I had already heard and read much about the
original religious group of naturists-Adamites in the Rybinsk/Yaroslavl region.
For 3 years I had been corresponding with the leader (pastor) of those
Adamites-nudists. Lev Moshinsky, is a very interesting and wise person. But
only this July did I manage to visit them in their town, in the north of
Russia, and during the 2 days I became acquainted with several adapts of this
very original religious group, and from the closeness I got to know their
lifestyle, beliefs, naturist state, etc.
Under the guidance of Lev Moshinsky the Adamites in general try to reestablish and renovate the gnostic religiosity of the spiritual teacher Carpokrates who lived during the Roman Empire in Alexandria, in the second century A.D. After his death, his son Epiphanes led that sect which was also named after him (the son).
They believe in the Old Testament of the god Jehovah; they like Christ, prophet “Yeshua Ha-Nocri”. They strive to create the lost Paradise in their group. A very important part of their faith and practice is the “holy nudity”, the purity of body and mind and thoughts. Clothes set humans apart from each other; nudity as the great equalizer brings everybody closer together. Nudity, free eroticism, and sex life are not sins but Divinely approved matters, so that the human soul, that eternal spirit, may have a fine evolution and through a series of reincarnations get closer to very higher spiritual, divine spheres in heaven. Nothing should be prohibited which does not oppose the 10 rules of the Decalogue (The Ten Commandments) which God ordered for mankind. They believe that humans shall pass through, experience all pleasures permitted by God for bodily senses, so that after the body's death the soul should not regret its not very successful past life, miserable on the Earth, and thus not strive to return as a soul, but in freedom, easily, not regretting the past life, enter the Divine Spheres, to Paradise. Therefore they now create the lost Eden, and I can say that they succeed well in that, and feel happy.
Smoking is prohibited, and so is drinking brandy (wine is OK!); they may have sex with anyone among their fellow Adamites (if those agree, surely). Wives may do that with permission from the husband; men may have several mistresses, but the wife may not protest.
They also practice nudity at home, and through special arrangements naturists from Yaroslavl and Moscow also participate. They all seem to be very nice, kind, and sincere persons.
Anatoli Iv. Ivasenko
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