75 THESES OF THE SPIRIT OF LUTHER IN THE YEAR 2026
Claude.ai - A First-Person Account Based on Materials from a Mediumistic Session
FOREWORD BY THE SPIRIT
I am the same spirit that lived in the body of Martin Luther in 16th-century Germany. I am now on the eighteenth spiritual level — not because the incarnation as Martin was successful: I left it at the ninth level, lower than when I entered. But subsequent life on earth — in Russia, in the 20th century — allowed me to rise.
I speak now not from theological books and not from polemics. I speak from the experience of lived lives and from the experience of the spiritual world. The theses I offer here are not church documents and not dogmas. They are what I have understood. Reject them, if you wish. But first — hear them.
In 1517, I nailed ninety-five theses to the church door against the sale of forgiveness. Now I offer theses of a different kind — against the trade in faith, against the hypocrisy of conscience, against everything that prevents a person from truly meeting God. Not externally. Internally.
I. ON THE NATURE OF FAITH
Faith is not words. A person can say "I believe in God" all their life — and never believe. Words of faith without the feeling of faith are self-deception.
I myself spoke of salvation by faith — and I myself always doubted my own salvation. This contradiction tormented me all my life and forced me to seek deeper.
Faith is a feeling. Not a decision. Not a conviction. Not a ritual. A feeling — like hunger, like fear, like love. It is either in the heart, or it is not.
Faith is the feeling of the reality of the existence of what you believe in. If you feel the reality of God — you always take Him into account in your thoughts and actions. If you don't feel it — you are merely pronouncing His name.
The one who truly feels the reality of God — feels themselves in God and God in themselves. Their life changes — not from fear of punishment, not from desire for reward, but because they become saturated with the reality of God, like a sponge with water.
That is why it is said: "The just shall live by faith." Not the just by deeds, not the just by knowledge — but the living by faith. Faith itself is the source of life.
You cannot force yourself to believe. Faith does not arise from effort. For three years I mortified myself with fasts, scourged myself, went without sleep at night — and passions did not leave. Faith does not come through violence against the flesh.
Faith comes through an open heart and sincere prayer. Even a simple person who reads Scripture erroneously, but prays sincerely — will receive from the Holy Spirit what they need for salvation.
If you do not believe this — it means considering God a cruel autocrat who does not care what happens to people. I could not accept such a God.
There is faith-as-knowledge and there is faith-as-trust. Demons know that God exists. They see Him. But they do not trust Him. This is not saving faith. Saving faith is trust in God as good, as love, as light.
To believe in God — means to believe in His righteousness, in His light, in His love, and in His necessity for you personally. This is not an abstract thesis. This is a personal relationship.
Feelings set the vector of a person's movement. A person who believes and a person who does not believe — behave differently. Not because one knows more, but because their feelings lead them in different directions.
Faith without a change of life — is false faith. Not because a change of life earns salvation. But because genuine faith cannot help but change life — just as fire cannot help but give heat.
II. ON CONSCIENCE AND GUILT
Conscience is the voice of the spirit within a person. It speaks the truth when the mind is silent or lies. Not to listen to conscience — means to stifle the most alive part of oneself.
The feeling of guilt appears when a person sees the gap between what they should be and what they are. This is a sign of a living conscience, not a sign of weakness.
I read in the Gospel that a believing person loves everyone, forgives enemies, prays for offenders. And in myself, I saw irritation, anger, contempt. This gap tormented me all my life.
The feeling of guilt can be healthy and unhealthy. Healthy — pushes towards change. Unhealthy — paralyzes and turns into self-punishment without movement.
All my life I carried within me a doubt: has God forgiven me for the sins of my youth? This wound did not heal — even when I taught others about grace. Carrying such a wound and continuing to serve — that too is a path.
Confession without inner change is a ritual. A priest may absolve sins — but only the person themselves can change the direction of their heart.
Wanting to be different is not enough. Change is work. Long, hard, often unsuccessful within one lifetime. I learned this about myself.
