Abstract
The New Age of Russia: Occult and Esoteric Dimensions
Highlights
Birgit MenzelThis book is not about what the Orthodox Church and traditional religions regard as sects
It is glaringly obvious that those arrested under suspicion of having committed grave crimes against the communist authorities would adopt all kinds of strategies, ranging from attempts to express their views as fully as possible in order to convince the investigators of their innocence or pass on these views to posterity, to complete mystification, defamation etc.4 died in prison), his son received permission to access the closed collections of the Central Archive of the FSB
Mystical wanderings became entwined with Russian nationalism, became equal to an obtrusive obsession with identity,it seems that this evolution is what nowadays separates many Russian esotericists from the world of The New Age, which is based on the principles of tolerance and universalism
Summary
This book is not about what the Orthodox Church and traditional religions regard as sects. Mysticism and occultism have little in common, especially since the occult in Russia has always claimed to be rational, scientific and part of evolutionism, irreligious or even antireligious, Soviet officials, confused this term by polemically denouncing most diverse phenomena as mysticism: metaphysical religious philosophers (such as Sergei Bulgakov, Vladimir Soloviev and Lev Losev), as well as what they saw as occultism in the sciences, popular traditions of both Christian Orthodox religion, folk beliefs and Siberian Shamanism It is not the aim of this book to offer new theoretical approaches or advance a single coherent theory of the occult, esoteric or New Age. It is not the aim of this book to offer new theoretical approaches or advance a single coherent theory of the occult, esoteric or New Age What it offers is a collection of material, information and exchange of ideas between scholars of different countries and disciplines, in the aim of providing a documentary foundation and, by bringing different discourses together, advancing this field of knowledge. Petersburg, 1903); ed., Iavlenie umershikh zhivym iz mira zagrobnogo (Moscow, 1915)
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