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Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture II: The Psychological Foundations of Anthroposophy
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etheric body. (One is, of course, not to connect this in thought with
Now, it is from the etheric
etheric body, which he experiences in connection with his psychic
with objective necessity. But such is the case, for the etheric body
cognition sees clearly that the etheric body is nothing else than a
Knowledge of the etheric body by the spiritual researcher does not at
etheric body appears, in a sense, as a super-sensible organism
physical bodily organization. The etheric body is experienced as the
through the law-conforming activity of the etheric body. The
the activity of the differentiated members of the etheric body
striving towards a unity. The etheric body rests upon an
latter proves to be an expression of the World-Ego, as the etheric
takes place within the etheric body and which becomes his remembrance
organization; 2) the etheric body; 3) the astral body; 4) the ego

Title: Mission of Spiritual Science and Its Building at Dornach
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when spiritual research assumes the existence of an etheric body,
become something inwardly alive, a kind of etheric body. The will may
And if we have these two, the living, moving thought-being, the etheric
of a physical body, etheric body, astral body, etc.,” but he is

Title: Lecture: Human Life in the Light of Spiritual Science
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what is called the “Etheric Body.” (The term “Etheric
physical human body lies the super-sensible etheric body not perceptible to
idea of the addition, by a spiritual researcher, of an etheric man to the
begin by considering the forces of the so-called etheric body. This
and the forces constituting the etheric body within us. Ordinary human
beings, etheric beings, growing downward, so to speak, out of the entire
living spiritual beings disappear out of the etheric environment of the earth,
growing out of the etheric realm and disappearing within the physical
become a living experience we begin to share this alternation of etheric life
We become acquainted with etheric life. This etheric life shows that certain
(etheric life) which characterizes the plant world is active during the second
entrance being effected from outside the earth. Accordingly, the etheric
a year, lives in the human organism in the form of an enclosed etheric body.
a super-terrestrial etheric man within, who works inwardly, alive and free.
does an etheric, a super-terrestrial body come into existence. The result is,
etheric body furthermore influences the breathing and circulatory systems
longer being the only ones at work, and because the etheric body takes hold
perceives this etheric body which human nature possesses in common with
with the etheric element, in the space which surrounds human beings upon
a etheric element, and which unites with the body of the earth only in
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Title: Lecture: Human Life in the Light of Spiritual Science
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what is called the “Etheric Body.” (The term “Etheric
physical human body lies the super-sensible etheric body not perceptible to
idea of the addition, by a spiritual researcher, of an etheric man to the
begin by considering the forces of the so-called etheric body. This
and the forces constituting the etheric body within us. Ordinary human
beings, etheric beings, growing downward, so to speak, out of the entire
living spiritual beings disappear out of the etheric environment of the earth,
growing out of the etheric realm and disappearing within the physical
become a living experience we begin to share this alternation of etheric life
We become acquainted with etheric life. This etheric life shows that certain
(etheric life) which characterizes the plant world is active during the second
entrance being effected from outside the earth. Accordingly, the etheric
a year, lives in the human organism in the form of an enclosed etheric body.
a super-terrestrial etheric man within, who works inwardly, alive and free.
does an etheric, a super-terrestrial body come into existence. The result is,
etheric body furthermore influences the breathing and circulatory systems
longer being the only ones at work, and because the etheric body takes hold
perceives this etheric body which human nature possesses in common with
with the etheric element, in the space which surrounds human beings upon
a etheric element, and which unites with the body of the earth only in
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Title: Schiller and Our Times: Lecture IX: Schiller and Idealism
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master of an etheric spirit-permeated form.

Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course I: Lecture II: The Origin of the Soul
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element whose wisdom is of etheric kind, is a mental cognition, they

Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course IV: Lecture II: Theosophy and Somnambulism
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the human body. We call this next member of the human being the etheric
double body in theosophy. This etheric body is in any human being. Somebody
who develops a certain clairvoyant capacity can behold this etheric body; the
This etheric double body holds together the physical processes. At death the
etheric body leaves the physical body with other higher members which we get
but physical processes. The etheric double body causes that this does not happen
Within this etheric double body,
which the physical body and the etheric double body are. This astral body is
light of a flame meets my eye? The so-called etheric waves move from the source
mentioned to you, within the physical body, the etheric double body and the
and the etheric double body. But everybody has this as a phenomenon before himself;
and that the physical body and the etheric double body, which hold it together,
the etheric double body and the astral body are still in activity. Now, indeed,
will be the etheric double body which is above all active and conveys the contacts
etheric double body: Steiner called it etheric body later.

Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course V: Lecture II: What Do Our Scholars Know about Theosophy?
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etheric matter, the oscillatory substance exists. Indeed. One answers as a theosophist

Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture II: The Nature of the Human Being
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member of the physical being, the etheric body. The term etheric body
one denies the etheric body is only the result of modern scientific
thinking. The denying of this etheric body is connected with a permanent
only briefly what is to be understood by this etheric body. If you look
of the etheric body: the stone is lifeless, however, the plant is imbued
with life. Theosophy calls etheric body what must be added, so that
the plant is not a stone. This etheric body is probably better called
life-force in future, because the etheric force or life-force is something
the theosophists call the etheric body. They are called neovitalists.
again to this etheric body as something really existing, even if under
also recognise that the plant already has such an etheric body, because,
such an etheric duplicate body. That human being who develops the higher
bodies can really observe this etheric body also with the simplest,
is more important for us to behold the etheric body. Someone who has
of the etheric body: he has to suggest the physical body of an animal
fulfilled with luminous pictures. This is the etheric duplicate body.
the colour of the peach-blossom. You find such an etheric duplicate
animal. Just as the plant differs from the stone by the etheric body,
In the physical body, in the etheric body and in the soul-body, the
consists of three members. As the body consists of physical body, etheric
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Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture XI: Origin and Goal of the Human Being
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in it like a big raise to the etheric heights. If you are raised higher
a gaseous, an etheric condition of the earth existed. Everything that
at that time in a quite subtle etheric condition. You can imagine it
in a much finer, thinner etheric condition. Akasha is the finest form
in which before primeval times everything was in the etheric condition
Question: Is the akasha substance an etheric

Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture XII: Goethe's Secret Revelation I
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preserved the names. All higher truth stands in the etheric shine before
argued whether two times two are four. In the same etheric shine all
of the concepts in pure etheric height, free of harsh immediate reality.
body, the etheric body and the astral body. Within these covers the

Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture XV: The Evolution of the Earth
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our earth, do not the etheric forces belong to it which spread on the
earth and make life possible? Are these etheric forces not only the
continuation of the etheric forces of the sun? Or their force of attraction?
etheric corporeality merges into astral being; as a pure soul-being
himself in a particular way. If one were able to investigate the etheric

Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture VII: The Great Initiates
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his etheric body. This etheric body can be seen by anyone who has
cultivated his soul organs. Through this etheric body man is not
for growth, life, and propagation. One can see this etheric body,
creation, this etheric body, produces man's essential life. Its color
laws, the etheric body, the astral body, and finally the self- or
self-consciousness. The etheric body in its present form is
connection to the self-consciousness. The etheric body has to be
etheric body — to be able to work out of itself upon the
etheric body — as man, in the way already shown, works upon his
itself, then the work extends to the etheric body, and the etheric
the world around him, but there resounds in him his etheric body, the
influence his etheric body from his astral body. Then he has become a
being — for we live a separate life through our etheric body
reached as a stage in the development of the etheric body, that
etheric body which no longer occasions a separate existence but
influence only extended to his etheric body, but now it extends to
effective, so that they work right down into the etheric body,

Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture XVI: The Great Initiates
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of his nature. At first, he has a member which we call the etheric body.
Someone who has developed the soul organs can see this etheric body.
Because of this etheric body the human being is not only a creation
One can see this etheric body which is a kind of archetype of the human
but it also has organs. This formation, this etheric body causes the
laws are working, the etheric body, the astral body and, finally, the
what the self-consciousness works into the body. The etheric body, as
self-consciousness. This etheric body has to come under the influence
astral body must penetrate and treat the etheric body in the same way
accord, then the work proceeds to the etheric body, then the etheric
to him in his etheric body.
astral body from his etheric body. Then he has become the chela, the
etheric body , then we have overcome the external, separate life, we
as a developmental stage of the etheric body, of that etheric body which
on the etheric body before, now, however, on the physical body. His
work down to the etheric body, he is introduced in a deep secret of

Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture XIX: Schiller and the Present
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the etheric body and he drew this etheric body with a few characteristic

Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture XXII: The Medical Faculty and Theosophy
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of the mode of action of our etheric body. The usual reason, the usual

Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture VI: The Basic Concepts of Theosophy. Human Races
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a compression and it forms the etheric body this way, and only
the compression of this etheric body forms the physical
see with the usual physical eyes: the etheric human being.
according to his lower nature: of physical body, etheric body,
of rage and hatred. The etheric body is the bearer of the vital
races, we see the human being conquering the etheric body. The

Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture I: Inner Development
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of man's being. There is also the etheric body, then the astral body,

Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture IX: Inner Development
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is only one of the members of his being. Then the etheric body

Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XII: Reincarnation and Karma
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the etheric body. The etheric body is like a portrayal of the
portrayal of the etheric body. This is the second member of the
human being, the etheric body. The third member is the astral
over to the earth. The etheric body is merged in the general
physical body is delivered to the earth; the etheric body is

Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XIII: Lucifer
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principle of the etheric body, the stimulating one, the

Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XV: Germanic and Indian Secret Doctrines
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second member is the so-called etheric body. Life lives in this
human being has the three other members, physical body, etheric
body and etheric body, the animal has a physical body, etheric
etheric body, and the astral body in common with the realms of
and the divine. It penetrates the etheric body and the astral
etheric body, he enters another world, a kind of intermediate
members: physical body, etheric body, and astral body prevailed
the continents of the present world represents the etheric body

Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XVI: German Theosophists at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century
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etheric body, and astral body. They are also that which they
has ascended to these etheric heights of thought, he lacks the
like onion skins: the physical body, the etheric body, the
represented the view that there is an etheric body and an even
higher etheric body than that which decomposes after death with
the etheric body and the odd relationship of the astral body to
the etheric body lasted for years. Because her soul condition
part of the etheric body of someone who had lost a limb. She

Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XXI: Paracelsus
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builder of the human body. We have spoken about the etheric
etheric body or life body contains the forces to build up the
physical body. It is in such a way that this etheric body
etheric body; something else belongs to it, namely intuition,
the etheric body. The old doctors recognised how the etheric
outdoors in the world, which he searches then. In the etheric
the mummy, the changes in the etheric body to recognise what a

Title: Lecture: Woman and Society (Die Frauenfrage)
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etheric or life-body. Any particular sum of chemical and physical
as its etheric or life-body. Thus we call this second body the
etheric or life body. It is that which the human being has in common
religious impulses it works into the etheric body. In just the same
and purifies the etheric body. If you could only observe, as a
the etheric body.
The etheric body is
between the development of the etheric body and the astral body. Let
the minute-hand of a clock, and the changes in the etheric body by
the hour-hand. What the human being changes in his etheric body, what
the ‘I’ has made out of the etheric body, is called
etheric body. When the ordinary person learns, he learns with the
etheric body. When the pupil of Spiritual Science learns, he must
etheric body is gradually transformed.
first, the physical body; second, the etheric body; third, the astral
etheric body, the astral body, the ‘I’, and that which
— this is a fact — the etheric body consists of two
parts; the etheric body of a man, as he lives among us, shows itself
to have feminine features, and the etheric body of a woman to have
another time as the etheric body. Hence, with regard to those
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture V: The Question of Women's Rights
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body. We speak about the etheric or life body. A certain sum of
every living body as a life body or etheric body. The human
religious impulses, it works into the etheric body.
human being improves and purifies the etheric body. If you were
music deeply penetrate the etheric body.
etheric body is also the bearer of everything that is more or
difference is between the development of the etheric body and
minute hand and the changes of the etheric body by the hour
hand of the clock. What the human being changes in his etheric
body, what the ego has made of the etheric body, one calls
etheric body. If the usual human being learns, he learns with
allows us to behold into other worlds. His etheric body is
consists of the physical body, secondly of the etheric body,
into the etheric body, into the astral body, into the ego and
etheric body is dyadic, and the etheric body of the man as it
etheric body of the woman with male qualities. Plenty of facts
as dependent on the etheric body has more female nature with
once one part as a physical body, the other time as an etheric
with the etheric body: devotion, bravery, and love; the man

Title: Lecture: Occult Significance of Blood
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Over and above this, however, man possesses the etheric or vital body.
(The term “etheric” is not here used in the same sense as
when applied by physical science.) This etheric or vital body, as it
This etheric body can actually be seen by the clairvoyant. It is the
says: “If you remain as you are you will not see the etheric
So the second part of man is the etheric body, which he possesses in
etheric or vital body, and the astral body.
consists of a physical body, an etheric body, an astral body, and the
Let us now observe a plant. This is a being possessed of an etheric
so-called lifeless forces into the living sap? We call it the etheric
body, and the etheric body does precisely the same work in animals and
This etheric body is, in its turn, permeated by an astral body. And
that which the etheric body has transformed into living substance is
that which takes place externally, then the etheric body must be
etheric body changes the inorganic substances into vital fluids, and
from the astral body to the etheric body. As the etheric body in the
of fluids — has grown out of and become free from the etheric
Blood is, therefore, an expression of the individualized etheric body,
The Etheric Body and
The Principle that individualizes the etheric body.
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Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture II: Blood is a Very Special Fluid
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process of transformation extends to the etheric body, the

Title: The Origin of Suffering
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life through what we call the etheric or life-body. We know this
the etheric body, as something which man has in common with the rest
blossoming of the three bodies, physical, etheric and astral. So we
nothing else than the four-foldness, physical body, etheric body,
first. It has produced the physical body and likewise the etheric
three stages: physical body, etheric body, astral body, and also of

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture V: Education in the Light of Spiritual Science
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to spiritual realms. The child is enveloped by an etheric and
the change of teeth an etheric covering loosens itself from
the child still slumbers as if within an etheric womb and is

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secondly the etheric or life body, then the astral body, and fourthly
present which are in the physical world outside; in the etheric body
there lies what calls these substances to life, and this etheric body
essentially the etheric body, yet in another the astral body, again
physical principle, but with that of the etheric or life body, which
growth, however, being an affair of the etheric principle. The astral
until puberty, the working of the etheric body is paramount, and,
is to say, his etheric body is born to free activity just as his
etheric body of the human being, and about the seventh year these
birth. Up to the seventh year the etheric body is as if latent in the
to the etheric body can be compared to the igniting of a match. It is
etheric body is indeed the change of teeth. For anyone who has a
are the etheric principle and astral principle.
it as bearer of growth the etheric or life body.
of this principle, the etheric body gains its freedom and works upon
with the etheric body now come to a culmination with their creative
hard organs, whereby the etheric body, the principle of growth,
from the etheric body, the time when the astral body lives at the
expense of the force stored up in the etheric body. This comes
here how the etheric body is the bearer of creative imagination, of
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Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture VI: Illness and Death
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and growth are sustained by the etheric principle. The astral
till puberty it is mainly the etheric principle that works on
while the etheric and astral principles are still latent,

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture VII: Education and Spiritual Science
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of teeth, protected by an etheric sheath, just as the

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture VIII: Insanity in the Light of Spiritual Science
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the physical, etheric and astral bodies, and the
oblivion. Only the physical and etheric bodies remain on the

Title: Lecture Series: Insanity from the Standpoint of Spiritual Science
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physical and etheric bodies remain behind in the bed. The
etheric or life body also separates from the physical body at
etheric body, the former life passes before the soul in great
pictures for such a time, until the etheric body also is
But only the substantial part of the etheric body dissolves.
organism. The etheric body is the architect, which builds
Procreation ------------------------- Etheric Body.
physical body. The ego with its ennobled astral and etheric
with the outer world. But the etheric body too can suffer inner
etheric body is unconscious of itself, then the images of the
outer meet him truly. If the disturbances of the etheric body
These imprint themselves in the etheric body, and hence arise
physically but then at the change of teeth, the etheric body is

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture IX: Wisdom and Health
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from the physical and etheric bodies and unites with the

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture X: Stages in Man's Development in the Light of Spiritual Science
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an etheric body; only the astral body and what we call
physical and etheric bodies. The more of the astral body a
the extracts from the physical and etheric bodies.
etheric and astral bodies develop during the first half, we
an etheric and an astral sheath. These sheaths, visible only
the seventh year when the ether body is born, the etheric
individual, become characteristic. At this time the etheric
principle gradually unites with the etheric principle; what

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture XIII: The Bible and Wisdom
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within every human soul enveloped inthe physical, etheric and

Title: Knowledge of Soul and Spirit: Lecture III: The Knowledge of Soul and Spirit
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call etheric body or life body. If we speak of ether, it has
In relation to the etheric body, we cannot get involved in the
etheric body best of all saying: if we take a plant, an animal,
forces. At every moment of life, its so-called etheric body or
when the etheric body or life body separates from the physical
mixture, it cannot survive. The etheric body is that which
four-membered being — physical body, etheric body, astral body
the human being now: physical body, etheric body, astral body,
ability to transform our etheric body. In the usual life, the
body and the transformation of the etheric body by the ego, we
advance of the minute hand and the progress of the etheric body
inclinations change only if the etheric body changes, and
are so strong that the etheric body is purified and transformed.
strongly that they have seized their etheric bodies, so that
the human beings bear two parts of their etheric bodies in
it becomes more prominent what transforms the etheric
giving the means to the human being to transform the etheric
etheric body. Then these impulses go on purifying the physical
etheric body and, finally, the physical body. He becomes one
and its manifestations. The same applies to the etheric body
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Title: Knowledge of Soul and Spirit: Lecture IV: Initiation
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body and etheric body as the sleeping human being has physical
body and etheric body. The human being is, actually, beyond the
physical and etheric body. That what thinks in him and feels
physical body and etheric body. The human being must go through

Title: Illusory Illness: Lecture I: Illusory Illness
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has the body of etheric forces that penetrates the physical
body we carry in us. Etheric and physical body are successive
ice. Thus we have ice in water. So it is that the etheric and
indicates significant conditions of the etheric and astral

Title: Illusory Illness: Lecture II: Feverish Pursuit of Health
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second member the etheric or life body, which he has in common
Were the etheric body to withdraw from the physical body, in
physical body, its etheric body and its astral body in the
and, from out the astral body, gradually change the etheric and

Title: Knowledge of Soul and Spirit: Lecture VII: Man, Woman and Child
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existence. He has the etheric body in common with animals and
the second period up to puberty, the etheric body develops. In
the time before, it was by no means idle. The etheric body is
etheric body, and from now on, the development of the astral
of the etheric body and again another from that of the astral
in the etheric body. Up to the sexual maturity, these inherited

Title: Lecture: Man and Woman in Light of Spiritual Science
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etheric body which the human has in common with animals and plants.
we will concern ourselves with the physical and etheric bodies. For
herein lies the solution to the riddle of the sexes. The etheric body
regard to the sexes things are different. In the man the etheric body
the ego are raised out of the physical-etheric organism of the human
physical and etheric bodies a densification of the astral body.
etheric bodies remain behind. Thus it follows that during sleep the
physical and etheric body which makes the two sexes manifest here on

Title: Knowledge of Soul and Spirit: Lecture XII: Sun, Moon and Stars
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etheric bodies rest in the bed. The astral body with the ego

Title: Knowledge of Soul and Spirit: Lecture XIII: Outset and End of the Earth
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with the etheric body. He has the physical body in common with
the lifeless beings around him and the etheric body in common
physical and etheric bodies that stay behind in the bed. The
and etheric bodies and lives in another world; not in a
except his physical and etheric bodies. But apart from the fact
morning in the physical and etheric bodies and it can
he has in common with all minerals, as well as the etheric body
and the etheric body the astral body is lifted out which he has
being dives in the physical and etheric bodies. These are
the etheric bodies do not exist as the first, but the astral
before anything etheric existed, this astral body existed. The
did not exist materially at first, also not as an etheric body,
clouds, the astral was condensed once to the etheric condition.
an etheric body. At last, the physical body originated, as the
spiritual being at first, then as an etheric being, and last

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still infiltrated by the etheric body or life body. The
that in the bed there lie the physical body and the etheric
etheric one: It is the human self-consciousness and its bearer,
etheric bodies.
being: a physical body, an etheric body, an astral body, and an
life, the etheric body is united with the physical body. Only
because the etheric body worked in it.
This etheric body is a
impossible mixture. The etheric body separates from the
come? It originates because the etheric body is the bearer of
physical body is an obstacle. Because the etheric body is an
relaxation of the physical body and the etheric body happens
in which the etheric body separates from the astral body and
from the ego. However, there remains a rest of the etheric body
essence of his etheric body. What originates from this life
which he could direct the mental to the physical and etheric

Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture I: Where and How Does One Find the Spirit?
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coarsening of the etheric body or life body at first. We see
is with the physical and etheric bodies in such a way. Matter
ice is another form of water. However, the etheric body is not
world. One can recognize the etheric body purely logically at
of the physical body in itself: this is the etheric body or
life body. If the etheric body is outside, like after death,
then only the physical body disintegrates. However, the etheric
separate into physical body, etheric body, and astral body. If
also have the etheric body, the fighter against the decay.

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principles. We must add the etheric body or life body, then the
lifeless beings, with the minerals, the etheric body with the
the human being. A younger member is the etheric body or life
ego-being, of the physical, etheric and astral bodies. The
Jehovah, are the creators of the physical, etheric and astral
etheric and the astral bodies are raised out of the physical

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has this life body or etheric body in common with the
the reproduction, life generally if it did not have the etheric
glands and so on, are the external expressions of the etheric
body. They are that which the etheric body creates in the
the expression of the etheric body, the nervous system of the
and an etheric body. Now we compare the human being to the
and the etheric body. The plant does not have it. That which
the etheric body. This is turned on one side towards the
peculiar. If it were only the etheric body that built up a
appear. What the etheric body has built up must be destroyed
etheric body is a fighter against decay, but, nevertheless,
etheric body of the animals is advantageously involved. The
etheric body in himself, which can exercise curative effects on

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has to consider even more is the health of the etheric body
the physical and the etheric becomes apparent to us: the fact
etheric. The physical is only a condensation of the spiritual,

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supersensible human member is the etheric body or life body. It
and animals also have such an etheric body, which one can
this is the etheric body or life body, that is a loyal fighter
physical laws. Then it is a corpse. The etheric body is
an etheric body. Is there nothing else included in this human
the etheric body with all plants, and the astral body with the
astral body for the etheric body, the etheric body for the
itself on the etheric or life body, and thereby it becomes
becomes a habitual image, it imprints itself in the etheric
to day, lives in our etheric body or life body. The fact that
we acquire the talent, the habit of playing is in the etheric
body. All habits are in the etheric body or life body. If we
of the etheric body or life body. Thus, we see how by the
etheric body or life body in common with the plants. What
being. However, on this etheric body or life body custom,
the plant only malformation could originate if the etheric body
spiritual science itself penetrate all forces of the etheric
body, and the etheric body transfers the forces again to the
etheric and the astral bodies. I knew a gym teacher, who was a
the cooperation of the etheric and the physical bodies that the

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world. The first super-sensible member, the etheric body, is integrated
body predominates, we find a sanguine temperament. Where the etheric
nervous system holds sway. The etheric body expresses itself in the
temperament develops when the etheric or life-body, as we call it,
sense of inner well-being. The more a human being lives in his etheric
because his physical body resists his etheric body's inner sense of
members; it withholds from the astral and etheric bodies their due
activity of the etheric body. In all this the phlegmatic's inner sense

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has in common with the mineral world. He receives the etheric
sanguine temperament to the human being. If the etheric body or
etheric body expresses itself physically in the glandular
that the phlegmatic temperament originates if the etheric body
comfort. The more the person lives in his etheric body, the
reacts against the internal comfort of the etheric body, the
other members, the astral body and the etheric body, does not
fat; since the etheric body works out this in particular. In

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whereby the soul, withdrawing from the physical and etheric body,

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and etheric bodies at night, so that it becomes clairvoyant in

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etheric body, the carrier of memory, is connected with the
Nietzsche's etheric body was very movable from the start. Such
The easy mobility of his etheric body caused this. In 1876,
being can have who is not firmly connected with his etheric

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etheric, astral bodies, and the ego. The ego is the last
in former times, he had disappeared into the etheric body and
being appreciated what astral, etheric, and physical bodies
he submerges back in the etheric body, he experiences what one
universe. In his etheric body, the human being is connected
with the universe. If he descended in his etheric body, without

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or warm, that he transforms his etheric body or life body. This
with it his astral body to manas or spirit self, the etheric
astral body. By the etheric body, he experiences everything
etheric body or life body that has become life spirit as at
exist. This etheric body and its organs correspond to the swan.

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explained, when a man goes to sleep his physical and etheric bodies remain in
etheric bodies? There are good reasons for it. Spiritual Science says that
the Ego and astral body must come back into the etheric and physical bodies
and etheric bodies — especially by the etheric body — as from a
and Sentient Soul, all have to work on the physical and etheric bodies, so
physical and etheric bodies. When he is nearing sleep and the faculty that
etheric bodies. These bodies, with their particular aptitudes, are there at
every morning, on returning from sleep, we find our physical and etheric
year, the etheric body, particularly, can be developed. Then comes a third
between the etheric body and the second period of life, and therefore with
etheric body. If during the period from the seventh to the fourteenth year we
supply the etheric body with forces that will prevent it from creating these
teachers, can strengthen his etheric forces so that in later life he will
encounter the least possible obstacles in his etheric body. Then he will be
because the physical, etheric and astral bodies are still plastic in young

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minerals, plants and animals; his etheric body in common with animals and
body, and will lead the etheric and physical bodies on to ever-higher stages.

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so-called etheric or life-body. When we are asleep, the physical and etheric
from the physical and the etheric bodies. A simple consideration, as I said,
astral body withdraw from what we call the physical and the etheric
speaking of the etheric body, these people picture only the physical refined
beyond a certain point, and then they speak of etheric

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being: the etheric body which he has in common with all living things, and
be possible for him to transform by degrees his etheric body, and so to
also called the sentient body, into the Sentient Soul; a part of the etheric

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a second member of man's being: we call it the etheric body or life-body.
Only a brief reference can here be made to the etheric body — our task
etheric body in common with everything that lives. As I said, only the
seeing into the spiritual world, can directly observe the etheric body. But
obey them is that during life an antagonist of dissolution, the etheric or
physical body, etheric body or life-body, astral or consciousness-body.
grow stronger and stronger and will then transmute the etheric body or
life-body. Life-spirit is the name we give to the transformed etheric
for transmuting his instincts, desires and so forth. In the etheric body the
principle is brought into being by the work of the Ego on the etheric body:

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instrument the sentient body; the Intellectual Soul uses the etheric body.
plant's etheric body is not permeated by the Intellectual Soul, as is the
etheric body in man, just as the physical body is permeated by the
threefold corporeality, in the sentient body, etheric body and physical body
physical and etheric bodies behind in bed, he goes out from them with his ego
etheric and physical bodies as Intellectual Soul and Consciousness Soul. Thus
because here on earth he is obliged to use his physical and etheric bodies as
their bearers, the astral, etheric and physical bodies. These three sheaths
America or Australia. For the physical and etheric bodies it makes no direct
the physical body or in the etheric body but in their sentient body, whose
dependence concerns the etheric body. As the bearer of the Intellectual Soul,
the etheric body shows itself to be dependent in its activity on the seasons
necessary bearer or instrument of the Intellectual Soul evolve in the etheric
the etheric body, which is having to live under conditions characterised by
find it impossible to forge out of the etheric body an instrument it can
forces in man's etheric body: they find expression in the joy of spring, the
Soul is to be created in the human etheric body. Thus we see again how the
now seen how man's three bodies, astral, etheric and physical, are built up
living in the spiritual world and has left his physical and etheric bodies
soul and the ego are outside the physical and etheric bodies. And so, for a
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world. As a second, higher member he has the etheric, or life body.
astral body, but also upon the etheric body, we call the part of the
etheric body which has been thus transmuted the ‘Life Spirit’
being, consisting of physical body, etheric body, astral body and
etheric body, astral body and Ego. But although we regard these three
the physical, etheric and astral bodies by means of the Ego in a
etheric body in the past. What it has unfolded there has brought
the etheric body proceeding from the Ego. And finally, the Ego has in
body, etheric body and astral body complicated entities? It is a most
the etheric body is much more complicated than the vehicle of the
Spiritual Beings. To this was added the etheric body, then the astral
it was elaborated, permeated and interwoven with the etheric body,
region of the brain. And so it is with the etheric and astral bodies.
etheric, astral, we must say: just as the Ego itself, as a spiritual
physical, etheric and astral bodies before the Ego asserted
from without inwards was exercised upon the astral, etheric and
it had already elaborated, physical body, etheric body, astral body,
plant possesses only physical body and etheric body, whereas in the
body in such a way that it has become permeated by an etheric or life
and also in the animal, the outer physical expression of the etheric
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spirit, that there is a spiritual foundation to everything material, etheric

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has in common with the mineral realm; an etheric or life-body, which he has
but also on the astral, etheric and physical bodies. We have already given
corrects the currents and movements of the etheric body but affects the
ego expresses itself in the astral, etheric and physical bodies.
contentment then pass over into its astral and etheric bodies.

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physical and etheric formation of his ear did not permit him to establish the

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physical body, etheric and astral or sentient body. Hence you will find it
still in the etheric and physical bodies. In those times the ego still guided

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also of a higher body, the so-called “etheric body” or
human being — physical body, etheric or life body, astral body
to these higher members of man's being. In the etheric body the
deserted by the etheric or life body. Therefore the spiritual
investigator sees in this etheric or life body that which prevents
etheric or life body. During life the etheric body wrenches the
from the fact that the etheric body is a reality to the spiritual
organism is inconceivable without the existence of an etheric or life
body. Therefore in spiritual science we ascribe an etheric body also
plant has only physical body and etheric body; and a mineral, as we
body and etheric body — associating with these terms for the
etheric body is, to a certain point, complete. This etheric body has
originated in the etheric body and can be transmitted by heredity.
has taken into his etheric body independently of the organs.
are speaking of the spirit as it works in the etheric body. When the
etheric body and astral body, we can say: In human beings and animals
the physical body is the lowest member of their being; the etheric
become life processes. The etheric body lives within the physical
experience — everything that is going on in the etheric body.
Thus the etheric body is the active, creative principle working on
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consciousness, and the physical body the etheric body of the
human being is active. This etheric body is not only the bearer
and etheric bodies together with the ego, so that a splitting
body and etheric body, and the processes of the physical body
consciousness also as the own etheric body. The etheric body is
experiences reflected by the etheric body. Indeed, we must
reflection, but also the etheric body, because as long as the
namely on the etheric body. Then the etheric body reflects what
impressions at first. Nevertheless, we are in our etheric body
something in certain way that is connected with our etheric
body, the etheric body can reflect what we experience in our
day interests affect it, we are connected by the etheric body
if we leave our physical body, our etheric body — that
physical body. The etheric body reflects here what still lives
on in her etheric body due to another event because any happy
if he had to give up it, his etheric body has not left it. The

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2. Etheric or life Body
person that belong to his physical and etheric bodies can
be inherited from parents. The etheric body is the vehicle

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physical and etheric bodies, but they do not simply draw themselves
the human being we have come to know as the etheric body or life
body. The earth also has such an etheric body, and it also has an

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Aristotle speaks of the nervous system, he means the Etheric
body. This Etheric body can now no longer be seen by man, the
body, but also the Etheric Aura, the Etheric Body, which is
Etheric Body as we now-a-days perceive colours. Thus, if you
look at the Etheric Body instead of at the physical body, the
had no idea that Aristotle was speaking of the Etheric

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must descend into his physical-etheric sheaths, into the etheric

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into his physical-etheric sheath and enter the etheric confines

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(1) The Physical body. (2) The Etheric or Life Body. (3)
(6) Buddi. Life-spirit as transmuted Etheric or Life Body.

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of physical body, life (or etheric) body, and of the soul-sheaths; in

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have reached a point when his Etheric Body should be enclosed
man’s Etheric Being is situated outside the recumbent
essence of this etheric nucleus is so low that unconsciousness
Etheric or Life Body, an Astral Body, and deep within and

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we may call the next member of man's being — the etheric or
etheric forces which counteract the decay of the physical substance,
which decay sets in the moment the etheric at death is loosened from
environment, and is penetrated by the etheric or life-body.
have the physical and etheric bodies for us, but sharply divided from
first of all that this knowledge not only tells us of etheric forces
as memory is anchored in the etheric body. For not the astral but the
etheric body carries our memory, and this etheric, though not closely
conscious, must be sought in the etheric underlying physical body. To
justify considering the etheric as the vehicle of memory, apart from
say that the etheric inside the physical body also has an independent
activity of the etheric body, the vehicle of memory, was very much in
the etheric or life body, which spiritual science shows us to be also
re-awakening man is absent from his physical and etheric bodies, and
soul sheds its light into the etheric body when man descends into his
etheric bodies. When our soul life streams into our etheric body we can
conditions of time and space, he senses how his physical and etheric
learn that our forces work into the etheric body, but that our physical
what reaches his physical and etheric forces, transforming his
transform the etheric and physical body. We ourselves then carry our
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the etheric body — but outwardly, comparatively, in the sphere

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etheric body, of his soul cover, and in the core he carries

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Science the etheric body, which in ordinary sleep remains
this etheric body, which is also the activator of life,
etheric body, though present in ordinary sleep, is no longer
human being becomes free of the etheric body and is then
etheric body. He is closely bound to his physical body, to
the physical and etheric bodies, with everything belonging to
consciousness is freed from it and from the etheric body,

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being — also in sleep — the so-called etheric body,
from the physical body. The etheric body is then for a time the
emergence of the etheric body out of the physical body cannot

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by an etheric body. This is not enough, however, to cause the plants

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member the astral body of the human being. Our etheric body
the artistic view is the life in the etheric body, and as the

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etheric being that becomes larger and larger because it is
physical body held together as the etheric body. Then that what
threatens that the subtler etheric of a more spiritual body as
the just described subtler etheric body. It can just live on at
depending on the capacity of his etheric body the human being
can reclaim that subtle etheric body in his inside, and he

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astral body leave the physical and etheric bodies at night, and if we
ask ourselves what qualities and gesture of the etheric body we

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say, a purely etheric human being, a still spiritual human

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sounding, warming world is round us, now an etheric-spiritual

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invisible body the etheric body that forms and develops the
clear in his mind that this etheric body to which he descends
etheric body is already enough to get beyond the riddle of
it, actually? Etheric processes correspond to percipience. As
Inner etheric processes that happen in the invisible body and
outer etheric processes meet each other in the sensory
an etheric process goes forward by which we come into contact
with the outer ether. Without the understanding of the etheric
etheric-bodily has become reality. This becomes Imagination. If
Imaginations, then they live immediately in the etheric, while
to the etheric. Then you can get to know what happens in the
that, while the outer surroundings send the etheric from the
internal within our sensory area. Then the outer etheric is
while the inner ether of the etheric body counteracts it. This
inner etheric body.
etheric-psychic that the whole sensory life is a life in the
etheric-invisible. The deeper researchers always suspected this
research if you only ascend from the physical to the etheric
since beyond the etheric the mental-spiritual exists. The
etheric. Thus, we have to search the actually mental of the
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invisible body we might also call the etheric body; an etheric
into the existence of such an etheric body suffices to enable
etheric.
riddle of the etheric cannot yet be resolved from within, but
etheric will be resolved when the human soul undergoes those
does indeed gradually attain to the etheric from within. Then
the etheric will be directly present for him. Only then,
corresponds to perception are etheric processes. Just as we in
ether. And inner ether processes, inner etheric processes,
been speaking, occur, come into contact with external etheric
for example, an etheric process occurs, by means of which we
breathe. Without the understanding of the etheric world, an
inner soul process that the inner etheric-bodily element has
in the etheric, whereas, if they are abstract representations,
they live only in the soul. They grasp the etheric. And then,
the outer environment sends the etheric from the material
the inner ether from the etheric body works towards the
deadened etheric coming from outside. Herein we have the
organ by the forces of the inner etheric body. So that that
inwardly made alive again through the etheric body, and we
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the etheric. With the usual awake consciousness, we become
a tool of the etheric world as I have just described it, and
the rest of the organism is a tool of this etheric world,
physical organism, an etheric organism in himself which you can
at that which is etheric, then you realise the big difference
between the etheric body of the head and that of the rest of
etheric body have quite different forces which cause different
etheric body of the head and of the rest of the organism.
This living cooperation in the human etheric organism is the
can remember something, because the etheric body of the head
interacts with the etheric body of the rest of the organism and
that which works in the etheric body of the head causes changes
in the etheric body of the remaining organism, which then work
appears in the etheric organism at first that continues in the
there from the etheric organism in the physical organism. This

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the ether in himself at first and to noticing that an etheric
of thoughts. Only via the etheric, while the etheric works
one side, you discover this way that this etheric body that I
that you can clearly perceive this etheric body, you get to
know the subtle figure of the human being in the etheric and
you learn to look at this etheric part of the human being that
is integrated in the physical-sensory body, then this etheric
out of itself. The etheric body is not divided in this way, but
while it faces the etheric world, it forms, stimulated by that
that this etheric body is dependent from the whole universe, so
notices that this etheric body is on a level where it is even
of the formative forces of the etheric body by which it follows
etheric body has to do nothing with the speculation about the
being, but to his etheric body. Now it is strange that the

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it the “etheric body” previously. Because certain

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is a fourfold being, consisting of physical body, etheric body, astral body
human self-consciousness. The three lower members, physical body, etheric

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the etheric body. This is the architect of the physical body, which
substances. Beyond the etheric body, we must remember, is the
the standpoint of spiritual science, we find that his etheric body
relationships existing between physical body, etheric body and
been explained that throughout life the etheric body fights against
nature that he can have inner experiences. So, while the etheric
astral body become master of the physical and etheric bodies. When
The etheric or life body is the carrier of all life and
plant kingdom. Plants have physical and etheric
possess a physical, etheric, and astral body.

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due to a supersensible member, to the so-called “etheric
body” or life body. We speak of this etheric body in such
further speak of the fact that except this etheric body another
Then we distinguish beside the etheric body and the astral body
has the etheric body in common with all living beings, and the
bed the physical body and the etheric body remain, and the
separated from the physical and etheric bodies, the human being
part of the etheric body are subject to the temporal decay, the
of the etheric body. This essence cast off the outer cover of
the physical body and a part of the etheric body at death and

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physical body and etheric body are lying in the bed, and astral

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withdraws from the physical body and the etheric body during

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calls the plant's etheric body. We find this etheric also in men

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etheric organisation. What takes place there, rises up into

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or involuntarily, lies our physical and etheric organization. Processes
occurring in our physical and etheric organization are coming up into
what our physical and etheric organization does in the ordinary process

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of the conception of life, of what I call the etheric body, or body

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with a parallel physical or at least etheric bodily process. We
with the aid of natural-scientific methods. The etheric
a special etheric body.
body. (I might also say, the physical body and the etheric body,
reproduce the world within itself, so the etheric and the
human being unconsciously abandons his physical and etheric

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physical or at least etheric bodily process. We learn to know
aid of natural-scientific methods. The etheric foundation of
reality they fill out our physical body as a special etheric
the etheric body, or the physical body and the body of
itself, so the etheric and the physical body which remained
unconsciously abandons his physical and etheric organism with

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substance, of an etheric substance, and' that plastically they
yesterday, abandons the physical and the etheric body of man,
physical and of the etheric body, or the body of formative
being, that which abandons the physical and etheric body during
which has abandoned the physical and etheric body, a mirrored
physical and etheric bodies, which now exist objectively
physical and etheric bodies with forces developed in the
knowledge of the fact that man's physical body, man's etheric
instrument, and within the etheric body, containing the living
until the last birth. When we abandon the physical and etheric
physical and etheric body constitutes, as it were, the last
which could not dive down into the physical and etheric body,
sentient and volitional being, through the physical and etheric
with the etheric body and with the physical body.
volitional being is drawn out of the physical and the etheric
physical and etheric body, it is possible to observe the
physical and etheric body. But if the physical or even the
etheric body is somehow deformed by illness, then through the
conditions, are entirely united with man's physical and etheric
also the etheric body can exercise an influence in space,
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abandons what we designated man's physical and etheric body, or
etheric body as if they were objects. We showed that in this
with the physical body, as the etheric body's real forces. In
the human being which goes out of the physical and the etheric
our physical and etheric bodies at the moment of waking up. By
dive down into our etheric or life body; that is to say, into our
so to speak, of the etheric body's woof of formative forces. In
acquires plastic form, even as our physical body and our etheric
physical world (when it uses the physical and etheric organs of
etheric bodies, enables us to have experiences outside these
comes out of the physical and etheric bodies becomes more
etheric body, as the spiritual environment which we left behind.
when the human being abandons his physical and etheric bodies by
elements of the earth and that the etheric body dissolves, as
forces permeated by etheric forces, are laid aside with death,
sheaths of the physical and etheric bodies which were laid aside,
body and our etheric body, when our real soul-spiritual being is
physical body and within the etheric body and is filled by the
But when we throw light upon man's physical and etheric body in
the etheric body may dissolve completely in the universal ether,
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and etheric body, or the body of formative forces, and then
body and the etheric body as if they were objects. We showed
of the etheric body. In this way we were able to grasp that
the etheric bodies during sleep, there is a dull twilight-life,
when we dive down into our physical and etheric bodies at the
the same way we dive down into our etheric or life-body, that
and that we make use, so to speak, of the etheric body's web of
form, even as our physical body and our etheric body acquire
when it uses the physical and etheric organs of perception,
physical and etheric bodies, and have experiences outside them
and etheric bodies becomes more objective, more selfless in its
etheric body which we left behind. We grow aware, on the one
etheric bodies by passing through the portal of death, and in
given over to the elements of the earth and that the etheric
substance and the body of formative forces permeated by etheric
death. From the sheaths of the physical and etheric bodies
— namely, our physical body and our etheric body —
within the physical body and within the etheric body and is
physical and etheric body in this way we learn to know the
physical body may be cast off, the etheric body may dissolve
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things, the human etheric body or life body.
drawn or painted of the etheric body would be like a flash of
formative forces, or etheric body.
inner, etheric, earthly manhood, our body of formative

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called the “etheric body”. (A better name is “body
super-sensible body, consisting of subtle, etheric substantiality and
it. But we cannot study the etheric body (body of formative forces)
with the help of the etheric body, on a physical, earthly being.
etheric body, but on the etheric body itself. One forms this etheric
to artistic considerations. For it is not possible to study the etheric
a plant has an etheric body, created for it from out of the cosmos. It
without, out of the cosmos. With an animal, the etheric body is no
case of a human being? Well, I have just said that his etheric body is
actions: the human and the cosmic. The etheric body is so formed that
investigate how an animal forms its etheric body for itself from its
suffering or rejoicing human being tunes his etheric body to his soul
life; and we can enter into all that and give form to such an etheric
that, when we come to study the etheric body — the “imaginative
etheric body alone, but in the soul tingeing the etheric body. Here,

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flowing, etheric world, so to speak. And with this flowing,
etheric world, which contains his own life in mighty pictures
that the moving etheric world of his own existence is connected
with the universal etheric world. When as physical human being
flowing movement. Only now does he come to know what an etheric
human being in this etheric world. But with all this one has
etheric world.
experience himself in the etheric realm, to experience the
etheric world along with himself, then he can rise to another
the earth-life etherically before you, as by magic. This inner
described as the etheric world, where one flows together with
the world, where the world is etherically united with one's own
etheric being, he will no longer hold firmly to this ego. He
and more etheric, it is still a sort of nature-spirit, which he
independent of the physical and even of the etheric body. He
perceives, during the continuance of the etheric life-tableau,

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etheric body or the body of formative forces a finer
within you, your etheric body, your body of formative
experience this Second Man within you, your etheric
a ripple in the etheric cosmos. — And one
the etheric forces suck,
The etheric body begins to assail
nervous system as the etheric
material substance, an etheric equivalent flows into us.
This etheric element whirls and surges and weaves
in our etheric body or body of formative forces which
With our etheric body or body of
etheric in the world, we thrust just as far into
our organism with this etheric thought-content of the
we develop a consciousness of the etheric working in
the cosmos; we live within the etheric
consciously within the weaving of the etheric cosmic forces
etheric forces in their manifold manifestation. This
himself in this etheric weaving. It makes
growing out of this play of the etheric forces.
extreme limit to which the etheric world extends in
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the physical body, man has an etheric and an astral body. And
it was further pointed out how the etheric body, or the body of
experience of the etheric world. And I have already
etheric life of the universe. In this imaginative weaving and
the etheric, one does not feel that shadowy, inner dimness
feels a member of the whole etheric universe, caught up in a
himself standing firmly on the earth, in this etheric
etheric-astral element, so that on waking it
To find one's way into the etheric-imaginative
Etheric. At the second stage we live in a
passed through the etheric world in pre-earthly
etheric man containing the
physical and etheric sense, but of the Cosmos as living

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Man's Faculty of Cognition in the Etheric World
Faculty of Cognition in theEtheric World
body, etheric body or body of formative forces,
But when we think of the etheric body or the body of formative
different kind of world, to that world which is itself etheric
world, we must conceive the etheric world as coming in on all
therefore, that man's etheric body is
etheric, and in which we find that with our
etheric, the astral. The world of the ‘I’
about the etheric body or the body of formative forces,
etheric body. What we then have to bear in mind is that
which enable us to experience our own etheric body or the body
of formative forces, we enter the etheric world. And we have
where the etheric body, the body of
must say: For the etheric world the inner living thinking
sounds, so that we can say: in the etheric world, living
selflessness when we rise into the etheric world and the astral
that strip of etheric world which takes me back
the astral and etheric world has reached us from our previous
strength to enable man to behold the etheric world and the
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the mineral-physical and the etheric [vital or life-tr.] essences of
is the form-giving element. Our physical and etheric bodies must have

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state, went through the astral and etheric states and finally arrived

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The second principle is Prana, the etheric body; with this we
the etheric body.
firstly the physical basis of the human being, secondly his etheric
with the etheric and the astral bodies. And if you bear in mind what I
life-force permeating the etheric body) you will see that in one way
the Atlantean stood at a still lower stage. His etheric body still had

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physical body, the etheric body, the astral body, and four others. We
the etheric body which is not perceived by these senses. The etheric
bodies, including the etheric body, rise out of the physical body.
still united with the etheric body. After a few days the astral body
leaves the etheric body and begins to traverse the path it must take
between death and a new birth. The position of the etheric body today
The etheric body is the mediator, the connecting link between the
In the so-called Polarian Race (the first Root Race) the etheric body
fine etheric substance. Only later did the etheric body densify by
through the etheric earth, and his organs too, were etheric. He was an
etheric being. By the time of Lemuria, through gradual densification,
the fine, etheric matter to physical matter, of those beings who
works his way from etheric matter into dense, solid matter.
Race, man was, at first, endowed with a somewhat denser etheric body.
that in that epoch man had greater power over his etheric body
(etheric “double”) than he has today. Later on, man will
The second stage, where man still had mastery over his etheric body is
Apocalyptist the etheric body must have been kindled to life, he must
of the etheric body and of the higher bodies which, in the course of

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(These seven principles and the organs with which they are occultly connected are enumerated as follows:Physical body — base of the nose.EthericNote 5)
second principle is Prana, the etheric parallel body. This is
with regard to his etheric body, and thirdly with regard to his
relationships with the etheric and astral principles. And if you add
etheric parallel body — then you will be able to understand that, in
etheric parallel body still retained its original connection with the
etheric forces around him and he controlled with his own etheric body
the Prana, or etheric forces of the outside world. Through the fact
out of his etheric forces, he now has the task of working upon the

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one from another. When someone says: physical body, etheric body,

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Sthula-Sharira [physical body], Linga-Sharira [etheric], Kama-Rupa
not yet gained such perfection in their development: the etheric body

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last of all. The astral, etheric and physical bodies and the ego
secondly, in the etheric body, thirdly in the physical
the second time in the etheric body, and for the third time in the

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is veiled at first. Through his three bodies — physical, etheric and
the trinity of physical, etheric and astral body are like an outer
is indeed living in his physical, etheric and astral sheaths,
would serve the physical, etheric and astral bodies. What outward
development of the etheric body. And working upon the astral body we
realm and likewise his etheric and astral bodies. This development is
thus we shall raise each member of man's nature — the etheric and the
Mineral and Plant Kingdoms, with our etheric nature in transition
the [same as those which work as] etheric forces in the plants. By
etheric body will provide the basis, at a higher stage, for the
immortal man, who will no longer be subject to death. The etheric
labour undertaken for the etheric body contributes towards man's

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continually getting thicker. The first physical substance was etheric
epoch. Before that, one has to think of an etheric earth, which was
say that this etheric earth was accessible to quite different forces,
etheric relates to what we call the ‘Word,’ in a preparation for
initiation. As you know, man consists of physical, etheric and astral
bodies, and then of the ‘I’ proper. The etheric body becomes visible
second member of [man's] being is the etheric body, which corresponds
to the Son principle, or the Logos, the ‘Word.’ The etheric body can
work upon his etheric body to transform it into Buddhi. What he
body, nor yet on his etheric body; but his astral body was of his own
making. Now it was indicated to him how he could act on his etheric
an three days — and during this time the etheric body was raised out
etheric body. He could learn to let what he had in the astral work on
the etheric body. Those were the three days of the Entombment and the
Resurrection in an etheric body that was completely permeated by what
body. This wisdom can never enter the etheric body unless the astral
manner of Solomon. Then the earth clothed itself with an etheric
world. Take this as deeply as you are able. Take the human etheric
body dissolves, and the etheric body too; the physical body dissolves
in the physical world, and the etheric body in the general cosmic
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denser bodies. He was allowed to work upon his etheric body, and was
work on his etheric body. He was then what is called a Chela. Such a
his by now thoroughly structured etheric body he becomes a
has to immobilise all the forces which hinder his work on his etheric
body, an etheric body and an astral body. The Chela has refined his
astral body, and is allowed to work upon his etheric body. What
the etheric body? — that which is organised in the astral body. The
things which live in the astral body stamp themselves on the etheric
develop his etheric body as a Chela, then these qualities stamp
themselves on the etheric body, and that is much more permanent. The
necessary purification. The etheric body is stamped by the forces
aside those forces which impeded the elasticity of the etheric body.
lethargic condition. The human being lay down, and the etheric body
work on the etheric body. And then, after he had formed his etheric
Indian people, the etheric body was much less closely fettered to the
transfer something from the astral to the etheric body, can easily
work on the etheric body. That signifies no less than that the Indian
training. The easier it is for the etheric body to be influenced
through the astral body, the easier it is to work into the etheric
into the etheric body, which is still pliable. One does not have to
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form consisting of three main bodies — the physical body, the etheric
body and the astral body. The etheric body is a kind of archetypal
epochs of humanity, we find that the physical and etheric substance
physical body experiences no great change, nor does my etheric body,
whole. Only in his physical and etheric body is he actually separate

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man on Old Saturn. The human etheric body has the consciousness of

Title: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture II
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rhythmical, filled with wisdom, is in the etheric body. The etheric
body is therefore that in man which represents wisdom. In the etheric
physical body produced for him by other forces. The etheric body too
is the result of his own work lives also in the etheric body and the
impression. Secondly, the rose is conceived in the etheric body as a
etheric body. After Devachan one has become wiser and better because
astral body, which as vibrations has been worked into the etheric
small part of the etheric body which has been worked through; the
remaining part of the etheric body is dissolved in the cosmic ether.
degree is his etheric body immortal. Hence when he returns he again
finds this small part of the etheric body. What needs to be added to
entire etheric body, Devachan is no longer necessary. This is the case
transformed his etheric body so that it remains intact after death and
etheric body when one is certain that he no longer brings anything of
etheric body from being dragged and drawn hither and thither. When
the etheric body to be worked into. If one person hypnotises another
magicians to allow nobody to have his etheric body worked into unless
etheric body rest and wisdom prevail. When something bad enters into
own choice he can work on his etheric body, he must at least, to a
still existing karma. If I begin to work into my etheric body, I must
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— animals and men, and all etheric living beings — plants

Title: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture V
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the air in this way is warmth; it is really a fine etheric substance,
consciousness, but with one's own life, the etheric body; one is then

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Lemurian Age. The human being had developed his physical, etheric and
etheric part. Aristotle
it was only the etheric man which was held to be important. The heart
has also an astral part. The etheric heart is connected with the
etheric, the astral is lacking.

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members, physical body, etheric body and astral body, were directed by
longer needed to enter into such physical, etheric and astral bodies,
physical, etheric and astral bodies had worked on the physical
man was developed in physical, etheric and astral bodies — on the
Earth from the Old Moon as physical, etheric and astral bodies, are
developed are the etheric body, life, and the astral body,

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masculine the etheric body is feminine; and vice versa, when the
physical body is feminine the etheric body is masculine. Only the
being bears within him the opposite sex as etheric body. Thus in the
etheric the man is feminine and in the etheric the woman masculine.

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members: physical body, etheric body, astral body and ego. In studying
laid as a germ. The etheric body was first added on the Old Sun. There
is, as it were, in the fourth grade, while the etheric body is in the
able to open its organs to what is outside. If the etheric and astral

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The formation of the etheric body as the opposite of the physical
body: the feminine etheric body of the man, and the male etheric body
physical body, then the etheric, then the astral body. The physical
body of man can be seen by everyone. The etheric body becomes visible
the space of the physical body remains filled with the etheric body.
The occultist considers the etheric as actually being the lowest body.
the descending line, the form of the etheric body is the reverse of
identical. A woman has a masculine etheric body and a man a feminine
etheric body.
Around the etheric body appears the astral body. It is the outer form
produced the etheric body, the Linga Sharira. Out of what became solid

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of man is also a mixture comprised of the physical, etheric and astral
apparatus with the etheric body. It then became a living organism.
physical automaton was imbued with the etheric body. In this Round the
surrounded by the threefold protective sheath of the astral, etheric
The Solar plexus is the organ of the etheric body.
what builds up from within. Physical body, etheric and astral bodies
lowest work on the astral body. Higher forces work on the etheric body
perfect is the etheric body and still less perfect is the astral body.
etheric body. Through this the Deva forces are gradually released by
The etheric body is the bearer of thoughts. What is thought within
man, is etheric outside, just as what is desire within him, is astral
outside. But it is only when pure thinking begins that etheric
not yet pure thinking we have astral substance surrounding the etheric
of etheric substance surrounded by astral substance. Along the paths
are in reality the most concrete, for they are etheric forces. As soon
etheric body. When a man dies it becomes clear that the physical body
The etheric body is to a great extent in a similar situation to the
etheric body what the human being himself has worked into it and this
is crystallised. This small part of the etheric body remains present
transformation of his etheric body. The stage of chelahood is
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which is necessary in order to build up a new etheric body. On the
in what man achieves today through work on his etheric body. We have

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earth and relinquished his etheric body to the life-forces.
etheric and astral bodies; all this has been cast aside. He now
Old Sun corresponds to the etheric body
When man returns from Devachan, the astral, etheric and physical

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etheric body, the astral body and the ego.
Through Wisdom the etheric body was to be developed, through Beauty,
transformation of our etheric, astral and ego bodies.’ These three

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Sphere. The two-fold structure of the physical, etheric and astral
much stronger, more vigorous etheric body. The etheric body of the
etheric head. The physical head was comparatively small and embedded
in an etheric head of immense size.
organs in the etheric body. By this means they could enter into
the opening of the physical head towards the etheric head. He had
thinks as an etheric head, has power over the etheric, whereas a head
physical tools, while someone who still thinks in the etheric can
Atlantic Ocean, did the frontal etheric head develop the frontal
through the open etheric head they worked through the intellect.
paternal principles takes place for the first time. This etheric head
In this earlier period he did not yet possess this etheric head with
male-female. He also had at that time an astral and etheric body, but
There, on the Old Moon, the astral body together with the etheric body
This astral body with the etheric body was then of quite another
all fours. The etheric body provided for all the life functions of
Horus. The merging of the serpent form with the etheric head, with the
consists of astral body with etheric body and physical body, it is in
which has reached completion. In the case of the etheric body also
physical body, but the etheric body divides itself into two members.
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know, of four members: physical body, etheric body, astral body and
not move far away from the physical and etheric bodies which remain
Now when the physical and etheric bodies remain on the physical plane
influence on the etheric body. When someone sleeps the etheric body
etheric body; only nothing of this will be experienced by the sleeper.
he represses all the thoughts which penetrate into the etheric body.
But in the night the etheric, body is alone, without the ego, and is
etheric body, is engaged with the outer world. When man is in a
thoughts into the etheric body of the sleeper. Someone can therefore
receive into his etheric body pure and lofty thoughts when the Masters
that flit into it from the outer world also enter into the etheric
etheric body. There are two kinds of dreams. The one kind arises
Certain things are however already present in the etheric body. What
in regard to the etheric body is another kind of experience. Thus in
the morning there are to be found in the etheric body, firstly
were a Master to wish to work upon his etheric body. If one reads
astral body in such a way that when the Master imbues the etheric body
etheric body. The higher self is in the universe; therefore the
consists in the separation of the etheric and physical bodies. The
asleep, the etheric body remains connected with the physical body. All
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Every combination of matter on the physical plane lacks an etheric
body, but all that grows has an etheric body. If someone works
the etheric body. An artistically formed piece of sculpture or a
painting works directly on the etheric body. A virtue, on the other
from Devachan meet an etheric body which is in no way suited to their
re-birth, because they have not ennobled their etheric body through
life as an idiot experiences all that is detrimental in his etheric
if he has not ennobled his etheric body through allowing beauty which
the etheric body. Great teachings are not only embodied in words, but
unfamiliar astral body is undertaken in Devachan. Then the etheric is
physical body, memory awakens in the etheric and astral bodies of the

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What has become densest of all is the physical body; the etheric body
then the etheric substance, then again astral substance. So both
members. Firstly he has a physical body, secondly an etheric body,
built up the etheric body, that is to say, through these manifold
images the etheric body developed separate members. This etheric body
etheric mass. We must think of the body as put together out of ten
the etheric body only hold together to a certain degree. Human nature
etheric bodies peace is as yet not established, and only partly so in
etheric body. Then the etheric body too survives. The Masters also
etheric body into separate members, we build into the monadic
ennobles his etheric body (so that it remains in existence), gradually

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etheric body and an astral body. The astral body had become purified
it is now, and an etheric body. Man's whole way of life was

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consisted of fine etheric substance. At that time all beings were also
again consist of this fine etheric substance. Such conditions through
which the Earth passes, beginning with the finest etheric substance,
physical etheric substance, constitute a Globe. Thus the physical
physical ether. The etheric develops out of the astral and returns to
the end of its evolution. It again passes over into an etheric Earth,

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the etheric body remain lying in the bed. If in sleep he were able to
take the etheric body with him as the Chela can, then the physical
Mediums have their visions because they are able to take the etheric
On the future Venus a complete consciousness in the etheric body will
completely detached; he has then taken the etheric body also with him.
On Venus Etheric consciousness, still further extended

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At first man had no power over the physical body and the etheric body.
etheric gold. When we go back to the time when the Earth was still
brought down from Mercury in etheric form. Had we not had quicksilver

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etheric body and with it life. This is the work of the Second Logos.
separate the etheric world from them.

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work of the human being on his own etheric body. There he had drawn
With the ancient Persians we find the deep sleep of the etheric body.

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Then the entire human being will again be etheric. It will pass over

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eyes. The second member is the etheric body which surrounds
are active in it. The etheric body contains the same organs
physical organs through the densifying of the etheric organs.
The etheric body extends only a little beyond the physical
being. In normal sleep the physical and etheric bodies are

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person sleeps? In man we have the physical body, etheric
person sleeps? The physical and etheric bodies remain in bed.
the etheric body and those belonging to the first elemental
astral body upon the physical and etheric bodies during the
astral body works on the physical and etheric bodies during
together with the etheric body, leaves the physical body.
astral and etheric bodies need to be led back into the

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his astral and etheric forces in the solid, dense physical
etheric body; blood, the astral body; and then the spirit.

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chemistry of the body. He has an etheric body, which is,
properly speaking, the vital principle within him. He has this etheric

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expression of etheric man, sees something very different. At the
present point of time, the etheric body of man has practically the
in size between the etheric head and the physical head. The etheric
in the Atlanteans lay outside the brow, in the etheric head. Today it
when the etheric body was centralised in the physical brain. Not until

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(2) The etheric body. How does it become perceptible?
physical body he beholds, not an empty space, but the etheric body.
slightly beyond it. The etheric body is more or less luminous and
etheric body is the ‘etheric double’ of the material body.
the etheric body is the builder of every living organism. In the
(3) The astral body has neither the form of the etheric nor of the
certain sense, the synthesis of the physical and etheric bodies, for
the reason that the etheric body always has a contrary character to
the sex of the physical body. The etheric body of a man is female; the
etheric body of a woman is male. In both man and woman, the astral
his etheric body and by this means ‘affix his seal’ to the
the physical body. Its forces must pass by way of the etheric body.
transformation of the astral and etheric bodies in order, finally, to
When Manas dominates the astral and etheric bodies, man acquires new
man. When Manas works upon the etheric body, light and power for the
etheric body. There is a reason why this is so. Everything in the
astral body is ephemeral. Everything that happens in the etheric body
to work on his etheric body. Here we must consider the different
the etheric body continues.
At death, the etheric and astral bodies are wholly severed from the
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This, the first stage of training, has power to develop the etheric
Having trained the upper part of the etheric body, the disciple must

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etheric body and were the ‘twice-born’ because they could
etheric world. The death of Christ was a full and complete death in
especially on the etheric body which is the seat of memory. Alcohol
a deadening of the power of memory in the etheric body. That is why,

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What happens at the moment of death? After death, the etheric body,
the etheric and astral bodies unite. The etheric body imprints in the
astral body the memory of the life just passed; then the etheric body

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constructive, upbuilding principle — the etheric body. We do not,
The etheric body builds and moulds the physical body; the astral body

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enigmas. During sleep, man's etheric body remains with his physical
regular rhythm to the etheric body. Rhythm is thus set going in the
etheric body by means of fasting. Harmony is brought into life
(etheric body) and form (physical body). In other words, harmony
the end of a certain time, the etheric body disperses into the forces
What is the next task of the astral body and Ego? A new etheric body
etheric body, like that of the physical body, is not conserved. The
years. Similarly, etheric substance is renewed, although its
body remains. In each successive incarnation, therefore, the etheric
develops his etheric body in earthly existence in such a way that it
Earth he is able to awaken, within his etheric forces, a
principles of his being. The Sanscrit term for the etheric body which
for him entirely to re-mould his etheric body between two
control not only of his etheric but of his physical body,

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‘fixed’ in the etheric milieu of his time.

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the course of evolution, the etheric and physical brains have become
more or less equal in size. A certain centre in the etheric brain

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astral body and the etheric body would be subject to change, that is

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etheric body was far more developed than their physical body. Their

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is the etheric body, which is invisible and finer than the physical
body. We may therefore say: in the upper parts of man's being, the etheric
the etheric body clairvoyantly are treated in the same way. At present
Those who are endowed with clairvoyance see the etheric body as follows:
time except that the etheric body slightly projects above the head.
body with our hands. Let us now leave aside the etheric body. Where
refrain from influencing the etheric body and astral body prematurely.
in the child during his seventh year, for a part of the etheric body
influence upon the etheric body. In what way can we exercise an influence
upon the etheric body? Observe, to begin with, the process which takes
place when we die. Only the physical body lies there, while the etheric
the same when we are asleep. When we are asleep, the etheric body is
occurred? His etheric body was more loosely connected with the physical
is underbound a clairvoyant perceives that the finger's etheric body
is very dangerous, for his etheric brain is hanging down limply at both
sides of his physical head. Since the etheric body is the carrier of
etheric body emancipates itself from the physical body, it can follow
its own movements and memory is more free than ever. Normally, the etheric
the etheric body.
the forces of the child's etheric body are free and from the seventh
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been described as the etheric body and the astral body.
he is asleep? His physical and etheric body remain upon the bed, while
the astral body goes out of the etheric and physical body and then we
produce new forces for the physical body and above all for the etheric

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as a corpse; whereas during sleep the etheric body remains connected
with physical body, the etheric body, the astral body and the Ego go
three days, until the next separation, namely that of the etheric body
speak of two corpses. After a while, the etheric body remains behind
sleep the astral body works on the physical body and on the etheric

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his physical body and hands it over to the Earth as a corpse. If etheric
the soul until the etheric body separates from the astral body. The
etheric body then becomes the second corpse which the human being leaves
behind. The etheric body gradually dissolves in the universal ether of the
condition, will observe that his etheric body needs a long time before
the etheric body, the human being consists of astral body and Ego. The
parts: as physical, etheric body, astral body, and Ego. The causal body
The new etheric body must
not the same in the case of the etheric substance. There are Beings
influence his etheric body and are able to give man the right kind of
etheric body. Other beings then lead him to his parents and in accordance
conception the astral body becomes enveloped with the etheric body.
Even as the Mahadevas are connected with the etheric body, so the Lipikas

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of etheric body, then follows a short sleep-like condition in which the
The new etheric body arises,
as we have seen, not through the attraction of etheric substance, but
of the new etheric body takes place when the bell-like shape has already
found a path leading to the embryo. A complete connection of the etheric
of man are contained in the etheric body and in the next life they are
forces. Since the qualities of the etheric body have such an influence

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the etheric body of our next life, that is to say, the lasting moral
a quality in the etheric body; in the case of pessimism this attitude
the work upon the astral body is the work upon the etheric body, because it is
far more difficult to permeate it. This impermeable quality of the etheric
etheric body was formed. The more a human being works into his ehteric body,
the etheric body. The occult disciple transforms his etheric body consciously,
a harmonizing influence upon the forces of the etheric body. In the
case of an initiate this influence on the etheric body manifests itself
of the Ego's work upon the etheric body, is called Buddhi, and a person
from the etheric body and generally everything coming from the physical
conditions he may become an idiot, because his etheric body rebels against

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and receded. The connection between the etheric and physical body of
Atlantean were as follows: His etheric body protruded far, especially
from the head. Human evolution consisted in fact that the etheric body

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man still had a quite etheric form of a very fine substance and he lived

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training of the etheric body. People who precede others in their inner

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means of growth and so forth. This is the etheric body.
in common with the mineral kingdom, and an etheric body in common with
of an etheric body, although only those who have developed their higher
the nature of the etheric body by direct vision must be able to maintain
not be empty; he will see before him the etheric body glowing with a
than young peach blossom. We never see an etheric body if we “suggest
it is the etheric body that is responsible for nutrition, growth and
“suggest away” the physical body and also the etheric body,
immediate influence upon the etheric body, although in the same way that
upon the etheric body. Then he will be called a Chela, a pupil. He can
thus attain mastery over the etheric body, and what he has transformed
sixth member of man's nature, the transformed etheric body.
similarity remains because he has worked consciously on the etheric body,
in rudiment only. Physical body, etheric body, astral body, “I”

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The etheric body, which permeates the physical body with a delicate
man has the first four of these bodies around him in space. The etheric
from the head downwards. When a man falls asleep, the physical and etheric
are different. The etheric body then leaves him, as well as the astral
At the moment of death the connection between the astral body and etheric
forth in the heart, and then the etheric body, the astral body and the
What happens here is that the etheric body is loosened. If a finger,
the etheric body which has got loose. Herein also lies the danger of
has when it goes to sleep. The clairvoyant can see the loosened etheric
If the hypnotism is repeated, the etheric body will develop an inclination
the etheric body occurs when a person is faced with a sudden danger
of death. The cause of this similarity is that the etheric body is the
person's faculty of memory will be. While the etheric body is firmly
danger the etheric body is loosened, and with its memories it detaches
At such moments everything that has been inscribed on the etheric body
after death. This lasts for some time, until the etheric body separates
etheric body dissolves gradually into the world-ether. With lowly,
finally a stage is reached when the etheric body dissolves no longer.
men, then, we have two corpses, of the physical and etheric bodies; we

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then of his etheric body and finally of his lower astral body. What
etheric body takes leave of the astral. It sinks into the unconscious,
body. So now he has five bodies: physical, etheric, astral, ego and
and etheric bodies; these belong to him permanently and he never loses
The airy region; etheric space
When a man is asleep, his astral body leaves the physical and etheric

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plane animals have only a physical, an etheric and an astral body; they
to the chosen parents; the “Maharajas” form the etheric
the intensity of the passion felt by the parents. After this, etheric
body cannot always be built so as to match exactly the incoming etheric

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other beings in the physical world. But the child's etheric and astral
etheric body begins to be free to receive impressions from outside, and
the etheric and astral bodies quite unmolested and to rely on everything
teaching is needed for the etheric and astral bodies, but it is extremely
— the etheric body goes through a liberation, just as the physical
then, we must direct our efforts to the etheric body, the vehicle of
desires. Accordingly, when the etheric body is set free we must take
with the vibrations of the etheric body. If any musical talent exists,
before the child; these are the things which act on the etheric body.
makes the etheric body supple and plastic and provides it with lasting

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bodies — the physical, the etheric, the astral, and within them
etheric body, which consists of substance much less open to change than
how the Initiate can work upon his etheric body and can change even
a marked change in the etheric body only in the next life. Thus if someone
etheric body. If he wants to be born with a good memory, he must exercise
characteristic of his etheric body in his next life — the
of the etheric body.
in the etheric body, and so there are four main types of etheric body.
this will work karmically into the etheric body of his next life: he
to influence our etheric body for the next life? Everything done to
develop the etheric body produces a result, however slowly, and education
can take pains to instil quite specific habits. Whatever the etheric
in the next life. All the habits and inclinations of the present etheric

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etheric body, becoming in time a permanent characteristic of it because
Both attitudes depend on the etheric body and may even find expression
an etheric body unless it possesses cells. A stone has no cells or
vessels, and so it cannot have an etheric body. Equally, an astral body
provided with cells if it were to be permeated by an etheric body.
and etheric bodies may be properly united; then the astral body ought

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the first is, so to speak, the lowest; the etheric body is higher and
Less perfect is the etheric
younger is the etheric body, still younger the astral, and the Ego-body
of primal mineral, with no etheric body round it; hence we can say that
of living minerals. On Sun, man evolved in such a way that the etheric

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thus a planet made up of fine etheric material and surrounded by an
in the rarefied substance of the etheric globe, something rather denser
stretched down from it into the etheric globe and enveloped the shell-like
influence on the Earth from the Sun. The etheric human forms were now
the basic substance, had now condensed into independent etheric bodies
In contrast to the etheric
no real mineral kingdom. Then the etheric forms gradually became more
solid mineral forms appeared. Previously, everything had been etheric,
lower and the digestive organs were much more powerful. The etheric
etheric body there was an important point which corresponded with a
two points drew together, until the point in the etheric body sank into

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during sleep the exhausted forces of the physical and etheric bodies
up for irregularities in the physical and etheric bodies. It is these
withdrawing certain forces from his physical and etheric bodies. If these
and rhythm into his physical and etheric bodies. Both these bodies will
of great importance for the rhythm of the physical and etheric bodies.
it everywhere. This has a powerful effect on the physical and etheric
experiences; by this means your physical and etheric bodies will be

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of this: it cannot exist without the etheric body, but it is actually

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evidence of the existence of man. We have then to regard the etheric body, or life-body, as
the substance, of which the etheric body consists is essentially finer than the substance
‘substantiality’. It is active matter, matter of the nature of force. This etheric matter
picture you can make of the etheric body is that its form is approximately the same as that
lung, liver and so forth are created out of this etheric body. From the materialistic
standpoint it could therefore be said that in a young child the etheric body must be very
small. And that is so. We must think of the etheric body more as a force which in certain
be touched in space. This etheric body is the bearer of a man's habits. Above all it is the
etheric body.
is situated in the etheric body which is denser than the astral body. When an individual
becomes evident in the etheric body, not only in the astral body. When a person learns a
etheric body. When someone accepts a moral principle and is obliged to say to himself
simply can do no other than obey it — then it is established in the etheric body.
Transition from the astral body to the etheric body takes place slowly and gradually in the
begin with is in the astral body into the etheric body manifests karmically from one
as a basic quality of his etheric body, as a kind of habit, as a quality of his character.
of the etheric body. When you come across a person with a certain praiseworthy habit which
foundation of a definite organisation of the etheric body. You can say to yourself: I shall
right. Then the etheric body will ultimately show you that it is good and right in the very
and then they are consolidated for the next. What is established in the etheric body of one
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the etheric head protruded way beyond the physical body. Even
in Atlantean times, the forehead was a point where the etheric head
with the horses and other animals. With horses the etheric head today
etheric head has been brought under protection of the physical head

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was not in existence. But the etheric body and astral body were
First the etheric body formed itself and this again formed the human
physical organs formed out of the finer etheric body. The physical

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etheric or life-body, astral body and ego. Then, within the ego, he has the
four existing lower principles (physical body, etheric body, astral body
the four lower human principles — physical body, etheric body, astral
principles must start with the physical body, continue with the etheric
it. The etheric body likewise may be considered a part of the environment
Think of the etheric body and the astral body together. The astral body, as
pleasure and pain. The etheric body, on the contrary, is the vehicle that
Often I have compared the development of the etheric body and astral
natures. It is to overcome this relatively stationary quality of the etheric
rooted in the etheric body; whatever changes quickly by contrast, minute-
because he is obliged to change his etheric body, through which he has
little in common with him. His etheric body would be so unlike yours.
etheric bodies.
So it is that faults committed through the etheric body render a man more
and that originate in a faulty etheric body. The more common English
or guilt, derives from defective qualities in the etheric body, whereas
qualities of the etheric and astral bodies, occur through the very fact of a
fault proceeding from the etheric body of a man in social relationships
The fault of the etheric body:
it maintains its existence. The etheric body's life in a finite condition is
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astral body, the etheric body and the physical body are
consisted of physical body, etheric body, astral body and
Into the physical, etheric and astral body of Jesus of

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being. The next member is the etheric or life-body which man shares in
nature, the etheric with all that grows and propagates, with the
etheric body, astral body and the ego-nature. These beings were more
his etheric body and through that of Atma the physical body. Therefore
lower principles — physical body, etheric body, astral body and ego,
The second principle is the etheric or life-body. We must realize that
life. Then think how painfully slow are the changes in your etheric
whilst the etheric body is the bearer of the latter. A change in your
habits implies a change in your etheric body. The lessons learned from
he outwardly learns; all spiritual training modifies the etheric body.
exoterically, that for which the etheric body is the vehicle, and
esoterically, what the etheric body needs. The etheric body is also
associated with a transformation of the etheric body; any weakening of
the memory implies a change in the etheric body, a change in the power
characteristics of the etheric body. It is these characteristics which
etheric body should harmonize with the etheric bodies of those with
etheric body therefore is to adjust itself to the etheric bodies of
the etheric body. In the esoteric teachings of Christianity the
correct term for the defects of the etheric body was “debt”, that
recreated by means of metabolic processes, the etheric body which may
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human-animal, with physical, etheric, astral bodies, and the tendency

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the human being: His physical body, his etheric body, his
They only have a physical and an etheric body. Individually, they
sleep, you would see your physical and etheric body lying on the bed.
your physical and etheric body during the night.
and the ego, which you lift out of your physical and etheric body
and an etheric body. But the plant's astral body is outside.

