Life is often hidden even in the little things. All dreams spring from one net and all rivers flow into one ocean. Someone is sailing on a stormy ocean and may not even know where his barge will take him; or standing on the surface of the still sea and not moving anywhere. The river of life is a dream metaphor of the life journey of the human soul during the time it spends on the earthly plane. The river springs from the source, which is the Source of all waters. The river never returns to its source, but flows into the ocean, where the waters of all rivers meet.
What is the soul? Look in the mirror and you will see her. The soul is you yourself, manifested on the three-dimensional earthly plane. When you die, your earthly body turns to dust, and the soul manifested on the astral plane ceases to manifest itself in dense matter and begins to manifest itself consciously in the aspect of the astral world, where it belongs according to universal justice.
The river of life has two banks, western and eastern, in other words left and right. The sun of the Lord of Spirits sets on the western shore and rises on the eastern shore. On the left bank of the river live wild tribes of cannibals, while on the right bank live pure angelic beings. Along the flow of the river, which grows stronger with increasing distance from its source, the relief, flora, fauna, and creatures living on the banks of the river, can change.This can be understood as life events that is the soul exposed to during her stage on the physical plane. Even a river can have a greater slope, it can be narrow and deeper, or it can be wide and calm.
The human soul sails in its canoe on the river of life, but it is not alone, for it has its Guide, who sits at the back, steering and paddling here and there. A person is at the front, looking around and rowing, sometimes focusing more on one of the sides and thereby getting closer to one of the shores. If he gets closer to the west bank, he risks being shot with poisoned arrows by the cannibals living there, and if he does step out on that bank, he also risks being eaten for dinner.
The west bank is crowded, explosions and racketing are heard there, there are hordes of cannibals, criminal mobsters and brainless zombies. The eastern bank is clean and relatively empty, there are not so many beings, but they are angelic and all the more powerful. If someone tries to get closer to the eastern bank and would like to ascend to this oasis of peace and tranquility, then the angels living there will probably recommend him back to the river, because the soul is not yet pure and mature enough to live there with them. And apparently it is not even the purpose, because it is also true, that the path is the goal.
Someone might think of building a bridge across the river. But that’s probably not a very good idea, because the first thing the cannibals from the west would do, is try to invade the east and eat and destroy everything there. The angels from the east bank wouldn’t push too much to get to the west bank., only if they wanted to look there for a moment to see what is there. To some extent it is symbolic parable to how the earthly Western world represented by the USA and Western Europe is constantly trying to loot and destroy the Eastern Slavic world, represented mainly by Russia. However, this does not mean at all that the Eastern world is ideal and it is not angelic at all, because nowadays it is really mixed up and there is also a lot of confusion in this matter. It’s just a symbolic comparison. The old myths better depicted the boundaries between good and evil, which were clearer compared to today. Finally, the confusion of the present age is a consequence of the evolution of souls participating in the earthly Cycle of Development and Knowledge, which has both a beginning and an end. In the end it will probably be settled somehow, the manner and result of the final settlement and removal of the excessive confusion since ancient times is indicated by many prophecies of ancient and modern prophets. Confusion reigns here as well, and many prophecies are mutually contradictory, or have been shown to be inaccurate, confusing, or downright false.
Bridging the west with the east is like connecting the negative and positive electric current, which will result in a short circuit, smoke, blown fuses and something will stop working. When angels link up with cannibals, something big goes wrong. Many laws and primordial images of the heavenly world are reflected on the earthly plane by the multiple crooked mirrors; just like many people look at the reflection of their face in a pool of dirty contaminated water and call it god.
A soul sailing on the river of life should be aware of which people on its path belong to cannibals and will try to rob it of energy; and which people are helpful to her and will navigate her voyage, so that she can successfully reach her destination port. However, nothing is black and white, there are many shades of color and therefore even the banks of the river are only a symbolic simulation leading to an understanding of the state of affairs. It is not possible to live on two shores at the same time. Even the shores do not always have to be firmly defined, there can also be shallows, marshes, shifting sands and peninsulas. We are either on the eastern side, which, albeit slightly, prevails for a long time, or we are on the western side, if this constitutes the majority of the soul’s consciousness. Running away from cannibals is not easy, if at all possible; and crossing the river on your own can also be challenging.
The soul has an Ego, and if it does not manage it, then it may happen that it will not listen to the admonitions of its Guide – the Spirit and will row back against the current. Maybe memories of something (seemingly) pleasant that she would like to return to, or that something was easier somewhere in the past, will make her do it. Sailing against the current is difficult, and the Spirit may not have an infinite amount of understanding or patience for it. If the soul is obnoxious for too long and does not want to receive advice from its Spirit, which reliably guides it through the pitfalls and rapids of the river, then the Spirit may turn away from it and leave it alone. After all, the Spirit is also a powerful cognitive being; and a person’s adversity, or his constant rejection, can finally stop entertaining him. The spirit will leave her and then it will only follow her from a distance sporadically and sometimes being bored, annoyed or weary.
When the soul gets tired by rowing against the current, it can fall and hits a rock, hits its head, or washes off thoroughly in cold water. Or she will be bitten by a crocodile living in the river. Such things also happen. Or she gets off on the west bank, and there it is obvious what awaits her among the zombies.Perhaps such a comparison is clear. A river often appears in our dreams and this is one of the possible interpretations, that can help us to figure out what such a dream means. Even if life is only a shadow of our dreams, let’s dream and let the Great Spirit guide us. The river of life will then be a spiritual path.
