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them were already screaming and sobbing. But at this point the old man stopped in his whirling and cried out wildly, "Brothers! Brothers! I feel it, the Holy Spirit! God is within me!" And he began to prophesy, shouting out incoherent sounds mixed into which were the words, "Oh, Spirit!" "Oh, God!" "Oh, Spirit Lord!" After that began the main communal rite of "rejoicing", or general whirling and dancing.
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Radzinsky says that they referred to the whirling dance as "spiritual beer", on account of its intoxicating effect. He reports that after the dance had continued for some time, the worshippers fell to the floor: "And that was the end of it. But apparently only because I was present." Radzinsky claims
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prayer in the flickering candlelight. And then with youthful energy he started to "rejoice", that is, to whirl wildly in place, crossing himself and continually whipping his body. The choir chanted prayers, their voices ever more savagely, ever more fervently and passionately praying, so that some of
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In white flaxen shirts worn over naked bodies they went down into the cellar of a peasant lodge. There in the dry cellar they lit candles. They started to sing something sacred in the half-light – as was later explained, a verse from the Easter canon: "Seeing, we are gladdened, for Christ has risen."
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Throughout their history, the Khlysts were pursued by accusations of sexual immorality and faced persecution from other religious groups and from the government. In the 18th century, doctrinal changes led to schisms, and by the 1970s, only a few isolated groups remained. The Khlysts had a significant
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However, the Khlysty were undeterred, and continued practising. Some of those who had been sent into exile began to spread the movement through Siberia. In 1745, therefore, a new commission was formed, this time using "far crueler methods of interrogation". This commission, although eliciting false
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This ritual, which formed the focus of their worship, took place on holy feast days. The congregation would gather during the evening at a prearranged location, such as a member's house. They would remove their outer clothing, and enter the sacred space dressed only in an undershirt. After a period
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or religious dances with wholesale debauchery, the lights being first put out. Grass examines the evidence very carefully and impartially, and rejects the story as calumny. The only thing that gives it colour is that often, when the ecstasies are over, the exhausted votaries drop down on the floor
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The sect is traditionally said to have been founded in 1645 by Danilo Filippovich, although there is no written evidence to support this claim. The beliefs and practices of its members included ecstatic rituals, worship of charismatic leaders, and a rejection of the priesthood and holy books. They
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with two fingers instead of three, but he also instructed them to attend the State Church and take communion. Many Khlysty, including Lupkin's wife and son, even took monastic vows. Lupkin also made large donations to the Church, which helped to protect the sect from persecution.
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and sleep till dawn, the men on one side of the apartment, the women on the other. Their doing so, instead of going home at once, is a necessity dictated either by the climate or by fear of the Russian police, whose suspicions would be roused if they trooped home at a late hour.
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was twice investigated (in 1903 and 1907) by the Tobolsk Theological Consistory, under charges of spreading Khlyst doctrine. Both investigations were closed without any evidence being found against him, but popular rumour continued to link Rasputin to the sect.
389:. These accusations were repeatedly denied, but the commission nevertheless convicted over three hundred people. They handed out sentences of hard labour, beatings, and mutilation of the nostrils and the tongue, and sent many of the prisoners into exile in 482:, it is claimed that Rasputin attended several Khlyst gatherings in the years before his arrival in St. Petersberg, but ultimately became disillusioned with the sect. The factual accuracy of this book has been called into question, and according to 265:
and of its embodiment in living people. Each of their leaders was a "living god", and each congregation (or "ark") had its own "Christ" and "Mother of God", appointed by the overall leader of the sect. Furthermore, they believed that the
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These schisms weakened the movement, and their numbers began to decline. By the start of the twentieth century, estimates of the Khlysty's numbers ranged at around one hundred thousand. Prior to the outbreak of
150:). The appellation "Khlysty" is a derogatory term applied by critics of the sect. The origin of the term is disputed. It is probably a corruption of the group's aforementioned self-designation of 193:. He delivered twelve commandments to his disciples, which forbade (among other things) sexual intercourse, drinking and swearing. He later named as his successor Ivan Suslov, a peasant of 335:
