Subject index

A

Ahriman1053

• Who Ahriman is64
• Ahriman in the evolution of the world39
• Ahriman in the soul77
• Ahriman in the body, illness and healing66
• The ahrimanic double6
• Ahriman in history and culture70
• Ahriman, materialism and technology92
• The incarnation of Ahriman7
• Ahriman and Christ62
• Ahriman and Michael29
• The human being between Lucifer and Ahriman199
• Ahriman in sleep and after death39
• Ahriman on the path of knowledge57
• Ahriman in the mystery dramas and the arts101
• Ahriman in myth and religion40
• Ahriman in social life and the present age77
• Ahriman, evil and karma28

Akasha ChronicleAkasha-Chronik339

• What the Akasha Chronicle is16
• The chronicle in the higher worlds and its reflections16
• The Akasha substance in which events are written8
• Deeds, thoughts and feelings inscribed in the record27
• How the chronicle is read54
• Errors in reading and the limits of the research31
• Akasha pictures of persons and their confusion with the dead8
• The chronicle and external documents38
• The prehistory of the earth and the planetary stages23
• The life of Jesus and the Fifth Gospel28
• Earlier readers of the chronicle19
• Historical persons and events in the chronicle10
• Earlier lives and karma17
• The chronicle after death19
• The chronicle compared with memory21
• The astral light and the record4

ApocalypseApokalypse307

• What the Apocalypse is22
• The writer of the Apocalypse20
• A book of initiation25
• Reading the Apocalypse24
• The Son of Man and the Lamb15
• The seven letters to the churches27
• The twenty-four elders and the four living creatures22
• The seven seals22
• The seven trumpets and the seven vials of wrath16
• The woman clothed with the sun and the dragon9
• The beasts and the number 66628
• The first and the second death9
• The New Jerusalem14
• The ages of evolution in the Apocalypse23
• The Apocalypse and the present age13
• The seal pictures of 190718

astral bodyAstralleib718

• What the astral body is49
• Soul body, sentient body and sentient soul37
• Sensation, desire and consciousness27
• Animals, plants and the earth29
• Appearance and aura14
• Sleep and dreams138
• Death and after29
• Puberty and the seven-year periods25
• Origin in the Old Moon evolution26
• The Luciferic influence18
• Transformation by the I74
• The path of knowledge42
• The astral body in the physical organism64
• Illness and healing60
• Thinking, feeling, willing and memory33
• The stars, the planets and the hierarchies30
• Music, speech and the arts23

Asuras44

• Who the Asuras are6
• The name for the spirits of personality on Saturn15
• The third power after Lucifer and Ahriman7
• The Asuras, the consciousness soul and the I1
• Sensuality, the great cities and cultural death4
• Asuric beings in human thought forms1
• The Asuras, matter and the eighth sphere1
• The evil higher Devachan1
• Devas and Asuras in India and Persia8

B

between death and rebirthzwischen Tod und neuer Geburt615

• What the life between death and a new birth is23
• Death42
• The life tableau29
• Kamaloka, the soul world46
• Devachan, the spirit land23
• The planetary spheres36
• The midnight hour of existence13
• The return to a new birth41
• Karma and meeting other souls49
• The hierarchies and the moral life36
• Consciousness after death59
• The living and the dead50
• Early death, accident and war30
• Christ and the changes through history35
• Sleep and death55
• How the life after death is known48

Bhagavad Gita92

• What the Bhagavad Gita is3
• The setting: the battle between blood relatives12
• The Vedas, the Sankhya philosophy and Yoga3
• Sattva, rajas and tamas5
• Action without attachment to its fruits7
• The ascent of the soul through Yoga13
• The Gita and the Epistles of Paul4
• The mood and artistic form of the poem10
• The Gita in Europe and in modern thought12
• Passages of the Gita explained by the hierarchies7
• The Gita and inner development today16

