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Bogachevsky

Essene ruins BOGACHEVSKY, KNOWN LATER AS FATHER EVLISSI, was "one of the first persons on earth," Gurdjieff said, "who has been able to live as our Divine Teacher Jesus Christ wished for us all." Bogachevsky became a monk at Mt. Athos but, apparently not finding what he wanted, left and went to Jerusalem. There he joined the Essene order, eventually being appointed abbot of their chief monastery. Gurdjieff said that Bogachevsky taught him that there were two moralities. One was objective morality. It is "established by life in the course of thousands of years and by the commandments given us by the Lord God Himself through His prophets, and it gradually becomes the basis for the formation in man of what is called conscience. And it is by this conscience that objective morality, in its turn, is maintained. Objective morality never changes, it can only broaden in the course of time." As for subjective morality, it pertains to individuals as well as to whole nations, kingdoms, families, groups of people and so forth. "It is invented by man and is therefore a relative conception, differing for different people and different places and depending upon the particular understanding of a good and evil prevailing in the given period." See G. I. Gurdjieff's Meetings with Remarkable Men.

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