Glossary

The Gods' Change of Workshop in Anthroposophy

The Gods' Change of Workshop names a relocation, not a withdrawal. The divine beings did not stop working in the human being when the old clairvoyance faded, they changed the...

The Jehovah Sphere in Anthroposophy

The Jehovah Sphere names the layered cosmic territory Steiner assigned to the pre-Christian Hebrew Divinity: warmth, air and water, with the mineral earth left outside.

The Sheaths as Outgrowths of the Hierarchies in...

The sheaths as outgrowths of the hierarchies is the short name for what Steiner set out on 17 July 1921: our form, our life body and our soul body are...

The Will as a Limb of the Elohim in Anthroposophy

The will as a limb of the Elohim names the least visible half of Steiner's picture of the human being. Thinking stands out clear and separate, lit by full daylight...

The Backward Elohim in Anthroposophy

The Backward Elohim are the Spirits of Form who did not keep pace. Steiner places them among the hosts of Angeloi, Archangeloi and Archai, working in a sphere below the...

The Hierarchies Behind the Three Members in Ant...

The hierarchies behind the three members is the spiritual-scientific ground Steiner gave for social threefolding. He argued that the case for a free spiritual life, an independent rights-state, and a...