Lyubimova, T. B. What Does the Tradition Convey?

Abstract: According to the teaching about the Uniform Spiritual Tradition, the modern situation in the world is a catastrophic departure from the normal, i.e. tradition development of culture, society and humankind. This is the ‘decline’ towards destruction of all forms of cultural and social life and what is called ‘the end of the world’. Traditions are not the past of culture. Traditions retain and convey internal cultural forms. They also translate the spiritual influence and all symbols of religions and all metaphysical teachings are more or less readable prints thereto. Focusing on the problem of the relation between the macrocosmos and micocosmos, the author of the article draws the analogy between historical events, the course of history and man’s life. For that purpose the author uses the ‘health-sickness’ criterion for evaluating the overall historical process, in particular, concepts of the end of history from the traditional point of view. Disregarding the fact whether researchers of the Uniform Tradition follows the transcendental point of view or not, they all note that tradition and consecration have meta-historical and cross-cultural dimensions.

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