Glossary
Chrestos in Anthroposophy
Chrestos is Greek for what is good, kindly, and serviceable, and in Steiner's telling it names a picture rather than a person. The Mysteries showed the tested candidate the one...
The Folk Souls and the Soul Members in Anthropo...
The folk souls and the soul members name one relationship in Steiner's spiritual science: a folk soul is a real being, not a headcount of people who share a language,...
Jesus of Nazareth as Third-Degree Chela in Anth...
Jesus of Nazareth as a third-degree chela is the way Rudolf Steiner answered a blunt question in 1906: who could hold the Christ? A chela of the third degree, in...
The Three Degrees of Mystical Experience in Ant...
The Three Degrees of Mystical Experience describe what happens to a person who takes the meditative path far enough to meet the Mystery of Golgotha from the inside. Steiner traced...
The Threefold Call from the Spirit World in Ant...
The Threefold Call from the Spirit World names the rhythm by which, on Steiner's reading, the spiritual world addresses humanity: never once, but three times, each call pitched to what...
Christ as Initiator, Not Initiate in Anthroposophy
Christ as Initiator, Not Initiate names a boundary Steiner drew around the life of Christ. He was willing to call Christ an initiated one from the outset. He refused to...