Glossary
The Soul of the Earth in Anthroposophy
The Soul of the Earth is Rudolf Steiner's name for the planet's own inner being, the Earth taken not as dead mineral mass but as an ensouled organism with a...
The Night and the Dead in Anthroposophy
Every night, Steiner taught, the night and the dead belong together: as we fall asleep the soul slips free of the body and is carried into the world where those...
The Meeting with the Hierarchies in Anthroposophy
The Meeting with the Hierarchies names the moment in the soul's afterlife when the lonely review of earthly bonds gives way to the felt presence of higher beings. Rudolf Steiner...
The Living and the Dead in Anthroposophy
The Living and the Dead in Anthroposophy is Rudolf Steiner's account of the unbroken community that joins those still in physical bodies with those who have crossed the threshold of...
The Work of the Dead in Anthroposophy
The work of the dead names how a human being keeps influencing the earth after dying. For Steiner the departed do not withdraw into a sealed afterlife; their rays of...
Helping the Dead in Anthroposophy
Helping the dead names a quiet, deliberate act: the living turn toward someone who has died and offer them spiritual nourishment they could not, or would not, take in while...