Glossary

Warmth Organism in Anthroposophy

The warmth organism is the bodily stratum of differentiated heat that the I-Being directly inhabits and organises, named by Steiner as the fourth member of the human constitution beside the...

Friedrich Rittelmeyer in Anthroposophy

The Lutheran pastor (1872 to 1938) who co-founded The Christian Community with Rudolf Steiner in 1922 and served as its first Erzoberlenker.

Eight-Membered Path in Anthroposophy

The Eight-Membered Path is Steiner's reading of Buddha's Noble Eightfold Path as the eight preparatory soul-virtues by which the modern initiate trains the astral body and the sixteen-petalled lotus near...

Soul Gymnastics in Anthroposophy

Soul Gymnastics in Anthroposophy, known as Bothmer-Gymnastik, is the movement-art developed by Fritz Graf von Bothmer at the first Waldorf School in Stuttgart from 1922. A sequence of 27 named...

Master Jesus in Anthroposophy

Master Jesus in Anthroposophy is Rudolf Steiner's name for the Zarathustra-individuality who carried the Nathan Jesus body, was vacated at the Jordan for the Christ, and now inspires the Christian-Rosicrucian...

Manu in Anthroposophy

Manu in Anthroposophy is the great Sun Initiate of the Atlantean epoch, the spiritual leader who selected the most evolved Atlanteans, withdrew with them into a sanctuary in Central Asia...