Roza Mira

Roza Mira (Full title in Russian: Роза Мира. Метафилософия истории, literally, The Rose of the World. The Metaphilosophy of History.) is the title of the main book by Russian mystic Daniil Andreev. It is also the name of the predicted new universal religion, to emerge and unite all people of the world before the advent of the Antichrist, described by Andreev in his book. This new interreligion, as he calls it, should unite the existing religions "like a flower unites its petals", Andreev wrote.

Overview

According to Roza Mira, different religions do not contradict each other, because they tell about different aspects of spiritual reality, or about the same things in different words. Daniil Andreyev compares different major religions to different paths leading to one and the same mountain peak (which he uses as a metaphor for God). Andreyev names five world religions: Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism and Zoroastrianism. Andreyev believes in the Trinity of God, but regards the third hypostasis not as the Holy Spirit, but as the Eternal Feminine.

Andreyev agrees with the Christian dogma that portrays Jesus Christ as the Son of God who came to our world to help it on its way to the Light. However, Andreyev states that the murder of Jesus wasn't planned as a part of Redemption, but that the Devil inspired it to hinder God's plans. Though strongly rooted, psychologically and emotionally, in the Russian Orthodox Church, Andreev also believed in reincarnation and karma, so that his personal faith, as expressed in Roza Mira, represents something of an amalgamation of Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism. (On his deathbed, Andreev was shocked to find that the attending Orthodox priest refused him the last rites; the priest knew that the dying man believed in reincarnation, and so did not consider him a Christian.)

In large part, Roza Mira comprises a spiritual cosmography, a description of the domains which human souls occupy after death or between incarnations—domains resembling, to greater or lesser degrees, the heavens, hells, purgatories, and netherworlds of various religions and mythological systems. One can accordingly compare it to works like the Bardo Thodol (the Tibetan Book of the Dead) and the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri (as well as modern expressions of the same visionary tradition, like The Urantia Book). As a 20th-century entrant in this subgenre, Roza Mira extends its purview beyond the terrestrial Earth to other planets, solar systems, and galaxies. Andreev portrays these domains as inhabited by types of beings recognizable from world religions and mythologies—angels, archangels, demons, daemons, titans, nature spirits or "elementals"—and also by creatures that Andreev called igvas, raruggs, and witzraors, among others. The venues include Atlantis and Gondwana, plus places Andreev called by the names Olirna, Digm, Mudgabr, Fongaranda and others. He portrayed the Earth (Enrof) as the center of a complex structure (bramfatura) of 242 "variomaterial planes". Similar structures allegedly abound in the known universe, so that Andreev's cosmos comes to resemble the "niutas of kotis of Buddha countries" (i.e. tens of millions of alternative realms) described in the Buddhist sūtras.

Concepts

Relation to Russian history

Andreev describes in detail both past and future history of the world (and Russia in particular) from his metaphysical point of view.

References

  1. ↑ "Ruslana Korshunova suicide reveals dark, new Russia: book". Daily News (New York). 16 November 2014. Retrieved 18 November 2014.
  • Daniil Andreev. The Rose of the World. Lindisfarne Books, USA, 1997. ISBN 0-940262-83-5

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