Hermeticism

Konstantin Pavlovich Petrov was born into an ordinary working-class Soviet family in August of 1945. His father was a steelworker, and his mother was a weaver. In 1967, he graduated from the School of Missile Forces, which started his military career, culminating in him attaining the rank of Major General. It is unclear when Konstantin Petrov’s attention shifted from worldly affairs to more spiritual matters, but undoubtedly, the dissolution of the Soviet Union shook him and made him reassess his worldview. However, his position remained staunchly pro-Russian and anti-Western throughout his life. He strongly opposed organized religion as well.

In the early 1990s, Petrov began actively engaging in politics with the Concept of Public Safety (CPS), a vision of a perfectly harmonious society where all people are free to pursue spiritual development, a concept not dissimilar to the Ancient Egyptian Ma’at. In 1995, Petrov was discharged from the armed forces by a presidential decree, undoubtedly because of his political activity. In the early 2000s, Petrov became interested in Russian or Slavic back-to-the-roots neopaganism. In 2005, he was “de-baptised” from Christianity and converted to neopaganism under the name Volkhv Meragor. Volkhv means a wise man, a Slavic pagan priest, or a magician. The meaning of the name Meragor will become clearer as we proceed.

Konstantin Petrov died of illness in 2009.

Managing Humanity

From 1997 to 2004, Konstantin Petrov gave a series of lectures titled “The Secrets of Managing Humanity.” These lectures were published as a two-volume book. In the book, Petrov presents his worldview and the main provisions of the CPS. According to him, the world history is a “managed process.” “Managed by whom?” - I hear you ask. Below I give you my translations of excerpts from his book and my summaries for the information given there to answer your question. The answers given here are Petrov’s point of view, with which I may disagree.

Konstantin Petrov

One of the core tenets in the book is “conceptual power,” which is to say, the power of ideas. Ideas rule society; the public carries out its self-government following certain ideas. Those who purposefully create such ideas are the real rulers of societies. If they are known and hold official positions in the government, it’s “structured management;” however, if they are unknown, it is “unstructured management.”

This is where Petrov’s view gets conspiratorial. According to him, the world is secretly ruled by a group he calls the Global Predictor (GP), which manages the world in an unstructured way. The Global Predictor is called such because they allegedly have the secret knowledge to predict the future and even shape it somewhat. According to Petrov, the group was founded 3500 years ago by the 22 Egyptian hierophants. Did I mention that they were the descendants of the Atlanteans? I suspect The Secret Doctrine was a significant influence on Petrov’s worldview. The Freemasons are, of course, involved in the world government as a body of the GP. Petrov’s conspiratorial views are easy to ridicule. Still, he was a highly educated man, and he had interesting things to say.

The GP is watching

Petrov gives an example of unstructured management – “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” a literary folktale by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. Two clever con men posing as tailors convinced the whole town that the naked emperor was dressed in magic clothes, visible only to the wise. All the courtiers would admire the naked emperor since no one (including the emperor himself) would want to be a fool in the eyes of others, so no one told the truth. The townsfolk admired a blatant lie until a child blurted out: “The emperor has no clothes!” Then, everyone began to laugh at the naked emperor.

So, Petrov concludes, to overcome the power of false ideas, it is enough to state an obvious truth publicly. In order to solve the problems of Russian society, people need to throw off the power of the false ideas of the “world government” headed by a “small group of financial tycoons” and acquire their own “conceptual power.”

What is Mera?

According to Petrov the basis of all things is in the triunity of Matter, Information and Mera. This last word in literal translation means “Measure,” but I choose to spell it as Mera sometimes so that we understand the name Petrov chose for himself – Meragor. It is a reference to Svyatogor, an ancient Russian folktale hero, a mythical pre-Christian giant and bogatyr. Meragor would literally mean “the measure of mountains,” that is to say Petrov called himself “the big man.” And perhaps he was.

