Glossary

The Origin of Suffering in Anthroposophy

The Origin of Suffering in Steiner's anthroposophy is the question of why pain exists at all, and his answer reverses the usual one. Suffering is not an accident pressed onto...

Good Fortune in Anthroposophy

Good Fortune in Steiner's spiritual science is luck seen through the lens of karma and repeated earth lives. Outer success or failure reaches us as semblance, a contact with the...

The Mission of Anger in Anthroposophy

The Mission of Anger is Rudolf Steiner's account of why anger exists in the human soul at all. Long before the Ego is ripe to judge right from wrong, noble...

Human Character in Anthroposophy

Human character, in Rudolf Steiner's anthroposophy, is the signature the I writes on its own soul. Steiner distinguishes it sharply from temperament: temperament is the constitution we are born with,...

Human Egoism in Anthroposophy

Human egoism, in the sense Steiner gives it, is not simply a moral fault. It is the necessary force by which the Ego gathers the surrounding world into itself and...

Surrender (Hingabe) in Anthroposophy

Surrender (Hingabe) is the soul-mood in which a person stops asking thinking to hand over truth and instead waits, patiently, for the world to reveal its own secrets. For Steiner...