Can we detect the existence of parallel worlds in the lab? Quantum physicist Vlatko Vedral checks out the suggestion that a new—and surprisingly simple—experiment could tell us if alternate universes exist, once and for all.

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Parallel worlds are a staple of science fiction and fantasy, with characters weaving in and out of alternate universes and interacting with...

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Can we detect the existence of parallel worlds in the lab? Quantum physicist Vlatko Vedral checks out the suggestion that a new—and surprisingly simple—experiment could tell us if alternate universes exist, once and for all.

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Parallel worlds are a staple of science fiction and fantasy, with characters weaving in and out of alternate universes and interacting with other versions of themselves. Back in our universe, some physicists, including FQXi’s own Max Tegmark, believe that parallel universes are simply a natural extension of quantum mechanics. In such a scenario, both Obama and McCain will win the upcoming election in different universes, and there’s even room for an ultra-liberal parallel version of Stephen Colbert to comment on it.

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But can we ever know for sure that such parallel universes exist? There’s no definitive evidence for or against parallel universes—and it’s often debated whether the idea could ever be tested. At the moment, whether you choose to accept their existence or not seems to be more a question of personal taste—how unnerving (or comforting) do you find the suggestion that there are an infinite number of universes, with other “yous” that made different choices? So when I saw a paper by Frank Tipler at Tulane University in New Orleans suggesting that not only is there an experimental test that can tell us if parallel universes exist, it’s so easy that it could conceivably be carried with equipment that you could find in many high-school or college physics labs, I wanted to know more.

Tipler is proposing an experiment that can differentiate between the standard “Copenhagen interpretation” of quantum mechanics and the less conventional Many World’s interpretation, first proposed by Hugh Everett just over fifty years ago, which gives rise to parallel universes. Both alternatives attempt to make sense of one of the paradoxes of quantum mechanics: Before observation, the properties of particles and atoms are undecided; instead, quantum objects are described by a “wavefunction” that simultaneously holds many mutually complementary properties.

In the 1920s, at a meeting of quantum bigwigs in Copenhagen, this weird property was explained away by postulating that when the wavefunction is measured (or observed), the wavefunction “collapses”—settling into one particular classical state. Before any measurement is made, you cannot predict with certainty the outcome you will get—just the probability of finding a particular result. That is the standard interpretation of quantum mechanics. But just how, when, or why this collapse should occur remains a mystery.

Everett took a different tack. He proposed a collapse-free quantum theory, by suggesting that quantum laws apply to everything, not just to atoms and particles on the smallest scales. According to this view, the entire universe could exist as a superposition of many worlds—or parallel universes. The upshot is that if you make a quantum measurement, every possible outcome of that experiment is realized—each one existing in a different parallel universe, with a different parallel-you reading a different result. (See the FQXi article, “Squishy Bedrock” (pdf).)

The whole thing is a bit reminiscent of the discussions of what the perfect form of a society ought to be in order to balance the discrepancy between the needs of individuals and the needs of the society itself. There are two extreme resolutions (just like Many Worlds and Copenhagen). One is to say that there are no individuals and only the society matters (socialism)—or in our case, that everything obeys quantum mechanics, even the entire universes. The other is to say that there is no society, but that we just have a bunch of individuals (this is capitalism and its definition comes from a quote by former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher: “There is no such thing as Society. There are individual men and women, and there are families."). Here, that attitude corresponds to the notion that quantum mechanics is more fragmented only applying in certain regimes to certain things on small scales.

The key to testing which extreme is correct, according to Tipler, is to look at the probabilistic outcomes of quantum experiments predicted by both the rival theories. As I mentioned, the experimenter can’t predict beforehand what the outcome of a quantum experiment will be before she makes her measurement, but she can work out the _probability_ of getting a particular outcome. That’s true in both cases. The probability of getting a particular outcome is determined by the so-called Born rule, which has been verified experimentally. But if both alternatives—Copenhagen and Many Worlds—predict probabilities according to the Born rule, how does that help us choose between them?

Tipler’s answer relies on the fact that you need to perform the experiment many times, to verify that you are getting the expected probabilistic outcome. That’s true in normal experiments too. Let’s say you wanted to check that the probability of rolling a die and getting a value of “four” is one out of six. You will need to perform more than one roll. Even six rolls won’t necessarily be enough. To build up the correct pattern of probabilities, you’ll have to roll the die many many times, and slowly you’ll see the expected results emerge—turning up each die value one sixth of the time on average after many throws.

