Glossary

Reincarnation

Reincarnation in anthroposophy names the process by which the human I, the eternal individual spirit, descends again and again into a physical body on earth. Steiner did not adopt the...

Kamaloka

Kamaloka is the first stage of the life between death and rebirth in Steiner's anthroposophy, the soul-world region where desires still bound to the physical senses must exhaust themselves before...

Pure Thinking

Pure thinking (reines Denken) is Rudolf Steiner's term in The Philosophy of Freedom for thinking detached from sense-perception, in which the I grasps concepts directly from the ideal sphere rather...

Moral Intuition

Moral intuition is the first moment in Steiner's threefold structure of free ethical action (Philosophy of Freedom, GA 4, 1894). It names the act in which the I, working as...

Christmas Conference

The Christmas Conference (Weihnachtstagung) was the gathering at the Goetheanum, Dornach, December 25 to 31, 1923, at which Rudolf Steiner re-founded the General Anthroposophical Society and laid the Foundation Stone...

Akashic Records

The Akashic Records are the imperishable script of cosmic events, read through trained supersensible cognition. Steiner's GA 11 (Cosmic Memory) is the canonical exposition.