Glossary
The Superman in Anthroposophy
The superman, in the reading Rudolf Steiner gives Friedrich Nietzsche, is the human being who turns away from every consoling world beyond the earth and instead draws a higher mode...
Hegel in Anthroposophy
Hegel in Anthroposophy is the study of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770 to 1831) as a school of disciplined thinking. In a lecture of February 9, 1911, in the cycle...
The Seeing Consciousness in Anthroposophy
The Seeing Consciousness (schauendes Bewusstsein) is Rudolf Steiner's name for the awakened state of cognition that lifts out of everyday awareness when thinking is strengthened and the will is turned...
Hypnotism in Anthroposophy
Hypnotism in Anthroposophy is the artificial induction of a sleep-like state in which one person's will suppresses the independent I of another, opening the subject to suggestion. Rudolf Steiner traced...
Spiritism in Anthroposophy
Spiritism in Anthroposophy is the nineteenth-century mediumistic seance movement that sought to prove the existence of a spiritual world through physical phenomena: rappings, table-turning, materializations, and the speech of entranced...
Prophecy in Anthroposophy
Prophecy, in Rudolf Steiner's spiritual science, is the capacity to behold coming events in inner images. Steiner explains it through the law of conserved force: powers a person does not...