Similarly, Tipler points out that you need to perform quantum experiments thousands of times to see the expected outcome predicted by the Born rule. So while both the Copenhagen interpretation and the Many World’s interpretation predict you’ll end up with results in line with the Born rule _eventually_, just how quickly you will get there is different for the different theories. So just look at how quickly your actual experimental results build up to form the quantum pattern you expect, and you can use this rate to discriminate between Many Worlds and Copenhagen.

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How tough would this be to test in a lab? Tipler proposes looking at the “double slit experiment”. This is a relatively simple experiment using not much more than a lamp and a screen. A beam of light is split apart by two slits, producing a peculiar pattern of light on a screen, showing that light has both a wave and particle nature. It’s a standard experiment, typically carried out in advanced physics classes at school, or in universities, in basic classes in quantum mechanics. So, it would be very simple to carry out indeed.

It's an interesting idea. However, I have an issue with his approach. Tipler states that Copenhagen couldn’t give you the same result for obtaining the probabilities as Many Worlds. But this is not true. In fact, you just need to consider the screen as a quantum object and model the interaction between photons and the screen and then you can work out all the probabilities you need for any number of photons to hit any position at the screen. And this is a purely Copenhagen interpretation—we don’t need to think of the rest of the universe behaving in a quantum manner. Thus, Copenhagen can give you the same result as Many Worlds.

So sadly, I don’t think that this experiment will work. But my final thought is that I like attempts such as Tipler’s a lot. The motivation—which I very much sympathize with—for Everett’s original Many Worlds proposal and for Tipler’s paper is that in the standard formulation of quantum mechanics (Copenhagen) we have two very different processes: continuous evolution when the system is not measured and then an abrupt change due to the measurement. To have this difference between measurement and evolution is not nice and clean. There are now two ways of getting rid of the dichotomy. One is to say that there are no measurements (the Many World’s philosophy) and the other one is to say that there is no evolution (this would be the "ultra" Copenhagen view).

But maybe Tipler is wrong to be preoccupied with these two extremes. Much like the fact that every society lies between extreme socialism and extreme capitalism, it might just be that the correct view of quantum mechanics is somewhere between Many Worlds and Copenhagen...whatever this might be.

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Vlatko Vedral is a professor of quantum information science at the University of Leeds, UK, and a professor of physics at NUS, Singapore.

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Dear Zeeya Merali,

What a choice, Copenhagen vs. many worlds. I do not like either of them because they make quantum mechanics just too "spooky" to use Einstein's term.

I think there is something spooky going on but it is not quantum mechanics and Heisenberg was on to it before he was "persuaded" by Bohr and Schrodinger to switch to continuously evolving waves. Heisenberg referred to...

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Dear Zeeya Merali,

What a choice, Copenhagen vs. many worlds. I do not like either of them because they make quantum mechanics just too "spooky" to use Einstein's term.

I think there is something spooky going on but it is not quantum mechanics and Heisenberg was on to it before he was "persuaded" by Bohr and Schrodinger to switch to continuously evolving waves. Heisenberg referred to his matrix mechanics in terms not of continuously evolving waves, but of particles undergoing discontinuous quantum jumps. Schrodinger eventually said matrix mechanics and his equation were equivalent mathematically. How a discontinuous representation was made equivalent to a continuous representation is a mystery to me. There was some heat between Heisenberg and Schrodinger as indicted by the following letter:

The more I think about the physical portion of Schrödinger's theory, the more repulsive I find it...What Schrödinger writes about the visualizability of his theory 'is probably not quite right,' in other words it's crap.--Heisenberg, writing to Pauli, 1926

I propose a third alternative interpretation to quantum mechanics using Heisenberg's concept of discontinuous quantum jumps which I call Digital Wave Theory (DWT). The full development can be found at www.zeno-physics.com here is the skinny (exponents goofy but somewhat readable):

1. The movement of particles must satisfy Zeno and deBroglie. The way to do this (using Heisenberg's term before he changed his mind) is: discontinuous quantum jumps, in the language of DWT this is wavelength-hopping.

2. What causes wavelength-hopping? Movement always involves inertia and gravity. So the question becomes how to associate inertia and gravity into the discontinuous quantum jumps. This is going to be done by making three assumptions. Perhaps these tenuous assumptions are better called three guesses.

