Glossary
The Temple Legend in Anthroposophy
The Temple Legend is the founding narrative of Freemasonry, the story of the master-builder Hiram-Abiff, who raises Solomon's Temple and is murdered for refusing to give up the Master Word....
Hiram Abiff in Anthroposophy
Hiram Abiff is the master-builder of Solomon's Temple in the Masonic legend that Rudolf Steiner took up in 1904. He stands for the line of Cain, the workers who labour...
Cain and Abel in Anthroposophy
Cain and Abel are, for Rudolf Steiner, far more than a tale of the first murder. In his 1904 Berlin lecture they are two opposed types planted between Adam and...
Rosicrucianism in Anthroposophy
Rosicrucianism is the spiritual current Steiner traces to a circle that formed in thirteenth-century Europe and to the figure who gathered its first pupils, Christian Rosenkreutz. It is not one...
The Knights Templar in Anthroposophy
The Knights Templar were a military-monastic order founded in 1119 to guard the holy places of Jerusalem. Rudolf Steiner placed them inside the spiritual history of Europe as bearers of...
The Platonists and Aristotelians in Anthroposophy
In Steiner's reading of spiritual history, the Platonists and Aristotelians are two great companies of human souls who carry the Michael impulse in turn. One bears an older wisdom of...