Buddha234

• Who the Buddha is9
• From Bodhisattva to Buddha29
• The life of Gautama Buddha19
• The teaching of the Buddha26
• The Buddha in legend8
• The Buddha and the mysteries7
• The Buddha among the great teachers11
• The Buddha and Christ49
• The Buddha and the Nathan Jesus child24
• The Nirmanakaya of the Buddha4
• The Buddha's work after his last incarnation13
• The Buddha's successor17
• Buddhism and the West18

C

ChristChristus1845

• What the Christ being is91
• Christ and Jesus of Nazareth167
• The Mystery of Golgotha163
• Christ before Golgotha133
• The Gospels, the Apocalypse and Paul120
• Christ and the human I183
• Christ as the spirit of the earth43
• The Christ impulse in history194
• The appearance of Christ in the etheric70
• The Trinity and the hierarchies144
• Christ between Lucifer and Ahriman71
• Christ in sleep and after death60
• How Christ can be known158
• Christ, karma and healing25
• Christ in the future26
• The festivals and the course of the year65
• Christianity, the churches and theology73
• Christ in art59

conscienceGewissen148

• What conscience is20
• The birth of conscience15
• Conscience and the Christ impulse6
• What conscience will become6
• Wonder, compassion and conscience8
• Conscience and the etheric body10
• Conscience as the fruit of earlier lives10
• Conscience between death and rebirth11
• Conscience and sleep13
• Memory and conscience2
• Conscience and the heart6
• Conscience and the spiritual hierarchies5
• Philosophers' accounts of conscience11
• Conscience, freedom and moral intuition8
• Conscience in education7
• Conscience on the path of knowledge10

consciousness soulBewußtseinsseele593

• What the consciousness soul is24
• The consciousness soul and the physical body30
• The consciousness soul and spirit-self46
• The origin of the consciousness soul24
• The age of the consciousness soul153
• Michael and the consciousness soul9
• The consciousness soul in social life19
• The consciousness soul and the peoples81
• The consciousness soul in the course of life and in education16
• The development of the consciousness soul26
• Hindrances to the consciousness soul19
• Christ and the consciousness soul22
• The consciousness soul and other beings24
• The consciousness soul in the body and in sleep13
• The consciousness soul after death and before birth8
• The three members of the soul together79

D

the doubleDoppelgänger97

• What the double is9
• The double and the guardian of the threshold12
• Meeting one's own double16
• Samael and the luciferic beings5
• The remnant of an earlier astral body3
• Seeing one's double3
• The double of Johannes Thomasius15
• Ahriman, Lucifer and the double3
• The ahrimanic double from before birth until shortly before death3
• Intelligence and will without warmth of heart6
• Illness and remedies3
• The forces of the earth, electricity and magnetism6
• America, Russia and the regions of the earth7
• Knowledge of the double in the modern age4
• A Mephistophelian second being at one's side2

E

eighth sphereachte Sphäre66

• What the eighth sphere is7
• Sinnett, Blavatsky and the theosophical teaching5
• The eighth sphere and the Moon12
• Lucifer, Ahriman and the eighth sphere3
• Free will, visions and mediums1
• What falls out of evolution19
• Spiders, mistletoe and parasitic beings2
• Avitchi, black magicians and the doctrine of hell4
• The Asuras and the eighth sphere1
• The planes of the world and the first Logos2
• The eighth stage and the spirits of form4
• Ahriman, materialism and the will2
• A separate planet of Lucifer and Ahriman4

elemental beingsElementarwesen367

• What elemental beings are11
• Gnomes, undines, sylphs and salamanders24
• Where elemental beings come from14
• Their bodies, members and consciousness6
• Elemental beings at work in nature35
• Elemental beings in the course of the year25
• Beings born of human thoughts, feelings and deeds22
• Enchantment and release by the human being6
• Elemental beings in the human being, in sleep and in illness43
• In the service of Lucifer and Ahriman41
• How elemental beings are perceived64
• In myth, fairy tale, legend and poetry32
• In the Mystery Dramas and in eurythmy18
• The three elemental kingdoms7
• Their past and future in the evolution of the world19