3. The first wild guess:  Particles when they are not seen accelerate and then decelerate moving the wavelength of the particle. Why would anyone assume something like this? The answer is so that it can be investigated to see if it produces anything interesting. It is like having a friend who is gaining weight yet no one sees him eating. We can make a wild guess that he is eating when no one is watching. Now we have something we can investigate.

4. The second guess:  Particles when they move must have a minimum velocity Vo. Without this assumption the deBroglie equation would not make sense. How can a wavelength exist when there is no velocity? A stationary object with an infinite wavelength has no meaning. Waves have to move and therefore there must be a velocity. We can calculate a formula for this velocity Vo using the first wild guess.

5. The third guess:  Einstein's equivalence principle is as valid on the quantum level as it is on the classical matter level. Sure, why not. With this assumption we can develop the equation for Vo in terms of G (gravitational constant), mass of the particle, and the wavelength of the particle.

6. The investigation:  Take the Vo developed and combine it with deBroglies equation modified with the Lorentz transform so that it takes into account relativity. The result is the equation:    Vo4 - c2Vo2 + c2m4G2/(4h2) = 0

7. It is now time to taste the pudding! The plot of the above equation gives dramatic results. It shows that particles and photons move by the same mechanism. It also shows that the speed of light is not the same for each wavelength of light. The sections that follow list features that show the ramifications of this equation. The three guesses form a coherent theory that points to a new way to understand physics (in my humble opinion).

The Basic Results of DWT:

1.  Particles and photons move by wavelength-hopping.

2.  Particles and photons have a minimum velocity Vo. For particles Vo is near

0 and for photons Vo is near "c".

3.  Particles have a "self gravity" that can represent their energy.

4.  Ordinary matter objects have a "self gravity" that can represent their

energy in terms of dark energy and dark matter.

5. Two ordinary mass objects m1 and m2 separated by a distance d have more mass

than expected. This additional "subtle" mass mx is a function of the

distance to the neighboring mass. mx = G(m1 + m2)2/(dc2)

where G is the gravitational constant and c is the maximum speed of space-

time. This subtle mass can be used to explain dark energy, dark matter and

cosmological inflation.

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Thus, the problem of parallel universe for you, too, is of interest, I decided to write to you and ask to read twenty-first chapter, "Revelation," where, I think, St. John gives a symbolic description ofa parallel universe. My article "hereafter OR DIVINE UNIVERSEUNIVERSE" in Russian and English is available at www.tracts.com / MB.html, where I tried to decipher the 21 chapters of "Revelation."For...

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Thus, the problem of parallel universe for you, too, is of interest, I decided to write to you and ask to read twenty-first chapter, "Revelation," where, I think, St. John gives a symbolic description ofa parallel universe. My article "hereafter OR DIVINE UNIVERSEUNIVERSE" in Russian and English is available at www.tracts.com / MB.html, where I tried to decipher the 21 chapters of "Revelation."For me it is very important to know on this subject for your opinion.Regards Manfred Beglaryan. The Republic of Armenia.



The Revelation of St. John

Chapter 21

21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.

21:2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

21:3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.

21:4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

21:5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new.

And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.

21:6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.

21:7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.

21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

21:9 And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.

21:10 And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, 21:11 Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal; 21:12 And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel: 21:13 On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.

21:14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

21:15 And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.

21:16 And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs.

The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.

21:17 And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.

21:18 And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.

21:19 And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald; 21:20 The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolyte; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.

21:21 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls: every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.

21:22 And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.

21:23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.

21:24 And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.

21:25 And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.

21:26 And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it.

21:27 And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.



Manfred Beglaryan 23.07.2011

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THE OTHER WORLD

OR DIVINE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE

25 Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; 26 and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. (John. 11, 25-26).

Here it is not going about the resurrection of the physical body but about that of the divine non-material spiritual creature being formed up in the physical body which is separated from the dead body and begins to exist independently. Nicodemus comes to Jesus at night and talks to him; (john3-5, 6):

5. Jesus answered, "Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit. 6.Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit (John.3-56).

In the twenty-first chapter of "THE REVELATION OF ST. JOHN THE DEVINE" the Angel comes to him as a spirit and lifts him in to a great and high mountain. There he shows him the great city - in his view and description - the holy Jerusalem, that originated from heaven and God.

