Glossary
The Festivals and the Cosmic Year in Anthroposophy
The Festivals and the Cosmic Year names how Rudolf Steiner read Christmas, Easter, St. John's and Michaelmas not as arbitrary church dates but as cosmic memory. Each festival is set...
The Spring and the Resurrection Forces in Anthr...
The spring and the resurrection forces are the rising, out-welling side of the year in Rudolf Steiner's spiritual science. As March turns toward Easter, the earth-being breathes its soul outward,...
The Winter In-Breathing in Anthroposophy
The Winter In-Breathing in Anthroposophy is Rudolf Steiner's name for the phase of the year's cycle when the earth-being draws its whole soul-element back into itself and holds its breath,...
The Meteoric Iron in Anthroposophy
The meteoric iron is Rudolf Steiner's name for the cosmic iron that falls earthward in the great August meteor showers, the Perseids, which he saw as the physical substance forged...
Uriel, the Archangel of Summer in Anthroposophy
Uriel, the Archangel of Summer is the spiritual being Rudolf Steiner sets over high summer and St. John's-tide. He weaves his form of light out of the cosmic Intelligence shining...
The Sulphurising of Summer in Anthroposophy
The sulphurising of summer is Rudolf Steiner's name for the warmth-process that rises within living things as the year reaches its height. Around St. John's-tide the sulphur a person carries...