I once mentioned that I’m not an egalitarian, but you would probably assume wrong if you tried to guess the rationale behind this. You see, I’ve seen more diversity in souls, human or otherwise, than you could possibly imagine. Especially, I’ve seen diversity in souls that inhabit a similar body type; for instance, in a “young European woman” body type I’ve seen everything from completely generic, unformed low-astral structures, in great variety of structures and shapes, high-astral (some would call them mental) very sophisticated structures sometimes bordering on outright vajra initiation, and outright Gods on the extreme end – structures that use vajras, not only blue but even higher, as “ornaments”, while the spiritual body itself is of much higher quality, which you can’t imagine before having actually seen it. Also, within the spectrum of very similar body types I’ve seen huge variety in intelligence, from “stupid as fuck”, to “genius”, and in character, from “Satan’s asshole” to “aspect of God”. You can’t be an egalitarian if you’ve seen all this. Also, I’ve seen huge differences in typical soul-types between India and Europe. Obviously, incarnation is not a random thing. You don’t just randomly incarnate somewhere. This doesn’t mean that soul-type strictly follows a racial or a cultural group, but I did notice strong patterns. For instance, after getting used to the soul-types prevalent in India, I was shocked at the much greater sophistication and complexity of the ordinary Italians in the airport in Rome.

You would expect that the ability to see this would be exciting or entertaining. I assure you, for the most part it’s the exact opposite, because the statistical distribution of soul-types seems to follow a Gaussian pattern, which means that most of what I see is a very simplistic, coarse type that doesn’t differ greatly from the soul-types I saw in animals. In very rare cases you see something that’s not actually animalistic, demonic or disgusting. As you can imagine, observing all this, all the time, gave me my wonderful optimism regarding human nature. 🙂 Seeing the same energy-structure in a man and in a dog makes it quite impossible for me to see humans in general as my equals; if anything, I define my equal in terms of a soul-type, not a body-type.

Since, obviously, in the spiritual worlds there are no material laws, we cannot measure the spiritual powers in material units. This, however, doesn’t mean that laws and limitations don’t apply.

One of the limitations is that a being cannot harm another being to the extent greater than the harm it was inflicted upon by that same being. In practice, this means that the very laws of the spiritual world take form of an invisible shield that protects beings from harm, and the only way to invalidate this shield is to sin against another being, in which case this being can retaliate, but only to the justified extent, after which retaliation no longer “goes through”. You will now ask how is it possible for an offence to take place at all if harm is forbidden by the very fabric of reality, but it’s possible. For instance, if someone attempts an obvious use of force against someone’s will, that won’t work. However, if one gives permission and his limits are exceeded, this is a form of harm. We can use sex as an example – you cannot rape someone, but you can exceed the limits of acceptable during consensual sex, and this form of harm can be retaliated against, but one cannot over-compensate.

From this, it is obvious that the main form of harmful attack is performed by trickery and illusion, by luring someone into accepting something that turns out to be harmful. This is nothing new – in Hindu scriptures, this was elaborated in great volume, and it was illustrated how even the Gods can be tricked into granting blessings that can be abused and become a source of great trouble, because once a God gives his word, he is bound by it and cannot rescind it. This allows for recursive complexity, for instance a God grants a blessing to another, lesser being, to grant or refuse access to some holy artefact. This being can be tricked more easily than God, but his grant has the power of God’s own word. Also, the artefact in question can have power greater than its guardian, and the consequences of granted access can go far beyond the scope of guardian’s normal powers and responsibilities. My highest-probability estimate is that this is how this world happened to be created. There’s a special artefact, which is basically a spiritual jewel which was crated as a remnant of God’s will in touch with the Creation, which was to grant the ability to the spiritual beings to manifest their creativity by spawning alternative realities, basically creating the modified laws under which new “universes” can be spawned. Since, obviously, one can’t be allowed to access this thing just like that, some worthy spiritual being was appointed to approve or deny requests for its use. This jewel, let’s say that it’s basically God’s power to create Universes, to control their local space and time, to adjust their laws, and this ability is bound by the desire for the beings to evolve and know God. This jewel was both created by God, and is an aspect of God, which is and isn’t separate from God. Basically, like all high spiritual realities, it contains its own paradoxes. If you will, you can call it the world engine – it’s something akin to an infinitely powerful computer which can render an infinite number of discrete Universes, inhabited by countless spiritual beings, and create realities which are both illusory and real – illusory because only God is real, and real because they can be objectively perceived and tested in all kinds of ways.

