Esoteric Christianity & the Christ

Glossary Collection · 22 Terms

The Christ-being and the Mystery of Golgotha at the centre of earth evolution: the Sun-Logos, Sophia, the Etheric Christ and esoteric Christology. Part of Thalira's Anthroposophical Glossary of 515 terms, and companion to the in-depth guide Anthroposophy.

Ahura Mazda

Zarathustra's Persian name for the cosmic Sun-Being, identified by Rudolf Steiner as the Christ-Logos before incarnation.

Anthroposophia

The wisdom of the human being. The consciousness that arises when the human awakens to itself as natural and spiritual.

Christ-Impulse

The cosmic act of love that descended into Earth at the Mystery of Golgotha and now works as the central impulse of human spiritual evolution.

Christian Rosenkreuz

The initiate-individuality first surfaced in the 1614 Fama Fraternitatis manifesto, who in Steiner's account transmits the Rosicrucian-Christian stream into modern spiritual science.

Christian-Rosicrucian Path

The modern seven-step initiation Steiner inherited from Christian Rosenkreuz and reformulated for consciousness-soul humanity, centred on Study, the Rose-Cross meditation, and a karma-conscious life.

Christmas Conference

The Christmas Conference (25 to 31 December 1923, Dornach) was the meeting at which Rudolf Steiner refounded the General Anthroposophical Society and laid down the Foundation Stone Meditation as its mantric centre.

Cosmic Christ

The macrocosmic Sun-Logos who descended at the Baptism in the Jordan and became the spiritual Lord of the Earth at Golgotha.

Esoteric Christianity

The inner schooling tradition that approaches the Christ event as cosmic deed, transmitted through the Rosicrucian-Christian stream and continued in The Christian Community.

Etheric Christ

Etheric Christ in Anthroposophy is Steiner's name for the Second Coming of Christ as an etheric-realm event (not bodily-physical), perceptible to imaginative cognition from 1933 onward.

Maitreya Buddha

Maitreya Buddha in Anthroposophy is the future Buddha-individuality whose final earthly incarnation, around 3000 CE, will herald the etheric-Christ epoch to humanity as the great teacher of universal loving-kindness.

Manu

The great Sun Initiate of late Atlantis who led the most evolved humans into the Gobi oracle in Central Asia and seeded every post-Atlantean cultural epoch through the seven Holy Rishis.

Mary-Sophia

Steiner's identification of the Nathan-Jesus Mary with the heavenly cosmic Sophia, the Wisdom-being who descends to become the seed of Anthroposophia.

Master Jesus

The Zarathustra-individuality who, after carrying the Christ in the Nathan Jesus body for three years, continued through history as one of the great teaching-masters of the Christian-Rosicrucian stream.

Mystery of Golgotha

The Mystery of Golgotha is the once-only cosmic event in which the Sun-Spirit / Logos united with the Earth's evolution through the crucifixion of Jesus.

Phantom Body

The spiritual archetype-pattern of the physical body, damaged in Lemuria and re-established as the Resurrection Body of Christ.

Resurrection Body

The perfected Phantom that Christ won at Golgotha, the incorruptible archetype-body that now seeds the future spiritual evolution of every human being.

Sophia

Sophia in Anthroposophy is the cosmic Divine Wisdom, identified by Steiner with the heavenly Mary (specifically the Nathan-Jesus Mary) and as the cosmic-feminine counterpart to the Logos.

Sun Logos

The Sun Logos is Steiner's term for the cosmic Christ-Being's location prior to incarnation, the highest member of the Exusiai who united with Earth at Golgotha.

Sun Spirit

Sun Spirit in Anthroposophy is the totality of the Sun's spiritual existence: the cosmic Sun-Being whose highest rank is Christ (the Sun Logos), with Kyriotetes, Sun-Archangels, and the seven Elohim active in the Sun-sphere.

The Christian Community

The Christian Community is the sacramental movement founded 16 September 1922 with Friedrich Rittelmeyer, retaining seven renewed sacraments with women in the priesthood from its founding.

Two Jesus Children

Two Jesus Children in Anthroposophy is Steiner's exegesis of the two gospel genealogies: the Solomon Jesus (Matthew, Davidic-royal line, Zarathustra-individuality) and the Nathan Jesus (Luke, priestly-Adam line) unite at age twelve in the temple.

Zarathustra

Zarathustra in Anthroposophy is the founding-individuality of the ancient Persian sun-religion whose I-being reincarnated as the Solomon Jesus child and transferred to the Nathan Jesus at age twelve.