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Title: Evil and Spiritual Science
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soul-spiritual, so when the soul-spiritual is outside the body
within but outside of its body, as far as this knowledge is
of the body, that everything that he/she must look back upon as
spiritual outside of the body?
physical body, then the possibility is present that the person
spirit world, pulls through to its physical body unjustifiably;
the physical-body, which as such cannot be evil, and to develop
after the middle of the life in the body. That
power into the world and do not concentrate on the body. He
the extent that we are walking over a dead body, at the same

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 1: Popular Occultism, Introtroduction
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of his being, the physical body, constitutes the first member. As a
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
body is the image of the physical body, but it takes on a different
the etheric body clairvoyantly are treated in the same way. At present
Those who are endowed with clairvoyance see the etheric body as follows:
the physical body, they must — so to speak — suggest it
them. The same space occupied by the physical body will then be occupied
time except that the etheric body slightly projects above the head.
of man is the astral body. At first, it should be studied more from
body with our hands. Let us now leave aside the etheric body. Where
muscles, bones and nerves exist in the physical body, there are also
are all as real as the former. This is the astral body seen from within.
Seen from the outside, the astral body does not exist at all as far
pass through training of the soul we learn to know also the astral body
as it appears to us as the soul-part of man. The astral body is designated
is like a dull red cloud that passes through the astral body; a pure
body and it surrounds man, and enwrapping him in a kind of oval form.
in the child. From the first to the seventh year the physical body unfolds;
the other two bodies are not free and they influence the physical body
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Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 2: Man's Ascent into the Supersensible World
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The physical world need not be described, for it is clearly known to everybody.
been described as the etheric body and the astral body.
to incarnate themselves, to form themselves an astral body; these Beings
he is asleep? His physical and etheric body remain upon the bed, while
his astral body and his Ego go out. A clairvoyant sees that at night
the astral body is very active. During the day, man consumes his physical
is the work done by the astral body during the night. But what does
the astral body goes out of the etheric and physical body and then we
see and hear nothing — for we have perceptions through the astral body.
by the astral body when it has perceptions. The astral body transforms
the night the astral body no longer needs to do this work; it can then
produce new forces for the physical body and above all for the etheric
body. In order to do this work of restoring the balance, it must go
out of physical body. When we dream a lot, this work is so to speak,
sun that we see, is but the physical body of the sun and Goethe knew

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 3: The Different Conditions of Man's Life After Death
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die the following processes take place: The physical body remains behind
as a corpse; whereas during sleep the etheric body remains connected
with physical body, the etheric body, the astral body and the Ego go
out of the physical body at the moment of death. Immediately after death,
three days, until the next separation, namely that of the etheric body
from the astral body and the Ego. In the occult meaning we therefore
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
body in order to renew their forces. This work suppresses consciousness
After death the astral body is dispensed from this work indeed no longer to
of the physical body, but now it is free and exists in the form of consciousness.
When the astral body is no longer obliged to restore anything, it perceives
be seized by an unspeakable greed for their physical body, which would
the physical world, for the physical body, but later on this will be
the human body. A choleric person has quite a different expression,
Yet the physical body constitutes a certain obstacle. In Devachan this
This enables us to shape our next incarnation, as far as the body, and

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 4: The Devachanic World
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blood-circulation in the human body.
to his own body. He learns to compare his physical existence in a selfless

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 5: Life Between Death and a New Birth
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his physical body and hands it over to the Earth as a corpse. If etheric
body, the astral body and Ego grow out of the physical body. Immediately
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
forces which impressed themselves upon the astral body. They transformed
themselves as if they were some kind of nourishment for the astral body.
The causal body or spirit
the causal body which man keeps throughout the Devachan-period and through
parts: as physical, etheric body, astral body, and Ego. The causal body
And with each incarnation the causal body grew. Each time the pictures
of memory are impressed on the causal body, thus enriching it and make
the human being has his Ego and his causal body and is enveloped by
his astral body. First you must live through his whole past life backwards,
of a living body and destroy in life. At that time many people, and
see through the physical body. But this power of vision was lost and
human being abandons his astral body and leaves it behind as a third
corpse. He then continues to live with his Ego and his causal body.
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Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 6: Man's Return to a New Earthly Life
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of etheric body, then follows a short sleep-like condition in which the
causal body frees itself. This asserts itself in the form of rays which
the astral body has remained behind is a third corpse, it continues
thus transformed his whole life in an alchemistic way, his causal body
The new etheric body arises,
of the new etheric body takes place when the bell-like shape has already
body with physical germ of man only takes place in the seventh month
of man are contained in the etheric body and in the next life they are
elaborated in the physical body. They transformed themselves into forces
which appear in the next life in the physical body as organ-forming
forces. Since the qualities of the etheric body have such an influence
upon the physical body of the next life, the healthy or unhealthy constitution
thus rendering the body of our next incarnation strong and healthy.

