Boris Mouravieff - Gnosis

Study and Commentaries on the Esoteric Tradition of Eastern Orthodoxy People interested in esoteric matters will probably have read the book by P.D. Ouspensky, published posthumously by his next of kin, titled Fragments of an Unknown teaching. The ideas found in that book were gathered by the author from 'G'. 'G' (Gurdjieff) indicates in that text what is the basis of his teaching: 'for the benefit of those who know already, I will say that, if you like, this is esoteric Christianity?' It is curious in these conditions that the title speaks of an unknown teaching. The Christian Esoteric Tradition has always remained alive
within certain monasteries in Greece, Russia, and elsewhere, and if it is true that this knowledge was hermetically hidden, yet its existence was known and access to it was never forbidden to those seriously interested in these questions.


Boris Mouravieff and Gnosis (commentaries to the First Volume)

Boris Mouravieff was an enigmatic 'third man', known to Gurdjieff and Ouspensky, who found and learned to practise what he clearly believed to be the complete system of which only "fragments" had been previously published in Ouspensky's In Search of the Miraculous. On this basis he formed the 'Centre d'Etudes chretiennes esoteriques' in Geneva - now closed. Many of his discoveries are described in his book, Gnosis, which contains in its three volumes the fundamental concepts of that Christian esoteric teachings revealed by Ouspensky in fragmentary form. This Gnosis is not a modern statement of the second century texts known as 'Gnosticism', but a previously unpublished ancient Christian knowledge tradition. Boris Mouravieff taught Eastern Esotericism at Geneva University for many years, and Gnosis is the result of his teaching.

First published in French in 1961, the three volumes of Mouravieff's Gnosis have since been translated into Greek, and an Arabic text is in preparation. Now - after seven years of work - the translation of the first volume into English is available, Volume II is already translated and will be published in two years, and work has finally begun on Volume III.


Translated from the French by S.A. Wissa.
English text edited and revised by Robin Amis.


Volumes I, II & III

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