Anthroposophy
Literally "the wisdom of man". Knowledge and practical techniques based on the body of teaching given out by the spiritual philosopher and Esoteric scientist Rudolph Steiner.
Anthroposophical ideas are vessels fashioned by love, and man's being is spiritually summoned by the spiritual world to partake of their content.
Anthropos, literally translated "humanity," was a term used by the Gnostic teacher Valentinus in his teachings to describe the archetypical or spiritual essence of humanity, which was opposite of the collective meaning of the term humanity.
Steiner's life was devoted to building up a complete science of the spirit, to which he gave the name Anthroposophy.
Anthroposophie
Kenntniß der natürlichen Dinge.
Klugheit in menschlichen Angelegenheiten.
des Bösen.
The closing chapters deal with the Theosophical Society and Anthroposophy.
In the early 1920's, Lilly Kolisko working upon a suggestion made by Rudolf Steiner, the founder of Anthroposophy, devised a method for experimentally investigating the workings of the etheric forces in material substance.
Bousset (1913) points out that the Gnostic myth of the Anthropos depicts the "first man" as thrown headlong into material existence.
Everyone can attain this knowledge; in each one of us lies the faculty of recognizing and contemplating for ourselves what genuine Mysticism, Spiritual Science, Anthroposophy, and Gnosis teach. Only the right means must be chosen.
Anthropomorphism. From the Greek Anthropos, man. The act of endowing God or the gods with a human form and human attributes or qualities.
Since but one-third of the spirit actually enters the physical body, the other two-thirds constituting the Hermetic anthropos or overman, only one of the three figures is actually rising from the tomb.
[40] See M. Kully, Die Wahrheit uber die Theo-Anthroposophie als
eine Kultur- Verfallserscheinung, Basle, 1926, pp. 260 ff.
[41] The Laban Archive, Addleston, Surrey, has a copy of the ...
Steiner, Rudolf (2.2) (1861 - 1925) Christian mystic who left the Theosophical Society to found the Anthroposophical Society. Taught new approaches to education, horticulture, and medicine. Currently in incarnation.
Bible and Anthroposophy: The Incredible Births of Jesus
Why Don't Jews Believe In Jesus?
Rudolf Bultmann: Jesus and the Word
Gospel of Judas 32Flavors and Some Untasted Ones
The History of the Origins of Christianity. Book I. Life of Jesus.
 See also: Spirit, Ritual, Spiritual, World, Esoteric
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