Glossary
Melancholic Temperament in Anthroposophy
The earth-pole temperament of Steiner's fourfold: the physical body presses heaviest on the soul, producing depth, brooding, and lasting attention. Defined in GA 57 (1909) and applied in Waldorf since...
Phlegmatic Temperament in Anthroposophy
The phlegmatic temperament is the third of Steiner's four constitutional types, the one in which the etheric or life-body predominates over the other members of the human being. Water element,...
Choleric Temperament in Anthroposophy
Choleric temperament in Anthroposophy: Steiner's fire-element configuration where the I (Ich) dominates and the will breaks outward through the blood. GA 57.
Sanguine Temperament in Anthroposophy
Steiner's air-mobility temperament in which the astral body works on the nerve-sense system. Defined in GA 57 (Berlin, 4 March 1909), developed in GA 293 and GA 295.
Iron Process in Anthroposophy
The Iron Process in Anthroposophy is Steiner's cosmological-medical reading of iron as the cosmic Mars-stream that rains as late-summer meteoric showers and incarnates into the human blood as the courage...
Speech Formation in Anthroposophy
Speech Formation in Anthroposophy (Sprachgestaltung) is the anthroposophic art of the spoken word for recitation, drama, and therapy. Marie Steiner-von Sivers developed it at the Goetheanum from 1919, with Rudolf...