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"A Touch of the Spiritual World": An Anthroposophical Core in the Life and Work of Kersti Bergroth (1886-1975)
Authors: Tiina Mahlamäki
Editors: Terhi Utriainen, Päivi Salmesvuori
Publishing place: New York
Publication year: 2014
Book title : Finnish women making religion: between ancestors and angels
First page : 103
Last page: 122
Number of pages: 20
ISBN: 978-1-137-38868-1
eISBN: 978-1-137-38348-8
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137383471.0010
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/1780716
The influence of Theosophy and Anthroposophy in Finland is approached by Tiina Mahlamäki through the writer Kersti Bergroth’s (1886–1975) life and work. Emmanuel Swedenborg’s and in particular Rudolf Steiner’s Theosophical and Anthroposophical writings strongly emphasized creativity and thus appealed to many artists, who, from this perspective, became conveyors of hidden spiritual truths. One of these artists was Bergroth, who declared that she had expressed her whole life in her writings, “but always veiled, covered, deceptive, quite different than it was ever lived.”. Despite a career lasting over more than sixty years and with more than seventy published novels, Kersti Bergroth remains nearly unknown as an author to Finnish readers of today.
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