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 7: Effects of the Law of Karma
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activity of the astral body. The nature of our thought-life influences
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
development the human being had an astral body which had not yet been
begins to work into the astral body. The astral body and thus becomes
is false. Man continually works upon his astral body with his Ego; A
clairvoyant sees a great difference in the astral body of a developed
upon the astral body there is in every human soul a part still filled
elaborated his astral body. That part of the astral body which has been
the work upon the astral body is the work upon the etheric body, because it is
body is in part man's own work, in so far as it is the result of former deeds,
etheric body was formed. The more a human being works into his ehteric body,
the method of working upon the astral body, but also that of working upon the
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
physical body. Such an initiative is called a "Master&".
The part of the physical body over which the human being gained control,
working into the physical body, and with the flashing up of Atma, which
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Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 8: The Evolution of Man and of the Solar System; the Atlantic Evolution
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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
animal and man. The human soul flowed together with the body towards
his physical body. The human soul then lived entirely in higher worlds,

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 9: Lemurian Development
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body. This consisted only of gelatinous, transparent substances, into
How was the human soul connected with the body, before giving life to
this body which, according to present-day concepts was very misshapen?
outside the body, it soared above it and drew it with it to an earth
was when he first used his body for the purpose of perception. The human
soul that soared above the body. The soul entered the human body in
of a body which was even less perfect. This body then took an upward
were one body, and everything which now exists in the form of human

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 10: Paths of Occult Training
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training of the etheric body. People who precede others in their inner

Title: i Spirituality: Lecture 1: Historical Symptomology, the Year 790, Alcuin, Greeks, Platonism, Aristotelianism, East, West, Middle, Ego
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etheric body. In this constitution, in the inner experience of the soul-and-spirit element and in
soul-and-spirit nature in a physical body, comes the inner comprehension of the 'I'. This is why
22. I.e., a form of international support body for Waldorf Schools. Rudolf

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 2: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 1
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body — but there are other beings incarnated here, beings who use these people in order to
being from taking full possession of his physical body, hinders him from finding a connection

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 3: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 2
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the human 'I' and astral body — and then asserting themselves, without the people realizing
these beings, who then secure for the human body in which they incarnate a certain position of
leadership, is the body and soul — not the spirit to which less attention is paid.
body and soul, and not the spirit, were particularly
dominant. He, therefore, also considers the human being only according to body and soul and
conception of the human being was the emphasis put on body and soul and the disregard for the
were the people of the West. Initially they left the spirit out of consideration, taking body and
see how here, in a certain sense, body and soul are overwhelmed by an abstract scientific spirit
might work on everything that is only body and soul and devise a doctrine that wished only to
consider body and soul; which outwardly did not use science for this but rather the external part
their will, and crippled it. When these individuals slept, when the astral body and the 'I' were
lives here between birth and death, consists of body, soul and spirit. For the human beings of
and spirit predominate, just as, in the West, it is primarily body and soul. Thus, this rising up
to human reason in as much as this is bound to body and soul. Everything else — Puritanism
— is only the Sunday coat of what is the body, what is accessible to reason. Hence the
Reason, bound to body and soul, is what is asserting itself here.
hold of the human body and soul through the will and from those spirits, on the other hand, who,

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 5: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 4
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towards the economic. The desire is, in a certain sense, to embody the intellect in the economic
seven years in which the human being develops the physical body, are not significant for what he
etheric body is developed, the human being must first of all be recognized. What has to be
recognized is what then emerges as the astral body at the age of fourteen or fifteen and which

