Glossary
The Human Aura in Anthroposophy
The human aura, in Rudolf Steiner's spiritual science, is the colored soul-and-spirit sheath that Imaginative consciousness perceives around and within a person. Seen in profile, as Steiner painted it in...
Dream Life in Anthroposophy
Dream life is, in Steiner's anthroposophy, the half-conscious picture-world that arises when the astral body and Ego loosen from the sleeping physical and etheric bodies. The images are the astral...
Subconsciousness and Superconsciousness in Anth...
Subconsciousness and superconsciousness name the two regions of soul-life that lie beneath and above ordinary day-waking awareness. For Rudolf Steiner the everyday mind is a mirror held up by the...
The Three Stages of Sleep in Anthroposophy
The Three Stages of Sleep is Rudolf Steiner's name for the three increasing depths the human soul descends through every night. Light dream sleep opens into a dreamless sleep lived...
Peach-Blossom Colour in Anthroposophy
Peach-blossom colour is Rudolf Steiner's name for the incarnate, the warm flesh-tone of living human skin. He treated it not as a tint on a chart but as the visible...
Image and Lustre Colours in Anthroposophy
Image and Lustre Colours in Anthroposophy is Rudolf Steiner's division of the colour world into two families with opposite natures. Four image colours, black, white, green, and peach-blossom, arise as...