Heraldry of Soul -
what is it
Hi! I, Dr. Alexander Zelitchenko, a
philosopher, a psychologist, a historian and a theologian, invite you to make a
pilgrimage inside your own soul and to be granted your Coat of Soul at the end
of this expedition.
1.
What is a Coat of Soul and why is it a Coat of Soul
A Coat of Soul is a portrait of your
soul. A Coat of Arms aims to tell everybody about the merits of its possessor:
how good he is, what merits he has, and so on. The Coat of Soul also tells
about its possessor, but not only about his merits. It tells about his soul and
the soul's Way: about the possessor’s personality and talents, about the
conscious, the subconscious and the superconscious, about the forces that lift the person up and push him down, about the
person's goals and what helps a person reach these goals and what hinders him.
Different forms of shield, different
objects (ordinary in the language of classic heraldry), different colors, and
so on – all these are the symbols that tell about your soul.
Who needs a Coat of Soul? First, you do.
Why do you need it? To free yourself
from everything that tries to make you a slave and to gain the ability to move
along your Way as fast as possible.
Difficult
to understand? Thus, I need to open to you some
secrets, which you cannot learn at the usual school.
2.
Academic science and esoteric science
Besides all known academic science that
is taught in public schools, another science is studied in another sort of
school. This is the so-called esoteric or mystery science, although there is
nothing mysterious in it. Everybody may study it, but only if a person has
prepared himself for this kind of education - exactly in the same manner a
person must prepare himself to study, say, theoretical physics.
There are many esoteric schools. Some of
them are closely related to conventional religions – the mystics of western
Christianity, hesychasm of Orthodox Christianity, Sufism in Islam, Kabbalah in
Judaism, Dzogchen in Buddhism.
Other esoteric schools such as
Hermetism, Alchemy, Rosicrucianism, Freemasonry, theosophy, and dozens others
are more "religion-independent" (although each of them represents its
own religion).
All these schools tell the same picture
of the world, but sometimes in so different words that it is difficult to
understand that they speak about the same thing. The difference between the
schools is that they address different students. As a result, although they
speak of the same world and even of same goal of all human beings in the world,
each of them focuses on its own methods to reach this common goal.
One world and one aim are what make the
different schools similar. Different students and different ways are what make
them different.
Further, I will speak of the common esoteric view on the
world, which often differs from those of academic science.
3.
Esotericism in five minutes (philosophy and psychology)
In spite of the views of good old
academic science, even older esoteric science knows that the person does not
die psychologically when he dies physically. A physical body is only a dress of
the soul, and when the dress wears out, the soul simply changes it.
Of course, this is not
"simply" at all. For example, it is not necessary for the old
physical body to be replaced by a new physical body, as popular theories of
reincarnation addressed to very naive people say. But this is the essence of
what happens when a person dies.
What is the sense in all these changes?
To understand this, we must know that
besides the well-known physical world there is another, not less real subtle
(or fine) world, which we come to know through our mental experience.
The human soul lives in the fine world
and is itself a part of the fine world. It is possible to say that the soul is
made from fine material.
While living a sequence of its lives, a
soul changes itself and rises. What does this mean?
Some layers of the fine world are finer
and others are coarser. This is like the atmosphere of the earth, where the
higher we rise the more rarified (finer)the air
becomes. In contrast to the atmosphere, however, where the higher finer layers
are poorer (containing less air) than the lower coarser ones, in the fine
(spiritual) world, the finer layers are richer (containing more information, in
the language of computer science). Because of this, the higher layers of the
psychosphere of earth are brighter than the lower ones.
A human soul lives in several layers of
the fine world. Dark sides of the human mind, such as fears and anger, belong
to the lower layers, whereas the bright sides as, for example, feelings of
beauty, to the higher.
However, both fears and feelings of
beauty reside not in the lowest and the highest floors of the soul,
correspondingly. Both fears and feelings of beauty belong to the conscious part
of the soul. In the soul, however, there are the unconscious parts as well: the
lower unconscious part is called the sub-conscious and the upper unconscious
part is called the superconscious.