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*** or the final sequence of Nostalghia with its three attempts by the main character to carry a lit
candle from one side of an old, empty pool to the other in his conviction that he is carrying the
flame of the human spirit across. And when he finally makes it to the other side, the opening of
Verdi's Requiem comes in. Is it not the requiem for all those masses, who have so cruelly neglected
their own spirits that they are now about to fall into the eternal sleep of spiritual death?
All of these sequences are cinematic depictions of a spiritual nostalghia for the Light. It can even
be said of Tarkovsky that he lived his whole life in a state of such nostalghia, regardless of whether
he was in Russia or abroad. All his life he kept trying to uncover deeper and deeper levels of
meaning to our existence. Upon arriving in the West, he took immediate advantage of his new
freedom by reading through the voluminous works of Gurdjieff - only to be ultimately disappointed,
but the important thing is that he explored every new opportunity.
He also took some wrong turns. Reflecting on what he had to go through in his life to bring his
films into being, he wrote: "And so it's always the audience who win, who gain something, while the
artist loses, and has to pay out." It's become almost a tradition that a great artist should also be a
martyr. The martyrdom complex seems to have a strange appeal to many artists and even the best
of them, like Tarkovsky, Bresson and Paradjanov, find themselves unable to resist its magnetic
pull. In reality, it is just the opposite of what Tarkovsky had stated: it is always the artist, who gains
most of all, because it is his spirit that advances through this artistic exertion (when it is applied in
an upward direction, of course, like in Tarkovsky's case), while the audience can gain from it only
as much as they are capable of recognizing and thus re-experiencing in their own way. But the
artist possesses all of that experience; it is totally his own spiritual gain. The Perfect Justice of God
does not allow the one, who exerted himself the most (namely, the artist) to "lose and have to pay
out," while the ones, who exerted themselves the least (namely, the audience) "to win". The same
Justice does not permit the sacrifice of an innocent life of ANY being in exchange for the sins of
others. One cannot drive a bargain with God as Alexander attempts to do in The Sacrifice. The
demands that are now being made upon humanity by the Light are much more exacting than that.
One spastic act will not suffice; a whole NEW and SUSTAINED way of living is required. A complete
transformation of man into a totally spiritualized being at last! To make this transformation possible
for those, who wish to follow this Call from out of the Light, the New Knowledge is given in the
book "In the Light of Truth: the Grail Message" by Abd-ru-shin.