And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel: 13 On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates. 14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. (Rev. 21-12,13,14).

The city had the appearance of an equilateral cube. This means that it is not going about a city in the usual sense having two dimensions but about the other spiritual world. It would be better if mathematitians were involved in the matter and presented us the mathematical model of a parallel universe on the basis of John's description.

The Base of the walls of the city are decorated with all kinds of precious stones. The first foundation is decorated with jasper, the second with sapphire, the third with chalcedony, the fourth with emerald, the fifth with sardonyx, the sixth with carnelian, the seventh with chrysolite, the eighth with beryl, the ninth with topaz, the tenth with chrysoprase, the eleventh with hyacinth, and the twelfth with amethyst. The bases decorated with precious stones means that all of the universes are assigned for the Angels.

John gives a symbolic description of the holy city of Jerusalem as he had imagined it. I suppose that the angel showed to John's soul the parallel universe where the Lord God is dwelling and where the souls of all righteous people having undergone hardest tests in the struggle of becoming godly, sinless and the corresponding to religious rules. The wall of the city had 12 foundations and on them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb are written. This means that all universe is appointed only for souls who will move into a parallel universe and become angels. I suppose that from the descriptions of St. John about the underworld it follows that the space surrounding us is composed of twelve universes. Bases decorated with precious stones mean that all universes are assigned only for the Angels. In these worlds there may inhabit the souls of people that belonged to different nationalities and beliefs. These universes seem to differ from each other in that one is thinner and the souls brought into these realms dwell in them according to their merits. And just that other world is most probably the heavenly kingdom of Jesus Christ. I understand that it sounds fantastic but I have no other explanation. The angels who stand at the symbolic doors mean that a control has been set so that each soul is was found only in his/her universe, which corresponds to his/her spiritual condition and which has no right to voluntarily move to a more subtle universe. The souls that will fall into these parallel worlds after God's Judgement will become Angels. They will also work hard to by deepening the feeling of love in themselves navigate through these worlds and strive to get to the most subtle world to unite with God and gain immortality. But I think there will be some souls that will - by gradually losing the feeling of love - drop to less subtle worlds and get to our gross material universe to rise again in the future and connect with God to acquire immortality.

I mentioned about the feeling of love with certain intent. Before I started writing my articles I felt such a deep grief that shocked me deeply. And when I compared it with a feeling of ordinary love between me and my family I realized that the souls of our rough world have a sense of love superficially. Unfortunately, so far there never has been suggested an idea that different people have different depth of the feeling of love, in any case I haven't read about it anywhere. There is no doubt that the depth of the potential feeling of love in one's heart is very immense and love can fill the human soul to such an extent that he/she will be able to easily go on self-sacrifice for the sake of another person. After all God of love Jesus Christ possessing boundless feeling of love sacrificed himself without the slightest hesitation to save mankind.

But the soul is immortal! "And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die." It does not die; it does not decompose and therefore cannot die. They say that it is impossible to imagine a man without soul as a supreme intelligent being in the nature, and it's not possible to imagine the soul as the spiritual principle without immortality. But it will acquire immortality when it will in the higher realm of being permanently joins with God.

Does life have a meaning, and if so, what is it? Or life is just nonsense, meaningless, worthless natural process of birth, blossoming, ripening, wilting and death of a man like any other organic substance. As I understand it God has created the human body so that the Soul passing on from a parallel universe to our material world and entering into the human body would use that body during all the human life for its upbringing. Each person is obliged to develop it by himself. The souls having fallen into our material world differ from each other by the degrees of ability to love. From this it follows that according to the essence the person will have a respective appearance and will be born in the respective family. However, people do not realize it; they think that it is not the soul to have the paramount importance in here but the body, and that one should take care not about the soul as taught by the Lord but worry about the body during all the life as is usually done by people. What a sad mistake. As we know, the human self is not the body but the soul. Lord said to the future Apostle: "let the dead bury the dead, and you follow me". As you can see, he treats a living person as a dead one showing that the human body is nothing. After the death of a person's body goes into the ground and decomposes, the soul remains in the end, sooner or later goes the heavenly kingdom - the parallel universe. After the judgment the souls remaining in a parallel world will become Angels. Undoubtedly, the Angels found in a parallel universe are also working as the soul connected with the human body in our world. For example, when I look at the beauty of the surrounding flora it seems to me that the drawings of flowers were created by dead artists. A late close friend of mine was a wonderful artist and I am sure that his soul after God's judgment is somewhere in a parallel universe and will create beautiful works of art, which by the Angels will become materialized in our world in the form of flowers and trees and will bring joy to people. I'm sure the angels in the spiritual world not only create images of flowers and trees but also images of insects, animals and other works of art, which can then be materialized by some other angels in this world.

