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As Vissarion, he teaches reincarnation, veganism, harmonious human relations, and predicting the end of the world. [3] Since 1991, on the basis of Vissarion's meetings, teachings and speeches, a multi-volume text called The Last Testament has been written, outlining a set of principles focused on self-improvement, self-governance and community. [4]
Vissarion had rediscovered his monotheistic faith, writing: "In the general plane of my existence there is a primordial idea—[help] from God and myself, first and foremost, and only then help from any others." [34] Vissarion was welcomed by critic Eugen Lovinescu as a man of "inexhaustible memory", who "melted into the anonymous mass of the ...
Sergey Torop (b. 1961), a Russian former traffic officer who claims to be "reborn" as Vissarion, Jesus Christ returned, which makes him not "God" but the "Word of God". Also known as "Jesus of Siberia," Torop has an appearance similar to depictions of Jesus. He dresses in all white flowing robes and has long brown hair and a beard.
A review published in several newspapers praised Randi's "ability to deflate the practitioners of the occult in understated prose". [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] In The Manhattan Mercury , R. M. Seaton noted that Randi "exposes the frauds that have been believed by gullible people from ancient times right up to the present".
Bells from the Deep is German director Werner Herzog's documentary investigation of Russian mysticism.The first half of the film is concerned primarily with Vissarion, a Russian faith healer claiming to be the reincarnation of God as was Jesus.
Concern about the use of titles which lack legal standing or a basis in tradition has prompted increased vigilance and denunciation, [1] although under English common law a person may choose to be known by any name they see fit as long as it is not done to "commit fraud or evade an obligation".
The relics of Vissarion were inspected for first time by the retired professor and famous Athens coroner Panayiotis Yamarelos, who spoke on television about an extraordinary and inexplicable event. More specifically, the phrases of Yamarelos about Vissarion's extremely well preserved body and his statement regarding the face being in such ...
Vissarion (Bulgarian: Висарион) was a Patriarch of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church in the 13th century. He is the only Bulgarian Patriarch who was not included in the list of Patriarchs in the medieval Book of Boril. [1] The only testimony of his existence is an undated seal reading "Vissarion, by the grace of God Patriarch of the ...