Glossary
The Three Phases of the Anthroposophic Movement...
The three phases of the anthroposophic movement are Steiner's shorthand for how a small religious circle became a practical movement. Phase one was theory shared with the Theosophical Society. Phase...
The Twelve World-Initiators in Anthroposophy
The Twelve World-Initiators are the twelve Beings Steiner placed in the twelve directions of the old Sun cosmos, speaking out of darkness rather than shining in light. Their speech was...
The Cycles as Manuscript in Anthroposophy
The Cycles as Manuscript names the small legal-looking phrase stamped on Steiner's privately circulated lecture courses. It marks a text as a working record rather than a revised publication. Anyone...
The Angel That Does Not Follow Into Sleep in An...
The Angel That Does Not Follow Into Sleep names the conditional half of Steiner's angelology: the guardian being is not an automatic night nurse. Sleep separates the astral body from...
The Spirits of Personality as New Creators in A...
The Spirits of Personality as New Creators names the turn Steiner placed at the end of the nineteenth century, when the hierarchy that governs epochs took up the creative work...
The Year-God in Anthroposophy
The Year-God stands behind an initiation practice that treated the calendar as revelation. Rather than reading letters on paper, pupils of these ancient Mysteries read meadow plants, forest plants, blossoms,...