Practice: Medicine, Waldorf, Biodynamics & Arts

Steiner's 1912 book of eight meditations, each leading the reader to experience one member of the human being from the inside.

The renewed Christian sacrament of the altar given by Rudolf Steiner to the founding priests of The Christian Community in Dornach, September 1922, celebrated daily worldwide ever since.

Anthroposophic Medicine in Anthroposophy is the medical movement founded 1921 by Steiner with Dr. Ita Wegman at Klinik Arlesheim, integrating mainstream clinical practice with the fourfold human anthropology and threefold organism.

The first-century sage Steiner casts as Christ's polar opposite: he gathered place-bound earthly wisdom, while Christ spoke from beyond the earth.

Biodynamic is the everyday adjective for the certified-organic agriculture that follows Steiner's 1924 Koberwitz lectures, working with cosmic and etheric forces in soil, plant, and animal.

The method of farming Steiner founded at Koberwitz in 1924 that addresses the etheric forces of soil and plant through specific preparations and a cosmic-rhythmic calendar.

Curative Education in Anthroposophy is Heilpädagogik, the anthroposophic practice of educating children with developmental and learning differences, founded with Steiner's 1924 twelve-lecture course and embodied worldwide in the Camphill Movement.

The art of movement Steiner brought into the world as visible speech and visible song, making the inner gestures of language and music perceptible through the body.

Eurythmy Therapy in Anthroposophy is Heileurythmie, the therapeutic application of eurythmy sound-gestures for healing, established with Steiner's 1921 eight-lecture course at Dornach.

The three indestructible forces of the soul, faith carried by the astral body, love by the etheric body, hope by the physical body.

Outer luck that Steiner reads as semblance, raw material the inner I converts into lasting reality across repeated earth lives.

In Steiner's account, the soul's subconscious thankfulness toward every life-impression, which forms the spiritual air through which the dead can speak to the living.

The lasting imprint the Ego stamps on the three soul-members through repeated deed and habit, self-wrought rather than inborn, and carried from life to life.

The self-directed drive by which the human Ego must enrich itself from the world, yet which destroys the soul the moment it turns one-sided and shuts the world out.

The cosmic Mars-stream of iron that rains into Earth as meteoric showers each late summer and incarnates into the human blood as the courage-bearing, fear-dispelling force.

Steiner's reading of the Sistine Madonna as the reborn Egyptian Isis: the purified human soul, fructified by the spirit of the world, giving birth to the higher self.

The last initiate-emperor, who in Steiner's reading died trying to preserve the Mystery of the Sun against the secularised Christianity of Constantine.

In Steiner's account, laughter and tears are the I expanding or contracting the astral body, the two soul-gestures that reveal the human ego at work.

Steiner's teaching that the inner organs form an unconscious planetary system inside the body, mirroring the outer cosmos and preparing the blood for the I.

Mistletoe (Iscador) in Anthroposophy is the cancer therapy Steiner introduced through Dr. Ita Wegman in 1917, using fermented Viscum album extract (summer + winter combined) as a complementary subcutaneous injection.

Anthroposophic therapeutic shaping of beeswax or clay by hand, engaging the etheric-formative forces through three-dimensional form.

Steiner's claim that no motor nerves exist: all nerves are sensory, and the will works directly in metabolism, not through a nerve that commands movement.

A clinical art that prescribes specific intervals, instruments, and singing exercises (anchored in Steiner's GA 283) to retune body, soul, and breath.

Rudolf Steiner's four esoteric stage plays (1910 to 1913) carrying about a dozen souls through several incarnations on the modern path of initiation.

Steiner's practical cure for modern nervous fidgeting: small daily exercises that strengthen the etheric body and the will of the I.

A clinical art-therapy method, drawn from Steiner's color theory and systematized by Margaretha Hauschka, in which prescribed watercolour exercises reorganise the patient's feeling-life through colour itself.

The Christian Community's renewed confession-counsel sacrament: a confidential meeting where priest and layperson sit together in meditative listening, not juridical absolution.

A movement art and somatic pedagogy developed by Jaimen McMillan from Bothmer Gymnastics and Steiner's anatomy of the twelve directions of space.

Marie Steiner's anthroposophic art of the spoken word for recitation, drama, and therapy, developed at the Goetheanum from 1919.

The fourth soul-mood Steiner names for thinking that would reach reality: giving up the demand that thought yield truth, and letting thinking educate the soul instead.

The hardened, death-imbued framework where the form-creating forces of the I reach completion, holding the human upright so that conscious life can occur.

Steiner's teaching that a man's etheric body is feminine and a woman's is masculine, so every person is inwardly double-sexed.

Steiner's name for the pre-earthly spiritual body that works unseen in our growth and nourishment after the embryonic sheaths fall away at birth.

Steiner's teaching that noble anger, rising before the Ego can judge, secretly schools both independence and selflessness, and prepares the soul for love.

The Roman cult of the bull-slaying sun-hero Mithras, whose seven-degree path Steiner read as a feeling-knowledge of cosmic rhythm in the human being.

Steiner's modern counter-myth in which Lucifer slays Isis-Sophia and buries her in abstract cosmic space, where humanity, bearing the Christ-force, must seek and find her again.

Steiner's teaching that pain arises wherever life meets the outer world and consciousness is born from partial destruction, making suffering the seed of knowledge.

Steiner's name for the lost Sun-Mystery, the legendary sun-treasure carried from Troy to Rome to Constantinople, waiting to be re-illumined by the spiritual science of the West.

Steiner's teaching that the physical, etheric, astral body and the I each repeat on a different time cycle, in the ratio 1:7:(4 x 7):(10 x 7 x 4).

The ecstatic prophetesses whose chaotic, atavistic clairvoyance welled up from elemental earth-forces, until the Christ Impulse stilled and transformed it.

For Steiner, the Egyptian Sphinx is a clairvoyant memory of an early human stage, a being still animal in form with an etheric, human-like head rising out of it.

In Steiner's occult physiology, the rhythm organ that converts the irregular intake of food into the steady rhythm the blood needs.

In Steiner's reading, the inner nerve-network of the body cavity that mediates a person's own organism to the blood, the polar opposite of the brain and spinal cord.

A.D. 333, the exact midpoint of the Greco-Latin epoch, where the Intellectual Soul turned from ascent to descent in Steiner's reckoning of history.

Waldorf is the worldwide school movement begun in 1919 in Stuttgart that educates the threefold child (body, soul, spirit) through a curriculum keyed to developmental stages.

The pedagogy Steiner founded at Stuttgart in 1919 that meets the developing child through seven-year stages and the threefold soul, now practiced in 1,200+ schools worldwide.