Glossary

Manifestations of Karma in Anthroposophy

In Steiner's spiritual science, the manifestations of karma are the concrete ways the law of destiny shows itself in life: in health and illness, vocation and accident, gift and limitation,...

The Lord of Karma in Anthroposophy

The phrase Lord of Karma names a cosmic role rather than a separate deity. Steiner reserved it for the being who, from our age forward, weighs the moral account each...

Moon Beings in Anthroposophy

Moon Beings are the creative spirits Steiner associates with the Old Moon, the third great phase of planetary evolution that preceded the Earth. Foremost among them stand the Spirits of...

The Karma of Vocation in Anthroposophy

The karma of vocation is the destiny-thread running through a person's working life. Steiner taught that occupational labour, unlike free creative art, is carried out in a state close to...

Repeated Earth Lives in Anthroposophy

Repeated earth lives is Rudolf Steiner's term for reincarnation understood as the soul's passage through a sequence of bodily lives on Earth. He distinguished it sharply from a vague transmigration...

Illness and Karma in Anthroposophy

In Anthroposophy, illness and karma names Rudolf Steiner's view that disease is rarely accidental. It belongs to the chain of cause and effect that runs through a person's successive earth-lives....