Anthroposophy took over from Theosophy a complex system of cycles of world development and human evolution.

Despite this, recent Theosophists and Anthroposophists have tried to incorporate the facts of geology and paleontology into their cosmology and spiritual evolution ( in Anthroposophy Hermann Poppelbaum is a particularly creative thinker in this regard ).

In Theosophy, Anthroposophy and Rosicrucianism, involution and evolution are part of a complex sequence of cosmic cycles, called Round.

Rudolf Steiner, the founder of Anthroposophy, often referred to the etheric body ( Ätherleib or " Life Body ") in association with the etheric formative forces and the evolution of man and the cosmos.

Anthroposophy speaks of the reincarnation of the human spirit: that the human being passes between stages of existence, incarnating into an earthly body, living on earth, leaving the body behind and entering into the spiritual worlds before returning to be born again into a new life on earth.

Anthroposophy continues to aim at reforming society through maintaining and strengthening the independence of the spheres of cultural life, human rights and the economy.

# The persons gathered in Dornach as the nucleus of the Society recognise and endorse the view of the leadership at the Goetheanum ( represented by the Vorstand Council formed at the Foundation Meeting ): ' Anthroposophy, as fostered at the Goetheanum, leads to results which can serve every human being as a stimulus to spiritual life, whatever his nation, social standing or religion.

Anthroposophy, a philosophy founded by Rudolf Steiner, postulates the existence of an objective, intellectually comprehensible spiritual world accessible to direct experience through inner development.

" According to Anthroposophy, moral development reveals the extent to which one has achieved control over one's inner life and can exercise it in harmony with the spiritual life of other people ; it shows the real progress in spiritual development, the fruits of which are given in spiritual perception.

Christian and Jewish mystical thought have also influenced the development of Anthroposophy.

In his later life, Steiner was accused by the Nazis of being a Jew, and Adolf Hitler labelled Anthroposophy " Jewish methods.

Martin Buber and Hugo Bergmann, who viewed Steiner's social ideas as a solution to the Arab – Jewish conflict, were also influenced by Anthroposophy.

Anthroposophy has had many prominent supporters outside of the movement.

Examples of esoteric religious movements and philosophies include Alchemy, Astrology, Anthroposophy, early Christian mysticism, Magic, Mesmerism, Rosicrucianism, Swedenborgianism, Spiritualism, the Alawites, the Christian Theosophy of Jacob Böhme and his followers, and the Theosophical currents associated with Helena Blavatsky and her followers.

Anthroposophy, which was founded by Rudolf Steiner in the early part of the 20th century, includes esoteric versions of education, agriculture, and medicine.

At the beginning of the 20th century, he founded a spiritual movement, Anthroposophy, as an esoteric philosophy growing out of idealist philosophy and with links to Theosophy.

Steiner termed his work from this period on Anthroposophy.

The distinction was important to Steiner because he sought with Anthroposophy to create a scientific, not faith-based, spirituality.

Anthroposophy was founded by Rudolf Steiner ( 1861-1925 ) as a schism of the Theosophical Society.

Use of mistletoe extract in the treatment of cancer originated with Rudolf Steiner, the founder of Anthroposophy.

Ouspensky, who Bennett met through Prince Sabaheddin, a reformist thinker who had introduced him to a wide range of religious and occultist ideas, including Theosophy and Anthroposophy.

The akashic records ( akasha is a Sanskrit word meaning " sky ", " space " or " aether ") is a term used in theosophy ( and Anthroposophy ) to describe a compendium of mystical knowledge encoded in a non-physical plane of existence.

* According to the Anthroposophy founder Rudolf Steiner, the Mystery of the foundation of the Rosicrucian Order in the early 14th century relates to the birth of Christian Rosenkreuz in the 13th century, and his later rebirth in the 14th century.

This early Anthroposophy showed a strong Germanic predominance — English Anthroposophy was initially limited to a small anonymous club during WWI ; there also seem to have been some founding members from the Netherlands and other European countries —, and functioned as a German-speaking esotericism ; however, the choice of Switzerland over Weimar for the Goetheanum argues against a narrow nationalistic view of the Anthroposophical Society.

Vedanta ( Advaita Vedanta ), Ayyavazhi, shamanism, Hermeticism, Neoplatonism, Gnosticism, Kashmir Shaivism, Sant Mat / Surat Shabd Yoga, Sufism, Druze, Kabbalah, Theosophy, Anthroposophy, Rosicrucianism ( Esoteric Christian ), Eckankar, Ascended Master Teachings, etc.