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with, that these minerals upon the earth have no etheric body
etheric body, we must ascend to the astral plane: there, its
etheric body is to be found. The moment that a human being
becomes astrally clairvoyant, he is able to see the etheric
discovers the etheric body, which gives life to the physical
physical plane, it has its physical body and its etheric
an etheric body, and an astral body — but it's Ego is
physical body, etheric body, astral body and the Ego have all
is asleep it is otherwise. The physical and etheric bodies
etheric body, the astral body, and the Ego. It has often been
etheric body has reached its third stage of perfection, for
time, an etheric, or life-body, entered into it, transforming
etheric body consisting of one member, and the physical body
permeated by the etheric body. When picturing to ourselves to
etheric body; it has still the same value as the physical
within the etheric and physical bodies. Thus, we must now
the etheric and astral bodies; another part is permeated only
by the etheric body; and a third part has remained at the
of the physical body is permeated by the etheric body, astral
body and the Ego; a second part, by the etheric body and
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etheric body and the astral body. In him the “I,” the Self
Cross the physical man, the etheric man and the astral man, and
etheric body into the Life-Spirit, the physical body into
etheric body, round which the astral body winds itself. He
body is changed into the spirit-self, the etheric body into the

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single animal has a physical body, an etheric body, and an astral
a physical body, an etheric body and an astral body. What physically

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standing before us. Man is a combination of physical body, etheric
man's nature, from the etheric and physical bodies. But even then it
physical body is alone only at death, when the etheric body too has
dim clairvoyance was carried over into the etheric body. Just as a
impress itself into the etheric body and this in turn moulded the
a seal into wax, into the etheric body and a certain part of the
etheric body moulded an organ in the interior of the human ear,
the etheric body and the organs of the physical body.
the etheric body. Hence those who have no knowledge of the astral and
etheric bodies cannot understand the physical body. The astral body is
the predecessor of the etheric body and the etheric body is the

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permeated by the etheric body and the astral body. These three bodies
are united and only when the etheric and the astral bodies are removed
Man has his second member, the etheric or life-body, in common with
forces. If you could think away the physical body, the etheric body
etheric body an etheric heart; this etheric heart contains certain
physical heart formed out of the etheric heart; it is simply a
hardened etheric heart and the streams of force in the etheric heart
body, you would see that the etheric body, especially in the upper
great differentiation within the etheric body; you will realise that
this is so when I tell you that the etheric body in the male is female
incomprehensible in practical life. The etheric body appears like a
of the physical body. The human being has the etheric body in common
with the plants. It is the same with the etheric as with the physical
body: the forces which hold the etheric body together are found in the
All the forces, which hold the etheric body together, lie one stage
human etheric body and lives within you without your being aware of
Thus we have the fourfold human being: physical man, etheric man,
etheric body. Let us be clear about the difference between working
upon the astral body and working upon the etheric body. Think of what
working upon the etheric body, not only upon the astral body.
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withdraw from the physical and etheric bodies. When you observe the
sleeping human being clairvoyantly, physical body and etheric body lie
into the etheric and physical bodies.
but is still connected with the etheric body. Man's field of vision is
in a certain way, with the etheric body.
his physical and etheric bodies. The fact that he must sink into sleep
it is outside the physical and etheric bodies. During the day, when
the astral body is within the physical and etheric bodies, influences
man, and the physical body, together with the etheric body, is only
builder of the etheric and physical bodies. Just as the physical body
with all its organs has hardened out of the etheric body, so
everything that streams and is active in the etheric body has been
from this ocean and having passed into an etheric body and a physical
Now the astral body is the builder of the etheric body and indirectly
— because the etheric body is in turn the builder of the physical
body in building the etheric and physical bodies is originally sound
etheric body passes away together with the astral body and the
until death the etheric body never leaves the physical body except
Separation of the physical body from the etheric body during life can
etheric body suddenly loosens from the physical body. This occurs when
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These incipient human beings must now receive an etheric body and a
forces they themselves had developed. But the forming of the etheric
human being alone; in respect of the forming of an etheric body, man
perfect accordance between the astral body and the etheric and
will afford the best possible opportunity of receiving an etheric and
the etheric body to the astral body and whose rank is similar to that
and the rudiments of a common etheric body. This lives within a kind
memory-picture. When the human being passes into his etheric body but
etheric body extends only slightly beyond the physical body, in the
case of idiots portions of the etheric body are often to be seen as an
etheric sheen extending far beyond the head. Here is a case where

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etheric body and has, for a brief moment, a pre-vision of the life
a new etheric body by Beings of a rank similar to that of the
Folk-Spirits. This etheric body is not perfectly adapted to the
through the etheric body, he is drawn to the folk and to the family in
of attraction to the father. The etheric body attracts the human being
“ I ,” astral body and etheric body is, from the moment of
At about the third week the astral and etheric bodies take hold, as it
without the influence of the astral body and etheric body. From then
Therefore what was said about the etheric body holds good still more
etheric bodies. These products of decay found good soil in the fear

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shaped like a sort of flower-calyx, playing around his etheric and
the etheric and astral bodies like a wounding arrow.
together the new etheric body, and from the highest regions of
to the etheric body in the next incarnation and imbues it with lasting
propensities. The etheric body of a man who experiences much happiness
That of which the etheric body is the bearer in the present life
acquisition, the bearer of this quality being the etheric body. On the
— this tendency in the etheric body gives rise, in the next life,
the astral body appears again in the etheric body; the lasting
impulses and passions that are rooted in the etheric body appear in
etheric body; what the etheric body does becomes the destiny of the
which you yourselves are not aware. The etheric body is worked upon by
that in the astral body and in the etheric body, as well as in the
astral body — if I may so express it. The etheric body is also
created by your etheric body and the “phantoms” created by
You have just heard that forces which lie in the etheric body work upon

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in the etheric and astral bodies before passing through the Elemental
living in his etheric body. He has a strange experience in connection
feels his etheric body growing and expanding as if it embraced the
Then, when the etheric body has been abandoned, another very
by the higher members of his being; Ego, astral body, etheric body and
is the most perfect; the etheric body is less perfect, the astral body
permeated by the etheric body. When these two bodies had worked
only principle was that of the physical body; the etheric body was
etheric body on Jupiter will have reached the stage at which the

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physical body was prepared on Saturn; on the Sun was added the Etheric
Sun it was much more complicated, for then the etheric body worked on
as yet no etheric body had interpenetrated it, all the organs it
etheric body, astral body and ego have worked on it. So too the
the etheric body was inserted, the sense organs were further

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body is then outside the physical and etheric bodies, but remains
in the sleeping man we have the physical, the etheric and the astral
interpenetrated with the etheric body, while above hovered over them
now imagine that the human being has died, that even his etheric body
purely physical body; it was surrounded, so to speak, by an etheric
being consists of four members: Physical body, Etheric body, Astral
The next higher is the etheric body, then the astral body and the ego.
member is the etheric body. They have no need of the physical body in
the etheric body drew into the prepared physical body below. The Sun
interpenetrated by the etheric body. You yourselves belonged to a body
of air, as on Saturn to a body of warmth. Your etheric body was
into the physical and etheric bodies, just as today in sleep when your
astral body is outside it works upon the physical and the etheric
hold of by the etheric body and transformed. When you compare the body
able to do so by virtue of having an etheric body. Its body,
penetrated by an etheric body, did as the plant does today with the
as physical and etheric bodies. These light streams divided in

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developed to the degree of having a physical body and an etheric body,
Sun, inasmuch as they had an etheric body, brought to expression in
etheric body and which had therefore in a certain respect remained
because they were permeated by an etheric body.
of physical body and etheric body, but there was now the astral body
body, etheric body, and astral body, but as yet no ego. The
atmosphere surrounding the Moon, just as formerly the etheric body had
beings whose external sheath was the etheric body. They consisted of
etheric body, astral body, ego, Spirit-self, Life-spirit and
them as phantom-like beings in their etheric body; they had at that

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etheric body and human astral body ready to possess an
the ego consciousness into the astral and etheric bodies. As yet the
descended into the astral and etheric bodies was no longer quite in
body, etheric body and astral body, but without the refining power of
(physical body, etheric body, astral body and ego). It is now for the

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present man the physical body is masculine, the etheric body feminine,
masculine etheric body. These facts open up an interesting insight
masculinity of the etheric body, whereas the ambition of the man is
explained when we realise the feminine nature of his etheric body. I
etheric body emanates from the moon and the stronger influence on the
physical body is influenced by the forces of the moon and the etheric
If, as seer, you wished to examine the connection between the etheric
remarkable discovery. Whereas in the man of today the etheric head is
protrudes slightly beyond it, in the old Atlantean the etheric head
centimetre lower, and a second point in the etheric head which would
point of the etheric head drew in to the physical brain and by reason
definite union with the etheric body and thus an increase of the

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the etheric body of some other being proceeds from the medium. That
time when the etheric body united with the point in the brain of which
the human being will be able to draw his etheric body out of his

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works down on the etheric body and thence on to the blood and this is
increasingly more able to work on his organism through his etheric
spread outside it, each separate member of your physical body, etheric

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is what we call the etheric or the vital body. This is of an
what we call LIFE. This etheric or vital body, or this body
develop himself so as to be able to perceive this etheric
etheric body, but it tries to form a conception of it in a
etheric body appear to a clairvoyant eye, that is to say, to
etheric body.
The etheric
development of the different beings. The etheric body of
themselves; the etheric body of animals has a greater
resemblance to the external shape, and the etheric body of
etheric body protruding rather far from the head as a shape
can see his etheric body protruding only slightly above the
head and its sides. In regard to the substance of the etheric
etheric body, but this forms part of the “childhood
of the etheric body, please try to follow my thoughts in this
constitutes the etheric body.
etheric body of every living being is a part, has the
asunder, to decay, so the etheric body has the inclination to
it permeates from decaying. As soon as the etheric body
man's etheric body resembles his physical body, I mention a
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the other members of his being, upon his astral body, etheric
his etheric body, so that the Ego also becomes the sovereign
of the etheric body. But you must realise that this is a far
transformation of the astral body and of the etheric body is
you take in. But this is not the case with the etheric body.
they are rooted in the etheric body; and if we wish to
transform these habits, then the etheric body must be
etheric body with the progress of the minute and second hands
above-mentioned work upon the etheric body: He must succeed,
habits, that is to say, some quality of his etheric body, has
of the etheric body should go hand in hand with the other
transforms his etheric body of his own accord — though
that part of his etheric body which he has been able to
physical body and the etheric body lie in the bed;
of the etheric body, but everything pertaining to the astral
body is lifted out of the physical body and the etheric body
the physical body and the etheric body remain united
the etheric body also, and not only the astral body, as in
body and the etheric body ... Immediately after death,
natural result of the fact that the etheric body, besides
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severed himself from his physical body and from his etheric
his physical body and his etheric body. The perceptive organs
and the etheric body lie on the bed, while the astral body
body is completely lifted out of the etheric body; but in a
body still reach into the etheric body, and this enables man
possesses an etheric body, exists in the spiritual realm as

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body develops until the child changes its teeth, the etheric
its birth to dentition; to the development of the etheric

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essence of his etheric and of his astral body, a survey of
three and a half days within his etheric body and that his
like a kind of picture. The etheric body dissolves and then
enfolding with an etheric body; but that a process in which
for the etheric body; for that purpose, man needs the help,
lowest member is the etheric body. Then the Folk-soul has an
are embedded all the etheric bodes of the individual human
into the etheric bodies of individual men.
cooperate in the building up of the etheric body of the new
him. The etheric body does not always fit quite perfectly;
etheric body through his own forces. A complete harmony will
with the etheric body takes place with great rapidity —
etheric body.
the astral body, the etheric body and the physical body.
perfection, for he transforms the astral body and the etheric
Manas, out of the purified etheric body Budhi, and out of the
The etheric
it day by day. If the etheric body is to remain sound, it
If the etheric
The etheric

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again, appears in the next life as a quality of the etheric
character qualities, and their bearer is the etheric body.
preceding life become qualities of the etheric body in the
a result, the etheric body will have the inclination to
the etheric body in the next life producing a merry
life has placed him, his etheric body will be born in the
we can almost prepare our etheric body for our next life.
which the etheric body possesses during one life appear, in

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moment of death. You know that the etheric body has the two
structure of this substance; but the etheric body is also the
seat of memory. When the etheric body abandons the physical
being only consists of the etheric body, the astral body and
it has acquired, both those pertaining to the etheric and to
afterwards it must similarly attract the etheric qualities.
and the new etheric body begins to work independently and to
etheric body fulfilled that which must then be done by the
new etheric body. From the 18-20-th day after conception, the
with a new astral and etheric body, begins to take possession
life which awaits him, so that his etheric body does not
etheric body's reluctance to enter properly into the physical
body. A clairvoyant may perceive the etheric body of such
etheric body is not properly structured into the physical
etheric body does not work upon it as it should. Many cases
applying a kind of physical treatment the etheric body may be
physical body, etheric body, astral body and Ego. These
you as it does, only because the etheric body, the astral
it obtains its life from the etheric body which permeates and
etheric body is chiefly involved in the development of these
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the human being now consists of physical body, etheric body, astral
etheric body. During such a planetary transition something evolves
a new foundation and it became permeated with on etheric body.
permeating them with an etheric body; the sense organs thus became
influence of the etheric body, this was a final product of the Sun
possessed three bodies: the physical body, the etheric body and the
whose lowest member was the etheric body, their second one the astral

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consists of physical body, etheric body, astral body and Ego,
developing within us to-day, were permeated by an etheric
with an etheric body.
these organs upon the Sun by permeating them with a etheric
etheric body; this was a final product of the Sun
bodies: the physical body, the etheric body and the astral
etheric body, their second one the astral body, then the Ego,

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possess an etheric body. The etheric body was embodied during
absorb the Ego. During the Sun repetition the etheric body
with the relationship of the etheric body with the physical
coincide, but the etheric body slightly protrudes above the
etheric body, and this corresponds to a definite point in the
the etheric head protruded and his physical head had a
Atlantean had something which man lost when the etheric body
blood mixture which preserved the etheric body's capacity to
light flooding through space as the etheric gold, and gold is

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out of his etheric and physical bodies, whereas death
because the etheric and astral body have left it. Now the
while the etheric body and the other members were outside.
glandular processes are an expression of the etheric body;
the earth, but also the earth's etheric and astral body; you

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that the human being consists of physical body, etheric body,
member; when it works upon the etheric body, the second
back to an epoch in the Atlantean evolution when the etheric
above the root of the nose. We have seen that the etheric
the etheric head, then you learn to know what the earth was
like at that time, when the etheric head began to enter the

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manner, and only under the influence of the etheric body can
living body and the etheric body fights continually against
etheric body withdraws from the physical body, the substances
The etheric body, therefore, continually combats the
the physical body has behind it this etheric body. Man has an
etheric heart, an etheric brain, etc., which holds together
picture the etheric body in a material way, somewhat like a
thin cloud, but in reality the etheric body consists of a
etheric body of man certain currents that are exceedingly
not the only one in the etheric body, there are very many of
of the form and size of the human etheric body we may say
underlying the relationship between the etheric and physical
The etheric body of a man is female, that of a woman is male.
much that is masculine. In the animals the etheric body is
of the horse the clairvoyant sees that his etheric body
also become master of the etheric or life-body. The part of
the etheric body which has been transformed by the ego is
called Life Spirit. The etheric body is transformed under the
etheric body. But the conscious work in occult training acts
most strongly upon the etheric body, and meditation and
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etheric body of man was added to the existing physical body,
Etheric body
Etheric body
Etheric body
They possessed four principles, physical body, etheric body,

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physical, etheric and astral bodies. On the Old Moon Wisdom
etheric body, and still less in that of the astral body. If
have now to distinguish in men the physical body, the etheric
ancestors on the Old Moon consisting of physical, etheric and
relationship between the etheric and physical bodies was then
two-points in the human head, one in the etheric brain, the
the etheric brain projected some distance beyond the physical

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soul. In the same way the Ego works upon the etheric body,
moment of initiation, when the etheric body was separated
etheric body remains united with the physical body, whereas
in the former the etheric body was for a short time separated
to keep the body alive. Through the etheric body being
itself into the etheric body, as a seal impresses itself into
sealing-wax, and gives it its imprint. The etheric body is
the necessity of a previous separation of the etheric body.
prepare to imprint what is in the etheric body into the
of Lazarus lay as if dead in the grave, his etheric body was
seen that man consists of physical, etheric and astral
etheric body. If we rise still higher, into the Higher Spirit
initiated still more deeply, the ego of the etheric body is
Ego of the Etheric body.
etheric body may be compared to the engineer who builds a

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people which had so progressed in evolution that the etheric
Etheric body.
Indian Age the etheric body was especially developed. In that
development of the etheric body.
first of all the unfolding of the etheric body, then the

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Atlanteans the etheric body was still partly outside the
Epoch and the more the etheric body was outside the physical
the physical body. The mastery of the etheric body over the
beginnings of the bony skeleton; the power of the etheric
have already said, was because the etheric body was still
partly outside the physical body. The etheric body,
delicate etheric body, which he continually remoulded and
too, was an etheric being of plant-like nature; at that time
possesses physical body and etheric body only, and for this

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the etheric body and forms out of it the Life Spirit; it
initiation in the etheric body, was now overcome in the

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etheric body that is especially relevant in this consideration. You
know that the etheric body belongs to the sphere of the occult; it is
essentiality of the etheric body does not consist in its appearing as
the etheric body, which, like the ocean, is flooded through by many
five currents hidden in him. The healthy etheric body appears so that
suppose however, that everything pertaining to the etheric body is
etheric body. It is a fact.
in the etheric body.
of his being; his etheric body is somewhat younger; his astral body
lacked all his other bodies — etheric body, astral body, and so
Sun, that the etheric body was added. At that time the human etheric
Where, for example, was what an etheric body had drawn into the
physical body, an etheric body, an astral body, and an ego. When the
receding physical forehead, while the etheric body stood out like a
mighty globe. Then physical and etheric bodies drew together and when
come to an important moment in his evolution. Today, man's etheric

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that Fire is the first etheric condition, that it is finer than Air.
impregnated with the etheric body. There were no other beings but Air
for the physical body was formed; on the Sun the etheric body was
physical body but possessed an etheric body as their lowest member,

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the builder, the creator, of the lymph. In the same way man's etheric
in the human astral body and etheric body, the ego is definitely not
to a greater control over his astral body and his etheric body as he
the human etheric body, you find that similar beings are also incorporated
through his etheric body, and is connected through his astral body with

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cosmic processes, we are not speaking of physical or etheric bodies
consisting of physical body, etheric body, astral body, ego, spirit-self,
2. Etheric Body
lowest member is the etheric body; they too are sevenfold, having an
etheric body, astral body, and so forth, finishing with a member above
the ego, and who therefore have not a physical nor an etheric nor an
is to have content. The nature of man's etheric body is such that it
the ego, works in the etheric body and that ‘Budhi’ is nothing
else than a transformed etheric body. In respect of substance, therefore,

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astral body at night works at upbuilding the physical and etheric bodies
from the old Moon, man had his physical body from Saturn, his etheric
that man's ego works upon his astral, etheric, and physical bodies.
being by saying that he consists of physical body, etheric body, astral
as you know, is physical, etheric, astral bodies, then the three soul-forces
of the etheric body; then they themselves advanced a stage, and when

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Sun the Spirits of Form sacrifice the etheric body, on the Moon,
etheric and astral bodies. On the Earth “trickling in”
the ego takes hold of man's astral, etheric, physical bodies
as all beings go through an evolution. As man received his etheric body
had no physical body on Saturn, their lowest member was an etheric body
which one can compare with the etheric body of man; thus we should have
think of the lowest member of their being as the etheric body. Then
on Saturn through their etheric body as man on Earth works externally
the physical body. But their etheric body manifests in such a way that
rain from the etheric bodies of the Spirits of Form. The nature of Saturn
rays of the etheric body of the Spirits of Form and raying these back
fact that the Spirits of Form no longer have need of an etheric or life-body;
they give up the etheric body. They no longer ray down the life-giving
saps, they relinquish their etheric body and in this way the first physical
germs of man were permeated with an etheric body. The etheric body which
the etheric body of the Spirits of Form, — a portion of the etheric
capable of the greatest deed, namely, to lay aside their etheric body
have laid aside their etheric body, “exuded” it out of themselves
suddenly freed from that and from etheric and astral body, imagine only
that on the Moon man now consisted of physical body, etheric body and
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being which in all fineness was still etherically a being of warmth
it was denser than before, it was no longer a fine etheric substance.

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etheric condition, was then filled out with a kind of albumen which,
the blood-system, and a kind of nerve-system present in fine etheric
He was not permeated by the substance of blood, but etheric warmth-lines
of force penetrated him, and these etheric warmth-force lines out of
etheric body, astral body, but not yet a personal ego as he now possesses
etheric body, astral body, we should find that this old Moon-consciousness
work on man's being since he has a physical body, an etheric and

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Ego into the physical and etheric bodies, making use of the physical
astral body draw out of the physical and etheric bodies, and sleep
ensues. The physical and etheric bodies lie in the bed, but the Ego
the morning he entered into his physical and etheric bodies he was not
come down into his physical and etheric bodies he still had some
Moreover, when at night the Atlantean left his physical and etheric
when his Ego and astral body were outside his physical and etheric
waking life coming to him when he was within his physical and etheric
the etheric body was different. The connection existing to-day did not
time the upper part of the etheric head extended far outside the
etheric head gradually drew completely into the physical head until it
gradual interlocking of the physical body and etheric body.
In earlier times, when the etheric body was still partly outside
the physical body, this projecting part of the etheric body was able
Not until the etheric body had sunk right down into the physical body
loosening of the etheric body, in consequence of which the physical
loosened etheric body experiences which had once come to Atlantean man
etheric body partially out of the physical body and guided the
impressions issuing from the astral body into this released etheric
body, the candidate experienced in his etheric body the spiritual
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perceive the physical world. As their lowest being they have the etheric
have often spoken. We have said that man has a physical body, an etheric
can keep himself from sleeping. Then the etheric body dissolves and
kingdom and can perceive it. They have no etheric body, the astral body

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etheric body, astral body, and ego. As physical substance continues
upwards as etheric body, astral body, so it does downwards in
We apportion to him a bodily nature — the physical body, etheric
of man when we distinguish his members as physical body, etheric body,
instrument in the blood, the astral body in the nerve-system, the etheric
expression in the nerve system, and all that goes on in the etheric
of the etheric body. Thus the physical body presents, as it were, an
body! To develop the forebrain involves perfecting the etheric instrument.
it. One cannot see the etheric body because as regards substance it
continues upwards as physical foundation for the etheric and astral,
as we know it today is because it is interpenetrated by etheric body,

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physical body, etheric body, and astral body. The ego is in the astral
blossom spreads out a sort of tiny etheric aura. Every time that the
a little etheric aura and then such beings approach, especially when
this etheric aura and also entirely interpenetrated by the spiritual
this fine etheric aura arises, they not only approach to satisfy themselves,
etheric bodies lie in bed, the astral body with the ego lifts itself
physical and etheric bodies during the night, no absolute unconsciousness
as astral-etheric. Only the part which projects into the physical world

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of the etheric: Sun. Nervous system as expression of the astral:
when astral body and ego are outside the physical and etheric
of the etheric body in the physical body; towards the future a
loosening of the etheric body takes place again. Inner spiritual
and etheric bodies lie in bed, the ego with the astral body is lifted
the physical and etheric bodies. They lie there, and if we disregard
Sun evolution, he received the etheric or life body, that in the third
of sense-organs. On the Sun the etheric body was added, the physical
is the expression of the astral body, the glandular system of the etheric
is asleep the physical and etheric bodies lie on the bed, the astral
and the sleeping physical and etheric bodies are absolutely alone. But
etheric body which lie on the bed are at the same time interpenetrated
on the physical and etheric bodies. But in the present cycle of his
power of working in the right way on his physical and etheric bodies.
again work in a similar way on the etheric body. You must not be amazed
result on the etheric body are bad laws, or bad social measures prevailing
into the etheric body. The accumulation in the etheric body caused through
or “ghosts.” Thus these beings that exist in the etheric
his etheric body crammed with spectres, and as a rule after a man's
the physical body, etheric body, astral body, and ego belong together,
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art. Architecture as union with the etheric bodies, (Greek temple),
the etheric body, painting for the sentient soul. The harmonies
of physical body, etheric body, astral body, and so on, upwards, as man,
but who have an etheric body as their lowest member. They are invisible
to ordinary sight since their bodily nature is a fine etheric one and
place beings who have as their lowest bodily nature an etheric body,
who live around us in this fine etheric body, and send down to us their
etheric body forward from there; they need no physical body like man.
their etheric body into connection with our earthly sphere — an
attraction for these beings to descend with their etheric bodies and
then these form an opportunity for the etheric bodies of these beings
bodily conditions into which beings with etheric bodies sink down.
body, etheric body, astral body and ego are all before us, while in
the sleeping man the physical and etheric bodies lie on the bed, the
place man has the physical body, then the etheric or life body, then
the astral body but is united with the etheric body. That is the member
the soul body remains in connection with the etheric body that lies
united with the physical and etheric bodies. In the night man's
and enters the three-fold bodily nature of physical body, etheric body
and that part of the astral body which is united with the etheric body,
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etheric and astral bodies and its ego which belong to it, so

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this three-fold bodily nature, physical, etheric and astral,
human being when his physical and etheric bodies are

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upon the etheric what had previously been prepared within it.

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way his physical and etheric bodily parts are permeated and
etheric and physical bodily parts in order that the human

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etheric enclosed it like surrounding shells. Thus individual

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Body. We have seen the Christ spiritualizing the etheric

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great mistake if you were to seek all that is etheric or in
a muzzle, he finds an etheric appendage. This etheric head
the etheric head corresponds almost exactly in form and size
huge etheric head; it is, indeed, etherically a very
physical and etheric heads coincide and in form and size they
period. The ancient Atlanteans' etheric head protruded far
that the physical and the etheric heads exactly coincided. In
with a very definite point in the etheric head. These points
were apart in ancient times; the etheric point was outside of
coincidence of the etheric and physical heads, the appearance
see how Atlanteans lived. Since the etheric

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upon the ether body, be impressed into the etheric
to return again to the physical and etheric bodies, was able

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human being, the physical and etheric bodies, and therewith
body which was taken out of the physical and etheric bodies
physical senses upon the etheric and astral bodies, until the
receive impressions of light, these influence the etheric and
astral body is withdrawn from the physical and etheric
should be imprinted in the etheric body. Just as the
imprinted in the etheric body. This imprinting is the next
followed a further penetration into the etheric body. What at
further penetration into the etheric body. Then there began
the etheric body, and afterwards in a still higher sphere

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consists of the physical, etheric and astral bodies and the
day this physical body is permeated by the so-called etheric
physical and etheric bodies remain on the bed and a kind of
physical and the etheric bodies like a kind of spiral mist
must be imprinted in the etheric body. Just as the letter of
astral body be imprinted in the etheric body. For this
through the etheric withdrawing together with the astral body
of life. The etheric body never, even in the deepest sleep,
condition part at least of the etheric body leaves the
physical body, so that a part of the etheric body which was
saying that the etheric body is withdrawn. That is not
etheric body. This is the stage when the astral body, with
all the organs formed in it, imprints itself in the etheric
imprinted in the etheric body, was able to see first of all
experiences. The first thing perceived by one whose etheric
which have formed the human etheric body in its present
physical body and etheric body. But now the physical and
etheric bodies as they are to-day, belong to the present
physical human body; and to the present etheric body belong
this etheric body cannot exist alone. They have become what
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body and outside the physical and etheric bodies. We shall
etheric worlds and limited to this physical world. In the
etheric body, the principle of the astral body. This last
when transformed yields Spirit Self, the transformed etheric
his etheric body, the Moon that of his astral body, and the

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beings who had an etheric body as their lowest principle.
They had a physical body only by anchoring their etheric
was possible for the etheric body to be membered into the
possessed a physical body and an etheric body, but upon the
Saturn cannot therefore acquire an etheric body and must
human germs with physical body and etheric body, and animal
consists of three parts, the physical body, etheric and
of physical and etheric body. These are especially those who
had developed so far that they could take up an etheric body.
that they could take up an etheric body, are the ancestors of
kingdom, consisting of physical body and etheric body; and
the finest parts, the most etheric substances, while the
etheric body and astral body, and there were also the germs

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only physical body, etheric and astral bodies. With these
these from airy, the airy from etheric and the etheric from
now. The etheric body was not yet so firmly bound up with the
physical body. The etheric body of the head extended far
Atlantean epoch did the projecting etheric body draw in and
lie the physical body and the etheric body; the astral body
“I” re-enter the physical body and etheric body,
man plunged into the physical body and etheric body; at that
time when he went out of his physical body and etheric body,
period. This came about more and more as the etheric body was
and etheric body in order to go into the brilliance of the
left his physical and etheric bodies and entered the
not only physical body, but that an etheric body and an

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Towards the end of the Atlantean epoch the etheric body

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etheric body entered into the physical body that man received
Everything was still etheric and spiritual, all in such a

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were it not permeated by what we call the etheric body or
life body. This etheric body man no longer has in common with
the earthly vegetable kingdom. In every man the etheric body
by the “I.” When the “I” transforms the etheric
nature, we have the physical body, the etheric body or
etheric body on the Sun, the astral body on the Moon, and
etheric body and produced what we call intellectual-soul or
that he has developed physical body, etheric body, astral
etheric body which was dimly trans-formed in the Atlantean
nature and make the ennobled etheric into a being which can
it is raised a spiritual body.” Paul calls the etheric or
and the etheric passes into the astral earth. Paul here sees
he is still etheric. He condenses, and absorbs mineral
etheric body appears as the last Adam. The first Adam has the
descended from the etheric, so to speak, by becoming first an
etheric being, was not born as he is to-day, but he was, so
etheric being. Before man separated front the whole earth, he
Christine way, so that the etheric body which will be an
temple. Man had first to have physical body and etheric body
beast. All that was deposited in man by the etheric body is
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“You Anthroposophists dream that there is an etheric body,
conditions of life on Saturn, but he only acquired an etheric
with their etheric body, with their astral body, “I,” etc.
Now when man began to harden himself from the etheric into the
that you may imagine that because man was etheric, he had
etheric body. This is the view of the writer of the
densification of the etheric. Just as you would think: “This
thinks: “man exists etherically and this condenses and
corresponds to the etheric body. Horn is a callous thickening.
the etheric, we have in the fourth Atlantean age the four
four heads, the condensed etheric with four horns. We now
perceptible to spiritual vision, three etheric heads, a

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That which man has obtained as physical body, etheric body,
body, Vau, the etheric body, Resh, the astral body and Tau,

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etheric body, astral body and the “I.” We also know that
physical body, etheric body, astral body and “I,” we must
body, etheric body, astral body and “I” but he will have
condition the physical body and etheric body lie on the bed,
physical and etheric bodies. But through being able to
etheric bodies, through being able to live at night in the
withdraws from his physical and etheric bodies at night,
the physical and etheric bodies at night will appear in the
to come out of the physical body and etheric body every night
during the day, but that the physical and etheric bodies were
etheric body, what he has taken into himself. It is necessary
for this etheric body also to receive effects from what man
into this etheric body. Upon Jupiter, when he has
this etheric body also, but to-day he cannot do this; he
capable of beginning the real work on the etheric body. Upon
the physical and etheric bodies every night and emerge from
them. But in order that the etheric body may receive its
conies who makes it possible to work into the etheric body.
body by his own power — to work upon the etheric body
would not be communicated to the etheric body. From this we
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to begin with, they had their etheric bodies lifted out of their physical.
plane, they had experienced in the etheric realm. Their last words were
had experienced earlier in the etheric body what Christ experienced
who consists of physical body, etheric body, astral body, and I. When
the I lights up in the course of evolution then the astral and etheric

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the emphasis is on the development of the etheric body. In other locations
of the physical body. The Phrygians in Smyrna emphasized the etheric
purified, and must become more and more an expression of the etheric
body. The etheric body must itself become an expression of the astral
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comes forth from the planets sounds in our etheric body. There is a
sevenfold influence from the planets on the etheric body, as there is
planets resound into our etheric body. There are twelve influences from
influence our physical body. Everything in the I, astral body, etheric
I, three tones in the astral body, seven tones in the etheric body and
body is constantly becoming more like the etheric body. If the physical
of the etheric body. The etheric body must gradually be developed into
this etheric body will become life spirit. Then it will have overcome
the etheric body developed into a body of soul. When they strive for
pray for a blessing through the enlivening of the etheric body. This
of the etheric body is clearly expressed.

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their physical bodies into a higher form. In the second region etheric
together of forces, forces that flow together in the astral body, etheric
something of their astral body, but also something of their etheric body,
kept in a state such that their etheric body existed outside their physical
if dead. Meanwhile, the hierophant lead the etheric body through higher

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a physical body in common with the mineral world; an etheric body in
world. For what happens in the astral body to carry over into the etheric
of complete lethargy or torpor. The etheric body was then lifted out
of the physical body and the astral body impressed into the etheric
the initiator led the etheric body out of the physical body, enlightenment
The etheric body creates and forms the physical body, of course, and
through initiation they could always see the etheric body that formed
do without a picture of the physical human body; they saw only the etheric
form of the physical body, not only the etheric body, but the

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for the sake of this advanced population copies of etheric bodies of
is achieved through occult training; the etheric body is transformed
and organized through and through by the I. The etheric body of ordinary
happens. An etheric body transformed in this way is preserved for the
the etheric bodies of the seven great Atlantean initiates as spiritual
the etheric bodies of the greatest initiates of ancient Atlantis. Through
the etheric body to the highest stage of clairvoyant consciousness so
of this etheric body which is, of course, always the vehicle for our
had to be brought to the point where his etheric body and I could be
wholly influenced by Zarathustra's etheric body. For this reason

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The people whose etheric body was developed the most, the aggressive
the Vishva Karman, whom, as clairvoyants, they saw by means of the etheric

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and “Christened, will walk as it were etherically, no longer

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place in the etheric and astral bodies of human beings who take into

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know that the etheric bodies of
we also know that the etheric body and astral body of Zarathustra were
etheric bodies, which have been transformed and prepared by initiates,
Other things have also happened. Special etheric bodies are formed in
essential for a special mission to humanity, such a special etheric
Semites. A special etheric body was formed for such a progenitor of a
as Sem appeared, with his aura, like an ordinary man whose etheric body
special power. He can reproduce a particular etheric body, and these
reproduced etheric bodies then form a fabric that is again and again woven
with copies of his etheric body. But the etheric body of Sem himself,
had to use this etheric body in order to make himself understood to
within them the real etheric body of Sem in order to make themselves
who could only show himself to Abraham in the etheric body of Sem.
physical, etheric, and astral, left behind by Jesus were then filled
to the etheric body of Sem. As a result, since the death on the cross,
there exist copies of the etheric and astral bodies of Jesus of Nazareth.
had a copy of the etheric body of Jesus of Nazareth woven into them.
Then the impulse of the etheric body of Jesus of Nazareth became active
a copy of the etheric body within them and for just this reason were

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observe the modern human being, it sees the etheric body extending a
little bit beyond the upper part of the physical body. The etheric body
of a man is feminine and the etheric body of a woman is masculine. The
on the other hand, the etheric and astral bodies were gigantic. The
etheric body of the head extending beyond the physical head. That was
the case with Atlantean human beings. A certain point in the human etheric

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Saturn state, the etheric body during the Sun state, the astral body
etheric body has been perfected more than the astral but less than the

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third of Atlantean evolution we see that a certain point in the etheric
etheric body of the head is approximately the same as the physical head.
brain could only become firm enough through the arrival of the etheric
brain. Still, even when the etheric head had fully entered the physical
being consists of the four members: physical body, etheric body, astral
spirit-self, the etheric body into budhi or life-spirit, and the physical
the astral body, the etheric body, and the physical body. But before
sentient soul, the etheric body transformed in this way is called the
age the etheric body was permeated by the I, which by then had moved
etheric body — for he will come again.
of its physical body, its etheric body, and its astral body. For this

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his physical and etheric body darkness did not then spread around him;
as their densest form transparent etheric bodies. When at night man
withdrew from his physical body these were around him as etheric
knew them as divine etheric Beings.
Atlantis the etheric body of man was not so intimately bound up with
the physical body as it is now, the etheric head projected far beyond
present day. When a horse is observed clairvoyantly the etheric head
seen above the trunk. In Atlantean humanity the etheric head was in a
— which was at first only partly governed by the etheric head and
became less distinct, and out of the physical head grew the etheric
form was yet more animal-like though he possessed an etheric body

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the patient perceived etheric forms in the spiritual world, and the
wise priests understood the art of influencing these etheric pictures
somnambulistic sleep, the invalid then entered a world of etheric
the etheric visions and beings in such a way that there actually
liberated during the etheric visions, and these restored to order and
was conjured up before the sleeper in the temple in his etheric
etheric forms; among whom we once lived, when we were able to be
conscious outside the physical body and could exercise etheric
the sun formed a single body. All the finer and more etheric parts
We must imagine the sun as a vast etheric body on which
were met with who had condensed so far as to an etheric body, and they
etheric Gods with whom men lived during the Atlantean period. In
post-Atlantean times he lost his connection with these etheric Gods,
its numerous etheric figures of the Gods.

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complicated being made up of physical body, etheric body, astral body,
the expressions physical body, etheric body, astral body, and ego are
etheric bodies of the plant. Imagine the surface of the earth on which
physical body, an etheric body, astral body, and ego, but only a
physical and etheric body. We must not conclude from this that the
influence of the etheric body its growth terminates above in a flower
has only a physical body; the etheric body of minerals surrounds and
etheric begin. Just as the upper part of a plant is woven round by the
astral, so the mineral is surrounded by the etheric. This etheric is
at home in the astral world. Mark this well — we have an etheric
For example, in the physical world you have the etheric body, the
the etheric body of minerals in the astral world.
broadening out more and more, and piercing into the etheric body of
the etheric body, and this again as if pierced by all kinds of
by the light-forms of the etheric body, these rays of light appear to
densest form had only an etheric body. Those figures which have
body, an etheric body, and a physical body. How does further
As man works further upon himself he will transform the etheric body
have to work today in all human etheric bodies; this is the task of
the Fire Spirits. Now, human etheric bodies are not individually so
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that nebulous etheric sphere which is the re-birth of the Ancient
begin with furnished only with a physical, etheric, and astral body.
The physical body was not so dense as it is now, it was more etheric
etheric body, and astral body. At the time of the separation of the

Title: Universe/Earth/Man: Lecture V: The sacrifice of substance by the Thrones, Kyriotetes, Dynamis, and Exusiai
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Being; he consists of physical body, etheric body, astral body, and
addition to a physical body an etheric body has a plant-nature; our
etheric, and astral bodies is at the animal stage; and only that Being
not the case. Neither the ego nor the astral body nor the etheric body
consisted only of warmth could not assume an etheric body, was
permeated on the Sun by an etheric body; he now consisted of two
principles, namely, a physical body and an etheric body. Man's
bodies. On the Sun man rose a stage higher; he added an etheric body
his physical body, through taking into itself the etheric body, became
progress towards perfection, but the etheric body, which first became
etheric body which it had previously possessed now passed over with it
principles: the physical body, the etheric body, and the astral body.
he had then physical body and etheric body, but at this stage certain
etheric, and astral bodies).
and etheric bodies).
physical, etheric, and astral bodies, one would later have perceived a
outside, the astral and etheric bodies were partly liberated. The
physical body, etheric body, and astral body; and that there now came
an external force which pushed out man's etheric and astral bodies; to
animal-like heads, and from out this animal-head formation the etheric
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the etheric nor the astral body had as yet poured into it. Of course
of Wisdom giving man an etheric body on the Sun, and the Spirits of
earth. For only when man possessed a physical, an etheric, and an
We know when man is asleep today that his physical and etheric body
etheric body is nowadays approximately the same in size and form as
first part of the Atlantean epoch; the etheric body then projected on
always remained connected with the etheric body. In the case of a man
body it has also left the etheric body. The consequence of the earlier
connection between the astral body and the etheric body, when the
that man consists of physical body, etheric body, astral body, and
upon the Moon man had a physical, etheric, and astral body, and at
governed by the forces of the etheric body; while the bony system is

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forms, and that he had only a very fine etheric form at the time when
united with his ego and also with his higher principles (his etheric
physical, etheric, and astral bodies, and his ego. When he is asleep
the astral body and the ego withdraw from the physical and etheric
not yet present, and in its place part of the etheric body withdrew;
understand that when man leaves the physical and etheric body behind
a sleep-consciousness; so has man's physical and etheric body during
whole man, as regards his physical, etheric, and astral bodies, was
on whether the man in regard to his physical, etheric, and astral
man's etheric and astral body (when outside the physical body)
his etheric and astral bodies from his more spiritual parts, which
It very frequently happened that, long before the physical, etheric

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know that man consisted of physical and etheric body, that is, he was
kingdom is composed of beings consisting of physical body and etheric
from his physical and etheric bodies, the harmonies and melodies of

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condition that when he withdrew from his physical and etheric bodies
etheric bodies. The life we lead from morning till evening exhausts
us. This wears out our physical and etheric bodies, and in the evening
physical and etheric bodies; they work at repairing the disorganized
the physical and etheric bodies to repair them. Today man is
the physical and etheric bodies, they rose into the kingdom of the
his etheric and physical bodies; let us think of these four principles
were outside the physical body and etheric body, the direct sunlight

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through having an etheric and physical body. He draws his food from
etheric and physical bodies that they had completely banished from
physical, etheric, and astral bodies — that the Christ
glandular system to the etheric body; the nervous system to the astral

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the Atlantean etheric human form. In its physical form the Sphinx
animal-like below and only attains to what is human in the etheric
plane still resembled that of animals, although the etheric part had
Sphinx in an etheric form after he had passed through certain stages
certain way related to that of animals, and in the etheric head we saw
Further, this etheric form, which was present in the Atlantean epoch
etheric head before man could have a brain. It was then first possible
what is regarded as the Dhyani-Buddha is nothing but the etheric body
that this etheric body had been laid hold of by the being whom we call

Title: Egyptian Myths: Lecture 1: Spiritual Connections between the Culture-streams of Ancient and Modern Times.
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his physical and etheric bodies, he has a different consciousness; he

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as a fine etheric cloud. This mist was much larger than our present
of fine etheric points. When we see a swarm of gnats from a distance,
but was condensed only to an etheric condition. This earth-formation
etheric points. If now, as in the previous example, the clairvoyant
contemplated such an etheric point in the primeval substance, there
spiritually in the etheric point, and the whole earth-evolution was
etheric dust, but they are at various stages of development. There are
it have appeared as something etheric, for that belongs to a coarser
pure ideal beings, while man is present only as an etheric body,
the etheric dust or points, and the five cultural periods of the
the gods whom he saw clairvoyantly in etheric forms when he had risen

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period. Man consisted already of physical, etheric, and astral bodies,
The etheric body was a much more important member. The physical body
was then more or less the same size as now, but the etheric body was
extraordinarily large. This etheric body varied among individuals, but
reminds us of these. The impressions that the etheric bodies made can
were men in whom the etheric body was already similar to the
Such were the etheric bodies of the Atlantean population. As to the
gigantic etheric bodies, forming a clumsy animal-like mass. The
only in exceptional cases would this influence more than the etheric
is difficult. Thoughts can work on the etheric body today, and in the

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compare it with a primeval etheric mist. This mist then gradually
today consists of four members, physical body, etheric body, astral
We know that the physical body first appeared on Saturn, the etheric
etheric and astral bodies be made clear. Today man is himself only
body, originate in the fact that the etheric body is not in order. But
the etheric body is ill because the astral body is out of order. If an

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and moon within itself, the earth was only a sort of etheric mist of
primeval etheric mist, there gradually took shape a shining ball of
yourself into this. What had grown out of the etheric mist was a
etheric and an astral body, not only the ego in its first beginnings,

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everything of an etheric nature that is connected with the moon and
when compared with the etheric in our own corporeality. Furthermore,
Thus, in respect of the astral, the etheric, and the physical parts of
such a way that in men the etheric body is female, while in women it

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if we see the upper part as etheric and the lower part as animal-like.

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water-earth. The remaining parts were present only in a finer etheric
light-organ, was entirely etheric, an illuminated air-form. Only the
higher members of man — etheric body, astral body, and also the
etheric body, or the astral, or the ego, could work especially
stamp from the etheric body, others whose astral nature predominated,
cows, oxen and so on. The human group in whom the etheric rather than
whom the etheric body was intensely active. The human stage in which
the astral body overpowered the physical and etheric is preserved for
lion nature in the etheric body; in the astral body, in the
equal, while the etheric predominated; that is a particular type of
mankind. Then there were beings in whom the etheric, astral, and ego
the etheric, astral, and ego predominated, are the physical ancestors
when the etheric body predominated is portrayed in a third Isis,
above in the etheric realm of the air and only in its earthly parts

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human perception, all seeing, was of a clairvoyant astral-etheric
We have the physical and etheric bodies lying in bed, the astral body
etheric body, they found their dwelling-place in the physical world in
which their etheric body felt at home.

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etheric body. Then there were beings who still embodied themselves at
astral and etheric bodies were permeated by a higher being, which had
earth only if a physical body, and etheric body, and an astral body
etheric, and an astral body had been completely cleansed and purified.
during his life, to purify his physical, etheric, and astral bodies in
indicates where Jesus abandoned his physical, etheric, and astral
streams, its astral and etheric bodies, it would have seen significant
Before he achieved his ego, man had physical body, etheric body, and
etheric, astral, and ego work on it. In a certain way all the organs
physical and etheric bodies. It flowed around and through these, and

Title: Egyptian Myths: Lecture 11: The Ancient Egyptian Doctrine of Evolution. The Cosmic View of the Organs and their Coarsening in Modern Times.
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ego, he slips out of his physical and etheric bodies during the night.
astral body, when it returns into the etheric body, may stamp upon
itself upon the etheric body, only then does the illumination take
astral body had the strength to work upon the etheric body only when
the etheric body had been lifted out of the physical body. This was
because at that time the etheric body, had it remained connected with
condition in which the physical body was deserted by the etheric body
astral body. The astral then stamped into the etheric all that had
as he was when he still had an animal-like form, and his etheric body
animality, at a time when the head was only an etheric form, the
Let us look back into the Lemurian period. At that time the etheric
was not yet manlike in its form. In his etheric body man was still
rayed through by the astral and etheric light. This was accurately
the green shimmering of his luminous astral and etheric form. Today
unchanged, but also the rudiments of the etheric and astral forms as
body, the astral and etheric are loosened from a part of the physical.
earth evolution as his physical, etheric, and astral bodies. I have
When man appeared on the earth he consisted of the physical, etheric,
etheric body, and this again to the physical body. The astral body is
active in all parts, hence these spirits work on the etheric and
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only as an etheric form. It is an absolute reality; the initiate can
sees them as though embedded in an etheric cloud, and this is the
When we look away from the physical man and observe only his etheric
spirituality, I must extinguish a part of my astral and etheric

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are at most of etheric substance. They stretch out their feelers into

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have become accustomed to speaking of physical body, etheric body, and
etheric body within it, and the plant's physical body would fall to pieces
if the etheric body were not to permeate it in every part. Hence, the
away unless the etheric body kept it alive and fought against this
the principles of the physical and etheric bodies.”
emphasized that the most elementary principle of the etheric body is
recapitulation. A being, standing solely under its etheric and physical
principle of the etheric. A leaf is formed, then a second and a third;
elemental etheric principle were alone active, the plant would come
to no termination. The etheric body would press through the plant from
brings to a conclusion what the etheric body would continue in eternal
etheric body and the astral body are working together, but the etheric body

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behind, and so, too, the etheric body to a great extent, but the astral

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external physical world The finger is permeated with the etheric and
of these higher parts, of the etheric and astral parts? The physical
active element, the forming, constructive element — i.e. the etheric
body — were not behind them. The etheric body is not only at the
thus preventing the finger's decay. The etheric body permeates the whole
finger and fills it with the etheric forces; it is contained in the
physical, etheric and astral finger is, however, not only a mechanical
connection, but an incessantly living one. The etheric finger always
formation of its inner parts. In what way is the etheric finger really
etheric finger in its task of arranging the different parts in the right
way. The etheric body lives in the finger and should keep its parts
that the etheric finger can no longer fulfil its task. It is in the
etheric body) to set in with its activity is felt by the astral part
only the physical hand can be amputated, not the etheric hand, and the
etheric hand is then unable to work; the astral body feels this tremendous
the etheric and astral thus produces the most primitive, elementary
that the corresponding etheric activity can no longer be carried out.
torn away from man, it does not exist any more and the etheric, forces can
example, withdraws from the etheric hand; it will have a surplus of
that a certain amount of forces is kept back in the etheric body.
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the Atlantean epoch the etheric body was still, to a certain extent,
outside the physical body. The head of the etheric body was not yet
extending etheric head withdrawing into the physical head. If we see
a horse today, then the etheric head of the horse extends beyond the
etheric parts of the elephant form, which stretch far, far beyond the
the Atlantean age, the etheric body was still outside, and gradually
through the gradual entry of the etheric head, through the gradual
sat thus around, but the ego is only in the etheric body which is
towards its centre. Thus we have here an etheric circular body which
circle of physical bodies, and within an etheric circular surface,
not indeed such a beautifully formed etheric body, but still it is a
the etheric bodies. These felt themselves especially drawn to the
inwardly, however, a male etheric body. There was a powerful etheric
being with a male character, and a small part of this etheric being
had a special attractive force for the female etheric body. Thus the
bull body had the special force to attract the female etheric body
and unite with it. And now think further — the etheric bodies
etheric bodies which crystallized a physical lion body out of
worked back here on the female etheric body. In the course of
The modern female physical nature has in fact a male etheric body,
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with what we call man's etheric body. So we can also assume that the
the etheric body. Perhaps we are justified in asking if there is any
we say that memory has something to do with the etheric body, we
ought to ask ourselves how it happens that the etheric body acquires
etheric body is present in plants where it has an essentially
etheric body. And this etheric body in the plant is the principle of
the plant were only subject to the activity of the etheric body,
repeat indefinitely. It is due to the etheric body that the parts of
a living entity repeat again and again, for it is the etheric body
own kind, for this is due fundamentally to an activity of the etheric
attributable to the etheric principle.
activity of the etheric body. The termination of the plant's growth
principle and all repetition to the etheric principle. The plant has
this etheric body, and man has it too. Of course there can be no
is with the etheric body, which is the principle of repetition, that
plant's etheric body and man's, which, in addition to the qualities
of the plant's etheric body also has the capacity to develop memory,
however, only extends as far as the physical, etheric and astral
the etheric body of the plant always has a certain finite number of
round beyond which they cannot go. Man's etheric body is different.
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of a physical body, etheric body, astral body and ego, even if people
physical body, etheric body, astral body and ego play in the healthy
expression, the physical counterpart, of the etheric body, then even
which are connected with the human etheric body, and which therefore
etheric body and appearing as glandular complaints, we must always
etheric body, and which can fall sick as a result of irregularities
of the etheric body, have quite definite relationships with one
this is rooted in the etheric body it is bound to have an effect on
are in the etheric body. The gall could not possibly ail — and
this would show spiritually in the etheric body — without the
interconnections of the organs when there is an etheric illness, and
importance for everything to do with the human etheric body. So when
we know an illness has arisen in the etheric body, and it appears in
obviously whether they originate in the etheric body, and secondly
astral body, the etheric body and the physical body, and also from

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completely changed the structure of his astral, etheric and physical
well-being of the astral, etheric and physical bodies. But where does
something can stream into the three bodies, the astral, etheric and
now bestowed my ego upon me.” The same is true of the etheric and the
development, can be effective in their astral, etheric and physical
relation to his astral, etheric and physical bodies as he does to his
etheric and physical bodies that he currently possesses, were created
etheric and physical bodies would be well-formed and would produce a

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etheric, more spiritual, and not so firmly embedded in matter, then
part of man that shows most clearly the non-divine. The etheric body
bad effects on the etheric body, and by way of the etheric body on
you still see the etheric body, the astral body and the ego aura. You
forces in his astral body the astral body would work on the etheric
etheric body. In this way you make the human being's physical body
independent as it were of his astral and etheric body. This is the
bodies you have weakened the influence of the astral and etheric body
astral and the etheric body disappears, making the physical body a
solid walls. And what kind of influence can the astral and etheric
has made his astral or etheric body powerless by making his physical
possible harmful effects of his astral or etheric body. Because

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body, etheric body, astral body and ego. These four members of man's
physical body, etheric body and so on are connected with one another
a man lies asleep, the physical and etheric bodies lie in bed and the
blood system and the etheric body cannot exist unless they are
Nor could the etheric body exist without being interpenetrated by
etheric bodies during sleep. This brings about changes in man's inner
particular rhythmic changes but the etheric body does so too. These
etheric body, symbolically speaking, revolves on its own axis, and
will remember my saying that a man's etheric body is female and a
of the etheric body into the physical body, in such a way that the
rotation had to correspond to the rotation of the human etheric body
irregularities are passed on through the etheric body to the physical
Through this defect it affects the etheric body and the defect is
becomes defective first and then it passes through the etheric body
temperature. Seven days later the astral and etheric bodies are in
the same part of the etheric body, because the etheric body has been
etheric body seven days earlier coincides with its next quarter, the
the astral body and the rhythm of the etheric body.
the various bodies — physical body, etheric body, astral body
have quite different rhythms in their etheric and astral bodies. In
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influences on the physical body press through into the etheric body
Ahriman; and because the effect of this penetrates into man's etheric
the occult forces which are awakened penetrate into the etheric body

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between man's ego, astral body, etheric body and physical body. What
and carries out its cycle in seven days. The cycle of the etheric
not as regular as with the astral and the etheric bodies. We can,
that the female etheric body is male and the male etheric body
irregularity is bound to occur in the rhythm of the etheric bodies.
temperature is connected with certain functions of the etheric body.
Something must be happening in the etheric body if a temperature runs
of the etheric body. Whenever you have a temperature it has this
etheric body, which completes its cycle in four times seven days,
rhythm. So if we relate the rhythmic course of the etheric body to
etheric body. Imagine that your astral body, that is connected the
whole time with the etheric body, were to be in a certain position in
relation to the etheric body. Now the astral body begins to rotate.
not coincide again with the etheric body, for, after seven days, the
etheric body has moved round a quarter of its cycle. So seven days
position of the etheric body but with a position that is a quarter of
connected with a definite position of the etheric body. And at this
the etheric body. Now in the etheric body there must be not only the
of the etheric body that is now covered by the part of the astral
into the unfortunate position in which the etheric body has the
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the physical body, etheric body, astral body and ego, enables us to
system, the etheric body in all that comes under the heading of the
nervous system, and what originates in the etheric body manifests in
and astral body are connected with the etheric body, but without the
mentioned. During life, when man is asleep, he lays his etheric body
astral body and etheric body exists only after death, and then for a
etheric body, is laid aside and absorbed by the general world ether,
questions of reincarnation, when the etheric body is preserved in a
etheric body is kept, being the fruit of life experience. Then
these forces of heredity. His physical and etheric body inherit the
appear in the etheric body in the great memory tableau. Then we have

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etheric body corresponding to the head came right into the physical

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will work with less force on the etheric and physical bodies,
the other hand man's physical body and also his etheric body were
so on. But if an astral body is joined to a physical and etheric body
the physical and etheric bodies create a tremendous hindrance. It
etheric bodies would not follow suit, and this would drive the horse
physical and the etheric body can be mobile within themselves, proper
and not yet exercise proper mastery over the physical and etheric
body. We can see this in the fact that the physical and etheric
human nature in their physical and etheric bodies but have at the

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etheric body and were beings of a more ethereal nature, having only a
highest degree ethereal beings with highly developed etheric bodies
grasp all the wisdom of the world with their etheric bodies, as
their physical bodies, and their etheric bodies interpenetrated their
times in their etheric body, or they had to sacrifice themselves and
the North with strongly developed etheric bodies and less developed
developed physical bodies and less developed etheric bodies, of these
etheric body penetrates very deeply into the physical body. That is

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he is still enclosed in a second maternal sheath, an etheric one.
During the first seven years of his life the child's etheric body is
completely enveloped in external etheric currents that come from the
physical maternal sheath. At the change of teeth this etheric sheath
etheric body born. Then the astral body is still enclosed in the
see the child's head surrounded by etheric and astral currents and
the protecting sheath first of the etheric body then of the astral
its physical and etheric body here in the physical world, whereas its
astral body is outside it; but only the physical and etheric body
and then the etheric body gradually develops. And this etheric body
etheric body is still enveloped in the astral body until puberty, and
together with what it has accomplished in the astral, etheric and
plant filled with an etheric body, a body consisting of streams of
however, the etheric body does not extend very far beyond the
wonderfully beautiful etheric body raying out all round in such a way
that the seed is situated at one end of the etheric body like a comet
light or etheric body of the lily of the valley. When a spiritual
between birth and death a physical body and an etheric body
Sun his etheric body, on the Moon his astral body and on the Earth
etheric substance that poured forth for man's etheric body; on the
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night, while the forces of the physical and etheric bodies work
our etheric body which is to be given up, then the astral body
Likewise the human body may be considered — how the etheric and
divided. As long as this happens it is mainly the etheric
repetition is the principle of the etheric, and the principle
to a conclusion in its flower if it's etheric isn't sunk into

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into the physical and etheric bodies in the morning, it works
etheric body. Nothing is added into our examination according
physical and etheric bodies. Ordinarily we are not aware of the

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the lively etheric, because Ahura Mazdao also became visible to
them as a result of his etheric form, the sun aura, becoming
sensory, neither etheric nor an astral image can represent
formed from mineral nature, the ether body from the etheric in

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and etheric bodies and was living in the spiritual worlds, it
down again into the physical and etheric bodies, then, in the
and Ego out of the physical and etheric bodies, he was not in

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etheric-spiritual being in the womb of the Godhead. Then,

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everyone on earth did at that time, of physical body, etheric body,
impressions of the day, it seems as though the subtle etheric forms

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etheric body leaves the astral body, in which the ego is
the physical corpse, but now the etheric body separates
itself from the other two and becomes an etheric corpse.
However, today's human beings do not lose their etheric
etheric corpse is cast off, but the fruit of the last life is
essence of the etheric body is different in all lives,
person's physical life. After the etheric body has been
oracles that which we call the etheric body. As we have seen,
this etheric body normally dissolves as the second corpse,
sages in the oracles had worked so much into their etheric
dissipated into the general etheric world. Therefore, the
seven best etheric bodies belonging to the seven greatest
that they were suited to absorb the preserved etheric bodies.
Only the etheric body of the Great Initiate of the Christ
the seven etheric bodies of the greatest initiates, went to
the seven Rishis who bore the preserved etheric bodies of the
with the etheric bodies of those great sages, these Rishis
etheric bodies became active in them. In that sense they were
etheric body is especially valuable, it is —to express
extremely valuable etheric body that is preserved for later
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specially prepared etheric body. We know that when a human being is
etheric or life body, along with the other members of his being. For
such a tribal ancestor a special etheric body must be prepared
that will be the model etheric body for all the descendants in the
typical model etheric body that, through blood relationship
passes through the generations. In this wise, the etheric bodies
certain sense of the etheric body of the ancestor. Thus, into all the
etheric bodies of the Semitic people there was woven something like a
copy of Shem's etheric body. Now by what means is such a
etheric body received its archetypal form because an avatar had woven
his etheric body. This being was not united with Shem's astral
body nor with his ego, but was woven into his etheric body alone. In
etheric body that it became possible for numberless copies of the
especially precious etheric body, an archetypal etheric body,
but that also the astral body and the etheric body can be
etheric body were formed, his own etheric body was also preserved in
of the Hebrew people. In this etheric body all the peculiarities of
could best be accomplished by one who bore the etheric body of the
history of the Hebrews actually did bear the etheric body of the
etheric body to be able to give a definite impulse to the ancient
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was done by giving him a quite specially prepared etheric
world, they structure around their individuality an etheric
special etheric being must somehow be prepared for the
prototype of an etheric body for all the descendants in
such a tribal individuality a typical etheric body, a
successive generations, the etheric bodies of all descendants
ancestor's etheric body. Thus, every Semitic
person's etheric body had something like a copy of
Shem's etheric body woven into it. Now, by what means
at Shem more carefully. We find that his etheric body
avatar descended into his etheric body. This avatar
nor with his ego, however, but was woven into his etheric
an avatar being was interwoven with Shem's etheric body
especially precious etheric body was present in Shem, an
archetypal etheric body, prepared by an exalted avatar and
body and the etheric body are capable of doing the same.
etheric body came into being, his own etheric body was also
expression in this etheric body, and if at any time something
etheric body of the ancestor within himself. As a matter of
fact, an individual bearing the etheric body of Shem later
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receiving a quite specially prepared etheric body. We know that
his individuality his etheric or life body, with the other
etheric body must be prepared which is the model etheric body
we have in such a tribal progenitor a typical etheric body, a
model etheric body; and then through blood relationship
the etheric bodies of all the descendants who belong to the
same tribe are copies of the etheric body of the ancestor. Thus
in all the etheric bodies of the Semitic people there was inwoven
something like a copy of Shem's etheric body. Now by what means
closely, we find that his etheric body received its archetypal
form because into this very etheric body an Avatar had woven
descended into his etheric body. This being was not
as it were, into his etheric body alone. In this very example
interwoven with Shem's etheric body that it became possible for
from this, an especially precious etheric body, an archetypal
etheric body, prepared by an exalted Avatar, and then woven
the etheric body can be re-embodied. Aside from the fact that
numberless copies of Shem's etheric body were formed, his
own etheric body was also preserved in the spiritual world; for
people. In this etheric body all the peculiarities of the
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that the etheric body dissolves after a human being has died;
is not the case that the etheric bodies of all human beings
are dissolved in the universal ether. Etheric bodies such as
these initiates were woven into their etheric bodies, and it
etheric bodies of the great initiates had simply been
the Sun Oracle to preserve the etheric bodies of the seven
group of simple people to Asia, He carried the etheric bodies
could wrap up etheric bodies and put them into boxes for
safekeeping. What is certain, however, is that etheric bodies
himself again with a new etheric body. Now, through the
into this new etheric body an old one that was preserved. And
sufficiently prepared to have the preserved etheric bodies of
into their own etheric bodies. Thus, the preserved etheric
Leader of the Sun Oracle, the etheric body of the Mars
initiate into another, the etheric body of the Jupiter
the Sun Oracle had seven individuals whose etheric bodies
their etheric bodies contained the forces of the seven great
re-embodiment of the ego, but rather of the etheric bodies of
— the etheric body — is capable of reincarnation.
by the fact that they had received these etheric bodies
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had the peculiar characteristic that the etheric body was not
of the etheric body projected beyond the head of the physical
Ahrimanic forces worked on the etheric body, especially on
permeated His three bodies — the physical, the etheric,
the physical, etheric, and astral bodies of humanity.
Christ's etheric and astral bodies multiplied like a grain of
individual in whom such partaking in the etheric body of

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occasion when the etheric body, together with the other two
metamorphosis of the etheric body. Whatever was changed in
hand, whatever part of the etheric body was changed
world, innumerable copies of His etheric and astral body came
new incarnation and wanted to form a new etheric body for
himself. It was then that one of the copies of the etheric
body of Christ was woven into his own etheric body, and this
mysticism. But because he had received only the etheric body
Christianity in the words of John and Paul, the etheric body
physical body but of the etheric body, which is the same as
hold of the truth,” and that of the etheric body he

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threefold physical, etheric, and astral bodies of Jesus of
particularly the astral and etheric bodies. After Christ cast
of number, so the copies of Jesus of Nazareth's etheric and
countless copies of Jesus's etheric body being present in the
earth after an earlier incarnation, not just any etheric body
was woven into his own, but rather the copy of the etheric
and ego, but his etheric body was interwoven with the image
of the etheric body of Jesus. He had to work through the
way to the etheric body, he realized the great truths that we
of the etheric body of Jesus woven into their own etheric

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etheric body, astral body and the Ego, the ‘I,’ — and that he can
the etheric body into Life-Spirit (Budhi) and spiritualises the

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consist of four parts: the physical, the etheric, and the
— manas, when they transform their etheric body into

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to the etheric body and the astral body of Jesus of Nazareth. Through
astral body and etheric body of Jesus of Nazareth have been present
physical existence is clothed with an etheric body and an astral body.
of the etheric body and astral body of Jesus of Nazareth, a very
allowed it, a replica of the etheric body or of the astral body of
himself in an etheric body, a replica of the etheric body of Jesus of
Nazareth was woven into his own etheric body. This individuality bore
his own astral body and ego, but into his etheric body was woven a
replica of the etheric body of Jesus of Nazareth.
errors of his ego. But when he had wrestled through, when his etheric
body began to operate, he came upon the forces woven into his etheric
body from the replica of the etheric body of Jesus of Nazareth. And
whose etheric bodies a replica of the etheric body of Jesus of Nazareth
replicas of the hallowed etheric body of Jesus of Nazareth there came
etheric body of Jesus of Nazareth, and they needed no longer the
etheric body and astral body. To this end it was necessary to discover

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happened to the etheric body and the astral body of Jesus of
existence, it envelops itself with an etheric body and with
etheric and astral bodies of Jesus of Nazareth is present in
permitted this received a copy of the etheric or the astral
etheric body, it received a copy of the etheric body of Jesus
of Nazareth woven into its own etheric body, but it had its
etheric body began to be activated, he encountered forces
within himself that had been woven into this etheric body
from a copy of the etheric body of Jesus of Nazareth. And now
etheric bodies were interwoven with the etheric body of Jesus
accounts. Because of the copy of the sanctified etheric body
etheric, body of Jesus of Nazareth woven into themselves when
to copies of the etheric and of the astral body of Jesus of
human beings received copies of His etheric or astral body. A

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the etheric bodies of the great Atlantean initiates had been
etheric and astral body of Zarathustra had been woven into
existed that such etheric bodies, which had been cultivated
as well. For especially important personalities, such etheric
especially important for the mission of humanity, an etheric
with the whole tribe of the Semites. A special etheric body
etheric body and as if the aura became a mediator between
power: it can multiply such an etheric body, and the
multiplied etheric bodies then form a web that is continually
received an imprint of the copy of his etheric body. However,
also the etheric body of Shem himself. Any personality that
etheric body if it wanted to be able to communicate with the
the real etheric body of Shem in order to be able to
only in the etheric body of Shem.
been the case with the etheric body of Shem so that the
copies of the etheric and astral bodies of Jesus of Nazareth
the etheric body of Jesus of Nazareth was woven into
struggles. However, only when the impulse of the etheric body
carried within themselves such a copy of Jesus's etheric body

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his etheric body to Moses. Moses was the first to proclaim
etheric body in Moses, his ego — whose development had
body and a new etheric body for the new incarnation,
The ego of Jesus left the physical, etheric, and astral

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case of ordinary people the etheric body separates from the
happened in the case of the etheric bodies of the seven
purify the etheric body and the astral body. Now, once
purified, the spiritualized etheric and astral bodies do not
mysteries how to preserve the valuable etheric and astral
with him the seven etheric bodies of the greatest Atlantean
etheric bodies of the seven greatest initiates of the ancient
most highly developed etheric bodies of the seven most
significant initiates. These etheric bodies had streamed into
of my body, the etheric existence of my senses, and the
clairvoyant etheric body: the wisdom of the Akasha Chronicle.
etheric body, was also born again. When he reincarnated, the
etheric body that Zarathustra had sacrificed was woven into
principle of the etheric body. How can this take place?
water, the etheric body that had been woven into him became
physics. Galileo had an etheric body that was not allowed to
Russian grammar. Lomonosov bore within him the etheric body
that the etheric body of Galileo had been preserved and who,
great Buddha. He could then build up the etheric and astral
Zarathustra, who had once sacrificed his etheric and astral
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etheric body, the second member of man's constitution. We know that
in an adult human being of today the dimension of this etheric body
the forces radiate in a living play of light to become an astral-etheric
radiance in the child's etheric body, a radiance that fades away in
within the child's brain. To begin with, the etheric body was
This was surrounded by a body of light from which the etheric body gathered
there as the complicated etheric organism.
years. Just as in a child the etheric body itself prepares the physical

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it? It is the etheric body of the mineral that originates in the cosmos,
the etheric body of the mineral is present. There suffering begins,
like a spiritual ray of light. The etheric body of the mineral encircles
such, the etheric body has densified to such a degree that it has become
fact that the etheric body of the plant is within it, permeating
previously as being the etheric body of the mineral outside it.
be said about the plant were that it is permeated by an etheric body,
as though embedded in an etheric world and has its etheric body around
it. The plant is permeated by an etheric body and because the plant world

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the etheric body that throughout life fights against the decay of the
granted that both the plant and the animal have etheric bodies.
in his etheric body as well, and it is this difference that is of
particular interest to us. In what respect does the etheric body of man
consciousness is able to acquire knowledge of man's etheric body. To
and through by this etheric body. It has approximately the human form in
The etheric body of an
animal is different from its physical body. The etheric body of the
see the etheric body of an elephant clairvoyantly you would be amazed
the level the greater is the difference between the etheric body and the
in the physical body and in the etheric body. The physical heart lies
slightly to the left; the corresponding organ in the etheric body is
the etheric heart, which lies to the right. The greatest difference,
however, between the physical and the etheric body is that the etheric
body of a man is female and the etheric body of a woman, male. This
of his constitution. The etheric body of man is a reality to one who
It differs greatly from the etheric body.
body cannot be compared with the extraordinary mobility of the etheric
body. In a healthy human being the color of this etheric body is that
of the blossom of a young peach tree. Everything in the etheric body
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what takes place at the moment of death, how the etheric body, the astral
applies to the memory tableau after death. It appears directly the etheric
was the first to be discarded, then the etheric corpse, which dissolves
etheric body, the good impulses of will.
etheric figures of light. Try to visualize a crystal. When consciousness
of religion is in turn received by man into his astral and etheric bodies;
etheric body — is an experience facing you in Spiritland. Everything
of his last life, as an extract in his etheric body.
beings meanwhile incorporate into the individual concerned the etheric
of the etheric body and of the physical birth we will speak tomorrow,
then the etheric body and finally the physical body, whereas at death
the human being first lays aside the physical body, then the etheric
the etheric body, something happens to him analogous to what takes place
place at the moment when the etheric body is being incorporated. The
If the entry is as it should be, the etheric body and the physical body
harmonize; in cases where there is a shock they do not. The etheric

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extract of his etheric body, a kind of fecundation now takes place.
where a physical and an etheric body befitting this soul are produced.
participate in the development of the physical and etheric bodies.
is essentially the etheric body that is worked upon by the female element.
In the etheric body, where the permanent tendencies are rooted, the driving
of the generic., is anchored in the etheric body. In the etheric body
of the etheric body. Death, at conception, is already woven into the
the etheric body, which otherwise would multiply ad infinitum.
The etheric body, which originates from the female principle and would
Propagation consists in the production of a copy of the etheric body
is at the same time individualized. In the deadened etheric body there
has transformed the physical body into spirit man, the etheric body
astral, etheric and physical bodies, and of this part alone is he master.
in this process, those who integrate the etheric body into him and those
man could not himself make the etheric body an integral member of his
constitution. It is through the forces contained in the etheric body
has the etheric body and the astral body, and the physical body is added,
the moment comes when the pre-vision must disappear; the etheric body
must blend with the physical body. The etheric body is, of course, not
remembrance and foresight. But when the etheric body passes into the
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confronts us as an assemblage of physical body, etheric body, astral body
still no rudiments in the physical world of the etheric body, none of
new is added. The etheric body is poured into this substance by spiritual
of the etheric body, however, the physical body of man has also changed.
and fade away and in which there are indentures. The etheric body now
the etheric body into themselves. On the new planet, Old Sun, there
it were in a husk, in a mineral body that was not permeated by an etheric
side by side with those that consisted of physical body and etheric
Moon, therefore, there were warmth, light and water. Man has his etheric
human body; the physical and etheric bodies are formed again. Why? Because
was permeated by the primal tone and the etheric body, the Spirits of
physical body, etheric body and astral body. There were also other beings
had physical and etheric bodies only. This was a kingdom below that

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actually within them. While he is asleep today, man's physical and etheric
the lesser half of his constitution. Man's physical and etheric bodies
body then was never entirely within the physical and etheric bodies
connected man's physical and etheric bodies with his astral body.
the physical and the etheric bodies; the form of the physical body alone
it is today. The time had now come when the physical and etheric evolution
etheric body, and on Old Moon it was the Spirits of Movement or Mights
into existence, namely, man's physical body, etheric body and
consciousness, and that this coordination of the physical, etheric and

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there developed their finer bodies. The human etheric and astral bodies
progressively denser, however, the connection with the etheric and astral
spiritual beings streamed perpetually into his physical, etheric and

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the life of my body, the etheric existence of my senses, the expression
physical body, etheric body and astral body had been prepared for him

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and etheric bodies of a man asleep remain in bed; his astral body and
days and was as if dead. His etheric and astral bodies were outside his
astral and etheric bodies without lethargy being induced for three and
and etheric bodies. That is what is called illumination in the course

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Besides the visible body he has also a life, or etheric body, not
the seer speaks of the etheric body, the sentient body, etc., and of

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invisible, into the etheric-spiritual world. Fire stands on the
is etheric and spiritual, which is no more outwardly visible or

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science — that the man consists of the physical, etheric and
same with the etheric body. When the work of the ‘I’
the etheric body, and the transmuted etheric body is the Life-spirit
The etheric body is at the same time etheric body and Life-Spirit or
etheric bodies and his physical body. Through this he will gradually
Helpers revealed themselves in quite definite etheric shapes or

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the physical, the etheric, the astral body and the ‘I.’
draw the human physical body as a circle, the same with the etheric
same way we must draw above it the transformed etheric body. The
transformed part of the etheric body, we designate Budhi or life
or Ego, the astral body, the etheric and the physical body. And we
physical body (1) etheric (2) and astral body (3). But now the Ego
water or that wind clairvoyantly, we find within it an etheric or
sees; the etheric and astral parts of the Angels live in the most
Archangels, not at all united with the etheric and physical bodies.
physical body, etheric body (Diagram III – 1,2); this they have
etheric body can only unite when the physical consists of air or
nor to his etheric body.
that it is possible to say, man is composed of a physical, etheric,
consists as yet only of a physical, etheric and astral body. And if
more of a physical, etheric and astral body down here upon earth than
etheric and an astral body. But these were not men who could think,
Lemuria who had only physical, etheric and astral bodies were
upon earth, and inspired the physical and etheric bodies of the men
etheric bodies were ensouled by an archangel. And if you remember
appeared to be. An Archangel lived in their physical and etheric
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an etheric body, which is not so dense. Man already had the
his etheric body. This happened, as it were, in a second circle. I

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physical body was not as yet interpenetrated by an etheric body, or
body, the etheric and astral bodies and the Ego, and then again the
the etheric and physical bodies, into Manas, Budhi, and Atma, into
the man dies. Soon after death the etheric body is dissolved; and the
whole of this new astral shape is impressed upon the etheric body, so
that the etheric body becomes a counterpart of the astral body. The
etheric body does not need to be as yet quite transformed, but that
last he influences or transforms his etheric body, then his physical
body. What happens when the etheric and the physical body are
transformed so that they are ruled by the man? When the etheric body
gradually developed in his etheric body, and when this Life-Spirit or
Man then reaches the point when his etheric body also leaves nothing
behind it, so that he retains this etheric body in the same shape
through all time, the etheric body in which he has formed the
astral and his etheric bodies. Such control enables him also to
direct in a certain way his astral and etheric bodies. One who has
lord of his astral and etheric bodies, has them at his free disposal.
astral and etheric bodies, I am now enabled, when I have to return to
earth again, to form for myself out of astral and etheric substances,
an astral and an etheric body which will be equally perfect.’
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able to penetrate, not only the physical, etheric and astral bodies
descended and ensouled the human physical, etheric and astral bodies.
earth and ensouled physical, etheric and astral bodies. Let us take
the ancient holy Rishis. In their etheric body there was, as we have
seen, the spirit of a high Being; they had inherited that etheric
their Ego and their astral body, the things which their etheric body
physical and etheric body, that the astral body of man during the

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know, man is composed of a physical, an etheric, an astral body and an
year the human etheric body is still surrounded by a kind of etheric
etheric and the astral body, the sentient and the rational soul. So
entire being — his astral, etheric, and physical bodies —
for the Christ to be born therein. He had made his etheric body so
that the development of the etheric body is meant, whereby wisdom
etheric body brings to perfection the habits, inclinations, and
wisdom, the etheric body grew mature in noble habits of goodness and
disposition (in his etheric body), and in grace and beauty (in his
etheric, and astral bodies.

