Glossary
The Elementary Kingdoms in Anthroposophy
The Elementary Kingdoms are the three streams of formative life that, in Rudolf Steiner's account of Earth evolution, run ahead of the mineral kingdom. Across the first, second, and third...
Spirits of the Rotation of Time in Anthroposophy
Spirits of the Rotation of Time are, in Rudolf Steiner's Anthroposophy, a class of spiritual beings who together form the astral body of the earth. They stand behind the nature-spirits...
The Elemental Spirits of Birth and Death in Ant...
The Elemental Spirits of Birth and Death are, in Steiner's account, beings hostile to human well-being that the gods nonetheless require to accomplish the passage of souls into and out...
Matter as Shattered Spirit in Anthroposophy
Matter as Shattered Spirit is the name Anthroposophy gives to Rudolf Steiner's claim that matter is not a primary stuff but a broken one. Spiritual form, raised by the Spirits...
The Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge in A...
The Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge name the two paradisal trees of Genesis 2 and 3, which Steiner treats as a single polarity rather than two separate...
The Three Logoi in Anthroposophy
The Three Logoi are, in Steiner's esoteric cosmology, the three creative principles from which a world-system unfolds: the First Logos that sacrifices its life, the Second Logos of reflected universal...