Theology and cosmology Threefold essence of the One According to Kandybaite Vedic theology, the universe arises from the "One"—
Yedinobog (Единобог, "One-God"; also Единый Бог,
Yediny Bog, "One God") or simply
Odin (Один, which in Russian means precisely the "One")—which acts as the spinning force of the
north pole of the sky, which is the intracosmic paradise (
Iriy) image of the extracosmic eternal paradise (
Svarga). The One is threefold in its essence, reflecting such structure in both the macrocosm of the universe and the microcosm of the human psychophysical system. The north pole is the "starry origination" (звездная прародина,
zvezdnaya prarodyna) of the Aryans or Russians, where the triune essence of the One shows itself most clearly. The trinity of the One is composed of the following deities: • The Father God (Бог-Отец) – which is the primordial quiescent void, the ideal informational supreme, the unmanifested dimension, corresponding in the microcosm of the human body to the left hemisphere of the brain; • The Mother Goddess of the Lights/Fires (Богиня-Мать Огни) or Mother Goddess of the World (Богиня-Мать Мира) – which is the spiritual movement, the ideal figurative transience, the manifested dimension, the universal gravity and the right hemisphere of the brain. • The Son God (Бог-Сын),
Ur (Ур) – which is the electromagnetic radiation generated by the God and the Goddess, and the human psyche itself, whose energy is the basis of life. Furthermore,
Ur is the procreator of
Oriy (Орий) or
Oriya (Ория), the first god-man who gave cosmic knowledge to humanity and who acted as the forefather of all the Aryans or Russians. In cosmological terms, the God and the Goddess are also described respectively as spirit and matter, the active life-giving masculine principle and the passive life-receiving feminine principle, and as the "two beginnings of the One" or "two eternal poles of the Great Void" (Великая Пустота,
Velikaya Pustota), while
Ur is described as the informational "waves" which develop and awaken the material substance into the universe and its self-creating peak—mankind, building forms around the universal vortex of the quiescent void. The waves of
Ur express themselves as sound, light and word, but at the very beginning as the image of the word in itself, which is the starry image of the God and the Goddess—the "starry fiery cross" (
swastika) drawn by the
circumpolar stars.
Sevenfold manifestation of the One Divinity is nativity and what generates everything is the power of the One, which is the universal spinning represented by the hooked cross rotating at the north celestial pole. The circumpolar stars themselves are the symbolic image of the Goddess, the figurative transient manifestation of the One. The rhythmic rotation of the pole (
Prav) is the information for the development of both the united unmanifested (
Nav) and manifested (
Yav) dimensions of reality. The unmanifested dimension is also the Great Void, and since every manifested entity comes from the unmanifested Great Void, everything in the manifested dimension carries within itself the Great Void. The rhythmic rotation of development is set by both the poles of the One, the masculine God and the feminine Goddess, and it proceeds from the unmanifested Great Void generating
Ur, the first light, which organises itself as the
five elements of the manifested dimension—the Force Field (Поле Сила,
Pole Sila) which functions as the fourfold receptacle of Fire, Air, Water and Soil. The light of
Ur is like a fire which illuminates and drives the manifested world to its peak, that is the development of enlightened mankind, and which becomes aware of itself in such enlightened mankind, represented by
Oriy.
