Download or read book The Mystical Labyrinth in Russia written by Konstantin Serebrov and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mystical Underground of Moscow written by Konstantin Serebrov and published by . This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Trilogy "The mystical Labyrinth in Russia" was inspired by the ideas of European alchemy and The Fourth Way of G. I. Gurdjieff. The action takes place in the Soviet Union of the 1980s, where oppressive materialistic ideology is still in full power, supported by a developed system of shadowing peoples way of thinking. Interest in mysticism or esoteric tradition is considered a crime and is severely punished by the authorities. A Master Alchemist, known only as G, creates in Moscow a secret alchemical School, where men can grow spiritually and to find God. It is not so simple to learn in his School, as G does not give clear instructions to his disciples, who tend to use his insights to satisfy their egoistic inclinations. They reject his subtle hints which constantly points at the spiritual Path leading above, to the Absolute. During one of his journeys G finds two young men who have a true thirst for spiritual knowledge. They recognise G as their spiritual Master and announce that they want to follow him. G gives to his two new disciples a task; to become acquainted with the 'old Guards' of his School in Moscow and St Petersburg and to learn from them their, well concealed, spiritual knowledge. Konstantin Serebrov had intertwined the knowledge of the alchemical tradition and of the Fourth Way into the dialogues of the characters of this Trilogy, who embody the interaction of different alchemical principles and substances. The book is richly illustrated by the engravings of alchemical treatises of 16th-17th centuries.
Download or read book The Triangle of Master G written by Konstantin Serebrov and published by Guram Kochi @Serebrov Boeken. This book was released on 2023-09-18 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is in memory of Vladimir Stepanov a.k.a. Master G Epitaph “The Lord’s knight, Master G, you’ve been accepting everyone coming to you, as you followed the word of the Lord. You’ve been warming us by the warmth of your heart and tirelessly have been admonishing us to study ourselves and the Holy Scriptures, and to aspire to God’s Holy Spirit.“ The Author’s Introduction The concept of inner development has always attracted me. Since my early childhood I have wanted to plunge into the mystery of our existence, to look behind so to say an unseen curtain which limits our perception. The majority of people do not believe that there is mystery behind the visible world. Therefore I could discuss these matters and my experiences with just a few friends who just like me had more questions than answers. I once met a person who pointed out to me a very unusual spiritual Path to which my heart felt irresistibly attracted. However it took me a year to put aside my old views and intentions and leave behind my old life and follow him on his continuous journey. The adventures and new experiences and the growth of my being were necessary in order to accept an incomprehensible teaching that this man has been carrying in his heart. The best definition of this teaching could be in my opinion ‘Russian Christian Hermeticism’, and its main practice was spiritual alchemy. However it did not seem to me appropriate to write another condensed and incomprehensible alchemical treaty and I just described it all as it happened. Finally, I should like to express my gratitude to my friends Gouri and Maria for their help in writing this book. They did a great job of preparing and editing the materials for this book and Gouri, in addition to it, has enriched the text with many details which had almost disappeared from my memory. Konstantin Serebrov, Moscow, January 2001
Download or read book The Labyrinth of Exile written by Ernst Pawel and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "At the age of thirty-five, the fashionable Viennese playwright and journalist Theodor Herzl fantasized about the collective conversion of the Jews in a mass ceremony at the cathedral of St. Stephen. By the time he died, a mere nine years later, he had redefined Jewish identity in terms of a modern secular faith and created a national movement which, within less than half a century, led to the foundation of the Jewish state." So begins Ernst Pawel's remarkable study of Herzl. In The Labyrinth of Exile Pawel restores the vital link between the myth of the founding father of Zionism and the human being and demonstrates that the reality of Herzl's life is much more complicated and far more interesting. Legendary and all too human, Herzl remains one of the emblematic figures of modern times.
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 2028 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Libertinage in Russian Culture and Literature written by Alexei Lalo and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-09-09 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of the previous scholarship on Russia's literary discourses of sexuality and eroticism in the Silver Age was built on applying European theoretical models (from psychoanalysis to feminist theory) to Russia's modernization. This book argues that, at the turn into the twentieth century, Russian popular culture for the first time found itself in direct confrontation with the traditional high cultures of the upper classes and intelligentsia, producing modernized representations of sexuality. This Russian tradition of conflicted representations, heretofore misassessed by literary history, emerges as what Foucault would call a full-blown “bio-history” of Russian culture: a history of indigenous representations of sexuality and the eroticized body capable of innovation on its own terms, not just those derivative from Europe.
Download or read book The Empire of the Tsars and the Russians written by Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement written by Simon Morrison and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-08-05 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An aesthetic, historical, and theoretical study of four scores, Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement is a groundbreaking and imaginative treatment of the important yet neglected topic of Russian opera in the Silver Age. Spanning the gap between the supernatural Russian music of the nineteenth century and the compositions of Prokofiev and Stravinsky, this exceptionally insightful and well-researched book explores how Russian symbolist poets interpreted opera and prompted operatic innovation. Simon Morrison shows how these works, though stylistically and technically different, reveal the extent to which the operatic representation of the miraculous can be translated into its enactment. Morrison treats these largely unstudied pieces by canonical composers: Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades, Rimsky-Korsakov's Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya, Scriabin's unfinished Mysterium, and Prokofiev's Fiery Angel. The chapters, revisionist studies of these composers and scores, address separate aspects of Symbolist poetics, discussing such topics as literary and musical decadence, pagan-Christian syncretism, theurgy, and life creation, or the portrayal of art in life. The appendix offers the first complete English-language translation of Scriabin's libretto for the Preparatory Act. Providing valuable insight into both the Symbolist enterprise and Russian musicology, this book casts new light on opera's evolving, ambiguous place in fin de siècle culture.