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human being consists of physical body, etheric body, astral body, and
etheric body is still enclosed in a sort of etheric maternal sheath
birth of the physical body, of the etheric body in the seventh year,
radiance, this light; namely, the etheric body, the astral body, the
gradual preparation of everything embraced in his astral body, etheric
in him; and furthermore, that he had brought his etheric body to such
refers to the development of the etheric body, whereby wisdom gradually
all. The etheric body, on the other hand, shapes what it develops into
the etheric body has increased in pure habits in the realm of goodness,
(in his etheric body), and in gracious beauty (in his physical
physical body, etheric body, and astral body — to its highest

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physical body, etheric or life body, astral body, and Ego or ‘I’. We
physical and etheric bodies remain in the bed, while the astral body
and the Ego are raised out of the physical and etheric bodies. Now we
and etheric bodies, we may to a certain extent say that man then has
us, consists of physical and etheric or life body; it has neither
and consisting solely of etheric and physical body, must have the
as he has joined to his physical and etheric body, in the course of
system, and all that thereto pertains, is an expression of the etheric
as we see it, because man has an etheric body. Thus it is evident that
contains an etheric body, an astral body and an Ego. Now, as a human
your physical and etheric bodies at night. You forsake them, as it
from your physical and etheric bodies, remaining in your astral body
these, replace the others in the physical and etheric bodies. When the
possess a physical body, an etheric body, an astral body and an Ego.
from the physical and etheric bodies, we may infer that the astral
etheric vehicles.
physical and etheric bodies which, during the day, are the vehicles of
etheric bodies, he is guarded by these beings — beings belonging
etheric bodies and preserve the structure of his organism.
grows out of the seed, and became by degrees penetrated by an etheric
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ordinary state consists of four principles: physical body, etheric or
during sleep, while the physical and etheric bodies remain in bed, the
his physical and etheric bodies present he has, in a sense, the status of
of physical body and etheric or life body; it bears no astral body or
it can be said that during sleep, when his physical and etheric bodies
nor ego, but consisting solely of etheric body and physical body, must
pertains to it is an expression of the etheric body, everything connected
body; and the glandular system is the outcome of the etheric body.
can exist only by means of an etheric body, an astral body, and an ego;
but in the night you forsake your physical and etheric bodies — that
and etheric bodies, you would find your nervous and circulatory systems
in the physical and etheric bodies. When man's astral principle passes
alone have physical body, etheric body, astral body, and ego. The fact
etheric bodies shows us that even today the former retain a certain
and etheric vehicles.
body and the human etheric body are by day the bearers of the human
that enter our physical and etheric bodies when we ourselves abandon
permeated by an etheric or life body, so that on the old Sun
the germinal physical body was joined by the etheric or life body. Man
of physical body and etheric body, and his consciousness resembled that
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everyday life, inasmuch as his physical and etheric bodies remain in
physical and etheric bodies as they remain in bed, could not subsist
human being quits his etheric and physical bodies, with his Ego and
Ego-beings which enter his physical and etheric bodies. During the day
man himself fills and provides for his physical and etheric bodies,
physical, an etheric, an astral body and an Ego. When we behold him
etheric bodies are concerned, we can, if gifted with clairvoyant
etheric bodies. Who are these beings? They are precisely those of whom
dwelling on the Sun can enter a physical and etheric body during the
etheric bodies; by night he sleeps, that is, he is outside his
physical and etheric bodies. The Gods or other beings from the spheres
beyond the Earth watch over man's physical and etheric bodies during
enter into our physical and etheric bodies during the night. Our two
the etheric body flowed from them into the human physical body. The
etheric body was elaborated by the Spirits of Personality together
level of a plant, for he possessed both physical and etheric bodies.
man was due to become on the Sun, with both physical and etheric
physical and an etheric body; but for clairvoyant vision, its upper

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physical and etheric bodies remain in bed. And at the same time we had to
his physical and etheric bodies, but that in their stead there enter
etheric bodies with his own astral body and ego.
body, etheric body, astral body, and ego. But when clairvoyant consciousness
observes him during sleep at night — his physical and etheric
and etheric body. And who are these beings? Precisely those whose field
enter a man's physical and etheric bodies at night. For beings so exalted
his physical and etheric bodies; at night he is asleep — that
is, he is outside his physical and etheric bodies. During the night
and etheric bodies. That is expressed half figuratively, yet it is entirely
and etheric bodies at night, and this links up our two points. But we
— to sacrifice their substantiality; and what we call the etheric
body flowed into the physical body. This etheric body was then worked
and an etheric body.
a being with physical body and etheric body: that called for the Spirits
True, as constituted today the plant consists of physical body and etheric

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physical, etheric, astral bodies and Ego, clairvoyant consciousness
concerned, man's physical and etheric bodies are approximately the
physical sight, coincides almost exactly with the etheric head; the
etheric and physical parts of the head. If, for instance, you observe
a horse with clairvoyant consciousness you will see that its etheric
plane is due to the fact that the etheric body so closely coincides
earth evolution there were periods in which the human etheric body by
fact that the etheric body, once ranging beyond the physical body,
the physical and etheric bodies necessarily took place at a definite
once more out of the earliest germ which comprised physical, etheric,
by the etheric body. The human form, however, remained plastic until
it could perfectly adapt itself to the etheric body. It was in this
way that the coincidence of the physical and etheric bodies, of which
etheric body did not mingle completely with any part of the physical
body. The interpenetration of the physical and etheric bodies took
latter first appeared when the physical and etheric bodies became
etheric body extending beyond the animal's physical body would have
and etheric bodies had coincided, and man would have seen the world
possessed physical, etheric, astral bodies and Ego. The latter he owed
Motion, his etheric body to the Spirits of Wisdom, and his physical
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it is of physical body, etheric body, astral body, and ego, there emerges
least in the upper portions — the physical and etheric bodies
it appears physically, coincides almost completely with its etheric
there is a tremendous difference between the shape and size of the etheric
clairvoyantly, you see that the etheric head extends far beyond the
to the fact that his etheric body so nearly coincides with his physical
the foregoing lectures, in which man's etheric body by no means thus
gradually his protruding etheric body crept into his physical body,
to keep in mind that this interpenetration of the etheric and physical
etheric and physical bodies came to coincide at just the right time.
germ that comprised the physical, etheric, and astral bodies. He existed,
they could be wholly permeated by etheric bodies. The human form remained
plastic until such time as it could adapt itself completely to the etheric
body; and it was thus that the physical and etheric bodies came to cover,
the etheric body with any part of the physical body. This interpenetration
of the etheric and physical bodies came about at a definite point in
the period of evolution in which the physical body united with the etheric
etheric principle extended over its physical body. This form of human
along with the coincidence of the physical and etheric bodies, and man
a physical body, etheric body, astral body, and ego. For his ego, he
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etheric body came to coincide with the physical body at the dawn of
what happened after the coincidence between the physical and etheric
period, the union between the physical and etheric bodies was not
will on the part of the teacher, for the etheric body to be withdrawn
between the physical and etheric bodies: they were much more closely
master to draw out the etheric body by an impulse of his will, and to
necessary that he should be able to reflect in his etheric body all
not only his astral body but also the denser etheric body is
Atlantean times, the etheric and physical bodies were so loosely
etheric body; for during this procedure the etheric body was withdrawn
physical and etheric bodies remain in bed, while the astral body and
physical body remains, and the etheric body is almost fully raised out
meditation and the other exercises was now impressed upon the etheric
etheric bodies grew increasingly close, the process of initiation
and a half days, and to submit to the withdrawal of the etheric body
ancient initiation? That the etheric body should be raised out of the
Call to mind again that man consists of physical body, etheric body,
firmly knit together; in sleep the physical and etheric bodies lie in
physical body remains behind as a corpse — the etheric body
the etheric body are united. To those who have heard even a few of my
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the etheric body came to coincide with the physical body as the last
after the union of the etheric and physical bodies had become established?
the teacher could, in a certain sense, withdraw the pupil's etheric
etheric body and then the pupil could see whatever the teacher saw.
So the slight or loose connection between the etheric and physical bodies
a change had taken place in the connection between the etheric and physical
firmer. The teacher could now no longer detach the pupil's etheric body
This implied the ability to reflect in his etheric body everything he
but the denser etheric body as well, is thereby influenced. If the pupil
While in Atlantean times the etheric and physical bodies were so loosely
work upon the astral, and particularly upon the etheric body —
for during this procedure the etheric left the physical body. That is
something different from sleep: in sleep the physical and etheric bodies
act of initiation only the physical body remained in place. The etheric
and other exercises was now impressed into the etheric body while in
first epoch after the Atlantean catastrophe; but the union of the etheric
state, with the etheric body withdrawn.
all the old initiations was the necessity for withdrawing the etheric
human being consists of physical body, etheric body, astral body, and
firmly knit together, but in sleep the physical and etheric bodies remain
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depended upon the partial withdrawal of the etheric from the physical
the etheric body. In the John baptism, too, it was necessary that an
placed under water; this produced a partial separation of his etheric
a momentary separation of the etheric from the physical body. But he
against the processes in his physical and etheric bodies, to the
independently of the spirit in his etheric and physical bodies. That
grave, where he lay as if dead for three and a half days. His etheric
for the etheric body to be withdrawn during initiation, in order that
forces of this (etheric) body. These forces were formerly not at the
withdrawal of his etheric body.
of the etheric body.
the etheric body left the physical body and the disciple could behold
etheric body and clairvoyance ensues. Here we have an explanation of
their etheric body was raised so that they should be witnesses of the

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the etheric body, which normally is firmly joined to the physical body,
the etheric body. Such was the procedure in the old initiation, and
of the etheric from the physical body; and thus he could attain to a
with the result that the etheric body was disconnected for a short time
place without his agency in his physical and etheric bodies. But the
independently in his etheric and physical bodies. — That is the
for three and a half days, as though dead. When his etheric body was
withdrawn and, in his etheric body, he moved about in the spiritual
the sphere of his etheric forces he might behold the spiritual world,
the etheric body. Formerly these forces were not available in the normal
clairvoyant without the withdrawal of the etheric body.
the etheric body.
by submersion, with the result that the etheric body withdrew and the
astral body flow over into the etheric body, and clairvoyance results.
were inducted into the Mysteries. Their etheric body was withdrawn to

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etheric from the physical body for three and a half days during
artificially by the initiator as in olden times, when the etheric body
Ego, to step out of his physical, etheric, and astral bodies. There
was left a noble frame, a precious physical, etheric, and astral body,
of his physical, etheric, and astral bodies. Then we have the two
the Christ used these three bodies — the astral, the etheric, the
Nazareth (in his physical, etheric, and astral bodies), so that His
that is, to the etheric system. Furthermore they were initiated in yet

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that of withdrawing the etheric from the physical body during the three
the case in former times, by withdrawing the etheric from the physical
physical, etheric, and astral bodies. And what remained was a noble
sheath, a lofty physical, etheric, and astral body which had been saturated
had taken possession of His threefold sheath, His physical, etheric,
astral, etheric, and physical bodies of Jesus of Nazareth — for
world in the body of Jesus of Nazareth — in His physical, etheric,
to the etheric principle. And there is still another branch of the nature

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Ego, having purged, purified, and ennobled his physical, etheric, and
consisting of a physical, an etheric, and an astral body. At the
etheric, and an astral body, into which the Christ, as it were,
etheric body was separated from his physical body, so that the fruits
etheric body during that time; that is to say, the initiate rose from
and etheric bodily sheath which is provided for him. Something which
He had worked upon the etheric bodies of those surrounding Him. By
sending forth this force into the etheric bodies of those assembled,
etheric body. It was necessary to work upon the astral body, for it is
the astral body which commits sin. By working upon the etheric body,
the result that the etheric body becomes more independent of the
within the threefold bodily sheath of Jesus of Nazareth, the etheric
the threefold sheath of Jesus of Nazareth, that the etheric body could
and etheric bodies.

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was able to renounce His physical, etheric, and astral bodies, which
a threefold human sheath, a physical, etheric, and astral body, and
three and a half days, during which his etheric body was separated from
body to express themselves in the etheric body. This means that the
in former lives merges with what is provided for him as his corporeal-etheric
worked upon the etheric bodies of those present; for by the infusion
of His force into the etheric bodies of the people surrounding Him the
for thirty-eight years. To send His forces into the etheric body alone
is the astral body that sins. By exerting an influence upon the etheric
etheric body can become more independent of the physical body than it
the etheric body in the threefold sheath of Jesus of Nazareth became
sheath of Jesus of Nazareth that the etheric body could acquire the
is outside the physical and etheric bodies.

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etheric, and astral bodies which had been offered up to Him by the
consciousness as a being composed of physical body, etheric or life
etheric bodies remain in bed while the astral body and the Ego are
what manner do the Ego and the astral body actually enter the etheric
spiritual world into the physical and etheric bodies, the process is
penetrates the etheric, and the Ego penetrates the physical body. I
Ego is in the etheric body and so on. But an indirect interpenetration
his physical, etheric, and astral bodies, leaving behind the threefold
Man says to himself: Within me there lives an etheric body and in this
etheric body an astral body. The astral body is the bearer of ideas,
thoughts, sensations, and feelings; it lives in the etheric body. Now
we have seen that the etheric body is the principle which acts
therefore that the etheric body, being permeated by the astral body,
depend on the physical but on the etheric and astral bodies. For these
will therefore feel that the force permeating his etheric and astral
inherent in the etheric and astral bodies. The utterances of great
element dominates where the etheric and astral bodies interpenetrate,
the etheric and astral bodies — of the paternal to the maternal
element. Inasmuch as man has an etheric and an astral body, the
In an initiation of this nature the etheric and astral bodies were
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the etheric, and the astral body — that had been offered up to Him
the waking state the physical body, the etheric or life body, the astral
physical and etheric bodies remain in bed, while the astral body and
enter the etheric and physical bodies upon awakening in the morning.
drawing we had, down here, the physical body, and above it, the etheric
the astral body enters the etheric body, and the ego the physical body.
etheric bodies, the vertical lines for the ego and the physical body.
the ego, for example, is in the etheric body as well as elsewhere, and
Jesus of Nazareth abandoned His physical, etheric, and astral bodies,
of Jesus of Nazareth we can show in diagram as His physical, etheric,
first diagram and reflect as follows: We have an etheric body, and in
ideas, thoughts, sensations, feelings, and it dwells in the etheric
body. But we have learned that it is specifically the task of the etheric
this etheric body, permeated as it is by the astral body, contains all
to his physical body, but from elements associated with his etheric
who can see into such matters will sense that what permeates his etheric
mother, has its being in the etheric and astral bodies. The utterances
inner nature. We have learned that where the etheric and astral bodies
the relation of the physical body and the ego to the etheric and astral
reason of having an etheric and an astral body man has the mother principle
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Title: Gospel of St. John: Lecture XII
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their etheric body was withdrawn when they were led into the spiritual
the content of man's etheric body is inherited from the maternal
human being bears in his own etheric body the legacy of the maternal
handed down from etheric body to etheric body was strongly effective,
offspring of consanguineous marriage inherited in their etheric body
between the human physical and etheric bodies was of very different
nature than in later times. Considered today, the physical and etheric
early Atlantean times we find the human etheric head largely extending
beyond its physical counterpart on all sides. The etheric body,
Atlantean evolution saw the gradual drawing in of the etheric body
until both finally coincided. Now so long as the etheric body was
in and out, endowed the Atlantean etheric body with the faculty of
union of the etheric body with the physical head, whereby the head was
the etheric body with the faculty of clairvoyance. Then the time came
when the etheric body drew into the physical body. It tore itself away
contrary effect was obtained by the old initiations; here the etheric
body was raised out of the physical, and the etheric head was once
whereby clairvoyance again ensued. Now had this contact of the etheric
spiritual environment, the etheric body nevertheless retained
etheric body broke away from the higher worlds. Now, to keep to our
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with the fact that what the etheric body comprises derives from the
every man bears in his own etheric body the legacy of the maternal element,
of consanguinity the inheritance, perpetuating itself from etheric body
to etheric body, was very potent, and from it derived the old faculty
blood the old capacity for wisdom in the etheric body. But as blood
body and the etheric body of man that differed greatly from the later
be said that the physical and etheric bodies are so related that they
we find the etheric head protruding far beyond its physical counterpart:
the etheric body extended past the physical body, particularly in the
such a way that the outline of the physical and of the etheric body
became more and more coincident, especially in the head: the etheric
feature of this phase of human evolution: the etheric body of the human
the two come to coincide. Now, as long as the etheric body was outside
physical and etheric bodies in the head region, a condition admitting
from all sides currents endowing the etheric head with clairvoyance.
Then followed the time when the etheric body withdrew into the physical
of the world. Conversely, when in the old initiations a man's etheric
body was withdrawn, his etheric head became interpermeated once more
between the etheric body and the outer world been severed at one stroke,
something else took place as well: this etheric body that had cut itself
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Title: Gospel of St. John: Lecture XIII
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etheric body was the same after as before His death, and therefore
which by degrees will become etheric and then physical. For every
the human etheric body. Thanks to this astral force streaming into it,
the etheric body could begin to absorb new vitality such as it will
light into the etheric bodies of men. A short time after this event
the etheric bodies of those who had found access to the Christ-impulse
been in the earth ever since. They received into their etheric bodies
the Christ-light. The Christ-light streams into the etheric bodies of
etheric bodies of men ever since that time, what is the consequence of
this? What takes place after death in that part of the etheric body
gradually made its way into the human etheric body in consequence of
itself in the etheric bodies of men, as an effect of the Christ-light;
therefore, there has been something in the etheric body of man which
etheric bodies endowed with light. As the Christ-light streams from

Title: Gospel of John: Lecture XIII: The Cosmic Significance of the Mystery of Golgotha.
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that His life in the etheric body was the same before death as it was
etheric and then a physical light. Every being in the world continues
into the etheric human body; and thanks to the streaming in of this
the earth of itself had nothing left to infuse into the etheric bodies
of men. Some time later, however, the etheric bodies of those who had
Christ into their etheric bodies. The Christ light streams into the
etheric bodies of men.
in human etheric bodies? What occurs in that part of the etheric body
death? What is it, in short, that gradually permeates the etheric body
then, the human etheric body has held something that is not subject
earth, composed of the etheric bodies that have come alive. The Christ

Title: Gospel of St. John: Lecture XIV
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because the etheric body of Jesus of Nazareth was, needless to say,
completely penetrated by Christ. It was therefore an etheric body
physical body were there again, but by the force of the etheric body
etheric body which was seen. But for those who (through the strength
body, not only a physical body, but also an etheric body bearing all
physical body, in the etheric body, so that the latter revives the
the power of the etheric body that the people's hunger is stilled.
desired anything but to feel the power issuing from the mighty etheric

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the etheric body was completely permeated by the Christ. The etheric
through the power of the etheric body. So when Christ was seen after
His death, it was His etheric body was seen; but for those who were
see in an etheric body a real body with all the marks of a physical
etheric body mastery over the physical body, to the extent of endowing
— into wine. He understood how the power of the etheric body could
etheric body of Christ Jesus. No one had any other wish.

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nature, the physical body, the etheric body, the astral body and the
two principles, with the physical and etheric bodies. But when we are
body with the etheric body remain lying on the bed, and the astral
the physical and etheric bodies at night, while in the astral body
body to be imprinted upon the etheric body, even as a seal is stamped
themselves on the etheric body.
the etheric body has to help the astral body and the ego if
astral body and etheric body, with the sole exception of the physical
difficulties for the etheric body than for the astral body in this
asleep the astral body and ego withdraw from the physical and etheric
outside our physical and etheric bodies for at least a certain time
during each twenty-four hours. But the etheric body does not leave
etheric body, which then withdraws along with the astral body and the
astral body and the etheric body are then united in an appropriate
the etheric body during life if complete clairvoyance is to be
brought about. The etheric body must be liberated from the condition
exercises for giving the etheric body independence and freedom from
moment of death that the astral body and the etheric body can work
seize the etheric body and lift it out of the physical body. Such
that an inner force is aroused which frees the etheric body from the
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is composed of Physical, Etheric, Astral bodies and ego, and that
arose on Old Saturn, on Old Sun the Etheric body was added, and on

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beings of etheric substance, who did not descend to the density of a
etheric nature, in the shape of the external world of the gods. It
merely of ether but just as the etheric, the astral and the ‘I’
had an etheric body for their lowest principle and their other,
beings visible around me to spiritual sight from the etheric world
on the etheric plane. There Zeus, Apollo, Mars, Wotan, Odin, Thor,
a concept, but an etheric reality, a being which spoke to them as a

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envelopes of the physical, etheric and astral bodies, yet the nature
otherwise than they grew to be later on. The etheric body did not
it has done since. Formerly the etheric body of the head, for
of evolution is expressed by the very fact that the etheric and
closer. Now it is in the etheric body that all the forces necessary
between them. In the humanity of Atlantis the forces of the etheric
permeation of the physical body by the etheric body, that in no part
perceived the etheric body extending far beyond the physical body.
vision perceived the etheric body still extending, especially as
characteristic of etheric nature. It arose from all things, for they
a seeing of the etheric element, which was spread out over everything
civilisation is to cause the etheric body to descend deeper and
which the etheric body is organised. And this in its turn is
the physical by the etheric body is already a thing of the past; a
live in an era in which the etheric body is slowly emerging from the
consist in the gradual emergence of the etheric body from the
and we shall again see the etheric body spreading out beyond the
our physical organisation. At the time when the etheric body was
this etheric body man experienced this consciously as a cosmic
descending into his etheric body from the spiritual world also worked
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being consists of physical body, etheric body, astral body, sentient
man the different members, physical body, etheric body, astral body
old Indian people, the etheric body was to a far greater extent
could make use of this etheric body and of its organs if he gave
understanding; I make use of the organ of the etheric body.’
out of his physical body into his etheric body, and from there he
proceeding from the divine world. With his etheric organs he saw the
around himself an etheric, cosmic net, wove it out of the thoughts of
The characteristic of an etheric body which was still to a great
of old Persia; the etheric body had by that time slipped very much
civilisation could no longer use the instruments of the etheric body
Astral Body, Consciousness Soul, Etheric Body, and Physical Body.
we have seen, the old Indian made use of his etheric body when he
through the etheric body the highest unity was hidden from him, but
the old Indian period the etheric body and its organs were developed;

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lived in the etheric body of Gautama Buddha, so such an one also
clairvoyance in consequence of the relation of the etheric body to
human progress; in old India wisdom was absorbed through the etheric

Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture One
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etheric and astral bodies. A man whose knowledge of the world is
elementary Anthroposophy that man consists of physical body, etheric
we see a unity formed by physical body, etheric body, astral body and
their etheric bodies too; at a higher stage of clairvoyance he sees
for the intermediate members, the etheric and astral bodies. Most of
you know that the etheric body is not a completely new creation but
forms. The etheric body of Zarathustra reappeared in Moses.
It was the same etheric body. If we were to seek out the physical
out the ancestors of the etheric body of Moses we should
get another, quite different line; here we should come to the etheric
body of Zarathustra and to other etheric bodies. Just as we have to
trace quite different lines for the physical body and the etheric
the human being might lead to very diverse streams. Thus the etheric
body may be the etheric re-embodiment of an etheric body that
his etheric body or his astral body from this or that being, but he
instance, we may trace the path followed by the etheric body and
astral body. The one may lay more stress on the etheric body, the
personality only and the other who describes the etheric body are
us with an Ego, an astral body, an etheric body and physical body. To

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existence. Perception of man's etheric body was quite usual in the
surrounded by an etheric cloud that has gradually become entirely

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organs of the etheric body. When a man is able to use the organs of
‘impress’ in the etheric body. Even the old, dim clairvoyance
originated from the fact that in the etheric body, which had not yet
use the organs of the etheric body! They were obliged to make use of
etheric bodies. They experience in their astral bodies what they
astral body and his Ego leave the physical and etheric bodies. Then
etheric body is then cast off as a second corpse and something like
an extract or essence of this etheric body remains; he bears this
this unites with the extract of the etheric body which passes on from
for what we call ‘etheric body’ is ‘Linga
use the organs of the etheric body. But a new knowledge is now
body but he assumes another body — of an astral or etheric
being, consisting of physical body, etheric body, astral body and
off the etheric sheath which envelops him until the change of teeth just
him until then. It is not until the seventh year that the human etheric

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form) on Old Saturn, the etheric body on Old Sun, the astral body on
physical body, etheric body, astral body. We know of the processes in
civilization, and his etheric body to Moses, the leader of the
leadership of humanity held back a portion of the etheric body. This
means that certain of the forces of the etheric body were kept back
‘Body of Transformation’, but only as far as the etheric-astral
Hermes and his etheric body to Moses, and who had appeared again as

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etheric body of Zarathustra was transmitted to Moses. And because
whatever evolves in Time is connected with the etheric body, when
Moses became conscious of the secrets contained in his etheric body,
an astral body and strengthen an etheric body for his own use, even
possessed. He had surrendered his astral and etheric bodies to Hermes
it were to fetch back from Egypt the forces of his etheric body. A
body and his etheric body when the former had been bestowed upon
that is, in his etheric body; he was

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his nature and that his etheric body towered far above the human
the beginning of the Gospel of St. Luke. We know that in the etheric
there was present the hitherto untouched part of the etheric body
The etheric substance withheld from Adam had been preserved
etheric substance of Adam — untouched by all earthly
influences — being united with the etheric body of this
Jesus-child. This etheric substance was imbued with the forces that
by passing on his etheric body to Moses and his astral body to
fact that Moses bore the etheric body of Zarathustra and was able to

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a kind of etheric birth then takes place. In the fourteenth year,
emphasized. Then, when the etheric sheath has been discarded, the
etheric body is set free. Again, in the fourteenth year, when the
connected with the life-body (etheric body) is what is called the
they began with what we call the life-body (etheric body) and called
It was an etheric sheath of utmost value which then left the body of
the Solomon Jesus. As we know, the development of the etheric body
was an etheric body that had been worked upon and elaborated by the
etheric body leaves the physical body at death, everything that is of
of extract of the etheric body. In the case of the child of the
Solomon line the etheric body was of eternal use in the fullest
Now the etheric body forms and shapes the physical body of man and it
between this etheric body of the Solomon Jesus which had been
this Ego and etheric body had been united until the twelfth year of
etheric body in the Solomon Jesus asserted itself. The maturity of
able, in conjunction with his former etheric body, to build up a new
incarnation. Having sought and found the etheric body he had once
his etheric body again began to move through the evolution of mankind
death, occurs momentarily: the etheric body is lifted out of the
Nathan Jesus. His etheric body was drawn out — and during that
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This was an epoch when men still lived more in the etheric body, not
when man's etheric body still projected on all sides beyond the
etheric body penetrated into the physical body, the weaker it became
Atlanteans the etheric head extended very considerably beyond the
etheric body has penetrated to the deepest possible extent into the
now at the very verge of the turning-point when the etheric body will
that in the Indian body the etheric body was still comparatively free
etheric body could immediately take into itself the forces of the
the etheric body and the etheric body in turn upon the physical body.
The etheric body to-day lacks this power. In those olden times,
effect steadily decreased in humanity the more deeply the etheric
impulse of will that this soul transmitted the effect to the etheric
whom as a heritage from olden times the etheric body was still
etheric bodies were sufficiently detached to enable drastic effects
penetrated the human physical, etheric and astral bodies so
We are, however, approaching conditions when the etheric body will
we are now entering, with the loosening and emergence of etheric
beings in whom the old state of separation between the etheric and
these forms of illness are due to qualities of the etheric body.
only in astral bodies but in etheric bodies too, so that it was possible
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physical, etheric and astral bodies; the Ego had long since been
was still obscured by the three sheaths: physical body, etheric body
astral, etheric and physical bodies, all the old clairvoyance, all
streamed from Christ, working upon the astral, etheric and physical

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etheric and physical bodies of men, the Ego was now to become fully
received this spiritual stream through the physical, etheric and
through our physical, etheric and astral bodies such faculties as we
message was not to be conveyed to the etheric bodies of men from
to be conveyed to etheric bodies from within through revelations
imparted by the duly prepared astral body to the etheric body, as in
and etheric bodies by the stupendous power of what was happening.

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old Moon, and the Earth. The etheric body was added to it on the Sun,
etheric body, the astral body, etc., the sentient soul, the
appropriately with the etheric body, then the astral body, the ego,

Title: Wisdom of Man: II. Supersensible Processes in the Activities of the Human Senses.
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etheric bodies. The lowest member of the human being, the physical
body, and the second, the etheric body, enter a certain mutual
relationship whereby something new occurs in the etheric body.
Something that is different permeates and flows through the etheric
etheric body as water does a sponge. Spiritual science can tell us
what it is that acts thus in the etheric body. It is what corresponds
which saturates the etheric body, then, is spirit man, or atma, and
contracting the etheric body — cramping it, as it were. Using
proportion as the etheric body is pressed together the physical body
principle is at work in the etheric body, and again it is one not yet
etheric body is saturated with it as a sponge with water. It is the
etheric and physical bodies, and hence in the astral body as well.
etheric body, and this, too, is something that has entered human
the etheric body than do atma and buddhi, which are to be developed
in the distant future. Its action is to expand the etheric body,
the elastic etheric body. We have something like streaming warmth
when this semi-conscious expansion of the etheric body occurs. The
consequence of this elastic expansion of the etheric body is a
remain in the expanding etheric body. While the sense of life becomes
sensation results from the expansion of the etheric body, which thus
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to the etheric body. These flow into each other and intermingle to a
of the physical body, from the right that of the etheric body, and
physical, etheric and astral bodies and the ego have a part —
body and ego, etheric body and physical body — are to cooperate
the etheric body. From the left would come the current of the
physical body, from the right, that of the etheric body. They would
organ the currents of the physical and etheric bodies are dammed up
of the physical, etheric and astral bodies and the ego — it
etheric and astral bodies and could say that that is a living being.
perceive the etheric and astral bodies yourself. But now the figure
From right to left, those of the etheric body.

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We have learned that the physical and etheric bodies
entity, stemming from the old Saturn, while the germs of the etheric
first germ of the etheric body was also asymmetrical, with a current
The etheric body experienced a similar transformation.
from the back. Given the existence of the physical and etheric bodies
group ego worked from above into the physical, etheric and astral
were to learn to speak? We know that the etheric currents flow from
other direction, from the south, flow the etheric currents that lack

Title: Wisdom of the Soul: IV. Consciousness and the Soul Life.
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etheric body of the soul,” and the other, the current of
Consciousness is the meeting of the astral and etheric
from the research of clairvoyant consciousness about the etheric and
etheric bodies were removed. What would happen? The current from the
continuous stream of the etheric body that flows from the past to the
must join the continuous current we have called the etheric body. At
stream of life has made an impression on the etheric body, and
ego, he cannot feel his own etheric body, but from then on the ego
reflects back into itself the current of the etheric body. This gives
arises when the ego fills out the etheric body and is reflected, as
consciousness is that it is the etheric body being reflected inward.
delimitation of the etheric body. Only through this does the ego
remember, that the astral body comes to meet the etheric body. It is
the ego that fills out the etheric body and, through inner
toward the future. Now the ego has joined the current of the etheric
body, has entered the etheric body — has itself, so to speak,
reflected in the etheric body at the inception of the ego, remembers
essential fact that the human ego, in so far as it enters the etheric
human life? It is the inner fulfillment of the etheric body. It must
therefore itself be transformed into a mirror within the etheric
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Persian the sentient body, and in the Old Indian the etheric body;
consciousness-soul is to us, that the etheric body was to the
Teachers said very little; for at the stage which the etheric body had
developed the etheric body, the teacher had to address himself
etheric bodies had to be at a more advanced stage of development than
had to communicate through the etheric body. That means that the
etheric body of such a teacher must not work like those of other men,
“What sort of etheric body is that?” For such an etheric
It was, however, no such simple matter for such an etheric body to
soul into the sentient body, the intellectual into the etheric body
side. There the intellectual- or mind-soul works into the etheric
etheric body in man could be directly affected, — when that Being
‘shock,’ the Christ-Being sank down into that etheric body.
etheric body. That means that when some day man, through Spirit-Self,
his etheric body, he will then be working in an element in which the
transmutation of his etheric body in a conscious way.

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permeated by an etheric and an astral finger. The outward appearance
these things are determined by the etheric finger. It is the builder;
that the blood flows in the right way. The way in which the etheric
The etheric and astral bodies are organised for the purpose of
maintaining the finger as it now is. I can never cut the etheric
finger nor the astral finger. If I cut my finger in two, the etheric
wanted to water your garden. Thus the astral and etheric bodies are
watering-pot or the like. In the same way our astral and etheric
through some disorder in the physical or even in the etheric body of
or at most in the etheric body. Through his right conception of the

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Sun that of the etheric body, on the Moon that of the astral body, and
in his etheric and physical bodies. Thus in the Lemurian epoch man
etheric body and physical body) and he has become more entangled in
different qualities into his physical, etheric and astral bodies and
above all to what regards himself. His astral, etheric and physical
the physical, etheric and astral bodies. In the astral body a high
degree of egotism was developed; in the etheric body the possibility
deeply into the etheric body during incarnation after incarnation, the
Christ-Impulse, to overcome selfishness and to heal his etheric body
Let us pass on to the etheric body, which is the builder of the
the physical body. The trouble itself is first in the etheric body;
arise within gradually to clear away the auction from the etheric
their etheric bodies if they take up the Christ-Impulse; for they have
the spiritual worlds. The etheric body was added on the Sun and the

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the physical body, etheric body, astral body and ego, are active in
bears the law within it. They called the etheric body of this ancestor
‘Ben Jage’; that would signify an etheric body as far as
As regards the etheric body, through which man becomes conscious of
forces in their nature, whereby what we know as the etheric body will
become visible. A certain number of people will develop etheric
see Him in His etheric body — it was believed that Christ would
etheric body. That is the important progress in the evolution of
Christ in His etheric body. He will not descend into flesh, but man
etheric vision of Christ in His etheric body, will be
Etheric vision of Christ, in the reality of which they can then
Etheric Christ, so a mighty revolution will also take place in the

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physical and etheric bodies. This has nothing to do with the inner
undivided, and finer, more etheric, more spiritual than the later and
as regards his physical body, for as regards his etheric body he is
body is concerned and that can be said of the etheric body of a man;
so that the relation of the etheric body of a man to the etheric body
during the first half of the 20th century an etheric clairvoyance will
forces, they will teach him how he may himself see the etheric nature
Kali-Yuga, will lead to etheric clairvoyance. The cry of John the
etheric clairvoyance may be acquired. For the spiritual ascent there
years, through the addition of an etheric realm, which indeed is
already here now, but which he will learn to perceive. This etheric

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corporality, — consisting of physical body, etheric body and
Christ by means of a certain etheric clairvoyance, and of

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to descend into a physical body. It can only incarnate down to the etheric
as is known, had his astral body to Hermes and his etheric body to Moses.

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lowest physical-bodily entity, what we call the etheric or life body.
etheric body.
Such an etheric body, in which an
etheric body, in which an individuality like the Buddha is embodied, is not
Buddha in later times, we have such an etheric body consisting of
principle of the physical body that holds the etheric body
Bodhisattva Buddha reappears embodied in the etheric body, he then appears,
etheric body are properly developed. Since Zarathustra had preferably
of all the abilities that came out in the physical and etheric body up to
had remained until his thirtieth year in the body where the etheric body
to the seventh year, man is still wrapped in an etheric shell, which he

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etheric or life-body on the Old Sun, the physical body on Old Saturn.
of the etheric body. Development is based on the elaboration of the
of the etheric body. The beginning of the third period may be described
the etheric body which he has in common with the plants, and the astral

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Zarathustra's etheric body passed over into Moses* — let us even
Now the fact is that our etheric body, which for clairvoyant
chains the etheric body firmly to the brain. If through his karma
the present time his thinking will not bind his etheric body so
strongly to the brain; he will be able to set free his etheric body
free again the etheric body from the brain. But if with what one may
call the fine chiseling of thought the etheric body has become so
When, however, the etheric body does become free, it will mean that he
remains in his etheric body and does not reach the physical brain. But
between what is continually being developed in his etheric body, and

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water, the effect being that his etheric body in the region of his head
was loosened somewhat from the physical body, whereas normally the etheric
before him as a result of the loosening of his etheric body. This was
it receives from the etheric body, but this member of man's being which
past was portrayed in the etheric body and acted as a formative force
as the vision of the soul-nature of the etheric body, in the form of
had descended into the being of man; how the etheric body which had
baptisms. Men now beheld the creative forces of the etheric body, no
This etheric body was no longer permeated from within by what issued from
knew from the form in which the etheric body appeared before them, when

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Saturn character, the etheric body Sun character, the astral body Moon
etheric or life-body. Whereas a person should exert himself to come to
physical body, goes further to the etheric or life-body, and says:

Title: Universal Human: Lecture One: Individuality and the Group-Soul
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etheric body to the sun, the astral body to the moon, and the I to
for example, in the descriptions of the etheric or life body. Rather
describe the etheric body as if it were a kind of finer matter, and
physical body, proceed to the etheric or life body and say it is

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clairvoyant as pure astral-etheric streams. But later, these pure
spirit streams dried up, as it were, condensed to etheric-physical
being. Our hair is a dried-up astral-etheric stream. And such things
to the age of puberty, in which the etheric body is active in the

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astral-etheric streams. But later these purely spiritual streams
dried up, as it were, and condensed to etheric-physical streams. What
nothing else but dried up astral-etheric streams.
age of seven. The second period, in which the etheric body is active

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The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric
Lecture I: The Event of the Appearance of Christ in the Etheric World
beings in the etheric world, not His return in a physical body. The
Event of the Appearance of Christ in the Etheric World
The Event of Christ's Appearance in the Etheric World,
acquire the new faculty of perception in the etheric realm — a
something of the etheric world, which up to now they have not
physical body; then, however, he will be able to see the etheric
relationship of all deeper events in the etheric. He will have
three or four days. He will see certain things in etheric pictures
faculties, resulting in what may be described as etheric vision. And
Christ will return, however, in an etheric form in the period of
Christ, because through this etheric vision they will grow upward
only into an etheric body. It will therefore be necessary for human
spiritual-etheric world.
event of Damascus. This same etheric vision will be cultivated as a
will be raising themselves toward Him in etheric vision. When we
will be capable of seeing etheric bodies, and among these etheric
bodies he will also be able to see the etheric body of Christ; that
will experience Him in His etheric body. Through this experience they
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Title: True Nature: Lecture I: The Event of Christ's Appearance in the Etheric World
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The Event of Christ's Appearance in the Etheric World
Preparation for this Event through the Development of Etheric Vision
in the Etheric World
Etheric Vision
The Event of the Appearance of Christ in the Etheric World,
The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric
etheric world — a certain number to begin with, and they will
the etheric world which hitherto they have not normally been
will be able to see the etheric body at least as a shadowy picture
etheric world. He will have pictures and premonitions of happenings
certain things in etheric pictures and know that to-morrow or in a
come again in an etheric form in the period indicated. Men will learn
to perceive Christ inasmuch as through this etheric sight they
body but only as far as the etheric body; men must therefore grow to
especially blessed can always see Him in this spiritual, etheric
— in the vision at Damascus. But this etheric sight will
Christ. Christ will appear again inasmuch as with their etheric sight
Men will become capable of seeing etheric bodies and among them, too,
the etheric body of Christ; that is to say, they will grow into a
presence of the Living Christ, men who will know Him in His etheric
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The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric
Lecture II: Spiritual Science as Preparation for a New Etheric Vision
beings in the etheric world, not His return in a physical body. The
Science as Preparation for a New Etheric Vision
shadowy outline and in its first elements, what we call man's etheric
capacity to see the etheric body will gradually be added. People will
have learned that this etheric body is a reality, or they will think
be able to ascend as far as the vision of the etheric body. He
Palestine, but in His etheric body He is always present within the
etheric atmosphere of the earth. Because human beings will be able to
develop etheric vision, they will also be able to behold Him. The
the etheric. This is what we may look forward to in our time of
will be able to behold Christ living and ever-present in the etheric.
disposal to attain etheric vision as a natural, universal human

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The Appearance of Christ in the Etheric World,
The Appearance of Christ in the Etheric World,
verse has to do with the etheric body (Blessed are they that mourn ...)
the year 1899 onwards, a certain faculty of etheric sight
materialism. This awakening of etheric sight may be ignored,
will develop etheric sight. This is the beginning of the
it at Damascus. When men have developed etheric sight they
will be able to behold Christ in an etheric body. This is
incarnate in the flesh. Those men who have developed etheric
sight will be able to behold the Christ in the etheric body
this etheric happening. But this happening will also be of

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The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric
beings in the etheric world, not His return in a physical body. The
what could be called etheric, forces. The plant directs its root
gradually begin to see the etheric, because it is that which is
as man believes that the ascent of the physical into the etheric has
is not the case, however, when one is concerned with etheric forces.
become able to behold Christ in His etheric form. They will behold
the etheric earth from which the plant world springs up. They will

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The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric
beings in the etheric world, not His return in a physical body. The
every man. We also know that the etheric body of man is female and
thus reversed for the etheric bodies of man and woman, and so are the
the whole man can advance, the physical and etheric or life bodies
I in the physical and etheric bodies — and this something is
the comet! The comet works upon the physical and etheric or life
from stage to stage, receives physical and etheric organs it can use.
suitable physical and etheric brains, their thinking could not have
corresponding organization to be present in the physical and etheric
nineteenth century had a physical brain and an etheric body suitable

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The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric
Lecture V: The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric
beings in the etheric world, not His return in a physical body. The
Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric
The Second Coming of Christ in the Etheric World,
seeing the etheric body, they will learn to see the etheric body of
the truly existing Christ in His etheric body. After all, no matter
faculties find Christ in that world in which only etheric bodies are
more real etheric body of the Christ.
have to look for Christ on His return as etheric form in the
have when Shamballa shows itself again will be Christ in His etheric

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The Second Coming of Christ in the Etheric World
in the Etheric World
The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric,
The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric
will make their appearance. When men become able to see the etheric
body, they will learn to see the etheric body of Christ Jesus, as did
etheric body. Those who place reliance only on documents may call
the newly developed faculties in that world where etheric bodies
be able to perceive the etheric body of Christ as an even greater
in His etheric form.
etheric form. Into the land declared by Oriental writings to have

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etheric body to the physical body is loosened, even partly withdrawn.
being — the physical and etheric bodies, the sentient, rational and
times, the etheric body had to be slightly separated from the physical
Of the etheric body He said, “Formerly, men could be healed of
possess soul powers with which they can penetrate into the etheric.
Thus, in future, Christ will become visible to mankind in the etheric
reappear in the etheric body — now it is an absolute necessity to
etheric body. This manifestation will take the form of a natural
new world of the spirit will be the etheric Christ. No matter what
etheric Christ are perhaps in a more difficult situation than those

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The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric
beings in the etheric world, not His return in a physical body. The
person is about to drown, the connection of the etheric body to the
physical body is loosened — the etheric body is even partly
the physical and etheric bodies, the sentient, rational, and
etheric body had to be slightly separated from the physical body,
Of the etheric body He said, “Formerly, men could be healed of
capable of penetrating into etheric vision through their soul forces.
Christ will thus become visible to human beings in an etheric and not
etheric body — now it is necessary to distinguish such things
Christ Who appears in the etheric body. This appearance will take the
The leader in this new kingdom of the spirit will be the etheric
actually have the experience of the etheric Christ are perhaps in a

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The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric
beings in the etheric world, not His return in a physical body. The
I of Jesus abandoned his physical, etheric, and astral sheaths, and
will be possible to perceive the human etheric body. Another faculty
physical body, but He will appear in an etheric body as in the street
Human beings with etheric clairvoyance will thus behold the Christ
appearing before them in an etheric body. The faculties I have just
person lies to a certain extent in his own hands. When this etheric
He will appear in an etheric body. By means of spiritual science we
Christ will manifest Himself only in an etheric form. True
symbol for the appearance of Christ in the etheric body. You will

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The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric
Lecture VIII: The Etheric Vision of the Future
beings in the etheric world, not His return in a physical body. The
Etheric Vision of the Future
beings who know what you have seen. They call it ‘the etheric
etheric clairvoyance, which redeems the age of thinking that is
fact: the possibility of looking out into the etheric with newly
Christ in His etheric body. Without books and documents this great
Christ's appearance in the etheric thus has significance for all the

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etheric clairvoyance, whereby, as if through a natural development,
spiritual powers of man, Christ will return in an etheric garb. Ever

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science declare that behind the colours there is vibrating etheric
etheric body — and on the other side, of the members outside the
in waking life to have an inner life of soul, is the etheric body. If,
the pictures. If we were to penetrate into the etheric body only, we
enter into the etheric body which acts as a mirror of the inner world,
which enables us to have an external world before us, and the etheric
and etheric bodies, in the Microcosm, is remarkable in the extreme. We
aware of our life of soul? It is because the etheric body does not
ourselves in it. The etheric bodies mirrors our soul-life back
actual cause of our soul-life. The etheric body itself, however,
penetrating to a certain extent into the etheric body; he sees more
inner deepening, penetrates to some extent into his etheric body; he
interior of the etheric body. What the mystic experiences in passing
the threshold are processes in his own etheric body. He then
directly from his etheric body and not, as in the case of other
own etheric body.

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Ego and astral body emerge from the physical and etheric bodies when
wakes and comes down into the physical and etheric bodies.
astral body and Ego have emerged from his physical and etheric bodies.
drives him out of his physical and etheric bodies. Anyone who
influence which drives him out of his physical and etheric bodies. But
drive him out of his physical and etheric bodies because he succumbs
which drove him out of his physical and etheric bodies brings him back
his physical and etheric bodies in the spiritual world, not of their

Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 3: The Inner Path Followed by the Mystic. Experience of the Cycle of the Year.
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into his physical and etheric bodies. It will be evident to anyone who
waking. We come down into our etheric and physical bodies but have no
his physical and etheric bodies when seen from within? The essential
descending into our etheric and physical bodies, to contemplate
Sentient Soul and our etheric and physical bodies. The veil that
inner world of the physical and etheric bodies, but in first making
his physical and etheric bodies. In his soul he would experience a
become aware of the perfection of his physical and etheric bodies
he were to descend consciously into his etheric and physical bodies.
of the universe has made of his physical and etheric bodies. He is
sight of what spiritually underlies the physical and etheric bodies
has incorporated in the etheric and physical bodies. The soul must say
the material for our physical and etheric bodies? All the forces which
built up our physical and etheric bodies. This whole interplay, the

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physical and etheric bodies, and we know that fundamentally speaking
etheric bodies, possessing the same aptitudes as at birth. Whereas,
our physical and etheric bodies only to a slight extent. Nevertheless
physical body when the etheric body is no longer working in it. The
etheric body, which is a faithful fighter against the disintegration
to disintegrate if fresh forces from the etheric body were not
continually supplied to it. The etheric or life-body in turn receives
time by the inner forces. How the astral body works on the etheric
body and the etheric body on the physical-that is what a man would see
if he were able to descend consciously into the physical and etheric
experience consciously the moment of entry into the etheric and
theosophical manuals of the astral, etheric and physical bodies are
and etheric bodies is that on waking we emerge from another world in
etheric body and reflected to us by the latter. An image of ourselves
reached the boundary where the Sentient Body borders on the Etheric
mirror-image, in the etheric body, but it helps us to acquire
Beings, for this path reaches down into the etheric body; the same

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bodies there is the etheric body, so that in descending to that level
we should encounter our etheric body and perhaps also traces of our
teacher, to experience in connection with the etheric body. The
These things are revealed when a man descends into his own etheric
body; it then becomes evident to him that the etheric body has a long
the etheric body he now bears. He began to work at this etheric body
etheric body, astral body, and so on, this is merely an indication.
he began to form the archetype of his etheric body. It was then that
characteristics which were progressively elaborated, until the etheric
concentrated as it were in the present etheric body and were given
his etheric body man learns to know his “upper” nature. The
we are now trying to study from within, namely, the etheric body. For
But then the main part of the etheric body passes away from him like a
dispersed in the etheric world; the man takes with him only an
last traces of the dissolving etheric body of his previous life
contact with the last remnants of his previous etheric body. And now,
were into this last etheric body of his, which he has left behind.
resemblance to his last etheric body grows until he finally recognises
the form his etheric body had assumed at the moment of his last death.
Obviously, therefore, there is much more to be said about the etheric
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etheric body alone had worked on man, he would be like a plant, for a
plant has a physical and an etheric body. Man has in addition the
members (physical body, etheric body, astral body) he would be an
higher members. A plant would be a mineral if it had no etheric body.

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physical and etheric bodies in a certain consolidated form. But what

Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 9: Organs of Spiritual Perception. Contemplation of the Ego from Twelve Vantage-points. The Thinking of the Heart.
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descend from those worlds to unite with the etheric and physical

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as it were, into two parts. The physical and etheric, bodies are left
the invisible etheric body, and the super-sensible part of man's being,
night, something that has a physical and an etheric body? We know that
etheric body leaves it at death. It then becomes subject to purely
during sleep, is the etheric body, or life-body. But man possesses
law belonging to the etheric body which abandons the physical body at
sleep consists of physical body and etheric body. The plants too
consist of physical and etheric bodies. Therefore man has the etheric
the plant; for in man the two bodies — physical and etheric
only the physical and etheric bodies. Hence even externally man is
in his lower members, the physical and etheric bodies and rising to a
his physical and etheric bodies independently of the influence of the
summer. In autumn the plant must let its etheric body go forth from
In the plant and in man the connection between physical and etheric
illustration, of a being which consists only of physical and etheric
then he could not live. Man has a physical and an etheric body, but he
and etheric bodies. He begins to have consciousness only when he
consciousness if he did not possess physical and etheric bodies. He
his astral body and Ego. Physical body and etheric body must be there
etheric body. The physical and etheric bodies had first to be built up
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consists of a physical body, an etheric body and an astral body. These
work in a retarding way on the human etheric body which would

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physical body, but also in the higher principles, in the etheric and
in this particular case, and, on the other, the share of the etheric
made up of a physical and etheric body. At the same time it is a being
etheric body are in principle healthy, and that it has to wait until
of a diseased plant we are never able to say that the original etheric
and especially into the etheric body. Spiritual Science entirely
the plant, namely, physical and etheric bodies, we have before us
etheric and physical bodies of the plant exist healing forces which
and etheric body thus shows that these principles are fundamentally
to look for the principle of the inner healing power in the etheric
activity of the etheric body of the plant is much intensified round
etheric body of a plant to exercise increased activity when we injure
addition to the etheric body, have also an astral body. If we carry
our observations further we shall see that the etheric body of a
be the action of the etheric body. If we cause a severe injury to the
tear a leg from a dog or some such animal, we find that the etheric
etheric body of a plant replies to a similar injury to itself. But
even in the animal kingdom this action of the etheric body can still
in the etheric body. But we should not deny that such provocation to
develop healing powers in the etheric body of man or of higher animals
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the whole organisation of the physical body, the etheric body and
physical body and etheric body receive a complex warp and woof of such
come to you in your next incarnation from your physical body, etheric
develop into forces of disease which affect man through his etheric

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instance, the trouble which was produced between the etheric body and
etheric body and the astral body still exists, and we oscillate
unstable state of balance between the etheric and the physical body,
appertain to the etheric body and the physical body bring about in the

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another? We know that when we sleep, the physical and the etheric body
is a return of the astral body and Ego to the physical and etheric
and etheric bodies. What happens with regard to those experiences
etheric bodies. The latter principles are those which hold together
down into our physical and etheric bodies, we ought in reality to
then concentrate, and after our re-entry into the physical and etheric
etheric body, astral body, and the Ego, and that they are linked
It is not enough to say that we consist of physical body, etheric
body, etheric body, and astral body. The astral body was then our most
body and the etheric body was greatly loosened. The earlier and more
etheric and physical bodies.
exit, this detachment of the astral body from the etheric and physical
body into the etheric and physical bodies. Let us suppose that this
into the etheric and physical bodies, there will be disorder. In our
with the physical and etheric bodies than it would have sought had it
physical and etheric bodies than would be the case had such forces not
astral body penetrates further into the physical and etheric bodies
the physical and etheric bodies. In what then consists the action of
it penetrates the physical and etheric bodies further than it should?
our physical and etheric bodies on awaking and perceive something,
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— the physical body, etheric body, astral body and the Ego
in the transgressions of the astral body, but in those of the etheric
organ has been attacked by Ahriman; in other words, the etheric body
defect to ahrimanic influence, and into which the etheric body has too
forces connected with a deeper penetration by the etheric body would

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external man, we consist of physical body, etheric body and astral
mind soul into etheric body, and a consciousness soul into the
be so metamorphosed that it will be manifested in the etheric body.
Thus in the new incarnation we encounter in the etheric body an effect
fault in his etheric body. It is now deeper rooted and is not in the
rational soul but in the etheric body. But such rationality and good
etheric body. For this reason it may happen that the forces of the
diseased part of the etheric body provokes error in a certain
the etheric body. That is why neither logic nor persuasion will have
by his etheric body.
is present in a certain part of the organism, as in our etheric body
own etheric body. This shows how Ahriman is drawn by Lucifer to
approach our etheric body. Previously the transgression was luciferic;
expelling the defect from one's etheric body. This can be done only by
penetration of the etheric body by the rational soul. For the truths
soul and the astral body, between the rational and the etheric body,
of the astral and etheric bodies from within. In the same way one can
etheric body. In external truths, though one may be learning an
rational soul and the etheric body, but has, as it were, a longer way
the etheric and physical bodies. Even in dreamless sleep we have a
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‘interchange of tensions.’ Certain processes in the etheric
For such illnesses whose causes lie in the etheric body, science seeks

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recognised to-day. For example, the etheric body of man, besides the
century there will be people possessed of a natural etheric
will develop as a natural gift, will perceive the etheric body as
and its effect. Certainly only those will have this power of etheric

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distinguish in him the physical body, the etheric or life-body, the
therefore that in what we call physical body, etheric body, astral
etheric or life-body, by transforming it and remodeling it into what
mind-soul to the etheric or life-body, so that the intellectual-soul
2. the Etheric body,
etheric body, and finally, to form those of his astral body and then
earlier existence of our earth, in the old Sun-condition, the etheric
are our astral body, our etheric or life-body and our physical body,
with his ‘ I ’, [when] he transforms his etheric or
who are now working upon their etheric or life-body and are
out of his physical body and etheric body, he leaves the latter lying
are my physical and etheric bodies, they are in that place and they
his astral body, outside his physical and etheric bodies, it is then
etheric bodies. In a distant future, however, one will be able from
direct his physical and etheric bodies, so there are beings, who have
etheric body of each single bird. Just as the group-soul directs the
and etheric bodies; he will direct them and set them in motion. He
transformation of his etheric or life-body.
we call ‘directing one's etheric and physical bodies from
their own etheric body.
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etheric body, astral or sentient body and ‘I’ or ego
the ego will refashion and transmute the etheric or life-body into
etheric body, so that the Intellectual or Mind-Soul is a feeble
the etheric body,
then for the etheric body and finally for the astral body, and then
during the epoch of the Old Moon, the etheric body in a still earlier
further develop our present astral body, etheric or life-body and our
ego, he transmutes his etheric or life-body into Life Spirit or
working upon their etheric or life-body and are transmuting it into
relinquish his physical and etheric bodies which he leaves behind in
etheric bodies which are part of me, whilst I with my other members
and etheric bodies, then he is limited to the free and random
his physical and etheric bodies. In the distant future, however, he
etheric bodies, so there are beings who in a certain respect have
an example of the group-soul to which the etheric body of each
Spirit Self or Manas, command his physical and etheric bodies; he
the process of transmuting his etheric or life-body. The Beings who
physical and etheric bodies from without’, but who are able at
the same time to work upon their own etheric body.
transforming our etheric or life body; Beings who are themselves at
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their etheric or life-body, that therefore they are fashioning this
admitted that the work upon this etheric or life-body cannot be
Let us begin with the etheric or life-body of these
which may be designated as the etheric body of these Archangelic
spiritual cloudlike formation which we must designate as the etheric
aura of that special part of the earth. This etheric aura is quite
Germany. It is true that every man has his own etheric body, and it
is also true that a kind of etheric aura towers up over every part of
the surface of our earth. This etheric aura differs very considerably
from other etheric auras, for example from that of man. If we observe
a living human being, we find that his etheric aura is united to him
this etheric aura of man alters from within, it develops certain
etheric auras which can be perceived over the various countries.
these etheric auras there are also changes which take place quickly,
The essential is, that the etheric aura over a certain
this particular part of the etheric auras of the different parts of
our earth. The various etheric auras of Europe altered very much at
peoples. You may already see, that in the etheric aura over any
etheric auras is in a certain respect a fusion of what comes from the
inhabited by a certain people, is the etheric aura of that particular
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upon their etheric or life-body, when they fashion this body from out
it will be said, of course, that the work upon the etheric body is
us begin with the etheric body of these Beings and their work in the
research find evidence for the existence of the etheric body of these
cloud-like formation that we call the etheric aura of that particular
region. This etheric aura varies according to the landscape: in
Denmark or Germany. Just as every man has his own etheric body, so a
kind of etheric aura hovers above every region of the Earth's
etheric aura differs considerably from other etheric auras, from that
of man, for example. The etheric aura of the human being is part of
plane. Then we are always conscious that this etheric aura begins to
quality. The etheric auras that can be perceived over the various
But, at the same time, these etheric auras are prone to rapid
strange feature is that the etheric aura over a certain region
depends in fact not only upon the etheric emanations from the soil,
aspect of the etheric auras which is peculiar to the different
geographical regions. The various etheric auras of Europe underwent
Thus the etheric aura of a particular, region is subject to change,
external factors to some extent. Every one of these etheric auras is,
active principle in the etheric forces. Indeed only that aspect of
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man, Beings who are working at the transformation of their etheric
etheric bodies into that which is called Life-spirit or Buddhi. Man
etheric body and of the physical body. But these transformations are
astral body the sentient-soul is a sort of instrument, in the etheric
members, three modifications of the etheric body. Just as in man we
three modifications in the etheric body. As, however, these three
modifications are not in the astral but in the etheric body they are
Manas, and are now transforming their etheric body or life-body into
etheric aura, and in this how the forces of the Folk-spirit work, and
modify the etheric body of man according to the three types of force.

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transmuting their etheric bodies into Buddhi or Life Spirit. Now man
astral body itself, of the etheric body and of the physical body.
Intellectual Soul through the etheric body and the Spiritual Soul
modifications of the etheric body. In man we distinguish Sentient
etheric body and since these three modifications are situated not in
the astral, but in the etheric body, they differ fundamentally from
or Manas and are now in process of transmuting their etheric body
territory; over this people extends the etheric aura of the people
into which the forces of the Folk Spirit work, modifying the etheric

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parts of man, the physical body, the etheric or life-body and the
going-back begins, and his etheric and astral organizations crumble

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man, the physical body, the etheric body and the astral body were
a progressive decline sets in and the etheric and astral
attributes which he thus receives because these etheric formative
etheric forces from the soil to intervene at the locality where man
certain extent the etheric forces emanating from the soil permeate
the etheric formative forces of the Earth in the neighbourhood of
man is determined by the etheric forces emanating from the Earth.
racial characteristics to the etheric formative forces of the soil;

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nature, you have the physical body, the etheric body and the astral
can conceive of him as a tissue consisting of the physical, etheric
condition if you observe what is called the human etheric body and if
etheric body may be traced back to the old Sun. The after-effects,
physical body, etheric body and astral body, willing, feeling and
fulfilled, otherwise he could not have received the etheric body and
period, in order on the one hand to lay the foundation of the etheric
so that the etheric body and the element of Feeling, the element of

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consist of the physical body, etheric body and astral body. So that
etheric and astral bodies into which are woven — as into an
of the mission of the Old Sun epoch if you study the etheric body and
that the etheric body can be traced back to the Old Sun. The
body, etheric body and astral body; thinking, feeling and willing —
him. To the Old Sun he owed his etheric body and sentient life, and
the foundation of the etheric body through the influence of the
endow us with the etheric body and the element of Feeling, the inner

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body in the nervous system; the etheric or life-body in the glandular
in the blood, the astral body in the nervous system, the etheric body
in that which is the image of the etheric body, the glandular system.

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the blood, the astral body in the nervous system, the etheric or
glandular system which is the reflection of the etheric body. The

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etheric bodies, at a time when they were not consciously present.
etheric body, whilst making itself at home in the physical body —

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upon their souls, upon their astral and etheric bodies, was
etheric body, and interpenetrating the physical body, acquired the

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of man, upon the astral body as well as upon the etheric and physical
etheric body and in the physical body of man. In the etheric body is
the Luciferic influence and this appears as selfishness. The etheric
the astral body selfishness, in the etheric body lying and
Luciferic influence into man, the physical, etheric and astral bodies
is selfishness, in the etheric body lying and untruthfulness, and in
Loki's influence on the etheric body, which causes man to have

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his astral, etheric and physical bodies. At the present day one can
three different ways: in the astral body, in the etheric body, and in
begets in the etheric body the urge to falsehood and lying. Lies and
etheric body is inwardly motivated by the impulse to be untruthful
selfishness, in the etheric body lying and falsehood, and in the
physical, etheric and astral bodies became a prey to sickness and
in the etheric body lying and falsehood and in the physical body
influence on the etheric body to which man owes his inner inclination

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old Indian culture worked upon the human etheric body. Hence the
— it was a culture that was in the human etheric body; so that
being wakened. He then returned to his work in the human etheric
refined to the highest point, goes back again into the etheric body,
forces of the etheric body itself.
because it had a sort of expression of its nature in the etheric
activity in the etheric body, there was a more blurred, a fainter
etheric body.
the first culture took place in the etheric body, after the necessary
coming thus to his etheric body, and from this and its forces
side, as it were, of the consciousness of the etheric body. That is
Spirit-Self can specially develop? Let us recollect that the Etheric

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follows: the old Indian culture worked upon the human etheric body.
etheric body. We may envisage the ancient Indian Culture somewhat as
etheric body. The essential element in the ancient Indian culture is
that the ancient Indian was able to return again to the etheric body
etheric body.
turn, had a kind of psychic counterpart in the etheric body. But the
related to the activity of the etheric body, the Greek culture
experienced, like a memory reflected in their etheric body.
etheric body after the spiritual forces of soul had been adequately
able to return to the etheric body with highly developed faculties of
etheric body. This is the Chinese culture. If you bear this
remember that the etheric body was developed in the ancient Indian

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the etheric body are developed will be found in increasing numbers,
training. And why will this be so? What will the etheric body possess
his actions in the etheric world. Thus gradually the first elements
experience a renewal of that which St. Paul saw in etheric
in the etheric, at first by a few and afterwards by more and more
St. Paul saw as the living Christ Who is to be found in the etheric
have to look up into the etheric world for a new manifestation of
the new clairvoyance which begins with etheric clairvoyance, it will
mankind in a newer etheric vision, which in reality refers to the
there exists the etheric form in which will embody that which we
shall once again see as the etheric form of Christ. And this alone

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found in whom the organs of the etheric body are so far developed
be the nature of the, etheric body in those few who develop
made visible in the etheric world. Thus the first elements of future
that which St. Paul saw in etheric clairvoyance as a mystery to come,
be able to be seen etherically from the perspective of the physical
the etheric world since the Mystery of Golgotha, will be seen by an
etheric world, or whether they will refuse to look beyond the
etheric clairvoyance he will realize that the forces of the old Gods
find their counterpart in a new etheric vision which’ in
existence. It knows that the etheric form exists in which shall be
embodied what we are now to see again — Christ in etheric form.

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so on. They are usually called etheric states, and we have always
beyond the light we come to a yet finer etheric condition, we come to
but also of the finer etheric element of sound which permeates
higher etheric condition, which also withdrew with the
haschamayim. We come to the finest etheric state of all,
about by the sound-ether is poured a still higher etheric mode. And
idea of this finer etheric element permeating the organising
which as the highest etheric entity lies behind their activity, there
into the etheric with haschamayim radiated answering light

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so on. They are usually called etheric states, and we have always
beyond the light we come to a yet finer etheric condition, we come to
but also of the finer etheric element of sound which permeates
higher etheric condition, which also withdrew with the
haschamayim. We come to the finest etheric state of all,
about by the sound-ether is poured a still higher etheric mode. And
idea of this finer etheric element permeating the organising
which as the highest etheric entity lies behind their activity, there
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existed at an earlier time now came forth in etheric, in elementary
etheric bodies. For consciousness to arise, a separation or fission
Sun evolution the rudiments of an etheric or life body were added;
their work in common, and that at length the human etheric form

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existed at an earlier time now came forth in etheric, in elementary
etheric bodies. For consciousness to arise, a separation or fission
Sun evolution the rudiments of an etheric or life body were added;
their work in common, and that at length the human etheric form

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towards a more rarefied, more etheric condition, so that if we call
have a finer, more etheric state. I have already said that we may

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towards a more rarefied, more etheric condition, so that if we call
have a finer, more etheric state. I have already said that we may

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in the direction of the etheric, to light-ether. We have said that
our physical and etheric bodies we have to distinguish destructive
upon our physical and etheric bodies, building them up. This

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in the direction of the etheric, to light-ether. We have said that
our physical and etheric bodies we have to distinguish destructive
work upon our physical and etheric bodies, building them up. This

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lower region of clairvoyance, all that has to do with the etheric and

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lower region of clairvoyance, all that has to do with the etheric and

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he leaves his etheric and physical bodies lying in bed, and he
physical and etheric bodies, currents go out from it, it begins to
and etheric bodies. During the night our astral bodies are diffused
take place. Man still remains a supersensible etheric being. But a
further densification does take place within the etheric. Man still
spiritual-etheric circumference of the earth. Here we touch upon
to mature within a psycho-spiritual sphere, a more etheric sphere.
spiritual-etheric existence, and only sought denser embodiment after
water; man had still to remain in etheric existence, and it was in
fact his condensation to the stage of the etheric body that took
then an etheric condition, and then came the physical states, first
into the life of man weaving in the etheric heights, before he fell

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he leaves his etheric and physical bodies lying in bed, and he
physical and etheric bodies, currents go out from it, it begins to
and etheric bodies. During the night our astral bodies are diffused
take place. Man still remains a super-sensible etheric being. But a
further densification does take place within the etheric. Man still
spiritual-etheric circumference of the earth. Here we touch upon
to mature within a psycho-spiritual sphere, a more etheric sphere.
spiritual-etheric existence, and only sought denser embodiment after
water; man had still to remain in etheric existence, and it was in
fact his condensation to the stage of the etheric body that took
then an etheric condition, and then came the physical states, first
into the life of man weaving in the etheric heights, before he fell

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etheric-astral state. What was described on the third
lighter, that what previously had been etheric became transformed
into a condition somewhat resembling what we know today. The etheric
distinguish in him four members, the physical, etheric and astral
etheric bodies during sleep remain in the bed. When we are concerned
physical and etheric bodies as we know them today. These were only
etheric bodies, which we have to look for on the surrounding planets
outside his physical and etheric bodies, he is so to say articulated
during the day as our physical and etheric bodies was being prepared.
It was in order that these etheric and physical bodies should be able
souls were preserved on the earth. By that means the etheric and
etheric body derives from those who remained on earth. The
as far as the foundations of his physical and etheric bodies are
preserved it in his physical and etheric bodies ever since. Thus man

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etheric-astral state. What was described on the third
lighter, that what previously had been etheric became transformed
into a condition somewhat resembling what we know today. The etheric
distinguish in him four members, the physical, etheric and astral
etheric bodies during sleep remain in the bed. When we are concerned
physical and etheric bodies as we know them today. These were only
etheric bodies, which we have to look for on the surrounding planets
outside his physical and etheric bodies, he is so to say articulated
during the day as our physical and etheric bodies was being prepared.
It was in order that these etheric and physical bodies should be able
souls were preserved on the earth. By that means the etheric and
etheric body derives from those who remained on earth. The
as far as the foundations of his physical and etheric bodies are
preserved it in his physical and etheric bodies ever since. Thus man

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male has a feminine etheric body, and the female a masculine etheric
that the physical body was more etheric and the etheric body somewhat
etheric, a densification on the side of the physical, only occurred
were at that time more etheric, more spiritual. They remained at a
the astral and then gradually condenses into the etheric-physical; it
man has acquired a higher member. But his earlier, more etheric
Man acquired an external, bodily member, and an inner, more etheric
appears on the outside, the more rarefied, etheric, invisible body
of the more etheric, more delicate man who was formed on the sixth
“day.” Thus there is a direct line from the more etheric
form, of the etheric man. If one wanted to describe the Jahve-man who

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male has a feminine etheric body, and the female a masculine etheric
that the physical body was more etheric and the etheric body somewhat
etheric, a densification on the side of the physical, only occurred
were at that time more etheric, more spiritual. They remained at a
the astral and then gradually condenses into the etheric-physical; it
ego man has acquired a higher member. But his earlier, more etheric
Man acquired an external, bodily member, and an inner, more etheric
appears on the outside, the more rarefied, etheric, invisible body
of the more etheric, more delicate man who was formed on the sixth
“day.” Thus there is a direct line from the more etheric
form, of the etheric man. If one wanted to describe the Jahve-man who

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their physical as well as in their etheric and astral

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other words: the physical, etheric and astral bodies of

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being, he sacrificed his own etheric and astral bodies. His
body of Zarathustra persisted. Similarly his etheric body
existence the etheric body of Zarathustra, which had been
early childhood the fully preserved etheric body of
his etheric body, something quite unusual had to take place
united at the right moment with the etheric body of
the etheric sheath of Zarathustra himself.
denser etheric body, received the Sun-wisdom less directly.
Hebrews. The lower astral-etheric clairvoyance which had

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his two pupils his own astral body and his own etheric
the astral and etheric sheaths were separated from him,
the etheric body of Zarathustra, who had offered it up as
childhood, the preserved etheric body of Zarathustra was
pupil of Zarathustra, to receive into himself the etheric
is then instilled into him. Thus the etheric body of
the etheric sheath of Zarathustra himself had been
recipient is harboured more in the denser, etheric body,
of astral-etheric clairvoyance that had remained in a

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finer, more spiritually-etheric ones, going out with the sun.
etheric tone which lives within and permeates all space. It
is something much more spiritual, more etheric, than ordinary
that the two highest etheric manifestations, life-ether and
etheric bodies, but these should not be pictured as
physical and etheric sheaths; harmony which otherwise can
of his sheaths when separated from his physical and etheric
organs of his etheric body for thought, and those of his
etheric bodies, had himself to appear again in a physical
established, and to Moses he bequeathed his etheric body.
etheric bodies, but they had no instrument for the formation
capable of etheric perception. There is but one way of
the etheric and the astral sheaths. They too had to be
fourteenth–fifteenth, his etheric; and from then to the
etheric and astral bodies were to be associated with this
etheric and astral bodies of the single individual evolves
etheric and astral bodies. After forty-two generations it was
physical, etheric and astral bodies, the aptitude first

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consciousness as the 'Harmony of the Spheres', as etheric
two highest kinds of etheric manifestation — the
physical and etheric bodies. But it must not be imagined
formation near the physical and etheric bodies as the
outside the physical and etheric bodies? It is the
physical and etheric bodies. In the normal state, man has
into the physical and etheric bodies, using the outer
organs of the etheric body for thinking and those of the
etheric body, should be able to appear on the Earth in a
Hermes, and he bequeathed his etheric body to Moses. He
body, when forces were activated in the etheric body; but
able to have perceptions in the etheric body, free from
constitution; all the three sheaths, physical, etheric
of the development of the etheric body is from the sixth
But for this process to take effect in the etheric body
etheric body and astral body. Thus the process of
to receive in the physical body, etheric body and astral

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throughout all ages. In Atlantis, astral-etheric clairvoyance
which he was clothed in the etheric body of a forefather of
Abraham — this was the etheric sheath of Shem, the son
the etheric garment of Zarathustra had been preserved for
Moses, this etheric body of Shem had persisted, and was used
Abraham this great Being only showed himself in the etheric
of St. Luke in that he united himself with the etheric body

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certain astral-etheric clairvoyance enabling him to gaze
etheric body of Abraham's original forefather; it was the
etheric body of Shem, the son of Noah, and it
had been preserved as the etheric body of Zarathustra had
Sun-Mystery used the etheric body of Shem in order to
the etheric body of Shem, the progenitor of the Semites.
the etheric body of this child. And we heard that this is

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as far as the etheric body. In the course of lectures on the
Buddha, who was then incorporated as far as the etheric body,
etheric body, remains in the physical world, and the other,
the physical world belong to the physical and etheric bodies
and etheric bodies of man. That part of him, however, which
active characteristics of the physical and etheric bodies of
physical and etheric body. The whole evolution of these
physical and etheric body in human evolution has been
and an etheric body, but also an astral body and ego.
physical and etheric body, but what was needful had also to
necessary. The physical and etheric bodies were prepared in
physical and etheric organism, the Luke Jesus received the
forsakes his physical and etheric sheaths, he expands, and is
his physical and etheric bodies. Hence he emerges from sleep
his physical and etheric bodies; clairvoyant consciousness
etheric bodies. It will then belong to the world the stars,
into the physical body and etheric body, that they might find
etheric bodies in order to realize their forces; therefore to
physical and etheric bodies. The essential fact for the
and etheric bodies, were connected with the mystery of
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as the etheric body. In the lectures on St. Luke's Gospel
that time as far as the etheric body, penetrated into the
his physical and etheric bodies remain in the physical
only of physical body and etheric body. In truth, all
concern the physical body and etheric body, although
exercised upon his physical and etheric bodies. These
etheric bodies of a human being arc comprised within 6
active factors in the physical and etheric bodies. In
evolution of the physical and etheric bodies is actually
and etheric body in human evolution.
body and etheric body but astral body and Ego as well.
physical and etheric bodies, had to be adequately
etheric body were prepared in the personality with whom
etheric bodies, Jesus of St. Luke's Gospel was to receive
formation hovering near the physical and etheric bodies
sleep, man passes out of the physical and etheric bodies,
waking, we descend into the physical and etheric bodies.
physical and etheric bodies. Clairvoyant consciousness
entire exclusion of physical and etheric bodies. This
physical and etheric bodies in order that after
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and etheric bodies of the Solomon Jesus, so an Entity of
himself from perception through his physical and etheric
other side, had worked on the physical and etheric bodies,
etheric body, which had been preserved for Moses. Zarathustra
himself incarnated later in other astral and etheric bodies.
etheric body, which had been preserved for Moses. Zarathustra
himself incarnated later in other astral and etheric bodies.
perceive the mysteries of the physical and etheric body. The
from the physical and etheric bodies. Capacities for
preparation for the physical and etheric bodies of the Jesus
the etheric, and the third period of fourteen, that following
remembered that a physical and etheric body carefully
years; the etheric in the next seven, between the change of
physical body and etheric body as these passed down through
development of the etheric body, that which had been prepared
twelfth year, within the physical and etheric body of that
physical and etheric body fittingly prepared within the line
actually forsake the physical and etheric body described in
and etheric sheaths of the Solomon Jesus.
boundless measure, for dwelling in his etheric body was that
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(Kraftwesenheit) was to permeate the etheric and
perceptions given through the physical anti etheric
working in the physical body and etheric body through 42
He had also given up his etheric body, which was
civilization, Moses bore within him the etheric body of
other astral and etheric bodies. Of particular interest
secrets of the etheric body and the physical body. But it
the physical and etheric bodies, and a greater power of
of the physical body and etheric body of the Jesus of St.
generations the etheric body and during the third 14
body and etheric body.
dentition until puberty, the etheric body; and only then
the case of the physical and etheric bodies prepared for
of the etheric body had reached its conclusion, what had
and etheric body of the Jesus of St. Matthew's Gospel
physical and etheric bodies of the Solomon lineage had
physical and etheric bodies of the Solomon Jesus. —
capacity for love, because in his etheric body was
and the etheric body. He had necessarily to choose the
that are acquired from life and develop in the etheric
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and etheric bodies during sleep is familiar to you. The
physical and etheric bodies, but quite unconsciously, for his
etheric bodies through his perceptive faculties being
and etheric being, identifying himself with it, the purpose
and etheric body unprepared, and impure. Were this to happen
one's own etheric and physical bodies unprepared, is to
etheric bodies so that he should experience with full
physical and etheric was only possible when he was surrounded
physical and etheric body or expand outwards into the
etheric body, and because the physical and etheric body of
descent into the physical and etheric body as a free
and etheric bodies, and could ascend to those of the
etheric body in existence capable of experiencing complete
really taken possession of a physical and etheric body. This
develop in the physical and etheric instruments of a member
the carefully prepared physical and etheric body of the
his etheric and astral bodies to Moses and Hermes; he now
this physical sheath with everything of an etheric and astral
both sides — the descent into the physical and etheric
these events, that is His descent into a physical and etheric
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from his physical and etheric bodies. His Ego and astral
physical and etheric bodies. During sleep man is in the
and etheric bodies, but quite unconsciously, for at the
consciously into his physical and etheric bodies he would
physical and etheric bodies by the fact that his faculty
preparation, into his physical and etheric bodies, is
and etheric bodies and identities himself with it, there
physical and etheric bodies unpurified and a man is so
and etheric bodies, experiencing them in full
and etheric bodies could only be endured when a man had
etheric bodies, as well as to pass outwards into the
descend into a physical body and an etheric body. And
the descent into his physical and etheric bodies. This
of the physical and etheric bodies and rise to those of
right into the physical and etheric bodies. This had now
to unfold in the instrument of the physical and etheric
this particular physical and etheric body. Human
to Hermes and his etheric body to Moses. He now offered
Ins physical sheath, with the whole of its etheric and
descent into the physical and etheric bodies, and the
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that is, the descent into his physical and etheric sheaths,
with our physical and etheric bodies.
body and etheric body. Such a man could bear witness to the
and plunges down into his physical and etheric bodies, the
into and the perception of the secrets of the etheric body is
of the astral body, the etheric and the physical body. Into
etheric body. This is the door through which he must go. Here
etheric body. He then perceives something higher than is
described as being composed of physical body, etheric body,
etheric bodies. Compared with the physical principle the
etheric acts as an impediment between the two. Allusion has
do injury to my etheric body, for it is in fact purer and
etheric body on which he had not as yet been able to inflict
perceived that which united him with his etheric body, he
descent into the etheric body that brought man in
his etheric body, astral body, and ego.
who makes the descent into his astral, etheric, and physical
himself down into the etheric and physical body. This is a
Matthew: as a plunging down into the etheric body and

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penetrating into his physical and etheric bodies a man's
htiman phsical and etheric bodies.
in his physical and etheric bodies. Such a man was able
descends into his physical and etheric bodies. At this
before he could penetrate into his etheric body and
of the astral body, the etheric body and the physical
inner nature of his physical and etheric bodies. That is
astral body, he penetrated into his etheric body, where
man as consisting of physical body, etheric body, astral
etheric body. Compared with the physical body, the astral
body, although the etheric body, lying between them, acts
not yet been able to do as much injury to my etheric body
as to my astral body. My etheric body is still much more
etheric body, the forces of which he had not vet been
etheric body, the effect expressed by the first word,
etheric body that a man came into contact with beings
being, consisting of etheric body, astral body and Ego
etheric and physical bodies. This is clearly shown in the
himself down into the etheric body and physical body.
considerable extent — namely, the etheric and
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physical and etheric bodies experienced the temptations of
physical and etheric body bringing with it the encounter with
blessedness of the etheric body is expressed differently. The
etheric body contains the principle of suffering as you can
an astral body, can only suffer through injury to the etheric
body. If the healing which formerly poured into the etheric
a new power to the etheric body. Hence the new truth
concerning the etheric body declares: ‘Sufferers can
etheric, and astral sheaths, and also in the sentient-soul,

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body and etheric body a man experienced in his astral
when he penetrates into his physical and etheric
to the etheric body, this could be said: In the etheric
can suffer as the result of injury to the etheric body
be looked for in the etheric body. To express the new
been imparted to the etheric body. Hence concerning the
etheric body it could be said: Those who suffer can now
lower members — physical body, etheric body, astral

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physical and etheric body; and that the forces radiating from
His physical and etheric bodies worked as is told in the
first where man descends into his physical and etheric body,
and etheric body during sleep, and pours them into the starry
when within His physical and etheric bodies. He could even
physical and etheric bodies, and through His whole nature, He
night when they were outside the physical and etheric bodies.
life in a physical, etheric, and astral body, He has become
will perceive Him, not in the physical, but in the etheric
Christ. Christ will appear to them in the etheric clouds, and
kind of Second Coming of the Christ, but in an etheric
in an etheric garment as he appeared to Paul on the way to
most important mission this teaching concerning the etheric
Christ, the Christ Who would appear in etheric clouds, and he
physical body but in an etheric garment, similar to that seen
when the Christ will appear in a new form in an etheric body.
for His return in etheric raiment.

