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1


Nietzsche. Jenseits von Gut und B?se, section 208.




2


Cohn, The Pursuit of the Millennium, 128189.




3


Cohn, The Pursuit of the Millennium, 128.




4


 [Ivanov],    [ On the RussianIdea], 3217. My translation.




5


Rilke, Russische Kunst, 3.




6


Massie, Peter the Great, 54.




7


Massie, Peter the Great, 54.




8


Spengler, The Two Faces of Russia, No pagination.




9


Lachman, A Secret History of Consciousness, 47.




10


Ouspensky, A New Model of the Universe, 4.




11


Ouspensky, A New Model of the Universe, 4.




12


Moore, Gurdjieff, 66.




13


  [Encyclopedic Dictionary],    [Minclova Anna Rudolfovna].




14


  [Encyclopedic Dictionary],    [Minclova Anna Rudolfovna].




15


Biely, The Dramatic Symphony and Forms of Art. Introduction, 4.




16


Biely, The Dramatic Symphony and Forms of Art. Introduction, 7.




17


Biely, The Dramatic Symphony and Forms of Art. Introduction, 115.




18


Biely, Petersburg, 165.




19


Decter, Nicholas Roerich, 107.




20


 [Bogomolov],    XX   [Russian Literature at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century and Occultism], 281.




21


, 280.




22


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23


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24


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25


Cousins, Scriabine and Delville, 358.




26


Godwin, Harmonies of Heaven and Earth, 43.




27


Lennhoff and Posner, 1361.




28


Lennhoff and Posner, 1361.




29


Mcintosh, Eliphas Levi and the French Occult Revival, 160161.




30


Aptekman, In the Beginning Was the Word, 30.




31


Yuri Burmistrov, Kabbalah and Martinism: Gregory Mebes and the Occult Renaissance in Russia of the Early 20th Century, 3. Available on the academia.edu website.




32


Mcintosh, Eliphas Levi and the French Occult Revival, 220.




33


Mcintosh, Eliphas Levi and the French Occult Revival, 220 and  [Andreyev],    [Occultist of the Soviet Countries], 1617.




34


Sabeheddin, Saint-Yves dAlveydre and The Synarchy of Agarttha, No pagination.




35


Godwin, Introduction to The Kingdom of Agarttha.




36


 [Nikitin], ,       [Mystics, Rosicrucians and Templars in Soviet Russia], 30.




37


Andreyev, The Saint-Petersburg Datsan, 53 ff.




38


Andreyev, The Saint-Petersburg Datsan, 46.




39


Andreyev, The Saint-Petersburg Datsan, 6062




40


Stephen Graham, Rasputin, Man, Myth and MagicVol.83. London: Purnell, 1971, 2338.




41


Kourennoff, Russian Folk Medicine, 2122.




42


Graham, Rasputin, 2340.




43


For a detailed account of the story see .. [K.V.Chistov],    [ The Legend of Byelovodye], 116181.




44


 [Chistov], 146 ff.




45


See Ian Baker, Heart of the World.




46


See Moore, Gurdjieff, 31.




47


See Mcintosh, Beyond the North Wind.




48


 [Andreyev],    [Occultist of the Soviet Countries], 6.




49


 [Andreyev],    [Occultist of the Soviet Countries], 6263.




50


 [Andreyev],    [Occultist of the Soviet Countries], 166.




51


See  [Andreyev],    [Occultist of the Soviet Countries], 128 ff for a full account of the expedition.




52


 [Andreyev],    [Occultist of the Soviet Countries], 135.




53


 [Andreyev],    [Occultist of the Soviet Countries], 137139.




54


 [Dyomin],  [Hyperborea].




55


 [Andreyev],    [Occultist of the Soviet Countries], 155.




56


Walker, Tantrism, 242.




57


Znamensky, Red Shambhala, 87.




58


Znamensky, Red Shambhala, 91 ff.




59


On the Roerichs see also Decter, Nicholas Roerich.




60


Znamensky, Red Shambhala, 175176.




61


Znamensky, Red Shambhala, 189192.




62


Prokofieff, The East in the Light of the West, 1.




63


 [Dyomin,  [Hyperborea].


