PART 1. HOW TO RECOGNIZE A SECT?

(On the example of the Roerich movement)

Never in my life have I denied myself the pleasure of arguing with a Theosophist. Gilbert Chesterton.

FROM THE AUTHOR

Hl. 1. WHAT IS THE DISPUTE ABOUT?

A "connoisseur of the East" who does not know languages. Roerich asks for the Nobel Prize. Why are there no faces in Roerich's paintings? What did the "Roerich Pact" protect?

Hl. 2. RELIGIONS THAT ALLOW LYING

Pluralism of Beliefs in Medieval Europe. The problem of the "esoteric gap". Esotericists in Europe: Gnostics, Manichaeans, Albigenses. References to "oral tradition" as a way of modernization. "Three Turns of the Buddha's Wheel": Snakes as Keepers of Buddhist Secrets. Freemasonry and Theosophy. Roerich as the author of the dollar bill. Masons about the Church. "Our goal is to sweep away Christianity."

Hl. 3. ARE THEOSOPHISTS ALWAYS TRUTHFUL?

Agni Yoga on "make-up". Roerich and Bolshevism. Tips for camouflage. Deceived priests. "Our experts" in the service of the Roerichs. "Consider people as pawns." "I, as a Buddhist...". Orthodoxy on the possibility and impossibility of lying. Reservatio mentalis in Theosophists.

Hl. 4. WHAT IS RELIGION?

Lack of definition of religion in Russian law. "Religion as the worship of higher powers." "Faith" in the "Living Ethics". "Miracle" in the same place. The cult is internal and external. Insufficiency of the definition of religion as "belief in the supernatural". What does the word yoga mean? The Dogmas of Theosophy.

Hl. 5. SPIRITUAL ORIGINS OF AGNI YOGA

Helena Roerich's dream of "automatic writing". Spiritualistic séances at the Roerichs. "We need to wean children from the fear of ghosts." "With a movement of the table I will affirm." Who knocked? Agni Yoga as a "religion of revelation".

Hl. 6. THE VIRTUE OF DISTRUST

Psychiatric diagnosis of Helena Roerich. Sublimation and mysticism. Warnings of Buddhists and Orthodox. The Eroticism of Catholic Mysticism in the Assessment of Orthodox Researchers. Do the Roerichs have criteria for "discerning spirits"? "Kundalini Serpent". Necrophilia as a sign of spiritual error. Helena Roerich's pains and "Sergius' gray hair". S. Witte about Blavatsky.