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his physical body and etheric body. In the case of
etheric body were able to work in the way that comes to
into his physical body and etheric body, learns to know
from his physical and etheric bodies, pour into the world
etheric body. He was able to unite Himself with the
exercised by the physical and etheric bodies that had
his physical and etheric bodies during sleep. The forces
had left their physical and etheric bodies. Whereas in
through a single life in a physical body, etheric body
the figure of Christ — but now in the etheric, not
etheric world.
reveals Himself in etheric form as He revealed Himself to
an etheric form — as He appeared to Paul. If men
the etheric Christ in the etheric world; and he would
a physical body but is to become manifest in an etheric
the time when in a new raiment, in an etheric body,

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etheric body, and astral body. With the astral body is
had added to him an increase in the capacities of his etheric
enhanced powers into his etheric body during the
as the ancient Indian that the etheric body received these
within us physical body, etheric body, astral body, and ego;
It is the same as regards our etheric body, which already
physical and etheric bodies, while his astral body and ego

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different members of man's being: physical body, etheric
forces enhancing the capacities of the etheric body were
post-Atlantean era were those imparted to the etheric
transforming the forces of our astral, etheric and
our etheric body. Hence Christ says to Peter: It is not
possible. While a man is asleep his physical and etheric

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way. A quite specially prepared physical and etheric sheath
physical and etheric sheath had been prepared in accordance
physical and etheric sheaths of the Jesus of the Gospel of
physical and etheric body could serve such a Being as the
physical and etheric body could be prepared it was necessary
etheric body could only provide a fitting instrument if the
and life-ether, this last being the finest etheric condition
etheric substances man is only aware of warmth and
physical and etheric bodies, Luke in respect of the
development of the forces of the physical and etheric bodies,
line all he had acquired while in the physical and etheric
could only be possessed by Jesus because he had an etheric
physical and etheric bodies. In these two members live all
we must regard our physical and etheric bodies as the most
etheric body. This etheric body is in the same situation as
relationship with other men appears in the etheric body. Luke
Christ worked as man through the physical and etheric body he

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process. Very specially prepared physical and etheric
etheric sheaths derived from the forty-two generations of
specially prepared physical and etheric bodies of the
suitable etheric body might be produced through heredity
himself: A physical body and an etheric body of this
particularly with the physical body and the etheric body,
etheric body, perceiving how these sheaths are discarded
acquired in the physical body and etheric body of the
and etheric body had been developed by the Solomon Jesus.
physical body and the etheric body are sheaths out of
The etheric
are also present in the etheric body; into it resounds
we can say: Beings of exalted rank lie in the etheric
physical body and the etheric body, therefore are to be
body of the Sun Being, unites with the etheric body. The
etheric body was in the same situation as our etheric
astral body, but in the etheric body. Hence there is no
faculties derived from the physical body and etheric
members of human nature — etheric body, astral

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etheric body from the time we waken until we fall asleep, and in the
deal of harm. But the forces active on our physical and etheric
etheric bodies we give ourselves over immediately to these Divine
control our physical and etheric bodies from morning till evening.
etheric bodies, falls away from us when we become independent of
our physical body and etheric body must now be within us, so that we
and etheric bodies.
supports laid aside with their physical and etheric bodies, by

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soul-and-spirit is embedded in our physical and etheric
great deal of harm. But in our physical and etheric bodies
and etheric bodies and lead us through life from morning till
our physical and etheric bodies, falls away when we become
the power we otherwise draw from the physical and etheric
external supports provided by our physical and etheric
independent of the physical and etheric bodies through

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etheric body, astral body, etc., he tries to understand and form a

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being of man, of the physical, etheric and astral bodies and

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it is the development of the etheric body. The third period, to about
etheric part of the life of the soul goes towards the future, the

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important process now is the development of the etheric body.
of time: the etheric stream, flowing into the future, and the

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with the immersion in water, they got their etheric bodies so free,
the etheric body became free for a moment. Through the baptism in the

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people to the point where their etheric bodies were freed
and their etheric bodies were freed for a moment. Through baptism in

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water, their etheric bodies were momentarily loosened and in

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Old Saturn, of his etheric body on Old Sun, of his astral

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Ahriman later on in the etheric body. With the coming of

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stages correspond with the upbuilding of the physical, the etheric,
the Moon-evolution, an etheric sheath corresponding to the
to-day, man has no consciousness of his astral, etheric and physical
physical body, etheric body, astral body and ego; and the result of
separate the ego, astral body and etheric body, then the physical
etheric body, and physical body you know nothing. The moment he
his own nature, into his physical, etheric and astral bodies his
realms of its astral body and etheric body into its physical body?
body very much, but has not been able to injure his etheric and
part of the etheric body is so strong that however much a man may try
to injure it he is unable to do so, for the etheric body resists
individual powers, as to injure the etheric or physical body. It is
develops directly affect the physical and etheric bodies injuriously,
become capable of affecting his astral body and a part of his etheric
We can therefore say if a man descends into his etheric body on which
physical body and etheric body it then passes through the evolution I

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physical, etheric and astral bodies were brought into
three sheaths — the astral sheath, the etheric sheath and
astral, etheric or physical bodies. You will naturally insist
members of man's constitution: physical, etheric and
‘I’ and the astral and etheric bodies. But
astral, etheric and physical bodies into which he penetrates
Earth. Nor does he perceive his etheric body — there again
own intrinsic nature — into his physical, etheric and astral
etheric and physical sheaths. And in the mystical life it is
temptations, into the physical and etheric bodies — when,
caused to his etheric and physical bodies. The astral body is
injury to the etheric body than through lying or at most
etheric body can sustain injury. A certain part of the
etheric body is so strong that however hard a man might try
etheric or the physical body. It is only in the course of
etheric body; but upon his physical body he can work
say that when a man descends into the region of the etheric
body and etheric body it achieves the development we saw in

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to the etheric nor yet the physical body. In the Exusiai, on the
these is the physical body, then comes the etheric body (concerning
own etheric body as something separated from their physical body.
his fellow-men, these revelationscame to him because his etheric body
revelations was a man and his etheric body therefore female,
revelations that came to him through his etheric body. The more he

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the etheric body or the physical body, which are the lower
etheric body, the astral body and the Ego, the
to perceive their own etheric body separated from the
way: his etheric body emerged from the physical body and
were men, their etheric bodies were female and they
his own etheric body. The more thoroughly he made himself at

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the etheric body of a spiritually developed man was to be
etheric body is loosened from the physical. A picture of his

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that man consists of four members — physical body, etheric
etheric body, but he cannot by decree annul the processes that go on
clearly the results of processes within the etheric and astral body
to the etheric body and as it is imparted so it remains in the
the etheric body, thoughts that are greater than the fulfilment of
reflected in the astral body and continue further into the etheric
to our etheric body, for they continually bring new vital forces to
which bring life to our astral and etheric bodies, and dawn
life-giving forces within our etheric body.
have the etheric body about us for a few days, and because of this we
forces we implant in us remain within our etheric body, they are
“It pours into our astral and etheric bodies, fresh, youthful,
etheric and astral bodies; that is through our soul and spirit. We
the etheric and astral body,” for this varies according to the
stream forth from the etheric body, sometimes glimmering feebly,
etheric and astral parts, is a most wonderful formation.
glands which are instruments especially of the etheric body, while
with the etheric body. Where a similar connection exists with the
group of organs have connection with the etheric body, others with

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man consists of four members — physical body, etheric body,
about the etheric and astral bodies is true before my karmas
body and etheric body; but the consequences of processes
you how the consequences of processes in the etheric or the
etheric body and in that form remains perceptible in the
astral body and again impressed upon the etheric body. But
stimulating for the etheric body and continually bring new
life to our astral and etheric bodies and shine out within
in our etheric body as life-giving forces. When at death the
etheric body is still around us during the first few days,
then, implanted by ourselves, remain in the etheric body as
into our astral and etheric bodies.
quite simply, is that the etheric and astral bodies — the
filled with the etheric and astral bodies, for there is a
projections of the etheric body stream out from the fingers,
its etheric and astral parts, is a most wonderful structure.
instrument of the etheric body, whereas everything associated
which are definitely related to the etheric body. Such an
an inner connection with the etheric body and another with

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as a seal does, on the etheric body. If the idea is a small one this
etheric body. If it is to prosper and thrive it must lay hold of the
from our astral body it must first pass into our etheric body and
follow the path backwards, it has to enter the etheric body again by
danger, while the idea is still in the etheric body, of its entering

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the astral body and then impress itself into the etheric body
idea is now in the etheric body.
pass from the astral body into the etheric body and from
astrality back into the etheric body. It has then become
etheric body, it may pass coldly into the world. If we wait

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combined workings of the etheric body, the astral body and

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Sun and Moon evolutions. During these his physical body, etheric body
physical body, etheric body, astral body and ego. This must not be
with that of the etheric body, and up to his twenty-first year with
describe as physical body, etheric body, and astral body,
To-day we say: — We study the nature of our etheric body; then
into them, he had drawn his etheric body out of his physical body,
the etheric body, is transient; and the third, the lower astral body,
Saturn, the etheric body since the Sun-age, the Astral body since the

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and a Moon-evolution, during which his physical, etheric and
consists of physical body, etheric body, astral body and Ego.
the etheric body up to the fourteenth and of the astral body
the lower and higher Ego, about man's physical, etheric
nature of the etheric body; in earlier times it was said that
his etheric body had been drawn out of his physical body
physical body, and so to death; Time, the etheric body, is by
the evolutionary period of Old Saturn, the etheric body since

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The intellectual soul slips itself into the etheric body; there
brings about the etheric-objective ability to confront the very

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works in an etheric way, so that we stand over against what is

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discover in them etherically the Christ. Empedocles could not find
for him that there is an etheric body behind every flower. This was a
etheric body, so that the etheric body is then able to kill what
of them and penetrates into the etheric body. The gospels are
in their etheric body when they look back into time, to those who

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we have astral body, etheric body and physical body.
body; and the far-off Indian epoch, the etheric body. The adaptation
the etheric body, during the ancient Persian period in the astral body,
soul of the ancient Indian. To describe what took place in the etheric
ego-consciousness that was working there; Atma was working in the etheric
in the etheric body of the ancient Indian. And what was then woven into
the etheric body was an activity such as man himself will later an come
to achieve in the way indicated, when Atma works in the etheric body.

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and in Lemuria itself, they could be seen as etheric streams. So a planet
vision once again into the etheric world and the revelation of Christ

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body to the etheric and physical bodies, about the waking state and

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constitution and we then speak of his physical body, etheric body,
another, this complex, consisting of physical body, etheric body,
etheric body and astral body were far looser than they are in men
today. In those times the astral body and the etheric body were far
astral body and etheric body try to be connected more and more firmly
advances and the astral body and the etheric body of man tend to
was possible in ancient times when the astral and etheric bodies
of this feeling or idea spread quickly into the astral and etheric
etheric body are entrenching themselves more and more firmly in the
clairvoyance, due to the greatest freedom of the etheric body and the
able to work into man's etheric and astral bodies. But in the
etheric and astral bodies away from the inmost core of man's being,
able to penetrate into the etheric and astral bodies.
into the astral and etheric bodies which then imprinted the passions
the future, will chain the astral and etheric bodies to itself, and
the Hierarchies into his physical and etheric bodies. And if, as he
force of the etheric body that is tied to the physical body. Thus we
Why is this? An etheric body that is less firmly knit to the physical
body can always absorb new ideas, because it is elastic; an etheric
the physical body which it, in turn, forces upon the etheric body.
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will be something refined, something etheric. In this substance those

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being to develop; the astral body had developed earlier, the etheric
consisted of three members only: physical body, etheric body, astral
the animals. They consist of physical body, etheric body and astral
consists in the fact that the animal has physical body, etheric body
physical body, etheric body and astral body, his nature was never the
from the seventh to the fourteenth years the etheric body, from the
the development of the etheric body has been completed, man reaches
consider what form this takes in the animal kingdom.) When the etheric
development of the etheric body is complete it is possible for a human
soon as the development of his etheric body is complete. What factor
when the etheric body is completely developed. What, then, is added?
acquire after the full development of his etheric body cannot enrich
etheric body has fully developed, that is to say, at about the
again from there into the functioning of the etheric body can only
have the effect of weakening the forces of the etheric body which
back into the etheric body from the astral body, contributes only to
had only physical body, etheric body and astral body, and he evolves
well I am getting on!’ but with etheric vision behold the living power
of Christ Who will reveal Himself in an etheric body — as we know,

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organs. We thus actually get an impression of bright etheric

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in through the process of nutrition. But, in addition to this etheric
the organism only when the physical and the etheric organisms have
physical matter as cut out we have, first, the etheric force-system
and next the astral force-system, which in turn permeates the etheric
etheric currents in them are, as yet, very indefinite. We find,
located, that the etheric portion of the human organism in this
physical organism with its force-system works back upon the etheric,
ego-system. Not only may we conceive that the etheric force-system is

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lifted into the refining spheres of etheric spiritual life that their

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lifted into the refining spheres of etheric spiritual life that their

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Demeter here in the ether body; from the etheric they are sent
therefore the nature of Demeter herself. These human etheric forces
undergone by physical, etheric and astral bodies. Hecate works in man
for etheric vision, as it did for Paul at Damascus.
acquiring the etheric vision. In the next three thousand years it
make it aware of the etheric wonders of Nature around it. It will
see with their etheric souls the reappearing Christ, and within the
visible to the etheric vision of man; you will find this again
etheric world which is to come. That is the greatest event of the
our own century, will become visible as an etheric Being to human
those endowed with etheric sight. Those who refuse to believe in this

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Demeter here in the ether body; from the etheric they are sent
therefore the nature of Demeter herself. These human etheric forces
undergone by physical, etheric and astral bodies. Hecate works in man
for etheric vision, as it did for Paul at Damascus.
acquiring the etheric vision. In the next three thousand years it
make it aware of the etheric wonders of Nature around it. It will
see with their etheric souls the reappearing Christ, and within the
visible to the etheric vision of man; you will find this again
etheric world which is to come. That is the greatest event of the
our own century, will become visible as an etheric Being to human
those endowed with etheric sight. Those who refuse to believe in this

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nature of his being into astral, etheric and physical bodies. The
that physical, etheric and astral bodies were distinguished. Now that
sense of taste, for he knows that the astral body and the etheric
astral and etheric man, one has a different taste from what one has
delicate etheric sensation of taste, which most men do not
this, when as a practising occultist he feels himself in this etheric
of the physical and of the etheric bodies.
physical, etheric and astral. He never has the astral body alone, he
physical and etheric bodies. When this does happen to the practising
feeling of breathlessness. When the etheric and physical bodies are
together of physical, etheric and astral, and not the isolated,
of the etheric body, to those of the astral body? How can we express
the relative magnitudes of physical, etheric and astral bodies? Is
physical, etheric and astral bodies respectively, and the
of physical, etheric and astral bodies respectively. You see that
the etheric body. But I have already said that the ether body also
of the forces of the etheric body, and the strength of the forces of
forces of his etheric body.’ Note well that just as one can say
in the physical body is to the strength of the forces in the etheric
relationships of the forces of physical, etheric and astral forces in
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nature of his being into astral, etheric and physical bodies. The
that physical, etheric and astral bodies were distinguished. Now that
sense of taste, for he knows that the astral body and the etheric
astral and etheric man, one has a different taste from what one has
delicate etheric sensation of taste, which most men do not
this, when as a practising occultist he feels himself in this etheric
of the physical and of the etheric bodies.
physical, etheric and astral. He never has the astral body alone, he
physical and etheric bodies. When this does happen to the practising
feeling of breathlessness. When the etheric and physical bodies are
together of physical, etheric and astral, and not the isolated,
of the etheric body, to those of the astral body? How can we express
the relative magnitudes of physical, etheric and astral bodies? Is
physical, etheric and astral bodies respectively, and the
of physical, etheric and astral bodies respectively. You see that
the etheric body. But I have already said that the ether body also
of the forces of the etheric body, and the strength of the forces of
forces of his etheric body.’ Note well that just as one can say
in the physical body is to the strength of the forces in the etheric
relationships of the forces of physical, etheric and astral forces in
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man as consisting of physical, etheric, astral, and also of the ego
that now the etheric and astral spheres of the Earth became
Being whom we know as Christ was not there, now the etheric and
manner of St. Paul sees into the etheric sphere of the Earth and
raise themselves ever more and more to a recognition of the etheric
Christ substance, because it reaches right down to the etheric sphere
the physical inasmuch as it is permeated by the etheric, but when the

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man as consisting of physical, etheric, astral, and also of the ego
that now the etheric and astral spheres of the Earth became
Being whom we know as Christ was not there, now the etheric and
manner of St. Paul sees into the etheric sphere of the Earth and
raise themselves ever more and more to a recognition of the etheric
Christ substance, because it reaches right down to the etheric sphere
the physical inasmuch as it is permeated by the etheric, but when the

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developed his physical, etheric and astral bodies during the Moon
physical, etheric and astral bodies, for they had been fully
human soul all these forces which the human physical, etheric and
developed physical, etheric and astral bodies, man bore in his astral

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developed his physical, etheric and astral bodies during the Moon
physical, etheric and astral bodies, for they had been fully
human soul all these forces which the human physical, etheric and
developed physical, etheric and astral bodies, man bore in his astral

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arisen under the influence of physical, etheric and astral bodies,
physical, etheric and astral bodies, he wondered what they would look
had not been drawn into the physical, etheric and astral bodies, how
man, purely under the influence of astral, etheric and physical
the influence of forces emanating only from the physical, etheric and
influence of physical, etheric and astral bodies, that is, as a man
etheric and astral bodies. These are the satyrs and Sileni who follow
physical, etheric and astral bodies of a man could be so treated that

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arisen under the influence of physical, etheric and astral bodies,
physical, etheric and astral bodies, he wondered what they would look
had not been drawn into the physical, etheric and astral bodies, how
man, purely under the influence of astral, etheric and physical
the influence of forces emanating only from the physical, etheric and
influence of physical, etheric and astral bodies, that is, as a man
etheric and astral bodies. These are the satyrs and Sileni who follow
physical, etheric and astral bodies of a man could be so treated that

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the human being, that he consists of physical body, etheric body,
ego through the astral body down to the etheric body. As far as its
etheric and astral bodies and so on.’ It is there that
again into etheric body, astral body and ego. And it is these images
Earth, but who appeared to them in the etheric sphere and taught
Dionysos appeared in an etheric form in the holy Mysteries, and from

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the human being, that he consists of physical body, etheric body,
ego through the astral body down to the etheric body. As far as its
etheric and astral bodies and so on.’ It is there that
again into etheric body, astral body and ego. And it is these images
Earth, but who appeared to them in the etheric sphere and taught
Dionysos appeared in an etheric form in the holy Mysteries, and from

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where it was densest, still only in etheric form; that is to say, the
etheric forces were in a way the forces of the physical body but they
his Lemurian development, his densest body was still an etheric one.
spiritual vision man was there at the outset in an etheric body, and
this etheric body contained those physical forces which had been
the further working of the forces of the etheric body has been, it
the etheric body before Lemuria, and which then condensed in such a
time of Lemuria onwards, out of specific etheric forces in our ether
crystallise out of special forces in the human etheric body which
are the densified forces of the etheric world! Now from the moment
the etheric body became physical, but that as regards each of our
was once etheric and had become physical, is once more dissolved, is
etheric forces have condensed to a system of organs they are not
is dissolved and returns to the etheric form. Just as the blood has
head, so that we see the etheric body built up in an opposite
etheric during the early part of Lemuria to form the human blood
circulation and the heart we now see returning to the etheric form
and streaming in the human etheric body towards the brain. And unless
be the perfect egoist. But currents of a fine etheric substance
etheric currents are indirectly related to a delicate and important
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where it was densest, still only in etheric form; that is to say, the
etheric forces were in a way the forces of the physical body but they
his Lemurian development, his densest body was still an etheric one.
spiritual vision man was there at the outset in an etheric body, and
this etheric body contained those physical forces which had been
the further working of the forces of the etheric body has been, it
the etheric body before Lemuria, and which then condensed in such a
time of Lemuria onwards, out of specific etheric forces in our ether
crystallise out of special forces in the human etheric body which
are the densified forces of the etheric world! Now from the moment
the etheric body became physical, but that as regards each of our
was once etheric and had become physical, is once more dissolved, is
etheric forces have condensed to a system of organs they are not
is dissolved and returns to the etheric form. Just as the blood has
head, so that we see the etheric body built up in an opposite
etheric during the early part of Lemuria to form the human blood
circulation and the heart we now see returning to the etheric form
and streaming in the human etheric body towards the brain. And unless
be the perfect egoist. But currents of a fine etheric substance
etheric currents are indirectly related to a delicate and important
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consists. And we have seen that these etheric elements stream upwards
element of our etheric body streams through the brain that we are
make it clear that unless these etheric streams were to rise up from
preceding evolutions had resulted in the formation of an etheric man
physical forces, a purely etheric form. A physically solid man such
still in etheric form. This etheric human form was shadowy and
which meets the clairvoyant eye is the etheric body. For example, it
is the etheric body, stimulated by cosmic forces coming in from
flowed together in man. He would have to realise that an etheric
everything in it which is those upper gods is there only in etheric
not only there for clairvoyant sight as an etheric structure, it is
etheric body. Thus when we look up at the sun we have to say:
Baptism by John in the Jordan, of the physical, etheric and astral
united with the newly arising etheric body streaming from the human
continuously as the finest etheric constituents of the heart-blood
etheric elements flow from the heart to the head and there, as they
of etheric currents rising from the heart to the head was certainly
fact there is such an etheric current from the heart to the head.
something else. Not only does an etheric current go from the heart to
both etheric elements, substances of the human etheric body, and
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consists. And we have seen that these etheric elements stream upwards
element of our etheric body streams through the brain that we are
make it clear that unless these etheric streams were to rise up from
preceding evolutions had resulted in the formation of an etheric man
physical forces, a purely etheric form. A physically solid man such
still in etheric form. This etheric human form was shadowy and
which meets the clairvoyant eye is the etheric body. For example, it
is the etheric body, stimulated by cosmic forces coming in from
flowed together in man. He would have to realise that an etheric
everything in it which is those upper gods is there only in etheric
not only there for clairvoyant sight as an etheric structure, it is
etheric body. Thus when we look up at the sun we have to say:
Baptism by John in the Jordan, of the physical, etheric and astral
united with the newly arising etheric body streaming from the human
continuously as the finest etheric constituents of the heart-blood
etheric elements flow from the heart to the head and there, as they
of etheric currents rising from the heart to the head was certainly
fact there is such an etheric current from the heart to the head.
something else. Not only does an etheric current go from the heart to
both etheric elements, substances of the human etheric body, and
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were held back, but also those of the etheric body. The result was
etheric body, but in normal consciousness is not experienced. Still
etheric body, or what through Saturn, Sun and Moon evolutions he has
we encounter what is in us as astral, etheric and physical bodies,
is there below in his astral, etheric and physical natures. Together
etheric and astral bodies in all their parts have been assembled by
particular use of the right hand. Thus it is the etheric and astral

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were held back, but also those of the etheric body. The result was
etheric body, but in normal consciousness is not experienced. Still
etheric body, or what through Saturn, Sun and Moon evolutions he has
we encounter what is in us as astral, etheric and physical bodies,
is there below in his astral, etheric and physical natures. Together
etheric and astral bodies in all their parts have been assembled by
particular use of the right hand. Thus it is the etheric and astral

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the etheric bodies, or souls surviving after the death of
Here we have an allusion to the etheric body in the middle of

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and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of
etheric body. That is the first step of a long process. At the
out his etheric body; ultimately he can make it completely independent
the end is a total drawing out of the etheric body and a perceiving
independent etheric body. We can even perceive in this way when we are
perceive with etheric eyes and etheric ears as though they were
separate sense realms, we perceive the etheric world in general. And
when we begin to say something about it we can describe how etheric
something of the etheric elements.
Whoever perceives the etheric world and can gradually realise that a
etheric body is the basis of the physical body. As soon as we speak of
such a being as an etheric body we must take our lead from significant
physical body is interpenetrated by an etheric body we will readily
It can happen that a man's etheric body withdraws from his physical
enlivening etheric body. But we do not need to go as far as the
someone who has a weak etheric body from birth or who has let it grow
it can stimulate the etheric body to fresh life. But you have to
realise something else. The etheric body is actually the bearer of our
and memories actually remain in the etheric body. The human being
leaves his thoughts behind in the etheric body and does not return to
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and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of
same way, begin working in the etheric world. So we can speak of a
Golgotha, and now of an etheric reappearance.
The etheric Christ will be perceived through the development of the
etheric body, and also through impressions of autumn which the human
to perceive the Christ more and more in the etheric.
etheric vision: see Him Who will only take part in world events from
out of the etheric. We see that all these occurrences group themselves
in nature comes from the spirit. Even a flower is an etheric being,

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experience the Christ Being in an etheric form on the astral plane,
etheric bodies and for a short time has a retrospective view of his
behold the Christ as an etheric Figure. This is even now beginning in
will enable them to see the etheric Form of Christ, as at the time of
three thousand years the number of those able to behold the etheric
they will gradually grow capable of beholding the etheric Christ. He
in the world of men as the etheric Christ it matters not whether we are
opportunity of beholding Christ in his present etheric Form.
etheric body, in the sixth epoch in an astral body, and in the
physical, etheric and astral bodies fall away from him and his ego
the Christ-Ego in the astral and etheric bodies of men goes on to
from a physical man -on Earth the Christ gradually evolves as Etheric

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and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of
etheric body dissolves into the cosmos. A part of this dissolving
etheric body always stays intact, however, and so we are always
surrounded by these remaining parts of the etheric bodies of the dead,
effects emanate also from the etheric bodies of great individualities.
Great forces emanating from the etheric body of Christian Rosenkreutz
residue of his etheric body, within the spiritual atmosphere of the
Yet it continued to work as an etheric body, and it then became part
of the new etheric body of the thirteenth when he incarnated again.
forces of the wonderful etheric body of the individuality of the
death into the general world ether. This was a permanent etheric body,
spiritual etheric body again radiated from the spiritual world into
By the grace of what radiated from the wonderful etheric body of
an etheric body, so does the whole of the macrocosm have an etheric
macrocosm, an etheric body. There is a certain point of transition
between physical and etheric substance. What lies between physical and
etheric substance is like nothing else in the world. It is neither
force radiating from this etheric body of the thirteenth, Christian
Through the works of the rosicrucians the etheric body of Christian
made known in the name of theosophy is strengthened by the etheric
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and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of
the same until today. However, the etheric body of Christian
are actually able to be influenced by the forces of his etheric body.
vision on the road to Damascus and to perceive the etheric Christ, Who
Christ later in the etheric body — since 1930 onwards. Christ has
supersensibly in the etheric. Therefore everyone who wants to tread
revelation in the etheric body.
secondly that He will appear in the twentieth century in etheric form.
strength and help from the etheric body of this great leader, who will
this group, then the mighty etheric body of Christian Rosenkreutz will

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being — physical body, etheric body, astral body and ego —
physical and etheric bodies remain in bed, while the astral body and
is perpetually resolving itself into etheric substance. In the region
this delicate etheric substance which streams upwards towards the head
constitution of the physical body and etheric bodies lying in the bed,
being transformed into etheric substance, a similar process takes
ether of the earth. The etheric body of the Earth is permeated by the
it has always been possibe for the etheric blood of Christ to flow
etheric body of the Earth, it accompanies the etherised human blood
this event is the appearance of the Christ as an Etheric Being in
now reached the point of time when the Etheric Christ enters into the
century. A number of individuals will see the Etheric Christ and will
to turn. The door will open, and the etheric Christ will appear and
waiting, they will see the Etheric Christ. He will Himself be there,
ready to behold the Christ who will move among them in an etheric
with undimmed senses they will know that there is an etheric body that
will move about in the physical world, but is the only etheric
the same time. This is possible only for an etheric, not for a
next millennia men will become aware of the presence of the Etheric
the physical, etheric, astral bodies and the ego — are worlds
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The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric
beings in the etheric world, not His return in a physical body. The
etheric body, astral body, and I — are organically and actively
interwoven but that in sleep the physical and etheric bodies remain
itself into etheric substance. In the region of the heart there is a
continual transformation of the blood into this delicate etheric
inner constitution of the physical and etheric bodies lying in the
continually being transformed into etheric substance, so a similar
of the earth. The etheric body of the earth is permeated by what the
continuous possibility for the activity of the etheric blood of
present in the etheric body of the earth, it accompanies the
the etheric Christ in contradistinction to the physical Christ of
We have now reached the moment in time when the etheric
certain number of individuals will see the etheric Christ and will
knowing which way to turn. The door will open, and the etheric Christ
waiting, they will see the etheric Christ. He Himself will be there,
will move among them in an etheric body, Who will enter into earthly
senses they will know that there is an etheric body that will move
only etheric body able to work in the physical world as a human
etheric, not for a physical form. What will be accomplished in
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and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of
Thought: etheric, nature
an etheric form which will exist on the astral plane. Even in our
an etheric form. This will constitute the great advance beyond the
the clouds; He will appear as an etheric form on the astral plane.
the etheric body. Anyone who believes that Christ will appear again in
astral plane in etheric form, and those who are then living on the
will see Him, nonetheless, in etheric raiment between their death and
see Him in the etheric body. Those who have scorned Spiritual Science
etheric form on the astral plane; in the next epoch as an astral form
rightly into the etheric-astral, into the aesthetic-Devachanic, into
appearance of the Christ in the etheric. Only to those whose feelings
His etheric form.
the real herald of the Christ in etheric raiment, just as he
the century — who will behold the Christ in etheric raiment.

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Thought: etheric nature
which will exist on the astral plane as an etheric form. Even in our
an etheric form. This will constitute the great advance beyond the
the clouds; for this means that He will appear as an etheric form on
that He can be seen in this epoch only in the etheric body. Any one
that human beings will see Christ on the astral plane in etheric
less, in etheric raiment between their death and rebirth. But there
etheric body. Those who shall have scorned spiritual-science will not
physical plane; in our epoch He will appear as an etheric form on the
the etheric-astral, into the aesthetic-Devachanic, into the
will be devoted to making the appearance of the Christ in the etheric
the Christ in etheric form.
the real herald of the Christ in etheric raiment, just as he
later in the century — who will behold the Christ in etheric

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and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of

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and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of

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and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of
etherically visible Christ more and more clearly in the course of the
appear only in etheric form. Spiritual Science wishes to prepare
etheric form.
developed his physical, etheric and astral bodies. The ego could only

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and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of
on the astral plane in an etheric form.
worked through his etheric body, always with the purpose of

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life and has come to the point when his etheric body is laid aside and
and there the figure of the etheric Christ will be directly visible to
stead the great Counselor will appear, in etheric form.
intervening, in an etheric body, directly from the astral world in the
Further out we find the so-called etheric body, and still further
called it, the etheric body, the body of life-forces. For the chief
forces working in us from the etheric body, out of the depths of our
of the forces belonging to the etheric body; for the etheric body is
and the love-forces for the etheric, the forces of hope are for the
faith-body or astral body, in our body of love or etheric body, and in
etheric body, and our physical body. And from this one instance you
say astral body, physical body, etheric body, if you would give them
of the Christ in an etheric body, for his appearance in a physical

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etheric body, and in the seventh, before the great catastrophe, the
man's nature quite special forces of the etheric body will make
the shining into the ego-soul of the love-forces of the etheric body,

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body; and in the old Indian, what we call the etheric or life body.
physical body, the etheric body, and the astral body. You must now
etheric or life body, on the old Sun, and that now a special
done upon the etheric or life-body during the old Sun; man came upon the
earth already in possession of an etheric body. But this body can now
which man has developed. So that naturally man's etheric body is at a
but in this post-Atlantean period he works upon his etheric body with
says: I have three sheaths, my physical body, my etheric body, and my
development: their physical body, etheric or life body, and astral
physical body, the etheric body and the astral body, and the
Christ Spirit clothed Himself with an etheric body condensed, one
in an etheric body condensed to physical visibility; and thus He went
visible to everyone, because it was actually only a condensed etheric
etheric body contracts in a special way and forms a kind of scar. And
way contradict the fact that we have to do with an etheric body,
directly by the etheric body, through the Christ forces, without the

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and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of
which caused the separation of the astral and etheric bodies from the

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and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of
separation of the astral and etheric bodies from the physical body.

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and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of

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and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of

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and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of

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and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of

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and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of

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and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of

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and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of

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and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of

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and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of

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etheric body, astral body, and ego must be changed. And those
texture which binds together the physical and etheric bodies, so that
the etheric body does not remain so firmly fitted into the physical
out, this loosening, of the etheric body. Thereby another union
between the astral body and the etheric body is brought about. It is
because in ordinary life the etheric body and the physical body are
experience what is going on in the etheric body. Because the etheric
etheric body is too deeply embedded in the physical body for it to be
etheric body the effect described in my book,
grasping, so eventually we shall use the etheric body with its
works for the independence of the etheric body.
loosening of the connection between the physical body and the etheric
of life we feel the etheric and astral bodies as though enclosed in

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the etheric. And this event will have as fundamental a significance
event of profound significance will take place in the etheric world.
etheric body after death. We know that on passing through the gate of
at first still connected for a time with his etheric body, but
etheric body. We know that he takes with him an extract of his
etheric body; we know also that the main part of the etheric body
active form. When the individual has stripped off his etheric body he
himself, and will illuminate the form of Christ in the etheric world.
more will the etheric Form of Christ be visible in the coming
etheric body, and astral body of Jesus; hence He had not himself
the astral body, etheric body and physical body, and also, between
death and a new birth, independent of those parts of the etheric body
body, etheric body and astral body.

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spiritual sheath. As we ourselves have an etheric body and an astral

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process of development. Occult sight sees the physical body, etheric
three other members of human nature, the astral body, the etheric
incarnation. Further, we know that from the etheric body, too, very
etheric body remains with us, an extract we take with us from one
our life up to that time, and we take with us a concentrated etheric
extract. The rest of the etheric body is given over into the general
etheric world in one form or another, according to the development of
Saturn time we cannot speak at all of etheric body, astral body, and
then in this germ, in its altered form, the etheric was embodied.
transformed, and in it, and at the same time in the etheric body,
etheric body, the astral body, the Ego. The physical body is not
body, etheric body and astral body on the Earth. Now, if we remember
etheric body, but we strip off the physical body entirely; we see it

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of physical body, etheric body, astral body, and Ego. If now you ask
consisting of physical body, etheric body, astral body, and Ego. And
physical body, etheric body, astral body, and Ego. It would make as
oxygen, as man consists of physical, etheric and astral bodies, and
members, the physical, etheric and astral bodies and the Ego, just as
etheric body remain connected during the person's review of his
past life. Then he sees how the etheric body separates itself, how an
forces, and then, after a few days, the etheric body. When the
physical, etheric and astral bodies are laid aside, and that the
of the physical body the etheric body is added; will the Phantom then
become visible? Certainly not; for the etheric body is invisible for
ordinary sight. Thus the physical body as Phantom, plus etheric body,
the etheric and astral bodies is still invisible. And when the Ego is
etheric and astral bodies were still invisible, man was thrown down
physical, etheric and astral bodies under the influence of Lucifer,
human organism, so that there stood before us physical, etheric and
then left this cohesion of physical, etheric and astral bodies. And
We now have the physical, etheric and astral bodies of a man, and the
body. A physical body, an etheric body, and astral body — in
Mystery of Golgotha: a physical body, an etheric body, and an astral
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physical body, the etheric body and the astral body of Jesus of
first development of the etheric body, in the Moon period of the
end of the Atlantean Period that part of the etheric body, which
and the etheric body approximately coincide, and only then was it
they penetrate only as far as the etheric body. In order to be clear
of Ego, astral body and etheric body, enclosed in an ellipse:
to expression only in the streams and forces of the etheric body. If we
etheric body and the astral body, is not in the least disturbed.
consists of physical body, etheric body, and astral body, the
constituted of physical body, etheric body, and astral body, and —

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physical body, etheric body, astral body — was formed in a
though he consisted only of physical, etheric and astral body. And it
etheric and an astral body which are interrelated in the harmonious
can increase, i.e., in wisdom; in everything wherein an etheric body
left behind the three bodies, physical, etheric, and astral. But all
Golgotha, the development of the physical body, the etheric body, and
the etheric body, it attached itself to these products of
in his etheric body, independent of the physical body, and could
appear in the purest form of his etheric body to those who were
capable of seeing it. If Paul had had the vision of a pure etheric

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what we then incorporate can go only as far as the etheric body.
if the impressions were merely in the astral body and etheric body.
experienced by men as an etheric Form. Like Paul before Damascus,

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body, and etheric body, alienated from that within which alone it had
a meaning. The physical human body without the etheric body, astral
to perceive the Christ as an etheric figure on the astral plane, as

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astral body, and etheric body, alienated from that within which alone
it had a meaning. The physical body without the etheric body, astral
perceive the Christ as an etheric figure of the astral plane, as Paul

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all in our astral body, then in our etheric body and thence also in
the objects with his etheric body also, which stands behind
the physical eye is the etheric body of the eye, and behind the
physical ear is the etheric body of the ear. We are filled through
and through with our etheric body. And just as the physical body
penetrates to the ruling active will, so too can the etheric body.
appearance to the ruling will. When our etheric body grows together
world that does not, when the etheric body grows together with it,
all around us when we attain to this union of our etheric body with
world is taken the substance of our own etheric body, what we behold
etheric body. And in our physical body we behold, not merely what
world A, the world of ruling will. Our etheric body, on the
spread around us, and our own etheric body — and the world of
body and etheric body; and it would really go very hardly with us in
Good Gods have withheld from our soul the power over our etheric body
etheric body then we should quickly come to an end of the forces that
etheric body, the forces we need in our etheric body. This inflow of
and of wisdom and the physical and etheric bodies of man. For
the etheric body and out of the world of will into the physical body.
disturbances would be set up in the physical and etheric bodies by
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the etheric body of man is really composed of the substance of
wisdom. Now the etheric and physical bodies of man have something
is a conjunction of physical body, etheric body, astral body and ego.
that physical body, etheric body, astral body and ego must at some
also with the eye. But that could only be if the etheric body were
will. The etheric body is, however, not rightly fitted into the
that exists between the physical body and the etheric body which is
guided human evolution, the etheric body had been poured into the
if the etheric body had been fitted into the physical body in the way
happened is that the etheric body is not completely within the
the physical body of man which are not filled with the etheric body
places where the physical is not properly penetrated by the etheric
penetration of the etheric body. And that is what has actually
kind of keyboard in the labyrinth of the ear. The etheric body has
physical in character and are not penetrated with the etheric body.
of colour is due to the fact that the etheric body does not penetrate
the senses, there is a preponderance of physical body over etheric
relationship between physical and etheric body we have to do with a
etheric body. Were this preponderance of the physical body not
the physical over the etheric body, man would not feel himself to be
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but, for example, into an etheric corporality that is already there.
etheric corporality. Thus the spirituality splits up and breaks into
an etheric body, and the breaking material and the etheric body are
of the world but into the etheric body, spirit breaks and becomes
yesterday we came across a peculiar etheric substance. You will
remember what we wrote on the blackboard. We found an etheric body
preponderance over etheric substance, that is to say over the etheric
Luciferic influence. There, where the physical meets with the etheric
body and the etheric body is everywhere diverted by the preponderance
and scatters merely into etheric substance as such, but where it
rushes into a bodily condition that is certainly etheric, but which
streaming into etheric corporality that is overweighed by physical
for example, how the etheric body may outweigh the astral body.
outweighed by an etheric body, then we have muscle matter. This is
the super-sensible. With the etheric body of man we are already in the
super-sensible. The etheric body is to-day only in the smallest degree
material; it appears as very fine jets or sprays of the etheric,

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astral body over the activity in the etheric body, which
our astral as well as our etheric body.
aside his etheric body completely; an extract from the etheric body
remember we saw how the manner in which physical body, etheric body
penetrates into a preponderance of physical over etheric body or of
etheric body over astral body, and so on, the blood turns into nerve
etheric body, as it plays in from astral body, and from the very self

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physical body, with the etheric body which is only one stage higher,
the etheric and astral elements of an organ are embedded in a
injured so that the etheric and astral bodies cannot permeate it
injured, the etheric and astral bodies do not find what they seek,

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man we call the etheric, or life-body.
physical body and to find there the etheric or life-body. Now occult
more than his physical body, and then find the etheric body — so
life-body, so we can also find a sort of etheric or life-body behind
between the etheric body of all physical nature and that of man. When
occult vision is directed to the etheric or life-body of man, it is
discovered that in physical nature the etheric body is a plurality
there is a single unitary being as etheric or life-body in man —
that just made, namely that there is an etheric or life-body —
strictly speaking an etheric or life-world — a plurality, a
we are more and more able to recognize the etheric or life-world
as when we look behind the physical body of man we come to the etheric
the animal kingdom. The etheric world gradually appears before us,
whereas the etheric body of man is a unity, that which we perceive as
the etheric world of nature is a plurality, a multiplicity. How then
to occult sight as the etheric body, so must we think of all that is

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these different beings signify what the etheric body or life-body,
life-body is a unity, whereas the etheric body of the earth consists
etheric or life-body of the earth. Thus it is no unity, but
If we wish with occult vision to discern this etheric body of the
veil of the physical world. Then the etheric body of the earth which
one also draws aside this further veil, described as the etheric body
of the earth? We know that behind the etheric body is the astral body,
the human being the physical body, behind this the etheric body, and
this represents the etheric body of the whole earth, with all its
to the etheric body. We have seen that the etheric body can be reached
physical and etheric bodies lying in the bed, and draws out the astral
his astral body out of his physical and etheric bodies, he is no
physical and etheric bodies, feels his consciousness flash up, he then
that, when we have freed ourselves from our physical and etheric
that he can, with his astral body, go out of his physical and etheric
veil, woven of material physical impressions, we come to the etheric
and etheric bodies. Then, if we awake with our ego, not only do we
of the physical body and etheric body in which we usually live. We
feel, so to speak, as if all the qualities of our physical and etheric
nature-spirits — the etheric body of the earth. External science
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etheric bodies. Thus we know that something has to take place in a man

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body feels freed from his physical and etheric bodies. We must have a
his etheric body. By means of this he can even in ordinary, normal
his etheric body in this way as an instrument for clairvoyance, he
perceiving his own etheric body, so to speak; but on attaining this
there am I myself.” It is as though our etheric body stretched
extend their own etheric body as tentacles, is it possible to know the

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physical body as the first human principle. The second, the etheric
man is one unity; the etheric body of man is another; and so likewise
of principles which we could call physical body, etheric body, etc.,
Form as their lowest principle. Then instead of the etheric body which
etheric body, astral body, sentient soul, etc. When we look at a
as behind the human form, behind the physical body, are the etheric
substance. That is a life of the planet. Just as the etheric body
sentient soul, astral, etheric, and physical bodies: so do the Fixed

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orbit of Saturn, we have a sort of etheric filling in of the whole
etheric matter, fills the space within the orbit of Saturn in its
different etheric substance which permeates the first; so that there
is simple etheric substance only between the two orbits; within, the
two etheric substances permeate one another, mutually permeate one
a boundary, gives form to this etheric substance which in an occult
work as forces within the etheric substance I have just mentioned; but
in the Sun, and from there sets boundaries to certain etheric
globes being of the finest etheric matter, the next somewhat denser
and the innermost of the densest etheric matter. Thus the physical
upon Saturn would call forth this etheric globe, so that by the agency
diagram. At an outermost point of this etheric globe, in opposition to
is then to be seen as a mighty etheric globe with its centre-point in
a great and mighty etheric heavenly body is there, which, through the
The Spirits of form working from the Sun extended the etheric
hollow was made in the etheric substance. As regards the original
etheric substance of the planet, where the physical eye believes it
to the light as the forces of the Spirits of Form to the etheric
forces work which carry the light, filling the whole etheric space;
of massing of etheric substance, the first fundamental principle is
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without being incarnated in a human fleshly or etheric body. That is
worked upon, not only by the etheric body, but also by an astral body.
which the astral body, in cooperation with the etheric body, does not
liver. On the other hand, the etheric body takes a very essential part
study the liver when we know that in it the etheric body with its
the largest share, and the etheric body only a lesser one. Again, in
astral and etheric bodies is one and the same. From this arises the
uses when he observes the etheric bodies of the plants. We thus make
abstract the external form of the plant and allow the etheric body
working in the fixed star is the etheric body of the planetary system;
for we actually gain the impression of an etheric body. We understand
etheric body of the plants, where it works as yet unmixed with an
astral body, where only the etheric body works, in cooperation with
fixed star, we actually see the etheric body of the planetary system
it, we have the etheric body of the planetary system. In fact, the
of etheric life flows from the fixed star to the outermost boundary of
physical body, and etheric body; for of course every part is permeated
the planetary system the corpse, the physical body and the etheric
we say: Man consists of physical body, etheric body, astral body, etc.
(which is its etheric body). The astral body we can find there of
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body, etheric body, astral body, and what we call the
astral and an etheric body to the animal; for we ascribe an etheric
away of the physical body, and this combatant is the etheric body,
it an etheric body in the physical world. Now because it is clear to
etheric, and astral bodies of the animal but in a super-sensible world,
etheric bodies. Just because the plants have only their physical and
etheric bodies in the physical world they do not cry out when we
injure them. We must therefore say; only the physical and etheric
inorganic, devoid of life; on the other hand, we have its etheric body
astral plane. The etheric body of the mineral, therefore, is to be
Devachan; on the other hand their etheric body is in the astral world.

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being active on the physical plane; his physical body, etheric body,
physical, etheric, and astral bodies; while on the other hand, the
the plants, their physical and etheric bodies alone are active on the
found its physical body on the physical plane, its etheric body on the
his physical and etheric bodies — was derived from the Spirits of
have on the physical plane, their physical and etheric bodies. If any
the time when these Spirits of Wisdom themselves gave the etheric body
the old Sun-condition; the etheric body of man was then derived from
had, during the Sun-period, been able to give man his etheric body out

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while that which corresponds to the etheric body of the mineral we
physical plane — the physical as well as the etheric body, the astral
the astral plane that which corresponds to the etheric body of man; on
Now we come to the so-called etheric body, which we must describe as
investigator cannot find what he has to describe as the etheric body
that which lies behind the mineral kingdom as its etheric body. Now we
which works etherically in the mineral. How a mineral is laved by
permeate all that is form with their offspring, the etheric
dead. These streams of life, these life-forces, this etheric body must
permeated by an etheric stream from one of the planets; another is
which externalize as etheric streams in the organism of the earth.
substances which are connected in their etheric body with the
that which etherically permeates the mineral substances.
regard to the mineral kingdom, if we pass from the etheric body to the
the etheric body of the mineral, is pressed in from outside. Whereas
the astral body in man or animal holds together the etheric body from
within; the etheric body of the mineral is as it were, pushed towards
his etheric body, we see that what works as etheric body is held
together by the power of attraction. In the mineral the etheric body
content, the inner nature expressed in the etheric stream is, by means
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him with his physical body, makes use of his etheric and astral bodies
brain to its utmost and pressing forth the etheric and astral bodies

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the movements; and we call him the etheric body, the ether body. The
undergo Sun and Moon time only, he has become etheric man. And

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physical body of flesh, a finer one that may be called an etheric
exist also for the etheric body. It is then particularly useful for a
hand, and on the other, in his etheric body. Man experiences himself
in the etheric body in the same way as one is conscious of the blood
To gain a clear idea of this we may consider the etheric body in
into the spiritual. One may say to oneself, “In my etheric body I
out of the etheric body, and so rests within it that it might be
representing the etheric body and the ice, the physical body
crystallised from the etheric body. An intimate connection is felt and
experienced between what may be called the etheric part of the head or
our thoughts, how we form memory images within the etheric body, and
realise how intimate is the connection of the brain with the etheric
life and to hold them together. In such a process, the etheric body
out, fatigue is markedly felt in the corresponding etheric part. We
etheric part of the brain, something like a foreign body, so that one
brain must run parallel with mobility in the etheric body. You may
then have the distinct feeling that your etheric body never grows
the brain refuses to do. The etheric body never tires. Just because it
ill.” The etheric body cannot be used up, but by giving the brain
that part of the human or etheric body, which corresponds to the brain
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observation is really attained, it takes place at first in the etheric
We can gain some idea of all this at once if we turn to man's etheric
The matter is different where a man's etheric body is concerned.
Suppose that to clairvoyant vision a man's etheric body, or some
qualities are actually expressed to some extent in his etheric body.
his etheric and astral bodies, his higher bodies if we may so call
organ crippled from birth, while the corresponding etheric organ may
of the etheric body, we can well say that such and such a form is due
to hate. Hate shows itself in this member of the etheric body in quite
Let us assume that such a being has an etheric light-body, that it is

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meditation, come to the point of being able to perceive in his etheric
example, with the hands. The feeling oneself into the etheric body is
into the etheric body, but at the same time our thoughts also expand.
get the feeling that we are growing into the etheric world that is
learning to live in the etheric body — one grows into the etheric
this etheric world fades into a kind of unconsciousness. In simple
feeling that a super-sensible world of an etheric nature is around
enter ever more and more into the etheric world. This is, after all,
The body that man lives in when once he can perceive the etheric world
is his etheric body. But this he already possessed before. The
difference between his etheric body before and after super-sensible
observation is only that through initiation the etheric body is as it
acquired of seeing some fact or being of the etheric world —
see the same. In short, the etheric world is not like the physical
everything equally well. It is not so, however, in the etheric world.
kind of being and, bit by bit, the parts of the etheric body. There
etheric body for every single human being over and over again. You set
you have once awakened your etheric body, and must always go on
awakening new relations. The etheric body alone cannot do this. It
return to what was said before. The etheric body, though present in
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and experiencing oneself in the etheric and astral bodies take place.
living oneself into the etheric body seems like a flowing out, as it

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his etheric body, in his astral body, and also in what may be called
physical body, but in the etheric body.
In truth, in ordinary life, also, man thinks with his etheric body,
with his etheric body. Fundamentally, man is always thinking; his
etheric body is always in motion, and it is this motion that
constitutes thinking. But, of all this activity in the etheric body,
conceive of a certain relation of the etheric body to the physical
see it when it is reflected. The etheric body is in a perpetual flow
physical body reflects what is going on in the etheric body. This
etheric body is there all the time, but a man ordinarily knows nothing
etheric body, which actually does the thinking, may know something of
physical body. This thinking has its seat in the etheric body, and
his etheric body. Then, on reaching this inner experience and
the means given in the etheric. What thus we are allowed to tell of

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loosening of the etheric body takes place; it partly leaves
today. The baptism of John caused the etheric bodies of the
this while in their liberated etheric body. A new impulse,
the etheric body was much more active, much stronger than it
indirectly through the etheric body in a very different
When the etheric body was really much stronger and still
because the union between the physical and etheric body is

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leave the physical for the etheric, entering in this way the
who understands how much is active in the etheric body which

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etheric body is freed through spiritual scientific training,
super-sensible world, the etheric world that borders on our
aware that the etheric element of the spirit, Brahman, from

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in the concentrated etheric body, concentrated in such a way

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Zarathustra gave away his etheric body, which then passed
over into Moses so that Zarathustra's etheric body was active
Moses. We know that he not only had within him the etheric
special strengthening that came from the etheric body of

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etheric body in its full activity, then one could only represent it
human being at rest. When man sleeps, the etheric body is most
expressive portrayal of the active etheric or life body.
etheric body, it is not surprising. I only mention this in order to

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etheric bodies and the ego impacts them. Now even if you only dip
etheric bodies and impacts them on all sides, just as when you splash
the ego plunges down into the etheric body and the physical body is
his physical and etheric bodies every time he wakes. Because of this,
continual impacts take place between the physical and etheric bodies
— ego and astral body on the one side, physical and etheric
Just think of it. If we had no physical body, no etheric body, we
etheric body, astral body and ego. In human life as it is at present,
astral and etheric nature, and it extends far less to his physical
continually being destroyed in his astral, etheric and physical
work as consciously at the development of our astral, etheric or
the right form — as astral body, etheric body and physical body
world, and the same question can be asked about our etheric body.
that his etheric body would be equipped with good forces in the next
etheric body could again be built up. But it lies in the very essence
something himself in order that his etheric body may be built up
itself. For it is out of the Sun sphere that our etheric body must
of the etheric body, and these reserve forces enabled him to draw
from the Sun what he needed for building his etheric body in a new
he fails to do what is necessary for his etheric body by filling his
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physical, etheric and astral bodies, and in the ego. Of course, the
the etheric body. These forces can only approach us between death and
sphere, and so the forces that are needed in the etheric may be
greatest possible activity of the etheric body in sleep, then he
corresponds with the posture of the etheric body. I am not suggesting
etheric or life body, and that in such a position the etheric body
not carved out of marble. If the etheric body only were really active

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forces essential to a proper building up of the astral and etheric

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body after death. Yet, when the physical and etheric bodies have been
knowing about the etheric body and imagining it in its full activity,
corresponding to the etheric body when it is free from the astral
independent etheric body, expressed by means of the forms of the
physical and etheric bodies when the astral body and ego are outside
historically the truest expression of the vitality of the etheric
etheric and physical bodies. This is portrayed in the strange gesture
active, independent from the physical and etheric bodies and the ego,
fact that one is dealing with the etheric body. The spirit works into

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the growth of plants. The ego works into the physical and etheric
etheric bodies. The sunlight is not only physical, it is also of a
of our physical and etheric bodies. We die because we live
When we go through the gate of death, we leave our physical and etheric

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his Ego and looks back upon the physical and etheric bodies, we shall
clairvoyantly upon the sleeping physical body and the etheric body.
During sleep, the physical and etheric body appear to be withering

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physical and etheric bodies. The physical and etheric bodies in sleep

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There are many other facts that may keep a soul in the etheric sphere
spiritual heights only as far as the etheric body. It is possible for

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leaves the physical and etheric bodies grows ever larger, and a time

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etheric body — than it did in earlier epochs. Hence the forces
etheric body that is otherwise unfolded only in exercising the organs
first years of life; it is then that clairvoyance sees the etheric
not surprise you that many forces of the etheric body are devoted to
have been saved up in his etheric body, for it is the etheric body
of the etheric body.
complete accord with those of the etheric body. Through these free
another in the spiritual world comes from the forces of the etheric

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in our present cycle depends more upon the forces of the etheric body
etheric body which is otherwise only developed for the need of the
etheric and astral bodies actively at work then in constructing and
belonging to the etheric body has to be employed in the working of
ourselves the forces we saved up in our etheric body, for that body
certain circles, the movements of the etheric body began to be studied
movements of the etheric body. Through practising these movements we
through the forces left over in the etheric body from our learning to

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body, etheric body, astral body and Ego was changed by the force
astral body have left the physical and etheric bodies. It is
most accurately portrays that of the etheric body when the astral
Ego are within the physical and etheric bodies. But at night the
astral body and Ego are outside and the etheric body alone is in the
physical body. The etheric body then unfolds its own activity and
the etheric body than that achieved by Michelangelo in this figure of
such precision that no more appropriate presentation of the etheric
astral and etheric bodies were as quiescent as possible and the Ego
the activity of the etheric body.
developed human being, the etheric body emerges and the physical body
we think, not of actual death but of the emergence of the etheric
diminished activity of the etheric body and Ego, we shall find the
etheric body and of the Ego (in the figures of ‘Night’

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remain in his astral, etheric and physical bodies; the forces able to
Lucifer or Christ. Forces needed for renewal of the etheric body in
his physical and etheric bodies. Again collisions take place —
now with the physical and etheric bodies. A person who is able —
is implanted in the physical body, etheric body and astral body and
In this way we are destroyers of our astral, etheric and
But in the case of the astral, etheric and physical
responsible remains in his astral, etheric and physical bodies but he
astral, etheric and physical bodies as they were at the end of our
astral, etheric and physical bodies, and to make them of use for a
etheric forces as well. You will know from what I have previously
said that the religions influence the etheric forces and the etheric
renewal of our etheric body for the next incarnation; whereas the
renewal of their etheric bodies. But these possibilities ceased as
etheric body shall be rightly formed in his next incarnation. The
failed to acquire the forces needed for their etheric bodies, as

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although a human being casts off physical body and etheric body at
our physical body or etheric body will give us a sense of security.

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considerable extent, the etheric body too, passes through a life
existence, that is to say when he has left his physical and etheric
body and the physical and etheric bodies.
physical and etheric bodies remain in the bed, while the Ego and
physical body, etheric body, astral body and Ego. This connection can
by the innermost darker dotted outline, the etheric body by the
bound up with the physical and etheric bodies than is the case during
physical and etheric bodies in the bed and goes forth with his astral
which we say that during sleep it leaves the physical and etheric
physical and etheric bodies and there is not the slightest reason for
when the physical and etheric bodies are actually laid aside (at

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corresponding etheric organs is maintained. Between death and rebirth
physical body, etheric body, astral body and the ‘I’ or
certain time, most of the etheric body dissolves into the cosmic
After that the extracts of the etheric and astral bodies are subject
and the etheric hand move together. But when a certain stage in the
hold the physical hands still and move the etheric hands only. To
etheric parts is a specially important exercise. If this is achieved,
yet maintain complete mobility of the etheric hands. He would be
super-sensible activities with the etheric hands. This would be an
not clairvoyant, the etheric part moves freely while the
etheric hands only. The brain is seen by a clairvoyant to be

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seven years with the etheric body, then for seven years with the
the Thrones, of his etheric body from the Spirits of Wisdom, of his
completely submerged in the water. As a result, the etheric body of

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and etheric bodies together — which lies in the bed during
Old Sun period the etheric body was woven into this foundation;

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his etheric body as I have described [See Lectures Three, Five and
man consists of physical body, etheric body, astral body and Ego,

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aside the physical body, then the etheric body, and then expands and

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finer elements of which is woven our etheric or life-body. It must be

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Etheric or Life-Body, and the Physical Body. Just as we look upon
of which we realise that the human etheric body is composed. This is a
comparatively late production. We find this etheric body in man.
be found, for instance, in the plants, as etheric or life-body. We
densifies into the finer elements which live in the etheric or
elements, into the etheric elements; and from the further densifying
of the etheric elements arise the coarser elements from which spring
human principles, as coarse physical body, finer etheric body, astral

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sublime Gita we find a wonderfully pure sphere-an etheric sphere-that
the. physical body, the finer elemental or etheric body, the body that
that which is expressed through the etheric body is strongly

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world with the organs of his etheric body, at any rate, under certain
forces of their etheric bodies, operated for producing knowledge. Out
— which was woven of the etheric body alone — he perceived
be in his etheric body, which was certainly least developed in what
etheric body. The etheric body of the head is the least perfect part
of it. A man felt, so to say, that he thought with his etheric body;
felt that he thought and knew in his etheric body, and on the other he
etheric body passing into the earth, elongated into a serpent-body
with his etheric body.
die out in his etheric body and pass over to the physical head. If you
described, in the body which was still etheric, not that the whole man
was etheric, but knowledge was acquired through the part of the
etheric body which was within the physical body. Through this
organism, through the organisation of the etheric body, the old
etheric body, could perceive by means of the serpent. There was
This impossibility ceases as soon as one observes with the etheric
“Yes! There thou art, in thy etheric nature.” One then looks
expresses itself in the different use made of the etheric body, or

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but it could only appear as a vision in the etheric body, and could

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four members of physical body, etheric body, astral body and ego
acts most adversely on the strength of the etheric body. Thus, because of
professional pursuits, his etheric body is gradually weakened. Precisely
physical body, etheric body, astral body and ego. He will also come to
represents a strengthening of the etheric body, which, as we know, is the
prove to be an excellent cure. His etheric body will be strengthened and
know that the physical and etheric bodies are intimately connected. Now
spiritual science. In a healthy human being the etheric body, guided by
physical body is normally the servant of the etheric body. When,
represent the subordination of the etheric to the physical body, and denote
that the weak etheric body is no longer fully able to direct the physical.
Such a relationship between the physical and etheric bodies lies at the
of the astral body working through the etheric.
the etheric body and try to strengthen it. Imagine someone so dissipated
with what he is doing. The etheric body is strengthened in this way and
the classroom to strengthen the etheric body even in childhood. But, even
a remarkable strengthening of the etheric body.
So you see, something can be done to strengthen the etheric body. This is
of immense importance because in our time weakness of the etheric body
represents a definite way of working upon the etheric body. When these
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physical and etheric bodies, and he is then in the spiritual world.

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being must use his etheric body as a mirror, as far as his
reflected through the etheric body, just as the
etheric body. Since our etheric body is generally unknown to
know this etheric body before we learn to know what enters
can be reflected through the etheric body.
etheric body no longer exists — that part which during

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consciousness, so must the human being make use of his etheric
lives in them must be reflected by the etheric body, just as
since our etheric body is usually unknown to us, although it
Kamaloca the physical body is gone, even part of the etheric

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upon our world — when He enters it in an etheric form, from out
of as a part of man's etheric body — not only as a part of the
etheric body, however, but also as certain forces of the physical
Furthermore, a great part of what we must term man's etheric body
of his blood, upon his breathing-system, upon his etheric body. Let
is especially the activity of the etheric body, and all its
etheric body), but that owing to it, there is a continual influence
of breathing and of the etheric body, their influence upon the
and the forces of the etheric body; and the consequence of this
circulation, his breathing, and his etheric body. He cannot harm the
clearness, when that part of the etheric body which has remained (for
the etheric body is continually connected with the force of warmth in
etheric body — as well as upon what we have here described as
what appears before him as a living etheric Being, extending out into
human eye out of the etheric body. He sees which are the constructive

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Christ from the astral plane into our world in an etheric form.
only upon a part of the etheric body, but upon certain forces
addition a large part of what is called the human etheric body.
circulation of his blood, his breathing system, and his etheric
subconscious feelings. The activity of his etheric body
conditions of blood, of the breathing power, and of the etheric
the circulation, breathing, and the forces of the etheric body.
circulation of his blood, his breathing system, and etheric
distinctly visible when what remains of the etheric body has
been influenced in this way; for the etheric body is in
etheric or his physical body. He would observe the action
a living etheric being going out into the world. Do not regard
form it, how they issue from the human etheric body and build

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the etheric body play in man. Then the forces of the astral body begin

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themselves to see in the near future an etheric Christ-image; they

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and our Ego emerge from the etheric body and the physical body. If we now
look back spiritually upon the physical body and the etheric body we
out our physical and etheric bodies through acts of will, through
out our physical and etheric bodies. In fact our daily life is a
process of ruining and wearing out our physical and etheric
physical body and the etheric body begin to manifest a plantlike
activity. The worn-out nervous system and etheric body begin as it
sleep the more do our physical and etheric bodies pass over into a
activity has died away, is brought about in our physical and etheric

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will have completely vanished, will exist no longer. And what of the etheric bodies? They
kind of etheric body and a kind of astral body. Of what will these bodies consist?
etheric body and an astral body. Gradually, in the course of the epochs, something that
corresponds to an astral, an etheric and a physical body formed around the originally
and love. Compassion and love are the forces from which Christ forms His etheric body until
Bible becomes very clear when we know that the etheric body of Christ is formed from men's
forms His etheric body out of men's compassion and love. As He forms His astral body out of
wonder and astonishment, His physical body out of conscience, so does He form His etheric

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body, the same thing also appears in the etheric body, where

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maintain consciousness when, as in sleep, the physical and etheric
when they are separated from the physical and etheric bodies, as in
physical and etheric bodies he is able to come into the situation
inner condition; that is he can come out of his physical and etheric
But what is man when as physical and etheric body he lies asleep, with
his astral body and his ego outside? His physical and etheric bodies
then have the value of the plant. A physical and an etheric body are
the sleeping man, who also consists of physical body and etheric body,
physical and etheric bodies when he sleeps, just as the physical Sun
is outside the physical body and etheric body of the plant.
about the independence of the ego and astral body from the etheric and
physical body and the etheric body into a kind of plant by passing out
physical and this etheric body of the plants belong to me, for they
etheric bodies: “They belong to me as the plant does to the Sun;
I am like a Sun to the physical and etheric bodies.” A Sun to the
physical and etheric body — so does a man learn of necessity to
reference to his physical and etheric bodies as the Sun would speak to
etheric bodies. This, then, was a third experience common to all the
or star-like in relation to his own etheric and physical bodies, he no
etheric bodies, enters into participation with cosmic forces. He seeks

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engendering the physical and etheric bodies of men. How the astral
worlds he is outside his physical and etheric bodies, he looks down
spiritual universe, which are working on the physical and etheric
etheric bodies come into existence within the physical world. He
into the Earth and work on engendering the physical and etheric bodies
co-operate in bringing about the physical and etheric bodies of human
physical body and the etheric body arise out of the forces of the
company they had reached were at work in building physical and etheric
this preparation of the physical and etheric bodies, if one cannot
working of Ahura Mazdao on the physical body and the etheric body, and
physical and etheric bodies formed out of currents which stream forth
they felt themselves to be outside their physical and etheric bodies
work on your physical body and your etheric body. But now you are
how the etheric and physical sheaths arise and are formed out of the
who build up the physical body and the etheric body, when he had stood
etheric body after passing through the life between death and a new
the beings who build up the physical and etheric bodies of man; there
co-operate in building up the physical and etheric bodies, but he
and etheric bodies and in the spiritual worlds, he felt himself as a

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sleep as physical and etheric body — here we have to do with the
astral body from his physical and etheric bodies and come forth from
today. The physical and etheric bodies have woven into them something
etheric bodies remains lifeless. If nothing else were to happen, if
physical and etheric bodies.
and etheric bodies which they have to abandon as lifeless because the

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experience of the etheric body and how our judgments, feeling, and
body, the etheric body, the astral body and the true Self of a
condition of man his etheric body, astral body, and Self to be

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experience of the etheric body and how our judgments, feeling, and
etheric and astral bodies and the Self are naturally much more
cause the human organism to lift its etheric body out of the
coffee. When coffee is taken, the physical body and the etheric
etheric body, like a sort of solid basis for what is then
physical nature and the etheric nature; but the structure of
the physical body is disconnected in a certain way. The etheric
lead us to the changes which take place in the etheric body and

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experience of the etheric body and how our judgments, feeling, and
etheric-system, the etheric body. With respect to the muscular
proof that he is beginning gradually to feel the etheric body
are the forces of the etheric body which are active in the
appear, that is the beginning of the perception of the etheric
body. Indeed, when one begins to perceive the etheric entity,
shadow within him, when he is developing etherically. And he
sense organs, but the etheric forces, the forces of the etheric
nature of these sense-organs appearing as so many etheric
the field of vision to be permeated by the etheric light-forces
eyes, to perceive the inner nature of the etheric forces of
one, as if piercing one's organism, the forces in the etheric
possibly have been formed through the etheric forces which play
around the earth as such. The light-forces, the etheric forces
its being to the etheric forces playing round the earth. It
might be said that the etheric forces which play round the
but the latter has been so influenced by these etheric forces
his etheric body; you see how that from which he turns away in
the perception of his etheric body. But it is peculiar that
when we experience the perceptions of the etheric body of which
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experience of the etheric body and how our judgments, feeling, and
more the etheric body of the student alters under influence of
through the alteration in the etheric body the perception of
with the development of his own etheric body the student
he with his etheric body is, to a certain extent, thrown back
of sleep the physical body and the etheric body lie on the bed;
during summer, man himself with his etheric body is then to a
to perceive this — can perceive his own etheric body
perceives the independence of his etheric body, as it were,
and, in our age above all, the independence of the etheric part
of the head, that etheric part underlying the brain. It is a
part of the human etheric body underlying its most important
speaking of the etheric body, we must in reality make a
divide off a particular etheric part, which underlies the
that this etheric body of which I have just spoken can be so
that in this part of our etheric body certain beings were
of our etheric body, so that our etheric brain is in certain
Zarathustrian schools. This held that the etheric part of the
complicated as the etheric body, and especially the human
forces which are principally etheric forces; then in later
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experience of the etheric body and how our judgments, feeling, and
dependence upon the etheric life of the world, that is, upon
that his own etheric body can come to an understanding with
the development of the etheric body. Indeed, he gradually
etheric when we acquire an inner idea of time. This develops
that his etheric body is gradually developing the necessary
feels in a sense the awakening of his own etheric body, by
etheric world; he experiences the thoughts pressing in from the
external etheric world — for it is the wisdom streaming
towards him from the external etheric world that presses in and
rightly-perceived etheric world. And when he perceives it thus
an etheric body and not to a physical human body. On the other
hand, he may experience this etheric world wrongly, in a
certain sense. Rightly, the etheric world is experienced
elementary or etheric world may be experienced wrongly, if it
etheric body. If the student performs breathing exercises too
the etheric world. By means of all kinds of breathing-exercises
a person may gain the power of observing certain etheric
etheric world, as has been described, on the border between
etheric processes which take place on the border between the
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experience of the etheric body and how our judgments, feeling, and
have now considered the changes in the physical body and etheric
more conscious inwardly of his physical body and etheric body.
etheric body, we emphasised that not only does it feel more
of his physical body and etheric body. We will speak of the
and etheric bodies.
the one hand, we had the physical body and etheric body, and on
physical body and etheric body we had left behind. What we look
the physical and etheric body, if we suddenly became
of all we see, so to say, our etheric body, which appears
we look at what is embedded in this etheric body, that is, our
structure, in the ever-moving misty structure of our etheric
his etheric body, who would not be filled through and through
shrivelled structure. That which is embedded in our etheric
in the etheric body, looking at what anatomy calls the
embedded in the etheric body, beings intertwined in various
at the physical body embedded in the etheric body. When the
as my physical body embedded in the etheric body has
body in which he now is, outside the physical body and etheric
respect to his physical body and etheric body. And now, by
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experience of the etheric body and how our judgments, feeling, and
physical body and etheric body — as he is unconsciously
his perceptions are aroused by his etheric body, the legend of
undergoes certain changes in his physical and etheric body. We
closely, and then return briefly to the physical and etheric
great Atlantean catastrophe, the processes of the human etheric
protected by the physical body and etheric body, which are a
suppress the influence of the etheric body and the physical
enticed out of the etheric body and physical body. For this
the astral body separates from the etheric body and physical

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experience of the etheric body and how our judgments, feeling, and
the etheric body and the physical body; it is no conscious
body and etheric body, that is, in the astral body and Ego),
related through our physical and etheric coverings to that
astral body. In our physical and etheric coverings we are
outside the physical body and etheric body, he arrives at union
physical body and etheric body of man being now so permeated
and etheric body so stupefy the human being that his wish to
Spiritual Powers gave man a physical and an etheric body, so
because the physical body and etheric body of man were prepared
merely the reflection of that in the etheric body. And what a

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experience of the etheric body and how our judgments, feeling, and
and to look back, as it were, at his physical body and etheric
the physical body and etheric body, looking back at them. Now,
physical body and etheric body. But then it will be seen
corporeality in an infinitely more delicate etheric body, one
to the self and astral body, his physical body and etheric body
etheric body, regarding which we have often said that it is
twentieth century onward Christ will be seen in an etheric

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experience of the etheric body and how our judgments, feeling, and
human etheric body of one who is not undergoing occult
they appear in consecutive stages of growth. Thus the etheric
etheric body proves to be a kind of story-teller who narrates
wider the range of the stories. The etheric body of a person
— for this development is still also shown in the etheric
development, the more possible it becomes to see in his etheric
their external being through the physical body and the etheric
of the ordinary man: Physical body, Etheric body, Astral body,
being, of whom we say: He consists of astral body, etheric body
body, then the etheric body, then the astral body. The astral
physical plane; the etheric body so proceeding is the
etheric body; that is, it makes use of the etheric movements.
inner feeling, of sympathy, makes use of the etheric body; the
Soul; its instrument is the etheric body of man. And the
possibility that the physical body and the etheric body may
implanting destructive forces in the physical and etheric
physical and etheric bodies to pieces, that is, under the

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sleep the physical and etheric bodies still remain permeated by the

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been speaking about is a peculiarity of the human etheric body, which
were to go back into the physical world keeping his etheric body as
must allow our etheric body, as an entity of the elemental world
physical body, the mobility of the etheric body is restrained only
for the time being. As soon as the etheric body sinks back into the
adapted to the form. If the etheric body were not tucked into the
over into the physical world this desire of its etheric body for
into a definite personality. The etheric body, which always wants to
his etheric brings over into the physical world the impulse to free
her etheric body has been loosened, she may imagine that she has been
this mobile element. The etheric body could as little remain
necessary for the life of the etheric body in the elemental world.
world when the etheric body feels, ‘I cannot go on continually
our etheric body, thoughts become — one can say — denser,
Above all, when we have left the physical body and our etheric body
character of the etheric body that the drive to transform ourselves
etheric capacities. These are the things we must know if we wish to

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etheric body, which lives by preference in the elemental world. Now
his etheric body as capable of transformation as it has to be in the
physical sense world we must allow our etheric body, as an entity of
physical body, the mobility of the etheric body is restrained only
for the time being. As soon as the etheric body sinks back into the
adapted to the form. If the etheric body were not tucked into the
were to carry over into the physical world this desire of its etheric
it into a definite personality. The etheric body, which always wants
because his etheric brings over into the physical world the impulse
and if her etheric body has been loosened, she may imagine that she
never live permanently in this mobile element. The etheric body could
so something similar is necessary for the life of the etheric body in
comes in the elemental world when the etheric body feels, “I
soon as we enter the elemental world and move with our etheric body,
etheric body has the elemental world as its environment, it is
through the innate character of the etheric body that the drive to
himself by means of his own elemental or etheric capacities. These

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too, outside the physical and etheric bodies can observe itself

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body, he is having those experiences in his etheric body with the

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organism, he goes on living in the etheric body, with the elemental
When a person has shed his etheric body also, he ascends to the spirit world
domain, a tendency arises for those parts of man's etheric and astral
physical body, but we can be in an etheric body on entering the
elemental world and still see this etheric body from outside as one
the etheric body. We retain part of that body, but another part of it
fragment — essentially a part of his etheric body — is
away a substantial part of the etheric body and, as it were, ensoul
etheric body in the elemental and spiritual worlds.

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he enters the elemental world and lives in his etheric body, just as
leaves the etheric body clairvoyantly, he lives in the astral body
etheric body for a short time, perhaps only a few days; then we put
etheric body, we are at first within the astral body; in the astral
body the soul goes on a sort of further journeying. The etheric body
continual change. The etheric body, separated now from the human
attention to the destinies of its own etheric body. The soul's outer
world, its environment, consists of the transformations our etheric
the elemental world takes our etheric body into itself. If one has
will see how poorly the etheric body (for it has had its share in
it is everywhere rejected. Even though our etheric body has been laid
ever-changing fate of our etheric body, we are made aware of what we
to his own etheric body. Anthroposophy teaches the truth, that this
looking back on the etheric body and on the destinies we have brought
formed by beings similar to the human etheric body and by the
the human etheric body itself. One can describe this pictorially and
by little, of etheric substance, which as it evanesces can be
After laying aside his etheric body, the human being lives in his
physical world, living in our physical and etheric bodies. We see our

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body of Jesus of Nazareth, so that the etheric Christ-Being
became ever more similar, as an etheric being, to the body
In the same measure as the etheric Christ-Being approached

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Christ Being — as an etheric Being — assumed an
spiritual power while as an etheric Being He was gradually
the same measure in which this etheric Christ Being grew to

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three bodies – physical body, etheric and astral

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Jesus's physical, etheric and astral bodies. The result was,
this self had disappeared from his life's [physical, etheric an
physical, etheric and astral bodies when he barely understood

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Nazareth's three bodies [physical, etheric, astral] were
connection of the etheric body and the physical body is
different; and also in animals the astral body and the etheric

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of man's being — physical body, etheric body,

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formation of the etheric body. Moreover for everything
taken up into the etheric forces of the Earth. The blood

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vital organs, and their underlying forces in the etheric body, which

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skeleton; the etheric body by the corpse half eaten by worms; the astral

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of the brain which is visible only when one observes the etheric
all, but on the etheric brain.

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of the brain which is visible only when one observes the etheric
all, but on the etheric brain.

