74. Since when we are in crisis?

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We enter a crisis whenever we disconnect from the One and Only, because, as a result of our misguided decisions, we choose materiality over spirit (wisdom), thus renouncing our existence. We have misunderstood the free will given to us by the One and Only, and we continue to misunderstand it even today. Therefore, the crisis is existential, not related to life itself. It is not material that is in crisis, but our soul. Over time, only the degree or depth of our separation has changed. It has become inevitable that materiality takes precedence, while spirit is pushed to the background. If we look at the events of today, we surround ourselves with more material goods than ever before. 

There has never been such a degree of "material prosperity," comfort, never so many clothes, shoes, or cars. There have never been so many businesses, factories, financial institutions, and administrators. May be we have forgotten that the greater the material comfort, the greater the laziness of the soul, the deeper the sleepwalking, and thus the greater the sunk into materiality. The sleepwalkers, the people who exist outside of time, can at least be divided into two groups. The first lives as if there is no crisis, because they do not perceive their real situation or what is happening around them. They are the ones who seemingly enjoy life and believe that what they do not notice does not exist. They are unaware of time, their tasks, or the sacred responsibilities entrusted to them, acting as if they have nothing to attend to. They wear a Pharisee mask, hide themselves, are ignorant and out of time. 

The second type is the outsider, who is aware of what is happening to them but believes that they are in a special situation where they also know the solution, for example the representatives of political parties, if they take their programs seriously. But outsiders can also include representatives of certain sciences that propose universal solutions, or those involved in social movements who want to solve the situation with proposals coming "from below" or "from above." Outsiders are characterized by attempting to solve the problem "from the outside" with theories, ideals, imperfect systems, abstract ideas, concepts, and worldviews, which they try to impose on the situation. 

They suffer from phase-shifting and obsolescence, always lagging behind, and since these delays accumulate, the time span grows longer, and they become increasingly left behind. The crisis is existential; it always arises at the level of the soul. The soul "decides" whether to resolve the crisis, which we call catharsis, ecstasy, purification, a return to the truth of life, or a spiritual "climbing back," which only the true and normal person can achieve. The weak person, on the other hand, often escape ahead and hides in life's falsehoods. Those who can resolve the crisis do not hate, do not curse, and do not cast blame because they are in alliance with the One. Only in this way can they lift others up. Those who cannot resolve the crisis sink into collapse and disaster, dragging others down with them. 

Since the individual soul's ability to resolve (with soul) or to maintain (soulless) the crisis is projected also onto the societal level, we can distinguish different crisis epochs in human history, such as:

1. The transformation of faith into religion (around the 4th century): This marked the beginning of many subsequent crises over the centuries. With the emergence of state religion and an adherence to the letter, the religious powers of the time managed to suppress the true teachings of our Initiation Master. As a result, less and less of his wisdom reached people's consciousness. The necessity of knowledge, the sacredness of love, or the needs for the apocalypse were left out of religion. These concepts were either abstracted, clouded, or presented in a negative light. This ignorance was further compounded by the Pharisee-like attitudes and materialism of church leaders. With their help, we arrived at a point where today the church is neither a teacher, mystic, nor metaphysical, but rather a charitable, social, celebratory, and political institution. 

Today, the church is no longer contemplative because the thinkers, spiritual leaders, and meditators—those who knew that one must believe without seeing and seeing with faith—have disappeared. Instead of restoring order, the church developed its own institutional structure and dogma, punishing or removing those who rejected it. Power struggles even affected the popes of the times. At one point, religion signified openness in everyday life, and human occupations were often considered "priestly" roles. Later, dogma transformed religion into a tool of power. From order, a system was created, which meant building boundaries. Thus, religion became closed, power-hungry, warring, excommunicatory, and world-centric. 

2. The beginning of the modern, liberal, and global era (around the 1500s): This era paved the way for the reformation, renaissance, and enlightenment, which further submerged humanity into materialism and laid the foundations for the destruction that would later be manifested in the modern Babel of the 21st century. In this era, the use of money in credit (e.g., financing wars by the non-pagan Fugger and Medici families), the conquest of the New World, and later, Descartes’ rational thought, drove people further away from the One and Only. During this period, humanity became the prisoner of its own mental prison and gradually transformed into an object, or material. In humanism, the individual self-became the centre of existence, orbiting around itself, because the One—the "omnipresent and nowhere"—no longer existed for them, the One in whom everything meets and from whom everything originates. 

The phrase by Descartes, "I think, therefore I am," was probably unknown to the traditional Hungarian man, who simply touched on the essence of the matter when he said, "If we are, then let us be." That is, if the One has already created us, then let us live in a way that pleases the One. Otherwise, we are fine without rational thinking. As awareness of the One gradually weakened, sleepwalking (sleep induced by power) increased, the individual self-took centre stage, and everything was subordinated to it. The "self" became God, as seen in Nietzsche's concept of the "overman," and later, in practice, that was realized by figures like Hitler.