“Out of Russia comes again the hope of the world”(
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Russians played a significant role in the revival of the esoteric sciences
in the modern world. The flamboyant Russian Madame Blavatsky (1831-1891)
founded the Theosophical Society in 1875 and to this day her writings
continue to be studied by seekers of arcane knowledge. The Russian
Orientalist and painter Nikolai Roerich (1874-1947), with his wife Elena,
developed the school of Agni Yoga. Roerich received many of the world’s
highest honours for his prodigious humanitarian, cultural and artistic
endeavours. The books of the Russian journalist P.D. Ouspenski (1878-1947)
still enjoy a wide and influential readership. While groups devoted to the
ideas of his enigmatic spiritual teacher G.I. Gurdjieff (1866-1949) are
active throughout the world. And all these gifted thinkers shared the
conviction Russia had a special destiny to fulfil in ushering in a new
Golden Age civilisation.s
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Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), who established the Anthroposophical
movement, taught that the Slavic “folk soul” would play a major role in
the future development of a new spiritual humanity. (Russians constitute
the largest Slavic nation.) He saw the Slavs as a spiritual bridge between
the Orient (East) and the Occident (West). According to Steiner, the
religious thought of the Orient belongs to the past; the Occident’s
philosophical-scientific thought to the present; the Slavic soul will
bridge the two and create a pathway to a spiritual future. More than any
other national soul, claimed Steiner, the Russian folk soul strives to
realise the world of the spirit. In Russia the synthesis of the highest
features of both Eastern and Western cultures would one day be achieved.
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“Its geographic location places Russia between two extreme, monolithic
cultures — between the materialist countries of the West and the passive,
world-denying countries of the East. It is appropriate that Russia
creatively unite these extremes,” wrote Nikolai Belotsvetov, one of
Steiner’s leading Russian followers.
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Russia In Prophecy
But it is not only the founders of the twentieth century occult revival
who heralded Russia’s special destiny. In the predictions of the famous
British clairvoyant Count Louis Hamon (1866-1936), who wrote under the
pseudonym ‘Cheiro’, we find remarkable references to a spiritual mission
for Russia. Cheiro, whose best selling 1926 Cheiro’s World Predictions
has been described as a prophetic “history of the last seven
decades,” wrote:N
The day will come when Russian waste of blood — the blood he has and
will yet pour out like water — will make ‘a new heaven and a new
Earth…’ …the mysterious Aquarian Age has commenced its dawn across the
world, and already its first rays have revolutionised Russia…
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Remember these words were written years before the Second World War
claimed the lives of more than 20 million Russians.
A new idea of government will little by little spread from [Russia],
which will completely revolutionise Europe, Asia, the Far East, and
Russia will become the most powerful nation in the history of modern
civilization.
Russia, however, having for its zodiacal ruler the sign of Aquarius...
and Uranus, will recover more quickly from revolutions or disaster and
will advance more rapidly towards the achievement of its purpose….
Alice A. Bailey who, like Cheiro, went to the United States from England,
also saw a unique role for Russia in ushering in the New Age civilisation.
Over thirty years ago, with Russia firmly behind the communist iron
curtain, she predicted:
Behind the closed borders of that mysterious and magnificent country
[Russia], a great and spiritual conflict is proceeding, and the rare
mystical spirit and the truly religious orientation of the people is the
eternal guarantee that a true and living religion and culture will
finally emerge. Out of Russia…will emerge that new and magical religion
about which I have so often told you.
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Throughout the readings of the ‘Sleeping Prophet’ Edgar Cayce we again
encounter amazing references to Russia’s special place in the cosmic plan.
Cayce said:
In Russia there comes the hope of the world, not as that sometimes termed
of the communistic, or Bolshevik, no; but freedom, freedom! That each man
will live for his fellow man! The principle has been born. It will take
years for it to be crystallised, but out of Russia comes again the hope
of the world. (Edgar Cayce, 1944, No. 3976-29)
Over a decade earlier Cayce had predicted:
... for changes are coming, this may be sure — an evolution, or
revolution in the ideas of religious thought. The basis of it for the
world will eventually come out of Russia; not communism, no! But rather
that which is the basis of the same, as the Christ taught — His kind of
communism! (Edgar Cayce, c. 1930, No. 452-6)
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On Russia’s religious development will come the greater hope of the
world. Then that one or group that is the closer in its relationship
[with Russia] may fare the better in gradual changes and final settlement
of conditions as to the rule of the world. (Edgar Cayce, c.1932)
[In Russia] a new understanding has come and will come to a troubled
people… (Edgar Cayce, c.1938)C
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All these predictions were made at a time when Russia was in the
totalitarian grip of the materialist dogma of Marxism-Leninism. Few people
could have conceived of Russia, the homeland of atheistic communist
revolution, as crucial to worldwide spiritual rebirth.
The fall of communist ideology and the dramatic events stemming from the
collapse of the super power Soviet Union gave fresh impetus to these
predictions of Edgar Cayce, Alice A. Bailey and Cheiro. Before his death
G.I. Gurdjieff, one of the most amazing spiritual teachers to come out of
pre-revolutionary Russia, told his students: “Remember what now I say,
begin in Russia, finish in Russia.” While the Indian guru Osho, an equally
enigmatic and controversial teacher, is reported as observing:
Russia seems to be a land of destiny, not only for its own people, but
for the whole world. It was the first to revolt against capitalism; it is
going to be again the first to revolt against dictatorial communism. The
future is of a democratic communism, a communism rooted in the freedom of
man...
As we enter the twenty first century, humanity still waits for what Edgar
Cayce called the “new understanding”, the “revolution in religious
thought”, what Alice A. Bailey termed “that new and magical religion.”
Could it be Russia, a land that has endured so much in this twentieth
century, will finally fulfil its prophetic destiny in the new millennium?
Revolution, civil war, famine, two world wars, political repression….were
these just part of a catastrophic cleansing process signalling the end of
one cycle and the beginning of a new, superior cycle in which Russia will
discover its true cosmic mission? On the eve of the third millennium the
real question seems to be: “Are we ready to receive that ‘new
understanding’ soon to come out of Russia?” "
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