that in some arks, the Khlysts would at this point engage in "group sinning" – a frenzied sexual orgy, which they believed would purify them from the lusts of the flesh. Similarly,
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Suslov died around 1716, at which time Prokofii Lupkin became the new "Christ". The oral tradition claims that Lupkin was the son of Filippov, but this is unlikely to be true.
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There is no written evidence to support this story, or to confirm the existence of Filippov. The first historical references to the Khlysty are found in the writings of the
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From 1733 to 1739, a specially-formed government commission arrested hundreds of suspected Khlyst members, charging them with participation in sexual orgies and ritual
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of the Russian State Church. The Old Believers condemned the Khlysty as heretics, and warnings about them can be found in letters dating from around the 1670s. The
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confessions of sexual deviation and cannibalistic communion, and sending another 200 people into exile, likewise failed to stamp out the movement.
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In 1840, a new splinter sect broke away from the Postniki. Calling themselves Israelites, they shortly afterwards split again into Old Israel and
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to organise secret assemblies for his followers. He encouraged his followers to worship in the manner of the Old Believers, such as by making the
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was associated with the Khlysts in popular rumor, but the consensus among historians is that he was not a member of the sect.
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Accusations of sexual immorality pursued the sect from its earliest days, and provoked numerous government investigations.
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According to its own oral tradition, the sect was founded in 1645 by Danilo Filippov (or Daniil Filippovich), a peasant of
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C. L. Sulzberger, in 1977, claimed that Rasputin "adopted the philosophy (if not proven membership)" of the Khlysts.
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Historian Joseph T. Fuhrmann claims that "splinter groups practiced 'holy intercourse,' but most khlysty were devout
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The Khlysty are said to have been "the root of all Russian sectarianism", having spawned sects such as the
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Gavrilyuk, Paul L. (2012). "Nineteenth‐ to Twentieth‐Century Russian Mysticism". In Lamm, Julia A. (ed.).
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could descend upon any one of them during the state of ecstasy which they attained during the ritual of
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Clay, J. Eugene (1985). "God's People in the early eighteenth century: The Uglich affair of 1717".
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After that a little old man with joyful, light-coloured eyes – the local Christ – began to chant a
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Around 1750, some doctrinal changes took place within the sect, and they became known as the
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Etkind, Alexander (2013). "Whirling with the Other: Russian Populism and Religious Sects".
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The members of the sect referred to themselves by various names, including "God's People" (
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The Khlysty renounced priesthood, holy books and veneration of the saints (excluding the
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Religion and the Conceptual Boundary in Central and Eastern Europe: Encounters of Faiths
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This article is about the Russian religious sect. For the American doom metal band, see
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Lupkin was a trader, and made use of his frequent journeys to places such as
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and a runaway soldier. He was said to have become a "living god" after the
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It is also possible that the word is related to the Greek word
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ritual which he witnessed on the island of Chechen in 1964:
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influence on other Russian sectarian movements, such as the
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In 1717, Lupkin and twenty other Khlysty were arrested in
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Clay, Eugene (2017). "The 'Quaker Heresy' in Siberia".
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Russian Orthodox underground Spiritual Christian sect
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Index

Khlysty
Khlyst (band)

[xlɨˈstɨ]
Spiritual Christian
Holy Spirit
radenie
ru
speaking in tongues
prophesying
Skoptsy
Dukhobors
Molokans
Grigori Rasputin
self-flagellation
millennialist
Kostroma
Lord of Hosts
Vladimir Oblast
Murom
Mother of God
Old Believers
17th-century reforms
Orthodox Church
Dimitry of Rostov
Uglich
Venev
sign of the cross
Baptism with the Holy Spirit
Theotokos

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