Glossary

Phlegmatic Temperament in Anthroposophy

The phlegmatic temperament is the third of Steiner's four constitutional types, the one in which the etheric or life-body predominates over the other members of the human being. Water element,...

Choleric Temperament in Anthroposophy

Choleric temperament in Anthroposophy: Steiner's fire-element configuration where the I (Ich) dominates and the will breaks outward through the blood. GA 57.

Sanguine Temperament in Anthroposophy

Steiner's air-mobility temperament in which the astral body works on the nerve-sense system. Defined in GA 57 (Berlin, 4 March 1909), developed in GA 293 and GA 295.

Iron Process in Anthroposophy

The Iron Process in Anthroposophy is Steiner's cosmological-medical reading of iron as the cosmic Mars-stream that rains as late-summer meteoric showers and incarnates into the human blood as the courage...

Speech Formation in Anthroposophy

Speech Formation in Anthroposophy (Sprachgestaltung) is the anthroposophic art of the spoken word for recitation, drama, and therapy. Marie Steiner-von Sivers developed it at the Goetheanum from 1919, with Rudolf...

Warmth Organism in Anthroposophy

The warmth organism is the bodily stratum of differentiated heat that the I-Being directly inhabits and organises, named by Steiner as the fourth member of the human constitution beside the...