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Abel of Valaam, born in 1757, became a monk of the Russian Orthodox Church at the age of 28, and during a year-long isolation in the forest God bestowed on him a communication with the spirits knowing the future. They revealed to Abel events to occur in Russia beginning with Empress Catherine II the Great, and through the lives of all the subsequent Tsars to the Communist era, and to our contemporary Russia. Over his lifespan of 84 years, Abel spent about 30 years imprisoned as a result of announcing his prophecies to the rulers of Russia, but yet he also prophesied to every commoner who came to him sincerely for counsel. Daniel H. Shubin has written extensively on Russian history, biography and religion and translated much from Russian into English

Living Ethics is a conduct based ideology and ethos, whose purpose is to perfect the moral integrity of a person over the course of lifetimes. The concepts extend to family, society, state, and world civilization to bring prosperity and happiness while at the same time providing purpose and the ability to manage difficulties. Living Ethics is also known as Agni Yoga. Living Ethics is based on a series of revelations that Helena Roerich received over the course of about 20 years, from 1920 to 1940, although she lived to 1955. It explains the experiences and rules that a person must apply to their life to transform it and to transform the lives of others for the better. It is a dynamic effort created through self-discipline, self-examination and self-sacrifice. This volume consists of a biography of Helena Roerich, an analysis of her teachings, and a translation into English of selections of her compositions.

Leo Tolstoy died 1910, at the Astapova train station of pneumonia. Then what? Did Tolstoy's influence suddenly terminate with his death? Did those who dedicated themselves to his interpretation of Jesus Christ's teaching abandon it and return to their secular lives and beliefs? They called themselves Tolstovtzi: disciples of Tolstoyan philosophy. They continued the belief in Christian pacifism: the refusal of war and military service and violence in any form. The retained their high morality based on the Gospels, their vegetarian diet, and resided in communities they formed where all material items were held in common. This is their story. They held to their convictions even to their death by firing squad, or suffering in jails and prisons, or exile to concentration camps. To survive some were willing to relocate their commune to Siberia to distance themselves from Soviet government interference. Included in the volume is a brief biography of Leo Tolstoy, an exposition of his religious philosophy, and a description of Russia at the time of Tolstoy. Daniel H. Shubin has written several books on the life and philosophy of Leo Tolstoy, as well as translated War and Peace, The Kingdom of God is within You, Confession, What I Believe, A Path for Life, Summary of the Gospels, and On Life, from Russian into English. He has also visited the Tolstoy estate in Tule, and travelled Russia.

Andrei Bely was the pseudonym of Boris Nikolaievich Bugaev, the most prominent symbolist author in Russian history, and symbolism's greatest promoter as a new genre of Russian literature. Bely had deep religious and philosophic convictions, studying the great religious texts of history and the influential philosophers. He was the greatest promoter of anthroposophy in Russia, having studied under Rudolf Steiner in Europe. Beyond this, Bely graduated from Moscow University in honors, completing physics and mathematics curriculums and later studying history and language. He was a genius beyond our comprehension. His untimely death at age 53 was due to a brain aneurysm caused from stress for his refusal to capitulate to Soviet demands and become a socialist writer. This volume is his life, as well as a history of symbolism, and it includes a selection of his symbolist writings translated from Russian into English. Daniel H Shubin has written several books on Russian history, religion and philosophy.

Porfiri Korneevich Ivanov was an original thinker and unique healer, researcher and practitioner who was able to unite body and cognizance with Nature. He felt that a person should not be dependent on medicines to heal his body of various illnesses and maladies. In place of medicines Porfiri proposed to people that they take responsibility for their own illnesses, utilizing air and body and ground to achieve this. Porfiri Ivanov had a unique and almost miraculous ability to heal people of various illnesses, and the stamina to endure the worst of exposure to the elements, including extreme cold. By becoming one with Nature a person could also become one with God. Daniel H. Shubin has written several books on Russian history, biography and philosophy.

With the Edict of Toleration of Religion in 1905, several Russians of a mystical mind took advantage of it to form or resurrect what they considered the ancient forms of esoteric Orders. These were the new Rosicrucians. Their inspired mentors compiled volumes of mystic philosophy, and which they combined with their personal notions of what the ancient Orders were, and so formed groups. This volume investigates 3 principal neo-Rosicrucians Orders of early Soviet Russia: Emesh Redivivus, the Orionist-Manicheans, and the Lux Astralis, their origins, leaders and members, beliefs and rites, and their persecution by Soviet authority, including their exiles, imprisonments and even executions, and their testimonies during interrogation. The volume includes a translation from Russian into English of a selection of the major compositions of their esoteric mentors, which further delve into their ideology of the evolution of the universe, the concepts of good and bad, the difference between the corporeal and the spiritual, our purpose and philosophy of life, and the aspiration for truth and moral perfection. Only original Russian sources are used to compile this record. Daniel H. Shubin has written many books on Russian philosophy, religion, biography and history.