Spiritual Practice - I. LAMA

mean something opposite, opposition, denial). On his head is a crown of twelve stars. The star is usually used in expressing the height of something, so it indicates a high position, to the top. The presence of a wife, a dragon, and Michael in heaven suggests that those communities that stand behind these metaphors, as a rule, unite people with a fairly high spiritual level.

Wife clothed in the sun, the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars – the image of the hermit Anastasia from the books of Megre (obvious interpretation).

Wife clothed in the sun, the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars – the forbidden religious group AUM Shinrikyo (underlying interpretation). The main symbol of Japan, in which AUM Shinrikyo originated, is the sun, which is depicted on its flag. The AUM logo is crowned with twelve petals. Twelve stars and petals here means the number of apostles (bodhisattvas – arhats who have reached the level of Mahayana Yoga and above). The organization has trained 250 saints and 50 of them are arhats. The founder of AUM Shinrikyo put forward and worked out in detail the idea of a different structure of society, based not on consumerism, but on spirituality. This organization itself existed precisely on such grounds. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, after the execution of the founder, this religious group was formally headed by the wife of the founder. "She was in the womb and screamed from the pains and pangs of birth" is an advertising campaign of unprecedented scale, deployed by the group around the world. The labor pains here signify the attainment of the final liberation which has been proclaimed to the whole world. "And two wings of a large eagle were given to the wife so that she would fly into the desert to her place from the face of the serpent" – AUM Shinrikyo was renamed Aleph, and took the dove as a new symbol for herself. "And the wife fled to the desert, where a place was prepared for her from God to be fed there for one thousand two hundred and sixty days" – Japan is practically the only country where the followers of AUM Shinrikyo are not prosecuted by law. "And the dragon was furious with the woman, and went to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ." – Groundless accusation of AUM Shinrikyo followers of terrorism and their criminal prosecution.

Wife clothed in the sun, the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars – socialism. The baby in this interpretation is communism, which, through the fault of militant capitalism, was never destined to be born.

She was with child. She cried out in pain, laboring to give birth – the idea of promised communism, the idea of rejecting consumerism and appropriation was born very hard, in the most severe ideological disputes, fights.

Red dragon – is capitalism. Behind capitalism stands hedonism, consumerism and the appropriation that follows from consumerism, i.e. consumerism at the expense of others. Appropriation is bad because the government allows itself to appropriate what belongs to the people, and does it as if it were normal, in the order of things. Although, in fact, this is dishonest and unfair. The same applies to the material values produced by the working people. These values should belong to the one who produces them and, accordingly, those who create them should also dispose of these values.

Great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven crowns – Great Seven (G7). Here, capitalism (the dragon) as an abstract form of the structure of society is objectified by a number of specific states. The red color here means military force. Diadima means crown. The Big Seven includes France, USA, Britain, Germany, Italy, Japan, Canada. The leaders of these states participate in the work of the supranational international club. In fact, this seven ruled the whole world. Ten horns here means a number of other European states that do not have real sovereignty and do not decide on their own issues of their personal politics. The presence of the dragon initially in the sky, and then on the earth, means that initially the leaders of the states included in the club had a fairly high spiritual level. However, then the spiritual level of the leadership of states fell.

His tail drew one third of the stars of the sky, and threw them to the earth – here the fall of those stars that made up the crown of the wife is indicated. That is, out of twelve stars, the wife has only eight left. The dragon encroached on his wife, attacked her, then turned away, and, without even noticing this, knocked out four stars from his wife's crown. It is clear that after the blow with the tail, the wife of the stars became less. However, there is a slight inaccuracy here. John says that these stars fell to the earth. However, it would be more correct to say that they were rather "extinguished", but did not "fall" to the ground. That is, it is almost impossible for an entity to first have a level higher than just high. That is, much higher than just high. And then, suddenly, just from a blow with the tail, fall very low. Lower than an ordinary person of high spiritual level. This doesn't happen. That is, souls with a very, very high spiritual level do not fall so abruptly.

Under capitalism, the best minds of mankind serve the development of higher science, and higher science serves the army. The dominant religion in these countries is the ideologist of the consumer state structure of society. Specifically, in Russia it was Orthodoxy. In Europe – Catholicism. One of the main ideas that is inspired in numerous temples of any