Svyatogor by Nicolas Roerich

Petrov quotes Vladimir Shmakov’s Holy Book of Thoth here: “Thus Thought, Word and Scripture are one in God, whereas in Man they are three.” This phrase, Petrov says, Shmakov quotes from another book – The Kuzari. Now we’re starting to see the books that influenced Petrov’s worldview. As an aside note, there is a subtle connection (through Shmakov) between Konstantin Petrov and Grigori Mebes, of whom I wrote earlier; and through Mebes there is an even subtler connection between Petrov and Papus, who was a major influence on Mebes.

Then, Petrov gives us a basic trinity:

1. Sephar – Mera, measure (form, or matrix).
2. Sipur - Information (the meaning contained in the form). Latin “informatio” - explanation, exposition. A message about something. Information is an object of storage, processing, and transmission. Information is contained “in the form” of an object.
3. Sefer - Matter (the fruit of creation, “things” as the embodied unity of form and content).

In Nature, this “holy trinity” is inseparable, thus “Thought, Word and Scripture are one in God.”

However, Petrov says, you can’t imagine “abstract” matter. Matter must have a form that carries information about the object. There is no thing without an image. No matter is without an image. If there is no image, there is only chaos. It is impossible to separate a thing from its image.

An object and its image must be measured by length, width, weight, color, taste, atomic and molecular structure, etc. The objects and their images are not static but are in constant flux. Some grow old and die or transform; others are born, grow, and develop. That is to say, all things and their images change under the pressure of many factors that shape this or that process. The processes themselves have “speed,” “period,” “frequency,” “amplitude,” etc. These are partial measures of a thing’s complete measure (Mera). “Allah… has created everything, ordaining [measuring] it precisely.” (Al-Furqan:2).

Living objects, such as humans, also possess Mera. Human Mera includes not only physical traits but also thoughts. Thus, we can talk of a measure of understanding of some fact or event. Man is designed so that he can examine this “holy trinity” in parts, separately. He can carefully dissect some material object, examining the details that interest him. This is the domain of “science.” Humans can also use their imagination to work with images, compare them, mentally transform them, etc. This used to be the domain of occult schools, esoteric teachings, many church hierarchies, and Masonic structures (according to Petrov). This is what The Kuzari means when it says that “Thought, Word, and Scripture in Man are three.” Petrov says the ancient Egyptian priesthood used this human ability to “work with separate parts” to gain power.

Perception Process

Petrov says it is possible to formalize the process of human perception of the universe. This perception involves observing cosmic and earthly natural phenomena as well as human society and its products. The simplest way to illustrate this process is through the “transmitter-receiver” model. A human person is the receiver. Anything could serve as a transmitter or a person (the receiver) - the Sun, stars, radio, television, or other people, etc. This person can also act as a transmitter for all other people and “fragments of the Universe.”

Using this model, we can also understand processes that happen without human involvement. In these processes information and Mera are carried by oscillations of some sort (a material carrier) and are transmitted from one fragment of the Universe to another. For example, from the Sun to the Moon, from the wind to the rock, etc. Let’s say a fragment of the Universe, “A,” emits vibrations that affect another fragment, “B.” These vibrations change the information state of “B,” which necessarily leads to a change in the Mera of “B.” This, in turn, will lead to a change in the matter of fragment “B.” That is, the information transmitted by “A” has “materialized” in “B.” Humans also participate in these processes.

Complete and Partial Mera

Being eternal and infinite, the Universe possesses the fullness of information about itself - the complete Mera. We draw knowledge from the Universe by mastering partial Meras. All the knowledge that humanity possesses is just a multitude of partial Meras drawn from the fullness of the Universal Mera. How many Laws of Nature operate in the Universe? Do we know all these laws? Of course not. And each such law is also a certain “partial measure” belonging to the fullness of the Universal Measure. That is, the concept of “measure” includes not only the usual “weight,” “length,” width,” etc. It also includes color, taste, smell, sound, words, images of people’s thoughts (their thinking algorithms), rules and laws by which processes in the Universe occur, and much more.

