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	Skoptzy - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Skoptsi were first discovered by the authorities in 1771 in the Orel region.
		The Skoptsi were millenarians, and looked for a Messiah who will establish an empire of the saints, i.e.
		The Skoptsi's favorite trade was that of money-changer, and in St. Petersburg there was for long a bench known as the "Skoptzy's Bench." By 1911, there was said to have been a tendency on the part of many Skoptsi to consider their creed fulfilled by chaste living alone.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Skoptsy (878 words)

	“Invalid Company No (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		After Invalid Company No. 94, formed from skoptsy, is fully manned, skoptsy lower ranks who have become unable to continue service are absolutely not to be discharged into retirement, but rather sent to the Transcaucasus Territory for assignment to the labor detachments, invalid companies, and military labor companies in that territory.
		Such lower ranks who through various misunderstandings were improperly released from service are to be left in their places of residence, but if they turn out to be harmful to society and spread their heresy, then such men are to be sent to the Transcaucasus Territory as indicated.
		One of the most repressed sects were the skoptsy, due to their bizarre characteristics.
	home.comcast.net /~markconrad/Skoptsy.htm (183 words)

	BookWebPro 洋書検索
		The "Skoptsy" (the self-castrated) were one of the many sects that broke from the official Russian Orthodox church in the 18th century.
		She also allows the Skoptsy a say in defining the contours of their history and the meaning behind their sacrifice, using their letters and notebooks.
		Although the Skoptsy express joy at their salvation, the words of even the most fervent believers reveal the psychological suffering of life on society's margins.
	bookwebpro.kinokuniya.co.jp /booksea.cgi?W-KEYW=%53%4B%4F%50%54%53%59&USID= (379 words)

	Skoptsy Definition / Skoptsy Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		As of 1911, the Skoptzy (скопцы, additionally transliterated as Skoptzi, Skoptsi, Scoptsy and other spellings) were a secret sectA sect is a small religious group that has branched off of a larger established religion.
		Skoptsy is the act of self-castration, which is the removal of the testicles (not the removal of the penis, which was a major operation and quite dangerous).
		Skoptsy is a religion in which people believe the only way to reach God is through sin; “sin to drive out sin.
	www.elresearch.com /Skoptsy (257 words)

	Casebook: Jack the Ripper - Nikolay Vasiliev: The Ripper from Russia
		The Skoptsy cult was a heresy that emerged in the second half of the eighteenth century and blossomed in St Petersburg and Moscow under the leadership of Kondratiy Selivanov.
		Its objectives were to elaborate theoretically the Skoptsy teachings, especially conversations about the angels, the soul and the Holy Spirit, and to ameliorate the religious and moral conditions caused by the decline of religion.
		When Lisin joined the Skoptsy he was castrated with "the great or Tsar seal", which involved the removal of his penis as well as his testicles.
	www.casebook.org /suspects/vassily.html?printer=true (3080 words)

	New Page 304 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Skoptsy (self castrated) were a religious sect that broke from the Russian orthodox church in the 19th century.
		The sect drew from peasant in the Russian heartland who self castrated "for the kingdom of Heavens sake" Kondratii Selivanov the founding father of the Skoptsy is usually portrayed wearing a Wight neckerchief and holding a white cloth, both symbols of purity.
		The wealth of the Skoptsy was seen as a threat by Stalin and several male and female members of the sect were tried in a famous trial in 1929.
	www.urologyedinburgh.co.uk /new_page_304.htm (183 words)

	The Observer \| Review \| Observer review: The People's Act of Love by James Meek
		The main story begins nine years later in Yasyk, a town of skoptsy which exists in an uneasy truce with a division of the Czechoslovakian Legion led by a cocaine-addled madman.
		The quartet at the centre of the story consists of an attractive woman, her ex-husband who has become a skoptsy, and her two lovers, a Czech soldier of Jewish extraction and the erstwhile boy student, a recent arrival who has just emerged from Siberia.
		Similarly, though on quite different grounds, the skoptsy, in identifying lust as the root of all evil, attempt to divest themselves of humanity along with their genitals in order to become 'like angels'.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,6903,1519910,00.html (956 words)

