The ALLATRA symbol is made up of a circle representing the sun, the symbol of the male deity Ra, and a crescent underneath it representing the moon, the symbol of the female deity Al-Lat.
The ALLATRA symbol is made up of a circle representing the sun, the symbol of the male deity Ra, and a crescent underneath it representing the moon, the symbol of the female deity Al-Lat.

The ALLATRA International Public Movement (Ukrainian: Міжнародний громадський рух «АЛЛАТРА», Russian: Международное общественное движение «АЛЛАТРА») is a Kiev-based non-governmental organization founded in 2011 that provides material, instruction and hosts events associated originally with a self-published book named AllatRa.[1] There seems to be a debate among some religious scholars in the Russosphere on whether ALLATRA is a religious organization, with some researchers classify ALLATRA as a new religious movement with characteristics of syncreticism, Apocalypticism, Pan-Slavism, New Thought and New Age.[2][3][4][5][6]

History

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In the 2000s, a series of books of spiritual and esoteric nature of a self-published author under the pseudonym Anastasia Novykh (Russian: Анастасия Новых) appeared in Ukraine in the Russian language. In 2011, in Kiev, members of a public organization,[7] who promoted a movement of readers of these books, founded the Lagoda International Public Organization. In 2013, AllatRa, the main book of Novykh, was self-published by the ALLATRA publishing house.[3][8]

The ALLATRA International Public Movement was formally registered in July 2014 by the Lagoda organization, the ALLATRA publishing house and active participants in the movement.[3][7][9]

Teachings

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Nikolas Roerich, a Russian Imperial-era theosophist inspired by Tibetan mythology, introduced a mythical character named Rigden Djappo to the Russosphere and attributed to it the title of King of Shambhala and considered him the savior who would appear at the end time.[10] The Rigden Djappo character was used by Anastasia Novykh in the 2000s to co-narrate the book "ALLATRA ", the main source of spiritual knowledge of the ALLATRA organization. Igor Mikhailovich Danilov, a chiropractor whose office was close to Kiev Pechersk Lavra, is considered by the ALLATRA organization to be the spiritual leader of the movement and the embodiment of Rigden Djappo.[9][8][10] [11]

Other source of spiritual knowledge of the ALLATRA organization, besides the book "ALLATRA", are other self-published books under the pseudonym Anastasia Novykh which were written in Russian and translated into English including:

  • Consciousness and Personality. From the inevitably dead to the eternally alive[12]
  • Sensei of Shambala Series of books[13]
  • Birds and a Stone[14]
  • Ezoosmos[15]
  • PRIMORDIAL ALLATRA PHYSICS[16]
  • On the Problems and Consequences of Global Climate Change on Earth. Effective Ways to Solve These Problems[17]
  • Spiritual practices and meditations[18]
  • Predictions of the future and the truth about past and present[19]

The name "ALLATRA" itself is a combination of the names of the ancient deities Al-Lat and Ra, conveying dualistic teachaing in which "God-Absolute ALLATRA" has a feminine concept, Al-Lat, and a masculine one, Ra. The ALLATRA symbol is made up of a circle representing the sun, the symbol of Ra, and a crescent underneath it representing the moon, the symbol of Al-Lat.[2]

The teachings includes elements of Middle Eastern mythology like Zoroastrianism and Gnosticism, as well as mythological elements that have influences from the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia like Theosophy, Agni Yoga. Historical religious figures like Gautama Buddha, Jesus, Muhammad and the Orthodox Christian saint Agapetus of the Kiev Caves are revered as bodhisattvas.[1]

ALLATRA emphasizes a Pan-Slavic ideal that the unification of the world on a single spiritual basis would begin with the unification of the Slavic peoples, and that the leadership of Moscow would play an important role in the future battle of good and evil[2]. Because of this, in the media there were opposite speculations about the involvement of the movement of Russian and Ukrainian secret services in the movement.[20][2]

Notability

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Since ALLATRA's re-registration in Ukraine in 2014, Ukrainian sources, critical of the movement, reported extensive online and billboard advertisement campaigns in Ukrainian cities. These included forging agreements with Ukrainian mayors and city officials and were successful in gaining growing groups of followers. A 2016 article on Релігія в Україні (Ukrainian: Religion in Ukraine), a Ukrainian-language website that specializes in religions in Ukraine, described ALLATRA as a "pro-Russian sect of Putin's supporters", [21][22][23][24] a view shared by Jan Cemper, editor-in-chief of the Manipulátoři.cz.[25]

The Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kiev Patriarchate has "condemned the activities" of ALLATRA on May 13, 2017, alleging that its activities were facilitated by the Kiev Pechersk Lavra run by the rival Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Moscow Patriarchate.[26] Marina Tsvigun, a rival Ukrainian religious leader, as well as other rival Slavic Native Faith movements, also criticized ALLATRA's teachings.[27][28]

ALLATRA books, fliers, advertisements and conferences have also been reported across the United States,[29][30][31] Germany, Czechia[25], Turkey,[32] and different parts of the world.[33][34] Citations to ALLATRA works were found in academic papers published by universities in Russia,[35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42] Ukraine[43][44][45][46], Georgia[47], Poland[48] and Iraq[49].

In 2019, the Russian Federal Security Service reported to have thwarted Anti-Semite terrorism plans in Taganrog, Russia by an allegedly ALLATRA -associated group named Union of the World Liberation Movement for People's Brotherhood aka Union of the peoples of the sun and the peoples of the crescent, which was described as an extremist Ukrainian nationalist group.[50][51][52][53] The Chelyabinsk Eparchy of the Russian Orthodox Church condemned these reported activities.[54]

In 2019, Robby Wells of the United States' Democratic Party announced in a 2019 ALLATRA conference that he was running for president of the United States inspired by ALLATRA principles.[55][56] He eventually did not meet the minimum criteria to be a major candidate in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries.[57]

See Also

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Citations

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  2. ^ a b c d Грива О. А. О незаконной миссионерской деятельности новых религиозных движений (на примере МОД «АллатРа») // Религия. Общество. Человек. — 2019. — С. 36—47.
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