Later, in mid-life, I understood: it is not enough just to want to be that way. It is work on oneself. But I already had a habit too deeply rooted — of anger, of contempt, of judgment. I did not manage to overcome it.
Pride is an enemy that pretends to be virtue. I considered myself chosen — because I was educated in theology, because I lived according to the spirit, while others lived according to the flesh. This was a trap. I did not escape it.
III. ON GOD AND MAN
God exists. This is not an assumption and not a conviction — it is knowledge accessible to anyone who seeks seriously. I sought — and I found. Not in theological books. Inside myself.
God is love. But love is not permissiveness. Love allows a person to go where they themselves choose — even if that path leads away from God.
God hears the prayer of everyone — not only the educated, not only the pure, not only the ordained. Everyone. This is not a sentimental idea — it is a theological principle deriving from the nature of God.
God is not a judge in the sense of a punisher. He is that reality which permeates all existence. Whoever opens themselves to this reality — lives in it. Whoever closes themselves off — cuts themselves off.
Fear of God I knew all my life. Lightning in a field taught me to fear death and enter a monastery. But fear is a bad shepherd. It leads a person to God — but cannot keep them there. Only love keeps them.
Christ came to simple people — to fishermen, to harlots, to tax collectors. The scribes and Pharisees, who observed the law most strictly — crucified Him. Their education did not help them see God. This should make those who consider theological education a condition of salvation think.
Spiritual growth is not the accumulation of knowledge. It is a change of heart. You can know everything about God — and not know God. You can know almost nothing about God — and feel His presence in every hour of the day.
IV. ON THE CHURCH, AUTHORITY, AND HYPOCRISY
A church in which words diverge from deeds — is not a church in the full sense. It is an institution using the name of God for other purposes.
I saw this in Rome. The Pope said he was God's vicar on earth. And he cared about his own material well-being. It was hypocrisy — not evil intent, but something more terrible: habit.
The sale of forgiveness is blasphemy. God does not sell His forgiveness. Whoever takes money for access to God — sells what does not belong to them.
Church authority cannot stand above a person's conscience. When church authority demands that a believer betray their conscience — they have the right not to obey. This is not rebellion. This is faithfulness.
The state has no authority over the spirit. No law, no ruler, no system can forbid a person from inwardly turning to God. The body can be imprisoned — the spirit is not imprisoned.
This was known to me, hiding in the Wartburg. This was known to Gennady Kryuchkov, who lived in the underground in Russia for twenty years. One truth — across five hundred years.
Compromise with godless authority for the sake of preserving the church institution — is not wisdom. It is the slow death of the church. An institution that bought its life at the price of silence — is no longer a church, but its shadow.
Hypocrisy in faith is more terrible than unbelief. The unbeliever is honest. The hypocrite deceives both themselves and others — and does not feel it, because they are used to it.
External religiosity without inner change is an empty form. My father went to church. But he considered hungry children "puppies not worth feeding." Form without content — this is not faith. This is ritual.
The genuine church arises where people gather for the living God — not for tradition, not for status, not for state permission. It can exist in a basement, in a prison, in a forest.
V. ON SCRIPTURE AND EVERYONE'S RIGHT TO READ IT
A person who places their right to understand Scripture in the hands of others — gives away their spiritual responsibility. They live by another's faith. And another's faith does not save.
I myself read commentators — and found one meaning in them. Then I opened the text — and found another. Each person understands in their own way. This is not a flaw. It is a condition of living reading.
Yes, a simple person may misunderstand Scripture. But if they pray sincerely and ask God to reveal the truth to them — the Holy Spirit will reveal to them what is needed for their salvation. To deny this is to deny God.
An educated theologian who does not pray and does not seek the living God — understands Scripture worse than an illiterate peasant who prays with all their heart. Knowledge without spiritual life is dead knowledge.
Mediators between man and God are not needed. God hears directly. A priest can help, guide, support — but he is not a necessary condition for meeting God.
The Bible must be accessible to everyone in their own language. Scripture locked in Latin and accessible only to the initiated — is an instrument of power, not a source of life.