Since this jewel isn’t astral in its nature, only a control aperture (my term for this structure, BTW) is located in the astral world, and this control aperture is like a “pointer” to a memory location in programming terminology, or a ssh terminal with root access to the server. If the control aperture is closed, the astral world loses access to the jewel. However, it is the will of God for the jewel to be accessible to the spiritual beings with legitimate claims, which creates and maintains the control aperture, which is guarded by an elder.

How this person got to be appointed to the role, I don’t know. I do know, however, that there was no precedent of misuse, and that he was not inherently suspicious of requests. The problem with Sanat Kumar is that he seems to have been insane, in the sense that he didn’t differentiate between reality and his wishes, and one can’t really tell whether he’s lying. When Sanat Kumar tells you he has a wonderful plan which will create a new way for souls to evolve more quickly, under more compassionate laws, where the majority of those who would otherwise be lost would be redeemed and attain unity with each other and God, he really believes it. There seems to have been something suspicious about it, since he was granted access to the “world engine”, but in a limited way. Also, there were negotiations. He had to accept a time limit. However, he was granted non-disclosure on the exact amount of the limit; so, nobody but him and God can know the exact date of expiration. The existence of the time limit is not protected, however; one can be told that it exists. Anyone is allowed to enter his creation and experience it, by accepting his rules upon entry. I do know that I had a very good idea that it would end very badly, despite the fact that the specifics of the world’s ruleset were not known at the time. I also know that my objection was disregarded by the guardian. You can guess the rest. It all ended badly, and since the thing couldn’t be deactivated from the outside (God gave his word, remember?), some beings attempted to at least help the trapped ones from the inside, in turn becoming trapped, and attracting others who tried to help them.

So, basically, God didn’t directly grant permission for this shithole to be created. In fact, its creation and nature are so immensely against God’s will, that the guardian of the aperture apparently died – the last thing I can feel from him is great remorse, sorrow and regret for allowing this horror of horrors to take place. However, since it was his right to basically sign off on requests with God’s authority, the permission still holds.

You can see the problem. Apparently, in the astral world you can lie if you’re crazy enough to believe you’re telling the truth. Also, if you really believe that something will prove to be better than God’s design, you are believed to be acting in good intention. And God didn’t interfere much, because free will and creativity would be impossible if he immediately blocked everything he didn’t like. The analogy with sex is valid – you accept to bring someone to your bedroom, and if that person turns out to be a psychopath who starts doing crazy and disgusting shit during sex, you can regret it, but you’re fucked anyway. You can’t become un-fucked by wishing it.

I heard an argument why this world couldn’t have been created by Satan, and that’s argument by beauty: essentially, the world contains beautiful things, which Satan couldn’t have created. This argument assumes that Satan couldn’t simply copy and modify a previous structure, inheriting most of the design. Also, I myself made the argument that any being who would be qualified for the role of a devil couldn’t possibly exceed the astral level of initiation, and creation of this world required at least causal level of ability, which is a requirement for modifying the astral mahat-tattva. This argument is much better, and I discovered the basic mechanism that made this possible only recently, and only after years of unmasking layer after layer of deceptions and information-blocks. This world is a paradox – it was created by God, and it truly exists only within God’s spirit, because that’s basically what the jewel is. It’s the intent within God’s spirit to make certain forms of creativity and will-expression possible for the spiritual beings who are below God-level of initiation. Also, the ruleset which was used to create this world started from the astral template, which Sanat Kumar modified, by ordering the jewel to produce a certain kind of results. He was constrained by the necessity of staying true to the wording of the request that he made, and which was granted, so he couldn’t deviate too much into outright evil. Instead, he used ambiguity, things that will be defensible as if having been made in good intent, but which would certainly or almost certainly produce evil. The keyword was “temptation”, because you supposedly cannot show how good you are unless you are presented with a viable temptation for you to refuse or accept. The wording of his commands was such, that he managed to evade punishment for quite a while, and was only caught when he let his guard down for a fraction of a second, when he was completely sure that utmost victory was achieved.

