Glossary
The Seven Bowls of Wrath in Anthroposophy
The Seven Bowls of Wrath, the vials of Revelation 16, are for Steiner the last gesture of Earth-evolution, the moment when physical substance reaches its end. They sound after the...
The Apocalypse of John in Anthroposophy
The Apocalypse of John in Anthroposophy is the New Testament Book of Revelation understood as an initiation-document. In his 1908 Nuremberg lectures, Rudolf Steiner read its author as a Christian...
The Seven Churches in Anthroposophy
The Seven Churches of Revelation, in Steiner's reading, are not seven congregations in Asia Minor but the seven great culture-epochs of post-Atlantean humanity. Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamos, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and...
Occultism in Anthroposophy
Steiner draws a careful line. The Transcendentalist grants that a thing's essence hides behind its red and blue, yet still believes the senses bring him to its threshold. The Occultist...
Empiricism in Anthroposophy
Empiricism in Anthroposophy is one of the seven soul-moods Rudolf Steiner set out in Human and Cosmic Thought (GA 151). It is a tone in which any worldview can be...
Mysticism in Anthroposophy
Mysticism, in Rudolf Steiner's scheme of the seven soul-moods, is not a worldview of its own but a way of holding one. It is the tone the soul takes when,...