Nina Rudnikova: Natural Religion (1936)

This is my translation of Nina Rudnikova's article "Natural Religion". The article was published in the Estonian journal "Vaimsuse Ideoloogia" (Ideology of Spirituality) No. 6, 1936, under the title "Loomulik Usund".

Natural Religion

by Nina Rudnikova (1936)

By refusing to participate in cosmic work, mankind severed its natural connections with the other worlds and lost a proper understanding of its role and significance in constructing the Kingdom of Heaven. This loss resulted in a diminished sense of unity and spiritual connection with God, which is known as religion.

The feeling of God's constant presence and merging with the Universal Spirit has been swept away from human consciousness. Consequently, humanity did not utilize the boundless potential of the spiritual source, leading to the decay of the human spirit. Mankind became akin to an inverted pentagram, which condemned its individuality and creative initiative to demise, ultimately threatening the entire planet and potentially causing chaos in our solar system.

The Great Knowledge of other brotherly planets came to humanity's aid to avert this danger. The solar spirits governing our solar system's life and creativity decided to help their misguided coworkers —humanity — by guiding it back to cosmic unity. To accomplish this immense task, the brothers of humanity began incarnating on Earth, assisting humanity in consciously joining the chain of global cooperation. They formed living bridges of light between the fallen human consciousness and the Universal Spirit that people call God.

These brothers built up humanity's spiritual world with ideals, directing its aspirations towards reconnecting with the Divine cosmic consciousness and guiding the subjective paths of search towards the correct path of finding the lost heavenly kingdom. The spiritual world they brought to Earth contains human ideals and spiritual tasks, fulfilled by the law of the Great Teachers who carry out their missions.

The Great Brothers of Humanity imbue this newly built spiritual world with their power, pouring their life and spiritual strength into it. We know that as long as the ideals they uphold exist and humanity follows the path they indicate, the Great Brothers of humanity will remain connected to Earth and will not abandon their obligations. They will only move forward in cosmic evolution once this task is complete.

The sacrifice of the brothers of humanity is immense, as they have taken on the responsibility of saving humanity and liberating it from the chains of karma. They are the founders of religions, embodying the lost single natural religion in human consciousness. Humanity can traverse the bridges the saviors have built through this natural religion. These bridges are the paths for humanity's spiritual advancement, with the Knowledge of their builders adapted into Teachings for human consciousness.

The foundation of every religion is the great redemptive template of humanity's spiritual path, through which the triple human soul, awakened by contact with the Saviors, assumes a specific place in the Earth's spiritual world created for it and begins to control its own selves and all the ghostly earthly elements. No valuable cultural accumulation has been created by fallen humanity using its own Knowledge potential.

All tremendous cultural values and possible manifestations of human creativity rest on the religious laws brought to humanity by the Elder Brothers and imbued with their unique spiritual potential. The words of Christ, likening Himself to the cornerstone laid in the foundation of the building, apply to all Great Teachers. Consequently, a Christian belongs to Christ, a Buddhist to Buddha, and so on, with the stronger the aspiration to their teacher and the merging with them in spirit, the more powerful the spiritual potential impulse, the more perfect the creativity, and the more significant the spiritual weight and influence on others.

Through many incarnations, human consciousness gradually becomes saturated with the spiritual impulses of all humanity's brothers, thus acquiring the ability to fully implement its task - the restoration of natural merging with the cosmos by its own efforts rather than through the grace of the saviors. By fulfilling their tasks and creative missions among mankind, those redeemed by the Great Brothers become light bridges between Earth and the Kingdom of Heaven.

All the saviors of humanity fundamentally conveyed the same message: love for God and love for one's neighbor. Love for God represents our natural connection with the Universal Spirit, while love for our neighbor signifies the spiritual bond between individuals, achievable when we recognize the universal equality of all before God. All laws, principles, and guidance spiritual teachers provide are methods to restore our spiritual unity with the Heavenly Kingdom and establish cooperation among all things. The differences in methods and approaches to regain this lost unity account for the differences between religions.