It is beneficial for us to learn to listen to the guidance of the Spirit, our Guide, who navigates us in dreams, through intuition, but also through the human helpers of the Great Spirit. We should be able to discern, which person has what intentions and what level of purity of knowledge they are bringing to you. For this we have to use our Mind, Feeling and Intuition.
If the soul has a strong Ego, then the entities will use the Ego as their gateway and will try to manipulate her, cloud her memory and hijack her mind, lower her level of knowledge and keep her stagnant and stereotyped.
The dark side’s intention is to keep us in the dark, and they do everything possible to prevent us to come to the knowledge of All That Is (ON). They will try to get the soul to the west bank, where she will eventually stay, if they succeed. The soul will stagnate there and they will want to eat her energy until the soul becomes another zombie, also craving the energy of passing travelers, sailing the river of their lives.
The intention of the Spirit is for us to sail with it on the river of our lives, which is also the river of knowledge, because each soul is also a cognitive unit for the Supreme Lord and the Lord of Spirits. If we are helpful to (our) knowledge, so will the universe be inclined to us and will accommodate us.
On the west bank of the river, in addition to cannibals, criminals and zombies, there are also human souls, who are too subject to matter in the current earthly life, prefer the illusion of the material world, and have left their divine presence because they considered it insignificant. Matter in its various forms and their relations to it became their god.
Once upon a time, these human souls sailed also on the River of Life. But then they stopped listening to their Spirit, which led them along the path of creative knowledge. They prioritized their Ego, sailed against the current of the river, and their Spirit turned away from them. The Spirit of Grace moved away from them, because why would he endlessly admonish someone who shows no interest in it for a long time. This is also true here on Earth. The great Spirit of Grace has departed, and the Spirit of Vanity, who has many faces, has risen in his place.
The development of these souls has stagnated because the Spirit of Vanity leads them nowhere but to the Damnation. The souls wandered up and down the river until they alighted on the west bank of the river and stayed there. When souls stagnate, they do not evolve and remain stuck on the west bank of the River of Life. That’s how it is here on Earth. Lazy souls just enjoy and nothing else, or live in a stereotype of recurring themes and life situations that lead nowhere, and they do not want to be guided by their true Self.
The meaning of sailing on the River of life is knowledge in the current period; souls are led to recognize and correct their wrongdoings that have caused their karma. They are led to get rid of the darkness they have in their Self in this way. If they refuse it, then their darkness will remain and thus they will be included among the other beings living on the west bank of the River of Life.
Souls from the west bank constantly want to reach the opposite bank of the river abounding in the abundance of the Energy of Grace, the bank where the angels of light dwell. Crossing the river will eventually come to these souls, but in a different way, than they would have imagined.
When souls from the west bank of the river leave their physical bodies, their own darknesses lead them to cross the River. The dark leans towards the dark and so they cross the River, but on its opposite side and that is the River Styx, that is upside-down to the River of Life. Just as a coin has two sides, so a river has two sides. The upper side is the River of Life and the lower side is the River of Death. Its name is Styx. When these two rivers meet, they are inseparable like two bodies with one soul.
The dark souls despised God because they found another god and its name is Vanity. God abounds in love and Vanity abounds in anger and hatred. So God doesn’t let those souls go, He just redirects them to another god, according to the one they preferred in their lives. Vanity comes in many forms and shades. What does the name Styx mean? Whether it is a goddess or a river, Styx literally translates as “hate” or “hateful”. In some stories, the water of the river Styx is poisonous, it is manifested as a deep, threatening darkness and gloom.
Ancient cultures were fascinated by death, so the river Styx, which separated the living from the dead in the underworld, played an important role in Greek mythology. Charon is the ferryman who transported the dead across the river Styx to the opposite bank, which is the underworld. Charon was the son of Nyx, the goddess of the night, and Erebus, the god of darkness. His purpose in the underworld was to transport the dead across the river to whatever area of the underworld they were supposed to go, to Tartarus for the bad ones, or to Elysium for the good ones. Charon was usually depicted as a humanoid, but was sometimes depicted as a demon or monster.
Tartarus was the god of the eponymous bottomless abyss of eternal darkness in ancient Greece. It was a chasm where the souls of the worst among men went to suffer for their sins in endless torment. The Elysian Fields, also called Elysium, are the final resting place of heroic and virtuous souls in Greek mythology and religion.
The underworld, where the souls of the dead resided, was the realm of Hades, the god of the dead. To ensure that Charon would actually carry the dead across the river, people buried their dead with Charon’s symbol and thus the coin was buried with the dead as payment to Charon for his ferry services. In ancient Greek culture, a coin was placed under the tongue of the dead, or two coins were placed over the eyes of the dead. Many Greeks believed that if the dead were not buried with payment, their souls would not be transported to the other side of the River Styx. Charon often performed his duties at the river with Hermes, the god of messengers, accompanying him to help the dead find their destination. While Charon was responsible for transporting the dead across the river, Greek mythology had another figure guarding the underworld: Cerberus, the three-headed demon dog. Cerberus ensured that no one entered or left the underworld without Charon.