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change in the physical and etheric bodies from one race to another,
of the physical and the etheric bodies from one epoch to another

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the Etheric Christ — that is to say, Christ in the form of an
etheric plane. This spiritual death by suffocation, which brought about

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that in that old Lemurian epoch — but in etheric spiritual heights
human etheric form). In the super-earthly region Jesus of Nazareth is
to be found as an etheric angel-form. Through permeation with the
Christ he then assumed etheric human form. Thereby something new
the etheric super-earthly Christ-Being, to protect himself from that
Nathan-Jesus, was permeated by Christ, took on as a spiritual etheric
being the human etheric form as the result of that permeation.
fact that for the second time the Being in the etheric heights, who
but in the etheric, and connected with the first kindling of the power

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in an etheric spirit form,” for such is the form of those we call

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of light, the darkening waves of the etheric body - a spiritual
etheric body on the other, is different from what it is while he is
awake. During the day while he is awake his physical body, etheric
etheric body. One sees the etheric body as the weaving thought-life.
acknowledge there in thy physical body pulses and weaves the etheric
the body one gains the knowledge that the physical and etheric bodies
that light-body with the dark thought-circulation of the etheric body
thyself, looking back on thy light-body and thy etheric-thought body;

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but the etheric body. That which permeates thought as a living force
enters into the etheric body. We do not perceive the elemental forces
appear alive, but sink into the etheric and become opaque spiritual
good powers re-animate in the etheric body what has died in the
limits of his etheric body — kills something in him which
physical body with the actual thought, but we do upon our etheric
which permeates thought as living force, sinks into our etheric body.
place, this time in our etheric body, between the progressing spirits
and thither; but we do not perceive this, and our etheric body, which
etheric body is filled with a spiritual obscurity and that which thus
fills our etheric body is the treasure of our thought.
through thoughts being reflected, as it were, in our etheric body in
reflected in time. But deep down in our etheric body, behind memory,
proceeds from the etheric body, so that in the future that which has
deposit, resembling a beclouding of the etheric body. In our astral

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mobility of thy etheric body.

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etheric-archetype for the next life in a spirit form. Within this
Mystery Plays. More people must see the etheric Christ. The Spirit
world the spiritual etheric archetype, which has within it forces,
namely, the etheric form of Christ. The power of the Spirit which

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and burgeoning life. Our etheric body always wants to bud and to
sprout, but the astral body needs to consume what the etheric body
and insight through our physical and etheric bodies. Let us examine
The etheric body is the
reality they live in the etheric body. They are formed by our
and etheric bodies, which are affected only by the impressions of the

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Hallucination. Etheric substance and increased strength of soul. The
fill our daytime experience? It is what we call the etheric world,
the etheric substance permeating the world with its inner processes
small part of the etheric world when dreaming. The etheric world is
we cannot perceive the etheric substance around us with our physical
but only a part of it, namely, our own etheric body.
physical and our etheric bodies behind in sleep. In our usual dreams
back only at our etheric body. Fundamentally, therefore, processes in
our etheric body reveal themselves in certain places, and we perceive
our etheric body in sleep and becoming aware of some of its
Our etheric body is very
consciousness, are contained in the etheric body in some way. Our
whole life in this incarnation is retained in the etheric body, is
etheric body. Under the special conditions of sleep one part of the
etheric body appears before us, as though — to stay with this
weaves in our own etheric body.
which are still in the physical body, a section of the etheric body
physical body is ill, the nervous system, for example. Your etheric
etheric body itself is not sick, but it has been separated from the
be unaware that our physical body is sick. When the part our etheric
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the ego and the astral body, leave the physical and etheric bodies.
body are outside our physical and etheric bodies. But then we would
etheric bodies properly, we might say, completely, only after death.

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Ego and astral body in. relation to that of the physical and etheric

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soul and spirit with etheric and physical body. Here soul and spirit
on the one hand and etheric body and physical body on the other

Title: On the Meaning of Life: Lecture 1
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leave our physical and etheric bodies behind in bed. With our astral
body and our ego we withdraw from our physical body and etheric body.
Not only our astral body and our ego, but our physical and etheric
etheric and physical bodies, one sees what has been destroyed by
relation to the physical and etheric bodies, a kind of destructive
process as regards the physical and etheric bodies. We always destroy
our ego out of the etheric and physical bodies, it is as if we had
them, out of the physical and etheric bodies, they begin gradually to
and etheric bodies begin to bud and blossom, and as if an entire
the etheric body bud and blossom. The nearer morning approaches and
the more we re-enter our physical and etheric bodies with our astral
the physical and etheric bodies.
world on the physical and etheric bodies, they see at night, at the
etheric bodies, with Autumn, in external nature. Spring corresponds
Occult observation shows that just as the physical and etheric bodies
controlling his physical and etheric bodies; a single
body and etheric human body. But there are a great many spirits
etheric bodies: how a whole vegetation springs up in him: how man is
of plants are wanting when his physical and etheric bodies begin to
plants in the physical and etheric bodies of man. In order to make
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etheric body and so on. The process is the same, only it becomes more

Title: Spiritual Foundation of Morality: Lecture II
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population. These qualities gradually came out, as his etheric body
human being. In this etheric body appeared primarily that quality

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out, as his etheric body developed from the seventh to the
fourteenth year, like any other human being. In this etheric

Title: Spiritual Foundation of Morality: Lecture III
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physical, etheric, and astral bodies received the Ego-impulse or
further that the physical body, etheric body and astral body remained
etheric body for Christ through our deeds of love, and through our
which is like an etheric body which is formed through deeds of love;

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consisting of physical, etheric, and astral bodies received
physical body, etheric body and astral body remained with
etheric body for Christ through our deeds of love, and
enveloped by something which is like an etheric body which is

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consisting of physical, etheric, and astral bodies received the
physical body, etheric body and astral body remained with Jesus
form the etheric body for Christ through our deeds of love, and
something which is like an etheric body which is formed through

Title: Christ and the Human Soul: Lecture One
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the etheric body, the astral body and the ego. And in order to have
etheric body was laid down; and during the Moon embodiment that of
Saturn period, the etheric body at the end of the Sun period, and the
bodily members — the physical body, the etheric body and the
themselves to the astral, etheric and physical bodies, so that the

Title: Christ/Human Soul: Lecture I:
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body, the etheric body, the astral body and the Ego. And we need only
foundation of the etheric body was laid; and during the Old Moon that
the etheric body had reached a significant stage of its evolution, the
etheric body and the astral body-through long Earth periods. In
again adapt themselves to the astral, etheric and physical bodies, so

Title: Occult Reading/Hearing: Lecture I: Human Being and his Relationship to the World
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your Ego and astral body, in your physical and etheric bodies.
physical and etheric bodies, we gradually succeed, by
of the astral body must be reflected by the etheric body.
actually reflected by the etheric body? Something happens of
experiences that are reflected to us by the etheric body.
have them. When something is reflected to me by the etheric
astral body which is then reflected in the etheric body. It is
reflected in the etheric body, not as is the case in the
body, and that things are reflected to us by the etheric body.
in the etheric body itself, to come down into the etheric body
with the astral body into the etheric body.
come down into the etheric body. Occultists call this, with
bearings, for this descent into the etheric body is not as easy
into his etheric body without being multiplied in the way
and etheric bodies; his consciousness then is too dull to
experiences reflected by the etheric body. We read as when we
etheric body we become threefold. We can send out these three
been consciously thrust down into our own etheric body, occult
world are reflected by his etheric body. When he is able
only to read while outside his etheric body, but to awaken in
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mirrored by our etheric body. And we experience these
world are reflected from outside by our etheric body, we have

Title: Occult Reading/Hearing: Lecture III: Inner Experiences and 'Moods' of Soul as the Vowels and Consonants of the Spiritual World
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them. They can only be reflected back from our own etheric
we did not remain outside the body and wait until the etheric

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etheric bodies. With his Ego and astral body man is outside the
physical and etheric bodies when, during life between birth and
looks back to the etheric body and it is the etheric body that
etheric body has the power of a seven-fold reflection. I have
of the etheric body, what it reflects in its life-processes,
happens in the etheric body when a man has developed the
reflected in the etheric body which he is then able to
Being reflects itself in a sevenfold way in the etheric body.
this represents man's etheric body (quite diagrammatically)
Gate of Death, his etheric body is as it were compressed up to
a different mood is developed, the etheric body concentrates in
have taken the etheric body with its ‘vowels.’ The physical
the seven-foldness of the etheric body. But this I must say: To
a man who is conscious outside his physical and etheric bodies,
he is living in them. The etheric body, then, is what contains
within and we use our physical and etheric bodies to make us
indicated, we are outside the physical and etheric bodies, they
appear to us as signs. True, the etheric body is still composed
physical organism, does not now reveal itself. The etheric body
All. We become as foreign to our etheric body as to the vowels
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Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 1: The Destinies of Individuals and of Nations
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rhythm of sleeping and waking, the relation between our physical and etheric

Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 2: Nationalities and Nationalism in the Light of Spiritual Science
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rhythm of sleeping and waking, the relation between our physical and etheric

Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 3: The Nature of European Folk Souls
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rhythm of sleeping and waking, the relation between our physical and etheric
physical and etheric body between going to sleep and
folk soul, lives specifically in the etheric body of man,

Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 4: The Nature of the Christ Impulse and the Michaelic Sprit Serving It - 1
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rhythm of sleeping and waking, the relation between our physical and etheric

Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 5: The Nature of the Christ Impulse and the Michaelic Sprit Serving It - 2
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rhythm of sleeping and waking, the relation between our physical and etheric

Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 6: Spiritual Perception Essential at the Present Time
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rhythm of sleeping and waking, the relation between our physical and etheric

Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 7: Personal and Supersensible Aspects
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rhythm of sleeping and waking, the relation between our physical and etheric
death, when the etheric life-tableau has disappeared.

Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture X: The Three Decisions on the Path of Imaginative Cognition
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astral body and etheric body of the head there is not much color
astral and etheric bodies out of the physical body, there is not much
draw the astral body and etheric body out of the organs of stomach,
the way to perfection. What comes from the astral body and etheric
all possible radiant colors; and if the etheric and astral
great deal by knowing what the etheric body does when the stomach
what is contained in the etheric and astral body of the belly, we
someone will always at a certain moment draw out the etheric and
clairvoyance,” where all the colors of the etheric and astral
has actually occurred, it leaves behind a still unspent etheric body,
in our time it leaves behind a still unspent etheric body upon

Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 8: Three Decisions on the Path to Imaginative Perception
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rhythm of sleeping and waking, the relation between our physical and etheric

Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 9: The Sleeping-and-Waking Rhythm in the Context of Cosmic Evolution
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rhythm of sleeping and waking, the relation between our physical and etheric
manoeuvre; when we move any of the astral or etheric
this the etheric and astral elements are free. Our organs
the world makes both a physical and an etheric impression
link between us and the etheric and astral world

Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 10: Problems on Spiritual Path - National Characteristics in Europe Moulded by Folk Spirits
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etheric bodies, and the prophetic nature of dreams. The last lecture
the human being. All the time, etheric seal imprints rise

Title: Lecture: The Etheric Being in the Physical Human Being
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THE ETHERIC BEING
diving down into the etheric and physical body cover with frost,
etheric body arose during the Sun stage of evolution; during the
signs which the etheric body engraved upon the physical body. You
which the etheric body engraved upon the physical body, and when
the etheric body may engrave upon it the signs which lie at the
being of its own. Upon it the etheric body writes down the signs
etheric body so as to enable it to exercise this peculiar
chiefly with the etheric body, and man's feeling life with the
lives something which we may designate as man's etheric body.
observe this second man — the etheric being in man's
you with the thought of getting up. The etheric body acts
physical body with the etheric body, and how the etheric body

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rhythm of sleeping and waking, the relation between our physical and etheric
Etheric Man within Physical Man
astral body and ego into the etheric and physical body is
second human being, the etheric man, within the physical

Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 12: The Group Sculptured for the Building in Dornach
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rhythm of sleeping and waking, the relation between our physical and etheric

Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 13: The Prophetic Nature of Dreams: Moon, Sun and Saturn Man
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rhythm of sleeping and waking, the relation between our physical and etheric

Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 14: The Cosmic Significance of Our Sensory Perceptions - Our Thinking, Feeling and Will Activity
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rhythm of sleeping and waking, the relation between our physical and etheric
is the billowing, weaving, etheric world, and this is not
of the subtle swell of etheric thinking. To have the

Title: Forming of Destiny: Lecture 1: Spiritual Life in the Physical World and Life Between Death and Rebirth
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after death, in which we are still within our etheric body. Then the
etheric body is laid aside and we experience — retrospectively
astral body, and have as it were, our physical body and etheric body
lectures.) Let us first consider the life in the etheric body which
building up of the etheric body to the age of fourteen. From the
described, it follows in such a case that the etheric body —

Title: Forming of Destiny: Lecture 3: The Subconscious Strata of the Soul-Life and the Life of the Spirit After Premature Death
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etheric body; thus, as it were, experiencing in the right manner that
chiefly with the etheric body. Then in the second Post-Atlantean
Now, within the physical body there naturally lies the etheric body.
The Greek still knew much more of his etheric body. He dimly
perceived, even though only as a reminiscence, that the etheric body
it is not merely the physical hand which moves, but that the etheric
etheric body than he does now, and that knowledge is not utterly lost.
etheric body. It all remains there as preserved thoughts, and when we
able to dominate in our etheric body. We now thrust ourselves so
the Grecian epoch. From this you see that man's etheric body really
covers up what is in his etheric body. If he only possessed all the
etheric body, he could know infinitely more than he does now. For this
etheric body has acquired a certain perfection, greater than man is at
Man knows very little of his etheric body.
Among other things in the etheric body — the astral body, as you
know, is also at work there. Everything which the etheric body
body. If we could suddenly bring to the surface all that the etheric
physical body. For this etheric body contains much (naturally the
wisdom. These lie in the depths of our soul, within the etheric body.
is reached by bringing that which is in the etheric body to
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Title: Forming of Destiny: Lecture 4: The Connection Between the Spiritual and the Physical Worlds, and How They Are Experienced After Death
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old. Now with the etheric body the case is really quite different. Our
etheric body is old, if we can use the word at all in this connection,
are aging — of the etheric body we must say we are growing young.
our etheric body, for at our birth its whole forces are directed to
through death, the etheric body enters into a certain relationship
point of the Cosmos. Now the etheric body revives, and gradually takes
wrinkled, the etheric body becomes chubby and again becomes an image
of childhood. We grow young as regards our etheric body. Thus it will

Title: Lecture: The Golden Legend and a German Christmas Play
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Adam, that belongs to the physical body, etheric and astral body and

Title: Lecture: The Christmas Thought and the Secret of the Ego
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clings to the physical body, etheric body, and astral body, this

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that in initiation the etheric body extends beyond the

Title: Lecture: Concerning the Origin and Nature of the Finnish Nation
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exercise an inspiring influence — and there, etheric bodies can
penetrate with their influence as far as the etheric body, and to
mould man, through the etheric body, in such away that his physical
etheric part of man and refines his physical part, namely, the liquid

Title: Lecture I: The Balance in the World and Man, Lucifer and Ahriman
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spirit-and-soul we are outside the physical and etheric bodies during
etheric force for properly developed feet and will produce hornlike
very nature Mephistopheles-Ahriman lacks the etheric forces necessary
contraction of the ether-body and its consequent lack of etheric
Just as those etheric forces which tend towards the Luciferic nature can
etheric forces which tend towards the Mephistophelean or Ahrimanic
I have said already that when etheric forces are impoverished, the

Title: Lecture II: The Balance in the World and Man, Lucifer and Ahriman
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away the physical body and turned our attention to the etheric body,

Title: Lecture III: The Balance in the World and Man, Lucifer and Ahriman
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of man when we pass from the physical to the etheric body. The etheric
in the whole etheric world — lies this etheric organism, in perpetual
well as in the physical body. Man as etheric being — and it is
inner nature. The etheric body, however, which is in perpetual
etheric body of man.
bringing such a thing into consciousness. If we think of the etheric
body in the likeness of a flowing stream — for it is in the etheric
the etheric body that flows in the current of time, Luciferic — and
our etheric body. We cannot get on in our life of soul, in so far as
this comes to expression in the etheric body, without Ahriman and
Lucifer. If Lucifer were to withdraw entirely from our etheric body,
entirely from our etheric body, we would never be able to attain cool
another. It is the region of feeling. The etheric body has actually
movement. But there are places where the etheric body seems to be
window pane. These are hardenings in the etheric body, and they are
the result in it of the life of thought. This freezing of the etheric
of light. Here the etheric body is transparent and gleams and glows
with light. It is Lucifer who sends his rays into the etheric body of
between, where the etheric body is in perpetual movement and activity.
activity of feeling in the etheric body.
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the external physical and etheric nature. We are as human
— beyond our physical and etheric bodies. If we are in
etheric bodies. As far as wisdom fills us, as we strive to live
wisdom, we use those organs of our physical and etheric bodies,
stretched not only the physical hand, but also the etheric one
husk. Exactly the same way as my etheric and astral hands
belong to my physical ones, something etheric and astral also
organs to which the physical and the etheric hearts belong are
have to apply the ego, the astral body, the etheric body and
etheric go into the physical. If we come to the virtues which
the astral to the spirit-self, and only the etheric coalesces
with the physical. In the brain, the etheric is only combined
etheric organs only a kind of support. We can call courage as a
in the astral, etheric, and physical bodies his supports.
etheric, and physical bodies and work our way out of this

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the so-called etheric body is considered as the second that,
spiritual regions between death and new birth. The etheric
astral body. This etheric body, which now enters the spiritual
world next to us, the etheric world, is different with each
human being. You may imagine that an etheric body of somebody
etheric body which has to go with an early deceased human being
of death, nevertheless, almost every day, etheric bodies enter
which have other forces in themselves than older etheric bodies
have. What happens now with these etheric bodies still capable
takes up these etheric bodies still capable of surviving. The
life on earth. But these etheric bodies separate from the human
etheric bodies in itself — like forces living in it
etheric bodies of the early dead linger on in this folk-soul,
just linger on as forces. These etheric bodies —
which the etheric body delivers on its detour to the general
etheric body signify in human life, you get an idea of the
significant transformation also takes place in his etheric
body. He uses up, so to speak, the forces of this etheric body
his etheric body to the general community; he incorporates them
concerning the etheric body.
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connection of ego, astral body, etheric body with the physical
to the earth, the etheric body to the etheric world; astral
etheric bodies of the human beings of normal age going through
the physical body one understands this, as to the etheric one
will understand it now. The etheric body could still have
of these etheric bodies. It is our task to understand that.
active element. Only if one knows that the unused etheric
case it was a child whose etheric body was unused. The forces
responsible for. The etheric body which belongs with its forces
friend was out of the stage of the etheric review, so that I
somebody is chatting, his etheric body knocks perpetually
chatting, only if you know that the human being has an etheric

Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture IV: The Intimate Element of the Central European Culture and the Central European Striving
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often described retrospect, caused by the etheric body, is
etheric body had already stopped. Actually, without having
the retrospect of the etheric body was over. The soul was not
prime of their lives in this time. Imagine that the etheric
through the gate of death are etheric bodies which could have
life. These etheric bodies are separated from the physical
in the spiritual worlds, separated from the unused etheric
bright spirituality of the unspent etheric bodies of the heroic

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from such an aura. After the boy's death, his still unused etheric
Building. For the etheric body is something that man discards. The
— this is something quite different — but the etheric
etheric body. Nothing is lost, even in the spiritual world. That no
etheric forces of men that have died young and these forces rise up
influence of the etheric bodies which sever themselves from the human
souls before their forces have been used up, of etheric bodies that
thinking of the many unused parts of etheric bodies rising up to the
battlefields. These etheric bodies will form a great complex of
proceeding from the unused etheric bodies may send flown their
forces of these unused etheric, bodies. This should be a real
gathered by the etheric forces of those who have passed through the

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those days, the still unused etheric body of the boy is really
human being has taken off his etheric body, he goes on with his
etheric body if it is taken off at such a tender age has forces
individuality, but it is the unused etheric body. Nothing gets
transformed forces, unused etheric forces which ascend from
individuality from the etheric body had already happened, while
time, in which the soul had already separated from the etheric
etheric body, and it now appeared how such a soul looks back.
much consciousness. When we have taken off the etheric body,
etheric body, it tried now to grasp its self where it had taken
after death, when the soul was still united with the etheric
with the forces of the etheric body to become clear that it has
Today I have shown you how the etheric bodies of those souls
work which free themselves as unused etheric bodies from the
become apparent to us how many such unused parts of etheric
world. However, these etheric bodies represent a big sum of
spheres meet these forces of the unused etheric bodies which
spiritual world into which the forces of these unused etheric
the forces that have collected from the etheric bodies of those

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the astral body go out basically from the physical and etheric
bodies and live then beyond this physical and etheric bodies.
the astral body leave the physical and etheric bodies. But you
they leave the etheric and the physical bodies, are taken up in
an effect on our physical and etheric bodies, because it is
becomes something that is pushed back into the etheric and
results of immoral actions can work in the physical and etheric
feel goes down into our etheric body, but the etheric body
etheric body creates like impressions in the physical body this
connected then with the etheric body, on that what like an
astral and etheric bodies can cause impressions in our physical
want to go out from his physical and etheric bodies, this
in the etheric body. This remains then.
take with us what works then in the physical and etheric bodies
etheric Christ. It has often been said that and could also be
etheric body, is natural to the etheric body which works on the
organ through which the etheric body acts immediately, so that
the physical becomes an image of the etheric. This is the case
becomes an image of the etheric. The sounding word in the air,
etheric. If one seizes that what lives in the sound, in the
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the etheric body, astral body and ego, in the waking state to
our physical and etheric bodies that we withdraw as it were
etheric bodies while falling asleep and advances to the region
so that it would find its physical and etheric bodies as
which we have left behind our physical and etheric bodies, from
etheric bodies. If we became suddenly clairvoyant in the
We also do not perceive our physical and etheric bodies as we
wrong to believe that one looks at the physical and the etheric
physical and etheric bodies. This is not the case.
we see our physical and etheric bodies, these are not like they
are in the waking state, but our physical and etheric bodies
that we are looking at the physical and etheric bodies. But we
surroundings, when we are beyond our physical and etheric
bodies, at our physical and etheric bodies as something that is
etheric bodies enlarged to a world, we look at them, so that we
physical and etheric bodies bear something sprouting and
know thereby that our physical and etheric bodies receive the
because we take away our physical and etheric bodies from the
and etheric bodies. It sends elemental, not physical forces
Thus a relation is produced between physical body and etheric
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with the physical body, the etheric body, the astral body and
physical body and with our etheric body and that we withdraw,
abandons his physical and etheric body on falling asleep, and
objects in this world its physical and etheric body, but as
physical body and our etheric body which we left, behind in
etheric body. If we were suddenly to become clairvoyant during
and our etheric body in the same way in which we see our
think that we behold our physical and etheric body as if we
from our sight. In reality, our physical body and our etheric
physical body and our etheric body, but we behold them in such
physical and etheric body and look upon our environment, we
behold our physical and etheric body as if enlarged into a
behold the physical body and the etheric body enlarged into a
which we feel: our physical body and our etheric body carry a
condition of sleep, our physical body and our etheric body
body and our Ego keep the physical body and the etheric body
ourselves, we make our physical and etheric body free for the
our physical and etheric body and the whole cosmos. In the
are asleep our physical and etheric body live in the sphere
physical body and our etheric body enter in connection with the
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fourteenth years the etheric body develops in particular et
yesterday the youthful etheric bodies permeate the spiritual
useful of their young etheric bodies penetrates the spiritual
consists of physical body, etheric body, astral body and ego,

Title: Lecture Series: The Subconscious Forces
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body, from the seventh to the fourteenth year his etheric body,
told you yesterday, youthful etheric bodies fill the spiritual
etheric bodies will permeate the spiritual atmosphere. Let us
knowledge that man consists of physical body, etheric body,

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nature: physical body, etheric body, astral body, and ego. We
If the human being only consisted of physical body, etheric
body, etheric body, astral body, and ego. But the future speaks
etheric body, astral body and ego. He soon takes off the
etheric body which is given to the remaining world. Then he
etheric bodies which could have supplied, so to speak, their
the twentieth and thirtieth years, he takes off an etheric body
seventy years. The forces are in the etheric body, because
death, hand over to the world etheric bodies which could still
death. The boy was seven years old. The rather youthful etheric
etheric body of the little boy Theodor Faiss. The etheric body
etheric body of this little seven-year-old Theo forms something
the etheric body which is involved in the aura of the
construction, the etheric body of the little Theo Faiss.
etheric body is round the construction, and one has, as it
were, this help that this unused etheric strength works in
gifted by his soul-being; he sacrifices his etheric body, so
etheric body. There we have such an example at which we see
that unused sacrificed etheric bodies have their task in the
the human being consists of physical body, etheric body, astral
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Title: Lecture: Christ In Relation To Lucifer and Ahriman
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etheric world. The ether body is unable to dissolve for a long time
as the appearance of the etheric Christ on earth. It will come to pass that
the twentieth century become clairvoyant to life in the etheric world
etheric world prematurely are preserved with all their powers.
through the gate of death will emerge in the etheric world in the near

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etheric bodies. When we live from falling asleep to waking up
and etheric bodies during his life between birth and death that
into their etheric bodies. When the Frenchman goes through the
gate of death, he already detaches the etheric body after some
days; then this etheric body is a clearly defined figure which
exists in the etheric world for a long time. The etheric body
stamped on it; these ideas hold together the etheric body. That
etheric bodies if we look westwards.
etheric body in himself that it dissolves relatively quickly
difference between the West and the East. The etheric bodies,
French calls “gloire” stamps itself to his etheric
his spiritual view to this etheric body, to himself for long,
influence; the materialisation of the etheric body is again
etheric body, the quick merging of the etheric body is
of the etheric Christ over the earth, the event which must take
in reality, Christ walks again on earth, but in an etheric
of the etheric world, they would be disturbed by those etheric
etheric bodies are dissolved in the etheric world. For that he
has to take those etheric bodies which enjoy dissolving, the
etheric bodies in the East, and must fight with them against
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The Etheric Body as a Reflexion of the Universe
THE ETHERIC BODY AS A REFLEXION OF THE UNIVERSE.
etheric body, his astral body and his ego. And we know that after a
comparatively short time the etheric body becomes severed from the
during the time between death and a new birth, also the etheric body
to everyone of us that the etheric body of a man who died young must
an etheric body abandons a human being who has passed through the
portal of death at an early age, that etheric body might still have
The constitution of an etheric body must be of such a kind as
or 30th year, the etheric body that abandons him still
year. These forces live in the etheric body; they do not go lost.
at a time such as the present one, in which so many etheric bodies
contemplate the following problem: What takes place with the etheric
with the path trodden by man's etheric body, while he is passing
grows older and older. But this is not the case with the etheric
body. It may perhaps be difficult to understand this, but the etheric
body does not in any way grow older; the etheric body grows younger
etheric existence, when the human being passes through the portal of
birth, then our etheric body, that has become united with our
also say: When a human being dies in his young years, his etheric
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Etheric Body as a Reflection of the Universe
etheric and astral bodies and his ego at first, while he goes
short interval this etheric body is separated from the human
etheric body, however, separates from the human individuality
etheric body of an early deceased human being is in another
acknowledge this also for the spiritual world. If an etheric
of death as young man, then his etheric body could still have
etheric body must be arranged in such a way that it can give
year, his etheric body goes away from him, but this etheric
These forces are in the etheric body, these forces do not get
etheric bodies are entrusted to the spiritual worlds: what
happens with the etheric bodies of those human beings who went
question rather thoroughly — with the way the etheric
That it gets older and older does not apply to the etheric body
even if that is hard to understand. But the etheric body gets
gets older and older. The etheric body arrives at a certain,
one could say, childish level of etheric existence in the time
been united as an etheric body with our physical body —
dies in his youth, his etheric body does not get young enough,
However, it is important that just in this case the etheric
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Title: Lecture: Preparing for the Sixth Epoch.
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the human etheric body, the ancient Persian epoch with the cultivation

Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture XIII: Common Ground above Us; Christ in Us
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cultivated the human etheric body, the Ancient Persian one the

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the human being takes off the etheric body between death and
first, carries the etheric body in himself still for a while
and then takes off the etheric body, too. There comes a time
Immediately after death, the human being is in his etheric
etheric body and, hence, the memory of life. It is an
malleable etheric body at her disposal, then she is no longer
etheric body was still there, she could dress it in physical
words. It was not yet out of her elastic etheric body, when she
time of sleeping. Because if you have taken off the etheric
etheric body is taken off — that she was unable to endure
young, unused etheric bodies and the souls can really meet who
time will come after this war when the unused etheric bodies of

Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture XV: Overcoming Death through Knowledge
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percipience is always supported by his physical, etheric, and
formed physical body and our etheric body which were prepared
physical, etheric and astral bodies were gradually created
which the etheric body still shows as a tableau at the end. Now
(Aetherleib = etheric body, toter Mensch = dead soul,
he has the etheric body in himself. This stands before him. But
I have described; the etheric body thereby leaves. Then it is,
oneself, because the etheric body has become free. Then the
was in her etheric body. I managed to catch this from the dead
death, and deliver their unused etheric bodies to the spiritual
human etheric body is prepared in such a way that it can supply
to the spiritual etheric world where the human being still
just many youthful etheric bodies of those available who were
etheric bodies do not dissolve immediately but keep holding
These etheric bodies will be there, they will be forces which
unused etheric bodies. From above these forces join with those
these unused etheric bodies are realities to them; that it
the etheric bodies above there which develop their unused
and to work even stronger. These unused forces of the etheric
and look at that which remains of the etheric bodies from this

Title: Lecture: Perception of the Nature of Thought
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Old Saturn evolution, the etheric from the Old Sun evolution; the
body, etheric body, astral body, Ego, — etheric body, astral body,
Etheric Body
Etheric Body
human being as astral body and etheric body has originated through
Etheric body
Etheric body
Etheric body
still influenced by the etheric body. They created their Water —
the temperament lives in the etheric body. One can therefore say that
etheric body. Then we come into the Christian period. The Christ-
of man himself: from the etheric body to the sentient body, to the
had yesterday to write here Angeloi as corresponding to the etheric
Etheric body
Etheric body
etheric bodies. And the laws of the Sun-existence, working from epoch
development that one can pass through in one's etheric body,
that not alone the etheric, but the physical body too gave rise to
passes through the etheric body, the sentient body etc., a real,
body, for seven years the etheric body, for seven years the sentient
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Behind it is the etheric body; but man in the first place is
etheric body. Still less does he surmise that which resembles

Title: Problem of Death: Lecture I
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the etheric body and physical body. Between sleeping and
goes on in the astral body around the etheric body, and
significant is happening in the etheric body — we
form of expression, with the external physical and etheric
this self-movement of the physical and etheric bodies
the etheric body and the physical body in this way, the
etheric body and the physical body. But he also, frequently
etheric body, just the etheric body. In order that the
astral body may contact the etheric body, this etheric body
his astral body upon his etheric body. This impulse lives
etheric bodies of the other human beings. But in
yourself had in your etheric body is now living out there
own etheric body and we impact what is living out there in
the world. Inasmuch as it is living in our own etheric
thoughts of our etheric body, and in the impact to become
between astral body and etheric body lies at the root of
— that then too we impact the thoughts of our etheric
description of the etheric body of a dead man appearing to
wandering etheric body of the dead man. I simply wanted to
appearance of the etheric body of a dead man, and it can
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description of the working of the etheric organisation, the
etheric body, after death. One cannot, of course, quote
an etheric body is described.
the human being passes through the gate of death, etheric
between them; etheric body, astral body and Ego.
after a comparatively short time, the etheric body frees
the etheric organisation, the etheric body, is destined to
advanced age, has of course, the same etheric body as when
etheric body has then separated from the astral body and
the Ego, then this etheric body is in a different condition
from the etheric body of a human being who has reached a
the forces of this etheric body through many decades of his
forces that are still present in the etheric body would, if
these forces denotes a continual wearing out of the etheric
body. Therefore an etheric body which separates from one
forces are preserved in the etheric body. They are forces
etheric bodies of those who have died prematurely pass over
remain in the elementary world. (The etheric body itself is
etheric bodies. Significant stimuli for clairvoyant
Spiritual Science are provided by these etheric bodies in
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(Perhaps “Etheric Head”
etheric body, must be drawn out. This withdrawal is of course
these the etheric body, astral body, and ego are active. All
your etheric body, astral body, and ego, this enters your

Title: Lecture Series: Whitsuntide in the Course of the Year
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and etheric bodies, is the primary condition for the
shedding first of the physical and then of the etheric body,

Title: Lecture Series: Intervals of the Life on Earth
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etheric bodies, the merging of the physical and etheric bodies with the
general physical and the general etheric world, through this, and out of

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture II: Tree of Life - II
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four members — the physical man, the etheric man,
— the union of the physical man with the etheric
more etheric, lighter weaving and living than what we pass through
far more etheric element than the life of the physical world is from
that weaving and living in an etheric element, then we become aware
in the fine etheric element that I have indicated, is something of
the Jahve-Godhead that on awaking he should possess in his etheric
body remains in bed through this (blue), and what of our etheric body
that on his awaking the etheric weaving and living which has been
described should dip down into both the etheric body and the physical
while we live in the fine etheric element from going to sleep to
come into our etheric body and physical body when we wake. For what
etheric body and also into our physical body.
during the night so as to show that all this enters our etheric body
absorbed by the physical and etheric bodies when we wake up. This
that the etheric body (yellow ochre) (all schematically sketched),
etheric body, at most presses against the physical body and
influences it somewhat. In reality it only enters the etheric body. I
himself, and so it remains in the etheric body alone (Diagram (b)
page 5a). There it remains in the etheric body, it does not come to
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its details. We assign our physical body to Saturn, the etheric body
dissolve them into a sort of etheric eye, so that they may lead one

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture VI: Tree of Knowledge - II
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our organism. And if I now include the etheric body, it naturally
not be life apparatuses; but outside the sphere of the etheric
upon by the etheric body, astral body and ego. Thus we have a
I might only draw the etheric body as
This is the etheric body as it has
etheric body which has progressed in the normal regular manner, the
as the normal progress in the etheric body from the time of ancient
Whereas man's etheric body works so from
even true that something like etheric tentacles from Lucifer project
meeting between our own etheric activity, life activity, and that of
sense, the etheric of his own being and the etheric of the
works down into the etheric body. Now, one can observe: if this is a
part of our etheric body to which one directs the trained eye of the
body they then stream down as it were into the etheric body. (See
forth movements, activities in the etheric body. The thoughts
dissolve, as it were, and movement appears in the etheric body. It is
as if the thought flows into the etheric substance out of the astral
clairvoyant would perceive how the thought stream into the etheric
such as these (see lower diagram). Thereby the etheric body can work
movement gets more and more active, and hence the etheric substance
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our ego and astral body are outside our physical and etheric bodies.
and etheric bodies of a sleeping person, but we must be of a will to

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that the moment something reaches the level of the concept, the etheric
So we really must not shy away from rousing the etheric body if we intend
must again carry out this movement in my etheric body. From the aspect
of the etheric body, something becomes a memory when carrying out the
etheric body; we remember a thing when our etheric body has become used
what the etheric body has taken on in the form of habits. Our etheric
merely forming mental images, our etheric bodies take on all sorts of
habits. But these etheric bodies are what the physical body is based
really a habit of the etheric body. This etheric body is a lifelong
into the etheric body what then becomes habit there. But the physical
body presents a barrier. Our etheric bodies can't manage to get everything
and the way we imprint our memories upon the etheric body then comes
his thinking imprinted certain quite distinct mannerisms on his etheric

Title: Chance/Necessity/Providence: Lecture 6: Imaginative Cognition Leaves Insights of Natural Science Behind
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the etheric body when we seek imaginations; we have to make use of our
etheric bodies to obtain really objective imaginative experience, exactly
his soul from his physical body and is using his etheric body as his
Everything takes on inner life as we experience ourselves in our etheric
we use our etheric bodies as perceptive organs we begin to perceive
gravity of our etheric life, that life into which we enter upon leaving

Title: Chance/Necessity/Providence: Lecture 7: The Physical Body Binds Us to the Physical World
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the Etheric Body to the Cosmos
the Etheric Body to the Cosmos
consist of a physical body, an etheric body, an astral body, and so
The next step is then that the etheric rather
from using the physical body to making use of the etheric body.
making use of our etheric bodies, except when we are sleeping, but we
bodies, so that both the physical and etheric bodies are made use of
particular characteristics of the etheric body are when it is lifted
Then, for a short time, we make use of the etheric body, until that
the dissolution of our bond with the etheric body.
then, does the etheric body bind us to? It binds us to everything that
us to those occasioned by the etheric. These show up more distinctly
etheric body to the world as a whole brings us closer to this riddle.
involved in aging. But where our etheric bodies are concerned the opposite
bodies are old, but our etheric bodies have grown young. Some of you
today in a different context. We have to develop our etheric bodies
our astral bodies will be so embedded in these etheric bodies that they
wrinkled, his etheric body burgeons with fresh life, for his astral
body must accustom itself at this point to live in an etheric body already
etheric body grown young.
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Death, Physical Body and Etheric Body
Death, Physical Body and Etheric Body
in the etheric body too, but for now we will concern ourselves with
the etheric body. As I said yesterday, it is the etheric body that connects
that the etheric body is absorbed into the etheric world when we lay
this absorption of the etheric body into the etheric world as exactly
into the etheric body remains there. The etheric body expands. In certain
special cases, however, when the etheric body is kept intact because
say that the etheric body is absorbed into the etheric world, but that
enriching the etheric world. We enrich the etheric world at death with
what we have given our etheric bodies. It is therefore incorrect to
describe the etheric body as dissolving into the surrounding ether.
this etheric body is absorbed into the etheric world, I can best do
is subject to dissolution, the etheric body to “in-binding.”
in the whole etheric universe; “in-binding” is thus the
built this or that into his etheric body. The etheric body is connected
not aware of it), that content lives in his etheric body. It is incorporated
into the etheric world, embedded in it. And if we observe a person's
abandoned etheric body with clairvoyant vision, we discover in it the
postmortem relationship of the etheric body to what I have called the
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Title: Lecture: The Golden Legend and a German Christmas Play
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Adam, that belongs to the physical body, etheric and astral body and

Title: Lecture: The Christmas Thought and the Secret of the Ego
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clings to the physical body, etheric body, and astral body, this

Title: Lecture Series: Tree of Knowledge and the Christmas Tree
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consisting of physical, etheric, and astral bodies received
physical body, etheric body and astral body remained with
etheric body for Christ through our deeds of love, and
enveloped by something which is like an etheric body which is

Title: Lecture: The Problem of Jesus & Christ in Earlier Times
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must take. At the same time, in this etheric part are the impressions
etherically, as a totality of ether bodies infected by Lucifer. Those

Title: Lecture: The Year as a Symbol of the Great Cosmic Year
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use of his physical body, but will again learn to use his etheric

Title: Lecture Series: The Year's Course as a Symbol for the Great Cosmic Year
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also the etheric body, even as we once used our astral body,

Title: Lecture: Perceiving and Remembering
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the human etheric body as it is connected with the physical body. We shall
sketch the physical body as a kind of rind of the etheric body, though it
must be understood that in reality it interpenetrates the whole human etheric
etheric and physical body, and there, belonging to them, as is understood, in
etheric body of man naturally consists of the different kinds of ether which
turn our attention to the light-ether. It is true that the whole etheric body
etheric body which we call the light-ether, we have sketched it above.
etheric bodies; one may add, as regards that part of them which is not within
when we met the man five days ago our etheric body experienced certain
movements. It is the light part of the etheric body that we are now
considering; of course, the other members of the etheric body — the
light-body. Our etheric body, then, experienced certain movements, for the
yourselves. While you stood before the man and spoke to him, your etheric
stirs your soul, and this movement causes your etheric body, purely because
we encounter this man again after five days. The etheric light-body, stirred
etheric body, also withdrawing into the outer ether.
Remembrance is this: the perception from the outer ether of inner etheric
his etheric body. Then he goes his way. The etheric body retains the tendency
of the etheric body are transformed into memory pictures. These light
etheric body, now freed from the physical body and no longer restrained by
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not only our physical body, but also the etheric body that stands
alike in our physical body, in regard to our etheric body we must be
our etheric body. Forces coming out of the cosmos work on our etheric
forces working out of the universe on the earth, making each etheric
body different. We can see the differences between etheric bodies
etheric bodies that have strong forces and are tough, retaining their
etheric body. There is a second kind that is mobile, like something
these two kinds of etheric bodies still reveal themselves in such a
or less alike. There is another kind of etheric body that is inwardly
tones and colors. There is a fourth kind of etheric body that has one
for this. These etheric bodies are not shimmering in different colors
in the course of time. We may call them chameleon-like etheric
there are those etheric bodies that have a strong tendency to light
up inwardly, growing at times brighter and brighter. Other etheric
spheres. Finally, there are those etheric bodies that appear
especially in inventive people and persons of genius — etheric
kinds of etheric bodies are found among ordinary, even average, human
beings, the last kind of etheric body produces the type of human
seven forms of etheric bodies. We simply have to count, and we find
simple reason, there are seven kinds of etheric bodies. There are
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to the etheric body. And if he is a thoroughly pig-headed
saying there is a finer, etheric body underlying the dense
among the members of the human being the etheric body is the
human etheric body, and so on.
Human beings have an etheric body, which we have often also
with a physical and an etheric body, and physical processes
when we ought to be saying that he also has an etheric body.
is analogous to the human etheric body. Behind every external
whole process and behind it there is an etheric process, a
process of my etheric body, so every physical process outside
within it in the same way as our etheric body is within us,
exists, as it were, an etheric body of this event, an

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etheric body within our physical body, there is also a
physical one. As sure as our physical body has an etheric body

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and the inner part, first of all the etheric. I have already
drawn your attention to the fact that our etheric body takes
develops and grows older until it becomes senile. The etheric
younger as regards the etheric body. If we want to use the
etheric body, it is actually old when we are born, for it
normal old age, and die, our etheric body has become so
older, the etheric body grows younger. It gets younger and
happen with the etheric body, such as those I have told you
difference between the physical and etheric bodies, but also
freest in his etheric body, and the latter is then left
entirely to itself. Whenever the etheric body is enmeshed
subject to necessity, the etheric body has a corresponding
degree of freedom, and where the etheric body is subject to
if we are to involve our inner being, our etheric body, in
as it were. The etheric body itself makes the resolve, which
connect ourselves in our etheric body with the necessities of
unalterable, the etheric body as such becomes freer and
plane and also in connection with the etheric body. The
etheric body receives its freedom through the necessity of the
physical body receives its freedom when the etheric body thus
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of four members: the physical body, the etheric body, the
we usually call the etheric body. It escapes ordinary physical
within. Thus we can say after all that while the etheric and
etheric body into the physical body and actually turns into a
physical body that we nowadays call the etheric body, people
etheric. They had a way of seeing uprightness or falsehood in
talk about there being an etheric body, but it is not true, you
do no more than speak of the etheric body, and people in the
something more, something of an etheric-spiritual nature,
because your etheric body radiates the experiences of the
have to speak of an etheric body, an astral body, and an

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existence when the etheric element is brought to
etheric, astral and the spiritual by the side of the physical
physical in one case, another more by the etheric, another
etheric body and in Smerdyakov there is a complete

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spiritual nature of that which we designate as the etheric
etheric being is separated from us. It is, as it were, drawn
separated from him; his etheric web has been interwoven into
occur shortly, the Etheric Christ Being, that second
he appears in His etheric figure, and when someone says that
he has experienced the Etheric Christ, then he must not be

Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture III: A Fragment from the Jewish Haggada, Blavatsky
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permeated her ether body, which was contained in her etheric

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must be seen with the awakened etheric body, with the
evolution, but it was not physically visible but etherically

Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture V: Comenius and the Temple of PanSophia
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student of the Greek Mysteries etherically spun geometry

Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture VII: Man's Four Members
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from the ancient Moon Evolution. What was only of an etheric
human souls here on the earth who understand this etheric

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forces, forces of a spiritual etheric nature. The essential
of a spiritual etheric nature is eliminated. Only when one
task. The etheric-spiritual could still be perceived in the
that works into the etheric body, which means that you

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etheric body, astral body and Ego.
existence, the etheric body. We find, with the help of the elementary
attributed to the fact that our etheric body — the same one we
So long as we still carry this etheric body, after
we still carry our etheric body with us; and we have it before us
etheric body, but it is bound, nevertheless, to the physical body.
We then lay aside this etheric body. But this etheric
as we carry our etheric body, we see in a panorama what we had in us
which weaved and lived in us as our etheric body, during life, were
now entering the life of the etheric world outside.
astral body. We have cast off our etheric body. It is united with
which is now contained, as his etheric body, in the woof of the
etheric world. Thus we may experience the dead in a twofold way, as
on to the etheric world; and we can experience also that part which
leave behind in the etheric world, is deeply moving. It would move us
indicated — indeed, that etheric spiritual thing which has been
what the dead have left behind them, as etheric spirituality. In this
a furniture-van. The etheric body of this little boy is now united
this etheric body, which then, of course, appears enlarged. We can
reach us — contains the etheric bodies of the dead, and the
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which we designate as our etheric body: this already possesses a
etheric body is an organism having super-sensible character,
Fichte, to Troxler and others. Indeed, man's etheric body can only be
or in the same way in which we contemplate our etheric body
the etheric body, we shall find that it is neither visible nor
etheric body is concerned. But we must learn to think differently,
appears to us woven into this etheric life-tableau. It is the same
that also our etheric body falls away from us after a certain number
days in which we are surrounded by this life-tableau, by this etheric
coming from our etheric body and to hand it over to the whole
it within us, as our etheric body. But now it is spun up and becomes
etheric being, outside makes an impression upon us. The impression
therefore born to us, through the fact that our etheric part becomes
The etheric body has
saw our own etheric body inwoven with the universe. But now it rises
Life-Spirit from out the wisdom of our inner being, with the etheric
paint him so that he can be grasped as an etheric form, through a
etheric body has not been used up completely. When a human being
passes through the portal of death in his youth, then his etheric
hour death so numerously approaches mankind, many, many etheric
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our etheric body: this already possesses a super-sensible character
inaccessible to our ordinary science. The etheric body is an organism
man's etheric body can only be grasped through imaginative knowledge
contemplate our etheric body through our inner sense; the astral body
If we now come to the etheric body, we shall find that
particularly important as far as the etheric body is concerned. But
into this etheric life-tableau. It is the same thing that
way we now have the impression that our etheric body too falls away
this life-tableau, by this etheric life that frees itself from us
of our life this woof coming from our etheric body and to hand it
universe after our death; we bear it within us as our etheric body.
through the fact that our etheric being outside makes an impression
that our etheric part becomes interwoven with the universe; this
The etheric body has now detached itself, so that we
etheric body interwoven with the universe. But now it rises up
inner being with the etheric woof that has already been woven into
have to paint him so that he can be grasped as an etheric form,
in the form of an etheric body has not been used up completely. When
his etheric body might still have worked for years upon his physical
etheric bodies that might still have worked for a long time upon
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giving rise to imaginations — in this case, in our etheric
our organism — albeit, it is our etheric organism. In our
etheric organism they are constantly taking place — we may
what lives as imaginations in our etheric body is due to our
are perpetually called forth, in our etheric body, by our life with
notably to our own etheric body. It is, above all, inherent in the
forces of our etheric body, and it makes itself felt in this way.
relationships which arise between the one — the one etheric
that we have our own etheric body. Our etheric body is our instrument
not only spin out relationships to those other etheric bodies which
belong to physical beings. We are also related with our etheric body
elemental being, who is in essence the counterpart of our own etheric
body. Our own etheric body is intimately related to one particular
etheric being. Just as our etheric body — what we call our
etheric body from birth until death — develops its own
physical body, so does this etheric entity, which is as it were the
counterpart or counter-pole of our own etheric body, enable us to
elemental world to which we ourselves belong by virtue of our etheric
Death, when for a few days we still bear our etheric body with us, we
immediately after death, between our own etheric body and its etheric
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inasmuch as he has an etheric body, belongs to the elemental world.
which we are through our etheric body, this is no longer the case in
virtue of our etheric body — we are related to a number of
encircling planets. Our own etheric body is a kind of Sun elemental
way in which our elemental or etheric body is related to its
etheric body. In future time there will be a kind of medicine which
the other satellite is related to the etheric body; and according to
Through the fact that we are etheric beings, we belong to an
death, it is they, by their forces, who draw our etheric body out of
for a few days. Then what we call the etheric body is given over to
The elemental or etheric body is always perceptible, for instance, to
relationship of man to his elemental or etheric body can work right
were pouring his will into the etheric body which he has laid aside,
rays to us. Via the elemental or etheric body, the dead react
Hierarchies, down to man himself. And inasmuch as the etheric body
through the physical body. With the help of his etheric body, he can
The mediate manifestation of the dead, through the etheric body which
etheric body. But after this first spirit-year a far higher

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world. His etheric body remains bound, supersensibly, to the physical
man has in his being an etheric, elemental principle, an etheric body
him that in his etheric body and astral body he is himself a bearer of
But now, besides the etheric body and the astral body, we bear within
the etheric body represents in a certain sense that which is akin to
with the etheric body and the Easter festival with the astral body, so

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the spiritual world. The etheric body, though also spirit, remains bound
primarily in the etheric body.
truth that Christmas also commemorates our etheric, elemental nature,
our etheric body, which connects us with what is elemental in nature.
that we bear a spiritual element in our astral and etheric bodies. But
In addition to the etheric and astral bodies,
We can say our etheric body represents in a sense everything birth-like,
etheric body and Easter with the astral body, so Pentecost can be connected
the very first stage of being moved in the etheric body. Hermann Bahr

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of four principal parts, namely physical body, etheric body, astral
of the development of our higher, spiritual elements, namely, the etheric
added on to our physical body. When we now study the etheric body in
more complicated in the course of life. In the etheric body of a newborn
of growth an development, at work in both the physical and the etheric
and forces of the etheric body.
similar relationship exists between our astral body and etheric body.
thus begins earlier. What our astral body breaks down in our etheric
relationship between our astral body and etheric body is fundamentally
consumes the forces of our etheric body; which in turn depletes, consumes,
a building up and breaking down in the interaction between our etheric
of our etheric body through the astral body since the latter can, so
to speak, deplete our etheric body excessively. The most common symptom
from the astral body depleting the etheric body.
physical body by means of the etheric body. You see, spiritual science

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of the Mystery of Golgotha, which has to be understood with the etheric
has to be understood with the etheric body. Therefore either spiritual

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certain conditions, it takes only a particular formation of the etheric

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separated from his physical and etheric bodies, we would have
while separated from the sleeping physical and etheric bodies. Only in
his physical and etheric bodies. In our times, what would Weininger
while outside his own physical and etheric bodies, for these can only
manifest themselves outside the physical and etheric bodies. Then he
would have been able to submerge again in his physical and etheric
physical and etheric bodies. Then he would not have believed that he
that these are his etheric and astral bodies. (They were drawn on the
influenced his physical and etheric bodies as they did. That is
individuality's physical and etheric bodies on the one hand, his

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body is being reflected in the etheric body. Every human being

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discrepancy is already very pronounced if you observe the etheric
body, the etheric body and, finally, the physical body. Therefore, if
etheric body, and then into the physical body. Now it becomes
body and the etheric body. These are revealed distinctly, here in the
etheric body. But there is already less of the astral body present.
the physical body and etheric body are much less physically, bodily
When we come to the etheric sphere, there is still a considerable
have been pressed outward into the physical and etheric bodies. If we
is the physical and etheric bodies that are relatively prominent in
a physical and etheric framework that is not normally even considered.
And now, what about the part we could call the moral-etheric aura?
body are outside of the physical body and etheric body when one is
etheric, rather than spiritually. But this is not possible, for these
— that it flows directly into the etheric body. You may infer
lives in human thoughts, it lives in the etheric body. As I have often
said, truth lives with thoughts in the etheric body. Truth enters the
etheric part of the head directly. From there, naturally, it is passed
truth, the external world flows directly into his etheric body from
submerge himself consciously in his etheric body, the truth appears to
etheric body, in the same way as one experiences morality or beauty in
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astral body will be yellow; everything to do with the etheric human
is possible for them to be made. This happens in the etheric body;
they must be taken hold of by the etheric body. Therefore we must put
aesthetic experience, the etheric stream circumvents the
one the impression that the I hovers in the etheric
and flows directly into the etheric portion of the head where thoughts
the ether streaming into the etheric body, here where thoughts are
then it streams into the etheric portion of the head; then into the
around the head is even further outside. To etheric observation, this
who live in the etheric, so the verse said:

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quite different happened. That man had an etheric body, and death was
already present in his etheric body before he scratched himself.
Death, therefore, was already expressed in his etheric body when he
went into his office that morning, In other words, his etheric body

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to speak, engraved in a subtle etheric substance. Everything that man
toward what was engraved in the fine etheric substance of the world.
fine etheric individuality, his own fine etheric substance. So long as
is accompanied by movements of his etheric body. The shape of the
Thus, for the whole of life between birth and death, the fine etheric
been engraved into our etheric individuality and watch it be absorbed

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ether-substantiality. So long as man lives on the Earth, his etheric

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physical body. They are engraved in his own etheric substance and are
experienced. What someone has engraved in his own etheric body and
thinks — is engraved in his own etheric body, in his own ether
etheric body until death, but is carried directly from consciousness
into the spiritual-etheric world. Thus a truly spiritual conception-I
Earth, a conception is first embedded in the person's own etheric body
is carried into the general etheric substance. This must come to pass;

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His thoughts are engraved into his own etheric substance and
to better what is impressed upon the etheric substance of the cosmos
over to the etheric substance of the cosmos which is worthy of
thoughts) is impressed upon his own ether-body, into his own etheric
it imparted to the etheric substance of the cosmos. But there it
engraved into the etheric substance of the cosmos.’ —
into the etheric substance of the cosmos. Human thought and

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we would only experience the interactions between our etheric body and
organism. (Red arrows.) The etheric body is involved here, as long as

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impulse that lived in these mysteries survived only in the etheric

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leave behind our physical and etheric bodies, we are in a world where

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but only in an etheric form. His arts, which were essentially impulses
an etheric body. Tezcatlipoca was a being akin to Jahve or Jehovah.
only in an etheric body. Quetzalcoatl was a being of whom we may say
etheric body. This cult continued through many millennia. It was
beings who only manifested in etheric bodies. The name given to this
By these means the ahrimanic impulse was inculcated into the etheric

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flowed into the etheric world from the spiritual impulses of the Templars
lived on etherically, and through this continued etheric life many souls were
Man, the body that works by means of the etheric principle in the human
known that with the external physical body are united an etheric principle,

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Etheric body and Earthly elements was quite different from that
that fine inner union between the etheric body and the earthly
elements; and then one finds that one's etheric body streams

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etheric body in which the life forces of the soul had been
connection between the etheric and the physical bodies that he
etheric body, however, is the super-sensible member in us that
disposed, come about through the fact that the etheric body is,
case of Robespierre, Mirabeau and Danton, we have an etheric
developed astral body. This works, in turn, upon the etheric
that the etheric body was loosened and remained so through the
etheric body is no longer so intimately united with the
etheric body through his illness that it should not be
the magnetic union between his etheric and physical bodies.
with an etheric
manifestation of the connection between physical and etheric
etheric bodies, the external world exerts its influence and, as
immediately into the etheric body; this is one and the same
the etheric body does not immediately respond because it is
etheric and physical bodies.
This relationship between the etheric and physical bodies was
his etheric body, life is transformed into a work of art. But
etheric body, through the physical body to such a firm contact
meets himself? Now a man who has an experience in his etheric
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of the etheric body in which the life-force of the soul had
the etheric body and the physical body which he had before. Now
the etheric body is that part of our supersensible nature which
— these we have through the fact that the etheric body is
Danton, we find in them an etheric body firmly united with the
which in its turn acts strongly upon the etheric body and
his etheric body was loosened, and remained so. Now when
the etheric body is no longer so intimately bound up with the
through the above-mentioned illness, so to prepare the etheric
— between his etheric and his physical body.
Goethe now comes to Strassburg with an etheric body that is to
physical body and his etheric body, which only reached its
connection between the physical body and the etheric, the
the etheric; they become one with it, and the etheric body
but the etheric body, being loosened, does not participate in
the peculiar connection between his etheric and his
precisely out of his etheric body — life itself becomes a
inasmuch as he can experience them only in his etheric
experiences something in the etheric body, this
etheric body is thus loosened. He sees it as an external
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man consists of physical body, etheric body, astral body, and
within the physical and etheric bodies but, during sleep, the
outside the physical and etheric bodies in sleep only in being
outside the physical and etheric head, they bring about a more
entire organization of the etheric body. Obviously, additional
the brain and our etheric body are the primary, original ones.
intimate and important relationship with our etheric body. The
actually happens to someone and his etheric body is loosened.
loosening of the etheric body influences the entire waking life
interrelationships as man's etheric body. Thus, man knows more

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the physical body, the etheric body, the astral body and the
body are inside the physical body and the etheric, in sleep
man are outside the physical and etheric body during sleep. In
and etheric head of man, the Ego and astral body in sleep are
in the main with the organisation of our etheric body.
brain-nervous-system and our etheric body. This does not affect
has the most intimate and important relations with our etheric
in Goethe's case. The etheric body is loosened. When the
etheric body is loosened, quite a different relationship arises
loosening of the etheric body the entire waking life of man is
etheric. Therefore, while man knows more about the
a case like Goethe's, because the etheric body is

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prepared; the Sun period, in which the etheric man was

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body was prepared), the Sun epoch (when the etheric man was

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body, etheric body, astral body and Ego are the four strings,
more the etheric body or the astral body, or the etheric and
physical body and especially the etheric body are
the etheric body. The others, counteracting and partly
etheric body is formative. (All that appears as
comes from the etheric.) The working of the astral body is
Etheric body:

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with four strings — physical, etheric, astral bodies, and ego
which one or the other — the etheric body, the astral body, or
the etheric together with the ego — is swept by the bow of
the physical body and especially the etheric
etheric body. The other group, coming more from the astral
words, we may say that the etheric body works in a formative
body, as one's carriage, is derived from the etheric body. The

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change of teeth, the etheric from then onward to the time of

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the etheric body develops up to puberty, and that the astral

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portal of death, he remains for a short time in his etheric
the etheric world. The human being continues to develop in his
ego and his astral body; the etheric body passes over into the
etheric world. Since this man had performed something lasting
on earth, the memory of his etheric body continued for a long
time. It is this etheric body of the ancestor that was beheld
period between death and a new birth, this etheric body comes
beings worshipped the etheric bodies of their forefathers to

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use of the delicate vibrations in their etheric bodies as a driving

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alone would tend to bring forth only an etheric being. For this
etheric being to find a physical form, the rank growth of etheric
this poisoning, just as in plant life the effect of etheric material

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not filled with those higher components of existence, the etheric body,
higher components — the ego, the astral body and the etheric body —
human being into physical body, etheric body, astral body and ego. I
physical body. But the etheric body, as such, is something
imprint of the etheric body. The etheric body projects itself onto the
physical body; so we can speak of an etheric projection onto the
Etheric Body
etheric
projection of the etheric body, which is for the most part anchored in
etheric body to be developed; in the next period, ancient Persia, the

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physical and etheric being belonging to nature, from the group. I have
also through what corresponds in the etheric body to blood. Naturally,

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body, his etheric body, work through his visible nature, so what is not
it, so is the etheric body bound by the cerebral system and everything
that belongs to it. Therefore, the etheric body has its point of
here, too. In our head there is a prison for our etheric body. Madness
well and the etheric body is let loose. Left to itself, i.e., not
enclosed in the prison of the head, the etheric body has the tendency
releases the etheric body.
brain would result if brain activity were damped down. The etheric body would
etheric body — which then embarks on its own adventures, endeavouring
The etheric body, when it is freed, has mainly ahrimanic
together with the system of ganglia; and the etheric body is linked
then it could be the etheric body which is freed, even though the root
abnormalities brought about by the freeing from bondage of the etheric
become free — be it the etheric or astral body, or the ego —
nature. We then also understand that the ego, or the etheric or the
cause is possibly that the otherwise bound etheric body is free because
the activity of this head depends in some degree on the etheric body
the etheric body is freed, if it is unbound. Because of the way the
the nerves of his brain, the etheric body can have a normal
the special connection between his etheric body and his head makes him
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older instruments, the physical body and also the etheric body, which
are sufficiently within the sphere where the etheric body more or less
that delicate etheric, floating and weaving world in which your soul

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connected with his etheric body, the constellation of planetary forces
resounds and vibrates in a wonderful way through this etheric body.
in the dead person who is still in his etheric body at the moment —
bears within himself, in the etheric body he has not yet discarded, an
etheric body.
becomes truly spiritual, after discarding his etheric body. This is the

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we have laid aside our etheric body, is something that comes from the
(red). But when we lay aside our etheric body, this angel being forms a

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and our astral body, upon awakening in the morning, our etheric body
find, for instance that the etheric body spreads out in our
process. The etheric body is pushed down — and we wake up; it
in and out. Thus, we have a movement of the etheric, taking place in
day, if the rising and falling of our etheric body, which thus
these breaths, in which the etheric rises and falls, would have to
24 hours, this would represent one respiration for our etheric
up these communications within its etheric body, and since these
physical body, his etheric body, his astral body, his ego —
etheric body. In that case, we would have to begin with the
important — is the first etheric ingredient of the Russian

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and take in our ego and our astral body, our etheric body is displaced,
and our ego, then our etheric body spreads back into our head and is
an incessant rhythm. When the etheric body is pressed down, we wake up,
twenty-four hours. The etheric body moves rhythmically during the
etheric body also represents a kind of circulation, something which
is one breath for our etheric body. And one breath for our astral body
communications into its etheric body. And because they are inscribed on
the earth's etheric body, the communications remain available for
an etheric body, an astral body and an ego. So can we assume that a
In a similar way we could consider what corresponds to our etheric
— is the first etheric ingredient of the Russian folk soul,

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into etheric processes. The first third of the twentieth century can be
etheric world which lives all around us, just as much as does the air.
in the etheric world if mankind is not to fall into decadence, and that
is the appearance of the Etheric Christ. This is a necessity. Mankind
but also other phenomena in the etheric world, which human beings ought

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The Weaving and Living Activity of the Human Etheric Bodies
THE WEAVING AND LIVING ACTIVITY OF THE HUMAN ETHERIC BODIES.
human being consists of physical body, etheric body, astral body,
the etheric body lies at the foundation of the physical body. Let us,
place: it was transformed through the fact that the etheric body was
permeated with the etheric body. And it also had to change when it
body has been transformed through the fact that the etheric body
develops first of all within the astral body, then within the etheric
etheric body to man’s physical body and imagine that a certain
the human being and cease; to influence his etheric body. We would,
etheric body may be left entirely to its own resources, and may no
longer be influenced by anything else. For the etheric body is
and the physical body has its own solid form, to which the etheric
the etheric body must adapt itself to the physical body, without a
eliminate the forces to which the etheric body had to adapt itself;
we have asked them to withdraw, so that the etheric body can now obey
its own forces to the fullest extent. In that case, the etheric body
see the etheric body jumping out. And what would occur? — You
would have before you the whole animal kingdom! The etheric body
words: etherically, the human being carries about within him the
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for a short time, enshrouded in the astral body and etheric body; and
out into the etheric world and there pursues its further destiny; so
only, and continues its further wanderings in that world. The etheric
from the cast-off, forsaken etheric corpse. This etheric corpse still
through a medium, one comes in touch with the etheric corpse first,
possible for the etheric body, which has been separated from the
individual himself. We must not think that the etheric body when given
over to the etheric world only manifests reminiscences and
thought that because a connection is established with the etheric
may be conveyed to his etheric body through the medium, and that this
etheric body may occasionally give striking replies, which may really
dead. Yet, perhaps, they may only proceed from his etheric corpse.
through the medium, in reality it was the etheric corpse speaking;
through the medium to the etheric body of Raymond, as might have been
century must bring to humanity the Vision of the etheric Christ. Just
form, in one known part of the earth, so will the etheric Christ walk

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ego and astral body, in and out of our physical body and etheric body.
and etheric bodies: and we are ourselves breathed in by the great
lecture, when Christ will walk the earth in His etheric form. I even
indicated the very year in which He began to move etherically over the

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beings; one composed more of our physical body and etheric body and
that this physical body and to some extent the etheric body too are
which we are always surrounded. Our physical and etheric bodies are I
Gods whose whole life is spent in producing our physical and etheric
body and etheric body. This we know, from what has been given out in
The physical body and etheric body compose
testings and shiftings which they undergo in the physical and etheric
we bear within us the physical body and etheric body, the astral body
and etheric body, the more inner man the ego and astral body. Now we
etheric body, astral body and ego. We already bear the germ of the
also expressed outwardly in the fact that the part of their etheric
seen that that part of the etheric body which forms the head projects
beyond the head in both cases, and that both the etheric heads incline
expressed as a continual bowing and inclining of the etheric head of
other, a similar process can be observed; but then the etheric head
inclines back, it bends backwards. -Now whether the etheric head bends
relative; the etheric body does not entirely emerge but extends in
etheric body then fills the physical body than is normally the case,
the etheric body, is that the astral body remaining inside the head
is there a movement of the etheric body but also an alteration in the
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beings; one composed more of our physical body and etheric body and
that this physical body and to some extent the etheric body too are
which we are always surrounded. Our physical and etheric bodies are
Gods whose whole life is spent in producing our physical and etheric
body and etheric body. This we know, from what has been given out in
The physical body and etheric body compose
testings and shiftings which they undergo in the physical and etheric
we bear within us the physical body and etheric body, the astral body
and etheric body, the more inner man the ego and astral body. Now we
etheric body, astral body and ego. We already bear the germ of the
also expressed outwardly in the fact that the part of their etheric
seen that that part of the etheric body which forms the head projects
beyond the head in both cases, and that both the etheric heads incline
expressed as a continual bowing and inclining of the etheric head of
other, a similar process can be observed; but then the etheric head
inclines back, it bends backwards. — Now whether the etheric head bends
relative; the etheric body does not entirely emerge but extends in
etheric body then fills the physical body than is normally the case,
the etheric body, is that the astral body remaining inside the head
is there a movement of the etheric body but also an alteration in the
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etherically goggle-eyed at the cinema; he develops eyes like those of
a seal, only much larger, I mean larger etherically. This works in a

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Saturn epoch, the germ of the etheric body during the Old Sun, and
What we know as the Etheric body, is, however, as far as the body is
of the head, the etheric body is able to be constantly awake when in
of the etheric body. We can then further differentiate our physical
lowest parts of the body, the astral body with the heart; the etheric
is our etheric body to our head, the astral body to the heart and so
ideas drawn from the spiritual world. We compel our head — the etheric

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the physical and etheric bodies during sleep — being breathed
and astral bodies — which were outside his physical and etheric
it is only as regards our physical and etheric body that we are suited
man with his physical body and etheric body is really inserted into
in the next seven years his etheric body, in the next seven years his

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man into gross body, etheric body and astral body, derived

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experienced a kind of loosening of the etheric body, which
that through the loosening of their etheric bodies and the

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etheric body is not such as it was originally designed to be
to account in our life. Amongst the various etheric formative
forces which our etheric body originally possessed —
and originally it possessed all etheric formative forces in
clairvoyance is enabled to perceive the etheric colours in
would always have been possible for the etheric body, if it
spared the consequences. For had the etheric body preserved
If man still possessed the original vitality of his etheric
his etheric body, if in the course of his life he had not
Impulse will win the day. When the etheric Christ appears in

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are not of this world. Receive baptism whereby your etheric

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etheric body was loosened” (the initiated emperors were
reached. This was known to those whose etheric bodies had
presence will be experienced in the etheric world in the
present age to the Etheric Christ in so far as it is

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the astral and etheric bodies were “condensed”,
exist in the men of antiquity. The etheric body, as you know,
the Mystery of Golgotha, the etheric body is now preserved to
“risen” in an etheric body and if we begin to
in his etheric body, not to his feeling and will.) Remember

Title: Building Stones: Lecture Nine
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the “lotus flowers” in the human etheric and
flower was one of the chief manifestations of the etheric and

Title: Aspects/Evolution: Lecture V
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one hand on the physical and etheric bodies and on the other
etheric bodies, so must what becomes an impulse towards good
happen it must be reflected in the physical and etheric

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consists of physical body, etheric body, astral body and 'I' or that

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Some you remember, others not, but all are within you; within your etheric

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only of organic and etheric members. A long time ago men's souls would
Christ, it is only when we are free of the etheric body that the astral

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fall asleep they free themselves from the physical and etheric bodies.
body, into our physical and etheric bodies; i.e., into the oldest members
and etheric bodies we would in a certain sense be thinking machines;
physical and etheric bodies do in fact act automatically in certain
could do little towards perfecting the physical and etheric bodies,
etheric bodies are perfectly developed tools that the already existing
by virtue of the physical and etheric bodies. We have at present no
sees is what his brain reveals to him through his etheric and physical

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physical body, etheric body — the body of generative
physical and etheric bodies. The first beginnings of the
evolution on earth. The etheric body has gone through three
ancient Saturn. Then the etheric body was added. This created
etheric body, one to the astral body and one to the ego. The
etheric body has three elements — one related to
way. The element relating to the etheric body can also
continue, for the etheric body stays with the physical body.
may take hold of the physical body and the etheric body with

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To take them in we must slightly loosen the etheric and
spirit one has to loosen the etheric and astral bodies a

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The Greeks still had an inner feeling for the etheric in the

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They are etheric and spiritual by nature and have a real,

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The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric
beings in the etheric world, not His return in a physical body. The
large number of people Christ in the etheric will be an actual,
human evolution that leads to truly beholding Christ in the etheric.
the etheric Christ, who wished to use it for their own purposes and
will exist in the earthly sphere as an etheric being. It depends upon
century, for His coming as etheric individuality to be unobserved by
never yet appeared in the flesh but only as an etheric individuality,
has only reached etheric embodiment, and he will be put by the
evolution as an etheric individuality in the course of the twentieth
When a human being dies, he leaves behind his etheric
normal conditions this etheric body is assimilated by the cosmos.
such an etheric body, certain beings are able to inhabit this etheric
body; they then become etheric beings with these etheric bodies that
are induced to inhabit etheric bodies laid aside by human beings.
Such demonic spirits that inhabit the etheric bodies laid aside by
occupying the etheric bodies vacated by human beings.
etheric body of an ancestor is occupied by a demonic being. I say to
the one who had laid aside his etheric body, which was then occupied
worshipped, however, are simply demonic beings within the etheric
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present in the etheric realm.
etheric realm. You can understand that a disclosure of this
secret, concerning the etheric manifestation of Christ
event, the appearance of the etheric Christ, for their own
be present as an etheric Being within the earth-sphere. The
His coming as an etheric individuality should not be
appeared in the flesh — an etheric individuality, but a
earth. It is this etheric being whom these brotherhoods
against the Christ, who is to appear as an etheric
When a man dies, he gives up his etheric body, which separates
in the East. When a man surrenders his etheric body after
etheric beings with the aid of these etheric bodies of dead
enticed to clothe themselves in the etheric bodies which men
donning the discarded etheric bodies of dead men.
for the etheric body of a certain ancestor to be taken over by
etheric body has been taken over, through the machinations of
etheric bodies of these ancestors.
manifest in etheric form during the twentieth century; and this

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The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric
beings in the etheric world, not His return in a physical body. The

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The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric
beings in the etheric world, not His return in a physical body. The
etheric in the service of outer practical life. I have brought to
appearing in the etheric.

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finding out how to place the spiritual etheric forces at the
the coming etheric Christ.

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senses, permeates our etheric body, our body of formative
breath. The etheric foundation of our lung (the physical lung
real perceptive organ) that which lies etherically at the
to investigate what constitutes its etheric foundation, we
if you imagine that you also possess an etheric head —
except that this etheric head cannot yet be used as an organ
etheric body as creative force is the element into which we
aside the etheric body. But we enter into that which is
etheric body. When we pass through the portal of death, we
lay aside the etheric body. We enter that which is active in
etheric life. If we would have a clairvoyant consciousness,
etheric truth.

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physical body; his etheric body, or the body of formatives
the body of formative forces or etheric body, the astral
but for the spiritual world, in other words, for the etheric
etheric body, or the body of formative forces is concerned,
physical body has reached the age of 7 years. His etheric
developed according to a certain speed. The etheric body
slowest of all, the ego. The etheric body is only 5 years and
submerged through our astral body, through our etheric body,
body, and etheric body, we can receive them as imaginations,

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physical, etheric, and astral body and ego (roughly speaking)
this yesterday); as far as his so-called etheric body is

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etheric body and the physical. This boundary must exist,

Title: Ancient Myths: Lecture II
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essentially events of the etheric world, were perceived by
etherically, by having perceived it formerly as it were, outside, and

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physical body, which is linked with the becoming young of his etheric

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etheric body or the body of formative forces, and then the astral
stop short at the etheric body, at the invisible, super-sensible body
blood and bones. We carry in us this etheric body of formative
ever older, the etheric or body of formative forces is old when we
to get wrinkled then our etheric body blooms and becomes

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feel the rejuvenation of their etheric body so that the

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the etheric body, and which, while we are growing old physically,
make it more and more chubby-faced. Thus the human being, as etheric
man becomes chubby. In this process undergone by the etheric body

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etheric, but in youth we must learn to supply spiritual ideas as
body grows old; for, strange as it may seem, the etheric body, the
the younger becomes our etheric body; and as we become wrinkled and
etheric body does — chubby and blooming. As external nature
take care that our etheric body is provided with youthful

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as much ‘organs of thought’ as the etheric part of the

Title: Earthly Death/Cosmic Life: Lecture 6: Feelings of Unity and Sentiments of Gratitude: A Bridge to the Dead
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man can keep still; it is only necessary to move his etheric hands

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summary. The ego and astral if separate from the etheric and physical
beings are in etheric and physical bodies are we separated from one
physical and etheric body, so after death, until rebirth, we are part

Title: Life Gifts: Lecture I: Folk Souls and the Mystery of Golgotha
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light, and even to what lies above the light in the etheric, is the

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spiritual, etherical animal form. This has hardened into the human
the etheric animals. We therefore carry an animal nature in our head,
but it is an etheric animality. That entered men's unconscious nature in
supersensibly, etherically; he thought man was related to the

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a physical body as well as in the etheric body, a sort of canal
etheric body or body of formative-forces, and the astral

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form. In particular what we call the Etheric or
have often described as the dissolution of the Etheric or
the permanent results of this dissolution of the Etheric or
certain sense the Etheric or Formative-forces Body Works with
without inwards, the Etheric or Formative-forces Body wishes
colour of man's flesh-tints. What the etheric and astral
death. When the body of Formative-forces or etheric body
looks back upon the dissolution of the etheric body, he

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his etheric body, his formative-forces by, it becomes ever

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etheric bodies, and neither consciousness nor
fine etheric, super-sensible organism in us — to which
his etheric body, which can be divided into parts like the
the etheric body call rather for the approach that we have
used in speaking of states of consciousness. The etheric body
dividing man's being into physical body, etheric body, astral
gain insight is to examine what is happening in the etheric
body. If anyone merely says, “We have an etheric
etheric body we have something very real and substantial,
weaving in the etheric body, ceaselessly from waking to
truth, the etheric body weaves in our subconscious, and
because he can make use of his etheric body as he does at
this cannot help seeing that karma is a reality. The etheric
of the lower body, and viewed by the etheric body, although
come; for the etheric body becomes the eye of the spirit,

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the etheric body is seen to work absolutely differently on
the two sides. The left side of the etheric body is quite

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The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric
beings in the etheric world, not His return in a physical body. The
etheric reappearance of Christ in the twentieth century and that I

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downwards, are: Ego, astral body, etheric body — which latterly I
of the Moon-evolution, the etheric body of the Sun-evolution, the
composed of physical body, etheric body, astral body, is extremely
etheric body in the year 1918 of the present cycle of evolution? For
Wisdom or of the Thrones in the etheric body of man during the present
doing in our etheric body. I will speak of another question that is of
repetition of the Mystery of Golgotha on the etheric plane, the
reappearance of the etheric Christ, or other matters as well, then the
be achieved with the help of the physical and etheric bodies of men
etheric and physical bodies in the waking state. It would be achieved
by means of the etheric and physical bodies in the sleeping state,
submerge it in the etheric body in order to bring it to fulfillment.
have to be performed in the etheric body while man himself was not
man himself participating, to carry it out in his etheric and physical

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etheric organism of man and try to sketch only what is soul — soul-and-spirit (see diagram

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and etheric bodies, But if we wish to go more deeply into the
is, that our physical and etheric bodies, “unjustly”
etheric and physical bodies as a kind of shell into which he
if the physical and etheric bodies were himself. But this they are
physical and etheric bodies as an instrument; but we cannot raise
regard our physical and etheric bodies. But in this epoch we have
illegally, by the physical and etheric bodies. That simply rests in
They draw down the etheric and astral bodies
into the physical and etheric bodies, so to speak, and they bring
inwardly, is somehow produced by the physical and etheric bodies;
whereas all the physical and etheric bodies do, is to radiate back
individual person, am not bound to my physical or etheric bodies

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physical and etheric bodies. But if we wish to go more deeply
etheric bodies, “unjustly,” illegally, as we might
to feel himself an Ego and Astral body, and to feel his etheric
physical and etheric bodies were himself. But this they are
the physical and etheric bodies as an instrument; but we cannot
blows with it; so should we regard our physical and etheric
by the physica1 and etheric bodies. That simply rests in the
mankind. They draw down the etheric and astral bodies into the
physical and etheric bodies, so to speak, and they bring about
etheric bodies; whereas all the physical and etheric bodies do,
bound to my physical or etheric bodies any more than when I

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accustomed to call his physical body; beyond this is the etheric body
and willing of the soul. Everything else — astral body, etheric
those contents of the astral, etheric and physical bodies of which
body of formative forces or etheric body, and his physical body. And

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accustomed to call his physical body; beyond this is the etheric body
and willing of the soul. Everything else — astral body, etheric
those contents of the astral, etheric and physical bodies of which
body of formative forces or etheric body, and his physical body. And

Title: Three Streams: Lecture III: The Mystery of Golgotha Must Be Approached Supersensibly
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flesh, blood and bones, together with the etheric and astral bodies,

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flesh, blood and bones, together with the etheric and astral bodies,

Title: Three Streams: Lecture VI: Augustus and the Roman Catholic Church, Rhetoric, Intellectual Soul and Consciousness Soul
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supersensibly. He is present in the etheric body. Those who are

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supersensibly. He is present in the etheric body. Those who are

Title: Symptom to Reality: Lecture IV: The Historical Significance of the Scientific Mode of Thinking
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Christ is destined to appear again in the etheric body, when

Title: Lecture: Evil and the Future of Man
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experience in the warmth-ether which penetrates our etheric body. This

Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture V: The Supersensible Element in the Study of History
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ether that penetrates our etheric body; this will be the

Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture VIII: Religious Impulses of the Fifth Post-Atlantean Epoch
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ancient India, the individual developed his etheric body; in

Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture IX: The Relation Between the Deeper European Impulses and Those of the Present Day
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but in the etheric body, in the temperaments of men. And

Title: Challenge/Times: Lecture V: Specters of the Old Testament in the Nationalism of the Present
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astral body are outside the physical and the etheric body.
astral body, on the one hand, and the physical and etheric
different relationship to his physical and etheric bodies.
with him as the physical and the etheric nature becomes ill

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often said that just in our age a reappearance of the Etheric Christ

Title: Fundamental Social Demand: Lecture 4
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about etherical [ethereal?] ideals from the other side. They

Title: Lecture: The Birth of Christ in the Human Soul
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body when they are separated from the physical and etheric

Title: How Can Mankind Find Christ Again?: Lecture 1
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and etheric bodies. But the fact that we do not perceive a being does

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and etheric bodily nature that was given to us as a kind of vehicle
for the development of our etheric body. Comparing ourselves with the
as corresponding to our etheric body — we can say that it takes
to go through all the development that can be gone through in the etheric
And where the etheric world is concerned, everything is subject to the
we want to talk here, that is, the speed at which we let our etheric
subject to the laws of etheric life? if we got our second teeth in our
the course of natural events in so far as they are subject to the etheric
of natural events subject to the etheric life. Thus our human life would

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that bit of space in the etheric body where the shadow is formed. This

Title: Goetheanism as an Impulse for Man's Transformation - Lecture III: Clairvoyant Vision Looks at Mineral, Plant, Animal, Man
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nose in our physical men, the etheric nose not being sufficiently developed.

