52. About you: Chapter 26: If you fall, stand up

Our failures provide us with a good opportunity to stand up again and find the path that leads back to the One and Only. On this path, we are never alone, because:

1. We have all been given the opportunity to get closer and closer to the One. To approach the One, we must walk through our everyday life with open eyes, ears, and soul, with a transcendent sensitivity. It is important to understand that we can only come to know the One and Only by being aware, with a calm soul, in silence, love, and faith. Our Initiation Master helps us with His exemplary life and teachings. What does "Go, and sin no more" mean? In this teachings, we can all recognize ourselves because we continuously sinning, meaning we do things wrongly in thought, speech, and action. The essence of the message is that we should continue along the path our Initiation Master has set for us. Or what does it mean to "cross over to the other shore"? It means we should take the effort to walk the path of life as spiritual beings, born twice so that we may reach the other shore, where we will meet the One.

2. We received a message from the One and Only: we must deny our individual self and unite in ourselves the horizontal (life) plane of the cross with the vertical (being) one, which is nothing other than finding ourselves, discovering our universal self. The cross symbolizes transcendence, the up and down, the vertical and horizontal, being and life. Whenever we see it, we should remember that we are on it, or that our Master has taken us on His back. The symbolic story of the man walking with his Initiation Master in the desert is familiar, where both leave their footprints. But suddenly, only one footprint remains in the sand, that of the Initiation Master. The message is about how to be free and bring order to ourselves, and then teach others, because only with free will and the recognition of order can we follow Him. If we have attachments, we are unfit to follow Him, because we cannot bring order in ourselves. It is also about how to empty ourselves, rid of unnecessary things (mainly our materialism and individual self), and be satisfied with what is necessary. We have been entrusted with the task to continue the work of creation, striving, bringing order, and returning, and to testify this, because there is more to come.

3. We, too, can do what He did. Creation means making, creating alive, such as founding a family, passing on family traditions, fulfilling the role of the link in the chain, as well as creating lifeless things, such as sufficient material goods, so that our fellow human beings and we ourselves can experience the closeness of being here on Earth. The Kingdom of Heaven is similar to the earthly kingdom because, according to analogy, what is above is also below. Creation, the reaching of time, means qualitative creation, the contribution of the spirit to creation, when we strive to restore the order and balance of the world. Creation in love is an art, as it connects with bringing order. To create and redeem, one must be awake, with the self-awareness of universality. Otherwise, it is merely about individuality, work, lovelessness, and selfishness.

4. The One and Only created man on its own image and likeness, that is, as a person with a universal self. This does not mean that the One has a physical manifestation, such as having a head, hands, and feet, or being anthropomorphic. This idea was first articulated by the temple painters and sculptors, such as Michelangelo and Pope Sixtus IV, who unfortunately had a negative influence on later generations. Instead, a common spiritual feature should have been sought and represented, something through which we could truly resemble the One. This could be our inner (non-physical) manifestation, as we can express it in thought, speech, and action, such as through writing, music, and singing, during the practice of love.

The symbolic fall of created man can be observed at least twice. One of it is when first Christian man, living in shared space with the One and Only, left the community. The second is the biblical story of Cain and Abel, when Cain, as the representative of material, settled and an agricultural man, in his envy and jealousy, with his high individual self, kills his twin brother Abel, who represents the shepherding, nomadic people. But let us not forget that Cain did not defeat Abel; he merely removed him from the scene. We can also say that the dark and material man descended from the first human couple killed the heavenly, spiritual man but could not overcome him. This symbol represents the duality of time and space, i.e. the nomadic people moving in space and the settled agricultural people in time. The deviation, the ignorance, in this case, is when the lower-ranking time seeks to overcome the higher-ranking space, when matter attempts to conquer spirit. The works of settled people are works of time, while the works of nomadic people are works of space. Such works were created by the nomadic Hungarians before their final settlement in the Carpathian Basin. The settled peoples created settlements, narrowing space for themselves, while the nomadic peoples did the opposite, occupying space, extending it. Both ways of being manifested simultaneously in time and space, but in different dimensions and degrees. Ultimately, when the nomadic people settled, it could be said that time absorbed and erased space, symbolized by the murder of Abel.