Glossary
Plant Metamorphosis in Anthroposophy
Plant Metamorphosis names the way a whole plant unfolds from a single archetypal organ. Where ordinary botany catalogues leaf, sepal, and petal as separate parts, Goethe saw one member transforming...
The Archetypal Plant in Anthroposophy
The Archetypal Plant is Goethe's Urpflanze, the single living idea behind every leaf and flower. Rudolf Steiner placed it at the centre of his early scientific work: not a specimen...
The Druidic Mysteries in Anthroposophy
The Druidic Mysteries were the initiation-wisdom of the Celtic priesthood, centred on the sun and worked through circles of standing stones. Steiner placed them in a time when human beings...
Krishna in Anthroposophy
Krishna in Anthroposophy is the great teacher of Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita and, for Rudolf Steiner, the Being who inspired the dawning age of self-consciousness. Krishna gives the soul...
The Bhagavad Gita in Anthroposophy
The Bhagavad Gita in Anthroposophy is the ancient Indian song that Rudolf Steiner read as the artistic meeting of three soul-streams of old India: the conceptual thinking of Sankhya, the...
The Three Great Teachers in Anthroposophy
The Three Great Teachers in Anthroposophy are Skythianos, Gautama Buddha and Zarathustra, the three reincarnated initiates Rudolf Steiner describes Manes gathering around himself in a fourth-century spiritual council.