Page 198 - Russian History Viewed through Distorted Mirrors, Vol. 1

Nicolai Levashov. Russian History Viewed through Distorted Mirrors. Vol. 1

quite material, if it is manifested in the material world and passed on to descendants!
A detailed explanation of this phenomenon is given in Spirit and Mind, and here I
would like to draw attention to the essence of it.

Any action, any human activity is accompanied by a certain emotional state, no
matter whether a person realizes this or not. Usually a person recognizes his emotion-
al state at the beginning of his activity when everything is filled with the charm of
novelty for him. In the course of time, when repeating one and the same action, a per-
son loses the sharpness of feeling (and this is natural) and at the subconscious level
stops registering the presence of the accompanying emotions. They simply become a
norm, an inalienable part of a person. This does not mean that the person does not
feel any emotions in regard to his activity. He continues to feel them, often without
realizing it. Only, when he creates something new for himself in the process of his
activity, he again experiences joy and pride in his work. In the moment of performing
the person feels himself to be a creator, no matter what he actually creates. What real-
ly matters is the victory over himself and the achievement of new heights in his crea-
tive work and abilities because of it.

But how does this relate to psycho-type forming and to the development of
man? In the most direct way. Every emotion corresponds to a certain qualitative state
of the third body of the spirit. A change in the emotional state changes the third spir-
itual body’s level of self-dimensionality which determines the type and quantity of
primary matters that will get into the third and fourth bodies of the human spirit. And
this, in its turn, determines the way it may change because of a person’s actions, and
what changes will happen at the level of genetics. Because different types of activity
produce different changes at the level of genetics and spirit, a certain psycho-type is
formed in a person, which mainly, is passed on to subsequent generations. Thus, the
activity which a person engages in changes not only his psycho-type but also, to a
certain degree, his genotype.

Thus, we can observe an amazingly simple and at the same time shockingly
beautiful natural mechanism of human development. We get the chance to understand
and realize what is going on inside us and with us. A clear picture of the nature of
human development through the creative process, which is possible only among peo-
ple in the human community, is unfolded before our eyes. Every man’s action is ac-
companied by a certain qualitative state of his spirit, but not every qualitative state
favours development. Only the creative state brings a qualitative change in the human
spirit. Slave labour can never be conducive to the development of personality. Only
the creative labour of the spiritually free man (preferably, physically free too) creates
the required conditions for evolutional development. In fact, only a person with a free
soul and body is able to become a creator and to evolve. Here are the reasons.

Slave labour, labour under constraint or forced labour, when a person performs
some work not because he wants to do it or because his soul aspires to it, but because
it allows him to maintain himself and his family, is accompanied by one or another
negative emotion. Emotions, both positive and negative, influence the qualitative
state of the third material body of the human spirit, precisely, its level of self-
dimensionality (that being the qualitative state of the third body of the spirit which is

Back to contents 198