Glossary
The Walpurgis Night in Anthroposophy
The Walpurgis Night is the scene in Faust Part One in which Mephistopheles leads Faust up the Brocken on the night of April 30 to a wild gathering of witches....
Gretchen in Anthroposophy
Gretchen is the girl Faust loves and destroys in the first part of Goethe's drama. Rudolf Steiner, lecturing on Faust between 1916 and 1918, read her as the soul-region of...
The Mothers in Anthroposophy
The Mothers in Anthroposophy are the realm Goethe places at the heart of Faust Part Two, read by Rudolf Steiner in his 1917 Dornach lectures (The Problem of Faust, GA...
Faust and Helena in Anthroposophy
When Faust climbs through the realm of the Mothers, crosses the Classical Walpurgis Night, and at last brings Helena out of the past into his own house, Goethe shows a...
Helena in Anthroposophy
Helena is the name Goethe gives Helen of Troy in the second part of his Faust, and the figure Rudolf Steiner read as classical beauty itself, recovered from a finished...
The Classical Walpurgis Night in Anthroposophy
The Classical Walpurgis Night is the long Greek scene opening Act II of Goethe's Faust Part Two, in which Faust, Mephistopheles, and Homunculus wander a moonlit plain crowded with the...