PUBLICATIONS
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In addition to the items listed below, Praxis currently offers three other publications that are available from a number of retailers such as Amazon.
Praxis Research Institute publishes and offers an unusual kind of book, one which penetrates the barrier to inner truth. Praxis is a specialized supplier of Christian books intended to explain, and even to take us beyond ordinary verbal reason into what will at first seem like new ways of knowing. In fact, to Christianity, there is nothing new about this. It has been with us for many centuries, but for more than half a millennium, our Western world has lost the ability to recognize it.
List of Services
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Monograph #2 - The Substantial and the Essential
A precursor for a major work.
This article first appeared in 1958 in Syntheses, a major multilingual European journal of political science that is still published today. In it, Boris Mouravieff, a historian at Geneva University who was also a teacher of Inner Christianity, presents one of two remarkable studies of the evolutionary crisis of 20th century Western Civilization in terms of the ancient Christian Esoteric Tradition that, as he says elsewhere as well as here, has kept itself alive to the present time hidden within the Eastern Church.
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A Different Christianity
A substantial volume containing the distillation of more than fourteen years of research into traditional sources of the Royal Way, a Christian spiritual discipline little known to the Western world. Paperback 6"x9", 300+ pages.
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A Different Christianity PDF
A substantial volume containing the distillation of more than fourteen years of research into traditional sources of the Royal Way, a Christian spiritual discipline little known to the Western world. PDF Download.
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Views from Mount Athos Robin Amis' latest book, Views From Mount Athos, is a 'travel book' - but his is a many-layered journey - spiritual, philosophical, and psychological as much as physical, containing the record of his pilgrimages to Mount Athos in search of forgotten Christian knowledge of man among the monks of Mt. Athos, the Holy Mountain of Northern Greece
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Views from Mount Athos PDF
Robin Amis' latest book, Views From Mount Athos, is a 'travel book' - but his is a many-layered journey - spiritual, philosophical, and psychological as much as physical, containing the record of his pilgrimages to Mount Athos in search of forgotten Christian knowledge of man among the monks of Mt. Athos, the Holy Mountain of Northern Greece. PDF Download.
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Gnosis Trilogy (3-volume set) by Boris Mouravieff A detailed study in contemporary terms of an ancient Christian spiritual tradition that illuminates the relation of the Fourth Way to the inner spiritual doctrines of the early church.
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Gnosis Volume I by Boris Mouravieff Volume I of Boris Mouravieff's 3-Volume study, in contemporary terms, of the ancient Christian spiritual tradition that illuminates the relation of the Fourth Way to the inner spiritual doctrines of the early church.
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Gnosis Volume I PDF
Volume I of Boris Mouravieff's 3-Volume study, in contemporary terms, of the ancient Christian spiritual tradition that illuminates the relation of the Fourth Way to the inner spiritual doctrines of the early church. PDF Download.
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Gnosis Volume II by Boris Mouravieff Volume II of Boris Mouravieff's 3-Volume study, in contemporary terms, of the ancient Christian spiritual tradition that illuminates the relation of the Fourth Way to the inner spiritual doctrines of the early church.
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Gnosis Volume II PDF
Volume II of Boris Mouravieff's 3-Volume study, in contemporary terms, of the ancient Christian spiritual tradition that illuminates the relation of the Fourth Way to the inner spiritual doctrines of the early church. PDF Download.
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Gnosis Volume III by Boris Mouravieff Volume III of Boris Mouravieff's 3-Volume study, in contemporary terms, of the ancient Christian spiritual tradition that illuminates the relation of the Fourth Way to the inner spiritual doctrines of the early church.
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Gnosis Volume III PDF
Volume III of Boris Mouravieff's 3-Volume study, in contemporary terms, of the ancient Christian spiritual tradition that illuminates the relation of the Fourth Way to the inner spiritual doctrines of the early church.
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Gnosis Index PDF A reference guide to Boris Mouravieff’s 3-volume book, Gnosis, with an index of key topics and persons cited in the text, and the actual diagrams. 152 pages in A4 format (8.27 x 11.69 in), loosely spaced. This is a soft-copy, downloadable PDF file, size 5.3 MB. Published by Praxis Research Institute in December, 2022.
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The Heart of Salvation: The Life and Teachings of Saint Theophan the Recluse Life and teachings of Saint Theophan the Recluse - 1815 - 1894, the great Russian starets or spiritual elder of his century, a bishop and then a hermit who lived totally alone but taught thousands throughout 'Holy Russia' and beyond, giving perceptive and detailed spiritual advice by means of a voluminous correspondence.
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The Heart of Salvation: The Life and Teachings of Saint Theophan the Recluse PDF
Life and teachings of Saint Theophan the Recluse - 1815 - 1894, the great Russian starets or spiritual elder of his century, a bishop and then a hermit who lived totally alone but taught thousands throughout 'Holy Russia' and beyond, giving perceptive and detailed spiritual advice by means of a voluminous correspondence. PDF Download.
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A Method of Prayer For Modern Times A modern interpretation of ancient tradition, by Bishop Jean of Saint Denis, founder of the French Orthodox Church.
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The Path of Prayer Saint Theophan the Recluse - Four sermons on personal prayer.
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The Path of Prayer PDF
Saint Theophan the Recluse - Four sermons on personal prayer. PDF Download.
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The Cosmology of Man's Possible Evolution Due to copyright stipulation, this book is not available for purchase in North America.
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The Psychology & Cosmology of Man's Possible Evolution Due to copyright stipulation, this book is not available for purchase in North America.
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Who Writes The Waves Often read in public poetry readings in London in the late sixties, these poems have an almost classical lyricism, and touch on the deepest questions of the inner life.
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Turning Within It is true that 'prayer teaches prayer', but only once one has begun to pray in one's heart as does the author of this remarkable little book by an American Orthodox Deacon
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The Triads: Book One Triads in Defense of the Holy Hesychasts by St. Gregory Palamas is still available for purchase. However, it has been superceded by a new edition titled Holy Hesychia with commentary by Robin Amis. Holy Hesychia is available from Amazon. See link to Amazon in details below.
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Visual Contemplations Visual Contemplations by Lillian Devevoryas Amis depicts the journey of the soul 'from slavery to freedom', expressing in a simple way the subtle concepts of the early wisdom tradition in a series of original and vivid paintings.
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Wounded By Love A compilation of recordings and reminiscences, conversations and words of guidance of Elder Porphyrios, first published in Greek in 2003.