Ur is the Father God itself coming in transient nature as
Oriy, thus the Son God and the Father God are One through the Mother Goddess of the Lights. The complete expression of the One is thus sevenfold, as it includes the trinity of information (God), transient image (Goddess), plus the five elements of the manifested cosmos as expressions of light (
Ur), and ultimately the perfected mind of a deified mankind represented by
Oriy. In Kandybaite Vedic theology there is an identity between divinity and humanity, especially the latter's mind informed by the "idea of God"; a founding dictum of Kandybaite Vedism is: According to Kandyba, the One realises itself through mankind, through its imaginative thinking which is the means for realising the "Divine Kingdom": The human being is actively involved in a co-creation with the One: in the psychic life of the human being the manifested dimension acquires the ability to radiate forms—images and informations—back into the unmanifested dimension and then again into the manifested dimension. In other words, God begins the creation and mankind develops and completes it. The left side of the human brain is the receptacle of the ideal informations of the Father God, while the right hemisphere of the brain expresses the ideal figures of the Mother Goddess of the Lights; the human psyche, as the begotten Son God and the progenitor
Oriy, closes the circle of being—from the One it descends and to the One its thoughts return. The left side is spiritual, theoretical and logical while the right side—which includes the oldest parts of the brain—is animal, practical and metaphorical; according to Kandybaite Vedists the left hemisphere is that which distinguishes mankind from animals, and should be developed as much as possible from an early stage of life.
Cycles of manifestation and demanifestation According to Kandybaite Vedic cosmology, the universe is eternal and it exists in the manifested dimension (
Yav) for a limited time known as the "Day of Infinity" (День Беспредельности, ''Den' Bespredel'nosti
), lasting for billions of years, at the end of which it disappears again reabsorbed into the unmanifested dimension (Nav
) for a time known as the "Night of Infinity" (Ночь Беспредельности, Noch' Bespredel'nosti
), which lasts the same as the Day of Infinity. Days of Infinity and Nights of Infinity alternate one another ongoingly from always and for ever. The universe is only apparently time–space, as these two concepts are representations of the sequence of changing forms of the emanation of the One from Nav
to Yav
, preserved as a unified whole by the constant wave of Ur''. The manifested world is the battlefield of spiritual forces of good and material forces of evil, which are objective realities rather than subjective categories, as "good " is any force which favours the maintenance of the cosmic order (
Prav) while "evil" is any force which disrupts it. Bright good forces are believed to come from the God of Heaven, from
Svarga or
Iriy at the north celestial pole, while dark evil forces are believed to come from
Navya (Навья), the chthonic goddess of the Earth and of the south celestial pole, governed by her male counterpart
Yama; bright forces and dark forces are associated respectively to the left side and the right side of the brain in the microcosm of the human body, and are collectively represented respectively by
Belobog (Белобог, "White-God") and
Chernobog (Чернобог, "Black-God"). The polarity of good and evil forces manifests itself in the four directions of space: good entities manifest themselves in the north and the east directions, associated with the heavenly seat of God and the movement of its law, and characterised by spirituality, light, purity and eternity; evil entities manifest themselves in the south and west directions, characterised by materiality, darkness, mixing and depravity. There is an eternal struggle between the two poles of the web of forces, as the southern and western forces try to corrupt the northern and the eastern spiritual entities, while the northern and eastern forces try to sublimate the southern and western material entities. In
History of the Russian Empire Kandyba says:
Oriy and the god-men of nations Ur is the god-builder of the manifested universe, drawing the images of the Mother Goddess of the Lights and realising them in structures, creating and recreating the manifested dimension in always better schemes which reintegrate and reorganise the images of the previous cycles. If the dimension of the stars lives according to the law of
Ur, the world of humanity lives according to the law of
Oriy, the first god-man, progenitor of all the Aryans or Russians, who drew from the order of the sky the holy laws for the spiritual realisation of a deified mankind. Sharing an idea similar to the
Nietzschean concept of the "god-man", Kandybaite Vedists believe that each man has the potential to become a deity, a folk spirit, that is to say a man conscious of his divine nature and ability to co-create with the One. In Kandybaite Vedism, the concept of "
nation" or "folk" (
narod) is not understood as defined by geographical boundaries, but rather as a living entity generated by a divine spirit. According to the Kandybaite Vedic doctrine, the folk deity manifests itself as and through a network of characteristics which are transmitted genetically between generations of individuals; its core never changes and is potentially immortal, though its network is open to the assimilation of other characteristics through
miscegenation and evolutionary transformations. Kandybaite Vedists therefore believe, like other Rodnovers, that collectivity is superior to individuality: it is the collective identity that gives life and meaning to the single individual entity, and immortality is achievable by the mortal individual only when he works within the spirit of the collective folk. In the case of the Russians, their guiding deity
Oriy expresses himself as warlike attitude, abstract consciousness, aspiration to unrestricted freedom, and friendliness and hospitality. The Russians are also characterised by intuitive and imaginative thought, which are given by their high spiritualisation and intimate knowledge of God and its laws.
