Glossary
The Cosmic Midnight Hour in Anthroposophy
The Cosmic Midnight Hour is Rudolf Steiner's name for the exact centre of the long passage between one death and the next birth. Here the soul stands at the greatest...
Sleep in Anthroposophy
Sleep in Anthroposophy is the nightly state in which the astral body and the I withdraw from the physical and etheric bodies, which remain lying in the bed. While the...
Pre-Earthly Existence in Anthroposophy
Pre-earthly existence names the stretch of a person's biography that precedes conception: the time the eternal individuality spends in the spiritual world, in the company of the higher hierarchies and...
The Descent into Incarnation in Anthroposophy
The Descent into Incarnation names the second half of the soul's long arc between two lives. Where pre-earthly existence is the heavenly life that precedes it, the descent is the...
Life Between Death and Rebirth in Anthroposophy
The life between death and rebirth is the long arc Steiner places between two incarnations, when the human being lays aside the physical body and grows outward into the cosmos....
The Soul World in Anthroposophy
The Soul World is the realm Rudolf Steiner describes as standing between the physical world and the spirit, the home of every impulse, passion, and wish. Where the body draws...