Glossary
The Lion in Anthroposophy
The lion stands, in Steiner's reading of nature, for the middle region of the human being. Look for what in us resembles the lion and you reach the breast, where...
The Eagle in Anthroposophy
In Rudolf Steiner's spiritual science the eagle is the animal that belongs to the human head. Where our nerves quietly fashion thoughts, the same sun-borne forces of the heights work...
The Creative Word in Anthroposophy
The Creative Word is Rudolf Steiner's term for the shaping cosmic speech, the Logos of John's Gospel, by which the spiritual world sculpts living form. It is not one finished...
Money in the Economy in Anthroposophy
Money in the economy, in Rudolf Steiner's social thinking, is the great medium of exchange that lets goods wait until someone needs them. A carpenter no longer barters chairs for...
Labour and Capital in Anthroposophy
Labour and capital name the two value-creating poles of economic life as Steiner described them in the 1922 World Economy course. Where bare labour modifies nature, value appears as worked...
Associative Economics in Anthroposophy
Associative economics is Rudolf Steiner's proposal that the economy be guided by associations: standing circles in which the people of one trade, together with the merchants who move its goods...