In Anthroposphical belief: the inner human being that embodies the forces of feeling; also called the rhythmic man.
In Anthroposophy: the rhythmic-circulatory system,predominantly the heart and lungs.
"Often encountered in Spiritualistic inquiry. [Departed children who] retain the childish mannerisms of their last earth years ... Their knowledge and intelligence however are usually adult...." 80 p. 49
In Anthroposophic belief: a period of three seven-year-long stages of incarnation. Young children are thought to retain memories of the spirit realm. Waldorf schools seek to prolong childhood.
In Anthroposophic belief: these are often necessary enactments of karma and generally should not be prevented.
According to Steiner: The Chinese,with their history of opium use,are a race in which many "substandard souls" incarnate.
"Palmistry. Divination by the lines and forms of the hand." 73 p. 41
In Anthroposophy and Waldorf education: One of the four "temperaments." Associated with yellow bile,it is typified by irritation and anger.
"'[T]he Anointed One' ... He is spiritual light,that supreme state of God Consciousness ... The Messianic or Christ spirit has inhabited many other supreme teachers of mankind outside the realms of Christianity." 80 p. 51[In Anthroposophy,Christ is the Sun God whose essence flowed into the Earth at the Crucifixion. He has been recognized in other religions as the Sun God worshipped in those religions,Steiner said.]
According to Steiner,this is the return of Christ on the etheric plane or in the etheric realm; it has already happened and was the fifth Christ Event.