Glossary

School of Spiritual Science in Anthroposophy

The School of Spiritual Science is the esoteric body within anthroposophy through which the deeper, initiatic work of Steiner's movement is carried. Founded at the Goetheanum in 1923 and built...

The Goetheanum in Anthroposophy

The Goetheanum is the central building of Anthroposophy, standing on a hill in Dornach near Basel, Switzerland. Rudolf Steiner conceived it as Goethean organic architecture, a structure whose curved, modeled...

Subnature in Anthroposophy

Subnature is Rudolf Steiner's name for the forces that lie one degree beneath ordinary nature, the field of electricity, magnetism, and mechanical power on which modern technology runs. In nature,...

Kali Yuga (the Dark Age) in Anthroposophy

Kali Yuga, the Dark Age, is the fourth and final age in the great cycle Steiner takes over from Indian wisdom and reworks for his own account of human evolution....

The Eighth Sphere in Anthroposophy

The Eighth Sphere is Rudolf Steiner's key for the hidden realm that shadows our world. Lucifer and Ahriman wrest mineral substance from the Earth and densify it into phantom Imaginations,...

Sorat (the Sun Demon) in Anthroposophy

Sorat is the Sun-Demon in Rudolf Steiner's spiritual science, the adversary of the Christ-impulse and the being concealed within the apocalyptic number 666. Steiner derives the name from the four...