etheric bodyÄtherleib455

• What the etheric body is31
• Names and equivalents10
• Form, currents and organs16
• Relation to the physical body76
• Relation to the astral body and the I71
• Cosmic origin and evolution24
• Stars and planets14
• Birth, childhood and education18
• Health, illness, nutrition and healing31
• Death and after24
• Perception, initiation and transformation53
• The etheric body and Christ29
• Art, music and speech28
• The elemental world and the aura15
• Peoples and epochs15

eurythmyEurythmie1222

• What eurythmy is22
• The origin and growth of eurythmy24
• The larynx and Goethe's metamorphosis187
• Speech eurythmy74
• Tone eurythmy23
• Forms, figures, costume and lighting66
• Exercises and the training of eurythmists48
• Eurythmy and the members of the human being34
• Eurythmy and the spiritual world26
• Eurythmy, recitation and speech formation148
• Eurythmy among the arts110
• Eurythmy in drama55
• Eurythmy, gymnastics and sport66
• Eurythmy in education81
• Curative eurythmy53
• Addresses before performances205

evildas Böse531

• What evil is38
• The question of evil as a riddle24
• The origin of evil40
• Evil and freedom42
• The luciferic source of evil40
• The ahrimanic source of evil39
• The Asuras, Sorat and the beast of the Apocalypse17
• Evil in the human being24
• Evil after death and the eighth sphere18
• Christ and the overcoming of evil18
• Manichaeism8
• Evil in the present age18
• Evil in the future30
• Faust, the mystery dramas and the arts30
• Good and evil77
• The encounter with evil on the path of knowledge29
• Evil, karma and compensation23
• Evil, suffering, illness and death16

F

feelingFühlen1058

• What feeling is35
• Thinking, feeling and willing together275
• Feeling as dreaming consciousness56
• Sympathy and antipathy21
• The bodily basis of feeling63
• Feeling and the members of the human being48
• Feeling and knowledge58
• Feeling in art53
• Moral and religious feeling65
• Feeling in spiritual training129
• Feeling in childhood and education64
• Feeling, Lucifer and Ahriman28
• Feeling, Christ and the hierarchies52
• Feeling before birth and after death71
• Feeling in the evolution of humanity40

freedomFreiheit1015

• What freedom is49
• Freedom, necessity and the question of free will103
• Freedom in thinking80
• Moral intuition, moral imagination and moral technique28
• Ethical individualism and the free spirit36
• Freedom and love27
• The bodily ground of freedom33
• Freedom in the evolution of humanity118
• The gods and the origin of freedom31
• Freedom, Lucifer, Ahriman and evil63
• Freedom and Christ54
• Freedom, karma and destiny37
• Freedom, death and immortality19
• Freedom on the path of spiritual knowledge48
• Education toward freedom37
• Freedom in the social order81
• Freedom in the history of philosophy59
• Steiner on The Philosophy of Freedom112

G

Gospel of JohnJohannes-Evangelium500

• What the Gospel of John is14
• The writer of the Gospel52
• The prologue and the Word93
• John and the other three Gospels48
• A document of initiation49
• The raising of Lazarus25
• John the Baptist and the baptism16
• The signs and the conversations46
• The I AM25
• The mother of Jesus35
• The passion and the resurrection19
• The Gospel and the evolution of the world24
• Johannine Christianity10
• Reading and translating the Gospel44

guardian of the thresholdHüter der Schwelle200

• Who the guardian of the threshold is19
• The lesser guardian16
• The greater guardian8
• Meeting the guardian on the path of knowledge29
• Thinking, feeling and willing at the threshold21
• Lucifer, Ahriman and the guardian10
• The guardian and the double6
• The guardian at the boundaries of ordinary consciousness6
• The guardian in sleep, dream and death14
• Humanity at the threshold13
• The guardian in the ancient mysteries9
• The guardian in the mystery dramas20
• The guardian in the lessons of the First Class27
• The name2

