Glossary
The Spirits of Plant Growth in Anthroposophy
The Spirits of Plant Growth are not one being but a relay of four. Steiner watched the gnomes hold the secrets of the cosmos in the dark soil, then hand...
The Fish in Anthroposophy
The Fish, in Rudolf Steiner's spiritual science, is the animal sunk most completely into the watery element and lying furthest from the upright human form. Steiner saw it not as...
The Plant and the Cosmos in Anthroposophy
The Plant and the Cosmos names the way Rudolf Steiner read green growing things: never as closed organisms, but as living thresholds between the heavy, dark earth and the warm,...
The Amphibian and Reptile in Anthroposophy
The Amphibian and Reptile in Anthroposophy are the cold-blooded creatures Rudolf Steiner read as the densest descent of the animal soul into earthly existence. Toads, frogs, snakes and lizards belong,...
The Mineral Kingdom in Anthroposophy
The mineral kingdom names the realm of substances without life, without sensation, without growth: rock-salt, quartz, the metals, the bones and teeth that hold their shape. Steiner placed it at...
The Bird World in Anthroposophy
The Bird World is how Rudolf Steiner named the feathered creatures in his 1923 Dornach cycle: the animals that have lifted themselves furthest from the heaviness of the earth. A...