Sacrament, Cultus & the Priesthood
The renewed sacramental life: the Act of Consecration of Man, the seven sacraments, the cultus and the work of the priest in The Christian Community. Part of Thalira's Anthroposophical Glossary of 1392 terms, and companion to the in-depth guide Anthroposophy.
A communion received meditatively through knowledge rather than at an altar, carried by the star verse Steiner gave at Dornach on 31 December 1922.
Steiner's name for souls whose religious life stays dim and unformed: Anthroposophy as a path of knowledge cannot reach them, only the ritual can.
The non-denominational Christian religion lesson Rudolf Steiner established in autumn 1919 for Waldorf pupils whose parents belonged to no church, taught two hours weekly.
For Steiner, real alchemy was the last living conversation with the Nature Spirits, a Mystery knowledge of nature that died as the Cosmic Intelligences withdrew.
Steiner's term for the inwardly felt quality of a metal, which vitalizes the soul and induces a specific, lawful condition of consciousness.
Steiner's teaching that each planet's forces fill the whole solar system, let the soul take hold of the body, and live again in the seven healing metals.
A small cycle of verses Rudolf Steiner gave from 1908 onward for expectant mothers, for mothers at the cradle, and for young children morning and evening.
Priestly consciousness is the celebrant's inner honesty in the cultus: the awareness that one speaks not one's own content but as a tool of the spiritual world.
Three alchemical soul-processes Steiner recovered from Jacob Boehme: salt as thinking, sulphur as willing, mercury as the feeling that mediates between them.
Steiner's name for how antimony, through its sulphur affinity and ether-ward striving, works inside the body exactly as the ego-organization does.
The rite Rudolf Steiner wrote in 1920 for Waldorf children, turning the winter darkness outside toward the inner sun of Christ.
Steiner's name for the religious emptying of the modern soul: hearts left barren by intellectualism, because almost nothing is spoken to them out of the spirit.
Steiner's own rendering of John 17, given to Maria Röschl in October 1922 as the Gospel text read at the Waldorf Youth Celebration.
Steiner's name for the chalk-forming, de-animalizing force of the earth, whose arrested counterpart works in us as the polar partner of silica in shaping the head.
Steiner's 1923 verdict on the Roman Mass: a genuine confluence of the ancient mysteries whose meaning died out, leaving a corpse that still holds enormous power.
The Sacrifice Ceremony is the school rite Rudolf Steiner wrote in March 1923 for older Waldorf pupils, whose altar he called the sacrificial table.
Steiner's teaching that the seven metals are the Earth's memories of its planets, lead recalling Saturn, gold the Sun, silver the Moon.
A universe-wide formative activity, come to rest in siliceous earth, that shapes the human head and sense life and supports the ego in the limbs.
A weekly children's ritual Rudolf Steiner gave at Christmas 1919, spoken before an image of Christ for pupils in free religious instruction.
The rite Rudolf Steiner gave for pupils leaving childhood for youth, first held on Palm Sunday 1921 in Waldorf free religious instruction.