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		But what did he tell you?" "The Skoptsy note two key points: first that God was displeased when Onan spilled his seed on the ground, according to Genesis 38:9, so they slice off their nuts to eliminate the seed.
		What in the world does that have to do with the Skoptsy?" "Not on the ass, Karl," he responded solemnly with a woeful expression on his dwarfish face.
		We realized just recently that all men would love to join if they were allowed, so we have decided to assist them without waiting for their petitions.
	www.asstr.org /files/Collections/Alt.Sex.Stories.Moderated/Year2001/32621 (4414 words)

	Eunuch Archive Message Boards - Skoptsy book review, pt. 1
		In the U.S., this was the time of foundation and spread of the Mormons, the rapid spread of the Baptists (who were no longer oppressed by the official churches of the colonies), and the flourishing of a great many smaller groups such as the Shakers.
		A great deal of attention is paid to the life and writings of Nikifor Latyshev (1863-1939), a Skoptsy who was castrated at the age of twelve by his father.
		Less attention is paid to Skoptsy theology or to their other religious practices.
	www.eunuch.org /vbulletin/showthread.php?t=33 (1834 words)

	Castration and the Heavenly Kingdom: A Russian Folktale - Laura Engelstein
		More important, she allows the Skoptsy a say in deeming the contours of their history and the meaning behind their sacrifice.
		Her deft handling of their letters and notebooks lends her book unusual depth and pathos, and she provides a heartbreaking account of willing exile and of religious belief so strong that its adherents accepted terrible pain and the denial of a basic human experience.
		Interaction was necessary,Engelstein explains, since the survival of the Skoptsy depended upon recruitment of new members and on success in agriculture and trade.
	www.libreriauniversitaria.it /BUS/0801436761/Castration_and_the_Heavenly_Kingdom:_A_Russian_Folktale.htm (639 words)

	H-Net Review: Irina Korovushkina Paert on Castration and the Heavenly Kingdom: A Russian Folktale
		Engelstein locates the emergence of the Skoptsy in the period following the plague of 1771, the violent peasant rebellion under the leadership of Emelian Pugachev (1773-4) that was followed by no less violent suppression of it by the enlightened empress, Catherine II (reign 1762-96), a period characterised by the upsurge of apocalyptic anxieties.
		Based on the 1772 official investigation of the Skoptsy's sect in Orel province, during which about two hundred peasants were sought for questioning by the authorities, the chapter narrates the stories of individual and family conversions to the Skoptsy, collective worship, and the actual operation of castration that often took place in drying barns.
		The Skoptsy's transition to the new post-revolutionary era is the subject of the last chapter, "Light and Shadow." This is a chapter about the reversals of the new regime's attitude to the Sectarians, challenges posed by the new political and cultural instruments of power and the survival of the individual Skoptsy through the 1920-30s.
	www.h-net.msu.edu /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=8038962120646 (2005 words)

	Eunuch Archive Message Boards - The Castrati (“skoptsy”) Sect In Russia, Part One
		The first sources on the history of the Castrati (Skoptsy in Russian) were the police investigation documents.
		The first official reaction on the Castrati’s activities was the decree of the empress Catherine II (2 June 1772) to colonel (then state councilor) Alexander Volkov to investigate and judge the Skoptsi from the town of Oryel (central Russia).
		It was used in different ways during the prayer sessions playing the role of a symbol of purity; sometimes the sectarians raised it up as a flag or put it on the face of the “prophet” absorbed in a deep trance, and so on.
	www.eunuch.org /vbulletin/printthread.php?t=5268 (3884 words)

	SLFK 215 - Magic and Meaning- Midterm Review
		Skoptsy thought that salvation would come from total avoidance of sexual relations.
		First describe the Skoptsy attitude toward sex and give examples of how it was realized.
		The Skoptsy did a great deal to conceal their identity.
	faculty.virginia.edu /kononenko/texts/slfk_215/midterm_review.html (487 words)

	Eunuch Archive Message Boards - Skoptsy book review, pt. 3
		Engelstein writes that one reason for the relative success of the Skoptsy in the face of the savage repression of the Russian state was their reputation for sobriety, hard work and economic success, both in agriculture and trade.
		While they were rural in origin, many Skoptsy did very well in trade and industry in both Russia and Romania (where the faith spread).
		Why would He need it, and what would He use it for?) Several photographs of Skoptsy are included: formal studio portraits commissioned by the wealthy, Skoptsy at work, forensic photos of the results of the surgery used in court proceedings against them.
	www.eunuch.org /vbulletin/showthread.php?t=35 (1794 words)

