Glossary

Truth, Beauty and Goodness (Steiner)

Every civilization has praised Truth, Beauty and Goodness, yet by 1923 Steiner judged the three ideals had faded into shadowy words. His answer was startlingly concrete: each ideal works on...

Dead Thinking in Anthroposophy

Dead thinking names the kind of thought every modern person uses to calculate, classify, and doubt. Steiner did not condemn it: he diagnosed it. The mobile, picture-filled cognition that lives...

Maya in Anthroposophy

The word Maya reached Steiner from India through millennia of transmission, yet at Torquay he turned it in a direction the East never took. The sense-world is illusion, he agreed,...

Anthroposophical Leading Thoughts

After the Christmas Conference of 1923-24, Rudolf Steiner began sending short numbered theses to the newly refounded Anthroposophical Society. These Anthroposophical Leading Thoughts distilled two decades of spiritual research into...

Practical Training in Thought (Steiner)

Practical Training in Thought is Rudolf Steiner's short course of everyday exercises for sharpening observation, memory, and judgment. Given to a small audience in Karlsruhe in 1909, it asks for...

The Academy of Gondishapur (Steiner)

The Academy of Gondishapur stands at the center of Steiner's reading of Western intellectual history. In the lecture cycle of autumn 1918 he treats this Persian school as the gathering...