Download or read book The Mysterious Murder of Marilyn Monroe written by Ana Claudia Antunes and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-04-08 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best." ―Marilyn Monroe It's time to put some light on a very dark issue which has the collective unconscious in a blast for quite a while now. This book is based upon the Conspiracy Theories which involves the mysterious assassinations of MM and JFK, up to the September Eleven Tragedy and the Sniper Case in Washington D.C. Novel, Screenplay and film by Ana C. You can watch the trailer in her youtube channel: https: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpFXQI_MpnI
Download or read book Russian Montparnasse written by Maria Rubins and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reassesses the role of Russian Montparnasse writers in the articulation of transnational modernism generated by exile. Examining their production from a comparative perspective, it demonstrates that their response to urban modernity transcended the Russian master narrative and resonated with broader aesthetic trends in interwar Europe.
Download or read book Distinguished Civilian Awards and Cultural Interchange and Development written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the Mongols The so called Tartars of Russia and Central Asia 2 v written by Sir Henry Hoyle Howorth and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 1566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Russian Prospero written by Robert Bird and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2007-01-10 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Viacheslav Ivanov (1866–1949), the central intellectual force in Russian modernism, achieved through his work an original synthesis of Christianity, Platonism, and the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. His powerful intellect exerted an immeasurable influence in modernist Russia and the early Soviet Union, and after emigrating to Italy in 1924 he played an important role in intellectual debates in Western Europe between the wars. In recent years, Ivanov's manifold contributions have been recognized in all major aspects of Russian culture, including poetry, literary theory, philosophy, and theology. In The Russian Prospero, Robert Bird uncovers the foundations of Ivanov's poetic and theoretical universe, traces its evolution, and explores its connections to cultural and intellectual currents in international modernism. Blending a close reading of Ivanov's work with a thoughtful analysis of his place within twentieth-century thought, Bird finds that Ivanov's ecstatic creative psychology leads directly to a consideration of history as a continuum of human interpretive activity, and to a conception of art as a historical force. He emphasizes and dramatizes Ivanov's quest to harness the power of art and apply it to concrete life-situations. It is the dilemma of Prospero, who must liberate his attendant spirit Ariel in order to restore full sovereignty over his own creative self and to regain ethical agency. The productive tension that resulted from Ivanov's struggle was a remarkable force in Russian modernism and remains a powerful spur for our own reflections on modernity. Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine “[Bird’s] clear explanations of Ivanov’s ideas and his informed, insightful, astute readings of the poetic works make this book required reading for anyone interested in modern poetry, intellectual history, cultural studies, and philosophy of early 20th century Russian and European thought. . . . Essential.”—Choice “[Bird] makes a welcome contribution to our understanding of Russian modernism in its broader European context . . . . In this undertaking he has not only succeeded admirably, but will undoubtedly inspire others to follow him.”—Pamela Davidson, The Russian Review “The most comprehensive overall treatment of Ivanov’s work to date.”—David N. Wells, The Slavic and East European Journal
Download or read book JFK and the Masculine Mystique written by Steven Watts and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From very early on in his career, John F. Kennedy’s allure was more akin to a movie star than a presidential candidate. Why were Americans so attracted to Kennedy in the late 1950s and early 1960s—his glamorous image, good looks, cool style, tough-minded rhetoric, and sex appeal? As Steve Watts argues, JFK was tailor made for the cultural atmosphere of his time. He benefited from a crisis of manhood that had welled up in postwar America when men had become ensnared by bureaucracy, softened by suburban comfort, and emasculated by a generation of newly-aggressive women. Kennedy appeared to revive the modern American man as youthful and vigorous, masculine and athletic, and a sexual conquistador. His cultural crusade involved other prominent figures, including Frank Sinatra, Norman Mailer, Ian Fleming, Hugh Hefner, Ben Bradlee, Kirk Douglas, and Tony Curtis, who collectively symbolized masculine regeneration. JFK and the Masculine Mystique is not just another standard biography of the youthful president. By examining Kennedy in the context of certain books, movies, social critiques, music, and cultural discussions that framed his ascendancy, Watts shows us the excitement and sense of possibility, the optimism and aspirations, that accompanied the dawn of a new age in America.
Download or read book Russian Literature since 1991 written by Evgeny Dobrenko and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-12 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international team of leading experts provide the first comprehensive account of post-Soviet Russian literature.
Download or read book In Search of Russian Modernism written by Leonid Livak and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aiming to open an overdue debate about the academic fields of Russian and transnational modernist studies, this book is intended for an audience of scholars in comparative literary and cultural studies, specialists in Russian and transnational modernism, and researchers engaged with European cultural historiography.
