RASPUTIN
RASPUTIN
Hypnosis, Heresy, and the Worship of the Fallen God
By Raven Stronghold
REVISED AND EXTENDED Edition 2026
Reader Edition — US$45 (soft Cover) Hardcover — US$75 (Printed Cover) Special Leather Edition — US$120 (includes Altar Cloth + Colorful Plates )
Large format: 6.50 × 9.25 inches
This revised and expanded edition enters the complex world of Grigori Rasputin through history, religious heresy, mysticism, occult interpretation, and the mythology that continued to grow around him after his death. From the frozen landscape of Siberia and the ecstatic currents surrounding wandering mystics and forbidden sects to the imperial chambers of the Romanovs, the book follows the transformation of a peasant pilgrim into one of the most disturbing and magnetic spiritual figures of the twentieth century.
Rasputin emerges as healer, visionary, hypnotic presence, sexual mystic, religious outsider, prophet of catastrophe, and eventually an occult icon suspended between saint and demon. His penetrating gaze, relationship with Alexandra and Alexei, controversial associations with ecstatic spirituality, prophecies concerning the fall of Imperial Russia, and legendary assassination are examined alongside the darker traditions that later surrounded his name: necromancy, forbidden gnosis, relics, spiritual rebellion, and the persistent belief that some part of Rasputin survived the destruction of his physical body.
The final section, The Rasputin Ritualia, moves deliberately from historical investigation into occult reconstruction, exploring the Rasputin myth as a living magical presence through symbolic rites of the gaze, the mirror, the Black Baptism, sacred inversion, death, rebirth, and the Fallen God. Rasputin: Hypnosis, Heresy, and the Worship of the Fallen God ultimately investigates how a historical man became something larger than biography: an archetype of transgression, forbidden spirituality, concentrated will, and the eternal conflict between imposed faith and direct experience.
TABLE OF CONTENT
PRELUDE — THE MAN WHO BECAME A MYTH
INTRODUCTION — THE SERPENT BENEATH THE CROSS
Rasputin Between History, Heresy and Occult Legend
A NOTE ON HISTORY, RUMOR AND OCCULT RECONSTRUCTION
PART I — THE SIBERIAN MYSTIC
POKROVSKOYE — BORN AT THE EDGE OF THE EMPIRE
Siberia, Peasant Religion and the World That Created Rasputin
THE AWAKENING OF GRIGORI
Visions, Illness, Revelation and the Birth of the Mystic
THE WANDERER
Pilgrimage, Asceticism and the Search for Living God
VERKHOTURYE — THE MONASTERY AND THE WILDERNESS
Between Orthodox Devotion and Mystical Rebellion
HOLY FOOLS AND WANDERING SAINTS
The Russian Tradition of the Sacred Outsider
THE KHLYSTY QUESTION
Heresy, Ecstasy and the Making of a Dangerous Reputation
SIN AS A GATE TO GOD
Repentance, Transgression and the Theology of Spiritual Collapse
PART II — THE KNOWLEDGE OF PRESENCE
THE EYES OF RASPUTIN
Hypnosis, Mesmerism and the Myth of the Unbreakable Gaze
VOICE, SILENCE AND SUGGESTION
The Ritual Mechanics of Charisma
THE BODY AS ORACLE
Touch, Prayer, Healing and the Mystery of Alexei
ALCHEMY OF THE FLESH
Healing, Vitality and the Body as a Spiritual Vessel
SEXUAL MYSTICISM AND THE CULT OF ECSTASY
Desire, Confession and Transgressive Gnosis
THE MAGNETIC MAN
Obsession, Dependency and the Projection of Power
THE DOUBLE FACE OF THE STARETS
Saint, Seducer, Healer and Demon
PART III — THE SHADOW OVER THE ROMANOVS
THE TSARINA'S SHADOW
Alexandra, Faith and Spiritual Dependency
THE BLEEDING HEIR
Alexei, Healing and the Miracle That Changed an Empire
THE COURT AS RITUAL THEATRE
Power, Presence and the Performance of the Holy Man
ENEMIES OF THE STARETS
Church, Aristocracy, Scandal and the Manufacture of a Monster
THE PROPHET OF FIRE AND BLOOD
Visions, War and the Approaching Collapse
THE BLACK CROSS
Apocalypse, Antichrist and the Mythology of the End
THE LAST PROPHECY
Rasputin and the Fate of the Romanovs
MURDERING THE HOLY MAN
Yusupov, Conspiracy and the Night of December 1916
POISON, BULLETS AND ICE
The Death of Rasputin and the Birth of the Legend
THE CURSE OF THE ROMANOVS
Prophecy, Revolution and Retrospective Myth
PART IV — THE OCCULT RASPUTIN
NECROMANCY AND THE DEAD WHISPERERS
Russian Folk Sorcery, Ancestors and the Myth of the Speaking Dead
THE RUSSIAN UNDERWORLD
Veduny, Kolduny, Znakhar and the Survival of Forbidden Traditions
THE IMMORTAL SHADOW
Rasputin After Death
RELICS OF THE MAD MONK
Body, Bones, Objects and the Magical Imagination
THE MAN WHO REFUSED TO DIE
Immortality, Resurrection and the Transformation of Biography into Myth
RASPUTIN AND MODERN OCCULTISM
From Historical Mystic to Esoteric Icon
THE ICONOCLAST
Rasputin, Rebellion and the Left-Hand Interpretation
THE EGREGORE OF RASPUTIN
How a Man Becomes an Autonomous Magical Image
THE FALLEN GOD
Worship, Projection and the Apotheosis of Rasputin
PART V — THE RASPUTIN RITUALIA
Occult Reconstructions Inspired by the Rasputin Myth
THE ICON AND THE GAZE
A Ritual of Presence and Concentrated Will
THE MIRROR OF RASPUTIN
Reflection, Identity and the Hypnotic Double
THE BLACK BAPTISM
Death of the Former Self and the Rite of Reversal
FEAST OF THE HOLY BONES
Relics, Memory and Communion with the Dead
THE LITURGY OF THE MORTAL FLESH
Body, Limitation and Spiritual Transformation
THE COMMUNION OF DECAY
Death, Putrefaction and the Mystery of Becoming
THE INVERTED ICON
Breaking the Image of Imposed Divinity
THE PRAYER OF THE FALLEN GOD
Invocation of the Sacred Outsider
THE VIGIL OF THE FALLEN SERAPH
Rebellion, Illumination and the Black Flame
THE SECOND BIRTH
A Rite of Spiritual Autonomy
THE RASPUTIN CURRENT
Working with the Myth as a Living Magical Presence
THE LAST VIGIL
Closing the Cycle and Releasing the Image
EPILOGUE — THE MAN WHO BECAME AN ENTITY
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND NOTES