Was Rasputin a whip?
 

more]Father never hid the fact that he had been to the whips, but in the same way he never said that he shared their views.

The English envoy Buchanan claimed that his father "most of the time led a double life. He was guided by the rule that only repentance brings salvation, and he preached it to all, and added that without sin there is no salvation. Therefore, the first step on the path of salvation is to succumb to temptation. The sect he founded was a splinter from the whiplash sect, or bichevalshchiki. Its members sought direct indeity with God, though in a somewhat strange way. Their service, which they performed at night, was more like the of ancient Rome than the rite of the Christian church. With singing and screaming, they led a round dance, accelerating the step with each lap, until, curled in a mad dance, the exhausted fell to the ground. What followed was a scene that we will not describe out of modesty. Rasputin was a suitable high priest for such a sect, because he enjoyed the extraordinary attention of women. Despite his terrible treatment of them, they were ready to endure all sorts of humiliation from him, just not to leave him. " The truth here is that the father, like any other Christian, considered repentance and atonement for sins to be an important part of the spiritual life, that he really had a particularly strong influence on women, thanks to which he healed them more successfully than men. But the reason lies not in the peculiarities of whiplash, but in the peculiarities of the father's energy. As for the fact that he organized a sect, a whole commission was even established on this issue.


In Gurko we find: "On the question of Rasputin's belonging to any particular sect, one can come to a certain
conclusion. The fact is that this question was of great interest to a group of members of the State Duma as early as 1912 in connection with the information that was spreading then about the growing influence of Rasputin at court, and in particular about his systematic interference in the affairs of the Orthodox Church. A. I. Guchkov decided to bring this issue to the rostrum of the State Duma. It was necessary, however, to find some legitimate reason for this. Such an occasion was the punishment imposed by the administration on the newspaper "Voice of Moscow" for printing an open letter of a certain Novoselov, who formed a special spiritual and religious circle in Moscow. This letter spoke of the danger to which the Orthodox Church is exposed from interference in its actions and orders of individuals who have little in common with Orthodoxy. Thus, in order to link the request for administrative punishment imposed on the "Voice of Moscow" with Rasputin, it was necessary to find out, since he is a heretic in the Orthodox sense, whether he belongs to a religious sect not allowed by law. Rasputin was suspected of belonging to the whiplash. For this purpose, they turned to the well-known connoisseur of Russian sectarianism Bonch-Bruevich, the same one who later appeared to be a convinced Bolshevik and became the manager of the affairs of the Council of People's Commissars.


Bonch-Bruevich, through Baroness V. I. Ikskul, willingly met Rasputin, conducted lengthy conversations with him on various topics, and showed him some sympathy. The result of his acquaintance with Rasputin and his religious views Bonch-Bruevich reported in a meeting of members of the Octobrist party.
He came to the conclusion that Rasputin does not belong to any sect and is not part of it.


Bonch-Bruevich's report was generally favorable for Rasputin.
The same conclusion was reached in 1917 by the Extraordinary Commission of Inquiry."

Some, in hatred of his father, went so far as to classify him as a whip on the grounds that his father often called himself "God's man." A number of people lined up this way - whips do not call themselves whips, considering it an offensive nickname, but designate themselves as "God's people". So, therefore, the father is a whip.

But did the father only call himself God's man, and was he the only one called that? And is it possible to even think of them as whips?


Others accused his father of whiplash, seeing similar to whiplash in what knees he made during dances. At the same time, they referred to the description of whiplash: "In 1812 he was in this sect
... philistine Evgrafov. This Evgrafov subsequently fell into the hands of the government and reported very interesting details about the sect of the "Moscow whiplash" during formal interrogations. According to him, at the end of the singing of whiplash songs... the prophesied man stood among the prayer room and began to rejoice, that is, to spin, squatting, he kicked the floor, etc. But look at how the guys who are in the rage dance at the holidays, don't they? Well, and they're all whips?

That's exactly - similar is passed off as being.


They say, "According to the teachings of the whips, to him in whoever the 'spirit of God' lives, as a righteous man, the law does not
lie; it can work wonders and predict the future." And they do not calm down on this, they go further and talk more and more.

deprived of grace are happy to reproach those on who have it, whatever.

Only because "the truth is not desecrated."
My father didn't refuse to attend the whips. Interest always got the best of him. He looked, he remembered, in his words, "hanged."

And this will then be blamed on him by the zealots of piety.

He just wanted to understand what the paths to God were, to make sure that the knowledge that was inside him was correct.


Read The Life of an Experienced Wanderer: "I'll look at the priests for examples— no, everything is
wrong; sings and reads sharply, loudly, like a man chops wood with an axe. So I had to think a lot: at least thin yes father. So I went on a pilgrimage, and so I was quick to look into life; everything interested me, good and thin, I hung, and to ask no one had what it means? I traveled a lot and hung, that is, I checked everything in life. He walked the shores, found solace in nature, and often thought of the Savior Himself as He walked the shores. Nature has taught me to love God and talk to Him. I imagined in my own life a picture of the Savior Himself walking with his disciples." There, the father wrote: "You should always check yourself, only in the middle of the point of view, and not to the extremes."

He was well aware that the truth was between two extreme points, whatever it was about, and in matters of following the spiritual charter.

Do not bring yourself to the full end of the one who can not and did not intend to reach him ...

It's flattering to think for someone else, thinking that you've "penetrated deeper," but by doing so, you inevitably put yourself in his shoes. And he's not him, he's you. Well, you're the answer.


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