The Encounter with Evil
and its Overcoming through Spiritual Science
With Essays on The Foundation Stone
Sergei O. Prokofieff
Translated by Simon Blaxland de Lange

In our everyday lives, we are constantly challenged by the phenomenon of evil in all its many manifestations. But how can we cope with this seemingly eternal hindrance? In the first of these three essays, Sergei Prokofieff suggests that we start by developing a knowledge of the forces of evil in order to learn how they work in human evolution. Such knowledge is, in itself, the beginning of the process of overcoming evil.

In order that members of the anthroposophical community might go further along this path, Rudolf Steiner gave them the spiritual 'Foundation Stone of the Good'. This Foundation Stone - which consists of light, imaginative form, and the substance of love - can live in our hearts and souls as a firm foundation for esoteric work, and a creative contribution towards the overcoming of evil. Ultimately it can lead us to a conscious experience of Christ in the etheric realm of the earth, an experience which Rudolf Steiner described on many occasions.

In the second and third essays, Prokofieff examines further themes relating to the etheric advent of Christ, and its connection with the Foundation Stone of the Good.

Temple Lodge Publishing
192pp; paperback
ISBN 1 902636 10 4

Other books by the author:

• The Case of Valentin Tomberg - Anthroposophy or Jesuitism?
• The Cycle of the Seasons and the Seven Liberal Arts
• The Cycle of the Year as a Path of Initiation Leading to an Experience of the Christ Being
• The East in the Light of the West - Two Eastern Streams of the Twentieth Century in the Light of Christian Esotericism
• Eternal Individuality - Towards a Karmic Biography of Novalis
• The Heavenly Sophia and the Being Anthroposophia
• May Human Beings Hear It!
• The Occult Significance of Forgiveness
• Prophecy of the Russian Epic: 'How the Holy Mountains Released the Mighty Russian Heroes from their Rocky Caves'
• Rudolf Steiner and the Founding of the New Mysteries
• Rudolf Steiner's Research into Karma and the Mission of the Anthroposophical Society
• The Spiritual Origins of Eastern Europe and the Future Mysteries of the Holy Grail
• The Twelve Holy Nights and the Spiritual Hierarchies

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