Glossary
Gratitude in Anthroposophy
Gratitude in Anthroposophy is the soul's subconscious thankfulness toward every impression it receives, a feeling Steiner treats not as a passing emotion but as a permanent under-current of the inner...
Laughing and Weeping in Anthroposophy
Laughing and weeping, in Rudolf Steiner's anthroposophy, are not mere reflexes but the visible signatures of the I. In laughter the ego loosens and expands the astral body to lift...
Faith, Love, Hope in Anthroposophy
Faith, love, hope are, for Rudolf Steiner, the three fundamental forces of the human soul that can never be torn out of it. In the Vienna lecture of June 1911,...
The Forgotten Stream in German Spiritual Life i...
The Forgotten Stream in German Spiritual Life is Rudolf Steiner's term for a buried lineage of German thinkers who, after Fichte, Schelling and Hegel, reached toward direct knowledge of the...
Novalis in Anthroposophy
Novalis is the pen name of Friedrich von Hardenberg, the German Romantic poet Rudolf Steiner treated as a genuine clairvoyant rather than a literary figure. In lectures of 1908, Steiner...
Overcoming Nervousness in Anthroposophy
Overcoming nervousness in Steiner's sense is not calming the nerves but rebuilding the inner members that govern them. Nervousness, he taught in 1912, shows a weakened etheric body and a...