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  1. Даниил Андреев

    Glossary of Terms

    Agga All materiality created by the demonic in our bramfatura (see entry). It differs in structure from physical materiality and from siaira (see entry) in that there are an extremely limited number of elementary particles in agga, particles that are neither animate, nor possessed of free will...
  2. Даниил Андреев

    XII. Chapter 5. The Change of Eons

    The demise of the one that had singlehandedly reigned over humanity for over a hundred years, the singularity, the inscrutability of it, will cause an unheard-of commotion amid the populace of the planet. The lightning-like extraction of this superhuman, unique brain out of Enrof, which had been...
  3. Даниил Андреев

    XII. Chapter 4. The Prince of the Darkness

    Much of what I see is apprehended with the help of all kinds of inner sight, be it imagination, artistic creativity, or spiritual forefeeling. Certain things I apprehend with a sight that sees what is bound to happen. Yet, all that I see ahead is what I yearn for. More often than not, perhaps, I...
  4. Даниил Андреев

    XII. Chapter 3. The Cult

    Providential forces always stand on guard. They are always ready to give a helping hand to each and every one of us. They tirelessly work upon every single soul and its destiny. Each soul is an arena for their struggle with the demonic principle, and the whole of the life of the soul consists of...
  5. Даниил Андреев

    XII. Chapter 2. The Outer Measures

    Having touched upon the problem of forming the human being of the ennobled image and the related problems of transformation of the state into a brotherhood, and of the planet – into a garden, I have temporarily left aside another formidable problematic: the outer social-political, economic, and...
  6. Даниил Андреев

    XII. Chapter 1. Formation of the Human Being of the Ennobled Image

    Only the Omniscient knows the future in all its entirety and certainty. To us, it appears as an ever-ramifying chain of dilemmas. Each link in this chain is twofold: it creates a pair of mutually excluding possibilities. We can never be absolutely sure of how humanity will deal with each of...
  7. Даниил Андреев

    XI. Chapter 4. On the Metahistory of Our Days

    For the third time, the history of Russia saw one and the same phenomenon. Yet, this time its recurrence assumed a much larger scale. Just like Ivan IV and Nikolai I, Stalin embodied the zenith of might of yet another demon of “greatpowerness”, his open confrontation with the demiurge and the...
  8. Даниил Андреев

    XI. Chapter 3. Dark Shepherd

    In his astounding poem “Prediction”, which the young Lermontov wrote in 1830, he talks about the uncrowning of the royal dynasty, of the people’s renunciation of their former rulers, and the rape and pillage that would sweep across the country. Amid all this mayhem, as he continues, there would...
  9. Даниил Андреев

    XI. Chapter 2. Combating Spirituality

    A popular belief has it that poor material conditions of the society invariably translate into its spiritual poverty. And vice versa: material prosperity is bound to entail spiritual wealth. Objective historical observations do not support this thesis. Until the late phase of capitalism, wealth...
  10. Даниил Андреев

    XI. Chapter 1. The Enthronement of the Third Zhrugr

    When finishing the book on the metahistory of the Petersburg Empire, I compared two historical figures, whose characters and appearances are so different that putting them together would seem out of the ordinary. Yet, their historical roles are not only comparable, but, to a point, one comes as...
  11. Даниил Андреев

    X. Chapter 5. The Fall of the Messenger

    The immense corpus of research on Alexander Blok emerged in rather specific conditions, of which we know all too well. It should come as no surprise that hardly has anybody posed the problem of Blok’s inner evolution. Of course, there is an official version to the effect that Blok came to...
  12. Даниил Андреев

    X. Chapter 4. Missions and Destinies (end)

    There is a specificity in the history of Russian culture which, once taken notice of, stuns and gives rise to rather disturbing thoughts. Antiquity would strike one with quite versatile and intense expressions of the Feminine Principle in the Greek mythology. Without Athena, Artemis, and...
  13. Даниил Андреев

    X. Chapter 3. Missions and Destinies (cont.)

    When describing – to the best of my ability – the nature of the connection between humankind and the sakwala of Daemons in the chapter on the middle planes of Shadanakar, I mentioned the race of metaprototypes that abide close to daemons and are essential for understanding certain works of art...
  14. Даниил Андреев

    X. Chapter 2. Missions and Destinies

    All that is created by the demiurge Yarosvet, all that is manifesting his influence upon the historical plane is directly or indirectly connected to his supreme task, which realization has to justify the thousand-year path of gory and appallingly agonizing development of the Russian suprapeople...
  15. Даниил Андреев

    X. Chapter 1. The Gift of Messagery

    In one of the preceding chapters, I have already pointed out that the cultural horizon of medieval Russia featured no brilliant thinkers. Neither was this period abundant with artistic geniuses. However, never again did the Russian metaculture shine with such a plethora of saints and righteous...
  16. Даниил Андреев

    IX. Chapter 4. The Feat

    «Statehood is marred with the primordial sin; its enlightenment is impossible» – Alexander I could have clothed his subjective experience of kingship in such a formula, unwittingly making use of traditional notions of Christianity. Alexander I himself – both as a monarch and breacher of ethical...
  17. Даниил Андреев

    IX. Chapter 3. Withdrawal of the Sanction

    When, finally, Count Pahlen (a Baltic German courtier and general, translator’s note) wrung a consent for the overthrow of Pavel I out of Prince Alexander, it was just that – a consent for the overthrow. There was no question about killing the half-looney emperor. It was presumed that the...
  18. Даниил Андреев

    IX. Chapter 2. The Second Witzraor and the Homeland Space

    In trying to project what the demiurge demanded of the demon of statehood in the times of Peter I onto the plane of human notions, I have emphasized in the preceding chapters the imperious need for inner reform in Russia, namely: the elimination of the boyars as the leading force in the state...
  19. Даниил Андреев

    IX. Chapter 1. The Second Witzraor and the World Arena

    In attempting to gain insight into the Russian metahistory of the last centuries, conscious thought will surely have to come to terms with striking comparison between two historical junctures. Elected by the nationwide assembly, blessed by the church, saluted by all the social strata...
  20. Даниил Андреев

    VIII. Chapter 4. Kin-guardian Peter and the Demonic Distortion of his Mission

    Amid the riddles of the seventeenth century for historical thought to ponder, not the least mysterious is a strange fact: the birth of a man into no less than a royal family who, with his spiritual stature, giftedness, intellect, cast, and even physical temperament, perfectly befitted an ideal...
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