Glossary
Lucifer (in Anthroposophy)
In Rudolf Steiner's anthroposophy, Lucifer is one of two spiritual adversary forces (the other being Ahriman) whose pull on the human being must be counterbalanced through the Christ impulse. Lucifer...
Ahrimanic
Ahrimanic names the spiritual tendency in Rudolf Steiner's cosmology that pulls human consciousness downward into matter, mechanism, and dry intellect. One of three forces: Lucifer above, Christ in the middle,...
Etheric Forces
Etheric forces, also called formative forces or life forces, are the supersensible currents that organise living matter from within. In Rudolf Steiner's spiritual science they belong to the etheric world,...
Devachan
Devachan is the Theosophical and early Anthroposophical name for the spiritual world the human being inhabits between death and the next earthly birth. Steiner inherited the term from Blavatsky and...
Spiritual Seals
The spiritual seals are the seven seals of Revelation 5 through 8 as Rudolf Steiner reread them: a clairvoyant record of seven future civilizations on Earth, set inside Earth's cosmic...
Anthroposophia
Anthroposophia is Rudolf Steiner's term for the wisdom of the human being: Anthropos plus Sophia, the divine wisdom risen now from within the awakened human soul.