Glossary

Spirit-Self

Spirit-Self (Geistselbst, Manas) is the fifth member of the human being in Steiner's anthropology, the astral body transmuted by the conscious I.

Sentient Soul

The Sentient Soul (German: Empfindungsseele) is the lowest of the three soul-members Rudolf Steiner identifies in Theosophy (GA 9, 1904). It is the inner fountain of activity that responds to...

Intellectual Soul

The Intellectual Soul (Verstandes-Gemütsseele) is, in Rudolf Steiner's Theosophy, the second of three soul-members standing between the sentient soul below and the consciousness soul above.

Consciousness Soul

The Consciousness Soul (Bewusstseinsseele) is the third and highest of the three soul-members in Rudolf Steiner's anthroposophy: the part of the inner life where truth lives independent of personal feeling,...

Biodynamic

Biodynamic is the English name (Greek bios, life, plus dynamis, force) that Ehrenfried Pfeiffer coined in his 1938 book for the agricultural method Rudolf Steiner introduced at Koberwitz in 1924....

Philosophy of Freedom

Rudolf Steiner's 1894 foundational philosophical work (Die Philosophie der Freiheit, GA 4) that grounds human freedom in intuitive thinking and moral intuition.