Subject index

A

Ahriman1047

• Who Ahriman is64
• Ahriman in the evolution of the world37
• Ahriman in the soul78
• Ahriman in the body, illness and healing67
• The ahrimanic double4
• Ahriman in history and culture69
• Ahriman, materialism and technology88
• The incarnation of Ahriman7
• Ahriman and Christ66
• Ahriman and Michael29
• The human being between Lucifer and Ahriman198
• Ahriman in sleep and after death38
• Ahriman on the path of knowledge58
• Ahriman in the mystery dramas and the arts99
• Ahriman in myth and religion39
• Ahriman in social life and the present age78
• Ahriman, evil and karma28

Akasha ChronicleAkasha-Chronik341

• What the Akasha Chronicle is18
• 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 stages22
• The life of Jesus and the Fifth Gospel29
• 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

astral bodyAstralleib658

• What the astral body is49
• Soul body, sentient body and sentient soul34
• Sensation, desire and consciousness28
• Animals, plants and the earth27
• Appearance and aura13
• Sleep and dreams130
• Death and after14
• Puberty and the seven-year periods22
• Origin in the Old Moon evolution24
• The Luciferic influence16
• Transformation by the I118
• The path of knowledge28
• The astral body in the physical organism64
• Illness and healing33
• Thinking, feeling, willing and memory19
• The stars, the planets and the hierarchies23
• Music, speech and the arts16

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 Geburt508

• What the life between death and a new birth is24
• Death45
• The life tableau29
• Kamaloka, the soul world37
• Devachan, the spirit land24
• The planetary spheres27
• The midnight hour of existence13
• The return to a new birth40
• Karma and meeting other souls37
• The hierarchies and the moral life28
• Consciousness after death41
• The living and the dead31
• Early death, accident and war13
• Christ and the changes through history36
• Sleep and death53
• How the life after death is known30

Bhagavad Gita94

• What the Bhagavad Gita is3
• The setting: the battle between blood relatives13
• The Vedas, the Sankhya philosophy and Yoga3
• Sattva, rajas and tamas5
• Action without attachment to its fruits7
• The ascent of the soul through Yoga12
• The Gita and the Epistles of Paul4
• The mood and artistic form of the poem12
• The Gita in Europe and in modern thought12
• Passages of the Gita explained by the hierarchies7
• The Gita and inner development today16

Buddha229

• Who the Buddha is9
• From Bodhisattva to Buddha28
• The life of Gautama Buddha18
• The teaching of the Buddha28
• The Buddha in legend8
• The Buddha and the mysteries8
• The Buddha among the great teachers11
• The Buddha and Christ46
• The Buddha and the Nathan Jesus child23
• The Nirmanakaya of the Buddha4
• The Buddha's work after his last incarnation13
• The Buddha's successor16
• Buddhism and the West17

C

ChristChristus1752

• What the Christ being is91
• Christ and Jesus of Nazareth156
• The Mystery of Golgotha142
• Christ before Golgotha123
• The Gospels, the Apocalypse and Paul103
• Christ and the human I189
• Christ as the spirit of the earth41
• The Christ impulse in history187
• The appearance of Christ in the etheric60
• The Trinity and the hierarchies153
• Christ between Lucifer and Ahriman67
• Christ in sleep and after death60
• How Christ can be known151
• Christ, karma and healing17
• Christ in the future23
• The festivals and the course of the year60
• Christianity, the churches and theology71
• Christ in art58

conscienceGewissen149

• What conscience is20
• The birth of conscience15
• Conscience and the Christ impulse7
• 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

