Non-mystical revelation

By editor in Teaching Anatomy May 16, 2025

The concept of “revelation” is usually associated with religion. I say “usually” because this word is sometimes used to emphasise the effect produced on someone by received information or a realised fact (“it was a real revelation for him”). In such cases, there may even be an ironic undertone. But in most cases, a revelation is understood to be an address to a human being by a deity or some other higher power. Higher — meaning those whose capabilities and very existence lie beyond not only human comprehension, but also the laws of Nature. Therefore, revelation is understood as a supernatural, mystical phenomenon. Which means that from the perspective of science, and indeed simply of common sense, it belongs to the realm of myth or superstition. In other words, from this point of view, revelations do not exist. They do not exist at least because those from whom these revelations could be received do not exist.

This approach appears entirely reasonable. But it contains a flaw at its core, which lies in the ossified association of the source of revelation with something supernatural. As a result, everything is lumped together: if it is a revelation, then it must be mystical. But what if it isn’t? What if we do not equate the two? What if a revelation is an informational message that does not necessarily originate from a supernatural source? Especially since what is usually considered supernatural is something not understood. Or, from a scientific point of view, something undiscovered and unexplored.

Yet science’s capabilities are still very limited, and the scope of its vision far too narrow for it to be able to record and study many phenomena, even those of human life or of such a local scale as that of our planet — let alone of universal scales. Science has some understanding of the laws of Nature — or rather, of how the action of some of them appears. But it has no idea that these laws have an energetic component, possessing a specific form of intelligence and self-awareness. One could say that each law and phenomenon of Nature has a soul — an energetic being whose purpose in life is to carry out that law or phenomenon. Since the fundamental laws are the same for the entire Universe, the scale of these beings is likewise universal. In the Teaching, they are referred to as higher elementals or gods. Of course, “god” is far from the most appropriate term, since in human consciousness it is firmly associated with religion. Unfortunately, no better term has yet been devised. Therefore, the Teaching uses it — specifically noting that in this case, it carries no religious connotation. By “gods” we mean energetic entities that are elements of the system of Nature and control the operation of its laws and processes.

From time to time, some of them may enter into communication with humans. These are revelations. Real revelations — as opposed to the false ones born of religious imagination, fuelled by myths and superstitions. What is a real revelation? Essentially, it is Nature addressing a person. When there is an urgent need, it transmits a certain amount of information from one of its particles (an energetic being controlling one of its laws) to another of its particles (a human being). This is an information exchange within a single system. And there is nothing supernatural, nothing mystical about it. Those whom we call gods do not stand above the laws of Nature and do not reshape them at will. On the contrary: their very essence lies in ensuring the optimal fulfilment of these laws. One could even say this: they themselves are the laws of Nature. But since this is difficult for the human mind to grasp, it ends up falling into one of two extremes: either it begins to see something supernatural here, or it rejects it outright, reasoning that the supernatural does not exist. The second extreme arises in opposition to the first. And both miss the mark. Yet to overcome this apparent impasse, it is enough to understand a simple thing: not everything that cannot — for now — be touched or explained is supernatural.

From time to time, the one called in the Teaching the God of Wisdom addresses humans (and, more broadly, the intelligent races of the Universe). This occurs when a crisis of knowledge befalls one of those races, and its further successful development is placed in jeopardy. At such a critical moment, the God of Wisdom transmits a certain body of knowledge to one of its representatives — and this serves as an impulse that helps overcome the crisis. Why “God of Wisdom”? In truth, this is a somewhat generalised designation. We use this term to refer to an elemental being connected with the universal storehouse of information — that is, with the realm of the energy world where, like in a data bank, everything that has ever existed in the Universe is recorded, and where the probabilities of what may yet exist are also reflected. In the Teaching this is called the tablets, in other traditions it is known as astral imprints, the energy-information field, the Akashic records. If we liken them to a kind of universal archive, then we may say that the God of Wisdom is its keeper and administrator.

