Gouri Gozalov c.s. – författare

The writer and mystic Konstantin Serebrov was born and grew up in the Northern Caucasus. From a young age he took a keen interest in Hindu mysticism and the concept of enlightenment and cosmic consciousness. In the Caucasus he studied the works of Hindu gurus and practiced various techniques to develop consciousness under the guidance of the Russian mystic, Alexey Zhoukovski, who was a member of an esoteric group inspired by the teachings of  the Masters of Seven Rays, and he  sought contact with the Masters El Moria, Kuthoumi and Saint Germain. When in his thirties, Serebrov became interested in the traditions of Western and Eastern alchemy and studied and practiced the alchemical doctrines for many years.

‘Follow Me’ is the first book of his trilogy ‘Lessons of Master G’ and  tells about the life of a young person, called Kasyan, who strives to come to know the higher, inner nature of man. In his search for spiritual guidance he finds an unusual man, who turns out to be a Master-alchemist. Kasyan must leave his habitual way of life behind and partake in the incomprehensible mission of his Master. On this journey Kasyan is accompanied by his friend and disciple Gouri. Together they enter the ‘alchemical laboratory’ of their Master, hoping to learn from him how to find the ‘alchemical, inner gold’, which stands for the highest spirit of man. Kasyan and Gouri are happy to discover that there are interesting women who also are studying the secret spiritual knowledge and they receive useful lessons from them.

Gouri Gozalov and Maria Toonen

The Hague, December 2015

After some time, Master G sent Konstantin to learn on his own from G’s former followers in Moscow. Each of them had absorbed a small part of the alchemical teaching and Konstantin had to persuade them to teach him that small part. But these former followers had no wish whatsoever to teach him anything at all. The reason was, as G put it, that they deviated from the Path and had become some kind of ‘statues, frozen in ritual postures in the alchemical labyrinth’. G advised Konstantin to try to worm the knowledge out of them by going with them through ‘the school of servitude and humbleness’.

In the present book, which is the second book of the Trilogy ‘Lessons of Master G’, entitled ‘Live three Incarnations in One’, this latter stage of the teaching process is described. The reader  learns of the incredible situations Konstantin and Gouri, who sometimes joined him, had to go through to carry out the task given to them. Konstantin knew, however, that he could only proceed on the spiritual Path if he succeeded in his task.

An autobiography. The novel ‘On the Path of alchemical Fusion’ is the final book of the trilogy ‘Lessons of Master G’. It relates the further acquaintance of Kasyan and Gouri with G’s former followers. The intrigues of an ‘alchemical court’ that G, as a part of his mission, created in Moscow, strongly amplifies the contradictions and conflicts between Kasyan and Gouri. G teaches Kasyan and Gouri how to keep inner contact with the Ray of the School, and with each other. After passing through the ‘alchemical fire’ Kasyan and Gouri receive their first alchemical initiation. This initiation opens the mysteries of the alchemical stage of Nigredo for them. The astralized space of this stage is described in the supplement Adventures of Master G and his faithful disciples Morose and Bitumen in the Nigredo Valley, or Modern Alchemy, which will be published soon.In order to follow the alchemical Path of Master G further, the light Path of ascension, they have to undergo the next alchemical stage, which is the stage of purification called Albedo. This stage and its various techniques for the purification of the soul and the sublimation of perception are described in the books of the series called ‘Alchemical Teachings’, ‘Inner Light’ and ‘Inner Christianity’.

Man can come closer to God through work on himself, that is working on purifying his heart and soul, his inner world, making through this work still more room available for Him. Both ancient and modern history of Christianity prove that only outwardly following the rules of the Christian confessions and congregations, the monastic and sacerdotal vows, the long, richly decorated vestments, long prayer services, fasting and works of obedience do not guarantee protection from or endurance during temptations and ordeals. Often, on the contrary they increase passions and hypocrisy… Not seldom the scandals in life of all Christian confessions and sects without any exceptions, come to the surface… On the path which my Master has been following the focus lies in one’s work on oneself, so that you could call this path the ‘path of the worker’. Work on oneself consists mostly of spiritual practices which wake up man’s soul in this illusory world towards spiritual reality and keep it awake, in the sense which Gurdjieff attributed to this word. This path doesn’t demand vows and renunciation of the world, after Jesus’ word: ‘But I say unto you, Swear not at all’ (Mt.5:34). It doesn’t ‘bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne’ on the follower. It isn’t demanded from man to be an exemplary citizen, family man or woman, spouse, son or daughter, but it is asked to ‘take heed of yourself,’ as St. Sergius of Radonezh says, that is study yourself and know what is in you, what comes in and what comes out of you. ‘Pray and work,’ says St. Benedict of Nursia. ‘Work’ must be understood not only as work with one’s hands but as work on oneself, which helps to rid one’s mind and soul from the consequences of committed deadly sins and to restrain one from committing them again, as the psalm commands: ‘depart from evil’(Ps.34:14). I’ve written this book with the help of the Philocalia, a collection of treatises by Christian holy fathers, which has been translated from Greek into Slavonic by Saint Paisi Velichkovski and the group of monks from his monastery. I have translated / adapted their spiritual instructions into modern language, hoping to make them more accessible to the reader.

Konstantin Serebrov,Moscow, June 2006 

Master G is the mysterious Bridgebuilder, to whom the higher powers have entrusted the task to pave a new Christian Way, along which man can advance using the rich spiritual heritage of the last Messiah, Hermes, instead of abandoning it due to various cultural and historical restrictions, prejudices and predilections...'' 

On the page 15 of this book:

''...We know the names of the three Messiahs the last of whom was Hermes Trismegistus - the man-god. There have come instead of the fourth Messiah, which the initiates of the Earth have been waiting for, God himself, in His Hypostasis of the God-Son, Jesus Christ, God-Man. Jesus Christ proclaimed the advent of a new time, when every person in the Universe has the possibility to enter the Kingdom of God: ''And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force. For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.'' (Mt.11:13)

The content of this book has been compiled with the use of the books by Konstantin Serebrov and earlier transcriptions of conversations between Vladimir Stepanov (Master G) and Konstantin Serebrov and other disciples of the School.