Glossary
The Planetary Spheres in Anthroposophy
The planetary spheres are the seven graduated heavens of older cosmology, which Rudolf Steiner renews as concentric realms of spiritual activity encircling the Earth. Each sphere, from the Moon nearest...
Man as Microcosm in Anthroposophy
Man as Microcosm is the Anthroposophical teaching that the human being carries the entire macrocosm in miniature. Rudolf Steiner held that the forces shaping the human figure stream inward from...
The Nourishing Process in Anthroposophy
The nourishing process is the third life-process in Rudolf Steiner's anthroposophy: the activity by which a living being takes in substance from the outer world and starts to transform it...
The Breathing Process in Anthroposophy
The breathing process is the first and most outward of the seven life-processes Rudolf Steiner identified in 1916. It is the living rhythm through which an organism and the world...
The World-Word in Anthroposophy
The World-Word is Rudolf Steiner's name for the creative cosmic speech, the Weltenwort, out of which the world was born. It is not built from syllables. It is the harmony...
The Warming Process in Anthroposophy
The Warming Process is the second member of the sevenfold life Rudolf Steiner describes flowing through the human organism. Where breathing takes in air, warming takes in heat: the living...