Glossary

Pure Thinking

Pure thinking (reines Denken) is Rudolf Steiner's term in The Philosophy of Freedom for thinking detached from sense-perception, in which the I grasps concepts directly from the ideal sphere rather...

Moral Intuition

Moral intuition is the first moment in Steiner's threefold structure of free ethical action (Philosophy of Freedom, GA 4, 1894). It names the act in which the I, working as...

Christmas Conference

The Christmas Conference (Weihnachtstagung) was the gathering at the Goetheanum, Dornach, December 25 to 31, 1923, at which Rudolf Steiner re-founded the General Anthroposophical Society and laid the Foundation Stone...

Akashic Records

The Akashic Records are the imperishable script of cosmic events, read through trained supersensible cognition. Steiner's GA 11 (Cosmic Memory) is the canonical exposition.

Ethical Individualism

Ethical individualism is the moral position Rudolf Steiner sets out in The Philosophy of Freedom (GA 4, 1894): the free human act issues from a moral intuition the individual grasps...

Life-Spirit

Life-Spirit is the sixth member of the human being in Rudolf Steiner's anthroposophy, the spiritualised etheric body that arises when the I consciously transforms life-forces. Called Lebensgeist in German and...