I

the Idas Ich1747

• What the I is46
• The I and the three bodies148
• The I in the soul and the spirit members73
• I-consciousness and self-consciousness126
• Perceiving the I of another human being17
• The I in childhood and the course of life64
• The I in sleep and dreams104
• The I after death70
• The I in repeated earth lives and karma65
• The origin of the I in evolution97
• The I in the history of humanity176
• The group I of animals, plants and minerals37
• Christ and the I158
• Lucifer, Ahriman and the I41
• The I, egoism and love44
• The higher I and the true I67
• The I in spiritual training106
• The I in thinking, feeling, willing and freedom55
• The I in philosophy62
• The I in the body and the I-organization191

illness and healthKrankheit und Gesundheit1133

• What illness is77
• Health51
• Illness and the members of the human being117
• Illness in the threefold organism35
• Illness and the life of the soul70
• Illness and karma71
• Spiritual beings in illness and healing69
• Illness in evolution and history46
• Infectious illness and epidemics48
• Mental illness129
• Illness in childhood104
• Particular illnesses134
• Illness, pain and death34
• Healing122
• The healings of the Gospels26

initiationEinweihung1282

• What initiation is34
• Preparation, enlightenment and initiation19
• Imagination, Inspiration and Intuition61
• What is asked of the pupil55
• The bodies and their new organs40
• The separation of thinking, feeling and willing11
• The meeting with the guardian of the threshold19
• Dangers and wrong paths56
• Initiation, sleep and death92
• Pre-Christian initiation239
• Christian initiation104
• Initiation and the Mystery of Golgotha130
• Initiation in the Middle Ages29
• Rosicrucian initiation39
• Eastern and Western paths25
• Initiation in the present age70
• Initiation science29
• The initiates149
• Initiation in myth and poetry73
• Initiation in the Mystery Dramas8

intellectual soulVerstandesseele421

• What the intellectual soul is23
• Intellectual soul and mind soul10
• The intellectual soul and the etheric body32
• The origin of the intellectual soul22
• The age of the intellectual soul77
• The intellectual soul and the peoples59
• The intellectual soul in the course of life and in education18
• The development of the intellectual soul21
• Hindrances to the intellectual soul14
• Christ and the intellectual soul27
• The intellectual soul and other beings23
• The intellectual soul in the body and in sleep14
• The intellectual soul after death and before birth2
• The three members of the soul together79

K

karmaKarma828

• What karma is55
• Karma and repeated earth lives86
• How karma is formed110
• Karma and freedom65
• Karma in health, illness and healing65
• Karma in the course of a life60
• Karma in human relationships50
• The karma of groups55
• The hierarchies and karma36
• Christ and karma29
• Lucifer, Ahriman and karma18
• Karma through history35
• The karma of the anthroposophical movement31
• How karma is known55
• Karma in nature and the cosmos45
• The idea of karma in the history of thought33

Krishna66

• Who Krishna is5
• Krishna and his pupil Arjuna15
• Krishna as the higher self of the human being7
• The Krishna impulse and self-consciousness10
• Krishna at the close of the ancient revelation5
• Vishnu living in Krishna as an avatar2
• Krishna, the sister soul of Adam and the Nathan Jesus child4
• The Krishna impulse and the Christ impulse7
• Krishna among the great teachers of humanity4
• The legend of Krishna's life1
• The vision of Krishna in imaginations6

L

life-spiritLebensgeist323

• What life-spirit is20
• The work of the I on the etheric body39
• Buddhi and other names13
• The germ of life-spirit on the Old Sun8
• Life-spirit in the future and on Venus24
• Life-spirit in the Archangels and other beings25
• Christ and life-spirit61
• Life-spirit after death and before birth12
• Life-spirit on the path of knowledge21
• Life-spirit in the body, in sleep and in childhood12
• Life-spirit in human history7
• Spirit-self, life-spirit and spirit-man together81

LuciferLuzifer1155

• Who Lucifer is85
• Lucifer in the evolution of the world60
• The Fall90
• Lucifer in the soul87
• Lucifer in the body, illness and healing75
• Lucifer in history and culture85
• Lucifer and Christ120
• The human being between Lucifer and Ahriman201
• Lucifer in sleep and after death35
• Lucifer on the path of knowledge70
• Lucifer in the mystery dramas and the arts94
• Lucifer in myth and religion54
• Lucifer in the present and the future58
• Lucifer, evil and karma41

