Glossary
Elemental Beings in Anthroposophy
Elemental beings are the nature-spirits Steiner placed at the threshold between the visible and the spiritual world. Working invisibly within plant and mineral life, they are not abstract forces but...
Occult Science (Book) in Anthroposophy
Rudolf Steiner's 1910 foundational cosmology, GA 13 (Die Geheimwissenschaft im Umriss), mapping seven planetary conditions, the post-Atlantean cultural epochs, and the path of supersensible knowledge.
Theosophy (Book) in Anthroposophy
Rudolf Steiner's 1904 foundational anthroposophic anthropology (GA 9), which sets out the fourfold and ninefold human being, reincarnation and karma, the three worlds, and the path of supersensible knowledge.
Sacramental Consultation in Anthroposophy
The Christian Community's renewed confession-counsel sacrament: a confidential meeting where priest and layperson sit together in meditative listening, not juridical absolution.
Act of Consecration of Man in Anthroposophy
The Act of Consecration of Man (die Menschenweihehandlung) is the renewed Christian sacrament of the altar Rudolf Steiner gave to the founding priests of The Christian Community in Dornach in...
Painting Therapy in Anthroposophy
A clinical art-therapy method, drawn from Steiner's color theory (GA 291) and systematized by Margaretha Hauschka, in which prescribed watercolour exercises reorganise the patient's feeling-life through colour itself.