Glossary

Manicheism

Manicheism is the spiritual stream founded by the Persian prophet Mani (216 to 274 CE) that teaches the transformation of evil through love rather than its punishment or rejection. Rudolf...

Christian Rosenkreuz

Christian Rosenkreuz, the hidden initiate behind the 1614 Fama Fraternitatis and the Rosicrucian stream, defined from Steiner's GA 130.

Esoteric Christianity

Esoteric Christianity is the inner, initiation-grounded reading of the Christ event that Rudolf Steiner unfolded as anthroposophical Christology, carried by the Rosicrucian-Christian stream since the thirteenth century.

Waldorf Education

Waldorf education is the pedagogy Rudolf Steiner founded in Stuttgart on 7 September 1919, teaching the whole child through three seven-year stages of head, heart, and hands. Also called Steiner...

Biodynamic Agriculture

Biodynamic agriculture is the farming system Rudolf Steiner founded across eight lectures at Koberwitz in June 1924, treating each farm as a self-contained living organism nourished by nine preparations (500...

Eurythmy

Eurythmy is a movement art Rudolf Steiner developed between 1912 and 1924 in which the sounds of speech and tones of music are made visible as gestures of the whole...