ESOTERIC MYTHOLOGIES IN ACTION: IMAGES AND SYMBOLS OF RUSSIAN ANTHROPOSOPHIC HISTORIOSOPHY (FROM LUDVIG A. NOVIKOV’S ARCHIVE)

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. Keywords:

Keywords

• Ludwig A. Novikov’s archive
• Russian anthroposophy
• anthroposophic mythology
• symbolic imagination
• Russian messianism
• symptomatology of history