Glossary
The Interval of the Fifth in Anthroposophy
The Interval of the Fifth in Anthroposophy is the musical interval Rudolf Steiner placed at the centre of an older, outward-turned way of hearing, where the singer felt carried beyond...
The Art of Poetry in Anthroposophy
The Art of Poetry, for Rudolf Steiner, is the shaping of language so that the spoken word again carries spirit, rather than merely reporting facts in prose. Speaking at Dornach...
Art and Knowledge in Anthroposophy
Art and Knowledge names Rudolf Steiner's argument that artistic creation is a form of cognition in its own right. The maker of a sculpture, a melody or a poem reaches...
The Arts and Their Mission in Anthroposophy
The Arts and Their Mission is the title Rudolf Steiner gave to a 1923 lecture cycle in Dornach, and the phrase has come to name his whole view of why...
Art in the Light of Mystery Wisdom in Anthropos...
Art in the Light of Mystery Wisdom is the title and the thesis of a 1914 lecture cycle in which Steiner traces every art back to the old Mystery-centres. Where...
The Nature of Beauty in Anthroposophy
The nature of beauty, for Rudolf Steiner, is not a property of pleasing surfaces but a meeting point of two worlds. Something is beautiful when the spirit that lives invisibly...