Urszula Patocka-Sigłowy
Studia Religiologica, Volume 56 Issue 1, 2023, pp. 47 - 64
https://doi.org/10.4467/20844077SR.23.004.19226Research into esoteric ideas and their permeating non-esoteric social practices has revealed a curious phenomenon: the influence of anthroposophy, one of the most important European esoteric movements of the twentieth century, on Polish agriculture in the Second Polish Republic (II RP), as well as the development of modern ecological thought in Polish scientific circles before the Second World War, especially among naturalists and agronomists. This article marks an initial attempt to name the sources, origin as well as methods applied in transforming esoteric ideas, initially presented by Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925) in 1924. The ideas were connected with spiritual aspects of agriculture of the future and proved to be a very attractive alternative for the development of civilisation, which inspired both Polish landowners and scientists in the 1930s.
Urszula Patocka-Sigłowy
Media Research Issues, Volume 62, Issue 3 (239), 2019, pp. 81 - 94
https://doi.org/10.4467/22996362PZ.19.040.10742The article presents the esoteric magazine Spiritual Knowledge (pol. Wiedza Duchowa), which was published in Wisła in 1934. It was one of about twenty magazines of an occult nature appearing in Poland before World War II. The description of this monthly is based on a content analysis of individual issues published in 1934. A profile of the journal, its layout, thematic content and editorial staff are presented in the article. Particular attention was paid to the authors of the articles in Spiritual Knowledge. The magazine published texts of authors known and respected in the Polish esoteric community (incl. Roberto Assagioli, Alice A. Bailey, Kazimierz Chodkiewicz, Léon Denis, Maria Florkowa, Józef Jankowski, Stefan Kowalski, Wincenty Lutosławski, Roman Moczulski, Henryk Münch, Andrzej Podżorski, George Viereck and Tomira Zori).