Glossary
Creation out of Nothingness in Anthroposophy
Creation out of Nothingness is Steiner's term for the genuinely new the human I adds to the world, content produced by no earlier cause. A plant only repeats itself through...
Tohu wa-Bohu in Anthroposophy
Tohu wa-Bohu is the Hebrew phrase of Genesis 1:2, often rendered "formless and void," which Rudolf Steiner read not as empty disorder but as an exact description of a cosmic...
The Seven Days of Creation in Anthroposophy
The Seven Days of Creation are, for Steiner, the threshold scene of Earth evolution. The Elohim do not conjure matter from nothing; they re-awaken, day by day, what had already...
Ha'aretz and Haschamayim in Anthroposophy
Ha'aretz and Haschamayim are the two Hebrew words rendered earth and heaven in the first verse of Genesis. In the lecture cycle published as Genesis (GA 122, 1910), Rudolf Steiner...
The Inexpressible Name in Anthroposophy
The Inexpressible Name is Rudolf Steiner's term for the primordial name of the human ego, the I, which in the ages just after the Atlantean catastrophe carried such force that...
Philo of Alexandria in Anthroposophy
Philo of Alexandria (about 20 BC to 50 AD) was a Hellenistic Jewish thinker whose writings fuse Platonic philosophy, the Greek Mysteries, and the Hebrew scriptures into one doctrine of...