Therefore, the complete Mera of any object combines many “partial” measures. For example, a brick has a width, length, height, weight, and color. Let’s limit ourselves to that. All of these properties taken together are the complete Mera of the brick. Likewise, these partial measures (Meras) are dependent on each other. Mathematically, such a relationship can be expressed as a “matrix.” What is a matrix? The simplest example is a 2d matrix with X and Y axes. As X changes, so does Y, and vice versa. Thus, every object or process can be represented by a multidimensional matrix. Besides being dependent on each other, the “partial Meras” also depend on their environment. If the brick becomes wet from rain, its weight will change. The environment can also cause the destruction of the object.

What causes changes in the environment? It is the biosphere of the planet Earth. In turn, the Sun and the rest of the Cosmos affect the biosphere. The biosphere can also be represented as a multidimensional matrix which contains the matrix of the brick. However, the matrix of the biosphere is also contained in a larger matrix, and so on, all the way to the matrix of the whole Universe. Therefore, Petrov says, we get matrices nested in each other like a Russian nesting doll. The “big dolls” influence the “small dolls,” but the “small dolls” also have a degree of influence on the “big dolls.” A brick has some influence on the biosphere of the Earth.

Thus, we get a layered system of “hierarchy of management” of the Universe. This management is not deterministic but probabilistic, says Petrov. Thus, Mera is a multidimensional probabilistic matrix of the possible states of matter. The “possible states of matter” are anything that the “big doll” (matrix) allows the nested “small doll” to be. Each layer of the hierarchy depends on the others. For evolutionary development, changes in the system must happen gradually, with information filling the layers one by one sequentially. Should that fail to happen, it would cause a rupture, potentially leading to the destruction of the system. This is why revolutions that force changes upon society cause so much blood and suffering, says Petrov. Therefore, evolutionary changes in Mera can’t be rushed.

Triunity as a Process

The three parts of this “holy trinity”: “Matter - Information - Mera” exist in inseparable unity with each other. Matter is transformed in Mera in a way predetermined, i.e., according to the Creator’s Plan. This process is continuous, says Petrov. All the “nesting dolls” influence each other through oscillatory processes, which were discussed a little earlier. But they are all “nested” in one giant “nesting doll” - in the “Universal Mera,” which probabilistically determines the course of all processes occurring inside its smaller “dolls.” It determines the goals of these smaller “dolls,” but leaves them a certain degree of freedom in choosing the methods of fulfilling the task. One should not confuse the Universal Mera with God, says Petrov. The Universal Mera is an instrument of God. In religious terms, it is the Holy Spirit. This Most High level of management continuously transforms matter according to the measure given from above, says Petrov.

Transmission of information from one fragment of the Universe to another, causes a change in the informational state of the other fragment. This change inevitably causes the change in Mera of that second fragment, which, in turn, causes changes in its material carrier. A purely mechanical (material) effect on an object can cause a change in its Mera, which would cause a change in the informational state of the object. Thus, everything is connected, a change in one place causes changes in many other places. Everything is always flowing and “you can’t enter the same river twice,” as the ancients said.

By understanding the interaction of the three components of the trinity, one can comprehend many phenomena in human life, both past and present, that have been considered “miracles” for centuries. This includes the abilities of ancient Volkhvs and sorcerers to perform miracles such as moving objects [telekinetically] and controlling the weather. It also pertains to the “secret” of the construction of the pyramids of ancient Egypt and many other mysteries.

The whole “secret” is that if a person can imagine a certain thing or phenomenon (information) and endow this image with the full measure (Mera), right down to molecular and atomic structures, then materialization of this image (or phenomenon) will occur. Petrov says that the Russian word “stroit” (“to construct”) corresponds to this process. This is speculative linguistics on Petrov’s part, but this word can be understood as – “uniting the three.”

It is known that the world-famous Sai Baba from India gives some visitors to his ashram gold rings with ruby stones, which appear on his palm “out of nowhere” before the eyes of amazed visitors. Petrov says it is due to Sai Baba knowing the above-described “mechanism of interaction” of the three components of triunity.

