Glossary
Eight-Membered Path in Anthroposophy
The Eight-Membered Path is Steiner's reading of Buddha's Noble Eightfold Path as the eight preparatory soul-virtues by which the modern initiate trains the astral body and the sixteen-petalled lotus near...
Soul Gymnastics in Anthroposophy
Soul Gymnastics in Anthroposophy, known as Bothmer-Gymnastik, is the movement-art developed by Fritz Graf von Bothmer at the first Waldorf School in Stuttgart from 1922. A sequence of 27 named...
Master Jesus in Anthroposophy
Master Jesus in Anthroposophy is Rudolf Steiner's name for the Zarathustra-individuality who carried the Nathan Jesus body, was vacated at the Jordan for the Christ, and now inspires the Christian-Rosicrucian...
Manu in Anthroposophy
Manu in Anthroposophy is the great Sun Initiate of the Atlantean epoch, the spiritual leader who selected the most evolved Atlanteans, withdrew with them into a sanctuary in Central Asia...
Concentration in Anthroposophy
Concentration, in Steiner's specific technical sense, names a five-minutes-a-day cognitive training in which thinking is held to a self-chosen object by the I. This is the first of the Six...
Inner Calm in Anthroposophy
Inner Calm in Anthroposophy is the cultivated stillness Rudolf Steiner names as the first precondition of esoteric training in How to Know Higher Worlds (GA 10). Five minutes a day...