According to Anthroposophical belief: gods one level above humanity. Essentially equivalent to Angels,they stand in the lowest rank of the Third Hierarchy. Other names for gods of this rank include Sons of Life and Lunar Pitris.
"One of the ancient world's most important occult practices ... [S]oothsayers predicted future events...." 80 p. 276["Sooth" means truth. Soothsayers are clairvoyants or fortune tellers who claim to foresee the future.]
In Anthroposophy: the divine female principle,often bearing occult wisdom.
"For the Gnostics she was the Divine Mother and the bearer of divine wisdom." 80 p. 276
In Anthroposophy: the Antichrist,the Sun Demon.
In some esoteric teachings,the spirit of the Sun; otherwise,Sorat.
The use of magic,especially black magic. In Anthroposophy,magic and sorcery are considered real.
"In the usual sense it means the indestructible spiritual part of a personality ... It possesses a finer body,the etheric (astral,double)...." 73 p. 196 [Steiner differentiated between the soul and the spirit. The soul is the spiritual identity that one possesses during an incarnation; the spirit is the undying spiritual self passing through all incarnations,he said.]
"That part of the human aura which radiates the intensity of spiritual power attained by the individual." 73 p. 196
The astral body. According to Steiner: the second of three invisible bodies possessed by fully incarnated human. It consists of soul forces/living forces that fine-tune the physical body (which has been shaped by the etheric body). Among human beings,the astral body contains the senses (twelve in all) and it incarnates at about age 14.