He has addressed humans more than two dozen times, each time passing the Teaching to the one he chose as his prophet. The term “prophet”, like the term “revelation”, bears no mystical meaning in the Teaching. A prophet is one who receives a revelation. But, as mentioned above, a revelation not from some supernatural being, but from Nature herself. In this case, she is personified — or, if you prefer, represented as a messenger — by the God of Wisdom. It is worth emphasising in particular that this succession of prophets does not include the prophets of various religions and teachings. In our time, it has become fashionable to group them all together — supposedly, they all conveyed the same Truth, and therefore there exists continuity among them. In reality, this is not the case. Different religions are different religions, and their prophets conveyed different versions of the Truth, in accordance with their own understanding of it. They bear no relation to the Teaching. The prophets of the Teaching, who received knowledge from the God of Wisdom, are prophets of the Teaching alone, and not of any other teachings or religions.

I happened to be the one who received the last revelation given to humans by the God of Wisdom. When it began, I could not at once understand what was happening — primarily because I had received a Soviet atheist upbringing and regarded belief in gods and revelations as a product of religious obscurantism and an opiate for the people. That is, I was caught in the mindset which, as mentioned above, holds that anything which cannot be touched or explained is supernatural. It took me some time to realise that “the unknown” by no means equates to “the supernatural”. But once I understood this, everything fell into place.

Here is how I tell in another place about the beginning of the revelation:

“One day, a voice sounded in my head, telling me that I was to become the founder of a certain teaching. My reaction was not so much surprise as bewilderment. I simply did not know how to respond to such a strange occurrence. After some thought, I decided it was an illusion. All the more so as I was ill at the time — coughing, with a fever. I had never had hallucinations during illness before; but how else could what had happened be explained?

A few days passed, and the mysterious voice spoke to me again. Then again. And then it began to happen regularly. Later, an image was added to the voice, which I perceived with my inner vision. Gradually, those fragmentary addresses turned into proper conversations. I learnt that it was the God of Wisdom speaking to me — known chiefly as Hermes — and that he intended to pass on to me a teaching which I would later be required to reveal to humankind. Naturally, I asked the question which immediately became the most pressing for me: “Why me?” No answer followed.

I say that I heard a voice — but that is not quite accurate. In truth, there was no voice as such. What the Teacher intended to say was simply impressed upon my mind. I cannot explain the mechanism of this form of communication. It was as though the words themselves, as a sequence of phonemes, were not perceived either by hearing or by consciousness — yet their meaning and sense were received as if the spoken message had been heard and processed by the brain. I do not know whether the term “telepathy” is applicable here. I never did come up with a name for this phenomenon — nor, to be honest, did I particularly try to.”

Later on, to the addresses of the God of Wisdom were added complementary ones from certain other gods, and, later still, from human beings who also addressed me from the world of energy. All of these were parts of a single revelation, through which an ancient teaching was revived — one that had been transmitted to humankind many times over the course of tens of thousands of years, and which is known to us today as the Teaching of the United Temple.

A teaching — yes; but not a religion. The sources of our revelation are not supernatural beings, but the forces of Nature and human beings who, in the interval between incarnations, dwell in the world of energy. There is nothing supernatural either in the world of energy itself or in the idea of reincarnation: it is simply the energetic level of the Universe, which has always been perceived by people as a mystical “otherworld” or “the beyond”, and which modern science is now drawing ever closer to discovering and studying. That is to say, in the case of the Teaching, the concept of “spirituality” bears no relation to religiosity; the gods are not supernatural beings and do not demand worship; and there is nothing mystical in the revelation. A little earlier, I said that what takes place here is an exchange of information within a unified system. This ought to be very clear to the modern person, living as they do in an age of information technology and witnessing the constant circulation of information in society. One further step is required: to realise that this sphere of informational exchange includes not only the individual and human society, but extends beyond the bounds of the physical world, reaching into the energetic level of Nature. And in principle, this step is not so difficult. Every follower of the Teaching takes it. Once the whole of humankind has taken it, then the age of mystical revelations and imaginary gods shall come to an end.