Anyone who wants to benefit from the Law of Exception must first achieve a victory over himself, over his own interior world, before he will be able to overcome the ‘World’ and — by doing so — escape from the General Law. ~ Boris Mouravieff Conception is defined as the … Continue reading
Category Archives: Gnosis
The Purpose of Life Revealed
I first wrote about the purpose of life several years ago in Not Finding Life’s Purpose. We revisited the topic a few months ago, but this time we want to dig deeper by contemplating the meaning of life, as the recent posts about Keyserling emphasize. How you answer this will … Continue reading
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
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
How we know what we know
In between sensible things and intelligible things, there is the human world, constructed by thought, strained and defiled, which is the ground for both the greater and lesser battles. Continue reading
Order and the Soul
Picking up on the theme of Order and Chaos from the previous post, I thought it might be of interest to explicate Plato’s concept of an ordered soul in The Republic. For Plato, the soul (psyche) is composed of three main faculties – the epithumetikon, the thumoeides, and the logistikon. … Continue reading
Mouravieff Continues
Boris Mouravieff’s opus is a testimony to his own search for truth, & to the unity of that very Truth which he sought. Here he speaks of the complex nature of grasping an infinite Truth, which often occurs in stages – It is only after the Second Threshold that the … 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