ESOTERIC MYTHOLOGIES IN ACTION: IMAGES AND SYMBOLS OF RUSSIAN ANTHROPOSOPHIC HISTORIOSOPHY (FROM LUDVIG A. NOVIKOV’S ARCHIVE)
ESOTERIC MYTHOLOGIES IN ACTION: IMAGES AND SYMBOLS OF RUSSIAN ANTHROPOSOPHIC HISTORIOSOPHY (FROM LUDVIG A. NOVIKOV’S ARCHIVE)
Author(s): Monika RzeczyckaSubject(s): Sociology
Published by: Wydawnictwa AGH
Keywords: Ludwig A. Novikov’s archive; Russian anthroposophy; anthroposophic mythology; symbolic imagination; Russian messianism; symptomatology of history
Summary/Abstract: This article is devoted to the esoteric symbolism of anthroposophy. Russian anthroposophy, which developed in the underground of Soviet Russia and in isolation from the Goetheanum, the Anthroposophical Society’s headquarters in Switzerland, created its own unique symbolism and mythology that surprisingly combines motifs of Western esoteric traditions with elements of native mysticism and historiosophy.
Journal: Studia Humanistyczne AGH
- Issue Year: 16/2017
- Issue No: 4
- Page Range: 49-57
- Page Count: 9
- Language: English