Glossary
The Sense of Life in Anthroposophy
The sense of life is the faculty by which we feel our own vital state from within. While the eye looks outward at colour, the life-sense looks inward at the...
The Sense of Self-Movement in Anthroposophy
The sense of movement is the inner sense through which we perceive our own bodily motion from within. When you bend an arm or shift your weight with eyes closed...
The Sense of Balance in Anthroposophy
The Sense of Balance is the inner sense that gives a person the experience of standing upright and orienting in space, one of the twelve senses Rudolf Steiner distinguished. We...
Destiny in Anthroposophy
For Steiner this reframes the oldest question a person asks of their life. A destiny is not luck or punishment arriving from elsewhere. The circumstance that meets us, a marriage,...
The Karma of Higher Beings in Anthroposophy
The Karma of Higher Beings is the principle, drawn from Rudolf Steiner, that the spiritual hierarchies are not exempt from destiny but are themselves subject to karmic law. The same...
The Occult Significance of Blood in Anthroposophy
The occult significance of blood is Rudolf Steiner's 1906 teaching that blood is no mere physical fluid but the carrier of the human I, the bodily seat where selfhood is...