Glossary
Paul the Apostle in Anthroposophy
Paul the Apostle occupies a singular place in Rudolf Steiner's spiritual science: the persecutor Saul who, without passing through any mystery school, met the risen Christ before Damascus and recognised...
John the Baptist in Anthroposophy
Few figures in Steiner's Christology carry more weight than John the Baptist. Luke's Gospel names him the greatest among those born of women, and Steiner explains why: an Ego held...
The Etherization of the Blood (Steiner)
Steiner taught that human blood does not remain wholly physical. In the heart it continually dissolves into etheric substance and streams upward to the head, where clairvoyant sight perceives it...
The Mystery of the Trinity in Anthroposophy
In the closing weeks of July 1922, Rudolf Steiner stood before his Dornach audience and took up the oldest of Christian questions. The Mystery of the Trinity names his answer:...
The Son Principle in Anthroposophy
Steiner's 1922 Dornach lectures on the Trinity give the Son Principle a precise evolutionary task. Where the ancient initiate experienced the Father as the ground he came from, the Son...
The Trinity and the Human Being in Anthroposophy
In the closing lecture of his July 1922 Dornach cycle, Steiner turned from church history to anthropology and asked how the oldest Christian formula lives in the people who confess...