As I understand it, after death, the souls of all dead, as well as the ones fallen down from higher the subtle universes go to the lowest level of the heavenly kingdom and await for the trial of God, after which the worthy become Angels and move on to the relevant universe. The cowardly, false, abominable ones, murderers and fornicators, sorcerers and idolaters and all liars shall return to the material world and enter into the bodies of newborn babies to live for thousands of years of next successive ordinary lives until God's next judgment.





MANFRED BEGLARYAN 27.09.2011

manfred2010@mail.ru



"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind," said Albert Einstein. In his latest article, hereafter “THE OTHER WORLD OR DIVINE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE" I made an attempt to unite religion with science. Religion without proofs and science without hope standing against each other for 250 years of uncertainly like enemies, having no power to overcome one another, and finally, in the near future, the science becoming religious and religion scientific, becoming combined, will open the door to the invisible world of God.



Chapter 22. HOLY TRINITY. And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. (Revelation.22-1). I read this first sentence and I had a question, what is the water of life that is hidden under the symbol of water. In (1In5.8) I found that this word means the human mind. So people, as well as the inhabitants of the Divine Universe – the angels derive their knowledge from the river of water of life that proceeds from the throne of God and the Holy Lamb.

Where God and the Holy Lamb are, there surely must be the Holy Spirit to complete the Trinity. It's not difficult to guess that the river of Water of Life originating from the throne is the very symbol of the Holy Spirit. Here the water of life is the base of all of the bases – the consciousness that possesses Divine knowledge. A wonderful symbolism! Holy Spirit gives the Knowledge of our Lord by the will of Jesus to those who ask for it - for nothing. Jesus Christ addressing his disciples said that when the Holy Spirit comes he will guide them into all truth: for he will not speak of Himself but he will say he will hear and will proclaim the future for them. "But the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you everything and remind you all that I said to you" (John 14-26). However, as I noticed the vergers are almost interested in the gifts of the Holy Spirit any more after the initial Christians and they easily gradually turned away from Him. I wrote about this in my articles "The collapse of religion, eternal love" and "Christianity."

TREE OF LIFE. We found that the river water of life is the symbol of the Holy Spirit and now let’s try to decipher the symbols tree of life, and its leaves.

In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. (Revelation 22-2).

As to some persons the symbol of the Tree of Life in Christianity was only a guide of divine grace, and as to some others - in its nature it had a protective effect against disease and death.

In "Revelation" of John the Tree of Life has an entirely different symbolism which differs radically from the well-known symbols and I find it difficult to give a full and unambiguous explanation. The Tree of Life appears to me to consist of twelve universes, or the universe consisting of twelve dimensional sub-levels. John presents these universes to us in the form of tree leaves, which, as he explains, is intended to heal the nations. In the parallel universe there are no humans, no peoples, only the Angels. Apparently, there exist many forms of Angels and in a figurative sense John refers to them as peoples. The Tree of Life yields fruit twelve times and in each month out of those twelve months she gives her own fruit. I make out from John's explanation with different symbols that in these universes the Angels are considered to be sick until they get twelve months education - absolute knowledge of the Holy Spirit and the relevant life experience. But John has no doubt as to the duration of the month, and me too - I naturally have no idea of that thing too. I percept it in the following way: During the conditional month, for instance Angels of the first level will after the God’s judgment live on the first level or universe and receiving the appropriate education and -training in a particular program - will move to the second level, and so on. That's it. So it is not everything that looks the way the servants of the church imagine. Our souls too, becoming angels in the world beyond, will learn and work as the angels worked in the 'Revelation' of St. John the Theologian. Now I understand the words of Jesus, "Be faithful up to death and I will give you the crown of life." Even knowing so little one may imagine well enough as to what the requirements will be to the very few human souls who are trying to get into this wonderful world of Divine knowledge and love. A human soul or an angel tries to climb the stairs of twelve levels of parallel spaces to the dwelling of the Creator.