	Eunuch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Despite the fact that Tertullian, the first great Christian theologian, wrote that Jesus was a eunuch, there is no corroboration in any other early source.
		(The Skoptsy did, however, believe it to be true.) Tertullian also wrote that he knew, personally, the author of the Gospel of Matthew, and that he was a eunuch.
		Shu Diao Intrigant eunuch who was responsible of a successor civil war in the feudal state of Qi
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eunuch (1828 words)

	SLFK 215 - Magic and Meaning- Lecture Notes
		Last lecture &endash; showing that rejection of flesh and the body is a central Skoptsy tenant through analysis of cloth as symbol
		Skoptsy white hanky can thus be read as a symbol of what they see as their bodily purity
		Their family and home life is more ordinary, more like the way Old Believers did (though Skoptsy life is pretty ordinary and traditional on the surface &endash; just that one big difference)
	faculty.virginia.edu /kononenko/texts/slfk_215/lectures/sep_30.html (836 words)

	Stormfront White Nationalist Community - View Single Post - Atheism versus Paganism
		The communists of the USSR only practised real and full communism between 1917 and 1922, when Lenin made major concessions, and Stalin continued with a "great retreat", despite some returns to communist concepts in economics, with again introducing patriotism and hierarchical ideological concepts in payment and social rewards.
		And so, the Mahayana Buddhism in all it's varieties, that is the general Buddhism with it's "Catholic-like" organisational churches and religious orders and incorporation of tribal gods and gosts and more interesting philosophies, is like the Catholics and Stalinists, annexing all sorts of "bad" things to keep the core-system running.
		Shakers, Skoptsy, real non-worldly Buddhists and anarcho-communists in general have no (military) divisions, their only weapon is their moral example, so their ability to criticise non-believers is limited.
	www.stormfront.org /forum/showpost.php?p=1571640&postcount=29 (411 words)

	Adherents.com - Religious Groups in Literature
		Having entered the Skoptsy Colony and paid a fortune for the privilege, the initiates submitted joyously to an operation that severed the sensory nervous system, and lived out their days without sight, sound, speech, smell, taste, or touch.
		When they first entered the monastery, the initiates were shown elegant ivory cells in which it was intimated they would render the remainder of their lives in rapt contemplation, lovingly tended.
		The Skoptsys, white as slugs, mute as corpses, motionless as Buddhas, filled the caverns with the odor of living death.
	www.adherents.com /lit/Na/Na_461.html (3247 words)

	Nordlit
		Similar ways of speaking are used by the very first Skoptsy, in 1769, when trying to convince his son to undergo the cleansing baptism: Don t be afraid, my son, you will not die, but your soul will rise again, and all will be easy and joyful.
		Important role models for the Skoptsy were typically the chaste and sexually ambiguous angels of the Bible, and the archangel Michael, who according to Revelations (12:7) bridled the dragon or the old serpent, became a guiding light for their lives.
		The Skoptsy s ideal, the sexually neutral individual, is however transformed in the hands of the symbolists into the androgynous individual.
	www.hum.uit.no /nordlit/4/helle.html (4951 words)

	Grigori Rasputin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		When he was around the age of eighteen, he spent three months in the Verkhoturye Monastery.
		There, he joined the Skoptsy, a renegade sect within the Russian Orthodox Church that “believed that the only way to reach God was through sinful actions.
		Once the sin was committed and confessed, the penitent could achieve forgiveness." Shortly after leaving the Monastery he visited a holy man named Makari, whose hut was nearby.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grigori_Rasputin (3074 words)

	Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
		Repressive measures were tried along with ridicule: Skoptsi were dressed up in women's clothes and paraded with fools' caps on through the villages.
		Bribes and violence were used, children were bought from poor parents and brought up in the faith.
		The Skoptsi were millenarians, and looked for a Messiah who would establish an empire of the saints, i.e.
	www.mauspfeil.net /Skoptzy.html (1047 words)

