Anthroposophy: Movement, Society & People
The anthroposophical movement and its people: Rudolf Steiner, the Goetheanum, the Anthroposophical Society, Ita Wegman and Marie Steiner. Part of Thalira's Anthroposophical Glossary of 1571 terms, and companion to the in-depth guide Anthroposophy.
Steiner's 1923 distinction: the anthroposophical movement is a living spiritual stream, while the Anthroposophical Society is the earthly vessel meant to carry it without shrinking into a sect.
Anthroposophy is the spiritual science founded by Rudolf Steiner whose path of knowledge would lead the spiritual in the human being to the spiritual in the universe.
The representative gathering through which the Anthroposophical Society sought its renewal in 1923, meeting at Stuttgart in February and internationally at Dornach in July.
The anthroposophic practice of reading a human life through seven-year developmental phases and karmic patterns, opening biography as a path of self-knowledge.
Der Kommende Tag was the Stuttgart joint-stock company Rudolf Steiner chaired from 1920 to 1923, built to carry the economic impulse of the threefold social organism.
The parallel society Rudolf Steiner helped found at Stuttgart in 1923, so that younger members could carry anthroposophy in their own forms.
The Lutheran pastor (1872 to 1938) who co-founded The Christian Community with Rudolf Steiner in 1922 and served as its first Erzoberlenker.
The open, public membership body Rudolf Steiner refounded at Christmas 1923, seated at the Goetheanum, carrying the School of Spiritual Science and led by the Vorstand.
The Dutch physician (1876-1943) who co-founded anthroposophic medicine with Rudolf Steiner and opened the first anthroposophic clinic at Arlesheim in 1921.
Marie Steiner-von Sivers (1867-1948) was Rudolf Steiner's closest collaborator and wife, co-creator of eurythmy as a stage art, and the editor who preserved and published his collected works.
Rudolf Steiner's 1910 six-chapter cosmology, GA 13, mapping the seven planetary conditions from Old Saturn to Future Vulcan and the path of supersensible knowledge.
Steiner's 1923 principle that the Anthroposophical Society lives through freely acknowledged trusted personalities, not bureaucratic offices: admission, branch leadership, and the Dornach link all rest on concrete human trust.
Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) was the Austrian philosopher and founder of anthroposophy whose Philosophy of Freedom (1894) and later spiritual-scientific research seeded Waldorf, biodynamics, anthroposophic medicine, and the Christian Community.
Steiner's esoteric school, founded at the Goetheanum in 1923 as the inner research and training core of the Anthroposophical Society, structured in three Classes.
The 19 mantric lessons Steiner gave in Dornach in 1924, the only realized section of his planned esoteric School of Spiritual Science.
The Goetheanum is the Steiner-designed headquarters of Anthroposophy in Dornach, Switzerland, conceived as living organic architecture and home of the School of Spiritual Science and eurythmy.
The destruction of the first Goetheanum by fire on New Year's Eve 1922, which Steiner attributed to arson and answered by continuing the work the next day.
Steiner's term for the organized scientific, confessional, and political hostility that swelled after 1919, which he said must be met by inner consolidation, never by counter-attack.
Steiner's critical name for the bureaucratic, committee-centred leadership that grew up around the Stuttgart institutions after 1918, isolating the Anthroposophical Society's leadership from its membership.
Rudolf Steiner's 1904 foundational text (GA 9), which sets out the fourfold and ninefold human being, reincarnation and karma, and the path to supersensible knowledge.
The World School Association was Steiner's projected international body meant to awaken world opinion and gather funds so free schools could arise everywhere; it was never founded.