Few persons in our world, where now mainly reigns indifference and hatred, deserve to get into the kingdom of heaven of the Holy Trinity. And what drove the human society to the present situation? Within two thousand years hundreds of thousands of churches were built on earth and the clergymen were involved in educating people on the Christian canons. They took on that job and as a result it is not religious society we have today but a sick one. Since the beginning of the last century some potential assassins are elected to be heads of all states in all countries throughout the world that in the past century killed more than 100 million people, and now are getting prepared for World War III whereafter some little quantity sick people will remain. All of this suggest that the higher clergy could not cope with their task, which they took over and as a result they got a sick society instead of a religious one. And this condition is not only in the Christianity but in the remaining three religions. I keep asking myself whether the situation can be changed, and I answer to myself - yes, because no matter what happens God loves us. But, unfortunately, people have gone too far to want to change something.

But God gave people the option to try themselves. Therefore, man is endowed with free will the other side of which is the responsibility for one's actions in one's life. And the subsequent life on earth depended on the decision and the choice of the people which was rejected by ungrateful humanity.

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Thus, the problem of parallel universe for you, too, is of interest, I decided to write to you and ask to read twenty-first chapter, "Revelation," where, I think, St. John gives a symbolic description ofa parallel universe. My article "hereafter OR DIVINE UNIVERSEUNIVERSE" in Russian and English is available at www.tracts.com / MB.html, where I tried to decipher the 21 chapters of "Revelation."For...

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Thus, the problem of parallel universe for you, too, is of interest, I decided to write to you and ask to read twenty-first chapter, "Revelation," where, I think, St. John gives a symbolic description ofa parallel universe. My article "hereafter OR DIVINE UNIVERSEUNIVERSE" in Russian and English is available at www.tracts.com / MB.html, where I tried to decipher the 21 chapters of "Revelation."For me it is very important to know on this subject for your opinion.Regards Manfred Beglaryan. The Republic of Armenia.



The Revelation of St. John

Chapter 21

21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.

21:2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

21:3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.

21:4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

21:5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new.

And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.

21:6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.

21:7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.

21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

21:9 And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.

21:10 And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, 21:11 Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal; 21:12 And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel: 21:13 On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.

21:14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

21:15 And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.

21:16 And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs.

The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.

21:17 And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.

21:18 And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.

21:19 And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald; 21:20 The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolyte; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.

21:21 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls: every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.

21:22 And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.

21:23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.

21:24 And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.

21:25 And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.

21:26 And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it.

21:27 And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.



Manfred Beglaryan 23.07.2011

Manfred2010@mail.ru

THE OTHER WORLD

OR DIVINE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE

25 Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; 26 and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. (John. 11, 25-26).

Here it is not going about the resurrection of the physical body but about that of the divine non-material spiritual creature being formed up in the physical body which is separated from the dead body and begins to exist independently. Nicodemus comes to Jesus at night and talks to him; (john3-5, 6):

5. Jesus answered, "Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit. 6.Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit (John.3-56).

In the twenty-first chapter of "THE REVELATION OF ST. JOHN THE DEVINE" the Angel comes to him as a spirit and lifts him in to a great and high mountain. There he shows him the great city - in his view and description - the holy Jerusalem, that originated from heaven and God.

And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel: 13 On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates. 14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. (Rev. 21-12,13,14).

The city had the appearance of an equilateral cube. This means that it is not going about a city in the usual sense having two dimensions but about the other spiritual world. It would be better if mathematitians were involved in the matter and presented us the mathematical model of a parallel universe on the basis of John's description.

The Base of the walls of the city are decorated with all kinds of precious stones. The first foundation is decorated with jasper, the second with sapphire, the third with chalcedony, the fourth with emerald, the fifth with sardonyx, the sixth with carnelian, the seventh with chrysolite, the eighth with beryl, the ninth with topaz, the tenth with chrysoprase, the eleventh with hyacinth, and the twelfth with amethyst. The bases decorated with precious stones means that all of the universes are assigned for the Angels.

