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Nicolai Levashov. Spirit and mind. Vol.1

leader of the tantric pyramid the power to exert an excessive influence on his
followers — over and beyond the accumulation of the needed potential.
Tantric rituals existed for a long time among many nations in the form of the
droit du seigneur, which gave the master the right of first sexual contact with all the
newly wed females of the tribe, thus ensuring his control over his vassals. Such a

barbaric ritual was, in fact, a very real necessity.
During the initial stages of civilization, only tribes with powerful tantric
pyramids survived the constant battles. There were also leaders naturally endowed
with power, but the tantric pyramids always worked, regardless of the leader's
personality. It is noteworthy that practically all gregarious animals, including man,
practiced the tantric method of community organization. That is why man, at the
initial stage of his evolutionary development, obeyed the basic instincts of untamed
nature.

Thus, tantric rituals were inevitable at the beginning of civilization, enabling
the tribes to survive. As civilization developed, man's spiritual foundation began to
emerge and grow, thereby providing new ways to control mass consciousness. Still,

the primitive modes, like black tantra, did not completely disappear, but became
altered to fit the circumstances.
So, the need to find new methods of mass control gave man the impetus to begin
creating and developing his spirituality. With the further development of the family
and the institution of private property, tantric rituals became more and more
unacceptable. Nonetheless, even today there are some African, South American and
island tribes — isolated for eons from the mainstream of evolution — which are still
practicing these rituals.

But the increasing widespread non-acceptance of tantric rituals made the
creation and development of religion inevitable. The old ways yielded to the new.
Tantric rituals that were flourishing for thirty thousand years no longer were in

accord with reality, in terms of the particular stages of evolution that were unfolding.
For that reason, the era of religion came into being about ten to twelve thousand
years ago.
It was not that religions were non-existent before then in one form or another: it
simply means that man was in a different qualitative stage of evolution during that
earlier epoch and therefore their principles of self-regulation were in harmony with
the given phase of development. "Embryonic" religions were waiting for their turn to
emerge. The latter became established very rapidly and were able to pass on the
standard to the next stage of evolutionary development. At a certain stage of
development, an intelligent community will inevitably and of necessity create
religion. The question then arises — what kind of standard is passed on from the
previous community's organization? Let us recall that the tantric system arises out of
the need for the leader to amass enough potential to manage and control his tribe so
as to lead them into the superorganism state — their only means of survival in

crisis situations.
Therefore, the religious institutions that replaced the tantric rituals pursued the
same goal — to collect potential for controlling mass consciousness and turning
the population into a superorganism state at critical moments in history. At

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