Boris Mouravieff

"The higher emotional center issues from the spark of the Son and the higher intellectual center from the spark of the Holy Spirit. This complements Valentin Tomberg’s Meditations on the Tarot. As the soul life becomes balanced and quiet, then it becomes possible for the Holy Spirit to appear and the second birth of initiation.

Mouravieff introduces a new level of pure consciousness above the consciousness of the real I." [1]

"Since the farthest antiquity, man has searched to resolve the problem of absolute Knowledge. A classic initiatory formula says: try to grasp that, when learning what, you will know all. Novices were taught that to understand all, it is necessary to know very little, but to grasp this very little, a lot must be learned." "In this order of ideas, the notion of Gnosis represented in the minds of the ancients, not a simple knowledge, but the vivifying Knowledge which is superior to Reason and Faith. Gnosis - the Gnosis - appeared then, as that mysterious and hidden wisdom, according to the words of Saint Paul." [2]

General:

Boris Mouravieff (Russian language: Борис Муравьёв; 8 March 1890 – 2 September 1966) was a Russian historian, philosopher, writer and university professor. He is known for his three-volume work Gnosis: Study and Commentaries on the Esoteric Tradition of Eastern Orthodoxy. [3]

Gnosis is a work of great value to those who wish to find the Way of the New Man, as mentioned by Saint Paul. Mouravieff wrote extensively about illusion, and how truth would free us from slavery. Mouravieff also wrote about polar beings, and the quest for people to find the real Self in the unconscious.