{"title":"Praxis Research Institute, Inc.","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"gnosis-volume-iii","title":"Gnosis Volume III","description":"\u003cp\u003eVolume III of Boris Mouravieff’s \u003cem\u003eGnosis\u003c\/em\u003e contains ancient keys to a tradition of Christian esotericism that was necessarily hermetized 1800 years ago and has since remained unpublished, surviving to the present only in unwritten form.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor students who have read the first two volumes of this work, this final text will provide exact data making it possible to solve many of the practical problems attendant on spiritual practice under the pressures of everyday life in modern times.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt also contains comments on certain related ideas seen from a viewpoint so foreign to our present era that it hints at a very different frame of mind from the everyday… so different that some people find it hard to accept, although it unravels many of the knotty points of theology and philosophy as well as certain key problems of our day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Great esoteric works do not argue with you… instead they leave an imprint on your being that is no less indelible for its subtlety; once you encounter them, you will never see things the same way again. To this list I’d have to add Gnosis...\"\u003c\/em\u003e  - Richard Smoley, Editor, reviewing in \u003cem\u003eGnosis\u003c\/em\u003e magazine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Praxis Research Institute, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53480274067823,"sku":"9781872292120","price":194.76,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0921\/9384\/9711\/files\/1872292127.jpg?v=1789519439"},{"product_id":"a-different-christianity","title":"A Different Christianity","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book presents the esoteric original core of Christianity, with its concern for illuminating and healing the inner life of the individual. It is a bridge to the often difficult doctrines of the early church fathers, explaining their spiritual psychology, which underlies the spirituality of the Greek church. The book helps to show links between that patristic spirituality and the present-day understandings of living monks and abbots on Mount Athos.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA Different Christianity is useful to the practitioner, as well as to the scholar, providing new insights into the problems of studying and following the spiritual path outside a monastery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"The tradition is one,\" says Boris Mouravieff in his book \u003cem\u003eGnosis: Study\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eand Commentaries on the Esoteric Tradition of Eastern Orthodoxy. \u003c\/em\u003eAnd today, despite claims to the contrary, my observations have convinced me that this links with the fact that Christianity possesses and always has possessed an \u003cem\u003einner tradition: \u003c\/em\u003enot a system, but what might be called a discipline. To those with sufficient experience in investigating this field, I believe that this book will convey the same conviction. In addition, I would add to the idea that the inner tradition is one—although with local variations—certain other observations about it:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAll the major religions of the world possess a complete tradition of inner knowledge (or a version of the one tradition), although it has only reached a small percentage of the most able individuals within that faith.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMany or all of the great civilizations of the world are formed by the great faiths of the world.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn each case of a civilization formed by one of the great faiths, the inner tradition is a fundamental element in the structure of the associated civilization.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e[from T. Nottingham's 2002 review:] \"The process of awakening [to this inner knowledge] presented in \u003cem\u003eA Differen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Praxis Research Institute, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53480274133359,"sku":"9781872292397","price":167.66,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0921\/9384\/9711\/files\/1872292399.jpg?v=1789519449"}],"url":"https:\/\/internacional.umlivro.com.br\/collections\/praxis-research-institute-inc.oembed","provider":"UmLivro Internacional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}