Glossary

Anthroposophic Medicine in Anthroposophy

Anthroposophic medicine is the medical movement Rudolf Steiner founded with Dr. Ita Wegman in 1921, systematised in GA 27 (1925) and grounded in the fourfold human and threefold organism.

Sophia in Anthroposophy

Sophia is the heavenly Wisdom-being who, in Steiner's anthroposophic Christology, stands as the feminine cosmic counterpart to the Logos. She is identified through the soul of the Nathan-Jesus Mary and...

Zarathustra in Anthroposophy

Zarathustra in Anthroposophy is the Persian initiate-individuality whose I-being incarnated as the Solomon Jesus of Matthew and at age twelve passed into the Nathan Jesus of Luke, preparing the bodily...

Maitreya Buddha in Anthroposophy

Maitreya Buddha in Anthroposophy is the bodhisattva-individuality whose final earthly incarnation, roughly 3,000 years after our time, will herald the reappearance of Christ in the etheric. Steiner systematized this reading...

Two Jesus Children in Anthroposophy

Steiner's reading of the irreconcilable Matthew and Luke genealogies as the record of two distinct Jesus births: a Solomon Jesus carrying the Zarathustra-I in the royal Davidic line, and a...

Etheric Christ in Anthroposophy

Steiner's name for Christ's Second Coming as a return in the etheric realm of the Earth, perceived inwardly from 1933 onward, not as a physical descent.