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we sleep we leave the physical body and the etheric body lying in the
and plunge down into our physical body and etheric body. We are still
relation of our soul and spirit to our physical and etheric?

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being is divided into physical body, etheric body, astral
etheric body, then the sentient-body, then from the
that they are extending a part of their etheric body. But
their etheric body in uttering “I” by watching

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with our ego and astral body into our etheric and

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etheric body, i.e., with the body of formative forces
Man's etheric body is built up like a work of art; it is a real work
you of the etheric body as a necessary instrument for a certain
the physical body and “etheric body” we possess an
the “etheric body.” At the time of his physical
than from his “etheric body.” For the “etheric
i.e., outside the physical and “etheric” bodies
faces of children, the necessity of using our etheric body for

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having at their finger-tips what an astral body is, an etheric body,
is, the etheric body, karma, reincarnation, — but they have no
interested only in the appearance of the etheric body or astral body
ruling power. Knowing about the etheric body, the astral body, is of

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We say that man is provided with physical body, etheric body, astral
body, and ego. At first only the physical and etheric bodies come
into consideration for the physical sense world. The etheric body

Title: Cosmic New Year: Lecture I: The Three Streams in the Life of Civilization. The Mysteries of Light, of Man, and of the Earth.
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skin and muscle and nerve, but does not cut the super-sensible etheric
body. If we have an uninjured finger, our super-sensible etheric body
is adapted to it. If we cut the finger (and we cannot cut the etheric
body) the super-sensible uncut etheric body is not adapted to it. That

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the physical man, the etheric and astral being — each
etheric is less so, the astral being is still more rarefied.
body, then comes the more rarefied etheric body, followed by

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wakes up he is outside his physical and etheric bodies with
ego and astral body first penetrate his etheric being and
consists of a physical body, a somewhat less dense etheric
doesn't come anywhere near the etheric body by just thinking

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the astral, etheric, and physical bodies, we have to say that

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etheric organisms and discovers what it is that forms and

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our etheric body constantly has the tendency to assume the
shape of a donkey. We restrain our etheric body from doing so
Again, if we face an elephant, our etheric body endeavors to
elephant, stag-beetle or dirt-beetle, the etheric body tries
all the forms are present in our etheric body, and we
the entire animal kingdom within our etheric body. We are
human only in our physical body. In our etheric body, we bear
the plant forms. Just as our etheric body is predisposed to
pleasant to make comparisons, for, while the etheric body is
kingdom, on the other hand, is actually found in the etheric
the astral body, the etheric body and even the physical body
social organism. Were we to stop at the etheric body as it
this etheric body to turn now into a donkey, now into an
together with others. When we face a donkey, our etheric body
work on the etheric body; thus, through the work on this
Animal Kingdom:   Etheric
through his etheric body, he is related on the other side in
spiritually, from the physical body towards the etheric, we
are not in a position to ascend to the etheric body, astral
his etheric body through the animal kingdom, with the astral
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that he is composed of physical body, etheric body, astral
you will learn from them that physical, etheric, astral body
etheric body, astral body and ego. Then, however, he first
then this activity passes over to the etheric body and
etheric bodies, in their work of perfecting the physical
inward, we now advance to the etheric body. Here we reach
the extent of the etheric body's mobility. It has the
animal shapes, our etheric body has the inner tendency to
physical body, the etheric body is prevented from realizing
animal world, but his etheric body displays a quite decided
etheric body desires to resemble the donkey and the astral
Etheric Body:    Animal World
regard to the plant world, or in the etheric body regarding
into existence because we transform our etheric body. This is
consciousness does not really penetrate. In the etheric body
where etheric processes run their course, it is not enough if
him grounded with his etheric body in the animal world, with
component members of his. He transforms his etheric body; as
which, in turn, he is grounded with his etheric body in the
Etheric Body:    Animal World
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have seen how our etheric body is directed toward the animal
transformation of the etheric body because of our living in
           etheric
contribute what we have evolved as our etheric element, what
attained three things in the cosmic order: etheric body,
etheric body, astral body, and ego. We yield it up to the

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and imprint into the etheric body what the astral body
dense, the etheric body as thinner, the astral body as still

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which humanity will perceive the working of Christ in the etheric world.
etheric body. In this constitution, in the inner experience of the soul-and-spirit element and in

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which humanity will perceive the working of Christ in the etheric world.
repeated lives on earth. In reality these are human bodies with a physical, etheric and astral

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which humanity will perceive the working of Christ in the etheric world.

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which humanity will perceive the working of Christ in the etheric world.

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which humanity will perceive the working of Christ in the etheric world.
etheric body is developed, the human being must first of all be recognized. What has to be
(The Event of the Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric World),

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which humanity will perceive the working of Christ in the etheric world.
unconscious etheric body. Today, when the principle of independent judgment is appearing, there

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which humanity will perceive the working of Christ in the etheric world.
his etheric body is a result of the second, third and fourth conditions. What we call his astral
etheric body and astral body have been elaborated, and just as the 'I' is being worked on at the
transformation of the etheric body to a higher stage and spirit-man is the transformation of the
astral body, nor life-spirit in my etheric body nor spirit-man in my physical body, but what I
etheric body and physical body — but, as earthly man, he cannot achieve this. He has to say

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organism of the head and have gone back to the etheric organism
Now the etheric organisation is essentially different from the

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with our Ego and astral body united with our etheric and physical
from the etheric and physical bodies.

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astral body leave our physical and etheric bodies. It must not be
then etheric matter — more rarefied; then astral matter —
and suction, physical and etheric; the other, the second —
astral. The astral is neither physical nor etheric but is continually

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this force of suction in our own etheric bodies.
assimilates and again expels, not only have we also an etheric
interpenetrates the etheric and physical bodies. But the etheric body
different relation is established between the etheric and physical
astral body and Ego from his physical and etheric bodies, he finds
etheric; they act upon it as powerfully as food upon the physical
and the astral body. As soon as these act upon the etheric and
physical bodies in such a way as to withdraw the etheric from the

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the Ego and astral body are separated from the physical and etheric.

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liver also possesses etheric organs; it is these latter which, in the
in a certain sense, an externalisation of the etheric liver, and its

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— again thinner or finer than the etheric; and after that quite a

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physical, etheric and astral bodies, together with the Ego-being, are
one side, the physical and etheric bodies united, and on the other

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complete human being, possessing physical body, etheric body,
until awaking. Then you have only physical body and etheric body. You
etheric body. Strictly speaking, such a thing should not be. Your
physical body and etheric body become really an untruth, for a being
etheric bodies can actually reach the plant stage — it is only
re-enter our physical and etheric bodies, it is as though the summer

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by the astral body upon the etheric. Approximately from two and a half
etheric body. It always takes a certain time to be established there.
everyday life we alternately separate physical body and etheric body
rather looser connection between the physical and etheric bodies on
physical and etheric bodies remain always together between
not the astral and etheric bodies; every night they separate. There is
thus a looser connection between the astral and etheric bodies than
between the etheric and physical; and this is again expressed in the
astral and etheric bodies before what we have experienced in the
astral body is imprinted upon the etheric body. When some event
means it works upon the physical, etheric and astral bodies and the
The astral body takes it up at once. The etheric needs a certain time
harmony between the astral and etheric. Does not this clearly and
Heathendom and Christendom; and now, etheric and astral. Always a
etheric body and must be brought up by our own active memory or by
connected as regards our physical and etheric bodies with something
etheric bodies. They are two different streams. In the book

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between birth and death — the physical and etheric bodies — are not
every time he falls asleep it leaves his physical and etheric bodies
is in the unconscious, it remains with the physical and etheric bodies

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beginning, although only for a short time, the etheric body also.
This brief period during which the human being still has an etheric
etheric body is, one might say, pushed upward into cosmic space, just
still find the after-effects of the etheric body, that is to say, all
earth life with the etheric body, and also with the physical body. As
cannot simply speak sweepingly of dissolution of the etheric and the
himself. The etheric body bears within itself, as it were, the
what has imprinted itself upon the etheric body actually continues to
and mode of our behavior towards the etheric body. Our life is not
to realize how that which he incorporates into his etheric body by
conduct in life contributes to the configuration of the etheric body,

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fluid organism in earthly man without speaking of the etheric body
It cannot be studied unless we think of it as permeated by the etheric
Fluid organism         Etheric body
in the blood the etheric body which permeates it with its forces. But
permeated by the etheric body. This fluid organism cannot be strictly
manifest in the aeriform organism. And when we come to the etheric
organism, to the etheric body, we find within it the conceptual
in this fluid organism vibrates the etheric body, and within this
air is essentially an etheric reality. And the tone we hear by
fluid organism lives our own etheric body; but in addition there
have within us our etheric body; it works and is active by giving rise
have an etheric organism complete in itself, consisting of Chemical
Now consider the following. The etheric body remains in us also during
therefore the interworking of the Chemical Ether and the etheric body
and the etheric body that remain as they are during the waking state;
being the forces that are within the physical and etheric bodies can
Etheric body — Thinking — Fluid organism — Chemical Ether.

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the earthly human without speaking of the etheric body which
think of it as permeated by the etheric body.
Etheric body
in the blood the etheric body which permeates it with its
is permeated by the etheric body. This fluid organism cannot
organism. And when we come to the etheric body, we find
organism vibrates the etheric body, and within this fluid
is essentially an etheric reality. And the tone we
our fluid organism lives our own etheric body; but in
etheric body; it works and is active by giving rise to
organism. Thus we have an etheric organism complete in
Etheric body — Thinking — Fluid Organism — Chemical
the following. The etheric body remains in us also during
the etheric body continues within our being, via the fluid
physical body and the etheric body that remain as they are
within the physical and etheric bodies are then also active

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physical body. But it is paramountly the etheric body that takes hold
an etheric, not a physical seed of life such as issues from the
female organism at a birth. This etheric seed which lies in the
at death the etheric body, the astral body, and the Ego emerge from
producing in the solid organism — seeds of Life. (etheric)

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etheric body that takes hold of the fluid body, of everything
life — but it is an etheric, not a
organism at a birth. This etheric seed which lies in the
And when at death the etheric body, the astral body, and the
(etheric)

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etheric body, not in his astral body and Ego. In his physical body
and etheric body man is given over to the forces that are active in
dependent upon the physical and etheric bodies than he is today, the
inner forces of the earth into man's physical and etheric bodies;

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do with a particular forming of man's etheric body, during a very old
time a feeling that he was drawing in something etheric, that the
itself from the physical and etheric bodies that remain lying on the

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replicas of soul and spirit, while the etheric, dream producing
I must tread when I describe the human etheric body.
have placed the etheric body before the human being. This
etheric body, that is, the body that reveals itself only in
correspondingly stronger. The etheric body can conceive in
think. As soon as this etheric body begins to be especially
etheric body, but in this case the latter has imbedded itself
those forms that express themselves in the etheric body. It

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the etheric domain. This wisdom also flowed into cultic life. Image of
etheric in contrast to our physical astronomy — in the
concerning this etheric astronomy. It taught that if we turn
we view the etheric body of man, the human being stands in
of the human etheric body and Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars.
etheric body, these are the forces of the earth. Those
enters with his etheric body out of extraplanetary into
planetary life. Everything that is etheric in the human being
as the etheric body then expresses itself in the physical
with his ego beyond the etheric and astral body, the ancients
a form of etheric astronomy. It was certainly still possible
for this etheric astronomy not merely to look upon the
astronomy does. Instead, since people viewed the etheric
themselves out of the planetary system by way of the etheric
teaching of antiquity, this etheric astronomy, which was
insofar as his etheric body is concerned, he subsequently
Consequently, it was thought, the human being's etheric body
were pictured as closely tied to the etheric body, hence to
etheric body to the planetary system as well as of the way
the etheric human being penetrates, as it were, into the
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cosmos that had disappeared along with etheric astronomy and
had fallen victim to abstract thinking, the old etheric
organic inner sphere where the forces of the etheric body,

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etheric and astral body and spiritual development may all be

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into etheric body. In third post-Atlantean epoch, measure was experienced
as the force proceeding from etheric body that forms the physical body
so is the etheric body. Pass on to the third member, on the
but with those of our etheric body, and we no longer know it.
consideration. We actually count by means of the etheric
fingers being merely replicas of the astral and etheric.
when we do sums, we express in the etheric body what brings
count by means of the etheric body, with which we think in
their different etheric and astral constitutions. Numbers are
etheric body, they had to tell themselves that the astral
etheric body. Numbers are found between astral and etheric
else is located between etheric body and physical body.
the etheric body that we can then behold. Basically, even our
is imprinted by the etheric body into our physical body out
etheric to the physical body. Finally, in the transition from
Etheric Body
remains a “savage,” that his etheric body had

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etheric body (blue); that is the human astral body (yellow);
whole world actually dwells in man's physical, etheric, and
the intake of nourishment. In the etheric body, the whole
connected with his physical body, his etheric, and astral
etheric bodies. A close connection developed between his ego
and astral body and his etheric body and physical
ancient clairvoyant ate a plum; this plum contains etheric
experienced how the etheric forces in the plum passed over
his eyes; how, in his own etheric body, they encountered the
The etheric
attained from their physical and etheric bodies as well as

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was development of intellectual soul; on basis of etheric body's activity,
etheric activity has completely impressed itself into physical body,
predominantly employed their etheric body when they engaged
mood — brought the etheric body into movement when
beings thought with their etheric body. And the
do so with the forces the etheric body sends into the
time, it runs its course in the etheric body (see drawing,
light-shaded crosshatching); in a sense, it gives the etheric
were, an impression of the etheric activity as though of a
the etheric body, that they adhere to this shadow image
impulses originating in the etheric body. We therefore deal
etheric body and has now slipped, so to speak, into the
mention is made of the etheric body, the astral body, and so on. In
concept of the etheric and astral body; it is impossible; I

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activity of the intellect was a manifestation of the etheric
with the etheric body. Simply because they were now in a

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into the astral body. The etheric body is there in the middle, between
between the physical body and astral body the etheric body is
fulfilling its functions. The forces in the etheric body come, not
from cosmic space the etheric forces stream in. These etheric forces
physical body. His etheric body relates him to the whole environment
not leave or come down again properly into his etheric and physical
proper relation of man's astral body to his etheric body and his
We come next to Venus. Venus works pre-eminently in the etheric body
of man. The cosmic forces chiefly active in the etheric body,
activity of the etheric body.
with his whole cosmic environment through the etheric body. The cosmic

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works in the manner I have outlined above. The etheric body
active in the etheric body. It, too, is not derived from the
human being from all corners of the universe are the etheric
etheric forces turn these foodstuffs into something that can
inwardly experience the etheric element as such, namely,
of his etheric body he is related to the whole surrounding
emerge from the etheric and physical bodies, when it does not
astral body to the human physical and etheric bodies. By
Venus. Venus is active especially in the human etheric body,
in what works out of the cosmos in the human etheric body and
Venus - activity of the human etheric body
linked to the whole cosmic environment with his etheric body.

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idea of how to think with the etheric body, the body that, as
did not think with the brain but with the etheric body. In
of thinking with the etheric body. Fundamentally speaking, it
with the physical but with the etheric body. This thinking
with the etheric body was not supposed to extend into later
rigid concepts. This former thinking with the etheric body,
body. In past ages, they thought with their etheric body and

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etheric life working from the cosmos. This etheric life
etheric body of the human being, but we were not spinning the
etheric body out of our fantasy. Rather we said: if one
watery, etheric element, from the cosmos. Whenever we regard
year, lives and weaves an etheric life, and that I have

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described what we are accustomed to calling the human etheric
outside the physical and etheric bodies. What permeates the
weaving and being of the human etheric body, then one remains
possible to observe one's etheric when turning one's gaze to
experience of the etheric being of man dissolving. The
etheric being of man becomes, you could say, a miniature

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that then become formative forces for the etheric body and
etheric bodies and so on continue to be active, followed by a

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etheric body dissolves itself into the cosmic forces, and the
etheric of the next incarnation.
your physical and etheric bodies the astral body and I. This

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earth-forces, the etheric body dissolves within the cosmic
into the surrounding world gives the astral and etheric
physical and etheric bodies the astral body and ego. This is

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be perceived in the etheric body. With this line I am
really the membrane separating the etheric body from the
the etheric body, how you stand on your legs. You do not
etheric body. He who makes judgments even when he is lying
down stretches his etheric legs. Making judgments is not
stretches one's etheric legs or when one moves one's astral
will not succeed so well, but with the etheric head they will
simply achieve a loosening of the etheric body in the
physical body. As soon as the etheric body is loosened, the
play between the etheric body and the universe would become

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etheric bodies. What he brings with him is Inspiration, to which I

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somewhat mobile. The etheric body has its exact imprint in the head,
but only of the etheric and physical bodies. And in the metabolic
have physical body, etheric body and astral body, in such a way that
breathing-system, for instance, we find the physical and etheric
astral body and etheric body are free. We have not only to recognise
that an astral body and an etheric body have no basis in the head;

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becomes intimately connected with his physical and etheric

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into the human etheric body — into that part of the etheric
penetrate first through the etheric body, and the etheric body,
permeating the etheric body with thought-forces. But an etheric body
about the continuation of thought into the etheric body. And the
etheric body thus permeated by thought works destructively upon the

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memory-mirror and work into the human etheric body, into that
part of the etheric body that forms the basis of growth but
thought-forces first permeate the etheric body, and the
etheric body, permeated in this way by the thought-forces,
the etheric body with thought-forces. An etheric body that is
thinking into the etheric body, and the etheric body thus

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this memory-mirror and exercise an action on man's etheric
body, in that part of man's etheric body which lies at the
thought-forces first permeate the etheric body, this now
etheric body. But an etheric body permeated with the forces of
effects the continuation of thinking into the etheric body. The
etheric body permeated with thought works destructively on the

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body, the etheric body or body of formative forces, which is
— physical body, etheric body, astral body, and I
during waking life the physical, etheric,astral bodies, and
physical and etheric bodies on the one hand from the astral
physical body and etheric body, one arrives there by at a
physical and etheric bodies from the time we fall asleep to
the etheric body and physical body with our I and astral
body. What is experienced in the etheric body is experienced,
passing through the etheric body, when life reminiscences
etheric body, for as long as one is passing through the
etheric body, everything remains dreamlike. One must also
clearly — the space between etheric body and physical
body. Then one slips fully into the etheric-physical on
takes place completely between the etheric body and the
the etheric and physical bodies. If we present this
the etheric body (green), we have the living weaving of
physical body and etheric body in the thoughts that we grasp
place between our physical body and etheric body, processes
between our physical and etheric bodies (yellow). We have now
soul; we see in it a weaving between the etheric body and the
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etheric body, where, while he is submerged, he can have the
passes, as it were, the space between the etheric body and
etheric body. We also found that feeling develops itself
between the etheric and astral bodies, and willing develops
between the physical body, etheric body, astral body, and I.
takes place in us between the etheric body and the astral
the etheric body and astral body of the animal presses
that we find on awaking between the etheric body and the
us between our etheric and physical bodies, which we can find
understand our etheric body without understanding that we
see drawing, bright) and that our etheric body
weaves into us, forms the forces that underlie our etheric
between etheric body and physical body. They are drawn in, as
world, and then they work in us with the help of the etheric
underlies our own organization. In our etheric body we are
between physical body, etheric body, astral body, and I; we
etheric body, astral body, and I. One thus has learned to

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that in the space between the etheric body and the physical
regarding this web of thought to be found between the etheric
of thought between the etheric body and the physical body
the etheric world when the human being enters existence
and that lives in man really between the etheric body and the

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etheric body, astral body, and I; the study of the spiritual
between physical body and etheric body, the feeling aspect
between etheric body and astral body, and the aspect of
physical body, etheric body, astral body, and I in order to

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the etheric body.
of the etheric body were added during the Sun evolution,
planets and their constellations. Through this the etheric
etheric body is developed. In this etheric body there now
which are to be found between the etheric body and the
permeates his etheric body — something that has to do
with his etheric body in the same way as what I have called
his etheric body as what he carries as astral fruit of the
etheric cosmic fruit. This etheric cosmic fruit actually
lives on in his etheric body. From the first moment of his
birth, the human being has in his etheric body something like
astral body into his physical body and etheric body, we may
life on earth incorporates itself into the etheric impelling

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between the I, astral body, etheric body, and physical
etheric body or body of formative forces, astral body, and I?
man's etheric body today. During life between birth and death
form of the etheric body. Whereas in our physical body we
natural course of evolution our etheric body provides us with
produces our etheric, our vital existence — has no
longer have these pictures as such, as picture-etheric body,
etheric cosmos, just as the physical body is dissolved into
however, this picture-existence of the etheric body shows
plant. The cosmos thus absorbs our etheric body, as if
way in the cosmos out of human etheric bodies, however,
observe offers us a guarantee that the human etheric body is
the etheric body, therefore, the seed of a future realm, an
it like a kind of living etheric activity.
as the human being after death has the etheric body before
etheric body loosens itself to become the seed for an
Human etheric body
body and the etheric body, as mediator in the interaction of
these two bodies; feeling weaves between the etheric'body and
the astral body, mediating the interbreathing of the etheric
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occurs between man's etheric body and physical body, how
feeling occurs between man's etheric body and his astral
it has disappeared as earth; we learn to know our etheric
etheric body, astral body, and I. Could you expect that such
etheric body, and astral body; the I, however, takes part

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the etheric body, that feeling occurs between the etheric
etheric body (orange), astral body (red), and I
physical body and the etheric body. From my descriptions in
between the etheric body and the astral body and in turn also
etheric body is also laid aside a short time after death.
between the physical body and the etheric body. This at first
bears the etheric body. Then the etheric body dissolves
however, along with his etheric body, a few days after death.
the etheric body, before the etheric body's dissolution
these chemical workings, these chemical etheric workings.

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that man was a completely etheric being and that he had not
we find that he was an etheric being and in the present
representatives of etheric eyes. And again, the limbs are a

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forces, the planetary spheres work through his etheric forces.
ether-body of man belong to the physical and etheric worlds.

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astral body dive down into his etheric body and his physical body, he
content of the etheric and the physical bodies. The etheric body is
inwardly from our etheric and physical bodies; if we then look down
into the etheric body and the physical body so that we perceive what
In the etheric body and in the physical body there echoes the music of
etheric body, and in the physical body in so far as it is of a
the cosmos. This is imprinted into the etheric body. Thus, in our
consonants, whereas in our etheric body we bear a reflection of the
the etheric body. (This is naturally not a material process but has to
would have to admit: I am an etheric body, in other words, I am the
my etheric body.
2. Etheric body = Echo of the planetary movements
physical body and etheric body. Those are no more than vague,
physical body, etheric body, astral body and ego. We remain entirely
secondly of etheric body, thirdly of astral body, fourthly of ego. But
etheric body, too, ceases to be before us. Vision is extended,
life, for this human etheric body is a mere reflection of planetary

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himself to be the lord of the etheric and astral natures of human
astral and etheric bodies; his purpose is now to influence also man's

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that the spiritual world was seen in etheric shapes. The great

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we go up even further into the etheric parts, into the light element,
into the etheric body of the human being. When the organism of
goes up into the etheric body. Here the human being joins up with the
etheric realm which fills the whole world; here he makes the link

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and etheric bodies. In normal circumstances when human beings
awake, they re-enter the etheric and physical bodies very
before entering it penetrates more intensely into the etheric
etheric body, or at the moment of falling asleep when, on
leaving the physical body, the sleeper lingers in the etheric
passage through the etheric body, there arise the pictures of
the physical body, the person enters the etheric body. Then the
penetrating into the etheric body, he or she would then be

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organism to take on an etheric mode of existence these poisons

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the ether or etheric body. So we come to experience something that
body the formative forces of the etheric body were building all the
initiation. Thus to know the formative forces or etheric body from

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physical lung but a finer part, the etheric part of the lung.
perception. Its finer, etheric part becomes a higher sense
organ. When we experience the lung's etheric nature we must
describe it as a higher sense organ, for its etheric body
become sense organs in their higher, etheric nature or even in
world through the etheric organ of the lungs, and another
aspect through the etheric organ of the heart. We can transform

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yesterday that the lungs become sense organ in their etheric

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the watery organism. Man's etheric body is within the watery
reciprocal effect between the etheric body and the astral body,
between the astral and etheric bodies.
with the etheric body. Then the gaseous organism which has an
etheric part of the head.
along this thrusting movement towards the etheric part of the
the breath, and, on the other, an interaction of the etheric
in the etheric body. Again, what takes place in the delicate
movements of the etheric body. Man acquires the etheric
possession of his etheric body; he, as it were, draws out the
ether from the cosmos. So that all that lives in the etheric

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in the physical heart as in the etheric and astral heart. At
wonderful sense organ — a great etheric sense organ as
within the sun. We are within the external physical-etheric
our physical and etheric bodies. We do this from falling asleep
extent that it becomes visible in the etheric.
his etheric body, reaches into the spiritual.

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The Formation of the Etheric and the Astral Heart.
I have often pointed out how the human etheric body lives in intimate
marking the essential birth of the etheric body. Likewise we can refer
embryo, of it — man draws into himself the forces of the etheric
permeated by the etheric world. And before man gets the inclination to
himself the forces of the etheric world, and, in so doing, he forms
his own etheric body. But to say that man clothes himself with his
etheric body is to say very little. We must enter a little more
The etheric body, as it forms and develops itself in the human being,
actually take with us in our etheric body a kind of image of the
cosmos. If we could extract the etheric body of a man at the moment
These configurations of the etheric body remain during the embryonic
teeth. In the etheric body of the little child, this cosmic sphere is
of teeth — these forms that we behold in the etheric body begin to
were a distinct structure — a distinct etheric structure of their
central etheric structure, at the time of puberty, the physical heart,
inwards. As etheric body it is, of course, undifferentiated at the
You must not suppose that until then man has no etheric heart. Certain
acquires the etheric heart that will now be his. For the gathered
radiance that arises at the time of puberty becomes the true etheric
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The Formation of the Etheric and the Astral Heart
he draws to himself the forces of the etheric world. The
permeated by the etheric world. Everything we see and hear and
so on is everywhere permeated with the etheric world, the world
forces from the etheric world and fashions his etheric
from the general ether becomes his etheric body. He clothes
himself, as it were, with his etheric body (orange) as he
nature of this etheric body. The etheric body which develops
must not suppose that until then man has no etheric heart. He
which he acquires the etheric heart he now has. For what has
puberty, the etheric heart. The etheric heart he had before
approaches the physical organism a kind of etheric heart, a
substitute etheric heart, so to speak, is drawn together by the
forces of the physical body. But this etheric heart which man
the new etheric heart. The latter is formed by a raying
the cosmos which we bring with us as an etheric structure when,
etheric body. One can say that not until puberty is man's own
etheric heart present — formed out of his own etheric body.
have a tendency to provide him with a fresh etheric heart. It
out and replaced with our own. Likewise, the inherited etheric
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spoke yesterday about how man's etheric and astral bodies

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consists of etheric forces and beings. Man draws together these
forces to form his etheric body as he descends to earthly life. We
external etheric world, there unites the effect of man's earthly
etheric element strive rather towards unity. It is difficult to
originated, turned their attention particularly towards the etheric
warmth and light etheric beings stream down to earth; if man's

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world, insofar as this world consists of etheric forces and
entity, consisting of forces from the external etheric
element. The beings of the etheric element strive rather
attention particularly towards the etheric elements. The

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and the soul permeate the physical and the etheric body. Now
here the physical and etheric bodies lying on the bed, and the
the Ego and the soul are outside the physical and the etheric
processes in the etheric body and in the physical body. Yet

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red, penetrate the physical and etheric bodies. It would be
physical and etheric bodies lying on the bed and simply drew
is separated from his physical and etheric bodies (red).
and willing, and in regard to his etheric-physical

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— leave the physical and etheric bodies and continue to exist

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from the Sun have to do more with the etheric elements in man s

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the earth), then the etheric cosmos. But in ordinary physical space
there are, in reality, only the physical cosmos and the etheric

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physical corporeality, etheric corporeality; that is, in the actual
his etheric body. His organisation as a whole is based on a
the emanations of warmth and light radiating from the etheric-physical
body and our etheric body need the oxygen from the air; our ego and

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inwardly alive. What is really visible in the plant is the etheric
invisible. What we see is the etheric form.
with a plant you do not really see the physical, you see the etheric
form. This etheric form is filled out with physical matter; physical
through the etheric. The etheric is what is actually visible in the
already become invisible, for what we see is really the etheric
etheric body did not carry within it little granules (an overly
matter. Through the physical the etheric form becomes visible to us;
but this etheric form is what we are really seeing. The physical is,
so to speak, only the means whereby we see the etheric. So that the
etheric form of a plant is an example of an Imagination, but of an
that they are filled with physical particles whereby the etheric is
turn to the etheric. Here we must go a step further. In a sense we
manifest the being of the etheric.
manifests the being of the etheric.
allowed to hold onto the etheric; we must imagine the animal form
with the etheric now also nullified. Thus we can say that the animal
nullifies the etheric: the animal manifests that which can assert
itself when the etheric is nullified. When the physical is nullified
by the plant the etheric can assert itself. If then the etheric too,
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body, etheric body, astral body, and the I, human consciousness did
freshness in the human physical, etheric, and astral bodies —
freshness of primal being was manifested in his physical, etheric,
etheric body, and astral body. As I have already said, only those
physical body, etheric body, and astral body, now the Christ
and the etheric. And the human being corrupts the physical, the
etheric, and the astral. The human being did not corrupt them
mysteries freed himself entirely from physical body, etheric
not only the physical body, the etheric body, and the astral body, but
the human physical body the mineral kingdom, in the human etheric
had physical body, etheric body, and astral body been nullified in

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the etheric body. This etheric body is more rarefied than air. It
— at least in ordinary life. This etheric body is what is in
the etheric body is inwardly at rest.
then continues when the etheric body also begins to be in movement
head as well as the rest of the human being — has an etheric
perceive the last movements of the etheric body. They present
etheric movements in the head; however, when we awaken
pictures into the etheric body which permeates the head when it is
can be experienced in the etheric body independently of the
activity in the organism as the etheric body of the human being.
describe the etheric body as a form in space only if you realize
the moment in place. The human etheric body also can only be
physical body in space and an etheric body in time, a time body,
the etheric body if we speak of it as a body of time which we can
to bring forms into the etheric body of the head. This then makes
it possible to see through the time-body, the etheric body, all the
from birth onward, this entire etheric body, as I have called it,
removed the etheric body then I come, not into a still finer ether,
spirit. Previously we had seen into the etheric realm back to our

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to put together — first in an astral and then in an etheric

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to put together — first in an astral and then in an etheric

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human etheric body, how out of the fixed stars of the zodiac
and then an etheric body. And not until it has grown very, very small
together, first in the astral form and then in the etheric form, the
human being. This form is created first in the astral and etheric

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the physical and etheric bodies as they do in the waking state. But
look back with the heart-eye upon your physical and etheric bodies.
and etheric bodies.
etheric bodies, a certain tincture or quality which brings it about
related to the Earth with his physical and etheric bodies, so
and etheric bodies and has grown out into the cosmic world, and

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the physical and etheric bodies as they do in the waking state. But
look back with the heart-eye upon your physical and etheric bodies.
and etheric bodies.
etheric bodies, a certain tincture or quality which brings it about
related to the Earth with his physical and etheric bodies, so
and etheric bodies and has grown out into the cosmic world, and

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and etheric bodies. The I and the astral body are then in the
spiritual world; they no longer permeate the physical and etheric
when the physical and etheric bodies are lying there in bed, this
the physical and etheric bodies with the heart-eye. What the I and
own etheric body. The I and the astral body see the mirror image of
the planetary movement coming out of their own etheric
astral body is being submerged into the etheric body, which preserves
something else, from your etheric body, mixes in — for example,
back and echoes from the human etheric body. For example, this
enter into our physical and etheric bodies. If this experience were
our own physical and etheric bodies, which we are now looking at.
by the indirect path through the physical and etheric bodies,
etheric and physical bodies, he is also related to the cosmos with
has separated from his physical and etheric bodies and so grown out
because we receive everything reflected back from the etheric
In death we pull the etheric body out of the
earth then appears. For a short while, a few days, the etheric body
without our etheric body during the night. When we die the cloud is,
to begin with, in the first days after our death, with our etheric
Then the etheric body gradually dissolves
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etheric body, forming the basis of the physical body, and this
physical body. Man can use the organization of this etheric body just
as he can that of the physical. This etheric body draws ideas from the
ideas through this etheric body, and as the spiritual life of man has
lost this etheric body and its knowledge, Philosophy has
recover the knowledge of etheric man, and then Philosophy will be able
etheric body remains unintelligible, and in a still higher sense that
part of man which has to do with the Soul and the Spirit. The etheric
body can only be recognized as a member of the Cosmos, if the etheric
essence of the Cosmos is clearly perceived. But this etheric part of
the Cosmos can, after all, give man no more than an etheric
transcends the etheric was made a part of the Cosmos. Modern spiritual
man feels himself independent not only of his physical and etheric
of etheric and astral man leads gradually to a vision of it. In the
further as etheric, astral and spiritual or ‘Ego’ man and
possibility of acquiring knowledge of the etheric part of man, that is

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that permeates the physical body as etheric man.
know the body that, as a fine etheric organism, permeates man's
organization before us, so man also has an etheric body; he is
an etheric man. When we look at the physical body we see
seeing. When we look at supersensible, etheric man we see the
— lived — in his etheric organism. In the activity
being in the etheric man. As there never can be any doubt about
rooted in reality, for he was conscious of his etheric body. He
etheric body.
Modern man has lost perception of the etheric body. In fact, he
philosophizing. If one has lost the knowledge of etheric man,
man knows nothing about his etheric body. The breathing process
arisen because the etheric body has been lost to human
perception, for it is in the etheric, not in the physical body,
gain a knowledge of etheric man. Out of this knowledge a true
man's etheric organism.
his etheric body. From the time humanity began to think it has
as one at first recognizes the etheric body as a super-sensible
higher member in physical etheric man. This astral being of man
with the physical and etheric bodies, and after death goes out
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etheric organism is the background of the soul's experience. We have a
etheric human organism, and with our own etheric organism we live in
the etheric Cosmos. There is between the etheric organism and the
etheric Cosmos no such sharp distinction relating to subjective and
spiritual (etheric) reality, and whose reality-content can, through
Cosmos of the Spirit. But the same thing happens in the etheric
reflected in etheric and also in physical man, and produce in this
sleep. In this condition the physical and etheric organisms require
etheric organisms; and the astral organisms and the Ego then take
etheric man. Moreover, the reflected pictures can be expressed in
will-power from the physical and etheric organism. We bind the will to

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experienced the activity of his own etheric organism, was
able to experience philosophy in the etheric body, but not in
guaranteed the presence of a spiritual, an etheric
etheric organism, but at the same time is as fully conscious as
an etheric reality is achieved today in anthroposophical
him out of the spiritual etheric world, and build up in him a
particular etheric organism, bringing about his form and his
what one perceives here as the etheric or life organism is not
am here. In etheric imaginative perception one's own etheric
organism grows together, so to say, with the etheric cosmos. In
like manner, one experiences oneself within one's own etheric
organism and in the etheric cosmos. What is thus
experienced through the confluence of his own etheric
nature with the etheric weaving and pulsing in the cosmos, man
his conceptions out of the real etheric world.
of the etheric world, out of the human etheric organism and the
etheric cosmos. It affects the listener in such a way that in
all from the etheric — reality. So, when imaginative
physical organism and continues in the purely etheric —
earth and clothed itself in a physical and etheric body. Man
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in the etheric organism. The thought-experience receives a new form.
physical and etheric organism must remain completely untouched by
physical and etheric organism. We have the etheric experience; and our
there is something which forces us into the etheric existence. We must
we have before us. They are pictures of an etheric course of events,
In the process of viewing this progress the working of the etheric
etheric in the Cosmos.
separated the powers of thought from the general (etheric) powers of
physical organism, and are not taken up into his etheric being. He
cannot, therefore, bring his relationship to the etheric world into
In the latter we have general pictures of an etheric occurrence; in
this etheric occurrence. What we know in the physical world as Sun and
etheric organism. Such practices corresponded with a period of

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etheric world. He feels this because the nature of his own
physical and etheric organisms. There, they would unite with
etheric organisms. But this cannot in any circumstances be
to interfere with his physical or etheric organism. Both of
etheric world, he can look back in this thinking upon his
etheric thinking has not interfered with it.
With this etheric thinking you feel quite outside your physical
this etheric thinking one moment — which is experienced
etheric realm. Then a true imaginative thinking is achieved. I
indicated in principle, one will experience etheric
physical and etheric organisms. Then man will really attain an
of the etheric organism in the course of life. From what is
life. We now penetrate these etheric processes in the depths of
consists in confronting our own etheric life — the way it
this way is mirrored in our physical and etheric organisms in
such a way that, in what is thus experienced as our own etheric
etheric cosmos lives in the individual human being — how
the outer etheric world, I might call it, reverberates and
resounds in man's etheric organism.
experience of the world in etheric man, a true philosophy can
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itself in etheric life. We receive a picture of the living etheric
we see also how a repeatedly new effect of the etheric cosmos occurs
for the facts of the etheric organism. This fresh effect from the
etheric cosmos works in opposition to heredity. It is of a kind which
and etheric human nature.
the astral and Ego-organization covers itself with an etheric
organization which comes from the etheric Cosmos, and with a physical
physical and etheric organism. He experiences what existence is after
only outside the physical and etheric organism.

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able to see the etheric world of facts unfolding in the expanse
acquainted through this empty consciousness with the etheric
gains a glimpse of how the cosmos is active within the etheric
man's individuality. He sees what it is that within his etheric
contrast, is given to individual man by the etheric, cosmic
organism, nor the etheric organism; moreover, one no longer
physical and etheric organisms. For this consciousness, the
present, neither is the sum of all the etheric happenings in
impressions, but also its own etheric body and the latter's
well as his etheric organism. He carries it out into the
outside his physical and etheric organisms. He comes to
Through death, the physical and etheric organisms are cast off.
etheric bodies. What he receives through intuition is an
insight into what is also working in his physical and etheric
etheric organisms reveal the eternal part of him. This is
are entirely independent of his physical and etheric
be sure, the form and life of physical and etheric man are to

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that of the waking condition. The physical and etheric organisms
conditioned by the physical and etheric organisms. The soul lives
and etheric organisms are subjected to the effect of the

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after-effects of sleep. His physical and etheric organizations,
cosmic mists of the etheric world and the soul's longing to
physical and etheric bodies, which he has when awake, man has a
physical and etheric organisms as upon an object. Just as he
the physical and etheric organisms underlie what might be
physical and etheric organizations in the systems of breathing
live in the physical and the etheric body and work into waking
and ego organizations are outside the physical and etheric
etheric organisms. But within the sleeping physical body the
circulation, and thus in man's physical and etheric
and etheric bodies, as well as our own moral condition,
and etheric bodies, becomes so liberated that it confronts them
his physical and etheric organizations in sleep, if this
his physical and etheric bodies again? What impulse is at
impulses to bring us back into our physical and etheric bodies
organization with his physical and etheric organisms.
to re-enter its physical and etheric bodies, it must place
soul back into the etheric and physical bodies from the
with man's spirit and soul in the physical and etheric bodies.
soul-spiritual and physical-etheric natures are linked is
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During the state of sleep the physical and etheric organisms of man
In this state he does not recognize a physical and etheric
In this phase she becomes ripe to satisfy with the etheric cosmos that
forms her etheric organism. Thus man gets used to his etheric organism
meanwhile has taken over her etheric organism, can unite. She can
The experience of the human soul in taking unto itself the etheric

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physical and etheric bodies and considers their organs as his
outer world his physical and etheric bodies, which
to the physical and etheric bodies naturally is connected with
etheric bodies in the morning is that his soul yearns to do so.
no such relation to a physical and etheric body is possible,
Such a physical-etheric organism is not present in pre-earthly
physical as well as etheric organizations which, however,
is without consciousness because the physical and etheric
earth. Even though the earthly physical body and etheric
the etheric element into these pictures from all directions of
the cosmos — for the cosmos also includes an etheric
nature and is in this respect an etheric cosmos. Out of the
cosmic ether man now draws etheric elements into his cosmic
etheric organism. He does this at the time his Physical
Thus, man clothes himself in his etheric organism.
etheric organism, which is accustomed to being united with a
clothed in the etheric body, strives by its own wish down
together out of the world ether to create the human etheric
etheric element that plays into the images of the human

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the etheric organism previously unknown to this consciousness. The
etheric organism has effected in the physical organism.
The experiences gained in the active exchange between etheric and
imagining is the etheric organism which is manifest in the development
the universe underlies the etheric organism just as this underlies the
experiences with its etheric organism. This latter, however, the soul
does not experience in its activity. This etheric organism is itself
etheric organisms are contemplated; as soon as the soul attains
The soul learns in this way how the physical, etheric and astral
sinks into the physical, etheric and astral organism. This sinking is
part of the human soul into the physical and etheric organization.
being transformed into the physical and etheric organism. It is this

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actually sees into an etheric process that builds up, saturates
abyss to a thinking that experiences its own etheric body.
experience, namely your etheric body, cannot simply be called
to etheric reality. But in doing so he now receives the first
objectively survey the physical organization, the etheric body
in imagination, to start with the etheric organism, in order to
physical-etheric organization, when he sleeps it is outside.
etheric bodies. In this soul life that lives concealed in the

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In awaking, the astral organism and the ego enter into the etheric and
experienced by the etheric organisms. But in this experience it is not
activities of the etheric and astral organism and of the ego. In his
organism as a psycho-spiritual being. There is in the etheric organism
In the etheric organism the outer world is active in man. In the
This strength lies in the etheric organism, which grows less and less
the waking state; one building up through the etheric organism and one
consciousness stand the etheric and the physical organism as
soul. The physical and etheric organizations hide for him the astral
on earth man is prevented from seeing his etheric and astral
In death the physical organism separates from the etheric and astral
one and from the Ego. Now man carries his etheric and astral organism
organism the obstacle to man's perceiving the etheric organism has
the formative powers, which in their sum represent the etheric body.
What is present in the etheric body has been woven into man from the
etheric part of the Cosmos. He can never be entirely free of the
Cosmos. The Cosmic-etheric act continues inside the human organization
and this continuation inside man is the etheric organism. Thus it is
when after death man becomes conscious of his etheric organism this
the world ether as well as his etheric organism as part of himself.
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the reason for this is that when we wake up an etheric and
however, the etheric and astral organisms and the ego being are
thoughts from the activity of the etheric and astral organism
wakefulness by the etheric and astral bodies and the ego relate
three soul elements — etheric and astral organizations
etheric and astral bodies and the ego being — produces as
human etheric body alone were to penetrate the physical
of the etheric body alone are active once again in the
appearance of man's etheric body during the periods of waking
regard to the head organization, the etheric body, which
hours. In a man who is awake you find an etheric organism that
liver, the stomach, and limbs are located. The etheric organism
etheric organism lose their impact as the degenerative forces
differentiation, of manifoldness of the etheric organism
penetrates the etheric head system. In sleep, the head's
etheric organization acquires the same kind of forms as
possessed by the rest of the etheric organism during the waking
etheric body wake up in the head. Then, the head becomes an
the etheric and astral organisms and his ego being.
human soul. The human soul is now clothed in the etheric
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physical and etheric event. This will-part is by its own nature
the physical and etheric organization and to be active in it. The
physical, etheric and astral organism, as well as to the nature of the
earthly life, because his physical and etheric organism with their
to form another physical and etheric organism, through which the moral
time the etheric organism. In his consciousness at this point he has
man is there completely pre-occupied with the vision of the etheric

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the physical and etheric organisms.
etheric replica of the part of the soul involved in thinking:
must seek it in its replica in the physical and etheric
same way to the physical and etheric organisms, neither has it
physical and etheric organisms, nor does it become involved in
from the physical and etheric parts of man's organism. It has
physical and etheric bodies in response to a certain stimulus.
the soul-spiritual world into a physical-etheric organism. In
and etheric organism? The answer to this will be given in the
man's etheric, astral and ego organisms during physical
astral organism are still ensheathed in the etheric organism. I
have already outlined that what constitutes man's etheric
the general organization of the etheric cosmos. Streams
from this etheric cosmos flow continually in and out of the
human etheric organism. This is why, in the moment when man
passes through the gate of death, but still carries his etheric
etheric expanses yet he still feels that the etheric body which
etheric experiences of the cosmos, which, for his
consciousness, contract now and then into the mere etheric
content of the etheric body. For a while, we look back on this
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the inner organs of man. With trained etheric sight all these forms can

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While a man is alive, the forces active in his etheric organism, his

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delicate, aeriform, etheric substance. Again a lower layer in the earth
of the etheric body, which is almost always there, notably during
waking life. Observation of the etheric body gives the feeling that
from the head outwards the etheric body is trying all the time to form
human etheric body tends to make it assume the form of a mummy, and
then to dissolve this form again so that finally the etheric body

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etheric cosmos? The visions, which also included the conception of the
etheric cosmos. Here, then, the great question was that concerning the
nature of the etheric cosmos.
Latinised forms of thought, the knowledge bearing upon the etheric
question concerning the mystery of the etheric cosmos was an
question as to the nature of the etheric organism, the etheric body
himself to the workings of his etheric body? — Just as in the
etheric cosmos?
for him to become conscious of the etheric in the cosmos and in his own
which now arose concerning the nature and content of the etheric world
— in the West, the question as to the etheric cosmos, in the East
as to man's own etheric body.
the etheric cosmos demands the exercise of supreme spiritual effort. A
was involved in the struggle concerning the etheric world but
particularly the etheric nature of man, the etheric body of man.
like. But to live in and through the etheric body during his existence
experience the inner nature and working of their own etheric
etheric nature of the human being, and to establish a system of dogma
ceremonies and rites not quite connected with the human etheric body.
West. What mood? The mood in which the etheric organism of man is set
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see color. It was surrounded by a spiritual-etheric aura, just as
being consisting of physical, etheric, and astral bodies. It is all
concepts such as the concepts physical body, etheric body, astral
potassium and pointing to the etheric body. It is exactly the same,

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lead us to the second member of the human body, to the human etheric
etheric body. Knowledge of the etheric body is not based upon
etheric body, only farther from it. Finally we entirely lose the path
on growing under the influence of the etheric force of the cosmos and

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serious extent the etheric and astral heads do it already today. And

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the human being bears on his head a kind of etheric, astral cap. In
this etheric, astral cap they experienced the forces underlying the
soul and spirit, because they experienced something of an etheric and
surface behind which something more etheric was perceived, a human
of the etheric, in the third epoch through the sheath of the astral

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body. Our physical heart has become hard, but our etheric heart is
an etheric heart. It is our etheric heart that will understand that

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organism penetrated by the etheric organism, and with this system which
is formed by physical and etheric organism we have joined the astral
side the physical and etheric organism are connected more closely and
other side physical and etheric organism. So that the astral and etheric
or physical and etheric organism.
up into the eyes. Two different things meet now in the eye, the etheric
by the etheric organism, — that is the astral picture which arises
— and the astral body and then from inside the physical and etheric
and the etheric body on the liquid parts of the human body.
physical and etheric bodies but as physical body in the mineral constituents
and as etheric body on the waves of the living liquid.
in the human organism the etheric body — I would like to say —
It is a faithful impression of the physical, etheric, even of the astral
place through the encounter of the astral with the etheric, that comes
with the etheric body comes to meet the plastic formative forces, dissolves
kidney system works very fast and brings its inner working to the etheric,
time, this living water, which is permeated by the etheric organism
regarded as coming about from the etheric organism, which I have drawn
the etheric and physical organism, when the astral forces quiver through
have to permeate first the etheric and physical organism in the right
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by being, for example subjected to the etheric body of the plants, by
etheric forces would be present there, which the cabbage has, because
it is a plant. The etheric, the astral, what the foods have, these must
of by our own etheric body, so that it can be revived again. Life of
that they are taken up by our own etheric body. But now they would have
etheric. The heart would not yet make us into an earthly human being
that which unites itself with us is claimed by the etheric and astral
the outer substances into our own etheric organization. From thereon
astral and his own etheric being and into his ego-system.
it through sufficiently. This can happen through' the etheric body,
with its peculiar consequences. The etheric body being in the right
the human being, physical body, etheric body, astral body and ego are

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One spoke that way because healing was then done entirely from the etheric
one was healing altogether in relation to the etheric body.
as under the influence of the etheric organism. Only in more recent
develop such knowledge, and recognize the etheric in the outer world,

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feel himself poured out into an etheric realm. He would feel himself
experiences an etheric preliminary state of cosmic anxiety and
state. From the spiritual cosmos he enters the etheric cosmos. Now
I am still speaking of the etheric cosmos alone; the physical aspect
etheric organism. Prior to this time there has been no decision made
to take to himself from the etheric world what is essential for his
own etheric organism — since there is no longer a necessity to do
heredity. Now he draws together his etheric organism; and, together

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is not in his physical body, nor in his etheric body. During sleep he
his physical and into his etheric body.
life in the etheric body. And this leads us to distinguish two parts
and leave our physical and etheric bodies, then we take with us what
and etheric body, will a man who is not very good and upright begin
and when he awoke and returned to his physical and to his etheric
again, on awaking, into his physical and his etheric body, began to
days into our physical and etheric bodies than men did in olden
existence. We establish ourselves firmly in our physical and etheric
their physical and etheric body, they carried it round with them,
etheric body, was possible to the men of old, for they possessed an

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is not in his physical body, nor in his etheric body. During sleep he
his physical and into his etheric body.
life in the etheric body. And this leads us to distinguish two parts
and leave our physical and etheric bodies, then we take with us what
and etheric body, will a man who is not very good and upright begin
and when he awoke and returned to his physical and to his etheric
again, on awaking, into his physical and his etheric body, began to
days into our physical and etheric bodies than men did in olden
existence. We establish ourselves firmly in our physical and etheric
their physical and etheric body, they carried it round with them,
etheric body, was possible to the men of old, for they possessed an

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now, if you are able to look with real insight into man's etheric
nature, — not merely into his physical, but into his etheric

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now, if you are able to look with real insight into man's etheric
nature, — not merely into his physical, but into his etheric

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etheric world, within a world which is filled with light. The
reveals finer, more etheric shapes. For at the foundation of
everything physical lie these finer more etheric forms, which
clairvoyance and can therefore shed light upon their etheric
designated, perceive, the etheric aspect of the world, the
etheric part of their own being. At the same time however, they
When we experience our own SELF within the etheric body,
experience the etheric aspect of the higher world. And at the
must draw in, in order to prevent these etheric impressions
one which is, to begin with, a purely etheric activity.
consciousness. We pour our etheric experiences into our
can now understand how a supersensible etheric world (we shall
retained. It is a supersensible, etheric world which comprises
our own being, the course of our own life and the etheric part
to know this etheric world. And we learn to experience our own
being within this etheric world, and at the same time we learn
impossible to retain the etheric world longer than two or
developed, the etheric world can be retained for two or three
a judgment of what we thus, retain within our etheric body, or
to retain his etheric body, or the body of formative forces,
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is able to perceive the etheric reality of the world and of his own being;
ether-body he also perceives etheric realities of the higher world. But at
the impressions of this etheric vision from vanishing too rapidly. Whenever
is purely etheric.
hold” of a supersensible, etheric world (later on we shall be speaking
life hitherto and also the etheric realities of outer nature extending to the
of the etheric world. Then this consciousness fades away; he becomes aware
vantage-point, of the Cosmos he once again surveys the etheric picture of his
through during sleep. The etheric vision which persists for only a short time

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etheric body too. Now, however, then for a short while after death
etheric body — his body of formative forces — and he
earthly life, which is in fact always contained in the etheric body.
Initiation too; when man is able to set the etheric body free, he
it is not for long that we can retain the etheric body after death.
shining forth in our etheric body a reflection of the great Universe.
The entire starry Heavens are there in the etheric body. Indeed you
stars which at long last receive our etheric body. Initiation-science
shows that we can hold the pictures in our etheric body only for
etheric life that filled it hitherto have disappeared. The physical
etheric body, but when the etheric body too has been laid aside, you
ether-body. With this etheric body we then unite ourselves, when the

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etheric body too. Now, however, then for a short while after death
etheric body — his body of formative forces — and he
earthly life, which is in fact always contained in the etheric body.
Initiation too; when man is able to set the etheric body free, he
it is not for long that we can retain the etheric body after death.
shining forth in our etheric body a reflection of the great Universe.
The entire starry Heavens are there in the etheric body. Indeed you
stars which at long last receive our etheric body. Initiation-science
shows that we can hold the pictures in our etheric body only for
etheric life that filled it hitherto have disappeared. The physical
etheric body, but when the etheric body too has been laid aside, you
ether-body. With this etheric body we then unite ourselves, when the

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or the etheric body. Nothing of what he experiences on earth can be
up our etheric body and follow after. I pictured this for you in my last
astral body a man in sleep is outside his physical body and etheric
the last remnant of memory is still present in the etheric body. If when

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physical body and his etheric body, all that lay inherent in these
you yourself with your etheric body — not with your physical but
with your etheric body — speak the word Tree very quietly to
(For already then you are in the process of etheric cognition which is
disappeared. It is for the same reason that the memory in the etheric
activity after death, when we remember through the etheric body for
long as we possess the etheric body. In the same manner he who has
reached some discovery by etheric cognition knows that it will have

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ether its own forces and substances and so build up our etheric
of ego, astral body and etheric body, we ourselves come down to
etheric world. The etheric world extends through all the

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the forces that lie in his physical body and in his etheric or
the physical body and the etheric body lie there in a state of
were, into the etheric body and the physical body, thinking,
we then pass on to consider the etheric body which permeates
etheric body works during sleep. Anyone, however, who is
through his etheric body the human being lives, even while
etheric forces surrounding existence on Earth. So that we can
the etheric body all that belongs to the ether-world enveloping
(during sleep) outside the physical and etheric bodies, namely,
and above the physical and etheric forces and activities.
example the circulation of the blood, just as etheric processes
outside the physical and etheric bodies.
his physical and etheric bodies between the times of going to
has laid aside the physical and etheric bodies and has passed

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the food has been taken, inner physical and etheric activity
physical and etheric organism of man is permeated by his
etheric bodies in connection with the process of nourishment.
physical and etheric bodies of man are worked upon by forces
in his physical and etheric bodies during sleep.
the physical and etheric bodies during sleep and are not
physical and etheric bodies, are subject to the physical
bound up with the human etheric body, and when man sleeps, he
when they dip down again into their etheric bodies, for it is
constitution of his etheric body, he carries over something
endeavor to give man an etheric body composed of the Earth's
a man while he is asleep and has left his etheric body behind,
with another etheric body built up from the Earth's ether. That
bringing a complete etheric body stage by stage into a man
living in his etheric body, to maintain himself in that body.
Otherwise, as you know, the etheric body dissolves in a few
continue existing in his etheric body and after a time there
would arise a race of etheric humanity. That is what is desired
make mankind into pure phantoms, etheric phantoms, until the
succeeded in making a man assume an etheric body that is not
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While we are asleep here on Earth, our physical and etheric
the physical and the etheric bodies and are then in a position
to impress into the physical and etheric bodies too, what we
our etheric bodies into something different from what they are.
and my astral body during sleep into the physical and etheric
knowledge that enables us to live in the etheric world instead
have spoken of the etheric body as a Time-organism. I

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our astral body and ego leave our physical and etheric bodies.
physical and etheric bodies, and the astral body between going
longer with the physical and etheric bodies of man himself.
come back again into the physical and etheric bodies.
etheric bodies experiences spiritual storms and percussions.
into the physical and etheric bodies but these bodies are not
so-called physical body and the somewhat nebulous etheric body
This descent of the astral body into the physical and etheric
into the physical and etheric bodies by way of the whole
physical and etheric bodies and seizes hold of the breathing
etheric bodies and spreads out as does the breath itself.
the physical and etheric bodies, in our ego and our astral
our astral body and ego we are outside the physical and etheric

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connection in Summer with the whole etheric environment, in order out

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etheric environment, in order out of his deepest feelings to

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together etheric substance from every quarter of the heavens to
form his own etheric body. Man was thus able to read the
secrets enshrined in this etheric body from everything that was
bound up with the happenings of the physical and etheric

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inasmuch as his physical and also his etheric organisms are
state the physical, etheric and astral bodies and the
sleeping state the physical and etheric bodies remain behind in
are outside the physical and etheric bodies.
the physical and etheric bodies of man during sleep and during
astral body are outside the physical and etheric organism
only. And the reason why the physical and etheric organisms of
and etheric bodies would pass over into a mineral and
and etheric organism of man is a faithful image of the period
Spring and Summer are there for the physical and etheric bodies
the physical and etheric bodies withdraws and for the eye of
seership, life in the physical and etheric organism begins to
Autumn and Winter. If we follow man's physical and etheric
etheric bodies have their Summer and his Ego and astral body
etheric organism is then in its Winter period. The Ego and
come down into the physical and etheric organism, they (i.e.
physical and etheric organism, Summer in the Ego and astral
the Summer and Winter forces of his outer physical and etheric

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is with man. When he is asleep, his physical and etheric bodies
sprouting Summer condition of man's physical and etheric bodies
etheric organism which he has left behind. At the same time the
physical and etheric bodies are in a kind of Autumn and Winter
etheric bodies during sleep by mineral and vegetable modes of
picture man asleep. His physical and etheric bodies lie in the
and etheric. Sleeping man therefore is a sort of budding,
and etheric bodies. And then the question arises: What happens
are separated from the physical and etheric bodies?
birth, whose pulsations beat upon our physical and etheric
etheric bodies, we annul those impulses which spring from an
that as our sleeping physical and etheric bodies point to our
only with our sleeping physical and etheric organism. When we
etheric activities are concerned, on such an order of things as
we find in our sleeping physical and etheric organism. Now in
which, during our waking moments while our physical and etheric
waking hours the Winter condition of the physical and etheric
the sleep of our physical and etheric bodies we experience the
and etheric organism is an expression of the past precisely
into companionship with his physical and etheric bodies. The
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etheric or vital body revealed to spiritual investigation; and
etheric body. Without the physical and etheric body we could not
is concerned, the physical and etheric bodies become filled with
the physical and etheric bodies, as is normally the case, the
have to rely on the physical and etheric bodies, we may say: The
his physical body and his etheric body on the one hand, and his
physical and etheric body and the Ego organization and astral
hand, and the physical and etheric body on the other, so that the

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etheric body; then we go on to speak of the astral body and of
and etheric body, because without these we could not develop
etheric body (white and lilac). They will themselves for the
ego organisation are outside the physical and etheric bodies.
body are in such a union with the physical and etheric bodies,
to a certain degree and independent of the physical and etheric
physical and etheric bodies and the astral body and the ego
vibration of the physical and etheric bodies, together with the
and ego on the one side, and the physical and etheric bodies on
of a different relationship of the astral to the etheric body

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bodily fluids, but in the etheric body.
salt. It was dissolved and re-formed in his etheric body but he was
in his etheric body. From this he knew: salt has the shape of a cube.
which revealed themselves in his etheric body. They were cosmic
age dawned when this faculty to experience in the etheric body these
experienced cosmic thoughts through inner perception of the etheric
etheric body. This is the ‘salt-process.’
perception of the processes taking their course in the etheric body —
form in his etheric body and consciously experiences - such was the
working of the salts in etheric form must be thought of in a more
in the salts and re-forms it in his etheric body, experiences it
his etheric body.’ It is so, indeed: from the concrete thoughts
there arises an etheric world as rich in its varied forms as the
what man has formed in his etheric body — by virtue of which he
is inwardly another cosmos, a microcosm, an etheric rebirth of the
vital fluids the whole universe arose as an etheric structure. That
therein indistinct. The wonderful etheric universe in miniature
etheric man lives in the fluids. The astral being of man lives in
this airy element and by the breaking up of the etheric thoughts, by
the metamorphosis of etheric thoughts into a force, the will is born
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etheric bodies remain in the bed, while the ego and astral
and etheric bodies.

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We acquire the etheric body (or body of “formative forces”) only a
We draw the forces of the etheric world together, as it were, to build
up our own etheric body. Now in earlier epochs of evolution man had a
better understanding of the etheric body than he has to-day. Indeed,
instead of feeling the reality of the etheric body, he is nowadays apt
The sense of the reality of the etheric body is strengthened by the
the etheric body of formative forces. Whereas Truth is connected with
the physical body, Beauty is connected with the etheric body.
in his etheric body. For he draws together the etheric forces from the
whole universe to mould his etheric body within earthly existence.
reality of the etheric body. To have no sense of beauty is to
disregard, to disown, the etheric body.
the etheric body.
vividly aware of the reality of the etheric body, and in the course of
in the etheric body — so does Goodness live in the astral body. And
Truth, then, is related to the physical body, Beauty to the etheric
a man can quicken his etheric body into life through his feeling for beauty.
necessarily energize anything in the etheric body. To gaze at beauty
etheric body is quickened.

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body,’ ‘etheric body,’ ‘reincarnation,’

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— the physical body which is dense, then the etheric body

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organization, the etheric organization (and therefore the body of
organization (red), then the etheric organization (blue), and finally
into the etheric, and on into the physical organization (see arrow).
stream from ego to astral body, to etheric body, to physical body
etheric body; instead this stream lays hold of man's physical body
the ego but passing through the astral, etheric, and physical and
the invisible man goes through the astral, etheric, and physical
forces through the astral organization and through the etheric and
etheric organizations, the ego streams through the physical
up to the etheric body and only then being taken up. This process,
to penetrate the organism with the proper astral and etheric forces
etheric body. The ego activity does assert itself, but may at times
be unable to approach the tumor. We might then support the etheric
has not taken up etheric activity, but at most ego and astral
activity, poisons the organism. When the etheric body approaches
this, when we counter the ego and astral activity with etheric
a case, by what means the etheric organization, permeated in the
other words, in such a case we simply need to help the etheric
make the etheric organization stronger in such a case, so that its
weaken the excessively strong etheric body where the activity has
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etheric body, astral body, and Ego. Only the thought is

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ordinary way — physical body, etheric body, astral body
linked with the etheric body on the one side and, on the
physical body which has received its stamp from the etheric
the physical body alone but to the activity of the etheric
is therefore the living content of the physical and etheric
birth to death his physical body and etheric body undergo
and the etheric bodies from birth to death. We should say: In
from the physical and etheric bodies during sleep. If as well
etheric body also participates in the process, so too do the
involved are the etheric and astral bodies.
that the etheric body is more deeply involved than the
in the etheric body, nor does modern science tell him
etheric body in acts of speaking — activity which then
here in the etheric body and in the astral body must be
etheric and astral bodies, speech has two sides. To begin
with, the etheric body in conjunction with the physical body
drawn out of our physical and etheric bodies, we carry
and etheric bodies during sleep, we cannot deny the spirit.

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first seven years of his life and his etheric body, or body
during sleep from the physical and etheric bodies. Every
out of the physical and etheric bodies. In the child,
the firm cohesion between the ego, astral body, etheric body
foodstuffs for his physical and etheric bodies, so, from the
physical body and the etheric body is described.
body and in his etheric body during his waking hours, and out
stability in his etheric and his physical bodies. Until the
etheric body. Understand me rightly here. — Yesterday I
hold of the etheric body. Goethe tried by every possible
never succeeded in taking hold of and using the etheric body
and etheric bodies.
is everywhere clear that he could not reach his etheric body
him in real possession of his etheric body.
He felt that the strength he needed to get his etheric body
sprang from the ego and the astral body, not from the etheric
with his etheric body and physical body.
are not properly connected with their physical and etheric
not reach the physical and etheric bodies, because the spirit
take proper hold of his etheric body. And whereas,
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physical and etheric bodies. Because in his physical and
etheric bodies he has suitably developed sense organs, he is
physical and etheric bodies so that it forms, as it were, a
through with the help of the physical and etheric bodies.
physical and etheric environment, things which happen in
etheric environment, a physical and etheric world inhabited
different from that of the physical and etheric world.
how the realms of the physical and etheric world, the
towards our physical and etheric environment, we perceive the
etheric world and the super-sensible world. And we already
physical and etheric world with the help of science and
view of the physical and etheric world and its history. Now
our viewpoint not in the physical and etheric world but in
physical and an etheric body. We might say that man removes
out of my physical and etheric bodies; I interweave my

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plant-substances in man's etheric organism.
is able to develop his etheric body as well — this
only in the future, is not yet here. In etheric life,
however, this is not so. In etheric life, time is, as it
actual substance of the plant but also the etheric life
etheric from the plant-substance.
etheric and absorb into our own ether-body the dynamic
which have a physical body and an etheric body in their
negative. And so by energizing the etheric body of his lower
belladonna the etheric body is reinforced by strong
within the etheric body of the lower man. This strong
etheric body, it can be seen distinctly how a form lights up
in the etheric body of the lower body (red in diagram), while
in the etheric body of the head, now darkened, the form is
elemental-etheric organism, and there the other part; then

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list in succession physical body, etheric body, astral body, and ego,

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through the etheric element; it vibrates outward in the cosmos up to a
forth comes back to them etherically (yellow), for the time
himself; he must learn to know the etheric and astral elements outside

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with his physical-etheric-astral being. In that period man felt the

Title: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture I
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ones — beings having at most an etheric body, not a physical one.
the kingdom embracing only beings with at most an etheric body. What I
other, with the physical-etheric part, he was to belong to that nature
more delicate etheric process of perception, it extends in him the
nature, so that the man's own etheric body reflects etherically the
behind man, while within man there is an etheric image of Michael that

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etheric bodies. The nature of such super-sensible experiences is of
reunite with the physical and etheric bodies they have no choice but
physical and etheric bodies, passes over into the experiences of the
physical and etheric bodies. This is what gives rise to all the
occupied etheric bodies only, and whose instruction was imparted to
in an inner way, as though inoculating the etheric body with it.
himself in the etheric body and possibly in the astral as well, and

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physical and etheric bodies as active realities.
sleep, the physical and etheric bodies lie resting in the physical
the physical and etheric bodies. But if, with the methods of
separated from the physical and etheric bodies during sleep, we find
physical and etheric bodies, the element of soul and spirit that is
and spirit out of the physical and etheric bodies and during the
and etheric bodies into the spiritual world when we fall asleep; and

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influence upon the etheric body, works over into those physical,
etheric, astral organs of breathing, proceeds further exerting a
the etheric body that permeates all of this with the force of
astral body, etheric body, — all of this is in the physical body

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To speak of the human being as consisting of physical body, etheric
reality. To-day we shall consider the human etheric body, describing
this human etheric body. We should not stop at the vague conception
conveyed by describing how the etheric body is related to the physical
sleep, the etheric body remains within the physical body, and that
Ego leave this physical body and etheric body. The life of the astral
human being is asleep, and in particular at the etheric body. In this
way we shall treat the term “etheric body” so as to draw
was cultivated in the ancient Mysteries. Looking at this etheric body,
whole extent, the physical body rests — but the human etheric
the etheric body begins.
This lively activity of the etheric body streams out, in particular,
activity streams inwards. This is the life of the etheric body,
begins. And this is in fact an etheric activity. In the same measure
One of the inner activities of the etheric body in the human being
outside the physical and etheric body, receive strong impressions from
the etheric body. And while it resounds in music, the etheric body is
In the same way, etheric streams of warmth flow into the interior of
of the human etheric body.
Distinct, like an island, there stand out from the general etheric
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have been that the human etheric body would have obeyed the forces of
attraction which properly belong to it. The etheric body is being
earthly heaviness, gravity, but our etheric body,
etheric bodies of men would have followed their own urge towards the
Therefore in that the etheric body of man strives towards the sun, it
the power, the impulse of Christ unites itself with the etheric nature
Golgotha man was facing the danger of his etheric body being drawn out
seen the etheric bodies of certain human beings departing from the
conclusion: ‘This is the path man's etheric body is taking. The
etheric-earthly element in man is being drawn away into the sun.’
has rescued for the earth this sunward-striving etheric body. And
Deed, the etheric forces in man, with their urge to escape from the
To sum up: the urge of the etheric bodies of men to draw towards the
of the physical-etheric nature of man by Christ.
Golgotha complete provision was made for the physical-etheric nature
Golgotha was fulfilled for the physical body and the etheric body in
etheric body leaves the human being. He lays aside the physical body
at death, retains the etheric body for a few days, and then the
etheric body dissolves, is actually united with the sun. This
Mystery of Golgotha, man beholds, together with this departing etheric
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body and etheric body remain behind; from the moment of falling
etheric body that is in man would have followed its forces of
the etheric body would have followed its urge towards the sun.
conjured forth the vision of how the etheric nature of mankind
body would take; that the earthly-etheric nature of man would
behold how the etheric forces of humanity that constantly seek
etheric part of man by the Christ.
done was, in the first case, for the physical and etheric
the physical and etheric bodies of men generally. The
etheric body. With death he lays the physical body aside. For a
few days he retains his etheric body, then it dissolves: it
to see this etheric body withdrawing and uniting with the
etheric bodies of men; but the sending of the Holy Spirit
etheric-astral sun forces — and in the flower-decked

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practised by certain spiritual beings who in their etheric and astral
earthly world, terrible etheric-astral Beings are to be seen,

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astral body and our ego, withdraw from the physical and etheric
world, penetrating the physical and etheric body again only
Hence, while the physical and etheric body are lying in bed,
etheric body. We thus, even when waking, leave our ego and
body and, in a certain way, with the etheric body. Our physical
body alone becomes old. As for the etheric body, it connects
twenty-three; and the etheric body connects the moment at which
not possess an etheric body, we would awaken every morning as a
newborn babe. Only by entering the etheric body before
every morning. The etheric body is the mediator between the
a man reaches sixty or more years of life, the etheric body
etheric body, the physical body reflects — corresponding
Like a perspective, the etheric body stretches from the
the physical body, helped by the etheric body, has
called by me in my writings etheric body, or formative-force
But the more this thought-being (that is, the etheric body) is
of its age, now flutter away with the etheric body. What we
etheric body. If someone dies, let us say, on May sixteenth,
into full consciousness once the etheric body has been
remains as a memory — for what flew away with the etheric

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etheric body, feels himself to be at this time in the realm of
Immediately after the etheric body has been discarded by us in
behind as a soul (ego and astral body), we draw etheric
substance out of the world-ether and form our own etheric
body. And to this etheric body, formed by ourselves, is joined
was said that we form our etheric body before uniting
etheric body is woven the small package containing our moral
also into our etheric body. Thus it is joined to the physical
circumstance of its being permeated by the etheric body.
small package interwoven by us with our etheric body which
all the heaven worlds the etheric substance needed for our own
etheric body. Three successive stages: A genuine life within
etheric body out of the world ether gathered from every part of

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etheric body. Utterly different time-conditions prevail for
disciples who were permitted to behold Him in His etheric body
immerse himself again into his physical body and etheric
gathering of the world ether in order to form our etheric
for his etheric body. The angels, bringing down these forces,

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have separated themselves from the physical and etheric
state as our thinking, we experience in the etheric body, the
physical and etheric bodies and fallen asleep. Then the future
outward thoughts contained in the etheric body. In the
absorb is ejected during sleep into the etheric world. Thus the
he may eject into the general etheric world. And what is
destiny. He enters again into his physical and etheric bodies.
In the etheric body, he had left behind his thoughts. We only
of the etheric body. You can easily observe this fact even in
continue to vibrate within your etheric body. These vibrations
present, you would be aware only of the etheric body's
the day-time. If the etheric body, which is in harmony with the
etheric bodies, we are engaged in weaving our future karma.
the physical and etheric bodies must pass through the portal of
etheric bodies only in the next earth-life, working on them in
in the physical and etheric bodies, but find it difficult to do
physical and etheric bodies — this discrepancy is
the physical body and etheric body. And only when the ego,
developed physical and etheric bodies. First that which has
childhood life, into the physical and etheric bodies, using

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means of his physical body, his etheric body, his astral body,

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etheric body or the formative forces body. It must be called
etheric or formative forces body. Here we have our first
etheric or formative forces body can be, in the higher sense, both

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what I might call the etheric or formative-forces world. Anyone who
would learn to know the etheric must grasp it in this way. For no
speculation, no abstract reflection, about the etheric can lead
live with our own formative-forces or etheric body, but it is a
is what a man has to say directly he enters the etheric world with
being, but as a member of the whole etheric world, the whole etheric
member of the whole etheric Cosmos; and if our etheric body were to
be cut off from the cosmic ether, it would mean for us etheric death.
out yesterday, this Imaginative experience in the etheric, which becomes
carried into our etheric and physical bodies, we may speak of as our
members: physical body, etheric or formative-forces body, astral
also from the etheric element. A man can well prepare himself for
fallen sense-world with their physical bodies and their etheric

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physical body and the etheric body. The physical body is left in bed
and also the etheric body — or body of formative forces, as it
leave the physical and etheric bodies, returning to them when the
behind with our physical body and etheric body every time we
going to sleep we pass out of our physical body and etheric body, we live
thinking when we have our physical body and etheric body within us
physical and etheric bodies during the night would have to be able to
light, how the etheric body goes on thinking all through the
to indicate how thinking is continuous in the etheric and physical
and dives down again into the etheric body and physical body, it
body and etheric body; and on the other hand you have the astral
physical and etheric bodies. When they re-enter, it is as if a dense

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his physical and etheric bodies with his Ego and astral body, he finds
Ego and astral body into his etheric and physical bodies, a lingering
conceptions always there in his etheric body. Then what remains of
etheric and physical bodies is this picture lost.
pictures are shaped by the etheric body left behind in bed. This
etheric body is the bearer of our thoughts and conceptions and these
goes out in sleep from our physical and etheric bodies, and enters a
our physical and etheric bodies. Dreams are a power which forcibly
to sleep in the evening and moving out of my physical and etheric
bed, the physical body is left with the etheric body which is
goes out from his physical body and etheric body, his individuality resides
develops out of his physical and etheric bodies, and it is these
thoughts, are left behind in the etheric body.
body, and at the time of waking it dives down into the etheric body.
physical and etheric bodies, it leaves the world of concepts. Thus it
physical and etheric bodies.
living here in our physical and etheric bodies, our astral body, as a
the physical and etheric bodies, the astral body enters the
etheric bodies and moves in a world whose laws are in tune with its
body, is then outside the physical and etheric bodies. Every night

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comes from the etheric world — hence still from the spatial

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etheric bodies forces which are related not only to forces reflected
etheric world, we are surrounded by a purely spiritual world. In this
impart to the etheric element of the Earth their activity in the
surrounded, permeated, by its etheric element, and outside —
of the Earth; and the forces of the ether are actually the etheric
realisation of the spiritual above them. When we study the etheric
these spiritual beings in the form of etheric pictures. The actual
Earth. These etheric forces are neither Angels nor Archangels, but
see into these hidden etheric forces, which project everywhere into
the surrounding ether an etheric image of the higher spiritual
the beings who were reflected etherically for Swedenborg vanish from
etheric vision, and begin to be audible to spiritual hearing,
say: The unconscious Imagination, rising up in Swedenborg as etheric images,

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the part that can be seen only through Imagination, his etheric or
state, his physical and etheric bodies separate from the Ego and
organisation and the etheric that holds his world of thought; on the
a man's whole thought-world remains in the etheric organisation,
remain in the physical and etheric bodies. It is particularly
and the etheric body than between the etheric body and the astral
physical body and the etheric remain together, never separating even
when, in sleep, the etheric body and the astral body have to part
etheric bodies is looser, and it is there that the split can occur.
etheric and physical bodies, as we must do if we are to live in the
etheric body and the physical body does not proceed, however, without
astral body. This cannot be taken up immediately into the etheric
body, for the etheric body struggles against absorbing anything
living in the etheric body and physical body in such a way that we
etheric and physical bodies, I must first round off its angles and
plastic form capable of living in the etheric body and of
already imprinted in the etheric and physical bodies. The
and his astral body flow into his etheric and physical bodies and
it has not gone sufficiently far down into the etheric body, so that
etheric body, a continuous interweaving is to be seen.
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last sleep with whatever he does through his physical and etheric
etheric body, the man would be unable to hold together his physical
existence, we have a physical body and an etheric body so organised
characteristic of our physical and etheric bodies to take this

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lives in his physical and etheric bodies. That is thrown off and
astral body he has experienced within his physical and etheric
his etheric body — of which he knows little, but at least he
his. Everything present in his physical body and etheric body
anyone if he had to care for his own etheric and physical bodies in
again he is obliged to hand over his physical and etheric bodies to
continually to be yielding up both physical and etheric bodies to the
— the laws of the physical body and the etheric body were
physical and etheric bodies has been made to live again. In the
worked in their etheric bodies upon men. So that the highest Teachers
servants, were etheric and divine; but they dwelt among men on Earth.
etheric bodies, were the great Teachers of men upon Earth. And really

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of the whole world-ether, the forces to form his etheric
physical germ, and bestows upon it the etheric body drawn from the
etheric body drawn together in the last moments of his cosmic
more as an etheric being in the environment of the Earth, in its

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lives in his physical, etheric and astral bodies, and — during
bear continually in your physical, etheric, astral and Ego, as a
The quivering may be outwardly imperceptible, but in the etheric and
subconsciously causes a trembling in the astral and etheric organs
effect on the patient — particularly on his etheric body, which

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etheric bodies. Hence all men are likely to have their health
he lays aside his physical and etheric bodies, thus making birth and
do of his physical and etheric life. The two extents to which they

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problem of existence are unsuccessful because of physical, etheric,

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physical and etheric body; the astral body too is away. Now it is the
caring for the organs which are assigned to the etheric body. As to
those physical and etheric organs on the other hand which are deserted
today. They lived rather in etheric bodies, yet for the men who lived

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speak of a detached Sun, exerting its physical and etheric influences

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etheric oils with their phosphoric quality — if that is freed, it

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vision into the etheric, where the patterns of a higher spirituality
etheric forms and the activities of spirits in the etheric. He
Swedenborg saw what was accomplished in the etheric by the spirits
is not Angels whom he sees but etheric forms. Nevertheless, these
Nature-spirits. Swedenborg did not see mirror-pictures, but etheric
mirror-pictures but reality in the etheric, the picture of activities

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i.e., impressed upon the etheric and physical bodies — and then
imprinted upon the etheric body, the body of formative forces, and at
anything we experience before it is imprinted on the etheric and
physical bodies. Only then is it firmly fixed in the etheric body so
inner reciprocity, a sort of struggle, between the astral and etheric
is fully our own. It fluctuates between the astral and etheric bodies,
been impressed into the etheric and into the physical body.
really claim that the etheric body is our own property. In this
materialistic age people talk as though the etheric and physical
astral body have experienced is passed on to the etheric and physical

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only the physical-etheric processes of the body which occur within
sulphurising process in his physical-etheric being. The sulphur that
physical-etheric in man is thus glowed through at midsummer with
being of light to the etheric eyes of other planetary beings. That is

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the etheric oils and so on; they approach the sulphurising process.
into the etheric-spiritual. So in the depths of winter we have on the

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beings, we find they are of etheric nature. And it is impossible for
to permeate their astral nature with the etheric, and to call forth
from the Earth an etheric sheath in which they could then take up
the Luciferic beings try to take up the etheric into their own being
that part of man, his etheric nature, which is not dependent on
able to become etheric beings, whereas they are now only astral
Earth, up above there would be a sheath of etheric angel-beings. That
shell of this kind, wherein they, densified through the etheric
beings, on the other hand, could absorb the etheric nature of man,
and thus condense themselves from an astral to an etheric condition,
then out of them would arise something like an etheric form, in which
cloud-masses, as it would be if it could take up the etheric from the
humanity would disappear, while the etheric bodies of men would be
nature and of the etheric guise they threaten to assume
etheric. You will find that because these wings are actually feeling

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when the breath pulses through the body with the help of the etheric

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understanding of a bird's etheric body. For if, through imaginative
seeing what is etheric, then in the etheric bird there is only a head.
When looking at the etheric bird one immediately comprehends that the
immediate vicinity of the earth, and transforming her etheric form
transformation into the etheric and physical, the eagle would become a
One does of course find the etheric body in the digestive system of
When we take into account its etheric and astral nature, we have in
egg-formation is taking place. In the etheric this certainly
caterpillar; the life in the etheric body offers itself up to the

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warmth-ether, contained in an undifferentiated etheric condition

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not enter into the physical or etheric body, but it enters into the

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But the fish has also its etheric and astral body. And it is just this
experiences the etheric as that in which it actually lives. It does
an etheric creature. It feels itself as the physical vessel for the
the fish at the same time experiences the etheric. For earthly life
bearer of the etheric element. It is in the etheric that I am really
reality is the etheric, and it is in this that I really swim.”
outgoing of the etheric forces in summer, the drawing-back of the
etheric forces in winter. The fish experiences something which
breathes in the whole earth. The fish perceives the etheric element as
Dr. Wachsmuth [* See The Etheric Formative Forces in Cosmos, Earth
of the year, because what is important for the fish is the etheric
respect. These creatures are less connected with the etheric element
connected with the earth's etheric body. The fish possesses its
astrality more for itself. The frog possesses its etheric body very

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have a sensitivity to what is earthly. They live in the etheric

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soul-spiritual being without the help of his physical and etheric
depend upon the etheric body when making use of his soul, and upon the
the physical world. It is the same with the etheric body, which man
To this world the etheric and physical bodies have no access. We gain

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Physical natural laws, etheric natural laws, are the characters of a script which depicts the spiritual world. We only understand these things when we are able to conceive them as written characters from spiritual worlds.
namely ether. This ether penetrates into man's etheric body, and it is
of absorbing astral-etheric forces from the cosmos. This ether, which
etheric, are processes of healing. Whatever I may do to a child in the

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ascended to the warmth-etheric form is it fully prepared to absorb
unable to change what is lifeless into the warmth-etheric condition;
warmth-etheric element, it was entirely spiritual. It was out of the
the milk is there in its etheric transformation it provides a good
the milk into the warmth-etheric condition and so create it anew.

