Origen and Occultism

PART I

What is Esotericism?
What Esotericism - Occultism Believes
Holistic Model: Absolute Pantheistic Monism
The Turn Inward
Meditation - Initiations
The Analogy
The Occultic System of Self-Salvation
The Causes
Notes for Part 1

PART II

Origen, Origenism, Neo-Origenism
The 15 Anathemas Against the Origenist Doctrines
The Text
The 10 Anathemas of Emperor Justinian
Conclusions
Notes for Part II

Presentation at the "19th Pan-Orthodox Conference of Delegated Orthodox Churches and Holy Metropolises on Issues of Heresies and Para-Religion", which took place on 29 October - 1 November 2007 at the Holy Shrine of Saint John the Russian, N. Prokopion, Evia.
The general theme of the Conference: Esotericism.
The presentation, published here, was titled "Esotericism and Neo-Origenism: Then and Today." Monk Arsenios Vliagoftis.

From the back cover: "Esotericists consider esotericism as an ancient human wisdom, as a primordial religion, which is hidden in the human soul and is always pursued by official religions, but is never defeated. The hidden wisdom of the ancient Egyptians, the engagement of the inhabitants of Mesopotamia with magic, the teachings of Hermes Trismegistus, the healing techniques of shamans, the wisdom of the Indians, the enlightenment of Yogis and Tibetan masters, the knowledge of Plato and Jakob Böhme, the secrets of Christian mysticism, the mystical understanding of the Gospel of John, the magic of witches, the wisdom of gypsies, the mysteries of Rosicrucians and Freemasons are all considered to be pieces of an endless current of esoteric knowledge, a current that in our days flows into the sea of the new and simultaneously primordial esotericism of the present."