Glossary
The Fall of the Spirits of Darkness in Anthropo...
The Fall of the Spirits of Darkness is Rudolf Steiner's name for the casting down of a host of ahrimanic spirits from the spiritual world into the human realm in...
The Effects of Esoteric Development in Anthropo...
The effects of esoteric development are the bodily and soul transformations Steiner traced through serious meditative work. He held that the student becomes, in his words, a different person: the...
Forgetting in Anthroposophy
Forgetting, in Rudolf Steiner's spiritual science, is not a defect of the soul but a benefactor of life. The same etheric body that retains a thought must also let it...
The Unconscious in Anthroposophy
The Unconscious in Anthroposophy is the domain of real spiritual processes that lie below and above ordinary waking consciousness. Rudolf Steiner held that this region is not a consciousness-less world-ground,...
The Evolution of Memory in Anthroposophy
The Evolution of Memory describes how the human power of remembering passed through three distinct stages in Steiner's reading of history: localized memory in Atlantis, rhythmic memory in the Orient,...
The Memory-Mirror in Anthroposophy
The Memory-Mirror in Anthroposophy is Rudolf Steiner's image, given in Cosmosophy (GA 207, 1921), for the inner reflecting surface at which ordinary self-knowledge stops, where past sense-impressions are thrown back...