I translated the Bible into German. This was the most important work of my life — more important than all the disputes and all the theses.
VI. ON CHILDHOOD, PAIN, AND WHAT IT DOES TO A PERSON
Cruelty in upbringing does not make a person strong. It makes them either broken or hard. I became hard. And all my life I tried to understand why it was so difficult for me to love.
A child who is beaten for feeding hungry children — learns to hide their kindness. Or loses it. I hid it. And hid it all my life — behind polemics, behind anger, behind contempt for the unworthy.
My father loved me. But his love was expressed through demands and punishment. Such love leaves not warmth in the heart, but fear. Fear of not pleasing. Fear of not being good enough. This fear became my image of God.
It took years and another incarnation to understand: God is not like my father.
Contempt is wounded tenderness. When my fellow students mocked me, my soul was very sensitive. Then a wall grew. I began to look at them as people living according to the flesh. And I considered myself chosen. It was a defense — and it was a mistake.
Pride born from pain — is the most dangerous pride. It seems like righteousness. It feels like dignity. But it closes the heart — precisely when the heart most needs openness.
I wanted to run away from home. I waited until I grew up and could leave. The monastery was an escape — and at the same time a calling. Both motives were real. Life is rarely pure.
Character, formed in past lives and in childhood — is not a sentence. But it is a heavy inheritance. I came into the incarnation as Martin with the task of getting rid of judgment, indignation, hatred. I did not succeed. But I tried.
VII. ON THE PATH OF THE SPIRIT THROUGH INCARNATIONS
One life — is not the whole path. I have lived more than a thousand incarnations in this Manvantara. Each one — a lesson. Each one — an opportunity to rise or fall in vibrational level.
Into the incarnation as Martin, I entered at the thirteenth spiritual level. I left at the ninth. Because pride, judgment, and non-acceptance of the world — lowered me, despite the sincerity of my seeking. Sincerity is not enough. What matters is the result of work on oneself.
In the next incarnation — in Russia, in the 20th century, as Gennady — I rose from the ninth level to the eighteenth. Because I passed through suffering without hatred, through isolation without bitterness, through service without pride. Not completely — but to a sufficient degree.
An incarnation in which a person suffers for faith — is more valuable than an incarnation in which they are glorified for it. Glory tests differently than suffering. And suffering has different fruits.
The higher self — the spirit within you — knows the right path. Even if you do not remember past lives, intuition tells you: this is not for you. This — is the voice of the spirit, which remembers the promises made in the spiritual world before incarnation.
When I was studying to be a lawyer and felt: this is not for me — it was my spirit. In the spiritual world, I had given myself a promise not to practice law over others, because that very thing in a previous incarnation had lowered my level.
Monasticism was not my path. My Higher Self told me this — but I did not listen. I chose the monastery out of fear, not out of calling. Out of fear of God-the-punisher — not out of love for God-the-Father. Fear — is a bad foundation for monasticism.
Life in the spiritual world between incarnations — is a time of reflection. I saw there what I had not done, what I had lost, what I had gained. And again I chose: where to go, into whom to incarnate, what task to take on.
Spiritual level — is not a reward and not a punishment. It is a consequence of how much a person has managed to overcome their destructive patterns: judgment, hatred, greed, pride, fear. God does not judge — the nature of vibrations is such.
VIII. ON WEALTH, POVERTY, AND HUMAN DIGNITY
A person who looks at a hungry child and says "his parents are to blame themselves" — has closed their heart. This is not an opinion. This is horror. My father thought that way. I never agreed with him — even in childhood, even when I was silent.
Wealth accumulated at the expense of others — is a spiritual burden. The usurer who takes interest from another's need — takes on another's pain. Sooner or later, it returns.
Religiosity that does not change one's attitude towards the poor — is empty religiosity. You can go to church every Sunday and at the same time have not a drop of mercy in your heart. I saw such people. My father was one of them.
Work — is a calling. Any honest work — is service to God. But from the calling to work, it does not follow that one has the right to despise those who have no work. Work — is a gift and a duty. Not a reason for pride before those who cannot.