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mineral must be brought to the warmth-etheric condition, we will also
and bones, we shall find that this volatile etheric substance can
etheric natural laws. They are written characters from the spiritual
actual etheric corpse. Here we are looking at something which no
because it was always entirely submerged in the physical and etheric
what should be in the physical, of what the physical and etheric
etheric bodies, where it really belongs.
physical and also the etheric would collapse like a heap of sand. That
physical forces and etheric forces. These are, however, only the

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only, here it is to be understood in the etheric sense. The Sun shines

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consider the super-sensible nature of man when his physical and etheric
the forces of outer Nature. The etheric body also dissolves, quite
this respect it is similar to the etheric world. It too is

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physical and etheric bodily nature, — here too his forces extend
result of your strivings, your etheric being begins to emerge from

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world in which he was previously, but he is living in the etheric
the order and reality of the cosmic etheric sphere if he has grasped
Thus he reaches what may be called etheric experience.
etheric bodies with his astral body and ego. When you actually invoke
etheric substance of the world; but he feels too that standing on the

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explained yesterday, into etheric existence. That which can lay hold
after he has seen his etheric body taken up by the etheric sphere
of man a purely spiritual psychic etheric being. The Ahrimanic forms
physical and etheric bodies, these they seek to separate and bring

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way. Picture to yourselves during sleep the etheric and physical
the etheric world there exist reproductions of our memories, both

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entirety, and this applies in a certain sense to his etheric body

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but we learn it from the Akashic Record, that Chronicle of etheric

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etheric inner experience of each one of these three conditions.”
his body, when he had drawn together out of cosmic spaces etheric
impulses and etheric forces in order to surround himself with an
etheric body. The pupil in the Mysteries of Hibernia was thus guided

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his etheric body; because outside the lead-ores of the earth lead
etheric body of man. On man's etheric body the lead works in this
These lead-forces first enter the etheric body of man, and from the
etheric body they also impregnate the physical body, in a certain

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mean that his etheric body would have no basis in his organism. If
etheric body oxalic acid. For his astral body he requires formic

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relation to the etheric body, no direct relation to the astral body;
the power to work down into the astral body and even into the etheric
thinking, so that human thinking can work down as far as the etheric
the ego-organization, the astral body, the etheric body and the
becomes capable of working down into the etheric body. The etheric
the etheric body.
has no influence on the etheric body or on the astral body but simply

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physical bears within it, along with the etheric body, a much
etheric body, even when awake. He knew how to distinguish: This
physical body and my etheric body. He went through the world in
and his etheric body ‘I.’ He called ‘I’ only his soul and
downward with his physical and etheric bodies, had a connection
soul-and-spirit nature from his physical and etheric nature, he
not as built up from below by means of physical and etheric
conceive of his physical-etheric nature. Until this is clearly
other hand, the physical-and-etheric into which substances of
the Earth and the Cosmos, physical and etheric
etheric, so that Gilgamesh was one of those who began no longer
which was earthly and etheric in them. Such was the stage of
into the bodily and etheric, this personality had still left in
the physical body and etheric body, — which are mortal;
the descent of the Ego into the physical and etheric nature in
felt himself in the etheric. And as he did so, there rose

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etheric body, astral body and ego, or ego-organisation. Well
work in the human etheric body. The etheric body is subject to
physical body and etheric body.
proceeding from the centre of the Earth. What is my etheric
towards the centre of the Earth. His etheric body is the one
Here then you have your physical body and your etheric
from beyond space. While the etheric body receives them from
forces of the Earth enter into the midst of the etheric forces
The plant-leaf contains within it an etheric body, which is
which contains already an etheric body included in the whole
under the prevailing etheric and astral influences, with the
forces that stream in from all sides, the etheric forces. Look
lung to the too strongly working etheric forces, then you will
reverse may also happen. The etheric forces may become too
that shall strengthen the etheric forces in the organ where
further. And now, first the etheric and then the physical body

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now, within this physical body dwells an etheric body. The day
for its destruction. Then will your etheric body dissolve in
can indeed dissolve, but they again cannot build your etheric
To them you owe your etheric body.
Your etheric body brings into movement all that is fluid within
It is only as a physical body that you are man; in the etheric
are an etheric body, you are like an animal. Here however you
felt forces proceeding from his physical, etheric and astral
physical, etheric and astral content are connected —

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Ego and astral body, having left their physical and etheric
saw souls, who had left their physical and etheric bodies

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your etheric body. And the etheric body is something external, it is

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of the etheric body, which you can easily learn to know today.
Eurhythmy will show it you; for this attitude of the etheric body is

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but a being who was only able to appear in an etheric body in this

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to have the impulse to bring forth the seed of Man in etheric form
the etheric human form, which should itself establish its own
ought really to come to being in his etheric body through the
Earth as an etheric being, give himself earthly form. The seeds of
human form, but etheric still; then Man should draw to himself

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according to the whole nature of his physical and etheric bodies. It

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emotions — in fact, according to his whole physico-etheric

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whole physical and etheric nature, the spiritual sun forces

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his emotions and the nature of his physical-etheric body

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clothe himself in an etheric body which he draws into him from the
to attract and incorporate in the form of an etheric body around the
build his etheric body from outside the Earth, namely from the Moon
build his etheric body.
Now this etheric body must be built in such a way that it has, so to
of this etheric body he needs the forces of the light, for along with
other substances the etheric body is created above all out of the
etheric body. For this, the light shining from the Sun to the Moon and
etheric body. On the other hand all that rays forth spiritually from
etheric body. This rhythm, therefore, of the external shining of the
side of his etheric body.
etheric from the soul-and-spirit, only that the soul-and-spirit is not
his etheric body — all this depends on the results of observation
cosmic relationships connected with the forming of the human etheric
The Sun cannot influence the forming of the etheric body with its own
which your etheric body can assume when descending into this earthly
the faculty of speech incorporated into his etheric body. Through the
receive the faculty of movement concentrated into his etheric body.
Saturn instils into the etheric body the inner warmth of soul which
mar the forming of the etheric body. It is that which proceeds
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he must provide himself with an etheric body, which he attracts from
ether into the form of an etheric body around his ego and astral
to something cosmic — if he would build his etheric
This etheric body must be formed in such a way that it has, as it
other things of substance, the etheric body is fashioned principally
enable man to build his etheric body. This calls for sunlight
that enable man to form the outer side of his etheric body when he
hand, the forces man needs to form the inner side of his etheric body
therefore to distinguish between the physico-etheric and the
man in the right way with the forces needed for forming his etheric
contexts that are linked with the forming of the human etheric body.
Sunday (the Sun forces cannot act directly in the formation of the etheric body, but they act in their reflection from the Moon.)
other planets. For the configuration of your etheric body, when
speech is organized into man's etheric body, and through
and beauty, from Venus; and that which permeates the etheric
the etheric body immediately before the descent to Earth: that which
etheric body — that is, through protective
time we learn how the human etheric body is formed and constituted
keep aloof from it, and to live only in the etheric body; and then
intervene in the building of the human etheric body. The Sun appeared
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himself in an etheric body, which he gathers form the
from it the shape of their etheric bodies. Such forces were
cosmic, in order to fashion their etheric bodies.
This etheric body must be shaped in such a way that it has, so
fashioning the outer side of the etheric body human beings need
etheric body is composed primarily of the streaming light of
their etheric bodies. To obtain these we need the light that
outside of our etheric bodies. Conversely, the spiritual forces
the inside of our etheric bodies.
Thus our ability to form the outside and inside of our etheric
therefore distinguish between the moon's physical-etheric
etheric bodies, depend upon the results of observations
the human etheric body were determined, into human awareness
etheric body's formation, but rather only indirectly, by
be reminded that they owed the particular form of their etheric
etheric bodies endowed with the capacity for speech. Likewise,
because the moon-beings can observe Mercury, our etheric
Venus. Inner warmth of soul is planted into our etheric bodies
order that our etheric body's formation not be disturbed during
formation of an etheric body.
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be clothed with an etheric body which he attracts to himself
and astral body into the form of an etheric body. These powers
etheric body from outside the earth, in fact from the departed
his etheric body.
Now, this etheric body must be so constructed that it has, as
quite diagrammatic way how the etheric body is formed. It has
part of the etheric body he requires the forces of light, for
besides other substances the etheric body is principally formed
etheric body. For this purpose light is needed that has shone
etheric body.
his etheric body.
etheric body depends on the rhythm between the periods of
its physical-etheric and its psychic-spiritual nature, only
the forming of his etheric body, depends on the results of
the human etheric body were determined; and these Moon-forces
on the etheric body, but is reflected indirectly from the moon
assumed by thine etheric body at its descent into thy physical
to organize within his etheric body the capacity for
etheric body the aptitude for movement.
observation of Saturn impart to the etheric bodies of men their
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stage, the investment of man with his etheric body, never did they
astral body, the etheric body. It was through this living penetration
light-radiant etheric body. One was sound within the light. And so
system in the forces of my etheric body. Pregnantly he brought this to
expression, for these words are addressed to the etheric body by the

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— the enveloping in an etheric body — as in the Mysteries
ego, astral body and etheric body.
astral and the etheric body. — This becoming one with the
between the forces of his etheric body and the planetary system. This
came to forceful expression. The cosmos speaks to the etheric
dome of the universe, in so far as this is etheric, though in less
Earth cause, but must know it as one of wide etheric space in which

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the formation of their etheric bodies. Now in order to
spiritual observatory on the moon makes etheric forces
approach of the luminous etheric body: I, O, A.
as astral body, and as etheric body. Then, as if resounding from
express the ego, astral body, and etheric body.
light-filled etheric body. Sound within light — such is
his etheric body's forces. The verses, pregnant with meaning,
were addressed by the cosmos to the etheric body:
extent that that vault is etheric. This is also true of much
whole cosmic-etheric world. This world, filled with spiritual

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pre-earthly to earthly existence, that his luminous etheric
observations by the moon — these etheric forces are
etheric body, as in the Mysteries of Ephesus.
and they perceived the approach of the Etheric-Light-Body in
astral body and etheric body.
indicated the ego, the astral body, and the etheric body. It
luminous, shining etheric body. Man was then tone in light.
the powers of his etheric body, with the whole planetary
to the etheric body by the universe:
the whole far-reaching etheric world in which the Spirit

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speak, with some justification, of an ‘etheric body’ as well
‘etheric body’.
thinking he perceives, besides the physical, the etheric in himself,
the earth was once in an etheric condition, that the ether has remained
my raising an arm can only take place in the waking state. The etheric
overcome etheric forces — I must work upon the ether. My own etheric
acquired. If, however, we develop the forces whereby the etheric is
men, animals and plants have etheric bodies, while minerals have not. The
at first, you perceive an etheric image; likewise if you confront a
chalk there appears an image in the etheric where my third man is
then my etheric body, perceived in ‘meditative’ consciousness
third man within me, i.e. not etherically, but ‘astrally’.
moves from below upwards. The etheric picture, however, moves from above
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the present condition of the earth. I go back to an etheric earth. I
earth was etheric. Going back-wards in time is really no different from
to him. He feels within that he has an etheric body, though he does
He feels that this etheric body transforms his food-stuffs and transforms
in his etheric body and a more ancient past in his astral body.

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introduction to the composition of man (physical body, etheric body, etc.)
his etheric body. However far we look into the starry worlds we see
world by light, is an etheric phenomenon. Thus, no matter how far we
look in the universe, we do not get beyond the etheric by merely turning
it out again at death — out of the physical and the etheric too.
however, two gates which lead from the physical and etheric worlds to

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and an etheric body. You see, merely to systematise and think
that also takes place in an organism; this is the etheric organism; that
in our strengthened thinking as the human etheric body.
we can say: The physical man works in what is solid, the etheric man
in what is fluid. Of course, the etheric man still remains an independent
inwardly this strengthened thinking and, therefore, the etheric —
— which is really an etheric environment — and saw what is
now says: I bear with me my physical body (inner circle), my etheric
of the etheric as coming from the spatial world, and of what lies beyond
man, a second or etheric man, and a third or ‘astral man’.
merely from the etheric. We can speak of the astral body or astral
— that is its medium. You have your etheric body; this works into
concepts mobile in themselves — ‘pictures’. The etheric
the fluid man in whom an ever mobile, etheric element lives and
— the physical, the etheric and the astral bodies — which

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as composed of physical, etheric and astral bodies, and how we can acquire
recognise a greater difference however, in what is etheric.
your attention to the way the etheric really looks down on us from the
world beyond the earth. I pointed out that, from out of the etheric,
etheric forces, extends to the etheric body of man. We have really to
fight continually to overcome this tendency in our etheric body. — Of
the human etheric body is closely moulded to the physical body. It has
where the etheric body becomes diffuse. Thus, when we move an arm the
etheric body, which otherwise conforms to the human shape, only protrudes
say: man, as an etheric being, lives in the general etheric world by
building up his own form out of the etheric, whereas the formative tendency
of the surrounding etheric is to give spherical form to what is fluid.
only an etheric body, but it is, indeed, the astral forces which draw
do gain the conception of the etheric as described, but we also receive
the impression that it is due to the etheric that we strive away from
the earth because of the etheric. It is really the etheric that is active
really strives away from man; and in this tendency the etheric is active.
etheric finds tremendous scope for acting upwards. The weight acts
developed the sum of etheric forces that lifts us away from the earth.
and here the etheric acts. The astral, on the other hand, is stimulated
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we described as belonging to the etheric organism continue during sleep.
that the etheric organism is also present during sleep.
we know from the preceding lectures that this etheric organism
the physical and etheric bodies during sleep. They are outside, and
incarnation (sketch, right centre), and of the etheric body which extends
bound up with his etheric body. Upon this all his experiences have been
life of his if something else did not happen to his etheric body, something
in and dispels in all directions what has been impressed upon the etheric
my etheric body. I now survey it, but it becomes more and more indistinct.
have him before me as he impressed himself upon my etheric body. He
body. What had been impressed upon his etheric body is now within the
all, this experience with our etheric body: truly, we are not only here
beings we are not here for our own ends alone; in respect to our etheric
gives its cosmic thoughts to our etheric body and receives them back again

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lectures that the ego and astral body are outside the physical and etheric
hold of in ordinary reality through the physical and etheric bodies.
and etheric bodies.
something to do with what is outside the physical and etheric bodies
apprehend his whole life as an etheric impulse entering earthly life
we discern the pre-earthly human being as a mighty etheric picture,
and see this mighty etheric picture crystallise — as it were —
with his ego out of his physical and etheric bodies in sleep; every
the physical and etheric bodies what he has experienced. At last, because

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ordinary consciousness. The same is true of the physical and etheric
organs, which is such a spiritual process, these organs with their etheric

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and arise in sleep when the hindrances of the physical and etheric organism

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the etheric, the ether-world. In the wide universal spaces on every
carries in himself the etheric forces, and we describe the sum-total
of these etheric forces which he carries within him, as the human
which man carried with him etherically, becomes ever larger and
plants with their etheric causes have, it is true, their actual
say: As soon as man is living in the ether, his etheric activity is
causes in the etheric spaces. And when it dies, the ether-body of the
earthly-physical, nor of the superphysical and etheric. We shall not
side with the etheric life of the plants; for this too comes in from
Ego-organisation, over and above the physical, etheric and astral. To
etheric nature in man, we must go to the very limits of the ether.

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Thus, what he has carried within him of an etheric nature
into the source whence come the etheric forces of the plant
earthly, within the physical, or the super-physical etheric,
come the growth forces of the plants, the etheric forces
besides the physical, etheric, and astral organisms. And only
it may be said that we reach the limits of the etheric when we
speak of the vegetative and of what is etheric in the human

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themselves felt in us, these are etheric forces. The very forces
which enable the plants to grow are living in us as etheric forces.
there would not be that ebb and flow of the etheric forces, causing
our inner constitution — our individual etheric humanity. Now

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or that liver, lung, or brain composition from the etheric
through our entire etheric humanness, is taken out of this

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heredity, the etheric organism out of the universal ether from

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his physical and etheric constitution. Then it depends on the

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on his physical and etheric constitution. It is dependent on

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We have distinguished in him the physical body, the etheric body, the

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seen, there were present only a physical body and an etheric body,

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physical and the etheric bodies.
etheric only by a very loose thread. And in this condition —
the soul-and-spirit holding to the physical and etheric by a very
soul-and-spirit with the physical and etheric. The soul-and-spirit is
deeply immersed in the physical and etheric — ‘sits
physical and etheric. To describe his psyche is really one of the
physical body, etheric body, astral body and Ego. And in Conrad

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descend to the earth and unite with a physical-etheric organisation,

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world, is really inscribed in what is the etheric world, in what
underlies the etheric world as the astral world, or as the world of
the physical body and the etheric body, occupies itself with this
shapes it there, outside the physical and etheric
body, when outside the physical and etheric bodies, shapes the
ether. It is now in the external etheric world; it does this in the
yourself the human being: his physical and etheric bodies lie in bed,
the astral body. So the external ether makes the etheric form (dotted
return into the physical and etheric bodies and bear into them what
physical and etheric bodies. The external ether then impregnates the
impression upon the etheric body in the human being. With forces that
impression into the etheric body.
is therefore: The picture is impressed into the etheric body by the
descending into the etheric body. And in the next night, when the
etheric body is undisturbed, when the astral body has gone out again,
the etheric body elaborates this picture.
night the picture is elaborated by the man's own etheric body.
the etheric body by the astral body; and in the next night the
etheric body elaborates the picture. Thus we have: the second day and
etheric body, as I have described to you, and that the etheric body
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first of all, the spiritual-etheric pictures of the spiritual beings

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karma is to be observed when, after having laid aside his etheric
away as the etheric body dissolves in the cosmic ether, and then an
now there is no physical body, no etheric body, through which
had no physical body and no etheric body. You would flit over the
etheric body and begins his backward journey, the Moon Beings draw

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Teachers who although they were present in etheric bodies only, did

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etheric body man is related to the realm of the plants, but again he
etheric body and astral body but in connection with the working of

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etheric body. The moment a man acquires the faculty of super-sensible,
revealed to him through the etheric body. And then, as he looks back
earthly life, even when they have been perceived through the etheric

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etheric bodies, but through the appropriate exercises he makes
entirely in the etheric body and the memory-tableau lies outspread
represent the physical body (inner curves), this the etheric body
The etheric body
the etheric body to the physical body. Now picture to yourselves that
etheric body does not enter into the muscles, the bones and so forth.
then etheric body which is now on its own; and within, the soul and
spirit. All that has happened is that the etheric body is now
etheric bodies.
body a man can be outside the etheric body.
returns into his physical and etheric bodies, he notices the presence
there of something else; the physical and etheric bodies are not at
and etheric bodies after the state of Inspiration, because there is

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world. These are the physical body, the etheric body and the astral
body. Man really carries the physical, etheric and astral bodies with
physical, etheric and astral bodies. This will give us the foundation
point of view for the study of the physical, the etheric and the astral
it in the mineral kingdom, the etheric as we find it working in the
the physical body, the etheric body, and the astral body and the
In regard to the etheric
etheric body of man has a definite human shape, definite forms of
nature with what we find in the human etheric body. In the same way we
and on the Earth we have Man, with his etheric body. Then in the Earth's
of the same nature as the etheric in man. In man we also have the astral
empty nothingness to you. But when you regard the etheric environment as
— like the gently stroking fingers — on the etheric organism
of the Cosmos. The etheric Cosmos is organised for very long duration;
Cosmos works upon the etheric Cosmos — for this is to express it
way from the astral world into the etheric, we behold new stars light up
etheric and astral. The Ego of man, as it appears within the Universe,
perceive that the Etheric which we have here in the cosmic environment
of the Earth has no significance for the human Ego. The etheric body is
to which we are akin both through our etheric body, and also through our
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and his ego, outside his physical and etheric bodies. With his ego
indicates his physical body. In this physical body is the etheric
as he falls asleep. The physical and etheric bodies lie in the bed.
etheric bodies, a kind of plant-mineral activity is going on, albeit
of our physical and etheric bodies into the spiritual world. The
into his physical and etheric organisation.

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for a moment. When our physical and etheric bodies are there in the
that the physical and etheric bodies are left to themselves, working
traces in our physical and etheric bodies. We should not be able to
etheric body. All that man has thought during his waking life from
and think of all that weaves and works in the etheric bodies as an
hours of sleep with the traces that have remained in our etheric
field. While thou hast left thy physical and etheric bodies, these
fruits of what we lay into our own physical and etheric bodies
in this world I gazed down at my physical body and my etheric body
physical and etheric bodies, weaving in the streaming forces of
physical and etheric bodies was not yet complete. The spectacle thus
etheric body is still present, on the other side the heavenly

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the earth in physical bodies but in etheric bodies, and at a certain
karma, in the make-up of his etheric and astral bodies and of his
can happen to the physical body but not to the etheric body, the
that would otherwise not have been there: an etheric body, an astral

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the etheric body of man expands. Man looks back upon his
etheric body, slowly increasing in magnitude. He sees how
has a physical body, an etheric body and an astral body,

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death the etheric body of man expands. Man looks back upon his
etheric body slowly increasing in magnitude. He sees how his
— for instance that man has a physical body, an etheric

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astral body and his Ego. He has not his etheric body with
death, to begin with he takes his etheric body with him,
and the etheric body begins to expand. Now the etheric body
his etheric body with him. The etheric body, as it frees
entrusted to his etheric body as it dissolves away. The
When the etheric

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intervening time between the becoming-aware of the etheric
rapidly through the perception of the etheric body —
simply does not notice the etheric body, — and dives
the etheric body and the physical.” They knew that
man first passes through the perception of the etheric
remains lying on the couch, into the etheric and physical
body leave the physical and etheric, the Ego very quickly
into the etheric and physical body took place in distinct
of the aura in external Nature. My etheric body goes to its
Word of the Father-God is speaking. My etheric body is
laid aside the etheric body a few days after passing
distinct perception of the etheric and the astral body in
astral and the etheric body — passed through the gate
etheric body. Christianity was now preparing to speak about
was going out a little, into his etheric body. He was

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Air. He felt himself with his etheric body interwoven with

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physical and etheric organisation.
implanted in his physical and etheric body. He felt his

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earthly life, saw how the etheric body became dissolved in

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physical-etheric sun-nature ... he will then be able to say that the
when with the soul and spirit, which have left the physical and etheric,

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in an etheric body only. And their teaching was such that one man or
in their etheric bodies. Then, if we may put it so, they followed the

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the etheric spleen alone remains, and the etheric spleen adapts
blood but who were etheric Beings, imparting the illumination and the
working and living in etheric bodies.

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etheric bodies, we immediately begin to be aware of the persons in
man consists of an Ego organisation, an astral body, an etheric body,
etheric forces. And it is not until man comes still nearer to the

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not present on Earth in physical human bodies, but only in etheric

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physical but in etheric bodies. These Beings were the Teachers of
his own etheric body. What I have told you to-day about his faults

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were not incarnated in physical bodies, but only in etheric
Earth in etheric bodies and a man whose guide and leader they
aside at death, our etheric body expands and expands, but also
soon as the etheric body has been laid aside a few days after

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they have never borne earthly bodies, nor even etheric bodies
resembling those of men. The etheric bodies of the other Moon
dwelt, these Teachers were among them, peopling the etheric
different. The farthest reaches of the etheric would lead out

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in order that the pupil might experience the etheric forces in
Physical and the Etheric — something therefore of the

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During sleep, when we are outside our physical and etheric
etheric. Now it is paramountly the physical and etheric bodies
etheric bodies lie there in the bed and the being of

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the physical world with the physical and etheric bodies
etheric aura in which all his experiences are inscribed but

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taking place if we say: during sleep the physical and etheric
the spiritual world, returning into the physical and etheric
etheric bodies can be sketched like this. Let us suppose this
the etheric body. In the evening, when sleep begins, the ego
within the physical and etheric bodies; on the contrary, ego
physical and etheric bodies from the tips of our fingers and
the physical and etheric bodies and the process adapts itself
the etheric body which are inherited from the parents, but it
outside the physical and etheric bodies during sleep at night.
forcefully upon the whole physical and etheric organism; it can
the physical and etheric bodies. This strong impact is not
the physical and etheric bodies is healthy. The strong impact

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his soul. His physical corporality, his etheric substantiality,
powerless. But if in his physical fife the physical and etheric
in our physical and etheric bodies amid the kingdoms of Nature
physical and etheric organisation it is unworthy of the human
respect of its physical and etheric nature only, for in that

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etheric bodies. Of these members only the physical and etheric bodies
visibly — or also, as etheric world, invisibly — around
automatic element in our physical and etheric bodies. What makes us
our physical and etheric bodies. Think, for example, of
more particularly into the etheric body. This is regulated by the

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physical body, etheric body, astral body and Ego, and that in sleep
the Ego and astral body separate from the physical and etheric
bodies as men are to-day but only in etheric bodies. Nevertheless

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physical body we have an etheric body, and just as the physical body
etheric body draw its forces and components from the
extraterrestrial Cosmos, from the etheric world. This etheric
Cosmos. Thus we owe our physical and etheric existence to what is
within this etheric environment of the Earth there are two heavenly
physical and etheric bodies he has within him his astral body and
etheric nature. In the whole wide universe actually or
etheric separation is not the only matter with which we should be
in etheric bodies but nevertheless shared a life in common with humanity.
much higher and more powerful knowledge possessed by these etheric
wide etheric spheres where the stars are to be seen, lives in your
etheric body. But when you look up to the Moon or the Sun, you will
your etheric body, but in your astral body, and gives power to your
etheric worlds into the spiritual world. In the same way, when you
your own Ego — not akin to your physical and etheric
Ego, its healthy astral body and also out of a healthy etheric world.

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their several functions. But in sleep the physical body and etheric
spiritual world, separated from the physical and etheric
few days has laid aside the etheric body, he starts an existence
etheric bodies. Hence the nature of their influence upon human beings
taking shape, so do the Jupiter Beings form themselves in the etheric

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same time suffered a slight sunstroke. In this condition his etheric

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inner physical and etheric forces of mankind. This became possible
thence to the Earth not only the Sun's physical-etheric rays but,

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appear in earthly bodies but have their existence only in an etheric

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of man as a being composed of physical body, etheric body, sentient
world. With his etheric body, sentient body and sentient soul too, he

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of man as a being composed of physical body, etheric body, sentient
world. With his etheric body, sentient body and sentient soul too, he

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their physical and etheric bodies.
etheric bodies of men. And here we must ask: What kind of forces,

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their physical and etheric bodies.
etheric bodies of men. And here we must ask: What kind of forces,

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at once lay aside the etheric body at death but only a few days later
sound and healthy brain, a healthy etheric body and a healthy astral

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at once lay aside the etheric body at death but only a few days later
sound and healthy brain, a healthy etheric body and a healthy astral

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etheric body around him for a few days. After these few days have
elapsed he lays aside his etheric body and lives on then in his
etheric being were dissolving. After death the etheric human being
etheric bodies. Therewith they received into themselves the Christ
earth and his etheric body which is laid aside after three days is
behind at death the Life-Ether, the etheric body, the life-body.
meet Him from the West there came the spiritual etheric Image
forth from his etheric body, and spread themselves out in the

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etheric body around him for a few days. After these few days have
elapsed he lays aside his etheric body and lives on then in his
etheric being were dissolving. After death the etheric human being
etheric bodies. Therewith they received into themselves the Christ
earth and his etheric body which is laid aside after three days is
behind at death the Life-Ether, the etheric body, the life-body.
meet Him from the West there came the spiritual etheric Image
forth from his etheric body, and spread themselves out in the

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Etheric essence flows in you;
virtue of feeling yourself in the half-spiritual etheric
Etheric essence flows in you
Etheric essence flows in you;
Etheric essence flows in you;
stress], it corresponds to the correct etheric movement in the
Etheric essence flows in you;

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Etheric essence flows in you;

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etheric body with what is characteristic of water. However,
and the relationship of the human etheric body with the liquid
death during which the etheric body is dissolving in the cosmic

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we go further up out of the thicker substances into the etheric
from warmth, which is already etheric, we come to the
then we will call what is highest in the etheric: Life-Ether,
indirect influence on the human being, the etheric finer
the etheric form which he then observes. I don't mean that he
we advance further to the etheric element, the Luciferic

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physical, but permeated with the etheric.

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we have entered into the etheric world. The Earth has vanished, it no
etheric body are left behind on Earth. They appear strange and

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we have entered into the etheric world. The Earth has vanished, it no
etheric body are left behind on Earth. They appear strange and

Title: True/False Paths: Lecture Four: The Secret of Investigation into Other Realms through the Metamorphosis of Consciousness
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physical and etheric bodies from which his soul and spirit had
and etheric bodies. She dwelt with Pluto, the Lord of sleep within
the physical and etheric bodies. The sleeping neophyte experienced

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physical and etheric bodies from which his soul and spirit had
and etheric bodies. She dwelt with Pluto, the Lord of sleep within
the physical and etheric bodies. The sleeping neophyte experienced

Title: True/False Paths: Lecture Six: Initiation-Knowledge, Waking Consciousness and Dream Consciousness
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member is the etheric body which is described in more detail in my
The etheric body or body of formative forces is a delicate organization,
accompany the dead in the first years after death. This etheric body
perceived in the same way as the etheric body. If we were to try to
senses; an etheric body perceptible to Imagination by virtue of
dream, our physical and etheric bodies are detached from the astral
ears. Thus, when he withdraws from his physical and etheric bodies in
his physical and etheric bodies and perceives the spiritual, just as
in his physical and etheric bodies he perceives the physical, and in
a certain sense, the etheric as well. The man who achieves this
process of falling asleep. The physical and etheric bodies are left
in harmony with the physical and etheric bodies. The astral body has
will in the functioning of the physical and etheric bodies throughout
of his physical and etheric bodies, he is able to obliterate the
therefore, all that proceeds from the physical and etheric bodies.
after-vibrations from the physical and etheric bodies. When he enters
sleep. Let us recall this condition: the physical and etheric bodies
the physical and etheric bodies have ceased. It is only in his Ego
loosely linked with their physical and etheric bodies than is the
etheric bodies.
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member is the etheric body which is described in more detail in my
The etheric body or body of formative forces is a delicate organization,
accompany the dead in the first years after death. This etheric body
perceived in the same way as the etheric body. If we were to try to
senses; an etheric body perceptible to Imagination by virtue of
dream, our physical and etheric bodies are detached from the astral
ears. Thus, when he withdraws from his physical and etheric bodies in
his physical and etheric bodies and perceives the spiritual, just as
in his physical and etheric bodies he perceives the physical, and in
a certain sense, the etheric as well. The man who achieves this
process of falling asleep. The physical and etheric bodies are left
in harmony with the physical and etheric bodies. The astral body has
will in the functioning of the physical and etheric bodies throughout
of his physical and etheric bodies, he is able to obliterate the
therefore, all that proceeds from the physical and etheric bodies.
after-vibrations from the physical and etheric bodies. When he enters
sleep. Let us recall this condition: the physical and etheric bodies
the physical and etheric bodies have ceased. It is only in his Ego
loosely linked with their physical and etheric bodies than is the
etheric bodies.
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sunlight radiates physically and etherically, are grouped round a
not only the aura, but also the physical and etheric bodies radiate
spiritual-etheric beings. Their interest in the world of man
etheric body and down into the physical body. Certain elementary
write or think or even feel, are firmly anchored in their etheric
body; the whole etheric body is involved in the process, which then
types of people the Ego is suppressed and their astral, etheric and
artistic impetus in their etheric and astral bodies which can be
into his etheric and astral bodies and which appears in the

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sunlight radiates physically and etherically, are grouped round a
not only the aura, but also the physical and etheric bodies radiate
spiritual-etheric beings. Their interest in the world of man
etheric body and down into the physical body. Certain elementary
write or think or even feel, are firmly anchored in their etheric
body; the whole etheric body is involved in the process, which then
types of people the Ego is suppressed and their astral, etheric and
artistic impetus in their etheric and astral bodies which can be
into his etheric and astral bodies and which appears in the

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perceive that it possesses a physical and etheric body and that the
Earth, the etheric body around it and the astral element seemingly
violet develops its capsule only in the etheric element. The fruit of
be situated — otherwise astral body, etheric body and so on,

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perceive that it possesses a physical and etheric body and that the
Earth, the etheric body around it and the astral element seemingly
violet develops its capsule only in the etheric element. The fruit of
be situated — otherwise astral body, etheric body and so on,

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latter state an after-vibration of his experiences in the etheric and
inhabit physical bodies, but only subtle etheric bodies, and were
conditions of sleep man's physical and etheric bodies are left
astral body which is still outside the physical and etheric bodies,
when he is outside his physical and etheric bodies, whilst the
can now take wing. When the Initiate loses the physical and etheric
our physical and etheric bodies.
Ego and astral body outside his physical and etheric bodies. He is
astral body are outside his physical and etheric bodies; but in this
and astral body are outside the physical and etheric bodies. The Ego
Consequently the medium cannot influence the physical and etheric
instance, we exert an effect upon the physical and etheric bodies. In
waking life we permeate our physical and etheric bodies from within;
control over his physical and etheric bodies; they are, so to speak,
influence upon his physical and etheric bodies. If the forces of the
must not enter into the etheric body.
still to work to a certain extent upon the etheric body, although not
to influence the physical body of man, and especially his etheric
body. Because the physical and etheric bodies of the medium or
work upon the medium or somnambulist. The physical and etheric bodies
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latter state an after-vibration of his experiences in the etheric and
inhabit physical bodies, but only subtle etheric bodies, and were
conditions of sleep man's physical and etheric bodies are left
astral body which is still outside the physical and etheric bodies,
when he is outside his physical and etheric bodies, whilst the
can now take wing. When the Initiate loses the physical and etheric
our physical and etheric bodies.
Ego and astral body outside his physical and etheric bodies. He is
astral body are outside his physical and etheric bodies; but in this
and astral body are outside the physical and etheric bodies. The Ego
Consequently the medium cannot influence the physical and etheric
instance, we exert an effect upon the physical and etheric bodies. In
waking life we permeate our physical and etheric bodies from within;
control over his physical and etheric bodies; they are, so to speak,
influence upon his physical and etheric bodies. If the forces of the
must not enter into the etheric body.
still to work to a certain extent upon the etheric body, although not
to influence the physical body of man, and especially his etheric
body. Because the physical and etheric bodies of the medium or
work upon the medium or somnambulist. The physical and etheric bodies
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life and to the physical and etheric bodies of man. Sun activities
sleep when his physical and etheric bodies are detached from his
influences which are withdrawn from the physical and etheric
etheric bodies are left behind. But from the spiritual world during
sleep we irradiate from without our physical and etheric bodies with
and etheric bodies during sleep, he first of all irradiates his skin
and etheric bodies. Thus, in the physical and etheric bodies during
astral body; in the physical and etheric bodies the workings of the
into our physical and etheric bodies, and the Ego and astral
etheric bodies from without and our inner being is permeated with the
inhabits the physical and etheric bodies, during sleep, the
present everywhere. With the physical and etheric bodies the position

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life and to the physical and etheric bodies of man. Sun activities
sleep when his physical and etheric bodies are detached from his
influences which are withdrawn from the physical and etheric
etheric bodies are left behind. But from the spiritual world during
sleep we irradiate from without our physical and etheric bodies with
and etheric bodies during sleep, he first of all irradiates his skin
and etheric bodies. Thus, in the physical and etheric bodies during
astral body; in the physical and etheric bodies the workings of the
into our physical and etheric bodies, and the Ego and astral
etheric bodies from without and our inner being is permeated with the
inhabits the physical and etheric bodies, during sleep, the
present everywhere. With the physical and etheric bodies the position

Title: True/False Paths: Lecture Eleven: What is the Position in Respect of Spiritual Investigation and the Understanding of Spiritual Investigation?
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his etheric body, his etheric body again in a different world from
processes of birth, the physical body and etheric body
life of the physical and etheric bodies grows, develops and assumes
the physical and etheric and the death of the astral and Ego. We
etheric being. Nevertheless a definite renewal does take place. And
declining etheric and physical (for they are imprisoned within the
etheric and physical), we prepare ourselves to follow them into the
spiritual world after their release from the physical and etheric

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his etheric body, his etheric body again in a different world from
processes of birth, the physical body and etheric body
life of the physical and etheric bodies grows, develops and assumes
the physical and etheric and the death of the astral and Ego. We
etheric being. Nevertheless a definite renewal does take place. And
declining etheric and physical (for they are imprisoned within the
etheric and physical), we prepare ourselves to follow them into the
spiritual world after their release from the physical and etheric

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one's hand and their penetration in one's etheric body. This grasp in
forces of eurythmy, carried by etheric impulses and the musical art

Title: Community Life: Lecture 7: The Philosophy of Psychoanalysis as Illuminated by an Anthroposophical Understanding of the Human Being
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during the Sun period, when etheric development set in, and so on. But
to do so with a soul and spirit freed from the physical and etheric

Title: Occult Movement: Lecture One
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know, consists of physical body, etheric body, astral body
have been suppressed and as a result the physical and etheric

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astral body to the etheric body. Something from the etheric

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body only, but they perceived and thought with the etheric
body. What was perceived with the etheric body was
The etheric body must be revitalised, and this is connected
with the new revelation of Christ. When the etheric body is
essential that this vitalising of the etheric body shall take
matters. The whole feeling that man has an etheric body has
previously have had some inkling of the etheric body which
about the etheric body, the existence of which began
blood (the neutralised earthly and etheric
underlies the blood as etheric life-principle —
is going on in that which underlies the blood as an etheric
vitalis” can only be translated as “etheric
knowledge of the activities of the etheric body passed away,
on the other, the etheric body was being revitalised again

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arising in the process of the separation of the etheric body

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intellect. The intellect is drawn out as part of the etheric
brain or of the etheric heart, made independent, and then a

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present time, man's physical body is extremely rigid, but his etheric body
is still mobile to some extent, so that the etheric body still assumes
a hyaena, whereas his etheric body will have a far greater resemblance
with a hyaena. The etheric body is still changeable; it still possesses
something which allows it to be transformed. But even the etheric body
fifth post-Atlantean epoch, so will also the etheric body take on more
I have pointed this out in many lectures — in the etheric body, whose
epochs, the rigidity of the etheric body will have a great influence upon
the etheric.
future, and that part (the etheric body) which can still be shaped and
longer be possible, for the etheric body will then no longer be
science imagines that in future we shall see Christ in an etheric shape,
and other etheric forms as well. These are the things which spiritual
conviction! Let us bear in mind the fact that if our etheric body is to
consider the things which come to us from the etheric world as something
the moment when the etheric shape of Christ shall appear to us, and so
man's etheric body was active from within and moulded his physical body.
But a time will come, when both the physical and etheric body shall have
he must see the etheric outside, in every form and shape. The etheric
discover the etheric. Even then, this etheric element will have the
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Title: Significant Facts: Lecture I: A Convulsive Element in Humanity in the Nineteenth Century
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could occur. But now, after the astral body and etheric body have

Title: Significant Facts: Lecture II: Ancient Occult Magic. The Ahasver Mystery.
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so that as the result of a certain transformation of his etheric body
brain itself by exercising a certain influence on the etheric body of

Title: Significant Facts: Lecture III: The Tragic Wrestling with Knowledge. The Secrets of the Future Sixth Cultural Period.
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and inflexible in a high degree. His etheric body is still mobile;
therefore the etheric body still shapes itself according to what a
his etheric body and his facial expression take on a slight
resemblance to a hyena. The etheric body is still mutable, still has
equally with the physical body, the etheric body too is on the way
onwards into the second main epoch after Atlantis, the etheric body
have indicated in several lectures — that the etheric body, as
the seventh, and in these sixth and seventh epochs, the etheric
become a reality; what they regarded as still flexible (the etheric
will no longer be possible, for etheric bodies then will no longer
science cherishes the dream that in the future men will see etheric
beings, first of all the Christ in an etheric form and after that
still other etheric forms. Spiritual science dreams all this, but
unshakable conviction. We must know: If our etheric bodies are to be
in an earnest and true way, what will come to them from the etheric
Christ in His etheric form, and to take this event with true
be drawn across the evolution of humanity. Before it, the etheric
but a time will come when the Physical and the etheric have become
fixed. Man will have to accustom himself to seeing the etheric
be the etheric realities in accordance with which we must act, just
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etheric body for a few days thereafter and sees his whole life, all

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etheric body is not yet born, and it is our first experience of the
theoretically about such matters as etheric and astral bodies. We

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speaking of the physical, etheric and astral bodies and the ego, of
things, such as that man has an etheric and astral body and an ego as

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at a time when his etheric body is still wholly integrated with the
and the etheric body,” and so on.
consists of physical body, etheric body, astral body, etc., and lives
physical matter, etheric forces, astral forces, and they
physical, etheric and astral bodies. But one can also read

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also isolated from our physical and etheric bodies. Dreams clothe
state, and it is due to some illness in the physical or etheric
fact that man has a physical, an etheric and an astral body, lives

Title: Anthroposophic Movement: Lecture One: The Homeless Souls
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physical, etheric and astral bodies, kama manas, manas, buddhi and so

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clothed in relatively modern terminology. The etheric body was
They went about not exactly with an awareness of the etheric body or
layers of coats: one of them the etheric body, another kama manas and

Title: Anthroposophic Movement (1938): Lecture II: The Theosophical Society: A Common Body with a Conscious Self. Blavatsky Phenomenon
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indeed, was still called ‘physical body’. ‘etheric body’ was

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the spirit. If anthroposophy spoke about the etheric body, they would
the etheric or astral field. There was nothing we could do about
represent the atom of something etheric; the third model, still more

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processes in the etheric field, or the astral field.
the atom as an etheric substance; and the third model, which

Title: Anthroposophic Movement: Lecture Seven: The Consolidation of the Anthroposophic Movement
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theories to apply to the etheric and astral bodies. Now, when enough

Title: Anthroposophic Movement: Lecture Eight: Responsibility to Anthroposophy
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joint function of the etheric and astral bodies. We have to

Title: Anthroposophic Movement (1938): Lecture VIII: Conclusions: The Anthroposophical Society and its Future Conduct.
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of what to-day we should call, conjointly, the etheric and

Title: Christmas Conference: Lecture 6: Meeting of the Vorstand and the General Secretaries
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far enough, without starting to speak of the etheric body of
spoken about the astral body, the etheric body and so on. In
etheric body and in others it is better to use different
the etheric body you can say: The effects on the physical
avoid speaking about the etheric body and so on, even if we
come to me saying: People dread the expression ‘etheric
expression. To speak of the etheric body you have to
the etheric body in which all the forces can be related to

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this your physical body lives your etheric body. The day will
order to be destroyed. Then your etheric body will dissolve
dissolve this etheric body but they cannot build it up. Only
environment of your physical body. Your etheric body moves
stream and circulate are under the influence of your etheric
human only in your physical body. In your etheric body you
an etheric body, you are animal-like in the etheric realm,
his physical, etheric and astral bodies were the forces that
forgotten how their physical content, their etheric content
the earthly realm from etheric heights. Thus did many a pupil
at Ephesus view the earthly realm from etheric heights. And a

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their physical and etheric bodies in sleep and live in the
having left behind their physical and etheric bodies between

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via the physical and etheric bodies and transmitted them to the ego,
could send forces to the etheric and physical bodies again. The life
separate the etheric body, the carrier of memory, and also the astral

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Berlin, December 1904
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via the physical and etheric bodies and transmitted them to the ego,
could send forces to the etheric and physical bodies again. The life
separate the etheric body, the carrier of memory, and also the astral

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pollute the etheric body (nitrogen). Milk is good for men because it's

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Berlin, 5-6-'06
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etheric body.
Rhythmization of breathing or development of the etheric body and

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 11-6-'06
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the etheric body, demons in the astral body and spirits in the ego. To
learn to rule them a man must form a firm framework in the etheric
for the etheric body is a pentagram with thinking in the head point,

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These etheric streams are also active in man: earth ether from the
The cross sections of the five etheric streams and their connections

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the etheric and of this from the physical body. This loosening can be

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In i we have the center to which the etheric

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Berlin, 2-12-'08
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division of the physical and etheric bodies that were originally
similar; then the physical body condenses and the finer etheric body

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worn out physical and etheric bodies. Only thoughts that aren't
at night in the astral body and work into the etheric body. And when
and more active with respect to the etheric body, then that moment
the etheric body like a seal in wax.
Saturn's warmth atmosphere condenses into air. Man gets an etheric
the Sun's astral atmosphere upon the etheric body, ignite it and

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works on the etheric body. We can easily see this through ordinary
observation. We know that the etheric body controls glands. A gourmet
Jesus had worked on his physical, etheric and astral bodies. Then

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Berlin, 5-15-'08
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and etheric bodies during the day. When the astral body and ego become
astral body and ego on the etheric and physical bodies. The streaming
world and stream them into the physical and etheric bodies. They

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Hamburg, 5-22-'08
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five members, namely, physical, etheric and astral bodies, a sheath

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pleasure is in the etheric body. Previously interest was in the astral
body, desire was in the etheric body and pleasure was in the physical
into the etheric body we attain incantatio or

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receives into the etheric body that thereby gets many impressions from
What tears down the physical body builds things up in the etheric
thought pictures that the I throws into the etheric body via the
to our etheric body in ordinary life are worthless as far as their
what the eyes receive from outside they throw onto the etheric body,
on which the picture arises. The I then works on the etheric body from
it throws on the etheric body as an impression; and the main thing is
at the right place, so we must form our astral and etheric bodies
impressions in one's etheric body through meditation, by immersing
phlegmatic and melancholic beings create an etheric body for a man
changes. The etheric body will light up from the other side through
the etheric body, but we only see the outer impressions that were put

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Stuttgart, 8-5-'08
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work in his etheric body, and angels in the astral body. The sentient

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Stuttgart, 8-13-'08
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night it's held fast by the etheric body so that it can't leave it
forces. Vegetarian food that consists of physical and etheric things

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Berlin, 11-11-'08
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outstanding geniuses. In envy there's an attack on the etheric body

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legumes aren't very advisable because their nitrogen pollutes the etheric

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 1-7-1909
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etheric, astral bodies and I on Saturn, Sun, Moon and earth,

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Kassel, 2-26-'09
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physical world. Etheric and astral bodies also have skins. When a man
etheric body on old Sun through Spirits of Wisdom, our astral body on

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and so we pick it. We stimulate our physical and etheric bodies
the harmonies of feeling made meditations that stimulate the etheric
body and not the physical body; the etheric brain oscillates while the
physical one is quiet. Thereby the etheric body can imprint its
Looking at a shiny object can also loosen one's etheric body. But
times when an initiator pulled the etheric body out of the pupil's
whereas today the pupil tears out and elevates the etheric body
directly but by letting his wisdom stream into men's etheric bodies
etheric body. Those who make messages receptive for the message are

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Berlin, 5-27-1909
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in him, just as the etheric body in Francis of Assisi. But since it

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Kassel, 6-27-'09
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classes or circumstances. Thereby we work on our etheric body.

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 8-30-1909
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the pentagram (8–27) he feels that he's placed into the whole etheric

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 12-7-'09
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body have left the etheric and physical bodies. The stronger and more
that they can be imprinted from the astral into the etheric body. It's
only when the etheric body has received a copy that the portals before
We've heard that our physical and etheric bodies couldn't live for a
two leave the physical and etheric bodies during sleep, higher kinds
Now, why is this archangel who enters our etheric body called our
Now, these guiding creators didn't want the whole etheric body to be
etheric body back in spiritual worlds. And this part of the etheric
Adam. This union of the etheric body that remained behind with a human
Jesus boy received Adam's etheric body. The high, guiding creator
for men with this part of the etheric body. It's true that a man
with their higher etheric body. Since the ability to speak lies in the
etheric body, one can understand the legend that tells us that the
connection of Adam's etheric body with a physical human body again, it
was the soil for Adam's etheric body, the through-station for
multiplication, and it's these multiplied etheric bodies that are

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Muenchen, 3-15-10
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on himself? We know that man's etheric body is born at age
sheath. The etheric body should then be prepared rightly for its
live in us are unfolded in our etheric body from age 7 to 14, and
all new things The etheric body becomes completely developed between
then his etheric body isn't soft and flexible at this age.
affairs. Their etheric body is hardened and it takes a great effort
acceptance of theosophical teachings as the etheric hindrances, since
the etheric body is a much denser mass than the astral body.
through his ego? We received a physical body on Saturn. The etheric
condition whereas the etheric body was in the Saturn condition. On
the etheric body in the Sun condition, and only the physical body in

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are walking on Christ's body. And the green is his etheric body.

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ones who take over an esoteric's etheric body when he gives in
influences his etheric body in such a way that the brain is affected

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where the physical and etheric bodies remain behind on going to

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immediate environment, one slowly lifts one's etheric body out
Christ-etheric aura, which is now our earth's aura. If we would

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of our etheric body and our sentient soul by themselves — we begin
that arise through the loosening of the etheric body, or by cowardice and

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earth consists of the tetralogy: physical body, etheric body, astral
gradually work on our etheric body in such a way that it becomes
is not directly on the etheric body but on the astral body or soul

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We're in divine, etheric
etheric bodies in the meantime. We should go to sleep with reverence
Christ who will become perceptible in the etheric. We must prepare

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Men's etheric brains vary more than leaves on a tree. The

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esoteric work consists in gradually raising our astral and etheric

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The physical and etheric bodies
part of the etheric body in motion. This connection should become
creates a kind of a “forebone” in his etheric body;
and etheric bodies enables a man to heal wounds faster. Diseases of the
makes the connection between the physical and etheric bodies even
etheric body gets the tendency to become separated from the physical body.
body the tendency to push out the etheric body. This is an aid that
aren't added. Then the physical body ejects the etheric body

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physical body is tightly fused with the etheric body. There's
works on the etheric body, so that it gets loosened. One could say
loosening of the etheric body occurs, but it hasn't been
etheric brain becomes loosened from the physical one.

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mentioned that an esoteric is trying to loosen the etheric body and in
ejects or squeezes out the etheric body. Our vegetarian way of living
out our etheric body by merely physical means the physical body
it through. Our etheric brain can't use the physical one
pulling out of the etheric body and physical body undergoes something
diseases, they appear. But if the etheric body has permeated itself
flowers in the etheric body, which are connected with each other and
present etherically-astrally and can only be formed through concentration
this lifting out of the etheric body is not at all easy today. Many
modern vocations are expressly designed to drive the etheric body

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feeling of warmth that goes through the etheric body's warmth
etheric body and namely on the part we call chemical ether, and from

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etheric body, but the etheric body is inclined to take new forms and
etheric body is separated from the astral body and becomes
our brain or etheric body or astral body that thinks — thoughts

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of masters and the like is etheric maya, is Ahriman. One must

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latter work upon them, their etheric body begins to oscillate
an expanded and rarified etheric body. When such a person hears some
cleft in the etheric body, which announced itself in him as fear, but
his rarified etheric body as into a vacuum and have become noticeable
creatures that corresponds to the forces of our etheric body, from

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astral body and thereby our etheric body become expanded by listening
feel the etheric body's expansion and fill it up with
emptiness in their etheric body through its expansion because they

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Venus as our etheric body, and on Vulcan it'll have become

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etheric body would leave the physical body for even a moment? The
nothing. The etheric body tends to spread out into the widths of
body shrinks because the etheric body doesn't work in there anymore
to our etheric body during meditation. The etheric body streams and spreads
the moment of death when the physical body releases the etheric body;
when the etheric body feels as if it's dissolved in space. And
wasn't there to pull the etheric body back together again
dishonest in daily life, the lies stream into space with his etheric
with the etheric body. Through the relation of these figures to our
otherwise one would pollute the etheric substance that should radiate

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time we saw that the etheric body pours out into space. This
whom we get together, with whom our etheric body becomes connected.
human being. Now when the etheric body expands during meditation
with the etheric body. And if there's a bad being here or
astral body goes into spiritual space with the etheric body. The
astral body doesn't remain as continuous as the etheric body in
intimate way and we let the etheric streams(which we spoke of in the
exoteric lecture on the etherization of the blood, where etheric

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the etheric body expands, one feels carried out to distant world boundaries,

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chatter weaken the etheric body.

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a weakening of the etheric body; people with a weak etheric body are

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like this, we, as it were, send forces out of our etheric body which

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into our physical and etheric bodies and didn't remain floating
habit of speaking of the lower physical and etheric bodies, for they

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esoteric transform his etheric body through daily repetition,
etheric body gradually separates itself. After these exercises have

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it. We dive down into their etheric bodies and they permeate us with

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we're supposed to loosen our etheric body from within and pull
loosening of the etheric body. There are many methods to bring it
are harmful to organs, since the etheric body is repelled form
etheric body more than anything else Even thinking about it hinders
first feeling that we get through the etheric body's loosening

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physical, etheric and astral sheaths must become as indifferent to
physical body and its outer shape, his etheric body with its memory,

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or when Yahweh created the first earth man in his etheric body

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ago, and so before the Event of Golgotha, the etheric body enlivened the
physical body in such a way that not all of the etheric body's forces
Then about 3000 years ago, all etheric bodies had sunk into the
all of the etheric body's forces, it rejects them, it is
with life, life germs that are sunk into our etheric forces and that

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point where he looks at his etheric or physical hands without seeing

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works me: die into Christ's etheric body that embraces the

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body slip into our etheric and physical bodies again in the morning,
There would be no consciousness in this world without the etheric and

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draws his astral body and ego out of the physical and etheric bodies
etheric bodies as a house with a portal through which he has to go
etheric bodies he should permeate himself with the holy feeling
him this physical and etheric body each morn when he steps out of the
etheric body overnight? We would then be overpowered by a
fact that the Gods have built us this physical and etheric body we'll
our physical and etheric body in the morning, so passage through the

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etheric bodies behind every night. He should then imagine that a
demon took possession of his physical and etheric bodies and that the

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through nature's great life realm. We would see plants' etheric
would know that what pulses through the etheric life realm is
have a shyness to approach our physical and etheric bodies that the

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angelic being shows it to him, but because his etheric body
therefore the etheric body — maybe only the parts that take
the etheric body begins to make new movements and to momentarily
the exercises if the etheric body works on it like that — and
there's no danger from these things; the etheric body will

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as the lungs breathe in air, so the physical and etheric bodies

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the physical body, the oil is the etheric body, the flame that
location. A man's etheric body expands if he travels to the

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working one soon sees how impregnated their etheric bodies are with
the etheric body of someone who's filled with fear. If a man passes a

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etheric body loosens itself here it has a kind of dense wall before

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loosen their connection with the physical and etheric bodies
becomes imprinted on one's etheric body and then appears during
the etheric body through the fact that one heard tall tales as a
similar events, then what he heard continues to work in his etheric

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that correspond to our etheric body.

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astral body and part of the etheric body out of the physical body,
and so we can have strange experiences in our etheric body in the
etheric body preserved it and through our development 30 or 40 years
this. This happens when the etheric body is loosened in development,
astral body are reflected in the etheric body. The esoteric
etheric body thereby, but also vibrations of a similar kind that were
long ago, but the experience emerges from the etheric body
physical ear didn't hear them, but our etheric body took them in. And
etheric body. Such things can scare us if we don't understand them.
experienced there in the etheric body arose like a world out of a

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physical and etheric bodies remain lying on their resting place, but

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are disorders that arise in the body because the physical and etheric
must become familiar with our etheric body. This is more difficult,
for the etheric body does not have a skin like the physical body
feel the etheric body by doing the second auxiliary exercise.
will see that it's the etheric body that induces the hand to move.
One feels that one's etheric body awakens in this way. Through this
awakening etheric body one gradually learns to experience
oneself in an etheric world. Every time I grab something or bump into
this knowledge, but an esoteric makes his etheric body increasingly
independent so that it experiences itself in the etheric
etheric world by stretching out, withdrawing, pushing, striding
initiative will who can't make room for himself in the etheric world
inner astral world. Just as we bump into the etheric
physical and etheric bodies aren't in the right contact with each
etheric body's formation through sound oscillations so that he
attacks only touch his physical and etheric bodies, and the astral
must try to habitually acquire a good memory. The etheric body is the
with the etheric body to the place where what's supposed to be

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one begins to meditate the etheric body contracts. An inner warmth

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coming into the head or brain, as if the etheric body was coming back
if one had been active in one's etheric body; one has the feeling: I
felt myself in my etheric body. Then a feeling of deep reverence and
happenings and fit ourselves into them. Our etheric body will then

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physical body, but that's not the case. The etheric body is the real
in the etheric body are the reflected shadow pictures of our physical
ourselves in our etheric body so that we can press forward to
the real origin of our ideas that have their life in the etheric

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spirit. Our thoughts touch each other in the etheric world. Our ego
expands in the thoughts that are thought by our etheric body and not
who think — it thinks me. The more we make our etheric body
etheric body independent. The first strophe expresses what's said in

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notice it. For the forces that loosen the etheric body and pull it

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happens in sleep. The etheric and physical bodies remain in bed while
and ego to his physical and etheric bodies the longing for reunion is

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only an etheric brain. When a man thinks it has nothing to do with

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Etheric essence flows in you;
virtue of feeling yourself in the half-spiritual etheric
Etheric essence flows in you
Etheric essence flows in you;
Etheric essence flows in you;
stress], it corresponds to the correct etheric movement in the
Etheric essence flows in you;

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Etheric essence flows in you;

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etheric body with what is characteristic of water. However,
and the relationship of the human etheric body with the liquid
death during which the etheric body is dissolving in the cosmic

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we go further up out of the thicker substances into the etheric
from warmth, which is already etheric, we come to the
then we will call what is highest in the etheric: Life-Ether,
indirect influence on the human being, the etheric finer
the etheric form which he then observes. I don't mean that he
we advance further to the etheric element, the Luciferic

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physical, but permeated with the etheric.

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The etheric streams out. Just as when I stretch out my hand and
clairvoyance people knew that something etheric goes out from
an emanation of the person's inner etheric
But at the same time you take your own etheric being out into
we have journeyed out we are together with our etheric being
through the etheric emptiness to experiencing the cosmic
participate in the whole process of going out into the etheric
life when the etheric body was first formed.
in spirit, the moment in which our etheric body was formed; and

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But within these physical human legs is the human etheric
body [red] — the part of the human etheric body that
legs, we don't walk with the etheric legs, not even with the
astral body serves this purpose, also the etheric body and,

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the abyss, outside the physical and etheric bodies —

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we are here with our etheric-physical humanity among the
etheric-physical nature. We belong to the three kingdoms of

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Awaken in the cosmic etheric vastness the
life, but also gazing out at the etheric vastness, what we
Awaken in the cosmic etheric vastness the
Awaken in the cosmic etheric vastness the flaming script of life.

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Awaken in the cosmic etheric vastness the flaming script of

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Etheric essence flows in you;

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Etheric essence flows in you;
Etheric essence flows in you;
Etheric essence flows in you;
Etheric essence flows in you;

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existence from the spiritual world, our etheric body has been

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something purely astral, something etheric within it.

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more material etheric body; and he writes:
what dwells in the etheric body.)
Force......................Etheric Body
spoken — the ego, the astral body, the etheric body,

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extraordinarily long etheric stalks with which an animal of
etherically. Think what deep knowledge this all is — in
body, and how a part of the etheric body too must be lifted
circumstances. Part of Faust's etheric body has gone out; and
because a man's etheric body, as I have often told you
part of his etheric body drawn out, which makes him able to

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man has his physical body, his etheric body, his astral body
and his ego. The animal has its physical body, etheric body
withdrawn entirely into the etheric body. What then is its
The astral is living in what the etheric body reflects of the
this astral body perceives in the etheric body of the cow
intimate union with the etheric body existing, for example,
in the cow. Astral body and etheric body are torn asunder.
its activities so restricts the impulses of the etheric body

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etheric body. And they become overdone, all these theories
indeed a caricature of the human etheric body and also of the
demanded for itself by the etheric body. This is exactly what
the etheric body was nipped and tweaked. This did not happen
etheric body was nipped and tweaked. And neither theory nor
is parted from his etheric body, he looks back upon it; and
it is important that this etheric body should have been so

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the physical and etheric bodies. In such circumstances, owing to
our physical and etheric bodies, so that while we are asleep in a
and the dragging, are brought into the physical and etheric bodies,
order prevailing in the physical and etheric bodies. He really brings
jangling tumult — and the effect upon the etheric body is the
into the etheric and physical bodies. For he brings back with him
astral body — brought into the etheric and physical bodies
producing in the etheric body an experience of being crushed, hacked

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astral body are outside our physical and etheric body. In
are very close to our physical body and etheric body in a
body into the physical body and etheric body they bring with
physical and etheric body, and if you have ever woken up with
inner harmony of the physical and etheric body. You do in
etheric body really is as though your physical body were
character when he comes back into his physical and etheric
brought back into their physical and etheric bodies the kind
experienced in the etheric body, a struggle that wears you

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etheric body, astral body, ego, and so on, are not mere
the etheric body. The physical body might be simply called a
etheric body, which dwells in the physical body and, as you
the etheric body is rhythm, a cyclical rhythm of movement or
it is true, the etheric body also has to be conceived in
what matters with regard to the human etheric body in reality
concept of the etheric body we must try much harder to allow
bring to the fore another characteristic of the etheric body
its power of upward-stretching to the etheric body, but it
living interplay of the astral and etheric bodies in the
in it as an impulse, to the etheric body. And what happens
astral body to the etheric body. And now the following
happens in the etheric body: The hand is at first horizontal;
then the etheric body is drawn up higher, then the physical
force in the etheric body. The physical hand follows the
etheric.
the etheric body and then passed on to the physical body are
activity of the etheric body. If we carry this spatial system
organisation, which has been impressed by the etheric body on
in our way of looking at things, that the etheric body is
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the life of his etheric body, his astral body and his ego: he
sculpture are the laws of the etheric body which have been
when what lives in the etheric body is made to descend into
the physical body an expression of the etheric body; in such
the etheric body; in painting we abandon the ego and live as
into the etheric body. We experience ourselves in all that
within it the living etheric forces but not as yet the
possible in the etheric body. It was a heritage from the gods
within the etheric and physical bodies alone, without the ego
etheric and physical bodies, he feels and experiences only
knowledge at all of what takes place in the etheric and
permeates our astral and etheric bodies in rhythmical and
soul the etheric forces which pulsate through the body and
through space, calling forth forms out of the etheric.
form to what lives in the etheric world and in the human
etheric body and wish to enjoy what we have thus formed, then

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being consists of a physical body, an etheric body, an astral

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has been evolving since the Saturn period, the etheric body
delicate parts of the etheric and astral aura. But man's
actually visible in the etheric-astral content of the steamy
an etheric and an astral part, only the physical is not
astral, an etheric and finally a physical body condensed to
an etheric, an astral and a physical body, and this physical
creature, with a physical body, etheric body and astral body
an ego, just as in the Moon period our physical, etheric and
actions, also have an astral body, an etheric body and a

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physical, an etheric and an astral body, the smoke also has
at least an etheric part. And this etheric part goes a
upwards, but the etheric part is really caught by these twigs
the physical part of the smoke rising while the etheric part
etheric and his physical body. But I have already emphasised
nerve channels and the etheric fluid inside them. You would
and etheric body with his ego and astral body. In ordinary
man does not keep it outside his physical and etheric body,
hold of his physical and etheric body and comes into touch

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physical and etheric body. But I have emphasised already during the last
thereby become aware you were following your nerve-paths, and the etheric
then outside the physical and etheric body. In ordinary life, ideas
develops this desire when outside his physical and etheric body, but
inner part of his physical and etheric body so that he reaches with
etheric body during sleep, was called: prophetic clairvoyance.

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physical and etheric body. During the last few days I have
nerve-paths and the etheric fluidity found therein. You would
the physical and etheric body. Ideas from ordinary life are then
this desire when outside his physical and etheric body, but he
inner part of his physical and etheric body so that he reaches with
physical and etheric body during sleep, was called

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one really grasps the etheric or formative-force body (as it is called
imitate the form of the etheric body.

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two-dimensional plane express what manifests etherically in space).
third which penetrate into man's etheric-physical body; which is to

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cosmic thoughts, the Logos, in his etheric body. If a member of the
it was the result of what lives as thought in the etheric body; was

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dimensions to the etheric element, we find everything oriented
two-dimensionally, and can understand the etheric only if we conceive of
it so. Now you may demur: Yes, but in the etheric I move from here to
dimension has no significance for the etheric, only the other two
blue, violet, in the way explained; for in the etheric it is not the third

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speech, the astral body and ego leave the etheric and physical bodies,

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You see, here the etheric element in the human being makes its appearance.
It is the etheric human being which is revealed in rhythm.
human being I mark the beat; as etheric human being, the rhythm; as
etheric, but its original impulse lies in the ego. [27]

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etheric and the astral human being [see Appendix 2, final quotations].

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in the etheric body of the singer precisely the same movements; it would
nothing other than a carrying out with the etheric body of the same
with the physical eyes, and then you see another, etheric being, with

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physical and etheric bodies. If he were to do this in an inartistic

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some extent aware of the etheric body — which contains within it
civilisation man knew how to make use of the etheric body when
The etheric body — I can, after what you have heard in the
speak to you quite freely about the etheric body
— the etheric body never uses the mouth as the vehicle of speech,
made by the etheric body during speech which are transferred into the
in your pockets; but in that case your etheric body will gesticulate

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etheric heights

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all the physical world, then the etheric body, then the astral body,
his etheric body. All his other members loosen and dwell in the

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nature of man in more detail. Man has a physical, an etheric, and an
calls inanimate and the etheric body in common with all plants. Then
physical body, an etheric body, and a sentient body below on the
They possessed only a physical body, an etheric body, and a sentient
body, etheric body, and sentient body.
beings possessing a physical body, an etheric body, and a sentient
and air. What lives in the etheric body consists of fire, light
etheric body are united, they are at the same time separated. The
physical body is permeated by the etheric body; similarly the astral
body permeates the etheric body. The astral element can descend as
astral descends to “fire,” and the etheric body occupies
physical body, etheric body, and sentient body could, through the

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Man has his physical body, and an etheric model for it, the
his etheric body he has to call on forces from the devachanic world,
etheric body. Although on waking in the morning he is not conscious of

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melodies that impress themselves on his etheric body during the night
etheric body, astral body, and ego or “I.” The etheric
body is an etheric archetype of the physical body. A much more
delicate body, which is related to the etheric body and inclines
(sentient) body, etheric body, and physical body. Sentient soul,
etheric bodies, but the higher soul members, including the sentient
sentient soul onto the sentient body and the etheric body. Having
them to his etheric body, which then resonates with these vibrations.
The nature of the etheric and the sentient bodies is based on the
etheric body is lower than the astral body, but the activity
exercised in the etheric body stands higher than the activity of the
is transformed into Manas (spirit self), then the etheric body into
least force to work on it. The force needed to work on the etheric
with the forces of the astral world itself, but the etheric body
etheric body. A person is musically creative or sensitive to music
seize the more solid substance of the etheric body and cause it to
because he feels like a victor over his etheric body by means of his
able to overcome what is already in his etheric body.
etheric body continuously resounds in the astral body. When a person
Then, the tones are consciously sent to the etheric body, and man
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resounding in the air and to hurl the pure etheric experience of tone
etheric body, astral body, and “I.” One has to put it
and etheric. In penetrating the astral and etheric, the “I”
“I” through the astral and etheric into the physical. In
physical, at first bypassing the astral and etheric. Later, from
with the astral and etheric. We bring into ourselves the etheric and
etheric. Secondly, when we are adults, the “I” dwells in
because the matter reaches the etheric. Everything in man's
with e, the vibrating of the etheric body plays an essential role.
through the etheric and astral bodies to the seventh. We must now
and f-sharp, he shakes up our etheric and astral bodies. The etheric
the vibration being below in the etheric body — and we arrive
only inwardly in man, namely, in the etheric body; regarding the
too. The physical body, however, must push upward into the etheric
experience reaches down only to the etheric body, and there it
etheric and astral man — the inward-etheric body, i.e. down to

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man believed that he lived and wove in something etheric. With the
described for you here? I have described the human etheric body. If
correctly, you actually have before you the human etheric body. It is
etherically before us. The musical experience is nothing else than
this. The human being really experiences himself as etheric body in
fourth: one experiences the etheric human being.
become alive in man, he would feel: my etheric head is in the element
of my etheric system; again, the physical has fallen away. Then we

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through his physical and etheric bodies. By virtue of the
appropriately developed sense organs in the physical and etheric
related to the physical and etheric bodies; it is at one with them,
the physical and the etheric bodies.
physical-etheric environment. One therefore must speak of a
physical-etheric environment or world in which man exists during this
world, however, is totally different from the physical-etheric world.
form, how the realms of the physical-etheric world — the
direction of our physical-etheric environment, we perceive the three,
physical-etheric world and the super-sensible world. We already know
in the same way as one describes the physical-etheric world by means
the viewpoint of the physical-etheric world and its history. Today,
bearer of his physical and etheric bodies. In a manner of speaking,
man withdraws his experiences as a bearer of his physical and etheric
physical and etheric bodies. I interweave my earthly existence with

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done unconsciously by the etheric body of a person if it is not
unfavourable. Conversely, our etheric body may be assisted by spiritual
who come to help us in our etheric body in the spiritual truths within
etheric body is not burdened with fighting against prejudicial influences
of certain elementary beings, but the forces of our etheric body are
call upon our etheric body to think of the spiritual. With regard to
etheric body which come into motion in quite a special way, they are
so that the etheric body has different movements within it, according
of etheric substance, which surrounds us, with all the beings incarnated
beings who really have these forms in the etheric world; and when we
look at one of these figures our etheric body arranges itself in such
and according to the thought-form, will our etheric body be able to
in our etheric body. Now these figures are chosen in such a way that
of development in the outer etheric world, something which through a
particular circumstance is favourable to our etheric body; our etheric
to the gradual perfecting of our etheric body will be developed in the
We are placed in touch with the surrounding etheric world by means of
are made receptive — because this works from within on the etheric
We now come to a kind of action on human beings which affects the etheric

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develop outwards into the physical and etheric. You will
the human etheric body (for the movement of a line is
herself, hovering in her etheric body. Here indeed is a
see clairvoyantly what is actually present in the etheric
were, around the etheric body that is rising like the sun. It
‘this signifies the physical body, that the etheric
movement, or of the corresponding etheric phenomenon.
etheric form. It is as though a man were to ask himself:
interior decorations, etheric forms that are true and living,

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do not live, but etheric walls, spiritual walls are indeed
etheric forms of the plants and mould in accordance with

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bones. In the etheric body, however, we still build them, for
we observe the etheric body, we may say that in his two legs,
that proceed from without. The etheric body is densified and
etheric legs rise still higher.
etheric head is densified and as a result of the formation of
the brain there arises in the etheric body, in our age as
well, the densified etheric body. This does not only take
the first seven years of life. They appear in the etheric
body in different colours. We strengthen our etheric sheath
makes our etheric skull-covering more secure. Man passes
the etheric sheath of the head is always around us. Man, the
living being, is poured out into the forms as an etheric

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etheric vibrations of so many wave lengths. These waves of
etheric body, astral body — these were developed during

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the blood; in the nerves, in the etheric body, in the astral
nerves, of the etheric and astral bodies, in the sense
impulses working in the blood, the nerves, the etheric and

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the etheric body of the man of Middle Europe. Looking over to

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he frees the etheric body of his head and looks from within
are realities, are actually seen. when the etheric body is
presents itself inwardly to the etheric brain which has

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eye the etheric, then there should be added that which in the lower
is formed out of a complicated etheric eye-formation: the apparently
simple physical out of the complicated etheric.

