If we further look at the original German term, Gliederung, it too has the structural content inherent in 'order'. Wahrig's Deutsches Wörterbuch defines it as: 'Einteilung, Unterteilung, Ordnung, Aufbau, Plan, Disposition'. Thus while I fully agree with Malcolm Gardner that Steiner's Drei-gliederung is not a 'program that can be adopted or imposed' but a description of principles, those principles imply a framework of a structure, i.e., an order within which they can be applied. And form in this sense has been around since God created order out of the formless void in the act of Creation. The difficulty seems to be that 'order' has a number of distinct meanings, some of which are negative, others not. The term is not unique in language in that respect. I submit that people can distinguish between them and that therefore there is no reason not to use the term.

Christian von Arnim 7/1

Have you ever considered 'differentiate / differentiation' for gliedern / Gliederung? I find these work well in some contexts.

Anna Meuss 7/1

Continued

See also

Einheitsstaat

Rechtsleben