Theos-Talk Archives (February 2005 Message tt00036)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "stevestubbs" wrote:

> It was reportedly to counter the influence of Papus that the Russian 
church
promoted Rasputin as the royal family's new wonder man.

I have read somewhere than Papus was F.T.S. and even a head of the 
French
section. Is it true?

I don't think that Rasputin was promoted by the Church, he rather 
worked for his own
risk.
I see his influence as rather positive for he tried to prevent 
Russia's participation in
WW1 (even though his real motives could be to retain stability and so, 
his state at
the court). It is interesting that he has made the similar prediction. 
He said that he will
be killed, and then the Czar will be killed also, and if he (Rasputin) 
will be killed by a
man of nobility, all the monarchy will come to the end. He was killed 
in the end of
1916, and everything occured exactly as he predicted.

Though the main reason was, of course, not the imperfect magic, but 
stupidity of the
Czar. In the last years many memoirs were printed which were before in 
archives or
magazines printed abroad by emirgants, and from them I conclude that 
he was even
worse than soviet propaganda pictured him.