The Khlysty is a religious expression that is hard to get a hold of and understand, but the group started with Daniil Filippovich and Ivan Suslov, with Filippovich taking on the mantle of ’Lord of Hosts’ and Suslov being ‘Christ son’. In Khlysty tradtion, Suslov was crucified on (at?) the Spassky Gate not once, but twice, and arose from the dead both times, sometime hereafter Filippovich and Suslov returned to heaven, never to be seen again. During this ascent, the Holy Spirit comes to earth and reinstalls a new Christ within some more bodies.
SAUCE
In it, I talk about a Russian sect called the Khlysty (whom are known for having group sex as part of their worship), and how Russian Orthodoxy and the native Paganism of Russia melded. At the end of the post I ask the following question:
I wonder what practitioners of these types of worship/ritual think of their actions from a more global view? Are they aware of far away groups with contradicting beliefs obtaining the same effects? If so, how do they contextualize their ritual in such a way that they feel confident that it’s the Holy Spirit present, but not at rival groups? Or is the Spirit present at both? I also wonder how members of a very localized faith like Latter Day Saints or Seventh Day Adventists deal with the high level of ethnocentricity in their theology.
I also use this vid as an American counter-part to the Khlyst.