Valentin tomberg biography

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Born on the 26th of February, in St. Petersburg, Valentin Tomberg made contact at an early age with idealistic communities engaged in Rosicrucian, Martinistic and Hermetic teachings.
After the Bolshevistic Revolution in which he lost both his parents and brother, he moved to Estonia in to study comparative religion and philology.

Among other things, he earned his living by working as a farmhand, teacher, artist, pharmacist and post office clerk.

In he joined the Theosophical Society.

Valentin tomberg biography

Shortly thereafter he resigned because the inflexible teachings, with a disregard for the “demands of reason”, did not appeal to him. He then turned his attention to the fundamental works of Rudolf Steiner. From he connected himself with the active anthroposophical striving.

As we can gather from a letter () it was his inmost desire to become a pupil of Rudolf Steiner (see; Seiß, W., Untersuchungen zu Rudolf Steiners Schulungswerk sowie den Erkenntnis