Spanda : For God so loved the world...

All things were made by Him

Spanda is a Sanskrit word meaning "quiver" or "vibration." In yoga it refers to the throb of the utter bliss of ultimate reality, the thrill of existence, the experience of the ananda of sat-chit-ananda. It is the latent Word: not movement but the inspiritive cause of all motion. "For God so loved the world..."

God's Quiver

The Unmoved Mover

Rudolf Steiner, June 2, 1912:  "There should really be a fresh feeling of what the Greeks understood by the word 'Anthropos.' If we would find a true modern rendering of the Greek word, we might say: 'one who looks up into the heights.' This is the definition of man which finds expression in the word 'Anthropos': he who looks up into the heights to find the source and origin of his life. Such is man, according to the Greeks. To recognize man as a being of this nature is the very reason for existence of Anthroposophy. Anthroposophy wants to rise above the details of sense existence and of the outer activity of life, into the heights of spiritual experience where we are able to learn whence man has come and whither he is going."