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 6: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 5
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unconscious etheric body. Today, when the principle of independent judgment is appearing, there
the astral body is born in him. There is born in him that which carries into the world —
develop the astral body in the right way. Education and training take on a completely new

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 7: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 6
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that what the human being bears today as his physical body is
his etheric body is a result of the second, third and fourth conditions. What we call his astral
body is the result of the third and fourth conditions. And now, in our present earth-evolution,
actual spirit-man. These will have to be elaborated in the human being, just as physical body,
etheric body and astral body have been elaborated, and just as the 'I' is being worked on at the
spirit-self is the transformation of the astral body into a higher stage, that life-spirit is the
transformation of the etheric body to a higher stage and spirit-man is the transformation of the
physical body to a higher stage. This transformation of the physical body, however, will not take
astral body, nor life-spirit in my etheric body nor spirit-man in my physical body, but what I
know that I cannot yet bring spirit-self into my entire astral body, but I have to bring it into
consciousness try to transform him even as regards his external sheaths — his astral body,
etheric body and physical body — but, as earthly man, he cannot achieve this. He has to say
they are therefore described as being experiences free of the body. Again, in his 'scientific

Title: Abbreviated Title: Lecture I:
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body between birth and death. The period of time between death and a new
see the body fall away from our soul-spiritual, is intensified in this

Title: Talk To Young People:
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body. Our physical heart has become hard, but our etheric heart is
To put it plainly, just about everybody and his uncle are talking

Title: "Heaven and Earth will pass away but my words will not pass away"
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body, so that in our waking life on earth we are able to perceive
earthly man can never again experience with his physical body: it is
the Saturn germs that live in the human body. That is all that will

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture II: Tree of Life - II
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through this (red) the ego living outside the physical body during
body remains in bed through this (blue), and what of our etheric body
described should dip down into both the etheric body and the physical
body. You must not be horrified that it is Lucifer who weaves with us
come into our etheric body and physical body when we wake. For what
is weaving there is our astral body. This lives and weaves in the
etheric body and also into our physical body.
have to draw this living and weaving in which our astral body dwells
during the night so as to show that all this enters our etheric body
as well as our physical body in our waking condition. That I have
drawn here would show how the experiences of our astral body would be
If that is the physical body (blue) and
that the etheric body (yellow ochre) (all schematically sketched),
then the experience of the astral body really only comes into the
etheric body, at most presses against the physical body and
influences it somewhat. In reality it only enters the etheric body. I
because it halts through finding a boundary at the physical body, but
what actually ought to enter the physical body. That which would
is not given over to our physical body, but to Ahriman in our
physical body. To distinguish it as Ahrimanic I will draw it like
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture III: The Power of Thought
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its details. We assign our physical body to Saturn, the etheric body
to the Sun, the astral body to the Moon, our Ego-organisation to the

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture IV: Harmonizing Thinking, Feeling and Willing
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three years with the body of Jesus of Nazareth, one comes to realise
something which, during those three years made this whole body
different from an ordinary human body. An ordinary human body is
actually not the same as this body was already —
human body. Hence He could only appear physically upon earth through
And since this Being had taken possession of an earthly body through

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture V: Tree of Knowledge - I
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one sees the reality. Insofar as our soul is enclosed in the body, as

