Who sent Madame Blavatsky?
Well, let's check it out.
The word "sin" is indeed found twice in the 14 books of the Living Ethics. But at the very first mention of it, it is endowed with a meaning very far from that which Christianity gives it: "'Sickness is from sin,' says the Scriptures. Let us say – illness from the imperfection of the past and the present" (Heart, 96). In Christianity, sin is not an imperfection, but a conscious choice. Only God is perfect. In comparison with Him, everything is imperfect: "He sees faults even in His angels: how much more in those who dwell in tabernacles of clay, whose foundation is dust" (Job 4:18-19). To be imperfect means to be created. Since we did not create ourselves, but the Lord, it is not a sin to be imperfect. Creation is the primordial condition of our human existence, the condition humain. Sin is a refusal to outgrow this condition, a refusal to strive to cross the boundary between the created and the uncreated, a self-willed rejection of God's call and God's commandment.
So the spirits who were friends with the Roerichs quite consciously refused to include the word sin in their vocabulary. Two mentions of this word, and in one of the cases the mention is rather polemical in relation to Christianity, is a sign that the spirits themselves do not work with this word; This word is not close to them and is unnecessary.
The word "repentance" occurs twice in the Supermundane, but both times in a critical context: "The so-called repentance" (260 and 570)! In the book "The Call" under the date 26.07.1922 indicated in the "Symphony" it is said that "there is no repentance"[571].
It remains to check the last of the four uses of the words "repentance" and "repentance" in the books of the Living Ethics. "Signs of Agni Yoga", paragraph 52. "The word repentance is not in Senzar's dictionary. It has been replaced by the expression known to you: intelligent cooperation: Consider the hypocritanic nature of the concept of repentance. It is easier for the people to show the essence of repentance by medical example. Through depravity of thinking, a person inflicts a wound on his fellow-man, but neither thoughts nor words can heal this wound. You will have to connect the torn fabric with a series of persistent actions. Reasonable cooperation will have to be shown to restore expediency. The consequence of an action can be healed only by action. No verbal statements, no oaths matter. Whoever knows his foolishness, let him cover it with real reason. Foolishness can be exhausted by rational cooperation. Is not the paid absolution of a repentant sinner the most serious crime? Is not the monetary bribery of the Deity worse than the first forms of fetishism? This frightening question must be covered in many ways, otherwise human linen is very dirty."
The editors of the Symphony explain: "Hypocritan is sanctimonious, hypocritical." That's right – the Greek word in New Testament usage has the meaning of hypocrisy. But what happens then? As we can see, the "mahatmas" themselves admit that the word repentance is absent in their vocabulary, and they use it only to abuse Christians (moreover, the Christian understanding of repentance and confession is utterly profaned - I hope Xenia Myalo knows that they do not take any money for confession in Orthodox churches).
So who is the falsifier?
And I will note once again: the Angels sent from God, according to the Orthodox tradition, fill the soul with repentance: a ray of Light illuminates the soul and exposes the dirty streaks on it, and a person grieves over his sinfulness, and "caring sorrow for the Lord" is born in him[574]. Orthodox repentance is precisely the fruit of communion with God. The better you see the Goal, the more unbearable is the weight of the burden that does not allow you to move towards it faster. Hence the well-known paradox of church life: "eternal" people who have never forced themselves to spiritual labor, people who really live in sins, do not see sins in themselves ("Father, I have no sins: if I cut someone, it is only for business!"). But people are indeed saints who weep over their sins and consider themselves the most sinful of all... It's just that where there is no Light, there is no knowledge of oneself, and there is no repentance. That is why St. St. Isaac the Syrian, that "He who feels his sins is higher than he who by his prayer raises the dead. Whoever has been vouchsafed to see himself is higher than he who has been vouchsafed to see the Angels"[575]. And, on the contrary, the absence of repentance testifies to the fact that the unrepentant heart is far from the true Light. Agni Yoga does not know repentance, does not call for repentance, mocks confession... Therefore, an Orthodox person cannot assess the spiritual state of the Roerichs in any other way than corrupted...
But let us return to our statistics and Roerich's texts and look at the fate of the word "redeemer".
In the Supermundane, the word "redemption" does not refer to Christ or His redemptive Sacrifice ("The wise descend into the greatest darkness to bring out from there those who thirst for redemption" - 187).
In the books of Agni Yoga, anyone is called a redeemer, but not Christ. "The karma of redemption draws near" (The Fiery World 3:367) – since the future tense is used, it means that mankind has not yet been redeemed by Christ. Instead of Christ, everyone claims the status of redeemers: In "Infinity" the word "redeemer" refers to... Helena Roerich: "We have a trusted person on your planet. She is sent to you as our prophetess of the future. That is why the concept of redeemers is so vital" (Infinity, 5). In addition, there is a certain "Tara strives for the redemption of mankind" (Infinite, 219). In addition, a certain "Cosmic Magnet" claims the same role ("the manifestation of redemption is affirmed by the manifested law of the Cosmic Magnet" – Infinity, 546). "To drink the poison of the world in order to be reborn with all its might. A number of redeemers carry the cup of poison, transforming it into Amrita" (Signs of Agni Yoga, 304) "The breath of the Mother of the World, the Giants holding the burden, and the Redeemers who have received the cup – these three images have arisen around one law" (Signs of Agni Yoga, 306). "In the cup of fire is laid redemption" (Peace of Fire 3:25). "The supermundane whirlwinds may be called whirlwinds of redemption" (The Fiery World, 3:107). "The creativeness of the Cosmos determines a different fate for life, therefore redemption is inevitable" (The Fiery World 3:195). "The karma of mankind consists of a mosaic of the most terrible redemptions" (The Fiery World 3:314). "The purification of matter and spirit takes place only by the fiery energies and centers intensified in spatial redemption" (The Fiery World 3:355) "Every action is considered necessary for redemption" (Heart, 202). In general, "man himself redeems" (Infinity, 897).
For sure - "The Teaching about the Redeemers has an application in all that exists" (Signs of Agni Yoga, 417). But if "all things" redeem themselves, then Christ's sacrifice becomes superfluous. For this reason the paragraph just quoted continues: "Verily, just as one can influence and approach through teraphim, it is also possible through one's consciousness to take upon oneself the karma of others. One can accept the karma of the collective, so the name of the Redeemer will not be superstition" (Signs of Agni Yoga, 417).
And who thinks superstitiously about the Redeemer? "The Christian Fathers speak with a truly diabolical pitch..."[577]. On Good Friday, no Redemption took place. "On that day, Christ occultly became not the SALVATION of mankind, but RETRIBUTION" (578). "No one can save the other. Only by one's own efforts does the spirit rise to the predestined beautiful worlds" [579]. "The sectarian view that it is only through the manifestation of Christ that mankind has been saved from the wiles of the devil." "Christ, who supposedly atoned for our sins once and for all" [581]. "Thus came the terrible sacrilegious manifestations: the terrible inculcation of the notion that Christ's death on the Cross saved mankind from original sin and all that followed."
And what is "redemption" in the understanding of Agni Yoga? "Speaking of cycles, let us have in mind the movement of cosmic correspondence. Precisely, let us consider redemption as a fiery construction. These cycles will be established by three causes: the transmutation of old accumulations, the purification of space, and the intensification of the great future" (The Fiery World, 3:318). "The karma of mankind consists of a mosaic of the most terrible redemptions" (The Fiery World, 3:314).