Glossary
Cimabue in Anthroposophy
Cimabue (Cenni di Pepo, c. 1240 to 1302) was the Florentine painter who, in Rudolf Steiner's reading of art history, brought the Byzantine sacred image to its final Western flowering....
The Cosmic Sacrifice in Anthroposophy
The Cosmic Sacrifice is the act of divine generosity that Steiner places at the root of cosmic existence. Worlds do not condense from neutral gas; they are kindled when exalted...
The Cosmic Will in Anthroposophy
The Cosmic Will names the deed by which existence begins. Before there was light, before there was air or living warmth, the highest rank Steiner could describe gave away its...
The Hierarchies and the Elements in Anthroposophy
The Hierarchies and the Elements names the relationship Rudolf Steiner traced between the four classical elements and the spiritual beings that live within them. Earth, water, air and warmth each...
The Circling of the Hierarchies in Anthroposophy
The Circling of the Hierarchies in Anthroposophy is Rudolf Steiner's reading of planetary motion as a spiritual deed: the orbits of the planets are not paths drawn by dead bodies...
The Group Souls of the Stars in Anthroposophy
The Group Souls of the Stars are, in Rudolf Steiner's spiritual science, the single ensouling beings that hold whole constellations the way one group soul holds an entire animal species....