Historiosophy Mythological origins of the Aryans Viktor Kandyba's book
History of the Russian Empire has been described by the scholar Victor Shnirelman as taking inspiration from the Bible, from the
Old Testament, especially in its presentation of a scheme of the development of humanity based on genealogical principles, a scheme whose core are the Aryans or Russians. As they are the progeny of
Ur through
Oriy, these peoples are also called "Orussians" (Орусы) or "Urussians" (Урусы). According to Shnirelman, the
myth about the origins of the Aryans of Kandybaite Vedism draws inspiration from
Helena Blavatsky's
Theosophy and from German
Ariosophy. Alexey V. Gaidukov also traced it back to the Greek idea of
Hyperborea, which is also the basis of
Aleksandr Dugin's
Eurasianism. Kandybaite Vedic mythology holds that
Oriy was a being made of subtle substance; he did not have a dense body and thanks to this he could not only walk but also fly. Besides being associated to the power of the north pole,
Oriy is also related to the constellation of
Orion. The Orussians whom he generated were a race of subtle-bodied men and they dwelt at the terrestrial
North Pole, the
Arctic—right under the divine
north celestial pole and the
pole star—, which was then occupied by a continent known as
Oryana (Ориана),
Arctida (Арктида) or
Oratta (Оратта). The Orussians, like their forefather
Oriy, were able to fly, and their appearance when flying resembled that of
kites. Through millions of years,
hominids appeared in the southern hemisphere of the terrestrial globe and the Orussians—who had to abandon Oryana as it was destroyed by cataclysms and
glaciation, and mostly settled throughout
Eurasia in the northern hemisphere of the terrestrial globe—gradually mixed with such hominids acquiring a denser nature and giving origin to the modern Russian races—the
white race. They became mortal entities, entering the cycle of
reincarnation and acquiring the knowledge of good and evil. Meanwhile, the
black race (Africans) who occupied the southern hemisphere of the terrestrial globe and the friendly
yellow race (Asians) with whom the Russians had frequent exchanges emerged as direct evolutions of the hominids. From Eurasia, the Russians explored the world founding all high civilisations. After the Orussians became materialised by mating with the hominids, the history of the Russians was an endless sequence of rising, blossoming and falling apart as their love for freedom prevented them from establishing an enduring centralised civilisation in Eurasia: as they strived to create the largest world empire embracing all of Eurasia, it always fragmented into multiple states and peoples at war with one another. They organised themselves in kindred communities of about one hundred people. In each community, the ideological power was represented by the Vedic
samans (priests) who wrote down the principles of religious civilisation in the
Rigveda, the administrative power was exercised by chiefs and rulers, and the legislative power was exercised by the elders of the kin. Their society was strictly patriarchal, as the lineages proceeded from males, males governed the kins, and all the male sons of fathers-brothers were considered peers, although great importance was attributed to women in their function as reproducers of life. All properties, lands and livestock, were shared by the members of the same kin. A small number of kins were not sedentary farmers and chose to be
nomadic herders. In Kandybaite Vedism, the modern term "Russians" therefore identifies most of the inhabitants of Eurasia, including both those of the
white race (Europeans) and those of the yellow race (Asians). Being Russian is considered a spiritual identity which characterises all those people who retain the memory of the Arctic homeland and live in harmony in and with any territory where they find themselves. As the descendants of the god-men who created all civilisations, the Russians are considered a "chosen" and "holy people" of carriers of the idea of God. Kandybaite Vedists consider the
Jews as part of the Asians, and as such as part of the northern and eastern spiritual humanity opposed to the southern and western material humanity, and at the same time they espouse the
Khazar hypothesis of Ashkenazi ancestry, considering the Jews as a "branch of the southern Russians", that is to say of the "Volga Russians", and as descendants of the historical
Khazars. Their culture first arose in
Ur,
Mesopotamia, when contrarily to all the other tribes of the Russians, in which the spiritual side dominates the material one, their ancestor
Abraham adopted a way of thinking and acting in which the material dominates the spiritual.
