Self-knowledge, called aseman, seeks an answer to the question: “Who am I”, astrology speculatively changes it – “How better to live here and now”
Why is the astrology that I have been teaching for years and the horoscopes that I have been making for a long time so successful and well received at home and abroad, even though it differs from the widely held notions of astrology?
Because the knowledge I share – aseman, is a combination of everything I have learned over the past 36 years in my meetings with extraordinary people and enlightened teachers from Bulgaria and the world: from the ashrams of India and the mystics of Iran and Azerbaijan to the Indian shamans in Canada; from the Sufis of Egypt, Syria and Turkey to the divinely inspired esotericists of Great Britain, Russia, Spain, France, Malta, Italy, Greece, Germany…
I am convinced that Asseman – my systematized millennial experience from the 4 directions of the world, is useful for everyone who has taken the Path of Self-Knowledge, because, as Mevlana Rumi said: “The greatest challenge in life is to discover who you are!” The second great thing is to be happy with what you have found!”.
From Persian “aseman” means “sky”, “man” – “I”, i.e. teaching about “heaven in me” or “I projected into the infinity of heaven”, also – “the divine in me”.
Asseman is a system created by me that brings together: philosophy, but not only; psychology, but not only; mythology, but not only; mathematics but not only, astrology but not only; dramaturgy, but not only; art, but not only.
I chose the Simurgh bird to be part of the Aseman iconography because it is the king of all birds, identified with the Phoenix. In the mythology of the East, it is a symbol of happiness and justice. A clear millennial sign that without justice there can be no happiness and that unjust people are unhappy. The Simurgh / The Phoenix is
border guard
between the afterlife and
henceforth;
he separates the hidden from the manifest; his wings spread over knowledge and ignorance. A synonym for wisdom.
The Simurgh/Phoenix is immortal and is reborn every 2000 years wiser and stronger than its previous manifestation. It is no coincidence that the duration of the “rule” of each constellation of the zodiac is also 2000 years! For example, from the birth of Jesus Christ until the end of the 20th century, humanity lived under the sign of Pisces, and the next 2 millennia will be governed by the law of Aquarius.
The benefits of self-awareness aseman:
4 Brings happiness. We learn not just to live “here and now”, but to live in happiness! Happiness is being who you are, not what others expect you to be.
4 It makes us fair to others and above all to ourselves. It teaches that we cannot give to others what we have not previously given to ourselves! So do for others what you want them to do for you.
4 It helps us to transform ourselves in each moment, not to try to hold on to the moment or repeat it. Because according to Asseman, the most certain thing in this world is change. Freedom lies in the willingness to lose everyone and everything.
4 Gives confidence in immortality and rebirth. According to this knowledge we are all disciples and as such we are all equal.
The oldest depictions of human reflections on the relationship between the stars and humans are 34,000-year-old rock paintings.
The first written information
of human experience
to know oneself
studying the firmament, it is 5000 years ago when cuneiform was created in Mesopotamia. Along with mathematics and astronomy, people were in a hurry to write down, preserve and spread the precious thousand-year-old knowledge of Aseman, which combined the two main prehistoric sciences (mathematics and astronomy).
The precious information about the relationship between star mathematics and the existential world of man is stored in the rich libraries of Babylon – the city that symbolizes the supremacy of Mesopotamian civilization.
In the 6th century BC the Persians conquered Babylon and proclaimed, without changing, Aseman within their vast empire.
In the IV century BC Alexander the Great captured the city, making it the capital of his endless dominions, and almost immediately the Babylonian Berosius, a Greek by origin and a priest of Baal, translated for the Hellenic saint Aseman, changing the essence of the teaching and naming it “astrology” (“star words”) .
Asseman in its original version, preserved by the Persians, gives an answer to the most important question for every person: “Who am I?”.
The Greek version, today widespread in the West, has erased the memory of the real connection between heaven and man and speculatively tries to answer the question: “How better to live here and now?”.
These are two diametrically opposed questions, and the priority search for the answer to the second diverts the person from his path, putting the spirit and soul to the test.
Asseman is self-knowledge related to the idea of the reincarnation of the soul, which, through numerous incarnations, is perfected in order to reach the realization of the meaning of its existence. In this line of thought, Aseman is a teacher of immortality.
Most recently in Göbekli Tepe –
on the border between
Turkey and Syria,
German and Turkish scientists have discovered the most ancient complex organized by man to honor the gods and ancestors. It is twelve thousand years old – much older than the civilizations of Egypt, Sumer and Akkad. Until then, scientists thought that a person became civilized because he began to lead a sedentary lifestyle, but for no other reason than to cultivate plant crops to feed on.
Göbekli tepe gives another perspective – a person stops being a forager and a nomad and begins to lead a sedentary lifestyle, which is the first step towards civilization, to honor the invisible spiritual world of the gods and the dead. In fact, a person becomes civilized existentially, but also as a biological species precisely when he realizes himself and, separating himself from the environment, asks the question: “Who am I and why did I come here?”. This is how a person’s first attempts to explain his past and look into the future begin.
The area of Göbekli Tepe is filled with a series of huge pits with circular stone obelisks weighing tens of tons. They may be part of a system or model for describing and explaining the worlds – visible and invisible. Moreover, on the stone blocks are depicted figures of different sizes of heterogeneous animals, arranged in a strict sequence. Scholars are still searching for an explanation for the circular arrangement of the pits and obelisks and a possible algorithm for the animal figures.
A leading theory is that Göbekli tepe represents man’s first attempts, honoring the past, to secure his present and future. In all probability, the questions were asked here: “Who am I, why have I come, what is expected of me?”.
It is a curious fact that some ancient societies believed that the gods of Sumer and Akkad were
created people to have
who will serve them
The cuneiform inscriptions testify how the statues of the creators were taken out of the temples, and people danced to them, bathed them, sang to them, fed them… But parallel to this, since ancient times, every more aware person lives with the thought that he is God’s creation, with a mission greater than that of a servant of God. But what is this mission?
The main assistant in the search for the answer to this question is aseman, which, following the logic of ancient people, is a gift from the gods.
In the 3rd century BC on the island of Kos, the gifted Greeks replace the fundamental question of human mission, harnessing astrology to the burden of everyday needs: fame, money, love. They also wanted to know what the will of the gods was, but not in order to fulfill it, but to make a bargain with them – what must I do to get away with what was written for me? And above all: how can I have more money, love and fame and avoid sickness, poverty and loneliness?
That is, if something in my horoscope is in a way that I don’t like, what should I do to change it? The Hellenes quickly forgot about the individual mission that everyone has in their next reincarnation, and focused their efforts on improving the “here and now”, without considering the path of the soul “before and after”. Asseman teaches that each one of us has his own mission with which he comes into this world.
The belief that the soul must realize the meaning of its existence by learning lesson after lesson in a series of reincarnations is a belief that each person must carefully develop within himself, benefiting from the experience of previous generations and examining the present moment for himself.
*Stilian Ivanov is the author and director of 58 documentaries about the history, culture, philosophy and beliefs of mankind. He leads seminars on “Astrology of Self-Knowledge” in our country at the Center for Self-Knowledge “Orpheus” and abroad.
In a series of articles, he will introduce the readers of “24 Chasa” to his theory of self-knowledge.
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