Glossary

Northern Mysteries in Anthroposophy

The Folk-Soul-led initiation stream of pre-Christian Germanic, Scandinavian, and Druidic Europe, set out by Steiner in his 1910 Oslo cycle The Mission of the Folk-Souls (GA 121) and extended in...

Eleusinian Mysteries in Anthroposophy

The Greek initiation cult at Eleusis whose Demeter-Persephone-Iacchus drama, in Steiner's reading, was the Greco-Latin epoch's specific anticipation of the Christ-Mystery.

Cosmic Christ in Anthroposophy

The Cosmic Christ is Rudolf Steiner's name for the Logos at cosmic scale: the macrocosmic Sun-Being who descended at the Baptism in the Jordan and became Earth's spiritual Lord at...

Mary-Sophia in Anthroposophy

Rudolf Steiner's specific identification of the Nathan-Jesus Mary with the heavenly cosmic Sophia, the Wisdom-being who descends and becomes Anthroposophia.

Lucifer-Christ-Ahriman Triangle in Anthroposophy

Steiner's tripolar moral cosmos: the Christ-Being balancing the Luciferic upward pole and the Ahrimanic downward pole at the heart.

Ahura Mazda in Anthroposophy

Ahura Mazda is the Persian-epoch name for what Steiner calls the Sun-Logos. Zarathustra, the great initiate of the Ancient Persian cultural epoch, taught his disciples to see behind the physical...