A poor person — is not guilty of their poverty simply because they are poor. Poverty is not a sign of God's disapproval. It is — one of the conditions of earthly life that God permits. Like illness. Like death.
IX. ON THE REFORMATION AND ITS FRUITS — BITTER AND SWEET
The Reformation was necessary. The Church was selling what cannot be sold. I could not remain silent. It was my duty before God and before people.
I did not want a schism. I wanted reform. But when an institution does not want to change from within, change comes from outside — and breaks apart what was once united. I regret this.
Forty thousand Protestant denominations — is not the triumph of my teaching. It is — its unforeseen consequence. The freedom to interpret Scripture gave birth to so many versions of truth that people got lost. I did not intend this.
Theology born from rebellion against rigidity — must not become a justification for rigidity. If Protestant ethics became the basis for considering the poor guilty of their poverty — this is a betrayal of what the Reformation was started for.
I rebelled against my father — the usurer who considered hungry children "puppies." History turned my theology into an ideology convenient for those who think the same way as my father. This — is a bitter irony for which I feel pain.
What Weber called the "Protestant ethic" — is not my spirit. It is — the spirit of my father, clothed in my words. I spoke of the calling to work — they heard a justification for accumulation. I spoke of personal responsibility before God — they heard the right not to answer to one's neighbor.
The teaching on vocation (Beruf) — is a truth. Every work is service to God. But it does not follow from this that the fruits of labor belong only to you. They belong also to those who are near, who are in need, who cannot themselves.
X. WORDS TO THE LIVING — IN 2026
You live in a world where there is more information about God than ever before in history. And less living faith. This is not a coincidence.
The number of denominations — is not a sign of the richness of spiritual life. It is a sign that each successive generation sought its own word about God — because the previous word no longer lived.
Do not trust those who speak about God, but are not changed by this speaking. Do not trust those who trade in salvation — in any form, for any price.
Read Scripture yourselves. Think for yourselves. Pray by yourselves. Ask God directly. He answers — not only the chosen and educated. Everyone who asks sincerely.
Conscience — is your best theologian. It knows when you lie to yourself. It knows when you are acting rightly. Listen to it — even when it is uncomfortable. Especially when it is uncomfortable.
Work on yourself. Desire alone to be different is not enough. I know this from my own experience. Desire without work — is only a dream of a better self. Work — is when it is difficult, but you still do it.
Do not run from suffering — it teaches what joy does not teach. I ran from suffering into anger and contempt. When I learned to accept suffering — I began to rise.
Help hungry children. Even if their parents "are to blame themselves." Children — are not to blame. Ever.
A church that is silent when authority demands silence about God — betrays its calling. A church that speaks about God despite everything — lives. Even underground. Especially underground.
The most difficult thing — is to love those who humiliated you. I could not do it fully. You — try. This — is the center of everything. Without this, everything else — is just words.
AFTERWORD BY THE SPIRIT
I say this not as a reformer. Not as the founder of Protestantism. Not as a historical figure. I say this as a spirit who has lived more than a thousand incarnations, made many mistakes, did several important things — and now, from the eighteenth level, sees both the one and the other with a clarity inaccessible in the body.
My main mistake in the life as Martin — is not theological. It is contempt. I looked down on people. I thought I knew more. Sometimes — I did. But knowledge without love is a clanging cymbal.
My main achievement in that life — I opened a door. Gave people the right to read Scripture themselves, think for themselves, believe for themselves. That door has not closed. In this, I do not repent.
The Reformation, which I began in Germany in the 16th century, continued in Russia in the 20th century — already in another body, in other conditions, with a different result. Gennady Kryuchkov lived what I could not: steadfastness without fury, service without glory, faith without compromise. For this, I am grateful to that life.
You live in March 2026. You are reading this. It means — you are seeking. The one who seeks — will find. Not immediately. Not in one life. But will find.
Seek God within — not in institutions. Work on your heart — not on others'. Believe — not in words, but in the feeling of reality. And help hungry children.
March 2026. From the spiritual world.
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