A Spirit Message from Nikolai Gogol

“>From PRISONERS of FAME. THE SECOND and REVISED EDITION.
A Spirit Message from NIKOLAI GOGOL ¹

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The question, why God is punishing artists, writers, singers, mediums, or in some other way influential people by making them meet their egregores in afterlife was still haunting me. One day, my guide had mercy on me. He said in Russian, “Nikolai Gogol ¹ will help you out here. ” The continuation of this spirit message was written down in Russian. This is the English translation of the unique message from the author of the Russian classics, The Government Inspector, Dead Souls, The Overcoat and many other stories loved by Russian readers in the same way American readers love Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn and his other stories.
Nicolai Gogol: —Hi, Tanika. Yes, my name is Gogol. One of your guides, an old friend from my Saint Petersburg past, asked me to answer this. … By the way, you said that you yourself are afraid of this question. You asked why the brightest souls who made sense out of life on earth, who created beauty, brought hope and healing, were punished by facing their egregores in afterlife? Yes, egregores can be the worst kind of thought formations. There are cases when, putting it delicately, they can do more than turn a talent into a prisoner of his or her fame, … As your friend (William Powell in spirit message above) said, egregores may make a genius or talent experience hellish pain. And it may seem that God is jealous and punishing His brightest sons for attracting crowds of followers who instead of praying to God, start praying to their artistic idols – to John Lennon or Elvis Presley.
What conclusions may one draw from this? Is the devaluation of moral categories leading to the loss of moral values? People on earth have already experienced the sad consequences of lowered mores.
Tanika: —It is true. All we have to do is turn on our TV sets. Our daily news showers us with stories of shootings, murders, child pornography, molestation, rapes and deceptions caused by fallen or for some people, non-existing mores.
NG: —The truth is that God does not punish! The illusion of being punished comes from an inner agreement to be idolized and worshipped. This inner agreement succumbs to “omnicompetence,” feeding pride constantly, giving in to the temptation of enjoying his or her star status. An inner conviction that, “I am a star and you are not!” automatically leads to humiliation of surrounding people, and as a matter of fact — to the humiliation of the crowds of followers as well… It all adds up as a colossal burden of sins. The more followers, the bigger the burden; the longer the star status lasts, the bigger the burden!
T: —In this case, one may understand why Shakespeare preferred to stay anonymous in the eyes of his posterity. How are luminaries like Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy and Mark Twain handling inevitable meetings with their egregores? Can a writer’s life be so perfect that he will build no egregores?
NG: —The problem is, if a writer’s, musician’s, painter’s, or artist’s lifelong work has not built an egregore, this writer, musician, painter, or artist has not accomplished his mission. Without an egregore the astral images of artistic works — books, icons, paintings, music, will not spread in space and consequently, their task to multiply vibrations of love, beauty and hope in universe will not be fulfilled!
T: —What you are really saying is that the method of spreading artistic information is not perfect. Then why doesn’t an omnipotent God correct how vibrations of love, beauty and compassion are spread? Instead, God lets talents like Prometheus, who stole fire from Zeus and gave it to mortals, suffer eternal pain? (Prometheus was bound to a rock, while a great eagle ate his liver everyday only to have it grow back to be eaten again the next day). Perhaps the only right way is to practice humility and self-abasement the same way that anonymity was practiced by great painters from Medieval ages and yogis. Who are the martyrs and saints who can completely neutralize personal feelings and, at the same time, create works that “feed” the crowd’s need for truth, beauty and hope? Are there enough righteous souls to accomplish this?
NG: —There are none! That’s the point. There are no saints or idols! … It is an immeasurable sin to distinguish yourself! If you are given more, it was done only for multiplying beauty in this world and giving it away without asking for anything back! Instead, talented people who are capable of reaching out for rewards are used to take rewards from life without asking for approval.
T: —Was your afterlife merciful to you considering your incredible fame in Russia? Before you left this planet, you forced yourself to starve, you dedicated your writings to God, you accepted humbleness and you tried to be righteous! What did you achieve? Did you wash away your sins?
NG: —Not even close! My writings attracted flocks of devils to my death-bed. My stories disseminated fear among people, and my Akaki Akakievich 2 trudged after me as some God’s ugly punishment. He carried thousands of overcoats, suffocating under their weight, but was unable to give away a single one! I tried to send these overcoats to the Soviet Gulags in the northern regions, to camps of war prisoners and political prisoners, seeking to distribute them to people whose lives were endangered by winter frost… It is painful to recall this! However, that was how I got rid of my Akaki Akakievich, the creature my egregore bore from the sperm of my disagreement with my own poverty, my chronic depression, my inability to love and be loved… This is all for today! Keep love in your heart, God’s greatest gift! Only love will conquer everything.
I will add in brief that our Leo Tolstoy found himself on the astral fields of Borodino and Crimean battles; he met Bonaparte, the Russian czar Alexander, marshal Kutuzov and general Barclay de Tolly. Tolstoy kneeled on these fields created by his incredible talent and accurate descriptions in his novel “War and Peace”. He asked God’s forgiveness and begged Him to destroy these terrible pictures that invite aggressive forces to enter our world and continuously create wars, battles and suffering on earth.
T: — It turns out that such scenes as wars, battles, Nazi concentration camps, gas chambers and Siberian labor camps cannot be recreated by artistic geniuses in their works?
NG: —This can be done, but it has to be clear how to destroy the images of these description on astral and mental levels, instead of tossing them into space, where they start “working” against humanity by inspiring and attracting analogous events on earth!
T: —Thank you for this! But how can we do this? How do we rid ourselves of Raskolnikov’s image,3 the Raskolnikov who may still be roaming in space, axing elderly ladies along the way?
NG: —I will not give any instructions. This task belongs to priests and clairvoyants. I am not fit to do this. However, I can tell with certainty that the terrible pictures of hell created by Alighieri Dante 4 have been rendered completely harmless by Italian monks, here in our world. The conclusion is that it doesn’t matter what an artist creates. What matters is, do these images multiply beauty, love and light! If they do, it is a sign that these images were created by a true genius.
T: —Still, what can be done with hellish pictures of, say, Nazi gas chambers and Soviet gulags?
NG: —An artistic individual has to know how to destroy negative thought forms. And this is all that he or she has to know in order to exercise complete freedom of expression! Try to find out as much information as possible and as soon as possible!

1 Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (1809 – 1852) was a Ukrainian-born Russian dramatist and novelist. Considered by his contemporaries one of the preeminent figures of the natural school of Russian literary realism, later critics have found in Gogol’s work a fundamentally romanic sensibility, with strains of surrealism and the grotesque (“The Nose”, “Viy”, “The Overcoat”, “Nevsky Prospekt”)

2 The central character of Gogol’s famous story ‘Overcoat’ was hailed by critics as a symbol of a Russian everyday man’s misery and degradation. The sentence, spilled by a critic “Все мы вышли из гоголевской ‘Шинели’ ” — “We all emerged from Gogol’s Overcoat” became a popular saying in Russia.
3 The central character in Crime and Punishment by F. Dostoyevsky.
4 Afterlife images in Alighieri Dante’s Divine Comedy

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