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Botkin was born into wealth with his father being a physician to the Russian royal family at the time. However, Gleb fled to the united states around 1918 due to the Russian revolution
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After fleeing, in the 1930s, Gleb began writing both nonfiction and fiction books. some of them being about the Romanovs
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Later, he published a book arguing that Aphrodite was the creation of the world. His church was one of the earliest in the movement
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The treatise "in search of Reality" was written in 1960 by Gleb Botkin sharing the idea that religious beliefs and morality are based completely on fantasy and that morals are learned through intellectuality.