Glossary
The Metamorphoses of the Soul in Anthroposophy
The metamorphoses of the soul is the title Rudolf Steiner gave to the soul lifelong transformation: the steady reshaping of thinking, feeling, and willing by the active I. Rather than...
Fantasy in Anthroposophy
Fantasy, in Rudolf Steiner's spiritual science, is the soul's creative image-making activity: the power to form inner pictures that are drawn from the world yet recombined from within. It is...
Conscience in Anthroposophy
Conscience is the voice in the human breast that judges, with irresistible power, what is good and what is evil. Steiner treats it not as a fixed inheritance but as...
Love in Anthroposophy
Love, in Rudolf Steiner's anthroposophy, is not a feeling between persons but the creative substance of the cosmos itself. Where strength and wisdom can grow toward omnipotence and omniscience, love...
Memory in Anthroposophy
In Steiner's spiritual science, memory (German Gedächtnis) is the soul's ability to preserve and recall past experience, carried by the intellectual soul and grounded in the etheric body. It is...
Mental Pictures in Anthroposophy
A mental picture is the soul's own image of an experience, the representation (Vorstellung) that stays behind once a concept has been joined to a percept. Steiner places it between...