M

Mammon72

• Who Mammon is10
• The god of hindrances6
• Michael's battle with Mammon5
• Oriphiel and the dark age to come5
• Bacteria and infectious illness4
• The lower astral world2
• Beelzebub, the Satans and the Asuras3
• Mammon and Ahriman3
• Consciousness, the senses and the soul6
• God and Mammon in the Gospel3
• Money, capital and mammonism6
• Spirits of hindrance under other names19

memoryGedächtnis372

• What memory is20
• How a memory forms and returns29
• The bodily basis of memory32
• The memory mirror16
• Forgetting and sleep13
• Memory and self-consciousness41
• Memory and love13
• Memory, habit, temperament and conscience10
• Memory as the image of a cosmic force11
• Memory in the evolution of humanity16
• Memory of former lives22
• Memory after death25
• Remembering the dead2
• Memory in meditation and higher knowledge85
• Cosmic memory15
• Memory in childhood and education22

Michael242

• Who Michael is26
• The Michael age since 187938
• Michael and the cosmic intelligence16
• Michael and Ahriman14
• Michael, the dragon and the spirits of darkness25
• Michael and Christ25
• Michael's earlier missions15
• The Michael school and the supersensible cult12
• Anthroposophy and the Michael stream14
• Michael and the freedom of thinking16
• Michaelmas and the course of the year23
• Michael and the folk spirits2
• Michael in the esoteric lessons before 19147
• Michael in the lessons of the First Class9

the mysteriesMysterien871

• What the mysteries are46
• The Atlantean oracles18
• Initiation in the ancient mysteries160
• The inward and the outward way19
• The Egyptian mysteries34
• The Greek mysteries40
• The mysteries and Greek philosophy43
• The mysteries of Asia38
• The mysteries of Hibernia and the North45
• The mysteries and the festivals of the year31
• The mysteries and myth34
• Religion, art and science from the mysteries60
• The mysteries and Christianity174
• The Grail, the Rosicrucians and the medieval mysteries28
• The decline and end of the old mysteries45
• The new mysteries48
• The mysteries in the Mystery Dramas8

P

physical bodyphysischer Leib1754

• What the physical body is97
• The physical body and the kingdoms of nature94
• The phantom, the form of the physical body11
• Origin on Old Saturn and the planetary stages102
• Through the ages of the earth105
• The human form, the zodiac and the hierarchies54
• The etheric body, astral body and I in the physical body164
• Head, rhythmic system and limbs43
• Instrument of consciousness and thinking197
• Sleep and waking109
• Death, the corpse and what remains68
• Heredity and the building of a new body151
• Birth, childhood and education109
• Health, illness, nutrition and healing122
• The physical body and Christ73
• Lucifer, Ahriman and the physical body40
• Hope, truth and moral forces28
• The path of knowledge and spirit-man187

R

reincarnationReinkarnation613

• What reincarnation is14
• How the idea of reincarnation is reached by thinking32
• What passes from one earth life to the next70
• The descent to a new birth62
• Reincarnation and karma86
• The intervals, the sexes and the peoples in successive lives36
• The beginning and the end of reincarnation in evolution14
• The idea of reincarnation through history54
• Reincarnation and Christianity34
• Knowing one's earlier lives73
• Earlier lives of historical persons69
• Lucifer, Ahriman and reincarnation9
• Reincarnation in education, illness and the social life51
• Reincarnation and the transmigration of souls9

