Glossary
Moral Technique in Anthroposophy
Moral technique is the third faculty of free moral action in Rudolf Steiner's ethics: the practical ability to realize a moral idea in the existing world. Moral imagination conceives the...
Percept and Concept in Anthroposophy
In Rudolf Steiner's theory of knowledge, percept and concept name the two sources from which every known thing reaches us. The percept is the bare observed content, a colour, a...
The Planetary Spheres in Anthroposophy
The planetary spheres are the seven graduated heavens of older cosmology, which Rudolf Steiner renews as concentric realms of spiritual activity encircling the Earth. Each sphere, from the Moon nearest...
Man as Microcosm in Anthroposophy
Man as Microcosm is the Anthroposophical teaching that the human being carries the entire macrocosm in miniature. Rudolf Steiner held that the forces shaping the human figure stream inward from...
The Nourishing Process in Anthroposophy
The nourishing process is the third life-process in Rudolf Steiner's anthroposophy: the activity by which a living being takes in substance from the outer world and starts to transform it...
The Breathing Process in Anthroposophy
The breathing process is the first and most outward of the seven life-processes Rudolf Steiner identified in 1916. It is the living rhythm through which an organism and the world...