Glossary
Arabism in Anthroposophy
Arabism names one of the deepest currents in Steiner's karma research: a brilliant scholarship that would not unite with Christianity, cultivated at the court of Harun al Rashid, pressed outwardly...
Prayer in Anthroposophy
In the lecture cycle Metamorphoses of the Soul, Rudolf Steiner treats prayer as a real force of soul life rather than a plea for favours. Looking back, the praying soul...
The Sermon on the Mount in Anthroposophy
For Steiner the Sermon on the Mount is not a moral code but a precise description of the human being. Spoken at the turning point when humanity's old clairvoyance had...
The Nathan Soul in Anthroposophy
In Steiner's reading of the Gospels, the Nathan Soul is the unfallen counterpart of earthly humanity: the soul-substance withheld from Adam's descent into matter, preserved in the spiritual worlds, and...
The Lord's Prayer in Anthroposophy
For Steiner, the Lord's Prayer is not a plea for favours but a compressed map of human nature. Each of its seven petitions speaks to one member of the human...
The Essenes in Anthroposophy
Rudolf Steiner treated the Essenes as a closed Hebrew mystery community whose entire discipline served a single event: producing a bodily line pure enough to receive the Christ. In the...