Priest Peter Ivanov

The pregnant Anastasia orders Puzakov to return to the world to organize "honest entrepreneurs" for the sake of the revival of Russia. He arrives in Moscow, but fails and as a result almost commits suicide. Then Anastasia "switches" him to writing. In total, nine books should be written about it (1, p. 364), that is, five more volumes remain to be invented.

The problem that Puzakov has already begun to face is obvious. People who believe in his fables want to see Anastasia. It is difficult to "present" anything other than a vulgar photo. That is why the slogan is proposed: "I exist for those for whom I exist" (1, p. 149). If you don't believe it, it's your problem. But just in case, a retreat maneuver is conceived: over time, the author, quite possibly, will kill his heroine. The first hint is found in Puzakov's conversation with "Anastasia's grandfather". The question is asked: "Will she inevitably die?" Grandfather answers: "It's hard to say. Everyone (from the family of the "enlightened" – Author) died much earlier, and she more than once embarked on the path that predicted physical death, but each time at the last moment the forgotten law that was stronger in its priority flashed brightly... He left life in her earthly body" (1, p. 376). So, if necessary, the plot allows...

Until this happened, we find mentions that Puzakov visited his girlfriend in the forest several times: "every time I was in the taiga" (3, p. 136), that is, several times. He even had to send her on a trip to Russia: Anastasia allegedly arrived incognito at a conference of sectarians in Gelendzhik (3, p. 385).

For us, of course, the new sectarian teaching is of great interest. As a matter of fact, not even a teaching, but a chaotic heap of statements about the divine. Puzakov's reader is unpretentious, religiously uneducated, but longs for contact with something mysterious and at the same time confirmed by "popular science literature". After all, everyone was an atheist in the past, and now I want something simple, but mysterious.

Puzakov - Anastasia about God

First of all, let us turn to the statements of Puzakov and his literary heroine about God. It is described as an "interplanetary mind, an intellect" that is half "in the extra-material world" in the form of a complex of energies (that is, it decomposes into its component parts), and the other half is "dispersed on Earth, in every person" (1, p. 48). Pantheistic motifs are felt here. God turns out to be an impersonal rational substance scattered in the world.

With cosmic intelligence, the author and his heroine have some confusion. First, it is proposed to "take advantage of cosmic intelligence... exchange information with him" (1, p. 85). What does this mean? To use the Divine wisdom by "spending the night under the starry sky" (ibid.)? Apparently, we are talking not only about this, but also about something else, because then we read: "cosmic forces will be with you and will help you achieve the most inconceivable bright dreams, find peace of mind," and so on. (1, p. 86). Thus, Puzak's cosmos is a space inhabited by an innumerable variety of different entities, both divine and of other origin.

What are these cosmic forces that arouse "dreams" in the soul, creating the appearance of peace? Aren't they demons? By the way, in the future, Puzakov will compose Anastasia's story about evil "entities" living in the universe. If so, does it mean that it is not safe to turn to the star world, because different "entities" live there?

In Megre-Puzakov's book "The Space of Love" there is a definition of what the "light forces" are. These are not at all bodiless beings of the angelic world, but "bright thoughts ever produced by people" (2, p. 48). Then we learn that evil entities can also be created by man himself.

The disclosure of the theme takes place against the background of the growth of dualistic motifs in the reasoning of a forest dweller. For example, it teaches that in any human creativity there are "two opposites", that is, good and evil are immanently inherent in human nature, and the question is in the choice that the person makes (1, p. 232). A positive choice is made through contact with God, who contains "His particle" in each person (1, p. 234).

Puzakov has an unclear and vague angelo-demonology. Anastasia mentions some mysterious forces that are subject only to God, calling them "THEY" (sic. – Author). These "they" have a certain plan for managing events taking place in the world (1, p. 138) in order to "carry people through a period of time of dark forces" (1, p. 148). It is not the Savior of the world – Jesus Christ, but "they" who act as the saviors of the world from evil. The Lord appears in Puzakov's writings as one of the enlightened ones who were, are and will be. People persecute them, "Jesus Christ, for example. And God again sends His sons" (namely, sons with a small letter, here there is a complete denial of the Saviour's sonship with God. — Leg.) (1, p. 232).

So, there are light and dark entities generated by man, and in addition, there are forces of good and evil that exist in the cosmos and are in a contradictory relationship with God, which we will learn about a little later.