Glossary
The Michael Imagination in Anthroposophy
The Michael Imagination is the spiritual picture Rudolf Steiner painted for the autumn turning of the year: the Archangel Michael standing over the dragon, his sword welded together in cosmic...
Raphael, the Archangel of Spring in Anthroposophy
Raphael, the Archangel of Spring in Anthroposophy is the spirit Rudolf Steiner sets over the springtime, the cosmic physician who pours healing forces into the awakening earth and bears the...
The Four Seasons and the Archangels in Anthropo...
The Four Seasons and the Archangels names the rhythm Rudolf Steiner described in October 1923, in which one of four great Archangeloi presides over the cosmos for each quarter of...
Gabriel, the Archangel of Winter in Anthroposophy
Gabriel is the spiritual being Rudolf Steiner places over winter, the season when the earth draws fully into itself and grows most awake within. Far up in the snow-clouds he...
The Breathing of the Earth in Anthroposophy
The Breathing of the Earth is Rudolf Steiner's claim that the planet respires like a living organism, exhaling and inhaling not air but its own soul-forces. Through summer the earth...
The Cycle of the Year in Anthroposophy
The Cycle of the Year is Rudolf Steiner account of the seasons as the rhythmic breathing of the Earth, treated as a living, ensouled being rather than a ball of...