Why am I telling you all this? I’m doing it to illustrate the dangers of the spiritual world. The danger is in consent. Your free will is supreme. Nobody can hurt you or force you against your will. However, with your consent, absolutely anything is possible. You can be deceived, trapped, hurt and destroyed to the last kalapa. In the world based on willpower, idea, consciousness and form, the creative power of a command, or a permission, is not to be underestimated. So, basically, you need to be very careful in the wording of your “spells”, because they are binding contracts. Accepting surprises is potentially deadly. Giving others permission to show you “something” is potentially deadly. Always give yourself the ability to cancel your permission or acceptance of anything at any point if it turns out to be unacceptable. Never allow anything that will modify or inhibit your memory, so that you can’t recall what you accepted or the terms according to which acceptance can be revoked. Why is it relevant? Because you were attracted by something that felt wonderful, for instance a display of the best moments of your potential life, showing you moments of sexual delight or great achievement and satisfaction, and you said “I want that”, you were asked to sign off on a contract which says that you accept all responsibility, that you will hold everyone blameless for any possible adverse consequences of your experience, that you accept the rules of the game, and that you acknowledge that you were informed that what you were shown was an incomplete experience, where only the positive achievements were displayed, but everything you were shown was true. And the next thing you know is that you opened your eyes in an ob-gyn ward, not knowing who you are and how you got here, but wanting to go back to the good place which you could no longer remember.

To be honest, a good number of you reading this are nowhere near that stupid, and you are here because you knew exactly what you’re getting yourselves into, and why. Most of you know who you are.

With spiritual bodies, there are two main considerations: quality and quantity, or, in other words, how sophisticated the substance and structure are, and how big it is. A computer equivalent of this is estimating a CPU’s power by knowing what technological generation it belongs to, and how fast it’s clocked. The more sophisticated technology gives the greatest advantage, and within that, the greater clock speed the better. Comparing “size” alone, in this case clock speed, doesn’t tell you anything valuable. In spiritual terms, comparing spiritual beings by size gives you an important information only if you first look at the quality of structure, which primarily means the energy level and density of the substance it’s made of. One vajra-jewel might “unzip” into entire universes of astral substance, and yet it might look small, the same way a black hole or a neutron star might look small, yet its structure reveals the truth. It’s like comparing mainframe computers from the 1980s with the smartphones of today; an old mainframe is physically imposing but the smartphone is actually more powerful, because it’s all about structure. However, if you build a mainframe system out of modern building blocks, it will have the same power per litre of volume compared to the smartphone, and greater volume will produce linearly more power. This is what I mean by comparing quality first, and quantity second.

So, let’s imagine that physical volume units can be assigned to astral entities, which is not the case but I don’t know how else to formulate this so that it would make sense. A gaseous-form being with a volume of one litre is lesser than a gaseous-form being with a volume of ten litres, all else being same. However, one millilitre of crystal-form being might be greater than an arbitrarily large gaseous-form – and here I mean planetary sizes, because the quality is different and it’s like comparing ordinary matter which is mostly empty space, and comparing neutronium, which is nucleon-density, zero empty space. My observation, when undergoing initiation into vajra 20 years ago, was that the relation between ordinary astral substance and vajra is even more extreme than the relation between rarified gas and a black hole. So, the thing to have in mind is that when I speak of spiritual jewels, or vajra-stuff, it relates to astral matter like black holes relate to cooky jars. It’s literally mind-boggling density. I had the misfortune to have to deal with some corrupted spiritual jewels (yes, that can happen), and that’s the most wicked and malignant shit you can imagine. I’m not sure what’s the physics behind the corruption, but I do know that the creators of the jewels pledged them to Sanat Kumar, and something happened to them which corrupted their entire mass. Not only is that shit bad, it also caused accidents, when my girls cast a glance with their astral vision to see what the hell was it that wrecked my system so badly, and a few kalapas of that substance transferred into their astral bodies, and I had the opportunity to watch what happens when a trained yogi with years of experience dealing with all sorts of bad shit gets struck by that. It’s like watching microscopic black holes tearing through matter. Nothing they could do with astral spell-casting and shielding had any effect, because the “mass” of that shit was too great, although it looked like only a few particles. I had to intervene and transform those particles myself. Basically, if you can imagine black dust that’s as sharp as diamond dust, and as massive as singularity, and simply shreds through everything due to its mass, you get the idea. One kalapa of this substance expands into entire nightmare-worlds of ordinary astral stuff. The expansion rate is huge. I didn’t measure it, because I don’t have any quantifiable metrics at my disposal, but it’s like that zip-bomb file, which is a few kilobytes large but when you unzip it, it expands into terabytes of data, that was used in the BBS era to break a BBS when it tried to unpack the transmission. In order to deal with this kind of stuff you need to have the capacity to move the particles of this matter, in its compressed form, to “order” them around, to orderly decompose them into constituents of lower magnitude, and absorb and transform them in that state.

