Anthroposophy
Anthroposophy
Esoteric Labs answers questions in anthroposophy from inside Rudolf Steiner's spiritual science and its own account of the human being and the world: the fourfold being, the threefold organism, the seven-year phases, the temperaments, karma and reincarnation, the planetary stages of evolution. These are spoken of as the tradition speaks of them, as findings of spiritual research, described precisely.
What it draws on
Steiner's written works, which the tradition treats as authoritative: The Philosophy of Freedom, Theosophy, Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, An Outline of Occult Science, the Leading Thoughts, the Calendar of the Soul. The founding lecture courses of each branch: the Study of Man for education, Spiritual Science and Medicine, the Agriculture Course at Koberwitz, the eurythmy courses, the karma lectures. After Steiner: Husemann and Wolff, Stockmeyer, Koepf and Maria Thun, Lehrs and Schwenk, Lievegoed, Emil Bock. Steiner's revised writings and the lecture transcripts are distinguished, as the tradition distinguishes them.
Questions it answers
- What are the four temperaments, and how does a Waldorf teacher work with them?
- How are the biodynamic preparations 500 and 501 made and used?
- What does anthroposophy mean by the etheric body?
- What is taught in the Waldorf fourth grade, and why then?
- How does anthroposophic medicine use mistletoe?
- What are the six subsidiary exercises?
Across the traditions
Anthroposophy carries its own astrology, the planets and zodiac as formative forces and the constellations in the planting calendar, and its own plant medicine. Where a question crosses into astrology, Ayurveda, Chinese medicine, or herbalism, its reading is given alongside theirs.
Reference
- Astral Body: What It Is in Anthroposophy
- Biodynamic Preparation 500 (Horn Manure)
- Etheric Body: What It Is in Anthroposophy
- The Four Temperaments in Anthroposophy
- The Seven-Year Cycles of Child Development
- The Six Subsidiary Exercises
Questions answered
- This Week's Calendar of the Soul Verse
- Does Mistletoe Therapy Work for Cancer?
- Find Your Temperament
- Is Waldorf Education a Cult?
- Why Waldorf Dolls Have No Faces
- Why Waldorf Schools Ban Screens