S

sentient soulEmpfindungsseele399

• What the sentient soul is30
• The sentient soul and the astral body62
• The origin of the sentient soul20
• The age of the sentient soul45
• The sentient soul and the peoples54
• The sentient soul in the course of life and in education19
• The development of the sentient soul23
• Hindrances to the sentient soul12
• Christ and the sentient soul12
• The sentient soul and other beings23
• The sentient soul in the body and in sleep18
• The sentient soul after death and before birth2
• The three members of the soul together79

sleepSchlaf1121

• What sleep is68
• The members of the human being in sleep144
• Sleep and death66
• Falling asleep and waking up82
• Sleep and dreams58
• Waking, dreaming and sleeping consciousness115
• Sleep and the spiritual beings62
• Sleep and the cosmos43
• Sleep and the dead20
• Sleep, moral life and karma64
• Sleep, health and illness66
• Sleep in childhood and education20
• Sleep and the path of knowledge145
• Sleep in the evolution of the world and of consciousness74
• Sleep in nature and the course of the year40
• Lucifer, Ahriman and sleep21
• Christ and sleep17
• Sleepwalking, trance and hypnosis16

Sorat66

• Who Sorat is7
• The name Sorat and the number 66617
• The sign of Sorat7
• The two-horned beast of the Apocalypse8
• Sorat and black magic5
• The separation of Sorat's followers5
• How Sorat works on human beings3
• The year 666 and the Academy of Gondishapur8
• Sorat in 1332 and at the end of the twentieth century1
• Sorat and the Christ5

spirit-manGeistesmensch246

• What spirit-man is16
• The work of the I on the physical body24
• Atma and other names20
• The germ of spirit-man on Old Saturn8
• Spirit-man in the far future and on Vulcan9
• Spirit-man in the Archai and other beings31
• Spirit-man, Christ and the Father26
• Spirit-man after death and before birth7
• Spirit-man on the path of knowledge13
• Spirit-man in the body, in sleep and in childhood11
• Spirit-self, life-spirit and spirit-man together81

spirit-selfGeistselbst462

• What spirit-self is23
• The work of the I on the astral body47
• Spirit-self and the consciousness soul41
• Manas and other names25
• The germ of spirit-self on the Old Moon10
• Spirit-self in the sixth epoch and on Jupiter45
• Spirit-self in the Angels and other beings41
• Spirit-self, Christ and the Holy Spirit36
• Spirit-self after death and before birth15
• Spirit-self on the path of knowledge18
• Spirit-self in the body, in sleep and in childhood22
• Spirit-self in human history58
• Spirit-self, life-spirit and spirit-man together81

spiritual hierarchiesgeistige Hierarchien593

• What the spiritual hierarchies are21
• The names of the ranks12
• The third hierarchy: Angels, Archangels, Archai96
• The second hierarchy: Exusiai, Dynamis, Kyriotetes46
• The first hierarchy: Seraphim, Cherubim, Thrones18
• The hierarchies in cosmic evolution40
• Planets, zodiac, space and time29
• Nature, the elements and the year16
• The hierarchies and the human being55
• Sleep and the life after death74
• The hierarchies and karma15
• The guidance of humanity and history66
• Christ, the Trinity and the hierarchies17
• Retarded and opposing beings31
• How the hierarchies are known41
• The human being as the fourth hierarchy8
• The hierarchies in the arts8

T

thinkingDenken2008

• What thinking is37
• Thinking, perception and knowledge98
• Pure or sense-free thinking90
• Thinking and freedom83
• Thinking and the I45
• Thinking, feeling and willing together301
• The bodily basis of thinking192
• Thinking and the etheric body89
• From dead to living thinking141
• Thinking in spiritual training256
• Human and cosmic thoughts80
• Thinking in the evolution of humanity149
• Thinking, Lucifer and Ahriman57
• Thinking, Christ, Michael and the hierarchies69
• Thinking before birth and after death89
• Thinking in childhood and education52
• Thinking in science and philosophy180

W

willingWollen1284

• What willing is35
• Thinking, feeling and willing together278
• Willing as sleeping consciousness102
• The bodily basis of willing106
• Willing and the members of the human being59
• The stages of the will7
• Willing and freedom51
• Willing in spiritual training193
• Willing, Christ and the hierarchies82
• Willing, Lucifer and Ahriman35
• Willing before birth and after death124
• Willing in childhood and education74
• Willing in social life29
• Willing in the evolution of humanity43
• Willing in philosophy and psychology66