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture VI: Tree of Knowledge - II
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just as they are during waking life; only the ego and astral body are
our organism. And if I now include the etheric body, it naturally
ether-body.
relation of the astral body in its activity to the other organs. I
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
these physical processes with his astral body and ego. He would
as the normal progress in the etheric body from the time of ancient
Whereas man's etheric body works so from
outside thought. Our thought is stimulated by our astral body, but it
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
body and produces movement. Let us suppose that someone says,
body and calls forth movements, inner movements there, at first only
such as these (see lower diagram). Thereby the etheric body can work
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Title: World Downfall and Resurrection
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Angel indwelt the body of a man; the Angel was the knower and
body’ (the bread); ‘this is My blood’ (the
veins of them all. The body and the blood are one. And in
mystery in the forces of the body and of the blood.
forces of the Divinity ruling in the body and flowing through
saw in the blood the body of the Godhead and in the bodies that
it must be remembered that the forces working in the body of
the origin of the human physical body lies in still more
ancient times, and now, when the physical body has the mineral
in the body and in the blood of man.
foodstuffs but the forces that are active in the planetary body
the Earth. In warmer zones the human body is not the same as in
of the Godhead with the very body of the Earth. They felt the
sway of the Godhead in the blood, in the body, in the Earth. It
the blood, in the whole human body, were held to be workings of
forces working upon body and blood were woven into this ancient
and intricate body of knowledge grew up, a ‘science’
through the body. And they associated with this the
man is nourished. He takes bread into his body. It is a means
conceptions of the blood, of the body, of flesh. Turn your
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Title: Lecture: Philosophy and Anthroposophy
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present day; the fundamental teachings embodying a logical system of
short of penetrating, of itself, into those regions which embody the
— this body of thought was robbed of its power and possibility, and
invited to convince himself by inspecting a dead body, that the nerves do
of soul the physical body is always implicated; anthroposophical research
sphere is possible independently of the physical body. The attainment of

Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture I: The Pedagogy of the West and of Central Europe: The Inner Attitude of the Teacher
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the proceedings and debates taking place within the body of teachers. The
to nobody to alter, re-think or do away with textbooks.) It is a fact, for
we were to follow the Spencerian axiom. For nobody should become a botanist
to give the world from Central Europe which nobody else can give
parts of the body, while in the head it reaches a maximum.
physical body further and further so that in this contraction of the
physical body we become aware how the astral body comes out of it, more and
body, but in contrast we expand the astral body as much as we can,

Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture II: The Three Fundamental Forces in EducatioN
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the astral body, the etheric body and the physical body. These four members
body and ego. The outer signs of this differentiated development are
physical body and the etheric body are influenced most powerfully from the
activity, notwithstanding the fact that it proceeds from the physical body.
we have an interplay between soul and body that is quite real
emancipates itself from the body, is active no longer in the body but for
itself. In the seventh year forces begin to be active, arising in the body
is that what streams upward from the body is thrust back, and conversely
termination at the change of teeth, having previously shaped the body of
forces had taken their course unconsciously within the body. If later on
building up of the child's body and has entered into the child, into his
head and into the body, forcing their way through the formative forces and
sharing in what happens as the child's body is built up from the seventh
is true as well of the human body, but it lives no longer in human speech
the etheric body. Then the ego and astral body turn against this; a willed
that also has a Share in the build-up of the body, but for quite definite
related to the body in accordance with the nonsensical theories thought out
the soul in the body that is quite concrete, and then again with the
that the musical element is at home particularly in the astral body. After
death a man still bears his astral body for a time; as long as he does so,
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Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture III: Spiritual Knowledge of Man as the Fount of Educational Art
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point where we understand what is actually going on in the body. You will
situated in an entirely different realm of the body from the memory of
the astral body within the colourful movements that pass directly into
play of forces in the astral body that come to external expression in the
looking at the astral body which straight away passes its vibrations onto
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
the former imprinting of soul in the body, that is, we have to take hold,
is to continue. We have consciously to bring man's visible body into
flood into the human ego and astral body from the spiritual worlds, this
get passed on to the physical body.
body and ego are intensified, as it were. If after seeing a eurythmy
where everything points to the fact that there is no part of our body
'There is my external body, my skin, and that contains the power to receive

Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture IV: The Art of Education Consists of Bringing Into Balance the Physical and Spiritual Nature of the Developing Human Being
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of his body, how he gains greater and greater mastery over his organism,
body, organised the body, emancipates itself from the body with the change
of teeth, frees itself from the body to work on as intelligence. Thus we
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
is the emancipation of intelligence from the physical body. It is only a
whether we call it the ether body or intelligence does not matter
the slowly liberating intelligence, or the ether body which is in the
music, as sound is vibrating through the astral body. Through this activity
the astral body is emancipated from the connection which it had up to this
say with regard to the child: in puberty the birth of the astral body takes
seventh year on the ego fastens itself only to the etheric body, while
itself precisely through this imitative activity in the physical body, and
then later, even after puberty, the ego penetrates the astral body. So what
means, for example, that the ego must not enter the physical body, etheric
body and astral body too deeply, but that on the other hand it must neither
is too strongly dependent on the body, we let the child draw the forms
child from his ego being sucked into the body too strongly; the permeation
with the body.
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Title: Social Understanding: Lecture II: Social Understanding Through Spiritual Scientific Knowledge
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organs, but fill our whole physical body. There is work in progress within
our physical body between birth and the seventh year, and this work comes
obvious that the forces doing this work of developing the physical body are
supersensible, isn't it? The perceptible body is only the material in which
forces that are active within the human body until the seventh year are the
go to sleep at puberty in the depths of the body, are drawn forth and form
in the physical body for these ideals of youth, are the same forces you can
growth and that go to sleep within his body when the corresponding phases
body can make use of. If you eat a piece of bread and this bread is
transformed inside your body into the sort of substance that serves life,
foodstuffs in the human body. And you actually always have to oscillate a
bit between your soul and your body if you want to dwell in memory. If your
body is carrying out the process of digesting too well, you may find you
the human body is doubtless a material process. The forces controlling it
constituents and they undergo such and such changes inside our body, and we
weight. Physiology already determines his appetite. But not everybody does
manifests as his soul and organises his body. The same force which enables

Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture I: Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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circumstances. As is known, a high solar being moved into the body of Jesus
left the physical body? Buddha always means a final incarnation. He only
to descend into a physical body. It can only incarnate down to the etheric
body. That Buddha can be seen today only by the clairvoyant. Such a form,
which assumes an individuality without containing the physical body, is
not have to imagine a closed body as we have it, but what otherwise were
this in natural life as well: for example, in the gall wasp, the front body
is connected to the back body only by a thin stalk. If one thinks of this
as is known, had his astral body to Hermes and his etheric body to Moses.

Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture II: The Gospels, Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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development that it no longer needed to be embodied in a physical body on
embodied himself in an earthly-fleshly body, but only in that, as the
lowest physical-bodily entity, what we call the etheric or life body.
etheric body.
Such an etheric body, in which an
when it is seen â€” like another body, which exists as a
physical body on earth. What we see as a physical body with an
individuality that descends to the embodiment in the physical body, that is
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,
This ethereal body, called the Nirmanakaya of the Buddha, hovered over the
etheric body are properly developed. Since Zarathustra had preferably
of all the abilities that came out in the physical and etheric body up to
endowments of the astral body. They could be given to him only by a lineage
had remained until his thirtieth year in the body where the etheric body
and the physical body were especially developed, he would not have been
throws off with sexual maturity. The astral body is then born. When the
astral body is born in man in the time from the twelfth to the fifteenth
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Title: Lecture: Art As A Bridge Between The Sensible And The Supersensible
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earth's plant world is like a vast body, but they do
all beings no longer possessing a body in which there are physical eyes,
physical body, ether body, astral body and so on; the human being has a
body”, ”ether body” and so on, behind

Title: Raphael's Mission in the Light of the Science of the Spirit
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higher spirit stood before them in that ascetic body.

Title: Leonardo's Spiritual Stature: Lecture
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in mind and body. Turning to the picture that counts as a
interwoven — much as physical processes in the human body
depends upon the external corporeality. A physical body of the
sciences, he felt constrained by a body that placed limits upon
Leonardo are themselves real life-enigmas, embodying cosmic
body, full of creative enthusiasm, of a kind of cosmic yearning

Title: Fairy Tales: in the light of Spiritual Investigation
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immerses itself once again in the physical body. As already
forces and substances of the physical body in which it
from the limbs, having in a sense left the external body
take their course in the soul when free of the body, in leading
the body.
of life even when united with the body — feels and
independent cosmic body, it has to be said that at that
view, if we say: When the human soul leaves the physical body
science we say: the plant consists of its physical body
and of the life-body which permeates it. But that does not
we now contemplate the human body while the human being
sleeps, this sleeping human body is in a sense equivalent to a
plant. As a sleeping body it is comparable to the plant in
“I” — outside the physical body in sleep
— upon the plant-like physical body, equivalent to what
light over the now plant-like physical body when the human
plant-like sleeping physical body. The “I” of the
“sun” for the sleeping human body, and brings about
different phase it works in another way on the physical body.
make its way into the body again in the morning, seeing itself
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Title: A Mongolian Legend
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body, protruding at that place on the head, its rays extending

