Glossary
The Seven Stages of Christian Initiation
The Seven Stages of Christian Initiation in Anthroposophy is the path of inner schooling Rudolf Steiner drew from the Gospel of St. John, set out in The Gospel of St....
The Transfer of Cosmic Thoughts (Steiner)
The Transfer of Cosmic Thoughts names a turning point Rudolf Steiner placed in the 4th century A.D., when the hierarchy of the Exousiai handed the cosmic thoughts down to the...
The Michaelites in Anthroposophy
The Michaelites are the souls of Michael's stream, the company Steiner described as bearing a karmic impulse toward anthroposophy from their time in the heavenly School of Michael before birth....
Normal and Abnormal Spirits (Steiner)
In Steiner’s 1910 folk-souls lectures, normal and abnormal Spirits name two ways a member of the spiritual hierarchies can work. A normal spirit occupies the rank its evolution has reached....
Star Intelligences and Demons (Steiner)
The term gathers a single medieval conviction: that the visible heavens are signs of invisible Beings, each star ensouled by an Intelligence that directs it and shadowed by a Demon...
The Supersensible School of Michael
The Supersensible School of Michael in Anthroposophy is the great heavenly teaching that the Archangel Michael gave, at the beginning of the fifteenth century, to the discarnate souls gathered in...