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meaningless. Those who understand the principles of electricity will comprehend when I say that this present global estate is the way nature works and is the establishing of sufficient Contact Potential Difference for the inflow of energy of Cosmic Light. But just as it is in the case of the individual, when that point is reached - that Dark Night of the Soul - there is a “choice” that becomes apparent: the soul is offered the way “up” or the way “down”. In order for this coming inflow of energy to act in positive ways, to create a new reality of Free Will and Balance, there must be a point of contact that can conduct the energy. There must be human “micro-chips” or “circuits” sufficient to sustain this energy or all of humanity will perish. This means that only the development of human beings of a certain sort - with a certain “wiring”, so to say - will result in the global capacity to confront the energies of the Crossroads. Boris Mouravieff‘s Gnosis is an attempt to recover and describe, in terms understandable to modern man, a particular Tradition handed down over the centuries, in a sometimes perhaps broken line, but one that still exists today in the Orthodox Church. Paraphrasing Mouravieff, this tradition could be said to be the Christian equivalent of that still exists in the Yoga, Zen and the other inner traditions of the far Eastern religions, disciplines which have each existed as specializations within the religion of which they are part. It’s later form can be traced particularly in the Russian Church and clearly relates to the oral tradition known as the church is tenuous, that the doctrine does not appear to survive in full or has not been collected together in full. Monks on Mount Athos admit the existence of the Tradition but say that it has never been fully In carefully studying the work of Mouravieff, we discover that we have found many of the missing pieces of our puzzle. What is more significant is that these pieces relate directly to the hidden meanings of the Quest for the Holy Grail and the Great Work of the Alchemists. Again and again, Seekers have sought to interpret the process of “Ascension” in terms of their external experiences. As Fulcanelli has told us, it is in the clash of ideas that the letter dies and the spirit is Again and again the esoteric Tradition is misunderstood in this way and so it dies. Then, when the time is ripe, it must be either restored or rephrased. In the meantime the meaning is kept alive in communities or 421 High Strangeness — Part Four the Royal Way. Mouravieff himself admits that the survival of this tradition within spelled out in writing. born. That is to say: the knowledge is in the meaning, not in the words.