E

etheric bodyÄtherleib395

• What the etheric body is32
• Names and equivalents11
• Form, currents and organs14
• Relation to the physical body79
• Relation to the astral body and the I74
• Cosmic origin and evolution22
• Stars and planets11
• Birth, childhood and education11
• Health, illness, nutrition and healing13
• Death and after23
• Perception, initiation and transformation24
• The etheric body and Christ34
• Art, music and speech28
• The elemental world and the aura10
• Peoples and epochs9

eurythmyEurythmie1226

• What eurythmy is22
• The origin and growth of eurythmy24
• The larynx and Goethe's metamorphosis187
• Speech eurythmy77
• Tone eurythmy19
• Forms, figures, costume and lighting67
• Exercises and the training of eurythmists55
• Eurythmy and the members of the human being33
• Eurythmy and the spiritual world25
• Eurythmy, recitation and speech formation148
• Eurythmy among the arts109
• Eurythmy in drama55
• Eurythmy, gymnastics and sport66
• Eurythmy in education82
• Curative eurythmy52
• Addresses before performances205

evildas Böse529

• What evil is36
• The question of evil as a riddle23
• The origin of evil43
• Evil and freedom40
• The luciferic source of evil39
• The ahrimanic source of evil38
• The Asuras, Sorat and the beast of the Apocalypse16
• Evil in the human being24
• Evil after death and the eighth sphere16
• Christ and the overcoming of evil18
• Manichaeism8
• Evil in the present age18
• Evil in the future30
• Faust, the mystery dramas and the arts32
• Good and evil78
• The encounter with evil on the path of knowledge30
• Evil, karma and compensation23
• Evil, suffering, illness and death17

F

freedomFreiheit973

• What freedom is49
• Freedom, necessity and the question of free will96
• Freedom in thinking71
• Moral intuition, moral imagination and moral technique28
• Ethical individualism and the free spirit33
• Freedom and love27
• The bodily ground of freedom32
• Freedom in the evolution of humanity116
• The gods and the origin of freedom31
• Freedom, Lucifer, Ahriman and evil61
• Freedom and Christ52
• Freedom, karma and destiny37
• Freedom, death and immortality18
• Freedom on the path of spiritual knowledge47
• Education toward freedom33
• Freedom in the social order78
• Freedom in the history of philosophy55
• Steiner on The Philosophy of Freedom109

G

guardian of the thresholdHüter der Schwelle194

• Who the guardian of the threshold is19
• The lesser guardian15
• The greater guardian7
• Meeting the guardian on the path of knowledge29
• Thinking, feeling and willing at the threshold20
• Lucifer, Ahriman and the guardian10
• The guardian and the double5
• The guardian at the boundaries of ordinary consciousness6
• The guardian in sleep, dream and death13
• Humanity at the threshold12
• 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 Ich1698

• What the I is46
• The I and the three bodies149
• The I in the soul and the spirit members62
• I-consciousness and self-consciousness127
• Perceiving the I of another human being16
• The I in childhood and the course of life61
• The I in sleep and dreams102
• The I after death65
• The I in repeated earth lives and karma61
• The origin of the I in evolution103
• The I in the history of humanity163
• The group I of animals, plants and minerals40
• Christ and the I158
• Lucifer, Ahriman and the I39
• The I, egoism and love43
• The higher I and the true I64
• The I in spiritual training98
• The I in thinking, feeling, willing and freedom49
• The I in philosophy58
• The I in the body and the I-organization194

K

karmaKarma798

• What karma is56
• Karma and repeated earth lives89
• How karma is formed109
• Karma and freedom64
• Karma in health, illness and healing54
• Karma in the course of a life57
• Karma in human relationships50
• The karma of groups55
• The hierarchies and karma33
• Christ and karma25
• Lucifer, Ahriman and karma16
• Karma through history32
• The karma of the anthroposophical movement30
• How karma is known50
• Karma in nature and the cosmos45
• The idea of karma in the history of thought33

Krishna65

• Who Krishna is5
• Krishna and his pupil Arjuna14
• 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

LuciferLuzifer1158

• Who Lucifer is85
• Lucifer in the evolution of the world71
• The Fall91
• Lucifer in the soul94
• Lucifer in the body, illness and healing77
• Lucifer in history and culture83
• Lucifer and Christ121
• The human being between Lucifer and Ahriman198
• Lucifer in sleep and after death34
• Lucifer on the path of knowledge65
• Lucifer in the mystery dramas and the arts91
• Lucifer in myth and religion53
• Lucifer in the present and the future55
• Lucifer, evil and karma40

