Glossary
Homunculus in Anthroposophy
Homunculus is the little luminous being conjured in a glass flask in the second part of Goethe's Faust. Wagner the scholar mixes him, but it is Mephistopheles who gives him...
Faust in Anthroposophy
Faust is Goethe's restless scholar, and in Steiner's reading he is the soul of the modern age itself. Two souls live in his breast: one bound to the earth, one...
The Problem of Faust in Anthroposophy
The Problem of Faust is the question Rudolf Steiner posed across his 1916 to 1918 lectures on Goethe's play: is Faust a literary masterpiece to be admired, or a record...
Mephistopheles in Anthroposophy
Mephistopheles is the spirit of denial in Goethe's Faust, the figure who seals the wager in the scholar's study and shadows the striving soul to its grave. Rudolf Steiner, lecturing...
The Earth Spirit in Anthroposophy
The Earth Spirit, the Erdgeist of Goethe's Faust, is the spirit Faust calls up in the first study scene after he turns away from the wider sign of the macrocosm....
The Mission of Art in Anthroposophy
The mission of art, for Rudolf Steiner, is to carry the spiritual across the threshold into sense, so that colour and form reveal what no copy of nature can show.