Glossary

Friedrich Nietzsche in Anthroposophy

Friedrich Nietzsche in Anthroposophy is the German philosopher (1844 to 1900) whom Rudolf Steiner read from 1889, met at his sickbed in Naumburg, served by cataloguing his library at the...

Technology and Art in Anthroposophy

In Steiner's spiritual science, technology and art name two opposite gestures toward the same natural material. Technology takes nature apart and rebuilds it as a machine, surrounding modern people with...

Writing in the Astral Light in Anthroposophy

Writing in the Astral Light in Anthroposophy is Rudolf Steiner's term for the way spiritual knowledge is inscribed into the astral light, the fine substantiality of the Akasha, by initiates...

Mechanical Occultism in Anthroposophy

Mechanical occultism is Rudolf Steiner's name for a coming human power to drive machinery through spiritual vibration rather than fuel or steam. Speaking at Dornach in November 1918, he set...

The Pentagram in Anthroposophy

The pentagram in Steiner's account is the five-rayed figure that the living force-currents of the etheric body trace through the limbs. Where popular culture reads the five-pointed star as a...

Occult Signs and Symbols in Anthroposophy

Occult signs and symbols, in Rudolf Steiner's account, are not arbitrary marks chosen for wit or convention. They are taken from the inner essence of the things they stand for,...