Thursday 14 July 2011 System Of Caucasian Yoga By Count Stefan Colonna Walewski

"COUNT WALEWSKI IS THE AUTHOR OF "A SYSTEM OF CAUCASIAN YOGA" IN WHICH HE DESCRIBES IN GREAT DETAIL THE ORIGINS OF THE EGYPTIAN HEALING RODS AND THEIR USE BY THE PHARAOHS IN ANCIENT EGYPT. THE EDITOR'S PREFACE STATES: "COUNT STEFAN COLONNA WALEWSKI'S OUTER LIFE WAS THAT OF A WELL-KNOWN COLLECTOR AND DEALER IN ORIENTAL ART AND ANTIQUITIES AND IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL CURIOS. HIS SHOP, ESOTERICA, WAS NOT ONLY A FAMOUS NEW YORK CONNOISSEURS' LANDMARK BUT THE GATEWAY OF ANOTHER WORLD, IN WHICH MAGIC, DEMONS AND TALISMANS WERE AS REAL AS SUBWAYS AND NEON SIGNS. THE COUNT FIRMLY BELIEVED THAT HE ATTRACTED THESE STRANGE OBJECTS TO HIM BY A SORT OF HIGHER MAGNETISM OF WHICH HE KNEW THE WORKINGS; AND HIS UNRIVALED COLLECTION SEEMED TO PROVE HIS POINT.""FEW KNEW, HOWEVER, THAT BEHIND COUNT WALEWSKI'S CONSTANT KINDNESSES TO HIS FELLOW MAN AND HIS EXPERT KNOWLEDGE -- THE TWO MAIN FACETS OF HIS EXTERNAL LIFE -- THERE LAY AN INTENSE INNER LIFE AND SEARCH FOR LIFE'S MOST HIDDEN SECRETS. FEW KNEW THAT BEFORE THE 1920S, IN THE CAUCASUS MOUNTAINS (BETWEEN THE BLACK AND CASPIAN SEAS, ON THE BORDER BETWEEN TURKEY AND RUSSIA) HE HAD BEEN VOUCHSAFED SOME OF THOSE SECRETS BY TWO INITIATES OF A RARELY ENCOUNTERED SECRET SOCIETY, WHICH COMBINED INDIGENOUS DOCTRINES AND THOSE OF YOGA WITH TEACHINGS STEMMING FROM A MYSTICAL TRADITION OF ANCIENT ZOROASTRIANISM. WALEWSKI NEVER SAW HIS TEACHERS AGAIN, AND HE HIMSELF ASSUMED NO PERSONAL CREDIT FOR THEIR TEACHINGS WHICH WERE MERELY HANDED ON TO HIM UNDER OATH NOT TO REVEAL THE SOURCE."