	Charlotte Douglas
		Women from the Ukrainian villages of Skoptsy and Verbovka were among several such groups actively engaged in a revival of handicrafts before the war.(3) The Skoptsy sewers reclaimed the patterns of antique carpets and embroidery and produced new folk designs.
		It is interesting to note that the November 1915 exhibition in Moscow preceded by only a month the famous 0.10.
		Skoptsy was downstream on the other side of the Dniepr River from Kiev.
	arsnova.artinfo.ru /malevich/douglas.htm (1881 words)

	wiki/Skoptsy Definition / wiki/Skoptsy Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Skoptsi were first discovered by the authorities in 1771 in the OrelOrel or Oryol (Орёл) is a city in Russia, administrative center of the Oryol Oblast.
		To escape prosecution some of the sect emigrated, generally to Romania, where they were known as LipovansLipovans or Lippovans (Old Faith Believers, Old Rite Followers) are a small (about 40,000) Slavic ethnic group of Russian origin residing in the delta of the Danube River in Tulcea county of eastern Romania....
		THE CASTRATI ("SKOPTSY") SECT IN RUSSIA: HISTORY, TEACHING AND RELIGIOUS PRACTICE (http://etor.h1.ru/castrati.html) by IRINA A. TULPE and EVGENY A. From Heresy to Harm: Self-Castrators in the Civic Discourse of Late Tsarist Russia (http://src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/sympo/94summer/chapter1.pdf) by Laura Engelstein
	www.elresearch.com /wiki/Skoptsy (1682 words)

	Myriobiblos On Line Library of the Church of Greece - English Texts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Skoptsy were a late l8th century offshoot of the Khlysty, who went even further in their condemnation of sexual relations by advocating a "baptism of fire" or castration.
		Their most important early leader was Konrad Selivanov, who was exiled to Siberia under Catherine II but returned to Moscow and was known personally to Emperors Paul and Alexander I. During the latter's reign some high placed connections allowed him to live quite comfortably and spread his doctrines rather freely.
		Under the next tsar, Nicholas I, the Skoptsy were persecuted, but like the Khlysty existed secretly in large numbers.
	www.myriobiblos.gr /texts/english/florovsky_ways_chap4notes.html (9720 words)

	Amazon.ca: Editorial Reviews Books: Castration and the Heavenly Kingdom: A Russian Folktale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Just as the Gospels say that "if an eye offend you, pluck it out," so the Skoptsy ("the self-castrated") avoided sexual temptation by removing all of the male genitalia and mutilating the female genitalia and breasts.
		More important, she allows the Skoptsy a say in defining the contours of their history and the meaning behind their sacrifice.
		Interaction was necessary, Engelstein explains, since the survival of the Skoptsy depended upon recruitment of new members and on success in agriculture and trade.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/books/0801436761/reviews (569 words)

	Re: Breaking the cycle
		> > > > The ancient Skoptsy sect of White Russia, believing that sex was > the root of all evil, practiced an atrocious self-castration to > extirpate the root.
		The modern Skoptsys, believing that sensation > was the root of all evil, practiced an even more barbaric custom.
		> Having entered the Skoptsy Colony and paid a fortune for the > privilege, the initiates submitted joyously to an operation that > severed the sensory nervous system, and lived out their days > without sight, sound, speech, smell, taste, or touch.
	www.talkaboutreligion.com /group/alt.religion.buddhism.tibetan/messages/218368.html (405 words)

	WarMinCent
		The government also battled against skoptsy [heretics who practiced castration] using the weapon of assigning them to military service, which was universally feared by non-conformist persons.
		In order to better achieve the goal of removing skoptsy from their native areas, the Committee of Ministers submitted an opinion to the Sovereign: send the skoptsy to the forces in Siberia and Georgia, and those unfit to serve-to Irkutsk Province for settlement.
		In tracing persons assigned to military service for minor degrees of deviance, we come upon the fact that religious institutions also sent some of their own, ordained clergy or church servitors, out of their midst and into the heavy yoke of a soldier because they had fallen into (minor) vices (1st PSZ, 22378 and 29711).
	home.comcast.net /~markconrad/WarMinCent.html (8293 words)

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