Few recent generations of cosmologists have solved nonlocal Newtonian
basic equations which describe the gravitational instability in an exp
anding universe. The general picture emerging from this approach is th
at the structure begins to form with the pancaking and then looks like
a complicated hierarchical clustering and pancaking over a vast range
of scales. In general relativity (GR) the equations of cosmological g
ravitational instability contain the electric part of the Weyl tenser
represented by the local terms, and the magnetic part, represented by
both local and nonlocal terms. If the magnetic part is ignored, then t
he Newtonian limit of the GR version of the basic equations without th
e magnetic part consists of the closed set of the local Lagrangian equ
ations. Recently, this fact has drawn much attention, since the gravit
ational instability in that form would greatly simplify the study of c
osmic structure formation. In particular, the filamentary structure of
collapsing is predicted. In this paper we resolve the contradiction b
etween the Newtonian theory and GR versions adopted in some recent pap
ers. We show that dropping the magnetic part from the basic relativist
ic equations is incorrect. The correct Newtonian limit is derived by t
he lie-expansion of the GR equations and the Bianchi identities for th
e Weyl tenser. The last ones begin with similar to 1/c(3) order, there
fore in this case one must take into account the magnetic part in the
first nonvanishing post Newtonian order similar to 1/c(3), which conta
ins nonlocal terms, unrelated to the gravitational waves, but directly
related to the nonlocal gravitational interaction. For the first time
we rigorously show that the basic GR equations with the magnetic part
are reduced precisely to the canonic Newtonian nonlocal equations. Th
us, the correct treatment of the relativistic version of the gravitati
onal instability resurrects the canonic picture of the structure forma
tion, where pancaking is the predominant form of collapsing in the sin
gle stream regime.