История как материал к биографии. Андрей Белый и его opus magnum

If we consider Andrei Belyiʼs Istoriia stanovleniia samosoznaiushchei dushi (ISSD) as an attempt to read and understand the two millennia of European culture in the light of the anthroposophical spiritual science, it becomes obvious that the book itself can reasonably be read and understood only in exactly the same way. This article attempts such a reading. In other words, it provides an attempt to understand Belyiʼs book by applying to it its own method of interpretation and understanding of cultural history. The result is a “biographization” of historiography. ISSD, in fact, recapitulates Belyiʼs trilogy of memoirs, not on the basis of the decades of the authorʼs physical life, but nourished by the experience of thousands of incorporeal lifetimes.