Glossary
Taotl in Anthroposophy
Taotl in Steiner's account is the Ahrimanic spirit who presided over the darkest of the post-Atlantean mysteries in ancient Mexico. Perceived only through atavistic, visionary clairvoyance, never in a physical...
Phantoms, Spectres and Demons in Anthroposophy
Phantoms, spectres and demons are three classes of harmful elemental being that Rudolf Steiner described in a 1908 Whitsun lecture as the spiritual residue of human conduct. Lies and slander...
The Mexican Mysteries in Anthroposophy
The Mexican Mysteries are Rudolf Steiner's term for the black mystery stream of ancient America, the western inheritor of decadent Atlantis. In his 1916 lectures he describes initiations built on...
White and Black Magic in Anthroposophy
White and black magic in Steiner's 1907 lecture are two directions for applying real occult forces. White magic works in harmony with the central spiritual leadership of earth evolution, turning...
Asuras in Anthroposophy
Asuras in Anthroposophy are the retarded spirits of egoism, beings of the Archai hierarchy who lodge in the consciousness soul and the human I to draw it down into earthly...
The Children of Lucifer in Anthroposophy
The Children of Lucifer are, in Rudolf Steiner's lectures, the Eastern humanity that received wisdom as an inner light kindled by Lucifer. In The East in the Light of the...