According to Steiner,to "fall" is to become overly hardened,to descend too far into physical existence. The Bible tells of man's fall when Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden. Steiner says the fall occurred when,during the Lemurian Epoch,mankind came under the influence of the rebellious Luciferic spirits. See "Luciferic rebellion".
According to Steiner,in 1879 minions of Ahriman lost a long-running conflict in the spiritual realm with guardian archangels,particularly Michael. They were then cast down into the physical universe.
Spiritual beings,gods,who descend to lower evolutionary levels — according to Steiner.
"A term much used in medieval witchcraft to denote a spirit attendant on a witch." 73 p. 82[Familiars are evil spirits,and — according to some sources — they may attend other beings than witches. Mephistopheles (q.v.) is usually identified as a familiar of the Devil.]
The ordinary world or level of reality,accessible to our ordinary senses.
In Anthroposophy: the group soul shared by the members of a family.
"Many of the illustrious [i.e.,famous people] are alleged to have returned after death but it is very difficult to prove these claims,the more so when we hear of the possibility of impersonation by spirits who possess histrionic powers [i.e.,they are good actors]...." 80 pp. 98-99
In Anthroposophical discourse,generally: a) imagination,b) consciousness midway between daydreaming and nighttime travel to the spirit realm.
In Anthroposophy: one of six constitutional types. These children are excessively "realistic
In Anthroposophy: one of six constitutional types. These children have a natural bent toward fantasy,which may lead to heightened clairvoyance if it does not mire them in make-believe.