John gives a symbolic description of the holy city of Jerusalem as he had imagined it. I suppose that the angel showed to John's soul the parallel universe where the Lord God is dwelling and where the souls of all righteous people having undergone hardest tests in the struggle of becoming godly, sinless and the corresponding to religious rules. The wall of the city had 12 foundations and on them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb are written. This means that all universe is appointed only for souls who will move into a parallel universe and become angels. I suppose that from the descriptions of St. John about the underworld it follows that the space surrounding us is composed of twelve universes. Bases decorated with precious stones mean that all universes are assigned only for the Angels. In these worlds there may inhabit the souls of people that belonged to different nationalities and beliefs. These universes seem to differ from each other in that one is thinner and the souls brought into these realms dwell in them according to their merits. And just that other world is most probably the heavenly kingdom of Jesus Christ. I understand that it sounds fantastic but I have no other explanation. The angels who stand at the symbolic doors mean that a control has been set so that each soul is was found only in his/her universe, which corresponds to his/her spiritual condition and which has no right to voluntarily move to a more subtle universe. The souls that will fall into these parallel worlds after God's Judgement will become Angels. They will also work hard to by deepening the feeling of love in themselves navigate through these worlds and strive to get to the most subtle world to unite with God and gain immortality. But I think there will be some souls that will - by gradually losing the feeling of love - drop to less subtle worlds and get to our gross material universe to rise again in the future and connect with God to acquire immortality.

I mentioned about the feeling of love with certain intent. Before I started writing my articles I felt such a deep grief that shocked me deeply. And when I compared it with a feeling of ordinary love between me and my family I realized that the souls of our rough world have a sense of love superficially. Unfortunately, so far there never has been suggested an idea that different people have different depth of the feeling of love, in any case I haven't read about it anywhere. There is no doubt that the depth of the potential feeling of love in one's heart is very immense and love can fill the human soul to such an extent that he/she will be able to easily go on self-sacrifice for the sake of another person. After all God of love Jesus Christ possessing boundless feeling of love sacrificed himself without the slightest hesitation to save mankind.

But the soul is immortal! "And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die." It does not die; it does not decompose and therefore cannot die. They say that it is impossible to imagine a man without soul as a supreme intelligent being in the nature, and it's not possible to imagine the soul as the spiritual principle without immortality. But it will acquire immortality when it will in the higher realm of being permanently joins with God.

Does life have a meaning, and if so, what is it? Or life is just nonsense, meaningless, worthless natural process of birth, blossoming, ripening, wilting and death of a man like any other organic substance. As I understand it God has created the human body so that the Soul passing on from a parallel universe to our material world and entering into the human body would use that body during all the human life for its upbringing. Each person is obliged to develop it by himself. The souls having fallen into our material world differ from each other by the degrees of ability to love. From this it follows that according to the essence the person will have a respective appearance and will be born in the respective family. However, people do not realize it; they think that it is not the soul to have the paramount importance in here but the body, and that one should take care not about the soul as taught by the Lord but worry about the body during all the life as is usually done by people. What a sad mistake. As we know, the human self is not the body but the soul. Lord said to the future Apostle: "let the dead bury the dead, and you follow me". As you can see, he treats a living person as a dead one showing that the human body is nothing. After the death of a person's body goes into the ground and decomposes, the soul remains in the end, sooner or later goes the heavenly kingdom - the parallel universe. After the judgment the souls remaining in a parallel world will become Angels. Undoubtedly, the Angels found in a parallel universe are also working as the soul connected with the human body in our world. For example, when I look at the beauty of the surrounding flora it seems to me that the drawings of flowers were created by dead artists. A late close friend of mine was a wonderful artist and I am sure that his soul after God's judgment is somewhere in a parallel universe and will create beautiful works of art, which by the Angels will become materialized in our world in the form of flowers and trees and will bring joy to people. I'm sure the angels in the spiritual world not only create images of flowers and trees but also images of insects, animals and other works of art, which can then be materialized by some other angels in this world.

As I understand it, after death, the souls of all dead, as well as the ones fallen down from higher the subtle universes go to the lowest level of the heavenly kingdom and await for the trial of God, after which the worthy become Angels and move on to the relevant universe. The cowardly, false, abominable ones, murderers and fornicators, sorcerers and idolaters and all liars shall return to the material world and enter into the bodies of newborn babies to live for thousands of years of next successive ordinary lives until God's next judgment.