He sat in on several lectures and had one or two interviews with Steiner and he could learn about occult truth from the founder of later Anthroposophy, but at the same time he understood that this teacher could not help him to advance along the path of spiritual development.

The obscure and extravagant imagery has led to a wide variety of interpretations: historicist interpretations see in Revelation a broad view of history ; preterist interpretations treat Revelation as mostly referring to the events of the apostolic era ( 1st century ), or -- at the latest -- the fall of the Roman Empire ; futurists believe that Revelation describes future events ; and idealist or symbolic interpretations consider that Revelation does not refer to actual people or events, but is an allegory of the spiritual path and the ongoing struggle between good and evil.

Pattinapalai, a Tamil poem of the 2nd century CE, describes goods from Kedaram heaped in the broad streets of the Chola capital.

For broad Internet use, RFC5280 PKIX describes a profile for fields that may be useful for applications such as encrypted email.

Watts describes his research as exploring the " role that network structure plays in determining or constraining system behavior, focusing on a few broad problem areas in social science such as information contagion, financial risk management, and organizational design.

Pleasure describes the broad class of mental states that humans and other animals experience as positive, enjoyable, or worth seeking.

The " Missing Manual " series, produced with David Pogue's Pogue Press, describes themselves as " the book that should have been in the box ", providing a broad overview of the functionality of consumer technology.

A tale from the Altmark, recorded by Anglo-Saxon scholar Benjamin Thorpe in 1852, describes the kobold as " a fiery stripe with a broad head, which he usually shakes from one side to the other.

After leaving Gunzenhausen the river describes a broad curve through the Frankish Alb.

Under Perens ' definition, open source describes a broad general type of software license that makes source code available to the general public with relaxed or non-existent copyright restrictions.

Under certain common conditions, optimality requires the use of bang – bang control ; hence, sliding mode control describes the optimal controller for a broad set of dynamic systems.

Dysautonomia ( or autonomic dysfunction ) is a broad term that describes any disease or malfunction of the autonomic nervous system ( ANS ).

Pharr has written that PRA " sets the standard for researchers and political analysts of integrity ," and describes the group's research as " thorough, thoughtful, carefully researched, and presented within a broad context of understanding of the complex relationships and activities of the Right.

The " broad path " that Parrington describes formed a scholastic course of study for Henry Nash Smith, who received a Ph. D. from Harvard's interdisciplinary program in " History and American Civilization " in 1940, setting an academic precedent for present-day American Studies programs.

Synoptic is derived from the Greek words σύν ( syn " together ") and ὄψις ( opsis " view "), and describes observations that give a broad view of a subject at a particular time.

In contrast to the broad, sweeping perspectives seen in many 19th-century novels, third-person subjective is sometimes called the " over the shoulder " perspective ; the narrator only describes events perceived and information known by a character.

Native American lacrosse describes a broad variety of stick and ball games played by the indigenous people.

Potter ( 2006 ) identifies and describes three broad paradigms within program evaluation.

Stephen W. Potts, a lecturer in literature, describes chapter 9 of the novel as making " broad use of the rhetorical motifs of contradiction, negation, and deflation ", from the echolalia of the chapter title (" Major Major Major Major ") onwards.

His entry in Thom ’ s directory for 1849 describes him as ‘ manufacturer of wrought-iron gates, railway conservatories, hothouses etc., and hot water engineer ’, indicating the broad range of activities which the firm undertook.

Virchow's triad describes the three broad categories of factors that are thought to contribute to thrombosis.

Recent scholarship has interpreted the book as involving all these groups, and a broad consensus has emerged that describes the origin and growth of Deuteronomism in the following terms:

Gartner describes its BI Leaders as vendors with strong enterprise-wide implementations for a broad BI strategy, and the viability to deliver globally.

The strategy was put forth in a Discovery Institute manifesto known as the Wedge Document, which describes a broad social, political, and academic agenda whose ultimate goal is to defeat materialism, naturalism, evolution, and " reverse the stifling materialist world view and replace it with a science consonant with Christian and theistic convictions.

As well as being broad in the crania, this thickness appears generally elsewhere in the morphology of the Alpine, as Hans Günther describes: