Glossary

The Stream from the Future in Anthroposophy

The Stream from the Future in Anthroposophy is the current of desire, longing, and anticipation that Rudolf Steiner described flowing toward the soul out of what is to come, set...

The Mirroring of Cultural Epochs in Anthroposophy

The Mirroring of Cultural Epochs in Anthroposophy is Rudolf Steiner's law, set out in The Apocalypse of John (GA 105, 1908), that the seven post-Atlantean cultural epochs reflect one another...

The Reunion of Moon and Earth in Anthroposophy

The Reunion of Moon and Earth in Anthroposophy is the future cosmic event, placed by Rudolf Steiner in the eighth millennium, when the moon that long ago separated from the...

The Future Larynx in Anthroposophy

The Future Larynx is Rudolf Steiner's teaching that the human voice-organ stands only at the beginning of its evolution. To clairvoyant perception it appears not as a finished organ but...

The Sixth Epoch in Anthroposophy

The Sixth Epoch is the cultural age Rudolf Steiner saw following our present fifth, consciousness-soul epoch. In his 1915 lecture at Dusseldorf he marked it by three coming qualities: a...

The Growing Younger of Humanity in Anthroposophy

The Growing Younger of Humanity is Rudolf Steiner’s name for a long descent: the age up to which a person stays naturally capable of inner development has dropped epoch by...