Glossary
The Prologue of John in Anthroposophy
The Prologue of John is the opening passage of the Gospel of St John, which Rudolf Steiner read as an exact account of how the world and the human being...
The Temptation in Anthroposophy
The Temptation is the episode in which Christ, withdrawn into the wilderness, is approached by the Tempter and offered dominion over the kingdoms of the world. Steiner reads the scene...
The Gospel of John in Anthroposophy
The Gospel of John, in Rudolf Steiner's anthroposophy, is not biography but an initiation document. He held that its author was Lazarus, raised from a three-day temple sleep by the...
The Washing of the Feet in Anthroposophy
The Washing of the Feet in Anthroposophy is the first of seven stages in the specifically Christian path of initiation, sourced from Rudolf Steiner's lecture cycle The Gospel of St...
The Gospel of Luke in Anthroposophy
The Gospel of Luke is, for Rudolf Steiner, the Gospel of love and compassion: the writing in which the wisdom of the Buddha is reborn in a form simple hearts...
Christianity as Mystical Fact in Anthroposophy
Christianity as Mystical Fact names the central claim of Steiner's first esoteric book: that the events at Golgotha are not only history but a Mystery enacted in the open. Where...