Glossary
The Butterfly in Anthroposophy
The Butterfly is, for Rudolf Steiner, no earthly insect at all but a being woven from sunlight, lifted into the air by the planets that lie beyond the sun. Egg,...
The Insect World in Anthroposophy
The Insect World in Anthroposophy is the hovering, light-born kingdom that Rudolf Steiner, in Man as Symphony of the Creative Word (GA 230, 1923), read as the cosmos-given counterpart of...
The Three Animal Natures in Anthroposophy
The Three Animal Natures name a single picture at the heart of Rudolf Steiner's 1923 Dornach cycle: the eagle of the heights, the lion of the middle air, and the...
The Bee and the Hive in Anthroposophy
The bee and the hive, in Rudolf Steiner's nature lectures, name a single living organism rather than a swarm of separate creatures. The colony keeps an almost unbroken inner warmth,...
The Cow in Anthroposophy
The cow stands, in Rudolf Steiner's spiritual science, as the creature of the metabolism. Lying replete in the meadow, slow to lift its heavy head, it is an animal that...
Man as Symphony of the Creative Word in Anthrop...
Man as Symphony of the Creative Word is the title and the thesis of a lecture cycle Rudolf Steiner gave at Dornach in late 1923. In it he reads the...