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Gnosis par Boris Mouravieff
La Gnose c'est la Connaissance, issue de la Sagesse mystérieuse
et cachée, d'après les Ecritures, par une Tradition orale qui vivifie la Lettre.
L'Orthodoxie orientale a su conserver intacte cette Tradition à l'abri
de l'hermétisme. Toutefois, si celui-ci a constitué, depuis des millénaires, une sauvegarde, les circonstances, aujourd'hui,
ont changé. Au tournant actuel de l'Histoire, de même qu'à l'Avènement du Christ, le rideau est partiellement levé.
Ainsi, se trouvent facilitées les recherches de ceux qui veulent saisir le sens vrai de la vie, comprendre la tâche qui incombe
à l'homme dans l'Ère au seuil de laquelle nous nous trouvons.
Dieu dit: Je suis l'Alpha et l'Oméga, le Commencement et la
Fin.
Entre ces limites, l'homme occupe une position intermédiaire.
Il procède de l'Alpha, l'amour subjectif, périssable. C'est le propos de GNOSIS d'indiquer, selon cette Tradition,
la Voie qui conduit l'homme vers l'Oméga qui symbolise l'Amour objectif, impérissable, vainqueur de la Mort.
EXOTERISME MESOTERISME ESOTERISME
Le plan de notre ouvrage, en trois volumes, a été conçu d'après
la nature de l'enseignement ésotérique, selon une gradation d'ailleurs semblable à celle généralement adoptée par l'enseignement
positif dans le monde.
Le premier degré, cycle exotérique, (Gnôsis, Tome I) correspond à l'enseignement
primaire et a pour but de fournir au disciple linstrument de travail.
Le deuxième degré, cycle mésotérique (Gnôsis, Tome II) correspond à
l'enseignement secondaire et a pour objet de fournir au disciple, qui a assimilé le cycle exotérique, un minimum d'éléments
lesquels, assimilés à leur tour, peuvent lui donner une base pour le développement ultérieur de sa culture générale ésotérique. Le
cycle mésotérique est conduit de façon à donner au disciple les moyens d'approfondir la matière enseignée, ce qui lui permettra d'entreprendre des recherches dans le domaine de la science ésotérique pure, comme
dans celui de n'importe quelle branche de la science positive qui lui est familière. Ce niveau correspond au couronnement
des études secondaires (baccalauréat, maturité) et donne accès à l'enseignement supérieur, stade qui exige une participation
active de l'étudiant.
Le troisième degré, cycle ésotérique à proprement parler (Gnôsis,
Tome III) correspond précisément à l'enseignement positif supérieur. Ce dernier est toujours spécialisé ;
il en est de même dans l'ésotérisme. Comme dans la Science positive,
la Gnose comprend plusieurs secteurs, les diverses branches de la Connaissance.
Dans la période de transition où nous nous trouvons aujourd'hui entre
le Cycle du fils qui prend fin, et celui du Saint-Esprit qui approche, l'enseignement ésotérique supérieur est orienté vers
les besoins immédiats et les plus urgents de la Cause. Or, l'aptitude du disciple ne se mesure pas, en matière ésotérique,
à la seule connaissance livresque. C'est dire que le Savoir, sans le Savoir-Faire, est insuffisant, surtout si l'on considère
les besoins de l'époque. Quant au disciple, à présent plus que jamais, il ne peut progresser s'il ne sert efficacement la
Cause par une contribution personnelle au succès de la Transition.
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This is one of the diagrams in Gnosis Vol. 1 by Boris mouravieff, the following is written as an
explanation of the diagram & its application in esoteric knowledge.
Let us now examine from
the practical point of view how man can find to esotericism, by what means he can work towards the aim of establishing the permanent connections which will make
it possible for him to evolve. The problem is treated in the Tradition by the help of the diagram immediately below:
In esoteric teaching, this figure could be said to be the most important of all. It incorporates
a multitude of ideas; far more than the comments we are about to give. That is why we must return to it often and meditate
upon it.
The black arrows represent influences
created within life by life itself. This is the first variety of influence by which man is surrounded. These
are called "A" influences. We will notice that they are distributed almost equally over all the surface of the circle of life.
As in the case of all radiant energy of nature, their effect is inversely proportional to the square of the distance;
thus, man is subject most of all to the arrows influencing him from those immediately around him, and is pulled every instant
by what they do at that moment. The influence of the "A" arrows on exterior man is imperative; driven, he wanders in the circle of his life from birth to death following a broken line which is sometimes
subject to dangerous changes of direction.
The 'ensemble' of "A" influences forms the Law of Chance or Law of Accident. Man is subject to its rule, yet if we examine the figure more closely,
we will perceive that each black arrow is counterbalanced, neutralised in some other part by another arrow equal in force
and diametrically opposed, so much so that, if we had left them to effectively neutralise each other, the general resultant
force would have been equal to zero. This means that together the "A" influences are illusory in their nature, although the effect of each one of them
is real, so that exterior man takes them for reality.
The white circle represents the esoteric
Centre located outside the general laws of life.
The white arrows represent the influences
called "B". These influences are thrown into the turmoil of life and originate from the Esoteric Centre. Created outside life,
these arrows are all oriented in the same direction. In their totality*53 they form a sort of magnetic field.
Since the "A" influences neutralise
each other, "B" influences actually constitute the only reality.
The small circle with the shaded lines
represents man who in this figure is taken in isolation. The oblique shaded lines signify that the nature of exterior man
is not homogenous: it is mixed.
If man spends his life without distinguishing
between "A" and "B" influences, he will end it as he started it, one could say mechanically, driven by the law of chance.
However, according to the nature and the intensity of the resultant forces to which he will be subjected, it can happen to
him to make a brilliant career in the meaning the world gives to this expression. Yet he will come to the end of his days
without having either learnt or understood anything of Reality. And earth returns to Earth.
In life every being is subjected to
a sort of competitive test. If he discerns the existence of the "B" influences; if he acquires a taste for gathering and absorbing
them; if he aspires to assimilate them more and more; his interior mixed nature will slowly undergo a certain kind of evolution.
And if the efforts which he makes to absorb the "B" influences are constant and sufficient in force, a magnetic centre can
be formed within him. This magnetic centre is represented in the diagram by the small white space.
If this centre once born in him is
carefully developed, it takes form and in its turn will exercise an influence over the results of the "A" arrows which are
always active, deflecting
them. Such a deflection may be violent. In general, it transgresses the law of exterior life and provokes many conflicts in
and around man. If he loses the battle, he emerges with the conviction that the "B" influences are nothing but illusion: that
the only reality is represented by the "A" influences. Slowly, the magnetic centre which had been formed within him is reabsorbed
and vanishes. Then, from the esoteric point of view, his situation is worse than the one he had started with, when he was
just beginning to discern the "B" influences.
But if he emerges a winner in this
first struggle, his magnetic centre, consolidated and reinforced, will draw him to a man having a "C" influence stronger than
his own and possessing a stronger magnetic centre. And so on in succession, the last man being in connection with another
having an influence "D", who will be his link with the Esoteric Centre "E"?
Henceforth in life, that man will be
isolated no more. He will certainly continue to live as before under the action of the "A" influences which will for a long
time continue to exercise their power over him; still, little by little, thanks to the effect of the influence of the chain
"B","C","D","E" his magnetic centre will develop. To the measure of its growth the man will come out of the dominion of the
Law of Chance to enter into the domain of Consciousness.
If he reaches this result before his
death, he can say that his life was not lived in vain.
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