Rudolf Steiner, Fragment Of A Spiritual Biography

"Underlying all of Sergei O. Prokofieff's many and diverse publications was a basic research theme to which he wanted to devote a large-scale project: the individuality of Rudolf Steiner through all of the incarnations that he himself specified. It is not intended to be a biography in the ordinary sense but to encompass spiritual dimensions that can be discerned through spiritual science. It became his deepest, most heartfelt wish to find an answer to a question that he knew to be of such significance for our lives in the anthroposophical movement, namely, 'Who is Rudolf Steiner?'" (Astrid Prokofieff, from the foreword).In a sequence of five past incarnations--as indicated by Steiner himself--and culminating in the life of Rudolf Steiner, Prokofieff searched for the inner thread between the six stages of Steiner's remarkable and all-encompassing life. His intention was to discover not only the outer connections in this sequence, but also the profounder, more esoteric stream that would offer a key to the unique significance of this individuality.