The Cycle of the Year as a Path of Initiation
Leading to an Experience of the Christ Being
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In ancient times
humanity possessed an innate knowledge of the spiritual foundations of
existence. Such knowledge could be acquired through inwardly
accompanying the cycle of the year and its connected great seasonal
festivals. But this instinctive knowledge had to be lost in order for
human beings to discover individual freedom. In our time, as Sergei O.
Prokofieff demonstrates in this comprehensive work, ‘... this knowledge
must be found anew through the free, light-filled consciousness of the
fully developed human personality’.
Tracing thespiritual path of the yearly cycle, Prokofieff penetrates to the deeperesoteric realities of the seven Christian festivals of Michaelmas,
Christmas, Epiphany, Easter, Ascension, Whitsun and St John’s Tide.
Basing his research on the work of the twentieth-century initiate RudolfSteiner, he reveals how these festivals are spiritual facts that exist
independently of religious traditions and cultural customs.
Working
with the festivals in an esoteric sense can provide a true path of
initiation, ultimately enabling an experience of the Being of the Earth,Christ. The journey of study through this book can thus lead the readerto an experience of the modern Christian-Rosicrucian path, along which
‘... it is possible to take the first steps towards life in partnership
with the course of cosmic existence’.
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