Sathya Sai Baba

The Quran talks about this ability to create things and phenomena. “He (Allah) is the Originator of the heavens and the earth! When He decrees a matter, He simply tells it, “Be!” And it is!” (2:117). Compare that to the quote from the Shmakov’s book: “The Word of God is His Scripture; The Thought of God is the Word.” From the Bible we know that Man was created in the image of God (but not equal to God). Therefore, Man is endowed with the ability to “create miracles.” This is also the secret of healers which create an image the organ they treat and fill this organ with the Mera necessary for its healing. This however requires an ability to reach into a Mera above the human level.

Such an ability is also spoken of in the Quran: “Allah! There is no god worthy of worship except Him, the Ever-Living, All-Sustaining. Neither drowsiness nor sleep overtakes Him. To Him belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on the earth. Who could possibly intercede with Him without His permission? He fully knows what is ahead of them and what is behind them, but no one can grasp any of His knowledge — except what He wills to reveal. His Seat encompasses the heavens and the earth, and the preservation of both does not tire Him. For He is the Most High, the Greatest” (2:255).

Thus, God grants knowledge and power to each man according to his morality.

The Word is Mera

Mera is in everything and everything is in Mera, says Petrov. I remind you that the Universal Mera is not God, but the Holy Spirit, in religious terms.

“The Pharaoh gathered the priests and asked them to choose one word to explain all the processes occurring in the Universe. The priests then gave this word to the Pharaoh. What word did the priests tell him?” asks Petrov, and immediately answers his own question, “The word was Measure” (Mera). What is the meaning of the question asked by the pharaoh? There is the world surrounding man. There are the Sun and the stars of the Universe, the entire Universe, Earth’s oceans and seas, fields and forests, mountains and rivers, etc. Each person looks at all this and shares their impressions with others. This can be done with the help of drawings (images) or with the help of words, which happens much more often.

Therefore, Petrov says, there are two types of writing on Earth: hieroglyphic and ideographic. Some Eastern peoples use hieroglyphs instead of letters. A hieroglyph expresses an entire word or group of words at once, i.e., it can describe a particular phenomenon immediately in one image. We (Western people) use ideographic writing: first letters, from letters—words, from words—sentences, from sentences—texts. Correspondingly, the thinking of “eastern” and “western” peoples differs. But the most important conclusion is that a word (or hieroglyph) is also a Measure (Mera). Each word corresponds to a specific image of an object or phenomenon. Thus hieroglyphic languages are closely related to the nature of reality.

Petrov then quotes Umberto Eco, a famous Italian philosopher, linguist, and occultist. Eco asks himself whether “semantic universals” – elementary concepts common for all mankind and expressed in all languages – exist. Therefore, Eco is looking for primordial words, the “building blocks” that can be used to construct the entire linguistic palette for describing the world. However, Umberto Eco does not give an answer to this question. According to Petrov, he already formulated these words in 1992: Matter, Information, and Mera.

Umberto Eco

Scripture and Discernment

Humans are designed in such a way that they can work with the three “components" of the “holy trinity” separately. Thus, Matter was given to science, Information to religion, and Mera was hidden from mankind. It was the ancient Egyptian priests who did this. They gave a distorted picture of the world to the people to manipulate their minds for centuries. The Quran reveals the essence of this deception: "And behold, We gave Moses the Scripture and the discernment, that perhaps you may be guided." This is how the Quran narrates what God gave to the ancient Jews through Moses so that they could carry it to all of humanity. The Scripture is factual information, discernment is a methodological knowledge of the world, the ability to discriminate between good and evil, truth and lies, one thing from another, etc. And to discern means to be able to measure (endow with Mera) phenomena and events, to acquire more and more knowledge about the world. Imagine what would happen if we could not distinguish a table from a door, or an apple from a potato! Most people easily discern physical objects’ essence; however, many lack discernment when comprehending and analyzing all sorts of phenomena, especially in social life. But what is good and evil? Simply put, everything that aligns with the Divine Plan is good, everything that goes against it is evil.

