Glossary
From Symptom to Reality in Anthroposophy
From Symptom to Reality names the single gesture at the heart of Steiner's reading of history: take the recorded event seriously, refuse to mistake it for the whole story, and...
The Symptomatology of History in Anthroposophy
In the autumn of 1918, with the war still underway, Rudolf Steiner told his Dornach audience that what schools teach as history "deals only with superficial symptoms." The symptomatology of...
History and the Consciousness Soul in Anthropos...
Open a school textbook and modern Europe appears as a parade of battles and treaties. History and the Consciousness Soul names Steiner's counter-reading, set out in lectures at Dornach in...
The Eternal Feminine in Anthroposophy
The Eternal Feminine is the final image of Goethe's Faust, where a Chorus Mysticus sings that the eternal feminine, the Ewig-Weibliche, draws us ever upward. Rudolf Steiner read this closing...
The Redemption of Faust in Anthroposophy
The redemption of Faust is the close of Goethe's drama where the angels bear Faust's immortal part upward with the words that whoever strives in ceaseless toil can be redeemed....
The Second Part of Faust in Anthroposophy
The Second Part of Faust in Anthroposophy is the later half of Goethe's drama, which Rudolf Steiner read not as a loose sequel but as a deliberate record of initiation,...