Title: The Worldview of Herman Grimm in Relation to Spiritual Science
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being — also in sleep — the so-called etheric body,
physical body, passing over into the spiritual world. In the
body loosens himself, step by step, one member after the other,
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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— wasn't touched in ancient times, nobody cared about it.
out, empty words. And nobody imagines that they are divine, at least

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must grow along with the knowledge that nobody has the right to call

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the warmth in a body is hidden and can become free under
body is left to itself more; the soul-spiritual does not
body is connected to the physical world. We become able to see
child's body, you look at one who has risen from eternal world

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shown what can be discovered in this way. Nobody in this
that they are bound to their physical body in relation to what
body, through his mind, and all of these experiences and
— totally in full health in his physical body —
the in streaming of the Christ into the human body of Jesus.

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“body”, the outer garments one could call it, the
felt their physical human body in as far as it is liquid
aqueous, like a kind of shell, and the rest of the body as if
carried in a kind of air body. All of this was experienced in a

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The bony head, the scrawny body,
Yellow with gray spots is its body;
The bony head, the scrawny body,
Yellow with gray spots is its body;
a bony face and scrawny body. This beast, with its dull
sleepiness. With this sleepy posture and gray-greenish body, it
The bony head, the scrawny body,
Yellow with gray spots is its body;

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The bony head, the scrawny body,
Yellow with gray spots is its body;
soul within and he goes around in this physical body until his
Which would estrange your own body
what is working in the will: bony head, dried-out body with
Which would estrange your own body
Which would estrange your own body
Which would estrange your own body
Which would estrange your own body

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physical body. You are a threefold human being: a thinking,
within each other by the physical body.
the threshold of the spiritual world. The physical body ceases
The bony head, the scrawny body,
Yellow with gray spots is its body;
Which would estrange your own body
physical body. He knows that his legs carry him through the
does eating and drinking by the body, as it experiences blood

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In the members of your body.
In the members of your body.
Which would estrange your own body
In the members of your body.
Which would estrange your own body

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physical body with what is solid, with what is characteristic
etheric body with what is characteristic of water. However,
this relationship of the human physical body with the earthly,
and the relationship of the human etheric body with the liquid
with an object that is colder than our body, a cold knitting
with an object that is warmer than our body, we don't feel the
out a being. It is indicated by body a; another, also within
being, should not remain with your soul in your body; with the
death during which the etheric body is dissolving in the cosmic

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body, or the saltiness of salt courses through his body, he is
physical body. Here is where the Luciferic temptation appears,

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of administrative body for anthroposophical teaching and
what it means to be outside the physical body with the human I
and the astral body. Because when the human being is enclosed
within the physical body, the only things he can perceive in
instruments of his physical body. And through the instruments
of the physical body only the sensible world can be perceived -
the physical body. He does so every time he falls asleep. He is
then outside the physical body. But when he is asleep outside
the physical body his consciousness is suppressed to the point
body takes place in fully conscious deliberateness, so that
when outside the physical body the person perceives his
his senses when within the physical body. He perceives the
spiritual world while outside the physical body.
the physical body. And the reason for this is that he is
person and are only held together in one by the physical body
physical body - how the Three look in relation to the physical
body. The vision is directed to the physical body, to the

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administrative society for the body of anthroposophical wisdom
physical body.
physical body had held thinking, feeling and willing together,
physical body is not present.
one gradually comes to feel himself outside his body; and he
perceive without the body, that is, outside the body in the
experienced: leaving the physical body, expanding throughout
by the physical body, now becomes threefold. And we learn to
have on earth were alive, but our physical body is the grave in
Willing arises from the body's depths;
Willing arises from the body's depths;
body's depths; whereas here “Life” streams in from
over the will's work in the body,
over the will's work in the body,
Willing arises from the body's depths;
See over the will's work in the body,

