Glossary

Karmic Relationships in Anthroposophy

Karmic relationships name the threads of destiny that bind one human being to another across more than a single life. Where ordinary biography stops at birth, Steiner asks what the...

The Guardian Angel in Anthroposophy

The Guardian Angel is, in Steiner's account, not a sentimental comforter but a precise spiritual office: the lowest rank of the celestial hierarchies, the Angeloi, standing one degree above the...

The Memory Tableau in Anthroposophy

The Memory Tableau is the life-review that opens the journey after death. In the first few days, before the etheric body dissolves, a person's whole biography from birth to death...

Relationship with the Dead in Anthroposophy

The relationship with the dead in Steiner refers to the continuing, mutual connection between the living and those who have died. Far from a final separation, death opens a different...

The Cosmic Midnight Hour in Anthroposophy

The Cosmic Midnight Hour is Rudolf Steiner's name for the exact centre of the long passage between one death and the next birth. Here the soul stands at the greatest...

Sleep in Anthroposophy

Sleep in Anthroposophy is the nightly state in which the astral body and the I withdraw from the physical and etheric bodies, which remain lying in the bed. While the...