 The
East in the Light of the West
Two Eastern Streams of the Twentieth Century
in the Light of Christian Esotericism
Part 1: Agni Yoga
Sergei O. Prokofieff
Translated from Russian by Simon Blaxland de Lange
In this
first volume of his study of two influential Eastern streams,
Prokofieff considers the spiritual movement of Agni Yoga, as
presented to the world by Helena Roerich and her husband, the
painter Nicholas Roerich. Helena Roerich developed Agni Yoga, or
'Living Ethics', in fourteen published volumes, which she believed
to have been directly dictated by Eastern Masters.
By relating the
inspiration Helena Roerich received to that of the later teachings
of H. P. Blavatsky, Prokofieff is able to penetrate the occult
foundations of this stream. In the light of modern Christian
esotericism, particularly the research of Rudolf Steiner, he
pinpoints the principal spiritual errors of Agni Yoga, which include
the teaching of a future physical incarnation of Christ. Along the
trail he uncovers ominous connections with Lenin and Bolshevik
Russia, the American president F. D. Roosevelt, and the bringer of
Glasnost Michael Gorbachov
—
who referred to Nicholas Roerich as 'a representative of our
civilization and of its culture, one of its pillars.'
This first English edition includes extensive additions to the
previously published German edition.
Temple Lodge Publishing
172pp; paperback
ISBN:
0 904693 57 0
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