Glossary

Empty Consciousness (Steiner)

Empty consciousness in Anthroposophy is the wakeful, image-free state Rudolf Steiner places between Imagination and Inspiration on the path of knowledge. Having first built up a living picture-world through Imagination,...

Sources of Error in Spiritual Research

Sources of Error in Spiritual Research in Anthroposophy is Rudolf Steiner's account of the specific ways supersensible investigation goes wrong: mistaking projected soul-pictures for objective beings, letting subjective belief colour...

Enlightenment in Anthroposophy

Enlightenment, or Erleuchtung, is the second of three stages Rudolf Steiner names on the Western esoteric path described in GA 10. It builds directly on Probation through disciplined exercises on...

Meditation in Anthroposophy

In Steiner's spiritual science, meditation means filling consciousness on purpose with a clear, easily surveyed thought, then resting in it with full inner activity. It is not a blanking of...

The Conditions of Esoteric Training

The Conditions of Esoteric Training are seven inner attitudes Rudolf Steiner laid down as the entry-requirement for the path of schooling described in GA 10. They do not test belief...

Probation in Anthroposophy

Probation, called Vorbereitung in Steiner's German, is the preparatory stage of the path described in Knowledge of the Higher Worlds. The student fixes the attention quietly and repeatedly on growing...