Why am I talking about this? Because I sometimes mention the spiritual jewels, and I know beyond doubt that almost everybody routinely misunderstands that, thinking that it’s some “normal” but “prettier” form of astral matter, like diamonds are a prettier form of coal. No, it’s not like that. Those “jewels” are not astral matter, they are supercompressed to the point of being another form of matter entirely. The world “causal” is usually thrown around in this context, because that’s how Vedanta classifies things – matter, astral, causal – but I’m not convinced that it makes much sense. Aurobindo’s term, “supramental”, is definitely more accurate, because this is substance that is superior to the mental plane (or, high astral, as I would more accurately name it). The way a black hole is physical matter compressed to such an extent that it goes beyond what matter is normally supposed to do, compressing a whole star into a mathematical point, while retaining its mass. How that works, nobody really knows. Also, in theory vajra is not supposed to be corruptible, although there are marginal scenarios which make it theoretically possible. For instance, if you have a being whose spiritual body is still astral, but contains spiritual jewels, this being as a whole can incarnate in the physical world, be deceived into thinking that this world was created by God, and pledge its spiritual powers and merits to the world’s creator and his intents with this world. I don’t know the actual process of commitment that ought to have been followed in order for such a claim to hold, but I know the aftermath – such beings appear to have been consumed into powering evil, and the jewels were so corrupted, probably due to the fact that they powered immensely sinful deeds such as deceiving other souls by providing a source of false attraction within this world, they had to be deconstructed and transformed at the kalapa level. Essentially, other than Sanat Kumar himself, those jewels were the nastiest, most dangerous things I have ever seen, and I wish to never have such “opportunity” again.

So, we have now established that spiritual matter can exist in many qualitatively and quantitatively different forms. The next thing to understand is evolution of the soul.

The first thing to understand about this is that majority of the Eastern religions assume there’s only one path, only one goal, and that evolution is basically the process of rubber-stamping, of having a soul conform to a pre-existing template of perfection, which is then called enlightenment. It’s either nirvana, or kaivalya, or moksha, but essentially, there’s an assumption that the sinful and bound souls are all different, but that the enlightened souls are all similar, or that they simply merge into a supra-reality where they lose any kind of personal identity. But really, what would be the point of that? To have the end-point reproduce the origin? Really? I don’t think so. Instead, what seems to be happening is that the souls go through vastly different paths and formative experiences, and as a result they are all vastly different. I don’t say “vastly different” like “they are different because they haven’t evolved yet to the point of perfection”, but exactly the opposite, that they have evolved into their own version of perfection. That’s why I have a problem with religions, because they have a template of sainthood. God doesn’t have one. Spiritual development is possible through imagining complex abstract ideas and acquiring knowledge; it could be sophisticated form of love felt for some other super-being; it could be strength, courage and loyalty shown to the ideals under grave pressures and hardships. It could be observation, empathy, identification, basically samyama on other beings and structures, where one extends his consciousness in order to encompass new things and possibilities. It could be challenging the preexisting notions and limits of the known, by testing new ideas, new practices, doing new things and learning from the results. Basically, you can grow on the path of the flower, the path of the warrior, the path of an angel, the path of a saintly iconoclast, the path of a concubine, the path of a scientist, the path of a sorcerer. You can achieve perfection by growing to be God’s love, or to be God’s sword. As I said, the end-results can be as vastly different as a female beauty-love-kindness-insight, or male strength-truth-justice-brilliance. The end-result can be a saintly scholar, a lover who touched God through sexual worship, or a musician who crystallized God into sound-emotion-insights. Obviously, there is great diversity in the good; it’s the evil ones who are so similar one can’t really tell them apart, because the spiritual structure of evil is usually quite simple and rudimentary. As complexity and sophistication grow, so do the differences between the beings. It’s sad that people usually imagine God as some predictable, simple but “good” being, when God is something utterly and incredibly other. Metaphorically speaking, God is the endless vault of treasures – of beauties, of knowledges, of powers, of unimaginable things that cannot be borne by human mind and emotions, and of which human tongue cannot speak. God is not a sea in which you drown in order to become the sea, nor are you supposed to be a drop of seawater which understands that it’s the sea. No. The better analogy is that there’s an endless landscape of wonders that is God, and you can be either a macro lens to explore and record this beauty by magnification, or a wideangle lens that captures the entirety of the landscape, or a video camera that captures beauty in motion, or a sound recording device that captures the sound in its perfection, or a library that manifests tomes of precious knowledge, or a soldier who protects the precious things with his life and sword when they are endangered, or Shakti listening to Shiva explain the intricacies of Yoga. Poetically speaking, spiritual stuff condenses into crystalline vajra-form once it touches God’s perfection, and becomes a perfect “lens” that holds some of God’s perfection, in shape of an individual point of view.