Glossary
Inner Calm in Anthroposophy
Inner Calm in Anthroposophy is the cultivated stillness Rudolf Steiner names as the first precondition of esoteric training in How to Know Higher Worlds (GA 10). Five minutes a day...
Backwards Review in Anthroposophy
Steiner's evening practice of holding the day in the inner eye in reverse order, evening to morning, to strengthen the etheric body and prepare for the post-mortem life-tableau. Systematised in...
Modern Anthroposophical Path in Anthroposophy
Rudolf Steiner's path of inner training for the consciousness-soul age, distinct from Ancient Yoga, the Ancient-Christian-Mystical path, and the Christian-Rosicrucian path. Pure thinking itself becomes the meditative instrument, building on...
Christian-Rosicrucian Path in Anthroposophy
The Christian-Rosicrucian Path is the modern seven-step initiation Rudolf Steiner inherited from Christian Rosenkreuz and reformulated for the consciousness-soul age, centred on pure thinking, the Rose-Cross meditation, and a karma-conscious...
Ancient Egyptian Mysteries in Anthroposophy
The Ancient Egyptian Mysteries were the temple initiation school of the Egypto-Chaldean cultural epoch (c. 2907 BCE to 747 BCE), in which the candidate underwent a three-day temple-sleep death-experience and...
Northern Mysteries in Anthroposophy
The Folk-Soul-led initiation stream of pre-Christian Germanic, Scandinavian, and Druidic Europe, set out by Steiner in his 1910 Oslo cycle The Mission of the Folk-Souls (GA 121) and extended in...