Eternal Individuality
Towards a Karmic Biography of Novalis
Sergei O. Prokofieff
Translated from Russian by Simon Blaxland de Lange

The time has come - now no longer shall the mystery be hidden. - Novalis

The individuality who worked in his last earthly incarnation under the name of Novalis is the key to the mysteries of both the most distant past and the furthest future.                                    - from the Foreword

Novalis is known today as a leading eighteenth-century German romantic poet. But what further can be told about him from the results of modern occult research? Rudolf Steiner revealed this individuality to be a pioneering spirit at the forefront of human evolution, working on earth in previous incarnations as the biblical prophet Elijah, John the Baptist, and the painter Raphael.

Prokofieff develops this research to a profound degree, leading the reader to an understanding of Novalis' future mission amongst humanity, and indicating how this mission receives its form from the roots of its rich karmic past. There is, he suggests, no other figure in our modern age who manifests so many of the characteristic traits of the future sixth cultural epoch.

In studying the unique figure of Novalis, we help to bring his spirit-image closer to our souls, so that he may become our spiritual companion and a true helper in the fulfillment of humanity's earthly tasks. We may thus comprehend Novalis as a spiritual mediator between East and West, guiding mankind towards the spiritual culture of the future.

Temple Lodge Publishing
378pp; 10 colour plates; hardback
ISBN: 0 904693 39 2

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
• The Encounter with Evil - and its Overcoming through Spiritual Science
• 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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