Glossary
The Mystery of the Earth's Magnetism in Anthrop...
The Mystery of the Earth's Magnetism is Steiner's 1917 term for a planetary technique, not for a natural fact. The magnetism itself is ordinary geophysics. The mystery is what certain...
The Insulating Stool in Anthroposophy
The insulating stool (Isolierschemel) is the picture Steiner reaches for when he wants to say that a person stands inside human life without being welded to it. He never means...
Demons in the Steam Engine in Anthroposophy
Demons in the Steam Engine is the phrase Steiner used for the moral cost of vacuum technology. He was not condemning engineering, and said so plainly to the same audience....
Grey Magic in Anthroposophy
Grey magic is what Rudolf Steiner called the state of a person who lays hold of the spiritual world with forces he is not permitted to use there: the forces...
Possession by Subterranean Currents in Anthropo...
Possession by subterranean currents is one half of a distinction Steiner sets down in a single paragraph. A Folk-Soul can approach from above the earth, where a person meets it...
Elemental Beings of Human Work in Anthroposophy
The elemental beings of human work are, in Steiner's account, spiritual entities that come into existence through vocational labour and take that labour as their outer covering. They belong to...