Karma, Death & Rebirth

The Akashic Records (Akasha-Chronik) are the imperishable script of cosmic events that trained supersensible cognition reads as the object of imaginative and inspirative research.

In Steiner's spiritual science, destiny (Schicksal) is the way a person meets the consequences of their own earlier earthly lives as the circumstances of the present one.

The spirit-land, the region the soul enters between physical death and the next incarnation.

Steiner's teaching that disease is a biographically meaningful event within the law of repeated lives, often sought by the soul so that overcoming it strengthens the inner being.

The eternal I that reincarnates from life to life, set against the single-life self of name, character, and epoch that is laid aside at death.

Kamaloka is the soul-world's first phase after death, in which the astral cravings still bound to earthly experience are purified through reverse re-experience.

Karma is Steiner's term for the lawful continuity of the I across incarnations, carrying the moral fruits of one earthly life into the next.

The connections between individual souls that form across repeated earthly lives, which Steiner researched as biographical fact rather than as belief.

The soul's journey through the spiritual world, expanding outward through the planetary spheres, in the interval between one earthly life and the next.

The visible workings of destiny in Steiner's spiritual science: how the law of karma shows itself in body, biography, history, and the cosmos.

The spiritual hierarchies of the Old Moon stage, above all the Spirits of Wisdom, who gave the human being its etheric life-body.

The soul-and-spirit life a human being leads in the spiritual world, among stars and higher Beings, before descending to earth at birth.

Reincarnation is the I's repeated descent into earthly bodies, researched through supersensible cognition rather than received as doctrine.

The continuing, mutual bond Steiner described between the living and those who have died, kept alive through remembrance, feeling, and reading to the dead.

The Anthroposophical teaching that the human individuality reincarnates through many successive lives on Earth, ripening the moral fruit of each life into the gifts and destiny of the next.

In Steiner's spiritual science, sleep is the nightly departure of the astral body and the I from the physical and etheric bodies, which stay behind to be restored.

The midpoint of the soul's journey between death and rebirth, the farthest point from the earth, where it communes with the highest hierarchies before turning back toward a new birth.

The soul's journey down from the spiritual world into a hereditary line, clothing the I in an etheric and physical body at conception.

The being of the rank Angeloi, one stage above the human I, whose task is to guide and protect a single human biography across life and across incarnations.

Steiner's teaching that the spiritual hierarchies are themselves bound by karmic law and work out their destinies through the course of human history.

Steiner's teaching that the daily labour of one's profession works on destiny unconsciously, sowing seeds whose fruit ripens only in distant cosmic time.

In Anthroposophy the Lord of Karma is the spiritual office of balancing destiny, which Steiner taught the Christ assumes from the twentieth century onward.

The panoramic life-review that appears in the first three days after death, when the etheric body loosens and the whole biography stands present at once.

In Steiner's spiritual science, blood is the substance in which the human I lives and works, making it the seat of selfhood contested by good and evil.

The supersensible world of desire and feeling that Steiner places between the physical and the spirit, woven of astral substance and ruled by sympathy and antipathy.