M

memoryGedächtnis373

• What memory is21
• How a memory forms and returns38
• The bodily basis of memory36
• The memory mirror16
• Forgetting and sleep18
• Memory and self-consciousness45
• Memory and love13
• Memory, habit, temperament and conscience10
• Memory as the image of a cosmic force11
• Memory in the evolution of humanity15
• Memory of former lives19
• Memory after death30
• Memory in meditation and higher knowledge61
• Cosmic memory15
• Memory in childhood and education25

Michael240

• Who Michael is26
• The Michael age since 187937
• Michael and the cosmic intelligence17
• Michael and Ahriman15
• Michael, the dragon and the spirits of darkness25
• Michael and Christ24
• Michael's earlier missions14
• The Michael school and the supersensible cult12
• Anthroposophy and the Michael stream14
• Michael and the freedom of thinking15
• 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 mysteriesMysterien858

• What the mysteries are46
• The Atlantean oracles20
• Initiation in the ancient mysteries146
• The inward and the outward way19
• The Egyptian mysteries34
• The Greek mysteries41
• The mysteries and Greek philosophy42
• The mysteries of Asia39
• The mysteries of Hibernia and the North44
• The mysteries and the festivals of the year32
• The mysteries and myth34
• Religion, art and science from the mysteries60
• The mysteries and Christianity175
• The Grail, the Rosicrucians and the medieval mysteries25
• The decline and end of the old mysteries45
• The new mysteries48
• The mysteries in the Mystery Dramas8

P

physical bodyphysischer Leib1643

• What the physical body is97
• The physical body and the kingdoms of nature96
• The phantom, the form of the physical body9
• Origin on Old Saturn and the planetary stages102
• Through the ages of the earth106
• The human form, the zodiac and the hierarchies52
• The etheric body, astral body and I in the physical body156
• Head, rhythmic system and limbs40
• Instrument of consciousness and thinking158
• Sleep and waking105
• Death, the corpse and what remains66
• Heredity and the building of a new body142
• Birth, childhood and education103
• Health, illness, nutrition and healing113
• The physical body and Christ65
• Lucifer, Ahriman and the physical body36
• Hope, truth and moral forces28
• The path of knowledge and Spirit-Man169

R

reincarnationReinkarnation576

• What reincarnation is14
• How the idea of reincarnation is reached by thinking32
• What passes from one earth life to the next67
• The descent to a new birth55
• Reincarnation and karma86
• The intervals, the sexes and the peoples in successive lives34
• The beginning and the end of reincarnation in evolution13
• The idea of reincarnation through history52
• Reincarnation and Christianity28
• Knowing one's earlier lives67
• Earlier lives of historical persons66
• Lucifer, Ahriman and reincarnation9
• Reincarnation in education, illness and the social life43
• Reincarnation and the transmigration of souls10

S

sleepSchlaf1080

• What sleep is68
• The members of the human being in sleep150
• Sleep and death64
• Falling asleep and waking up83
• Sleep and dreams58
• Waking, dreaming and sleeping consciousness87
• Sleep and the spiritual beings60
• Sleep and the cosmos45
• Sleep and the dead17
• Sleep, moral life and karma63
• Sleep, health and illness63
• Sleep in childhood and education19
• Sleep and the path of knowledge140
• Sleep in the evolution of the world and of consciousness74
• Sleep in nature and the course of the year37
• Lucifer, Ahriman and sleep19
• 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

spiritual hierarchiesgeistige Hierarchien583

• What the spiritual hierarchies are38
• The names of the ranks13
• The third hierarchy: Angels, Archangels, Archai97
• The second hierarchy: Exusiai, Dynamis, Kyriotetes47
• The first hierarchy: Seraphim, Cherubim, Thrones21
• The hierarchies in cosmic evolution37
• Planets, zodiac, space and time27
• Nature, the elements and the year19
• The hierarchies and the human being52
• Sleep and the life after death68
• The hierarchies and karma12
• The guidance of humanity and history62
• Christ, the Trinity and the hierarchies14
• Retarded and opposing beings21
• How the hierarchies are known37
• The human being as the fourth hierarchy11
• The hierarchies in the arts7