Thus, humanity got the Scripture in Torah and the Bible. But what happened to discernment? It was hidden through omitting the category of Measure (Mera). It is Measure that allows us to discern one thing from another. Without such discrimination, a human would sooner or later make mistakes. Even a large amount of factual information would not save him from making mistakes. Lacking the concept of Measure a man would blow everything out of proportion. Thus, hiding Mera was a genius move on the part of Egyptian priesthood, says Petrov, as it allowed them to control humanity for millennia, while keeping the true knowledge (hermetically) sealed.

Petrov then goes on to compare two types of knowledge – “kaleidoscopic” and “mosaic.” The rulers of society want their workers to be efficient, therefore workers need to have a necessary level of education. But if the workers would know as much as the rulers, they would rebel. Therefore, the rulers give them “kaleidoscopic” (or fragmentary) knowledge. A similar situation exists in religious denominations. For example, has it ever occurred to you why, in churches during daily services, excerpts from the four “Gospels” are not read in the order in which they appear but are read “randomly”? The same kaleidoscopic reading of the “Gospels” is recommended to Christians by various manuals and Orthodox calendars. Such reading in a “kaleidoscopic” mode prevents the possibility of questions arising during consistent, thoughtful reading. The “holy book” is full of contradictions and the high priests understand this very well. Therefore, to avoid questions, they recommend “kaleidoscopic reading.”

Petrov then goes to list the false binary choices presented to society:

• “Which is better, Capitalism or Socialism?” - Both are slave-owning systems. In one pyramid, the “elite” at the top is from the royal family, from businessmen, or the democrats, and in the other pyramid, the “elite” is either from the Party nomenklatura (from the “servants of the People”) or from patriotic nationalists.
• “Which economy is better: a planned one or a market one?” A plan is something that needs to be done. There must be a plan. The market is one way of achieving its goal. And it is a very good way at that. But it is just a way. When they contrast the destination (the plan) with the road (the market), it is schizophrenia, says Petrov.
• “Which party is better: Democrats or Republicans?” This is also nonsense since both of these parties express the interests of their master - the global financial mafia. When something needs to be changed quickly, this mafia brings Democrats to the American “White House,” and when the situation needs to be stabilized, the mafia brings Republicans. The same applies to all Russian parties. Without realizing it, they work for one master, the same global mafia.

False Choices

All the mass media outlets, all political experts use this trick. They make you chose from several pre-determined solutions to any problem. But what if all the options are bad? This is what lies behind the confrontation between science and religion. People who are incapable of perceiving the world as it really is and thinking in proportion to Objective Reality - such people are easier to oppress and rob; they will not even understand that it happens! To make people helpless, it is necessary to hide the methodology of independent knowledge of the world and to create “kaleidoscopic idiocy” in them. Such people are easier to control and deceive. This allowed the “divide and conquer” principle to be realized for millennia, concludes Petrov.

To be Continued

We reviewed the biography of Konstantin Petrov (also known as Volkhv Meragor) and some of the basic tenets of his philosophy:

• The basis of all things is in the triunity of Matter, Information, and Mera (Measure).
• Mera means Measure. It is the form of an object or an aggregate of all its qualities.
• In Nature, the trinity of Matter, Information, and Mera is inseparable; thus, “Thought, Word, and Scripture are one in God.”
• Man is designed to examine this “holy trinity” in parts - separately; thus, “Thought, Word, and Scripture in Man are three.”
• Meras can be complete or partial. The complete Mera contains all the partial Meras nested inside each other.
• The complete Mera is an instrument of God; it is The Holy Spirit, in religious terms.
• Meras of different levels nested in each other create a layered system of the universe's “hierarchy of management.”
• Each layer of the hierarchy depends on the others. The Meras influence each other through oscillatory processes.
• If a person can imagine a certain thing or phenomenon (information) and endow this image with the full Measure (Mera), materialization will occur.
• Scripture is factual information, discernment is a methodological knowledge of the world, the ability to discriminate between good and evil, truth and lies, one thing from another.
• The knowledge of Mera is essential for discernment. This knowledge was hidden to control humanity, according to Petrov.
• Mastering discernment is crucial for attaining personal freedom and creating a harmonious society.

Next time we’ll review what Konstantin Petrov had to say about the egregoric control of society.