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We are checking the link collections and re-categorizing them. That is why e.g. 'links' page is not available. 'Books' and 'films' pages are currently being reviewed and renewed. New pages such as 'music', 'enneagram' and 'this & that' are under construction.

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Latest updates on site

2006-03-05 - Books page : page re-activated including link to Metanoia Library
2006-01-20 - Articles page : off-site links checked
2006-01-20 - Events page : two conferences added
2006-01-20 - Main page : 'some history' added

News

Tenth anniversary of this website

This website was originally a collection of classified G.I. Gurdjieff related links and a part of an experimental portal called "Gnosis Site". It was born on 5th of April 1996, at 21:34 to be exact, when the first HTTP request was logged on a 100 MHz Intel Pentium computer running Microsoft IIS 1.0 on Windows NT Server 3.51. The machine was connected to the internet via the network of University of Turku, Finland. Oh those good ol' days...

Happy birthday!

05.04.2006

New literature

George Heart:
Christianity: Dogmatic Faith & Gnostic Vivifying Knowledge. The transmutation of Faith & the Tradition's Unveiling of The Myth of Adam - Eve & the Meaning of Salvation.

This book exposes one of the numerous theses to be found in Boris Mouravieff's "Gnosis". For students of Esoteric Christianity "Gnosis" is the invaluable tool for growth and development, as it is the first integral and systematic exposition of the Christian Tradition. Our present thesis is extracted from the following paragraph of the Introduction to Gnosis I:

"The formula Faith, Hope and Love of St. Paul, 1Cor. 13:13, summarizes a vast program of the evolution of human knowledge. If this formula is examined in relation to its context, that is to say in relation to those twelve verses of the thirteenth chapter of the first letter to the Corinthians we will be able to see that its first two terms Faith and Hope are temporary while the third, Love, is permanent. The formula was valid, according to the Apostle for the specific period of time in which it was uttered, and its significance should have evolved with time".

According to Boris Mouravieff, St. Paul had charged Christianity with a systematic program that it had to execute at all cost.

Our thesis is therefore the following:

Faith is provisory and must be transmuted into a live Knowledge. The advance of Science and the progress of rationality having gradually changed Man’s intellection presented Christianity with an ultimatum: Should Faith and Hope not change into Live Knowledge, Christianity is doomed. The Historical and Social contexts that we live in, which deify the human Personality and its prime tool the Positive Agnostic Reason, together with the contempt in which Initiation to the Mysteries is held, oppose an almost impassable barrier to the adequate execution of St. Paul's Program.

Gurdjieff Essay Contest cancelled

Gurdjieffian Net and East-West Gurdjieff Research Center have cancelled the Gurdjieff Essay Contest, because too few people entered. Anyway, we would like to thank heartily all those brave ones, who made an effort and sent their essay to the contest.

02.01.2006