MANFRED BEGLARYAN 27.09.2011

manfred2010@mail.ru



"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind," said Albert Einstein. In his latest article, hereafter “THE OTHER WORLD OR DIVINE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE" I made an attempt to unite religion with science. Religion without proofs and science without hope standing against each other for 250 years of uncertainly like enemies, having no power to overcome one another, and finally, in the near future, the science becoming religious and religion scientific, becoming combined, will open the door to the invisible world of God.



Chapter 22. HOLY TRINITY. And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. (Revelation.22-1). I read this first sentence and I had a question, what is the water of life that is hidden under the symbol of water. In (1In5.8) I found that this word means the human mind. So people, as well as the inhabitants of the Divine Universe – the angels derive their knowledge from the river of water of life that proceeds from the throne of God and the Holy Lamb.

Where God and the Holy Lamb are, there surely must be the Holy Spirit to complete the Trinity. It's not difficult to guess that the river of Water of Life originating from the throne is the very symbol of the Holy Spirit. Here the water of life is the base of all of the bases – the consciousness that possesses Divine knowledge. A wonderful symbolism! Holy Spirit gives the Knowledge of our Lord by the will of Jesus to those who ask for it - for nothing. Jesus Christ addressing his disciples said that when the Holy Spirit comes he will guide them into all truth: for he will not speak of Himself but he will say he will hear and will proclaim the future for them. "But the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you everything and remind you all that I said to you" (John 14-26). However, as I noticed the vergers are almost interested in the gifts of the Holy Spirit any more after the initial Christians and they easily gradually turned away from Him. I wrote about this in my articles "The collapse of religion, eternal love" and "Christianity."

TREE OF LIFE. We found that the river water of life is the symbol of the Holy Spirit and now let’s try to decipher the symbols tree of life, and its leaves.

In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. (Revelation 22-2).

As to some persons the symbol of the Tree of Life in Christianity was only a guide of divine grace, and as to some others - in its nature it had a protective effect against disease and death.

In "Revelation" of John the Tree of Life has an entirely different symbolism which differs radically from the well-known symbols and I find it difficult to give a full and unambiguous explanation. The Tree of Life appears to me to consist of twelve universes, or the universe consisting of twelve dimensional sub-levels. John presents these universes to us in the form of tree leaves, which, as he explains, is intended to heal the nations. In the parallel universe there are no humans, no peoples, only the Angels. Apparently, there exist many forms of Angels and in a figurative sense John refers to them as peoples. The Tree of Life yields fruit twelve times and in each month out of those twelve months she gives her own fruit. I make out from John's explanation with different symbols that in these universes the Angels are considered to be sick until they get twelve months education - absolute knowledge of the Holy Spirit and the relevant life experience. But John has no doubt as to the duration of the month, and me too - I naturally have no idea of that thing too. I percept it in the following way: During the conditional month, for instance Angels of the first level will after the God’s judgment live on the first level or universe and receiving the appropriate education and -training in a particular program - will move to the second level, and so on. That's it. So it is not everything that looks the way the servants of the church imagine. Our souls too, becoming angels in the world beyond, will learn and work as the angels worked in the 'Revelation' of St. John the Theologian. Now I understand the words of Jesus, "Be faithful up to death and I will give you the crown of life." Even knowing so little one may imagine well enough as to what the requirements will be to the very few human souls who are trying to get into this wonderful world of Divine knowledge and love. A human soul or an angel tries to climb the stairs of twelve levels of parallel spaces to the dwelling of the Creator.

Few persons in our world, where now mainly reigns indifference and hatred, deserve to get into the kingdom of heaven of the Holy Trinity. And what drove the human society to the present situation? Within two thousand years hundreds of thousands of churches were built on earth and the clergymen were involved in educating people on the Christian canons. They took on that job and as a result it is not religious society we have today but a sick one. Since the beginning of the last century some potential assassins are elected to be heads of all states in all countries throughout the world that in the past century killed more than 100 million people, and now are getting prepared for World War III whereafter some little quantity sick people will remain. All of this suggest that the higher clergy could not cope with their task, which they took over and as a result they got a sick society instead of a religious one. And this condition is not only in the Christianity but in the remaining three religions. I keep asking myself whether the situation can be changed, and I answer to myself - yes, because no matter what happens God loves us. But, unfortunately, people have gone too far to want to change something.

But God gave people the option to try themselves. Therefore, man is endowed with free will the other side of which is the responsibility for one's actions in one's life. And the subsequent life on earth depended on the decision and the choice of the people which was rejected by ungrateful humanity.

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