Glossary
Artistic Imagination in Anthroposophy
Artistic Imagination is the faculty by which a painter, poet or sculptor receives living figures and forms from the subconscious and pours them into a work of art. Steiner placed...
The Thousand Years in Anthroposophy
The thousand years is the image Rudolf Steiner draws from Revelation 20 to mark the long closing stretch of earth evolution John names the first resurrection. In his 1908 Nuremberg...
The Riders of the Apocalypse in Anthroposophy
The Riders of the Apocalypse are the four horsemen who go forth as the first four seals are broken in Revelation, which Rudolf Steiner read not as coming wars but...
The Seven Spirits of God in Anthroposophy
The Seven Spirits of God are the seven flaming lamps before the throne in the opening vision of Revelation. Steiner does not read them as nameless flames. He calls them...
The Second Death in Anthroposophy
The second death is the image, in Steiner's reading of Revelation, of a soul losing its etheric body at the end of the earth period because it has shut itself...
The Abyss in Anthroposophy
The Abyss in Anthroposophy is the bottomless pit of Revelation, the sub-physical region below the spiritualizing earth into which the portion of humanity that has refused the Christ-impulse and hardened...