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that which one sees more when the etheric body is observed than when

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man's task to find the way back again. Physical, etheric and astral
as life itself, will increase in us. Etheric life will also permeate

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plant-world; there you are, as human etheric body, and I have often

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in his ego and his astral body from the physical and etheric body.
diagram. Imagine physical and etheric body, astral body and ego bound
Imagination, you can observe the etheric body of a plant. In doing so
you will feel inwardly that his etheric plant-body draws you
look at the etheric body of a man, it has weight, even for the
this point you come to realize that the etheric body of man, for

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fact that it has an etheric body in addition to its physical body. It
is this etheric body which really lives in the plant; but the etheric
plant, for that lies in the etheric body. If the plant had no etheric
itself through green. The etheric body is quite a different colour, but
If we study the plant in relation to its etheric body, if we study its
greenness withdrawn from the etheric we have really only an image of

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and etheric body. That is the point. So that the whole question of the
and into the etheric body. So that the whole method of study must come out.

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physical and etheric body: he abandons, so to speak, his physical and
etheric bodies and is among those things which are outer world. During
and clouds are during wakefulness outside our physical and etheric
the physical and etheric bodies, comes in the end to the conclusion
Man has thus, when awake, no vocation to his physical and etheric

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require life. Life begins only with your etheric body; and this is

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in Anthroposophy as the etheric. Out of this inner feeling of the human

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still there, needless to say, even in his etheric body, and we find it
there when the etheric is freed from the physical. The union of the soul

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concrete way, we must describe it thus: He felt how the Etheric Body
of the Physical. He felt how the Etheric is manifested or portrayed
the living forces that abound in the Etheric Body come to expression.
moved his hand, he knew that the Spiritual — the etheric body
etheric body. The man of today must go a different path. By way of outward
life and movement of the etheric body. By this means the Greek could find
etheric human being. In the earliest pictures we shall still see a certain
the living etheric movement within.
the etheric body) is already fleeing away. It is already a moment of
the etheric body. He brings to expression the actual moment where life is
passing into death. It is the quick withdrawal of the etheric body through
coiling around. This effect of the etheric body withdrawing from the
body thus, unless we conceived it as the moment when the etheric body
from immediate inner experience — experience of the Etheric —

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the plant motifs left and right — etheric; the animal motif -

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and right — etheric; the animal-motif - astral; and the monogram

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clothed with the physical and etheric body. What he has to receive by
being clothed with the physical and etheric body he could not receive
Etheric body and Physical body. But these in turn are united —

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send the etheric forces from your eyes to grasp an object in the act

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The three Bodily Principles: Astral, Etheric and Physical. How Will
to their physical bodies. In etheric, as impulse. In astral, as
the astral body), the etheric body and the grosser physical body,
lives the etheric body. To the external senses it is super-sensible,
just as the etheric body permeates the physical body so it also takes
soon as the etheric body dominates instinct, will becomes impulse*.
from within, because the super-sensible etheric body transforms
animal has also these three principles, physical body, etheric body

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and the astral body, when outside the physical and etheric bodies from
spiritual world in order to refresh the physical and etheric bodies,
unconsciously in your etheric body, in your astral body, and then you
astral body, life is in the etheric body, and within us there is
comes to expression in the life conditions of the etheric body. And

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loosening of the etheric body from the physical body. That is,
the astral body; the etheric body and the physical body are
picture: The physical body and the etheric body are always
So we can say: the physical and etheric bodies stream downwards

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body, permeates the etheric body, and unites with it. Of course
entity at puberty, but it manifests itself in the etheric body

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by knowing how the etheric body develops during that time, must

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have before us the Ego, the so-called astral body, the etheric body
generally appears to us, only because it is permeated by the etheric
physical body which is not permeated by the etheric body, by the
etheric body.
recognize lifeless things. The etheric body, the astral body and the
were, standing in the dark. If the etheric body were able to cognize,
post-Atlantean epoch, a deep influence going out from the etheric

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etheric bodies carrying this corpse through space.

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the etheric body, and the physical body. These four members of
development of the physical and of the etheric body, and that
of teeth — the physical body and the etheric body in the
year the physical body and the etheric body are most active
etheric body. That which here radiates from the head into the
physical and etheric bodies of the whole child, right
active in the etheric body. Then this condition is opposed by
between the etheric body and the outer world. The etheric body
amalgamates with the etheric body, thereby taking hold of the
etheric body we constantly have the tendency to practice
eurythmy: that is something the etheric body simply does
from what the etheric body tends to do of itself. It is really
the etheric body that makes these motions, and it is only
etheric body, react upon us, and have a health-giving effect on
is trying to manifest itself in the etheric organization of man

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the astral body, the etheric body and the physical body. These four members
development of the physical and the etheric bodies and that of the astral
— the physical and etheric bodies have been influenced
physical body and the etheric body are influenced most powerfully from the
organism of trunk and limbs, to the physical and etheric bodies. What
streams from the head into the whole of the physical and etheric bodies of
the etheric body. Then the ego and astral body turn against this; a willed
well, and that lies on the boundary between the etheric body and the outer
when this lives itself into the etheric body and thereby takes hold of the
This too we should know when we do eurythmy: there is always in the etheric
body a tendency to do eurythmy. This is simply something the etheric body
movements from what the etheric body wants to do; these are actually the
body to execute them, these movements are checked in the etheric body, but
that something, striving to manifest in the etheric body of man, must be

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the etheric body, thus making the two bodies work more closely as one. Now
carried out by the astral body and etheric body together, when a person

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change of teeth man's etheric body is being born; the physical body is born
at birth, the etheric body round about the seventh year. So what seen from
one side we can call the birth of the etheric body, seen from another side
seventh year on the ego fastens itself only to the etheric body, while
means, for example, that the ego must not enter the physical body, etheric
the one hand the physical body and the etheric body: these two never
than, for instance, the physical body and the etheric body are; equally
between the astral body and the etheric body. It takes place in waking man,
physical body and our etheric body and enter then into a more intimate
and the etheric body are but loosely connected with each other. If oxygen
united, then man's etheric body and his astral body would also be so
to go to sleep. The connection which exists in us between etheric body and
nitrogen mirrors the inner relationship between etheric body and astral
we have the laws of soul active in the relationship of etheric body and
swift intermingling of astral and etheric vibrations. Then, on the other

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element, the fluid, and with the fluid the etheric, takes over.
The fluid element, which becomes permeated with the etheric,
crawls out is a being actually permeated with the etheric,

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happens in these movements is that the etheric organism is set
inserted within the working of the etheric; then we have
etheric. The physical effect of a piece of sulfur or salt
astral, and then the etheric-astral is the really active factor
They are the result of cooperation between the etheric and the
certain respect weaker than the etheric, and in the rhythmic
activity the astral becomes stronger than the etheric. In the
rhythmic system the etheric withdraws more into the background
(though actually only the etheric that is within
the human being). The etheric outside the human
etheric body, the force of the outer ether of the world, and
etheric outside, the etheric within, and the astral is a most
influence in the outer and inner etheric and in the astral is
etheric forces, by the outer etheric forces that enter by way
taken up are subjected to the etheric activity and to the outer
inner etheric and the astral, in education are contained outer
etheric activity, outer physical

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naturally illuminated by the etheric and astral and

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exposed to those etheric essences, (effluvia), which in later life we

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which I will now call the etheric body. This etheric body is finer
this etheric body which in man's waking life is full of inner
with the exception of the head. The etheric body in the head is
etheric body begins to be in movement also in the head. In sleep,
etheric body. And when we dream, perhaps just before waking, we
become aware of the last movements in the etheric body. They
natural way we are still aware of these last movements of the etheric
gradually able to form pictures in the tranquil etheric body of the
Imaginations, which are experienced in the etheric body
principle in the organism of man as the etheric body. It is not a
etheric body as a form in space if you realize your doing so would be
holding an instant fast. The same principle applies to the etheric
an etheric body which is always in motion. We cannot speak
intelligently of the etheric body until we have discovered in
you concerns the ability to bring form into the etheric body in the
etheric body, stretching back to his birth, bringing about a very
tableau of life back to birth, this whole etheric body, which I have
that I have described, I have eliminated the etheric body, I do not

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descriptions here, the etheric body, a more volatile body. He dwells
in his etheric body. It may seem a strange thing to say about the
phlegmatic child that he dwells in his etheric body, but so it is. The
etheric body prevents the processes of man's organic functions, his

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is happening where we could say that the human etheric body is
emerge, followed by the astral body and etheric body.
organization, working in the I, astral, and etheric bodies, is

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teeth, we can look at the child's physical and etheric bodies
precipitated, leaving the etheric free to work
human being consists of a physical body, etheric body, astral
of teeth. During these early years the etheric body and all the
nature of the etheric has a quality all its own. During the
last forty or fifty years natural science has seen the etheric
the theories formulated concerning the essence of the etheric,
reached the degree that many people assert that the etheric is
etheric is not much more than differential quotients flying
what the etheric is, and this in itself is admirable enough.
real significance will be discovered about the etheric. One has
to know that the etheric has the characteristic of being the
the etheric. Physical matter fills up space, and the etheric
This applies also to the human etheric body. Our relationship
to the physical and etheric bodies consists of our constantly
destroying and renewing ourselves. The etheric continually
suction process of the etheric, whose forces destroy matter,
the physical body, and with the etheric body and its
later life. At first there is only the child's etheric body.
etheric body was already fully developed before that. If you
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body I call the etheric body, which strives away from the earth out
teach us of the etheric body that is always striving to get away from
etheric body to its environment.
individual etheric body or body of formative forces in man to the
the etheric body of man, just as salt, cabbage, turnip and meat are
approach the etheric body or body of formative forces of man, this
his second teeth, the part of the etheric body that drives the teeth
teeth the inner etheric forces which have pressed the teeth out, are
freed and with these etheric forces we carry on the free thought that
now an etheric force. But the same force which produced the teeth is
now working in the etheric body as thought. When we perceive
physical body but in the etheric body, descends one stage. This
because the etheric body now takes over the responsibility. The teeth
female sex to the etheric body, or body of formative forces. The
change occurs in the etheric body and the etheric body of the female
takes on, as etheric body, a form exactly resembling the physical
body of the male. Again, the etheric body of the male at the
all-important point of life, the male bears within him the etheric
female and female the etheric male from the fourteenth year onwards.
than the etheric body; indeed the astral body is already of the soul
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referred as the etheric body, or body of formative forces. The human
Imaginative Cognition, a super-sensible, etheric body. Again he has an
death, this etheric body, this body of formative forces which is the first
body. Only at death does this occur. During sleep, the etheric
and etheric bodies and enter them again at the moment of waking.
physical and etheric bodies which are affected when the child is taught
of drawing and painting. All this remains in the etheric body and its
from these studies passes out of the physical and etheric bodies into
by the physical and etheric bodies during sleep, whereas the results
the subject-matter works upon the etheric and physical bodies or upon
of which I spoke yesterday affect the physical and etheric bodies. (I
which pass out of the physical and etheric bodies during sleep. But
the physical-etheric and the astral and Ego. As regards their role in
all-important to remember that the body of formative forces, the etheric
ourselves are then no longer within the physical and etheric bodies;
will wake in an etheric body, and a physical body also, inwardly and
the working of the etheric body; if there is no such knowledge, all
In the morning we have solved the problem. Why? Because the etheric
for us to leave our physical and etheric bodies to themselves for a
work of the etheric body has continued through the night and the
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during this period of life physical body, etheric body, astral body

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members of man's being; physical body, etheric body, astral
etheric body, astral body and ego; that there is a law of

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distinguish between his physical organism and his etheric
etheric organism could never experience feeling, never attain
in speaking, for instance, of an etheric or life-body, this has

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the second epoch the higher, finer body, the etheric body,
can ask: Where are the forces of the etheric body in the first
later. The entire forces of the etheric body are at first bound
place now? Only a part of the etheric body is working after the
teeth and puberty the etheric body of man is our chief concern
forces which are working in the etheric body, for these release
still deeply embedded in the etheric body. Therefore, because
the etheric body is now relatively free, we have the task to
to absorb. For the etheric body is the body of formative
fashioned by the etheric body. This is why at this age we must
forces of the etheric body.
bear the following in mind. Just as the etheric body is
is still embedded in the physical and etheric bodies every
What really is the etheric body? Well, if it were possible to
greater work of art than this. For the human etheric body
related to the etheric body. This enables the child to take
relationship of the child's etheric body to his astral body.
physical body, etheric body and astral body; it can only be

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etheric body which is the source of growth and the forces of
etheric body, astral body, ego-organisation and must pay heed
super-sensible members, etheric body, astral body and

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following: The human being consists of physical body, etheric
etheric body works mainly on the physical body; the astral body
descends into the physical and etheric bodies at the time of
but bears the other sex in the etheric body. So that the woman
is man in etheric body, and the man is woman. Every human being

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during this time it serves as a model from which the etheric
body of formative forces, this etheric body, which gradually in
body, that in its turn also lasts for 7 years. The etheric body
This is why we can learn to comprehend the human etheric
the etheric body through an understanding of form, the astral
body, etheric body, astral body and ego, — for the one
etheric body, the other that he knows with his intellect that
there is an etheric body etc. But this does not amount to

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a picture within him of this outburst of rage. The etheric body makes

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namely the etheric element. He has to grow into the element of the

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In first seven years etheric body is an inward sculptor. After seven,
be clear in our minds that the independent activity of the etheric
body of man only really begins at the change of teeth. The etheric
physical body. So that this etheric body is pre-eminently an inward
body by the etheric body, becomes free, emancipates itself with the
first seven years of life the etheric body has been carrying out
an inner urge, an inner longing of the etheric body, to be at work in
proceed. Man consists not only of his physical body and etheric body,
within the human organism. But whilst the etheric body between birth
with the physical and etheric bodies but permeates them completely,
physical and etheric body.

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“Etheric” body of man.
etheric body, we refer to an entity which exists but whose origin we
out of the sphere of the earth; and also an etheric organism
organism of our Earth. Our etheric body — like the Archaeus of
medicine — in the form of an etheric body, which is the basis of the

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the “Archaeus” and we call the “Etheric body” — or, if to avoid
And if we speak of what is first indicated in the etheric body or in
the first symptoms appear on the functional side, in the etheric body
— and therefore, as we should say in the etheric sphere — becomes
the functional sphere, the etheric body imprints it immediately into
the disease on the functional plane in the etheric body, as we have

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happens to light, that is, to something purely etheric; it becomes
transformed, but that imponderable, etheric substances are also
activity of ours; the metamorphic activity of the etheric element, the
and a bladder in our physical organism, but in our etheric organism,
be in a sad state, if in our etheric organism we had the same
superiority over birds as we have in our physical; for the etheric
actual fact, the etheric aroma of mankind, as perceived among

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the etheric body of man. I have given much consideration to the
We can judge what I might term the intensity of the etheric body's
facts are symptomatic of what we might term the action of the etheric
Then we must find out the relationship of both physical and etheric
ego, into the physical and etheric bodies. Lazy people have very
etheric bodies on the other. The affinity between his soul and spirit
the interaction of ego and astral body with the etheric and physical
the spirit and soul principle is too closely linked with the etheric
the astral body and ego to the physical and etheric bodies.

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astral body of man leave the physical and etheric bodies, and that on

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etheric body has to struggle for its right place in relation to the
frequent risk of the elasticity of the physical and etheric bodies not
equilibrium between the elasticities of the etheric and the physical
harmony of elasticity in physical and etheric bodies is of course
that of the etheric. (The necessary measures will be discussed in the
relationship with the physical and etheric, and if it has not been
his etheric organisation, which takes such great trouble to work its
years. This etheric body is expelled again during certain processes,
may be due to the action of the etheric body, others again to that of
physical and etheric bodies) are extra-telluric as well as telluric,

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somewhat our ideas, when we say etheric body, astral body, etc., can
the interaction between what we term the etheric body and what we term
to that which surrounds us. Just as the etheric and the physical are
kinship between this union and the manner of connection of the etheric
etheric with the physical? From the abstract point of view, we can say
that the etheric is nearer to the astral than to the physical; for the
etheric is open to the forces from above. But we must expect also some
relationship between the etheric and the physical. So we must take
something that passes from the etheric body to the astral, for
blossoms shows the interaction of the plant-etheric with the astral
a process associated with the relationships of the etheric and the
etheric has to the astral on one side and to the physical on the
other. You literally enter the etheric, or its expression, if you
there is a physical revelation of the etheric in its dual relationship
and taste the etheric element which is external yet related to man, we
etheric, which opens into the astral on the one hand and solidifies
in the relationships of the etheric with the physical: and smell, on
the other hand, in those of the etheric with the astral. The
the etheric activities in man; and these have been our object of study

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calls for the real beings, etheric beings, which, however in contrast to

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consists of the following four members: the physical body, the etheric
bond between the etheric and physical bodies; so even in the waking
and ego on the one hand and etheric body and physical body on the
other, than between the ego and astral body or between the etheric and
human entity, ego and astral body and the lower human entity, etheric
connection between astral and etheric bodies, and concurrently between

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necessary, in fact, to talk of the intervention of the etheric body,
order to show how the etheric body acts within the organism. It is
possible to see that the etheric body is not active in a certain way
processes which are opposed to the action of the etheric body. In
science finds that the etheric body of the patient remains as a whole
restore the full efficiency of this etheric body, which has become
activity of the etheric body in definite directions, whereas the
healthy etheric body acts throughout the organism and permeates it in
etheric body in regard to a system of organs in which its activity has
become slack; so that, provided the etheric body as a whole retains a
physical body, against the action of the etheric body; these processes
rebel as it were, so that the etheric body ceases to act in certain
The etheric body, however, has very great powers of regeneration and
the counteracting physical processes which oppose the etheric body, so
that the etheric body may once more extend its working to the region
the etheric body. For instance, the characteristic indurations, which
encroachments, so to speak, of the physical structure over the etheric
special process of the physical body, as against the etheric, the body
body of man which revolts against the whole access of the etheric
The counteraction of mistletoe against the etheric body's refusal to
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This is for the simple reason that man contains the etheric body, the
comparatively little capacity for governing the etheric body. During
or fantasy, is there a strong ego influence over the etheric body. In
influence over the etheric.
indeed it is the forces of the etheric body that insert it into the
scaffold, but what the eye transmits is still etheric. And here we
material for a sound judgment of the person's etheric body; the
etheric body which is so like what I have just termed a framework. You
individual etheric body, than by attentive study of the organisation
perception of the etheric body. Call meditation to your aid, and it
etheric body itself.
(which in the physical body is similar to the etheric) give rise to
sight are closely linked with the observation of the etheric body of
mankind. In referring to the existence of the etheric body and its
clairvoyant apprehension of the etheric body. We can train ourselves
organism, in the same manner as the eye formation of the etheric body
opposition of that external lining (also etherically) of the human
etheric, the process of hearing in the air. This is a considerable
All that is more akin to the etheric and imponderable, is situated
the observation of the etheric body. To learn to observe hearing is

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the plant in very truth contains both the physical and etheric bodies
Physiology,” that if the spleen is removed, the etheric body very
replaced by its etheric counterpart in man — by the etheric spleen.

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functions can be taken over by its etheric equivalent, and this for
[etheric] substances which are powerfully aromatic and exercise their

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etheric body which is freed from the physical organisation or only
observed, forms as it were a constant etheric movement of organising
have already referred. Thus, when there is a separation of the etheric
another consequence of separation between the etheric and physical
of the human frame, the etheric body becomes independent implies that
at the other pole the etheric body is drawn into the physical
which has been ruined or, in relation to the etheric, is a new organ;

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an etheric or even an astral diaphragm. They must be kept separate
the breathing, continues into the etheric and astral activities and
the plants would become too mineral. And the result is that the etheric
organs are embedded as in an etheric sphere, and this favours the
break through into the lower. This means that an etheric breach takes
place. The forces that should only act etherically in the upper
It will therefore also be readily understood that the whole etheric
childhood and in maturity. In childhood, the etheric body must
the foetal stage that the etheric body should have these points for
organs which enable the etheric body to promote the chemism in the
skin colouring — that is to say, on the etheric activity behind the

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withdrawal of ego and astral body from the physical and etheric
bodies. This process may coincide with a withdrawal of the etheric
the astral together with the etheric body. And so organic disease may
condition can be so retained in some organ that the astral and etheric
irregular function of the astral body, working through the etheric

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— physical body, etheric body, and so on, with which
— of the ego, astral body, and etheric body.
of the ego, astral body, and etheric body. At this point let
call etheric, the parental organism is active to a high
degree, but even in the etheric, cosmic forces are acting out
astral and etheric bodies both convey their physical
Then the etheric body imprints itself, and finally we have
the etheric body, astral body, and ego. Regarding these
and etheric body, so the respiratory rhythm is an imprint of
physical body and etheric body.
seen, there even the etheric body is an imprint. In the
etheric bodies, and only the ego and astral body provide the
cooperation of the physical, etheric, and astral bodies
physical permeated by the etheric. This is more strongly the
spiritual science calls physical body, etheric body, astral
there is an imprint of the ego, astral body, and etheric
cooperation between physical body and etheric body, for what
is not physical body and etheric body is an imprint of the
an interplay of physical, etheric, and astral bodies and an
etheric body, i.e., in the head.
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we can also study the etheric body properly and concretely.
first leave their imprints — that is, the etheric,
deal with man's etheric body. It is, of course, quite natural
that this etheric body is not studied in its differentiations
conviction that this etheric body exists, you will have to
how the etheric body is regarded when it is presented as a
the ether in general (of which the human etheric body is a
forces that are their polar opposite inwardly. The etheric
place, the etheric forces work analytically. Analytic forces
etheric body remains behind, denser than before, for the
etheric forces are working synthetically, just as when the
etheric. Thus, if I draw it schematically, I have to
oranized so that it is an imprint of the etheric nature.
entirety, permeable to the etheric, because it is an imprint
say that here the etheric can pass through the head (
penetrates through the etheric imprint in the human head and
poisonous effect makes the human being etherically rigid,
etheric configuration of the human being is formed. It is
etheric body, and hence illness appears in its imprint in the
etheric body, though it is not the etheric body that has to
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we have seen — to the etheric, astral, and ego-being.
In the chest the organs are not permeable to the etheric but
etheric and physical bodies work intimately together,
cooperation of the etheric and the physical. A process of
lead to excessive proliferation in the etheric, is constantly
between the astral and the etheric. Such an understanding
the etheric. You must bear in mind that the human being
his astral body outside the etheric body — that is,
astral and etheric in healthy and diseased conditions of the
etheric and astral bodies if you observe how sorrow and
What he experiences only etherically lies so deep in the
intimacy between the etheric earthly element and the

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clinging to the physical and etheric organs, especially to
and etheric organs continue to function as in the waking
that occur between the astral body and the human etheric and
physical, the etheric, and also the astral in the human
for the etheric body. But this is not the case with the ego.
re-constituted in the human organism. The etheric and astral

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cooperation between ego, astral body, etheric body, and
organs are indicating a proliferating etheric, are too active
the astral body with the etheric body — and thereby
ego) on the one hand and the etheric and physical bodies on
nurtured by the physical and etheric influences, begin to be
active in one direction and cannot reach the etheric body
properly. A proliferation of physical and etheric activity
body and the ego must work into the physical and etheric
inserted in the right way and that the etheric body and the
of the etheric body, astral body, and ego are first created.
etheric body. This means that in the etheric body something
etheric body with it), shows us clearly that there is a
first place the astral body and the etheric body resist what
force, of the etheric body. The etheric body tries to stand
During this review the etheric body is held within the astral
etheric bodies, which takes place during this review after
death by means of the etheric body, is developed now. Hence
the etheric. This could be achieved by opposing the
process in the physical and etheric bases of the human

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investigate how the ego, astral body, and etheric body work
breathing and, instead of taking in air, takes in etheric
etheric — respiratory process. Thus head and lung
and etheric bodies. The astral body is active in breathing by
means of sympathy and antipathy; the etheric body is active
antipathies of the astral body. Everywhere the etheric body
the human organism. These etheric activities have their
etheric body is chiefly active. The etheric forces express
astral body and the etheric body as an interaction between
the air. There the etheric element encroaches on the
fluid-etheric and on the solid-physical. Therefore nutritive
and digestive activities occur primarily in the ethericfluid
of the etheric body.) The uterus is nothing other than a

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tart taste, exceptionally tart. In clove root we have etheric
particularly the etheric activity of the human organism, and
only by way of this etheric activity do we stimulate the
this whole process working by way of the etheric activity in
inwardly densified. This seed also contains etheric oils and

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a physical influence, but also an etheric imprint, an astral
organically on everything related to the etheric body
goes as far as the etheric. Now it must also be received by
individual to meet the more etheric-spiritual processes
radiation, material counterprocesses to the etheric-spiritual
one has to do with revelations entirely from the etheric
etheric and then to let it radiate into the physical body.
this process I try to work into the etheric body, calling
etheric — remaining in the etheric by this homeopathizing

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organs, as it were, from the spiritual-etheric world into the

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chatter about man being composed of physical body, etheric body,
physical body, etheric body, astral body, Ego, reincarnation, karma

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the physical-etheric organism at the time of the change of teeth, what
the human being therefore has within the physical-etheric organism
What is active in the human physical-etheric during the childhood
of the physical-etheric something that should remain within it

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The soul-spiritual, the etheric, and the physical are all active in
grows, it reproduces, and therefore it has an etheric body. For
spiritual perception it also has an etheric body, but it does not
out of the plant in the etheric oils. If we see the etheric oils
the one I have been suggesting, that this formation of etheric oils is
In this case this must be done by adding these etheric oils to baths,
forces that the plant unfolds in the etheric oils work from outside

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etherically organized system, an astrally organized system, and
physical, etheric, astral, and ego organizations. This
human etheric organization, however, which is incorporated into
think of the etheric organization of the human being as
that I sketched earlier) that the etheric organization as a
the human being has an etheric body.
has an etheric body. We must think of everything solid as being
and here we come to the etheric organism, which is a
physical system may be drawn up into the etheric organization.
transformed into an etheric organization could not take place
would then stop and disappear into the etheric. Thus such
invisible etheric angel-beings.
physical world only because the whole etheric system is drawn
oxygen. The entire etheric organization is projected —
oxygen related to the etheric organization in so far as this
an etheric organization is drawn in and “fixed”
the fact that we bind the etheric organization into the
thinking. I have told you that oxygen takes hold of the etheric
the transition to the etheric organization is connected with
super-sensible, just as we would be merely etheric beings if
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physical organisation, an etheric organisation, an astral
etheric, astral and Ego organisations. The objection has in fact
physical organisation of man. In regard to the etheric
laboratory. Whatever we may think of the etheric organisation of man
of lengthy study in my suggested curriculum) that the etheric
etheric body. It is not necessary to enter into hypotheses about the
saying: Man has an etheric body. We must think of everything solid as
here we come to the etheric organism — a system that is
that the physical system may be drawn up into the etheric
The raising and transformation of the chyle into an etheric
physical world only because the whole etheric system pours down, as
his etheric nature is made physical by the absorption of oxygen. The
etheric organisation is projected into the physical world as a
etheric organisation when this expresses itself in the physical
between them, perceiving how an etheric organisation comes into play
sentient being, a being of soul. The etheric organisation in
have told you that oxygen passes into the etheric organisation
to the etheric organisation is connected with the structure of
super-sensible, just as man would be merely an etheric being if oxygen
with carbon, the etheric organisation with oxygen and the astral
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etheric system work from below upward, the physical
system and the etheric organization in the heart-lung system.
the physical and etheric organizations.
radiates. The astral and etheric organizations of the human
being are essentially active here. Into the astral and etheric
overpowering effect of the physical and etheric organisms in
the activity of the astral and etheric organizations, but now
with the predominance of the physical and etheric organizations
etheric systems of the human being. These diseases must be
What goes from below upward in the physical-etheric organism is
organization, astral organization, etheric and physical
the physical-etheric organism on the one side, in so far as it

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the head system. The physical system proper and the etheric system
of departure in the digestive system and the etheric organisation in
and etheric organisation.
The astral and etheric organisations are essentially active here.
Into the astral and etheric organisations between the change of teeth
strong working of the physical and etheric organisms.
the activity of the astral and etheric organisations arising from the
the physical and etheric organisations arising from the metabolic
far as the metabolism is bound up with the physical and etheric
have that in the physical-etheric organism which goes from below
Ego-organisation astral organisation, etheric and physical
physical-etheric organism in so far as it expresses itself in the

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etheric organism to the astral organism of the human being is
balance does not prevail, if either the etheric or the astral
that is, of the relation between the etheric and astral
restore the balance between the etheric and astral organisms.
etheric body, of the heart-lung activity. The older an

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etheric to the astral organism of man is bound up with the
etheric or the astral activity becomes too intense, the whole
circulation: that is, of the interplay between the etheric and astral
the balance between the etheric and astral organisms. Then, simply on
the subsequent intervention of the etheric body and the action of

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transformed. It is actually so: the etheric formative forces of the
ribcage. Considering the matter etherically, we carry in our breast,
I have designated as etheric formative forces which are at work to bring
— these etheric formative forces are in fact very differentiated.
however, this eurythmist who performs as the etheric body of the larynx
the same form to the rear in the etheric.

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in the etheric body, it permeates the etheric body, strongly with the
within you — it is the etheric body namely (at this point Dr.

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in the spherical form of the head to expression in the entire etheric
etherically speaking, a fat-head — not really a fat-head, but
etherically a fat head
to continuously stretch their etheric bodies. They want to extend the
etheric body rather than to pull it together into a point, which would
case however: they try to stretch the etheric body thereby making a
but in the etheric body — will be counteracted by shaping that

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something which brings a great deal of life into this human etheric
real life into the etheric body. In these matters, in these exercises
the intention is to bring movement into the human etheric body, to bring
an inwardly regulated movement into the etheric activity of the human
releases a movement in the etheric body which proceeds from back to

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etheric body very strongly on the respiratory system. One can by this
the whole matter occurs by way of a detour through the etheric body. You
by means of this detour through the etheric body this constitutes what
human constitution by means of the byway through the etheric body.
influence which proceeds from the human etheric to act on the astral
act very strongly upon the etheric and it can be said that a beneficial
today occur by way of the etheric body and can, therefore, never show
irregularities in the lower body, again by way of the etheric body.
being and by way of a detour through the etheric body actually derives
the possibility of making this etheric body into a workable instrument.
The etheric body is a part of man which becomes stiff in most of those
their surroundings. And it is not good when the human etheric body becomes
indications given which patients have need of them), the etheric body
the physical body continually out of the etheric body. Thus, the physical
the etheric body in the appropriate manner after them. For this reason
through the etheric body, one will find that one will first have to begin

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brings his etheric body into motion. The etheric body reacts. in fact
the etheric body takes up those movements which it carries out —
his etheric body behind in the physical body. When the human being
is asleep the etheric body is considerably more active than when he
movements of the etheric body are awakened to a greater degree. These
movements of the etheric body can be observed. Thus in the listener
necessary to study the person while asleep; one can study the etheric
heightened movements of the etheric body in sleep. One studies these
say one allows the physical body to glide into all those etheric movements
one does what the human being carries out with his etheric body constantly
movements within the etheric body having primarily to do with what lies
which — as an etheric system — participates especially when
the normal person listening to vowels those movements of the the etheric
are otherwise manifest in the etheric body when vowels are heard. That
movements of the etheric body which are otherwise actually carried out in
one examines the etheric-physical correlative, it is essentially what

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propelling the organs out of the spiritual-etheric world into the

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the human being and all the processes in the human physical, etheric
of the whole organism, linked with effects in the etheric, the astral,
organism affects the etheric organism either too strongly or too weakly.
is under the influence of the etheric, when it is too weak, when it
permits itself to be influenced by the etheric, which itself is too
head. The opposite condition in which the etheric is too strongly affected
which does not engage itself in the etheric and physical organisation. Here

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realize that the so-called etheric body is working in this
while the laws of the etheric body rule the fluid Man. But
the physical man (physical body), of the fluid man (etheric
of the etheric body, of the astral body, of the ego

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permeated with the forces of the etheric body, forces which
two polar processes in the human being lie the etheric body
and the astral body. Astral body and etheric body lie between
of the human organism, from there by way of the etheric body
together of etheric organism and astral organism.
etheric organism works upon an organ, this organ is imbued
organ, or in the organism as a whole, comes from the etheric
The etheric
damps down the etheric activity all the time. If there were
only etheric activity, budding and sprouting life in your
consciousness to develop, the etheric, budding and sprouting
etheric life is damped down or lamed, we have, even in normal
contrast is not so marked between the etheric and astral
brought about by the etheric organism. In reality, therefore,
amounts to a tendency to illness. The etheric organism brings
can say: Man consists of physical body, etheric body, astral
The etheric
labile state of equilibrium, between etheric organism and
back by the etheric activity. When it is driven back, when
by the etheric activity, normal feeling arises. We shall see
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of the earth. In speaking of the etheric body, we found that
them the process whereby, out of a fluid, delicate etheric
we study the human etheric body, we find that it has within
physical-etheric significance but also a psychical and moral
which reveal themselves very clearly as forms of the etheric
etheric body. When one studies antimony one has the feeling
at once that this antimony is very sensitive to etheric
forces. It has an affinity with etheric forces. Everyone can
antimony to the etheric forces. This is a striking case, but
etheric body, and if you introduce it into the human organism
etheric body by the use of antimony. You must study the

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this physical germ and the etheric body of the human being.
But fertilization does not create the etheric body. The
etheric body forms around what are, later on, ego
fertilization. It unites, first, with the etheric body which
organization, etheric organization — this trinity
fertilization. You must regard the etheric body as something
the etheric body first unites with the physical organization
importance for the constitution of the etheric body, and in
the etheric body, before it unites with the physical body,
etheric body (and the other members, too, of course) unite
with the physical body. All the forces derived by the etheric
etheric body then takes on those forces which the physical
body works up within itself. Thus the etheric body passes
etheric body before it comes down into the physical body in
working of the mica by way of the ground water. The etheric
which was once connected with the etheric body but is now
something must be present in the etheric body (which he calls
etheric body gives over its special features to the astral
etheric body would be to unfold what it takes from the

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essence. This etheric activity that works within the fluid
with definite outlines have been built up out of the etheric
that you do with your etheric body, you have nothing to do
are etheric, the organs are astral.
present; the etheric world is present in the muscular system,
within itself. There is always a coarser etheric substance
Etheric Body
body and its corresponding etheric body form one whole; they
the etheric body, from warmth into life. What does this mean?

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forces which play, essentially, between the etheric body of
the one person and the etheric body of the other. You must
has worked upon his etheric body and the etheric body in turn
etheric body in such a way that our own etheric body works
upon the etheric body of the patient in the same way as, in
unconsciously; he influences his own etheric body with his
in order thereby to influence one's own etheric body and then
work over into the etheric body of the patient — this
the astral body is passing on its forces to the etheric body
the physical body in such a way that the etheric body of the
etheric body. If you influence the etheric body from the
pass into to the etheric body. Always, however, the healing
proceeds from the etheric body. It is a complete illusion
always come from the etheric body.
to the etheric-physical body — these organs, heart and
etheric and astral bodies. It is only in the ego organization
etheric, and astral bodies are bound up with what happens in
moment his physical and etheric bodies would be well. Suppose
a hypothetical case, without your physical body and etheric
organization, free from the physical and etheric bodies, you

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connected with the etheric body of man both in the outer
the etheric body and the physical body. All seems to be
etheric elements — it belongs to the light. The human
working in oxygen. In the etheric body, as you know,
everything is different. The etheric body is related to what
etheric body because it refuses to be combined with oxygen.
healing power in the etheric body for what oxygen, for
related to your etheric body.
the ego and astral body come down in the physical and etheric
heaviness through something that gives support to the etheric

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great resemblance indeed to an etheric structure. Milk is a
substance which really still has an etheric body and because
into the etheric, the astral body is able at once to take
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physical—the moment you pass on to the etheric body,
significance because the moment you come to the etheric body
from the physical to the etheric body, intellectual knowledge

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purpose he has his etheric body and the etheric body is
body is heavy, the etheric body is not. The physical body
strives towards the earth, the etheric body away from the
the etheric body of man. The physical body is inwardly
connected with the earth, the etheric body with everything
the earth, and all those forces which work upon the etheric
etheric body, we were always losing ourselves in these
everything that works in the human etheric body, forms and
in the etheric body, namely, the memory. So far as spiritual
be developing not only your physical body but your etheric

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being — physical body, etheric body, astral body, and
body and etheric body is one of space and time. The structure
with a physical etheric structure which in the sleeping human
sleeping human being we have a physical etheric structure
physical body and etheric body. These two structures are very
different from each other. The physical-etheric structure is
essential thing is that the physical-etheric structure and
(astral body and ego) are inserted into the physical-etheric
the etheric body is also filled with life, inasmuch as the
cosmos works through the etheric body, and in every physical
maintain its physical and etheric structure receives a
the physical-etheric organization, physical illness ensues.
ordinary plants the physical and etheric principles are at
his physical and etheric body. He takes the physical
is taking on the structure of the physical and etheric, when
physical and etheric structure. All so-called mental
in the physical or etheric sense. This universal truth is a
will tend to make the physical and etheric body spiritual. In
will be to allow the physical and etheric to give them form.
the physical and etheric body, we have the melancholic
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reverence for cosmic ether. Child's etheric permeates body with
develop his astral to influence child's etheric. Need for good
etheric world, from which, as you know, our own etheric body is
etheric body of man comes from the cosmic ether, which is all around
the etheric body has not been formed in the right way. When the human
system will then be poorly provided with etheric body. The child will
have in the region of the head a properly developed etheric body, and
in the region of the abdomen and limbs, a poorly developed etheric
backward children we have to do with an imperfectly developed etheric
that can influence the etheric body of a growing child?
development of the physical body must be living in the etheric body —
in an etheric body. Whatever is to be effective for the development
of an etheric body must be living in an astral body. Whatever is to
does this mean in practice? If you find that the etheric body of a
etheric body of the child, correcting and amending it. We could, in
Etheric body
Etheric body
teacher's etheric body (and this should follow quite naturally as a
of the child, and the teacher's astral body the etheric body of the
concerns us at the moment is that the weakened etheric body of the
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etheric forces (buoyancy). It connects fully with Earth, Water and
senses). This light is etheric. Mechanism of the eye correctly
have been speaking of the connection between etheric body, physical
We explained yesterday how the etheric body can be abnormally formed
organisation or a real astral body. The existence even of the etheric
of the organic and etheric. I will not stress names but when some
first, the connection between physical body and etheric body. This
they are within the physical and etheric bodies. An accurate
membered into the physical and etheric bodies is indispensable if we
into his physical body and etheric body, combining with them in very
and here the etheric body, then, at the time of awaking, the
organisation returns, it does not lay hold merely of the etheric body
moment, we will leave the etheric body out of the picture), and the
is the same with the etheric body. The etheric body too is inserted
the physical body, and part on the etheric body.) Then, the astral
something etheric; the vibrating that goes on in the etheric brings
through the etheric body — with all that underlies
Outside lives the light in the ether, but we have also the etheric
epilepsy unless we are able to go beyond physical body and etheric

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whilst in the etheric body, the ego organisation and astral body are

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purple, the etheric organisation yellow, and lastly, the
the astral organisation, there the etheric organisation,
(purple), then the etheric (yellow), and then the physical (white).
while he drives the astral organisation farther in, the etheric still
outwards (purple); then, farther out, the etheric organisation
organisation, into which plays also the etheric organisation, whilst
unfinished, left open. Then we can have the etheric organisation
becomes etheric; and finally, inside the bones, it becomes physical.
etheric-physical organisation do not fit well together, do not
young child between physical-etheric on the one hand, and

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loosens itself from the physical and etheric — it may be still
etheric and physical bodies.
may well be, when it is a serious one — into the etheric

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baths to help astral harmonise with physical and etheric. Mustard and

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enter into the etheric body, we must have recourse rather to the
plant, are to be used when the physical body and etheric body refuse
of fairly forcing the eyes to betake themselves out of the etheric
its “grotto”, the etheric body of the eye left

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etheric in region of bladder. Defective astral lies behind both
is connected with an excess of etheric powers of growth in the region
etheric. With S, the aim is to bring the astral body into powerful
rather from the etheric principle, we divide him, as you know, into
physical body, etheric body, sentient body, which last we then bring
physical body. In connection with the etheric body we find that the

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only etheric and physical content. Plant becomes more spiritual in
only the physical and etheric organisation. Hence the harmful effect
the root has a strongly physical and etheric relation to the
Then we have the etheric body, which has undergone three stages of

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today is a true image of the etheric body, which is in its third
brought to it today. What the etheric body impresses upon it is not
before us in physical, etheric and astral bodies, and an ego
etheric body are together on one side, and the ego organization and
etheric body and physical body. For instance, we can have: physical
body, etheric body, astral body, ego organization.
that the physical body and etheric body are in some kind of normal
etheric bodies, of that part of the world in which they live —
physical and etheric bodies still have their normal connection. But
enters properly into the physical and etheric bodies.
the physical and etheric bodies properly from the astral body and ego.
isolated because the etheric body — from time to time or even
astral and etheric bodies and the ego organization are closely united
organization, astral organization, and etheric body — are
cannot be illumined by the ego organization, astral body, and etheric
physical or etheric bodies. Still later,

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today is a true image of the etheric body, which is in its third
brought to it today. What the etheric body impresses upon it is not
before us in physical, etheric and astral bodies, and an ego
etheric body are together on one side, and the ego organization and
etheric body and physical body. For instance, we can have: physical
body, etheric body, astral body, ego organization. Then, in the
that the physical body and etheric body are in some kind of normal
etheric bodies, of that part of the world in which they live —
physical and etheric bodies still have their normal connection. But
enters properly into the physical and etheric bodies. Then the
physical and etheric bodies properly from the astral body and ego.
isolated because the etheric body — from time to time or even
astral and etheric bodies and the ego organization are closely united
organization, astral organization, and etheric body — are
cannot be illumined by the ego organization, astral body, and etheric
physical or etheric bodies. Still later, the person enters a

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etheric bodies. But the strange thing is that they
penetrating the physical and etheric bodies as deeply as they
same time experience in their etheric and physical bodies continues
the same time a separate experience of the etheric and physical
the ego organization and astral organization draw the etheric body
the ego organization, astral organization, and etheric body are all
ourselves. It goes as far as the etheric body, and the etheric body
etheric body. It is then the etheric body that communicates the whole
the etheric body; in the etheric body it pushes into the physical
actual eye experience. It is a constant play between the etheric body
and the choroid and retina. What the etheric body does in the choroid
people as I am describing, the etheric body is seized directly in
this experience. The experience sits in the ego, astral body, etheric
astral body, and etheric body take hold of the physical body from
etheric body is connected with the physical body. But in this case
the etheric body has been raised out by the ego organization and
experienced by individuals who are strong enough in their etheric
body, she takes possession of her etheric body very forcefully, and
this etheric body becomes inwardly stronger than is the case with the
etheric body that is inwardly strong. Then this strong etheric body
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etheric bodies. But the strange thing is that they
penetrating the physical and etheric bodies as deeply as they
same time experience in their etheric and physical bodies continues
the same time a separate experience of the etheric and physical
the ego organization and astral organization draw the etheric body
the ego organization, astral organization, and etheric body are all
ourselves. It goes as far as the etheric body, and the etheric body
etheric body. It is then the etheric body that communicates the whole
the etheric body; in the etheric body it pushes into the physical
actual eye experience. It is a constant play between the etheric body
and the choroid and retina. What the etheric body does in the choroid
people as I am describing, the etheric body is seized directly in
this experience. The experience sits in the ego, astral body, etheric
astral body, and etheric body take hold of the physical body from
etheric body is connected with the physical body. But in this case
the etheric body has been raised out by the ego organization and
experienced by individuals who are strong enough in their etheric
body, she takes possession of her etheric body very forcefully, and
this etheric body becomes inwardly stronger than is the case with the
etheric body that is inwardly strong. Then this strong etheric body
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beings, with physical body, etheric body, astral body, and ego
years of etheric body, astral body, and ego) fashions a new physical
inner astrality and ego nature, which in turn makes the etheric body
particular kind of work the etheric body has to do. For in the years
participate very little. The etheric body forms a new physical human
The etheric body has a
goes over into the second. The etheric body is now relieved of the
physical-material substance. What remains frees the etheric body
— itself becomes free in the etheric body. Quantitatively it is
of the etheric body to be “left over.” What flowed during
sun forces. It is not only physical-etheric rays that stream down
from the sun: in those physical-etheric sun rays, forces are
which our etheric body renews our physical body in the first seven
within the cosmos! And when the child has certain etheric forces
The etheric forces in

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beings, with physical body, etheric body, astral body, and ego
years of etheric body, astral body, and ego) fashions a new physical
inner astrality and ego nature, which in turn makes the etheric body
particular kind of work the etheric body has to do. For in the years
participate very little. The etheric body forms a new physical human
The etheric body has a
goes over into the second. The etheric body is now relieved of the
physical-material substance. What remains frees the etheric body
— itself becomes free in the etheric body. Quantitatively it is
of the etheric body to be “left over.” What flowed during
sun forces. It is not only physical-etheric rays that stream down
from the sun: in those physical-etheric sun rays, forces are
which our etheric body renews our physical body in the first seven
within the cosmos! And when the child has certain etheric forces
The etheric forces in

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physical-etheric organism. This is in the waking state. What is the
it to enter the physical and etheric bodies completely, and this
happen: the etheric body on its part can draw the astral body and ego
physical and etheric bodies — again in the waking state. Then
the etheric body. The individual snaps too strongly with the ego,
astral body, and etheric body into the physical organism, and the
that always appear when a physical or etheric organ is flooded by the
etheric and astral bodies. Something is left over in the physical
the physical organism, which then succeeds in drawing the etheric
ego, astral, and etheric body are pulled in by the physical body, but
some unusual stress in putting together the etheric body before
entering the physical body. An etheric body was formed that does not
other words, an etheric body that carries the astral body and ego

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physical-etheric organism. This is in the waking state. What is the
it to enter the physical and etheric bodies completely, and this
happen: the etheric body on its part can draw the astral body and ego
physical and etheric bodies — again in the waking state. Then
the etheric body. The individual snaps too strongly with the ego,
astral body, and etheric body into the physical organism, and the
that always appear when a physical or etheric organ is flooded by the
etheric and astral bodies. Something is left over in the physical
the physical organism, which then succeeds in drawing the etheric
ego, astral, and etheric body are pulled in by the physical body, but
some unusual stress in putting together the etheric body before
entering the physical body. An etheric body was formed that does not
other words, an etheric body that carries the astral body and ego

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seen that there are individuals whose ego, astral body, and etheric
their physical-etheric organism; they sink down into their physical

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seen that there are individuals whose ego, astral body, and etheric
their physical-etheric organism; they sink down into their physical

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its present form, physical-etheric body and soul-and-spirit are
interwoven. Present earth processes reach into the physical-etheric
activity in it: activity of the etheric body. The entire process
an important question: how is it during sleep? In sleep the etheric
finer breathing that takes place in the etheric and astral bodies.
the element of warmth, into which the entire cosmic etheric world

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its present form, physical-etheric body and soul-and-spirit are
interwoven. Present earth processes reach into the physical-etheric
activity in it: activity of the etheric body. The entire process
an important question: how is it during sleep? In sleep the etheric
finer breathing that takes place in the etheric and astral bodies.
the element of warmth, into which the entire cosmic etheric world

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body and ego without any connection to the etheric and physical
etheric body. In clairvoyance one can bring this condition about
etheric body but is not yet able to take hold of the physical body;
one remains in the etheric body. In this condition it is possible to
One knows clearly: “now I am in the etheric world.” Thus when
one is in the etheric body, one is truly in the world ether. One has
from one direction. As one unfolds in an etheric body,
in the etheric body thinking — the thoughts of the universe.
consciously in an etheric body are at first devoid of warmth or cold,
gradually come from the etheric world to which we have become
world. When we see ourselves reflected in the etheric world by the
us, that on the paths of the physical-etheric sunlight, the light
physical-etheric sun activity enters: through the senses. In the same
physical-etheric activity of the sun, we enable them to perceive the

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body and ego without any connection to the etheric and physical
etheric body. In clairvoyance one can bring this condition about
etheric body but is not yet able to take hold of the physical body;
one remains in the etheric body. In this condition it is possible to
One knows clearly: now I am in the etheric world.” Thus when
one is in the etheric body, one is truly in the world ether. One has
from one direction. As one unfolds in an etheric body, one develops
in the etheric body thinking — the thoughts of the universe.
consciously in an etheric body are at first devoid of warmth or cold,
gradually come from the etheric world to which we have become
world. When we see ourselves reflected in the etheric world by the
us, that on the paths of the physical-etheric sunlight, the light
physical-etheric sun activity enters: through the senses. In the same
physical-etheric activity of the sun, we enable them to perceive the

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physical body and etheric body are by themselves; the astral body and
ego are also by themselves. Turning first to the physical and etheric
investigation to the etheric body, we find that during sleep only the
processes can take place in the etheric body that can otherwise take
astral body and ego are in the etheric body, these processes are
etheric bodies we find the basis for spiritual development; on the
sleep in the human physical and etheric bodies, we find the
deeply enough into their physical and etheric bodies — which is
relation of the human etheric body to the plant world on the other.
If we observe too exuberant a growth in the etheric body, we realize
that the etheric body is lacking proper penetration by the astral
physical and etheric bodies in such a way that they acquire a certain
etheric body. Now the normal human being in waking life has the
physical and etheric bodies completely saturated by the astral body
astral body do not combine with the etheric and physical body in
the etheric and physical body. When some of the astral body and ego
and astral body are outside the physical and etheric body and things
belong in that physical-etheric body), when too much spirit is
physical-etheric body), then a clairvoyance comes about that borders
physical-etheric body and then experiences the illness in a
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physical body and etheric body are by themselves; the astral body and
ego are also by themselves. Turning first to the physical and etheric
investigation to the etheric body, we find that during sleep only the
processes can take place in the etheric body that can otherwise take
astral body and ego are in the etheric body, these processes are
etheric bodies we find the basis for spiritual development; on the
sleep in the human physical and etheric bodies, we find the
deeply enough into their physical and etheric bodies — which is
relation of the human etheric body to the plant world on the other.
If we observe too exuberant a growth in the etheric body, we realize
that the etheric body is lacking proper penetration by the astral
physical and etheric bodies in such a way that they acquire a certain
etheric body. Now the normal human being in waking life has the
physical and etheric bodies completely saturated by the astral body
astral body do not combine with the etheric and physical body in
the etheric and physical body. When some of the astral body and ego
and astral body are outside the physical and etheric body and things
belong in that physical-etheric body), when too much spirit is
physical-etheric body), then a clairvoyance comes about that borders
physical-etheric body and then experiences the illness in a
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rhythms. Our human life is also enclosed within physical-etheric body
human life on earth lies between physical body-etheric body and
earthly organism. We also breathe our etheric body out into the
universe. I have often indicated how the etheric body is breathed
we breathe our etheric body in again. That is a giant breath. An
etheric inbreathing-outbreathing. Mornings we breathe in the astral
each earth-death we breathe the etheric element out; with each
earth-life we breathe the etheric element in.

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rhythms. Our human life is also enclosed within physical-etheric body
human life on earth lies between physical body-etheric body and
earthly organism. We also breathe our etheric body out into the
universe. I have often indicated how the etheric body is breathed
we breathe our etheric body in again. That is a giant breath. An
etheric inbreathing-outbreathing. Mornings we breathe in the astral
each earth-death we breathe the etheric element out; with each
earth-life we breathe the etheric element in.

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soul-spiritual entity enters too deeply into the physical and etheric
entity in the physical-etheric organism. There is, then, this
physical-etheric organism do we live in the natural world. The moment
when human beings sleep. When we are asleep our physical and etheric
Let us look at the physical and etheric bodies. Of what do we
consist, lying there in our physical and etheric bodies? We have
outside the physical and etheric bodies: that is, the ego and astral
illness in the physical and etheric bodies. If someone is unable to

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soul-spiritual entity enters too deeply into the physical and etheric
entity in the physical-etheric organism. There is, then, this
physical-etheric organism do we live in the natural world. The moment
when human beings sleep. When we are asleep our physical and etheric
Let us look at the physical and etheric bodies. Of what do we
consist, lying there in our physical and etheric bodies? We have
outside the physical and etheric bodies: that is, the ego and astral
illness in the physical and etheric bodies. If someone is unable to

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influences of etheric processes, of astral processes, of ego processes. But
processes, this etheric living and weaving, it actually does not at all
an etheric body — a body of formative forces, an astral and an ego
forces of the astral and etheric bodies, is radically disturbed in typhoid
not work properly into the etheric body. The consequences are the
astral body with its forces into the etheric body in the right way, so that it
and etheric body. Other substances must be mixed in to establish a proper
body and the etheric body. Now we can see how the forces which are
forces, the etheric body and the physical body.
the proper relationship between the etheric body and the physical body,
having the patient drink it. If we want to bring etheric oils which, through

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just because of this, just because the physical and etheric
the higher species, are only to be found in etheric form. But
their case it is etheric; or you may find the pecten or choroid
region of the metabolic system within the etheric organisation

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etheric, or life-body.
it casts off its substance. The etheric body — which
beings, have an etheric or life-body. In these two members of
destruction. Just as the etheric
because the physical and etheric bodies are continually
everything that constitutes the etheric body is intimately
the higher species, are only to be found in etheric form. But
their case it is etheric; or you may find the pecten or
the region of the metabolic system within the etheric
organisation — within the etheric

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of the physical and etheric bodies. It can so happen that the
too strongly into the physical body and the etheric body. Man
physical and etheric bodies. There is really a continual
— the physical and etheric bodies bud and blossom; when
he is awake the forces of the physical and etheric bodies are
physical-etheric part of our being begins to bud and blossom;
and etheric bodies and observe what is going on when the astral
nerves-and-senses, the physical body and etheric body are of
the metabolic-limb system; the physical and etheric
giving something which will stem back the etheric forces. We
rind-formation have the effect of driving back the etheric
without harm — and the physical and etheric forces in the
which resemble our physical and etheric bodies and which we eat

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body lives the so-called etheric or life-body,
separated from the physical body and the etheric body. As soon
— physical body, etheric body, astral body and
etheric bodies. It can so happen that the organism of nerves
too strongly into the physical body and the etheric body. Man
bound to the physical and etheric bodies. There is really a
etheric body on the one hand, and the astral body and
disordered. The astral body and the etheric body can no longer
Migraine is only a symptom of the fact that the etheric body,
effect upon the physical body and etheric body. If, however, we
sprouting caused by the working of the etheric body. The astral
life, caused by the etheric body. If this process alone were to
The physical organisation and etheric body bring about a
— the physical and etheric bodies bud and blossom; when
he is awake the forces of the physical and etheric bodies are
astral body and the Ego pass out and the physical-etheric part
etheric body are very active. It is a condition of Spring and
Summer. If we could look back upon our physical and etheric
— by the physical body, etheric body, astral body and
body and etheric body are of far greater importance than the
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bears an etheric body. This is not to be confused with that which, in
physical body and the etheric body, I should choose, out of all the
to be drawn earthward. The etheric body tends to be drawn towards the
to the laws of gravity, and the other, the etheric body, which strives
The etheric body seeks, as it were, to imitate, to be an image of the
body and the etheric body, our perception of the nature of the human
scale of organic life than the plants. The plant has its etheric body;
physical body embedded within the etheric body, as though in a
the etheric body in conjunction with the Cosmos, and through the
— the physical, etheric, and astral. But if we proceed to the
away from the combination of the physical and etheric bodies, and
between the physical body, the etheric body, the astral body, and the
these can be disturbed. An abnormal relation may arise between the etheric
and the physical bodies, or between the astral and etheric, or between the
instance, a human lung, the physical, etheric, astral, and Ego
etheric body is working too strongly in some particular organ. The
this super-activity of the etheric body, so that we are faced with an
which is too weak, and the etheric body therefore predominates. The
At this point, then, where the etheric body predominates, the human
predominance of the etheric body, which is not suppressed by a
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bears an etheric body. This is not to be confused with that which, in
physical body and the etheric body, I should choose, out of all the
to be drawn earthward. The etheric body tends to be drawn towards the
to the laws of gravity, and the other, the etheric body, which strives
The etheric body seeks, as it were, to imitate, to be an image of the
body and the etheric body, our perception of the nature of the human
scale of organic life than the plants. The plant has its etheric body;
physical body embedded within the etheric body, as though in a
the etheric body in conjunction with the Cosmos, and through the
— the physical, etheric, and astral. But if we proceed to the
away from the combination of the physical and etheric bodies, and
between the physical body, the etheric body, the astral body, and the
these can be disturbed. An abnormal relation may arise between the etheric
and the physical bodies, or between the astral and etheric, or between the
instance, a human lung, the physical, etheric, astral, and Ego
etheric body is working too strongly in some particular organ. The
this super-activity of the etheric body, so that we are faced with an
which is too weak, and the etheric body therefore predominates. The
At this point, then, where the etheric body predominates, the human
predominance of the etheric body, which is not suppressed by a
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a very high degree, to bring our etheric body into play.
Unembarrassed by the weight of matter, the etheric body can here do
physical matter. Thus in our brain the etheric organisms in some
of the etheric.
how differently your own etheric body is inserted into your muscles
isolated, here the etheric body is not inserted into the physical
the portion of the etheric body that is in the eye. Inside the eye

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with our etheric body. You will never understand what light is
without going into these realities. We with our etheric body swim in
etheric body we are swimming in the light.
just now, we swim with our etheric body. How then do we relate

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just now, with our etheric body. This in effect — this

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with our etheric body and thereby also with the astral part of our
will have to admit: It is only with your etheric body that you can
ascend as it were into a higher, into an etheric sphere, therein to

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animals the pecten, which man only has etherically, or the
larynx and that lies farther forward. Etherically we are talking to

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and concentrated etheric-astral part of your being. It is quite

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etheric natures. But since it occupied an intermediate position, it
in the two. If now we call the upper realm the etheric and the lower
etheric body and the ponderable material. It is ether and matter

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is not a physical body but an etheric body informing man's physical
during the first seven years. At the change of teeth this etheric body
to observe the way in which the etheric or life-body works within the

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from the human etheric. One now sees not the unified human form but

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inner forces of the etheric and astral bodies stream toward us from

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the etheric body. Devotional surrender to them with perfect
pictures, the living forces of our etheric and astral bodies

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observed more in the etheric organism and this is not usually
rhythm is more withdrawn into the etheric.) Here then a

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in his etheric body. This force of suction therefore,
permeating his etheric body from above downward. Upon the
through me — through my etheric body, that is to say.

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When one achieves this, one has reached the human etheric
etheric nature of the human being, in the same way that one
discover the etheric within a sense organ through
imagination. It is not true that the idea of an etheric body
in us, the human etheric body, is brought into view in such a
cognition. In the eye and the other senses our etheric
— between what can be called our etheric organization
that we possess an etheric organism, known only through
Imagine that the human being could direct his etheric body

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the soul life develops. We see how the etheric body actually

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well as inside the etheric man these secondary qualities can no
normally dwell within his physical and etheric bodies but during
sleep they can also be outside the physical and etheric bodies. Just
is to be found outside the physical and etheric bodies from the
realities, not physical-etheric ones. In spite of the fact that what
horizontal lines stand for the physical and etheric body of man, the
Man experiences them outside his physical and etheric body,
physical and etheric bodies. But these are thoughts that never
indeed indwell and permeate the physical and etheric body during the
how light works on us; how something etheric (according to their

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members — the physical body, the etheric body, the astral body
etheric body, in this subtle organism? Man experiences quite a bit in
the self-experience of the etheric body,
experience them with my etheric body. One experienced it as inwardly felt
-Etheric Body
of the etheric body into the external world as was accomplished in
aim of chemistry in regard to the etheric body. Chemistry states that if

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etheric body. Hence, we can even look at the table that I put on the
body, the etheric body, the astral body (the inner life of the soul,)
human organism, which in turn was permeated by the etheric body.
etheric bodies, the contents of the astral body and the ego
is similar in the case of the etheric body. Not only the etheric, was
controlled by the etheric. Now, what is inwardly experienced when man
If I call the physical and etheric bodies, the “lower
body. Water we experience in ourselves when we experience the etheric
etheric body is the driving agent that mixes or separates the fluids,
vitality of the fluids, or the etheric body active therein. The heart
etheric body. There was full awareness of it in what Galen described.
etheric body, more than survived in the official iatrochemists who
work. The iatrochemists had a shadowy consciousness of the etheric
knowledge, no tradition existed concerning the etheric body as the

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science, we must say that we member man into physical body, etheric
hold of by the etheric body in such a way that it is in a constant
lives inwardly in man by virtue of the etheric body. The work of this
inwardly experienced within the etheric. In a way, this is still in
and especially in his physical and etheric organizations — the
man who is dependent on the physical and etheric bodies. It is
fluids, through the actions of the etheric body. The explanation of
the chemical processes in nature lies in the processes of the etheric
the etheric body. Countless facts are available in medical literature

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any other living being must be penetrated by an etheric
etheric element which will either remain stationary about
But the main thing is that the etheric element is in both cases
This etheric element could not abide our physical earth world,
works in the etheric element (we may say that the lowest level
of the spiritual works in the etheric); this physical bearer
which is permeated by the etheric element, and
as the brooding? vibrating etheric element which
permeates it. It is in the track of oxygen that the etheric
there lives the lowest order of the supersensible, the etheric
birth the bearer of life, of the etheric element. It becomes
throughout Nature the oxygen bearing the etheric life must find
astral spreads forth in activity. The etheric life-element
speaking, the astral in the nitrogen drags the etheric element
breathes, man takes in oxygen, i.e. etheric life. Then comes
at first only its physical body and etheric body but no astral
coloured blue in the drawing), then the etheric oxygenous
the etheric life borne in the oxygen. It must disappear not
between our ego and etheric body, so nitrogen works in between,

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in process of decomposition — such earthly matter contains etherically
by its special constitution reveals the presence in it of etherically

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decomposition, bears etheric life within it. And this is the
point. When soil is so constituted as to have etheric life
by means of its etheric life, raised itself to a higher form of
distinct tendency to be penetrated with etheric life. This is
the plant with its own etheric life. Why do I say this? The
etheric but even of the astral elements. And that is
actually pervaded not only by living and etheric but also
the etheric element is too ebullient. A too powerful sprouting
of the etheric life hampers the astral element in the compost
were too much, the etheric element is taken up by the
element without the detour through the etheric element.
conviction that etheric life and even the astral principle must
etheric formative forces, which then penetrate right into the
nature is fitted to reflect the living etheric and astral
radiates etheric life and even the astral element. Indeed, if
the current of etheric-astral life which streams inwards from
permeated with astral and etheric elements. The astral element
has filled it with nitrogen-bearing forces and the etheric
soil an etheric-astral element whose proper place is in the
etheric and astral forces from the interior of the
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within the realm of life. We saw that the etheric life forces
etheric body is working too strongly so that the astral element
kills (damps down) the forces of the etheric body and so sets
limestone. But if it is necessary for an over-powerful etheric

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etheric body and a certain connection is the normal
etheric body does not form a proper “cushion”
etheric element. The moon can do this more easily when the

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the free up yonder? The tree has a certain inner vitality or ethericity;
cambium works in such a way that, there within, the ethericity is poorer.
we still remain within the realms of life — of some of its ethericity.
of the astral richness in the tree's environment above, and the etheric
are wonderful creatures: they leave to the earth precisely as much ethericity
of physical body, etheric body,” etc., etc., which one can learn

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taking place: through warmth, through the chemical-etheric
separated from it and are only, as it were, etherically
Etheric. It is in this way we need to look, with a macro-cosmic
tree here has a certain inner vitality, a powerful etheric life
cambium causes an impoverishment of the etheric life in the
tree. The tree within is deprived of etheric life as compared
some of the etheric life from the soil; it makes the soil
the atmosphere around the tree and of the etheric poverty in
the impoverished etheric element beneath, spreading in
around it tends to throw off the etheric life whereas the upper
of etheric life in the soil if this amount becomes
alive and the sprouting etheric life too strong, these animals
for these wonderful animals allow just that amount of etheric
world and lime brings about the drawing off of the etheric

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physical and etheric body and being more or less surrounded

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etheric body or body of formative forces. We
experiences into our etheric body and on into our physical
man's being than the etheric body or body of formative forces. We

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the etheric-spiritual elements are balanced — and

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the speaker with our speech organ; and the etheric body

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the speaker with our speech organ; and the etheric body

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spiritual things must be aware that thought is like an etheric
and etheric part. Between falling asleep and waking up the physical

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example the concept of the etheric body is easy to bring across
sleep”; the etheric is in there because it comes from the
etheric body's activity. Starting points are everywhere. You

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Heavenly heights in your Etheric

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being again felt how the organization of the etheric body was
forces of the etheric were active in him. You could say he
the way described yesterday were merging with his etheric,

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dependent upon the ethers. For the forces in the etheric body
etheric body, air is under the influence of the astral body,
the etheric body were active with the universe.
after it in the act of consecration, one felt that the etheric
fluidic element in one, and that the etheric body was active in
ascending and descending etheric forces were active in him. He
absorbed by his etheric, fluidic man. He felt that he was
of the second epoch experienced an enhancement of their etheric
the connection was through experiences with the etheric body

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physical and our etheric body, the thoughts about our

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leaves the physical and etheric bodies.
etheric bodies.
that we can say: here are the physical and etheric bodies of
not in the physical and etheric bodies and because the ego is
the physical and etheric bodies, but when it is outside it is

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etheric in the human being is a kind of intimate fiery process,
etheric sphere that arises for example when an important genius

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consciousness soul consumes material and etheric things in
see death yet they don't see the tensions in the etheric which

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the Etheric Christ becomes visible. Only two thirds of the
Etheric Christ during the first half of the twentieth century

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etheric Christ. It will then take almost two thirds of a
the 19th century and the appearance of the etheric Christ in

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etheric body, astral body and
physical and etheric body, they are in the spiritual
the physical and etheric body as they sleep only be perceptible
his etheric body.

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he wears his three garments, physical body, etheric body and
outside the physical and etheric body and are in the earthly
dwells in the physical and etheric bodies which lie there
This Christ impulse has a strong influence upon man's etheric
the physical and etheric body, except that the average person
contained in the etheric body when he returns to the physical
human etheric body between the times of going to sleep and
themselves to the Mystery of Golgotha can expose their etheric
Christ-evolution is inscribed in man's etheric body. This is
etheric body when they wake up. Through the fact that the
into man's etheric body in a concrete way.
mysteries didn't expect to get anything else into their etheric
body than what gets into one's etheric body through the results
with Christ, into his etheric body. So that in fact the

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for the etheric appearance of Christ, who is of course a being

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etheric appearance of the Christ, who is a being that came down

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been withdrawn from the physical and etheric body,
body fill the physical and etheric body with a way of thinking
ceased — into the physical and etheric body
up to the exaltedness of Christ with their physical and etheric

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Christ on earth in his etheric body, which is really his second
physical and etheric bodies by an external force, and this was
etheric body. Depending on whether the initiate who brings this
etheric bodies with a line of thought which is no doubt
hypnosis would then go into his physical and etheric body and
the Christ with their etheric and physical bodies, and

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appearance of the Etheric Christ. Something like an inner
etheric vision of the Christ-Being, for during the age of
Christ who walks on the earth etherically in our time and can

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and this will begin after the appearance of the etheric Christ.
on earth in an etheric form in our age, and is understood by

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apocalyptist describes them: like etheric locusts with human
have called the Etheric Christ will become visible amongst

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physical line of heredity and receive an etheric body and an
way the Apocalypticer describes them — like etheric
way, to the extent that the one whom I called the etheric

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did not first build itself a body out of the etheric element of

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if it didn't create its body from the etheric elements that we

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meant by the apocalyptist is: Before the Etheric Christ can be

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the etheric Christ in the right way, mankind must first meet

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in front. It is correct to say that the etheric body, the more
absolutely true that the etheric body wags.

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taste. With taste we live completely within the etheric body,
but the etheric body is held fast by the water in us, and that
natural thing to say that man has an etheric body that is
within him this etheric body that is actually only in his fluid
more delicate body — the life body or etheric body

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fertilization it is enfolded in a delicate, etheric substance

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the more delicate activity of the body, the etheric activity,

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Etheric Formative Forces in Cosmos, Earth and Man,
gets etheric force again and give this as a remedy, then I may be
laboriously, by observing the etheric forces with compass, magnet,

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astral body, an etheric body and a physical body. Fat, needless to
same time to remain living fat, is performed by the etheric body.
etheric body, fat is assimilated and absorbed all the time. Fat acts
etheric body is at work in the fats, the astral body in the

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both physical and etheric, but this it finds difficult as it contains
present — no longer earthly or etheric forces, but astral forces

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etheric body, thirdly the astral body, and fourthly the

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etheric body, he reckons them all out, and what remains?

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life, there is oxalic acid, an etheric body. The etheric body brings

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that contains life, something that still contains etheric life. And
ought, is not in proper control of the physical and etheric bodies,

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there still remains the etheric body of the spleen and its astral
it. If one removes the physical spleen, leaving the etheric spleen,
inclines to the earth, the etheric spleen, which has now become free
are still more — I have told you: physical man, etheric man,
depends more on the etheric body. The physical body is heavier and is
more developed on the left, the etheric body more on the right. The
physical, on the right, more etheric.
the left, and more the etheric forces of the heavens on the right.
physical on the left and more etheric on the right. But what does
modern science care about physical, etheric? Both are the same to the
especially powerfully the invisible etheric body. We can see just by

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the etheric body is growing stronger and stronger (I've spoken of this
brain can now become old and stiff. The etheric body can control this
stiff altogether; now the etheric body can control it very cleverly so

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is growing old properly, the etheric body is growing stronger and
stiff. The etheric body can control this slight sclerotic condition —
etheric body can control it very cleverly so that it is no longer so

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this mass of comets. The fine etheric structures of the universe,

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learning that man consists of a physical body, an etheric body, an astral body and an Ego.
etheric body is connected with his physical body, whether the etheric and astral body tend
incarnations, we shall find in him a human being whose physical, etheric and astral bodies
etheric body and the physical body. In reality, ordinary science does not know anything
etheric body. If we are wise, we shall prepare the path for this. The forces which enable
us to descend into our subsequent incarnations form the etheric body and pervade it. If
during our earthly life we have filled our etheric body with genuinely devout feelings and
it then dissolves in the universal All when we die, we hand over to the universe an etheric
body filled with devoutness, an etheric body which may be of benefit to the whole world. If
on the other hand we have not been devout, but materialistic, the etheric body which we lay
more the obstructing forces and gives the etheric body its right structure. But the force
body, our etheric body and our physical body by wisdom, devoutness and in life-confidence,

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his physical body, his etheric double, and that body which is subject
physical with the etheric body; the life-force and the passions and

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physical man, then the etheric body, and further, the

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descend to the Earth, we must purify our feet, and when the etheric
the etheric body must be able to come right down into the material

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body, the etheric body or body of formative forces, the
man has the etheric body, which becomes part of his organism and
science called the etheric or life body; we might also call it the
between birth and death this etheric or life body continuously
is due to the fact that the etheric or life-body is ceaselessly
entire visible environment, the etheric body in common
The expression of the etheric body, or a part of this
he consists of physical body, etheric body, astral body, and ego.
those characteristics which live in man's etheric body, in that
body, etheric body and physical body; and from the interaction of
etheric bodies, that which arises because of the coloring thus given
the etheric or life-body acts excessively upon the
physical expression of the etheric body. The etheric body
the etheric or life-body — that which inwardly regulates the
etheric body — that system which brings about the feeling of
etheric body is a body which leads a sort of inner life, while the
etheric body, which acts as life-body, and maintains the separate
inner ease of the etheric body, to the mobility of the astral body,
formed according to its etheric body, the etheric body according to
allow the astral body and the etheric body their full rights. In the
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One of the most important lectures on the etheric appearance of
of them, gradually insinuate themselves into the etheric body. There
into our etheric body. There it takes on the form of an opinion, of a
live in human nature. Ahriman lives in the etheric body and Lucifer
insinuate himself into the etheric body, darkening our judgments on
physical, etheric and astral bodies.

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members — physical body, etheric body, astral body,
to the physical, etheric and astral bodies is not at all the
physical, etheric and astral bodies and the “I”
first sever years, the etheric body up to the age of 14, the
on earth with a physical body, etheric body, astral body and

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ordinary body like a vessel. In spiritual science it is called the etheric
or ether body. This etheric body lies within our sense body. By means
etheric body; we see a super-sensible body of human nature which underlies
we perceive in ourselves as the true activity of the etheric body is,
it were, clothed on the physical side, the etheric body as it were filling
perceive how the etheric body becomes a special, individual, egotistical
perceive how this our etheric body leads us into those regions where
the etheric body. The soul so lives in the etheric body that it certainly
in an external sheath, in the etheric body, do we speak of the intellectual
body, so have we the intellectual or rational soul enclosed in the etheric
through his own inner being into the etheric body, but which he can
perceive when he is independent of himself, of the etheric body, and
soul in the astral body, the intellectual or rational soul in the etheric
body the intellectual soul in the etheric body, and the consciousness
has like his etheric and physical bodies between birth and death, but
the intellectual or rational soul, and which so created the etheric
body that this etheric body transforms all external substance, all external
and not in the animal sense. The creative spirit for the etheric body
worlds, saw the divine, spiritual power which framed, forged the etheric
body of man, so that this etheric body became the master-builder which
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science of spirit or anthroposophy we speak of a fine etheric
etheric world, out of the super-sensible body. We cannot use
for his being, but he also has what one can call an etheric, a
etheric body, in the way I have described.
to use the spiritual eye in the etheric body by means of the

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etheric cosmos. That which I now recognize and know only in its
call a time-body. One can also call this an etheric or formative
feels that he really is in his etheric body, in his time-body
entire etheric cosmos, you belong to the etheric cosmos. It is

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that is said about ourselves, our etheric and astral bodies and

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etheric. His soul became active in a way that was

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descriptions given of the human etheric and astral bodies

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experiences and will then know that the etheric Christ is walking on
in the physical form of Christ Jesus, but now at the etheric level. If

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physical body. We call it the etheric body or life body. It is in all
against this decay is the etheric body or life body. Only in case of
the second member of which is the etheric body or life body, the third
etheric body, only finer and somewhat larger, projecting beyond the
sensations, penetrating the etheric body and surrounding the physical
body, which is connected with the etheric body, like a large shining
connected with the etheric body, remains in bed. In the morning, or
also of the etheric body. You will not only have observed it from your
connected with the etheric body, then in ordinary life a separation of
the etheric body from the physical body almost never occurs, at most in
does a separation of the physical body from the etheric body normally
the three members, etheric body, astral body and ego, leave the
connection of etheric body, astral body and ego-bearer.
etheric body is in truth the carrier of memory. As long as the etheric
explained earlier, the etheric body, the bearer of memory, becomes
exceptional cases this separation of physical and etheric body may
clairvoyant can see. Not always, but sometimes, the part of the etheric
thereby released, because at such moments the etheric body is freed
observe a partial exit of the etheric body on other occasions. When you
etheric body like a copy of the physical human body near it. Thus, for
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etheric brain. We are at present confronted with the fact that
to grasp things with the etheric brain, to take
beyond the spoken word. That works from etheric body to etheric

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and astral body leave the physical and etheric bodies as we
etheric bodies, but then this return takes place in varying
and etheric bodies and become completely one with them as to
physical and etheric, and even so, not until after the 27th or
physical and etheric bodies and are exposed to the strongest
body and ego to plunge down into the physical and etheric

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