Glossary
Spiritual Beings in the Heavenly Bodies in Anth...
Spiritual beings in the heavenly bodies are the super-sensible entities whose visible forms are the planets and stars. Rudolf Steiner gave this its fullest statement at Helsinki in 1912: where...
The Planetary Spirits in Anthroposophy
The Planetary Spirits are, for Rudolf Steiner, the individual beings whose life is voiced in the wandering of the planets. Where astronomy sees Saturn as a lit globe, the occult...
The Beings of Saturn in Anthroposophy
The Beings of Saturn are not the rings or rock of the modern telescope. In Steiner's cosmology they are the hierarchies who worked when our world existed only as undifferentiated...
The Comets and the Cosmos in Anthroposophy
The Comets and the Cosmos names the place comets hold in Rudolf Steiner's spiritual cosmology. Against the ordered, life-bearing planets, a comet enters the system as a wandering force-center that...
The Fixed Stars and the Zodiac in Anthroposophy
The fixed stars and the zodiac are, in Rudolf Steiner's spiritual science, the unchanging starry circle from which the highest spiritual beings work, in contrast to the planets that wander...
The Winter Formative Forces in Anthroposophy
The winter formative forces are the form-giving, crystallising powers that Steiner saw working at the dark turn of the year. Where high summer scatters the earth into warmth and sulphur,...