TO YOU, Children of Light!
I give you my book “The Path of Light”, which our Lord and those who cared about the essence of the Teaching of Jesus Christ helped me write. Maybe this book will help you to get your bearings in the value system of this world, so that we do not get lost in the darkness. I dedicate this book to those who are disappointed in Christianity. I want you to find out WHY this happened. When you read the book and its additional texts (in virtual form), you will understand that Christianity as a religion is not identified with the Teaching of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ was not a Christian, but a Teacher. Just like Buddha, who was not a Buddhist, but a Teacher. Religion is a collection of dogmas, church laws created by priests. The Word of Jesus Christ has been “corrected” over the millennia by all who used the authority and power of the church. Now we see what they have done. The churches have emptied. The priests themselves claim that “Europe does not need Christianity”, but they are silent about the answer, “WHY DOES IT NOT NEED IT?”* The priests founded many different churches and still disagree among themselves on many dogmas. The Word of Jesus has remained alive in the church’s “scrapbooked”, non-canonical gospels, apocrypha and writings of mystics. With the thoughts of Jesus Christ, I begin my book from the first cover. These are the most important topics for reflection on WHAT GOD you believe in, WHO you pray to, WHO you worship. Jesus Christ said that He does not need the honor of this world. He needs your LOVE. So, with this introduction, I want to interest you in the book “The Path of Light”.
I decided to put all the texts on “shelves” and leave you my archive. Perhaps someone will stop by here one evening and read it. I know one thing that things that have been studied for a long time must be archived. Maybe someone will add to them, maybe someone will discover them as a treasure. How cold and boring the history of Christianity would be without the Nag Hammadi Library, which was discovered in 1945 in a small town in Upper Egypt. Thirteen papyrus codices bound in leather were found buried in sealed clay jars. Thanks to those people who felt responsible for the Word of God and decided to leave It to us. These are the works of the early Christians (Gnostics). It was the Gnostics who allowed thousands of people to hear the Living (secret) Teaching of Christ. They preached that the path to liberation lies through gnosis, that is, knowledge of the spiritual world. They taught that every person is the heir to the divine spark. Remember that Jesus preached to people the TRUTH about their Spiritual nature. Think: if a person were only a body, our life would have no meaning and value. God’s Truth is not in the Bible, as Christian orthodoxy claims, but IN US. This is where the great conflict between the Gnostics and the Pharisees-Orthodox arose and continues to exist.
For the vast majority of people, spiritual experience is “some kind of mysticism.” Yes, indeed, it is attributed to mysticism, but it cannot be confused with witchcraft, occultism, or shamanism. Mysticism is not a deviation from mental norms or a mistake. It is a path to the experience of Spiritual Reality. If your mind rejects it, you will never know WHAT IT IS, WHO YOU ARE. It is impossible to describe spiritual experience in any words. It is possible to live (the vast majority of people do) only in the fog of egoistic interests, or you can “push them aside” and check WHO I AM? What is the world in which I live?
A strange thing happened to me once: I “stuck” to a book that sheds light and for 24 years now I have been “working” on that topic every day… theoretically and practically. Everything is described in the book. After it was published, I continue to work, that is, I conduct a philosophical, historical, spiritual “revision” in order to find out WHAT paved the way for me/us to the Light, which Jesus Christ called God. I found out that there were many holy people, mystics and laypeople who believed in the Light of the Spirit as the TRUTH. Their thoughts and works shine like diamonds in the history of Christianity. However, for some reason the church does not like to talk about their mystical experiences. Therefore, few Christians know the names of Meister Eckhart, Jacob Böhmes or St. Teresa of Avila and many others. Not only Christians, but also yogis and Buddhists sought light (enlightenment). All Gnostics know that the SPIRIT-GOD is one for all and no one can deny this. It may seem to you that Jesus lived on Earth a long time ago? However, when you analyze the history of Christianity, you become convinced that everything is alive, as if YESTERDAY. Its history has not stopped – it is still exciting today. I did not intend to teach you with my book, nor to lead you somewhere… I simply wanted to reveal one direction of invisible, inner life, in which direction it becomes sweeter, brighter, fuller, more beautiful when moving. I have read a lot of books whose authors have dedicated their lives, in the full sense of the word, to the search for That Light. Over the 24 years of my life, I have accumulated a considerable library. I have also presented some of those authors in the book. I am extremely grateful to them! I secretly hope that they will “infect” you with the search for the Light within yourself. That “work” is not tiring, sometimes even very pleasant. I started writing my book from the cover, on which I wrote the most important words of Jesus Christ:
This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you, that God is light and in him there is no darkness at all.
/1 John 1:5 5
For you are all children of light and children of the day. We are not of the night or of darkness.
/1 Thessalonians 5:5
Then Jesus spoke again, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
/John 8:12
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THE GOSPEL OF THOMAS
3 JESUS SAID:
If the rulers say to you, ‘Behold, the kingdom is in heaven,’
then the birds of the air will flee before you;
if they say to you, ‘It is in the sea,’
then the fish of the sea will flee before you.
But the kingdom is within you and near you.
When you know yourselves, then you too will be known,
and you will know that you are the sons of the living Father.
But if you do not know yourselves,
then you are in trouble and you yourselves are trouble.
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
IS LIGHT A NATURAL PHENOMENON?
PART I
1 MEETING THE UNKNOWN AUTHOR
2 A STEP INTO UNKNOWN
PART II
1 WHAT IS EVERYTHING MADE OF?
2 INVISIBLE LIGHT
3 SECRETS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
PART III
1 SEARCH FOR THE ONE GOD
2 WILL YOU BE MY FRIENDS IF…
3 MIND GAMES OR PEACE?
4 A UNIFIED UNION
5 IDOLATRY
6 LIGHT IN THE WORD OF GOD AND IN YOU!
7 COME AND FOLLOW ME!
PART IV
1 A YEAR OF PEACE
2 THE LAST WORDS OF THE BUDDHA
3 CONTAINMENT OF PASSIONS, RELAXATION, WISE WORKS
4 EVOLUTION AND US
5 THE LIGHT AND SHADOWS OF LOVE
6 MEDITATION – SEARCH FOR SPIRITUAL TRUTH
7 WHERE DOES LOVE HIDE? /chapter omitted/
PART V
1 NIRVANA
2 FIDELITY TO THE TRUTH
3 BEING A SPIRITUAL WARRIOR
4 A WISE HEART
5 STAGES OF AWAKENING
6 SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE AND MISTAKES
PART VI
1 THE PAST, UNHEALED PAIN AND HOPE
2 THE CHURCH and US
3 YOU WERE COMMANDED TO LOVE! WHY DON’T YOU LOVE?
4 POPE FRANCIS ON MEDITATION
5 POST SCRIPTUM