PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE EGO The Ego is an expression of contraction, of the hyperbola – the archetypal human for, think and straight. Many of man’s concave surfaces are hyperbolic, like the wrists and calves. The ego manifests also through the square or cube. Even the skull tends towards the box shape, especially with strong ego […]
Sacred Faces: The Four Temperaments and Physiognomy
THE FOUR TEMPERAMENTS, THEIR PREPONDERATING ‘BODIES’, AND EYE COLOR One of the most vexing questions in Spiritual Science is that of the Four Temperaments – or how to determine them in individuals. This, in spite of Rudolf Steiner providing copious information on the physiognomy of the temperaments – of both adults and children. Of the […]
Sacred Faces: Physiognomy of the Astral Body
PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE ASTRAL BODY Humanity is broadly divided into four types, physical, etheric, astral and ego. These of course can interweave into a multi-strand fabric with different races and individuals so that a dominant ‘type’ can be hard to detect. It will be there, nevertheless. In many cases, however, the dominance of one of […]
Sacred Faces: Physiognomy of the Etheric Body
PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE ETHERIC BODY The fundamental components of the physiognomy of the etheric body were already extant on Ancient Sun, the etheric’s creation home. These are light, the color yellow, and triangulation; especially the triangle itself, and its 3-dimensional counterpart, the tetrahedral pyramid. The ‘angles of incidence’ created both by the diurnal and annual […]
Sacred Faces: Physiognomy of the Physical Body
PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE PHYSICAL BODY A Spiritual Scientist has, in whatever field of study, to be especially earnest about the area that reflects the very word and spirit of ‘anthroposophy’, human nature. A natural place to start is of course with the physical body, that first-of-the-first aspects of man created so long ago on Ancient […]
Sacred Faces: Physiognomy of Movement
PHYSIOGNOMY OF MOVEMENT All human movement has as its golden heart the Etheric Body. However, to understand the Mystery of Kinesis, we have to go back beyond the birth of the etheric, to Ancient Saturn – a realm of stillness. Here the Physical body, in its spiritual ‘blueprint’ stage at least, was created; Old Saturn […]