the number Five represents Life, specifically vegetative Life, Six represents animal Life, and Seven, the living Soul of man. Continue reading
Category Archives: Boris Mouravieff
Techniques of Prayer
With the initial disclaimer that (in the Christian religion) one must beware of “over-systematizing” the grace of God into specific techniques, the following is shared for the possible benefit of readers who are interested in esoteric Christianity. Boris Mouravieff claims that there is a collection of “scripts” called the Golden … Continue reading
The Golden Book & Saint Clement
Boris Mouravieff, when teaching on polar-beings in Gnosis, references the existence of the Golden Book, an oral (if also incomplete) compilation of Jesus’ teachings to the inner circle of disciples. It is only fair to point out that (like the exoteric-esoteric paradox of Christianity itself), the idea of a written … Continue reading
General Law
After finishing Gnosis 1,2,&3, the concept of General Law stands out as very nearly the most important paradox in the book we can grasp, if we want to grasp daily practical implications. This concept has political implications, as well as personal: No one escapes General Law – it is impossible. … Continue reading
Tradition & the General Law
Before beginning this post, several definitions of terms peculiar to Boris Mouravieff’s work: “A Influences” : sensate pressures and resulting spiritual tendencies, along with the cosmic hierarchies which keep them in “tutelage” (see St. Paul in Galatians 4) “General Law“: the karma which keeps the men in bondage to the … Continue reading
Sun, Moon, & Stars
I want to remark on something in Tomberg’s Meditations, in comparison between Chapter 18 (The Moon) & Chapter 19 (The Sun). Besides many other side meditations of delight (including a short, extremely well put defense of medieval scholasticism, which he says was a marriage of wisdom and intelligence to produce … Continue reading
An Interpretation of Genesis
Many Christians assume a strongly “literal” stance upon the first chapter of Genesis. It should go without saying that assuming Genesis 1 to have a perspective like a newspaper is outside of the bounds of any known form of traditionalism, conceivable or not – God did not dictate this to … Continue reading
Lesser & Greater Mysteries
Galahad & Grail Boris Mouravieff’s Gnosis is a bridge between the Lesser Mysteries of orthodox Christianity and the Greater Mysteries promised in the Nordic tradition, as is clear from Mouravieff’s passage concerning the existence of two types of humanity on earth: In the first volume of ‘Gnosis’, we had already … Continue reading
The Celestial & Super-Celestial
Exerpts from “Disputation Against the Judgement of the Astrologers” Now because things always proceed in the same order, it is not by chance that there is some other determined cause outside matter and above the natural principle of agency, by whose intention individual things lead appropriately to the most perfect … Continue reading
Yahweh’s Template – II
Who is Yahweh? Jesus certainly never spoke of Him, except to say that “before Abraham was, I am”. Jesus taught of His Father; and yet he kept the rites of Yahweh in such a way as to transform them. The more he taught, the angrier the Law-protectors of Yahweh became. … Continue reading