Ethical eschatology In Kandybaite Vedism, the Russians are destined to an
eschatological task for the sake of the One: the elimination of evil from the world and the establishment of the Divine Kingdom. Such work starts from the inside of every person, as God is both the external cause of everything and the internal drive to the realisation of goodness. Good is what develops the cosmos, while evil is what destroys it: good or evil thoughts and words produced by a person are believed to acquire an independent existence and to influence the surrounding context and everything in it, nourishing the cohorts of good or evil forces in the world; through the suppression of evil thoughts and earthly material drives and the development of good thoughts and heavenly spiritual motives a person may take part in the struggle against evil in the world. Every manifested person has two natures: its spirit inside its animal nature; the spiritual mind awakens not when a person is born but later in life, when the instincts of the animal nature are already rooted in its existence. The instincts of material nature which pervade the body have not to be destroyed but sublimated and used as means for spiritualisation. Every manifested person has an allotted time during which it has to work through its given resources for its own spiritual self-realisation and for the preservation and further development of life according to the law of God. When the role for which a given person is born comes to completion, that given entity begins to decay towards death, after which its life experience is preserved and coalesces again into new forms of existence, more complex than the previous one. In the
Rigveda, Viktor Kandyba paraphrases the
Gospel of John 3:1–8 to explain such double nature of humanity: Kandybaite Vedism is characterised by a
work ethic: labour is glorified to the extent that it serves public and not private interests, devoted to the highest end, that is the alignment of the people with the good forces of the law of God. By co-working with good forces and fighting evil forces, Kandybaite Vedists believe that the Russians will lead the way for the gradual transfiguration of humanity into immortal beings of light. Dimitry Kandyba wrote about a future macrocosmic "victory of
Yav" (the manifested dimension which he identified as being the same as the Canaanite
Yahweh) through Russian values, which will be the reflection of a microcosmic victory of the bright spiritual side of a human being over his dark material nature. The adherents of the Kandybaite Vedic doctrine insist on kindness and compassion, positive feelings and cheerfulness, at the same time blaming hopeless, weak and disabled people, holding that the quality of god-man and the realisation of the Divine Kingdom are reachable only through the complete overcoming of suffering. They refuse the idea of collective sin, and believe that suffering is always the outcome of the guilt of those individuals who choose and encourage lie, idleness, self-interest, thirst for power, intoxication, lust, adultery, and other vices. The adherents also refute luxury and call for a modest life, also coming to a critique of property as a hurdle to a sinless life. These sins, which progressively nourish the animal nature of a person while smothering its spiritual mind, are believed to be transmitted through the generations and to hinder the development of love and therefore of the spiritualisation of humanity in the Divine Kingdom. Also the harnessing of the faith in God into hierarchic church structures and lavish temples is believed to be a deception which hinders spiritual development and makes people believe that God is not in themselves and in every entity, but merely within the church and its representatives. As good forces incarnate themselves in the north and east, and evil forces in the south and west, Kandybaite Vedists also envision a
geopolitical alliance between the Russians and the Asians in opposition to the evil Western world, establishing a new Russian Empire spanning all Eurasia from
Europe to the
Pacific Ocean, and from the
Arctic to the
Indian Ocean. According to Victor Shnirelman, these ideas have antecedents in
Russian cosmism, and are particularly prominent in contemporary Eurasianism. ==Practices==