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hold the soul separate from the body, we need to inwardly
body were a sense organ. That's why he imitates everything,
continually touching in that you place your whole body from top
man, touch and sense in your body's being
water forces in us shape the form of the human body from the
body, it is also different in the individual inner organs. You
down into your own body, the thought appears to you as
in respect to the body. But note how this strengthening, this
the body as has been explained; but we directly experience our
spiritual world, we sense how here, on this side, our body
bodily force; how at the moment we are body-free in our
because they already are so due to the physical body being a
come to feel myself as a human being outside my body in the
As body from spiritual heights.
Only seen thus does the human body appear in its true form.
As body from spiritual heights.
O man, touch and sense in your body's being
As body from spiritual heights.

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the body — if only by means of so slight a jolt that you
that due to our wearing a physical body we are directly related
perceive our ether body as belonging to the universe when the
then we are no longer in the physical body. We have traveled
life when the etheric body was first formed.
in spirit, the moment in which our etheric body was formed; and
leave the physical body behind with our thinking, this magical

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other parts of the body as well, but more in certain areas
held together only because the physical body is a unity. But
in the earth-body
Thus you live in the earth-body
Thus you live in the earth-body
body.
the threefold verse: objective murmur through our body in the
Create in the body's limbs
Create in the body's limbs
Creates in the body's limbs
— “earthly-body”, Earthly-path,
Thus you live in an earthly body
Create in the body's limbs

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an unknown force, for nobody with normal consciousness can
body [red] — the part of the human etheric body that
corresponds to the legs; here is the astral body [yellow] —
astral body serves this purpose, also the etheric body and,
especially, the physical body, in order that the
sleep, we speed around the universe in the I and astral body

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The moment we leave the physical body — also with the first
long as I am out of the body. But the heart can also be
Now, when one is over there, out of the body, the spirit is
more outside of the physical body — which disposes one

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Know! the spirit's cosmic creation in the human body's
Feel! the spirit's cosmic life in the human body's life.
Will! the spirit's cosmic process in the human body's
Know! the spirit's cosmic creation in the human body's
Feel! the spirit's cosmic-life in the human body's
Will! the spirit's cosmic process in the human body's
“body's-being” in contrast to “cosmic

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our I and our astral body, because we can only enter this
body creating.
Feel the cosmic life of spirit in the human body's life.
human body's being.
Has your body experienced?
The soul feels that in this body the cosmic
are active in the human body are moral forces, are
Has your body experienced?
Has your body experienced?
Has your body experienced?

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Has your body experienced?

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body. And we feel deeply the impression, as we live over there

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Which live in the cosmic body?
thinks and speaks in humans, what bears the body, the
thought pervaded cosmic body. The Thrones bear it, or
The cosmic body of the stars impels,
The Thrones' bearing powers “body”.
life, so also can one form the word “to body”
from the force used to bear the body.
“to body” –
between the two German words which mean “body”:
there is only one word in English for body, I feel
justified in using “embody”, where Steiner said
“to body” or “bodies” which are so
awkward in English, as they are in German. But embody does
substitute “to body” or “bodies”
where “embody” or “embodies”
For body is not dead, it is not something finished. Body
The Thrones' bearing powers embody.
They also embody in my limbs.
Cosmic-Word, cosmic-thinking, cosmic-body; the
speaking, thinking cosmic-body is what the Guardian's third
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his astral body is in that world that with imaginative gaze now
The bony head, the scrawny body,
Yellow with gray spots is its body;

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bony head, the scrawny body,
Yellow with gray spots is its body;
bony head, the scrawny body,
Yellow with gray spots is its body;
body. There above in the divine-spiritual world it was no
it descended into a human body; but it died by descending. And
and interweaves and acts in our physical earthly body.
experiencing the truth; only when we consider our body as the
Of will, which from your own body
Of will, which from your own body

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ourselves and let our body become the whole world. Then will
On the members of your body.
On the members of your body.

