Bogachevsky
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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