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THE NEW WORLDWIDE RELIGION

From The Second Coming Integral Mission, a New Age website, the webpage "The Fruits of the Testament of Truth":

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 is an emotional poetic symbol introduced by the great Russian mystic Daniil Andreev in his book The Rose of the World. His book is consecrated to the mission of the Russian people in relationship to the blossoming of the Rose of the World. Daniil Andreev was blessed to be able to contemplate the destiny and interrelationships on both the physical and celestial planes of more than thirty cultures in human history going back thousands of years. It also contains an extremely rich ontology of the vertical structure of the Universe, of the three-fold structure of human cultures and of the new manifestation of the Divine Feminine.)

The Rose of the World 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.

There is a chapter in the book THE OCCULT IN RUSSIAN AND SOVIET CULTURE, edited by Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal, titled "Daniil Andreev and the Mysticism of Feminity" by Mikhail Epstein. From that chapter:

Though Daniil Andreev's works began to be published only in 1989, thirty years after his death, his legacy is already a major factor in Russian intellectual life. His many admirers regard his treatise Roza mira (The rose of the world, 1950-58) as one of the highest peaks of twentieth-century Russian spirituality. a mystic and a poet with strong historical, utopian, and philosophical dimensions in his universalist vision, Andrev is often interpreted as the embodiment of the synthetic aspirations of Russian culture. (p. 325)

It was in Vladimirskaia prison that Daniil began to hear the voices that dictated his masterpiece, Roza mira. Andreev spent these years "communicating" with the highest spirits in Russian and other national "metacultures" (his term); Lermontov, Dostoevsky, and Blok "guided" him in his wanderings through other worlds. During this time, he wrote on tiny scraps of paper which were invariably confiscated, but he restored his prose and verses from memory and continued to write. (p. 329)

Unconsciously Andreev reveals the demonic side of his utopia: his reverence for a sexually bipolar divinity lays the foundation for the sacrilegious practices of the Antichrist and the eventual doom of the Rose of the World. The Antichrist's main project, and the source of his power over humanity, is sexual permissiveness, for which he will offer religious justification... (p. 344)

Of all of the material in this book which was published by Cornell University Press, and which is an outgrowth of a research conference titled "The Occult and Modern Russian and Soviet Culture," held at Fordham University in June 1991, it is this chapter on Andreev that gives me nightmares.

Only heaven can counter this movement from hell.

I personally believe it lies behind the sexual abuse crisis in the Roman Catholic Church. It would seem to be Rosicrucian, though that is only my conjecture at present. Mysticism and spirit contact is essential to it. The Kabbalah contributes to it as do the deluded mystics. And now I see that a deluded mystic lies behind the "new" spirituality that is moving into the Roman Catholic Church via the most "orthodox" element we have to turn to in our flight from the liberalism on the left. God help us!

Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us!