For centuries, esoteric teachings have attracted people with their mystery, a halo of mysticism. In fact, they were all purely applied - they helped to search for the meaning of life, to understand the hidden mechanisms of being, to change consciousness. Some of these teachings have been preserved to our days from the depths of centuries. Others formed recently, for example, in the 20th century. Here are just a few great Masters of this century.
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Georgy Gurdjieff is a philosopher and mystic, a mysterious spiritual teacher. Even in his youth, a boy from a Greek-Armenian family with the group "Seekers of Truth" went to the East to find the surviving ancient knowledge. Traveled to Persia, Tibet, Outer Mongolia. Then he began to gather around himself students who, using very original methods, helped to free himself from the superficial perception of the world, to find a true system of values. All this was to lead, according to his plan, to the renewal of life as a whole.
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Jeddu Krishnamurti is an Indian young man who has been distinguished by his philosophical mentality since childhood. Subsequently, he went to study in London and became a member of the Theosophical Circle. Created his own system, became the head of the Order of the Star of the East, published many philosophical works in which he explained his views on the picture of the world. Society enthusiastically proclaimed him the "savior of the West", but he clearly did not want to be one.
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Daniil Andreev - the son of the Russian writer Leonid Andreev, created the monumental work "The Rose of the World", in which he described his spiritual experience. The book explains the problems of cosmology, puts forward the theory of egregors and elementals, touches on the multidimensionality of space and time, confirms the existence of a higher cosmic mind.
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Pavel Florensky is a Russian priest and thinker. In his teaching, religion and philosophy are inextricably merged. He left behind many works that should be read by anyone who wants to know what esotericism, religion, and philosophy are. The main concept in his teaching was the Radiant Eye, the middle of the Divine Triangle.
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Rudolf Steiner - the doctrine of anthroposophy, has published many works. He believed that the main thing was to awaken the spiritual forces hidden in a person.
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Peter Donov is a Bulgarian spiritual teacher. He created the esoteric school "White Brotherhood" (not to be confused with the totalitarian sect of the same name). Education began with the basics of Christianity, helping people combine their feelings and thoughts with cosmic rhythms. His technique was called paneurhythmy. With its help, the initiates opened a special, spiritual vision.
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Edward Crowley is a magician and an esoteric. He graduated from Cambridge, wandered through Asia. He founded the order of the "Silver Star". He claimed that during a visit to Cairo, the voice of extraterrestrial intelligence informed him that a new era of humanity was coming. Crowley was a strong psychic and said that any conscious action of a person is magic, because he also has a second, invisible plan.
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Bhagwan Sri Rajneesh, or Osho, is an Indian teacher who called himself "the wrong mystic." He was a rebel from childhood. And the whole subsequent life he put the personal experience of truth higher than all borrowed knowledge, teachings, beliefs. At 21, he received enlightenment and began to bring his unique meditation techniques to the world. Subsequently, a community of like-minded people was organized around him.
