Glossary
Eleusinian Mysteries in Anthroposophy
The Greek initiation cult at Eleusis whose Demeter-Persephone-Iacchus drama, in Steiner's reading, was the Greco-Latin epoch's specific anticipation of the Christ-Mystery.
Cosmic Christ in Anthroposophy
The Cosmic Christ is Rudolf Steiner's name for the Logos at cosmic scale: the macrocosmic Sun-Being who descended at the Baptism in the Jordan and became Earth's spiritual Lord at...
Mary-Sophia in Anthroposophy
Rudolf Steiner's specific identification of the Nathan-Jesus Mary with the heavenly cosmic Sophia, the Wisdom-being who descends and becomes Anthroposophia.
Lucifer-Christ-Ahriman Triangle in Anthroposophy
Steiner's tripolar moral cosmos: the Christ-Being balancing the Luciferic upward pole and the Ahrimanic downward pole at the heart.
Ahura Mazda in Anthroposophy
Ahura Mazda is the Persian-epoch name for what Steiner calls the Sun-Logos. Zarathustra, the great initiate of the Ancient Persian cultural epoch, taught his disciples to see behind the physical...
Phantom Body in Anthroposophy
The Phantom Body in Anthroposophy is Rudolf Steiner's term for the spiritual archetype-pattern of the physical body, the imperishable form-template that gives the body its specifically human configuration. Damaged by...