Glossary

Marie Steiner in Anthroposophy

Marie Steiner was the Russian-born actress, reciter, and editor who stood at the centre of Rudolf Steiner's work for nearly three decades. She married him in 1914, co-created eurythmy and...

The Calendar of the Soul in Anthroposophy

The Calendar of the Soul is Rudolf Steiner's sequence of 52 short meditative verses, one for each week of the year, first published in 1912. Read week by week, the...

Ascension in Anthroposophy

The Ascension is the moment, forty days after the Resurrection, when the Christ-being passes out of the visible world and into the etheric life of the earth itself. For Steiner...

Whitsun (Pentecost) in Anthroposophy

Whitsun in Anthroposophy is the festival of Pentecost read through Rudolf Steiner's spiritual science: the descent of the Holy Spirit on the disciples fifty days after Easter, when tongues of...

The General Anthroposophical Society in Anthrop...

The General Anthroposophical Society is the worldwide association of members through which anthroposophy lives as a public movement. Rudolf Steiner refounded it at the Goetheanum over Christmas 1923, giving it...

The First Class (of the School) in Anthroposophy

The First Class is the esoteric school-path Rudolf Steiner opened on 15 February 1924, the first and only realized section of the three Classes he had planned for the School...