Sophia the Rose of the World

There are hundreds of sites on the web that discuss Sophia Wisdom and the Grail Lineage of Christ. Daniil Andreev’s Rose of the World prophecy appeared around 1950, years before ‘Holy Blood, Holy Grail’ that was the source of Dan Brown’s ‘The Da Vinci Code’. I found the Roza Mira about four years ago.

Jon Presco

Mikhail Epstein
DANIIL ANDREEV AND THE RUSSIAN MYSTICISM OF FEMININITY

(with a synopsis of Daniil Andreev’s treatise The Rose of the World)

In the book The Occult in Russian and Soviet Culture, ed. by Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1997, pp. 325-355.

Though Daniil Andreev’s works began to be published only in 1989, thirty years after his death, his legacy is already a major factor in Russian intellectual life. His many admirers regard his treatise The Rose of the World (1950-1958) as one of the highest peaks of twentieth century…