The Twelve Holy Nights
and the Spiritual Hierarchies
by Sergei O. Prokofieff

In The Twelve Holy Nights, Sergei Prokofieff draws on the whole extent of Rudolf Steiner's work and combines it with his own original spiritual research to form an intricate picture of the cosmic forces at play between Christmas and Epiphany. We are led on a tour through the circle of the zodiac and spiritual hierarchies, and shown how they form a path from Jesus to Christ. Prokofieff further explains that the Starry Script is a key to anthroposophical Christology, and shows how it relates to the conception of the First Goetheanuin. He guides us imaginatively through the interior of Steiner's architectural masterpiece, destroyed by fire in 1922, whose structure and decorations are seen to constitute a coherent esoteric map. Our task now, he suggests, is to build the First Goetheanum in ourselves and, through a new schooling of the self, strive for a truly modern path of initiation. Supplementary essays focus on the cosmic aspects of Sophia as well as the being of Michael.

Prokofteff's seminal study offers a rich source of inspiration for those wishing to penetrate the mysteries of the Twelve Holy Nights and their relation to the heirarchies of cosmioc spiritual beings.

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. Over a dozen of his books have appeared in English, including his recent major work May Human Beings Hear It!

Temple Lodge Publishing
190pp; paperback
ISBN: 1-902636-61-9

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Other books by Sergei O. Prokofieff:

• 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
• 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

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