obvious: the teaching of Confucius is the brightest example.
Building the caste-based state power system which took place in
India beneficially influenced on development of the society at some
stage of its life. Morality was the basic indicator of the sociosphere
condition. Morality of a human and the mankind is considered as the
basic “product” of religious teachings and systems created based on
these teachings. It is the basic indicator of condition of such systems
and their energies that directly influence on the sociosphere condition.
The latter, in its turn, influences on religion and its energetic potential.
The creators of teachings, world religions, knowledge systems, of their
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structures and subsystems are: Zoroaster, Pythagoras, Confucius, Buddha, Lao-Tzu (Daoism), Mahavira (Tirthankara), Sikhism (Guru).
Two spheres of being of the human – sociosphere and theosphere
(religion and its systems created by the believers) – are the primary
basis of all processes of his living activity. In these spheres, the human
creates true and false goals as well as (simultaneously, dependently)
true and false ways and methods of their acquisition. And the state
power does not trust integrated methods of formation of managements
in the sociosphere and the theosphere. It aggravates the problem of
morality both in microobjects and in macroobjects of the stated systems
that can be applied with different humanitarian-natural methods of analysis and synthesis.
This book, in its essence, is the introduction into the problem of
theosphere risk specified with losses in the course of spiritual life of
the mankind. Participation of researchers from different fields of living
activity is required to disclose the subject which is inexhaustible. Consideration of the problem will be confined to the level of morality by
developing and deepening the knowledge with materials from the previous works [31–39]. But the condition of the theosphere is influenced
not only by morality but also by other factors that can get inadmissible
values. This subject requires new, wider and more thorough research
as long as it is scantily explored and reported. The subject belongs to
the spiritual area where mistakes can easily be done, false conclusions
can easily be made and much harm can be done to many people. Great
importance and great losses generated by the theosphere specify the
necessity to refer to this subject without illusions about forgivenessto-all. Everyone apprehends the world (especially the spiritual one) in
his own way. Hence, I do not hope to be understood by everybody who
will try to comprehend this work.
All concerning the given below should be considered via simplified
notions, for no intelligence is able to adequately or truthfully estimate
the spiritual way not only of the church in general but also of a certain
personality. Hence, this work should be considered as an attempt to
build a united spiritual world of humans, to convince them of the fact
that their major losses are in the spiritual discord, and only by uniting
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and spiritual mutual understanding they can find the fundamentals of
knowledge and theories that would allow to implement the sustainable
development of the theosphere and the noosphere and the entire mankind.
The importance of this problem was noted in the book of Roger
Kamenetz «A Jew in Lotus» where the author reasons with rabbi Titz
Greenberg and concludes that not only Judaism but all religions have
got a new status, that pluralism of opinions reflects the will of God,
that no one can preach his own religion without using stereotypes and
images of another religion.
I am a worshipper of teaching of Christ, of His spirituality, of His
philosophy given in the Sermon on the Mount spiritual-theoretical fundamentals of which are infinite, first of all, at moral levels. God and
the human have one nature – spiritual; there are cannot be two natures.
The difference is in spiritual energies.
People are divided by their character into «long distance runners»
and «sprinters». I belong to the class of «long distance runners»: I can
run long distances providing myself with spiritual and physical strength
of will, I can labor hard during a long time. Not another way. I cannot
exert myself in the form of a bunch of energy in only one book, one
work. My energetic space does not admit it, if is just not capable of it.
What I do is like desert storm – for a long time running.
I do not endeavor to power or money, but to my own, personal
works. I incline to analytical synthesis, hence I borrow ideas of other
people in my works, I represent known results in new way.
E.B. Savva made a great contribution to the work at the final stage.
I bow to her and I appreciate her for participation in creation of this book.
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