The Spiritual Origins of Eastern Europe and the Future Mysteries of the Holy Grail

by Sergei O Prokofieff, Simon Blaxland-de Lange (Translator)

Overview

Although Eastern Europe has been part of the Christian world for more than a thousand years, its spiritual identity remains a mystery. This mystery, says Sergei Prokofieff, cannot be solved fully without looking behind outer events and seeking spiritual-metahistorical-dimensions of reality. By illuminating the illusion of apparent history, Prokofieff reveals the forces that work to hinder true human progress--the materialistic Brotherhoods of the West and the occult aspects of the Jesuits and Bolshevism. Such adversarial groups have created a "karma of materialism" that the Eastern Slavic peoples have taken upon themselves out of their "exalted willingness for sacrifice."

Sergei Prokofieff shows how, from the earliest times, the future "conscience of humanity" flowed from hidden mystery centers in Hibernia into the Eastern Slavic peoples. Consequently, qualities of "compassion, patience, and willingness for sacrifice" developed in their souls, creating a truly Christian "Grail mood." Despite incalculable suffering--from persecutions of the Mongol hordes to the Bolshevik experiment of the 20th century--this quality has become an unconquerable force.

Will humanity be able to use the present opportunity granted by this sacrifice to fulfill the primary purposes of the present cultural epoch? Can the future mysteries of the Holy Grail be fulfilled?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781906999919
Publisher:	Temple Lodge Publishing
Publication date:	05/28/2016
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	560
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Sergei O. Prokofieff (1954-2014) was born in Moscow, where he studied fine arts and painting at the Moscow School of Art. At an early age he encountered the work of Rudolf Steiner and quickly realized that his life would be dedicated to the Christian path of esoteric knowledge. He wrote his first book, Rudolf Steiner and the Founding of the New Mysteries, while living in Soviet Russia, and it was published in English in 1994. After the fall of Communism, he helped establish the Anthroposophical Society in Russia. In 2001, he became a member of the Executive Council of the General Anthroposophical Society at the Goetheanum in Switzerland. More than 30 of his books have been translated into English. Sergei Prokofieff passed away in Dornach, Switzerland.

Simon Blaxland de Lange has for many years worked as an educator for people with special needs. He is also a prolific writer and translator and an amateur musician and gardener. Blaxland de Lange helped establish Pericles Translations and Research, Pericles Training and Work (for adults with special needs), and the Pericles Theatre Company. Together with Dr Vivian Law, he cofounded the Humanities Research Group in 1997 and the British group of the Humanities Section of the School of Spiritual Science in 1998. He met Owen Barfield in 1979, and has been a student of his work for the past thirty years.