May Human Beings hear It!
The Mystery of the Christmas Conference
Sergei O. Prokofieff

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May Human beings Hear It! by Sergei Prokofieff is an expansive and in-depth examination of the significance of the Anthroposophical Society's 1923 Christmas Conference and particularly its central edifice, Rudolf Steiner's Foundation Stone Meditation.
 

'It depends on the human being whether he merely conceives of anthroposophy or whether he experiences it.'                                                                  ―Rudolf Steiner

During the Christmas period of 1923-4, Rudolf Steiner refounded the Anthroposophical Society at its headquarters in Dornach, Switzerland This important event, which has come to be known as the Christmas Conference, can be studied on many levels, and its many mysteries have been central to Sergei O. Prokofieff's anthroposophical research over the years. His beginning point has been an enduring question: What did Rudolf Steiner mean when he called the Christmas Conference the ‘start of a World-Turning-point of Time’? In this far-reaching work, the author―working from several different viewpoints―guides the reader towards an answer.

Prokofieff suggests that the impulse of the Christmas Conference can only be re-enlivened today through conscious action by individuals to experience its spiritual essence. Rather than offering dogmatic conclusions, he opens up paths of approaching this goal by throwing light on different aspects of the Conference and what lies at its heart: the Foundation Stone and its Meditation. In particular, Prokofieff explores three key perspectives: the connection of the Christmas Conference with humanity's evolution; the inner relationship of each individual anthroposophist to the Christmas Conference; and the significance of the Conference to Rudolf Steiner himself.

Although this is a major work of some length, the individual chapters of May Human Beings Hear It! are complete in themselves, and can therefore be studied independently of each other.

Temple Lodge Publishing
932pp; hardback
ISBN: 1-902636-53-8

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Sergei O. Prokofieff was born in Moscow in 1954, and studied painting and art history at the Moscow School of Art. He encountered anthroposophy in his youth, and soon made the decision to devote his life to it. For years he has been active as a lecturer and author, and since Easter 2001 has been a member of the Executive Council of the General Anthroposophical Society in Dornach. May Human Beings Hear It! is his fourteenth book to be translated and published in English.
 

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

• Eternal Individuality - Towards a Karmic Biography of Novalis

• The Heavenly Sophia and the Being Anthroposophia

• 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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