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hair would be entirely rays of light. Look at your whole body:
body. If the finger could feel for itself it would say: I am
only a finger as long as I am a part of the human body, when
the human body's blood is my blood, when the human body's
O man, touch within your body's entire being
O man, touch within your body's entire being
the cosmos, just as he had previously lived with his body in
one cosmic orbit. We have thereby felt body and soul to be at
one with the cosmos: the body with the earthly elements, the
O man, touch within your body's entire being

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body, in earthly existence, is a coffin for the deceased living

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whole body, but what is especially expressed in our head is
in our body, because of what is enclosed within the skin; we

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this esoteric school be the body for something which flows out
streaming out of his body into the head, which create the will,
Willing arises from the body's depths;
Willing arises from the body's depths;
his body lives at first in his half-existence. The human being
(There it was “Willing arises from the body's
existence from the spiritual world, our etheric body has been
Willing arises from the body's depths;

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transformation takes place in the human body. Just observe what
formation in the human body takes place towards adolescence.

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these three members of the social organism. Just like the body
into the representative body of political life, the result has

Title: The Social Question: Lecture III: Fanaticism Versus a Real Conception of Life in Social Thinking and Willing
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modern Proletarian only has the power of his body, the only
foundation finds its representatives, its administrative body,
of the impulses of the legal body limitations are placed on
living body which must simply be something different than human
impulses in a separated body, continuing from epoch to epoch
again be absorbed because the economic body has the tendency to
The state body must be ever awake and remove the labour force

Title: The Social Question: Lecture IV: The Evolution of Social Thinking and Willing and Life's Circumstances for Current Humanity
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body manages itself on its own terms and the legal and
within the economic body, so the arrangement of actual laws, of
subject of the actual political member of the social body and
he or she belongs to the social body, the social organism,
social body into three classes: the rulers/guardians, the

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relevance to the student body. In relation to the latter: do
today's student body is justified by the reproach that this
within the modern student body with for instance what was found
within the student body, when I also — it's been a while
— had been within that student body, it was said, in
the bourgeoisie, as contained in the modern professorial body
— which obviously depends on the student body —
student body one can above all observe the blossoming which
body, I believe there are quite large numbers already, it will

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somebody used the word among a small group of people, whereupon a
This ‘higher man’ surrounds the physical body like a halo and is much
World-Soul lies crucified in the Body of the World. The World-Soul,
to-day by having permeated the pure plant-body with desires, with the
body of passions. Thereby he has risen higher on the path to
would be purified, the substance of his body would become as pure and

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revelation, in its more scholastic form, was by no means a body of
evolution, had passed into an earthly body and linked Himself with the
abode in the body of Jesus. This dogma was to reign supreme and the

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nature of the human being at a time when the child's ether body
also can embody our own soul life? And each of us needs only to
his spiritual environment when he was not in the earthly body.
can reach it when, by means of the living power which we embody

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time — through his normal state of soul and body, what he
possibility of speaking of the physical body, ether body,
astral body, and ego. There follows the possibility of speaking
only a physical body but also an ether body, an astral body, an

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 1: Evolution and Consciousness, Lucifer, Ahriman
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body also pulses within me; the whole of my organic life
rest of the body. The human ancestor said: I am part of
did not have a physical body such as the human body,
beings acquired a mineral body for thinking in images the
progressed the mineral human body provided the basis for
beings have received a mineral body into them. As human
beings we need a mineral body first and foremost to be
same thing we do say it in such a way the everybody can
kind of inner feeling that we are speaking for everybody,
speaking for everybody, just as you think you do; that is
everybody. But now let me ask you about the facts. Does
everybody still come to your church? That would show that
you are speaking for everybody. You see, I speak to those
body, as it were. This mineral body is indeed the organ
body. Here we come upon a truth that many people find
body we have absorbed into ourselves as the instrument
mineral body do the thinking. It is perfectly able to do
thinking is concerned. This mineral body is no mere
earth. We need to raise the experience our mineral body

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body. That is also why the foundations were more strongly
part of the whole cosmic organism. The human body
is more bound up with the body than is the case with the
whom the physical body is the instrument of thinking,
physical body into the way they saw these things. The
thinking, but then this body gradually began to die.
body growing more and more dead. Our physical bodies are
more European body that increasingly felt those Asian
bony European body has been such that in the end that old
the European body came to die off people felt impelled to
physical body is able to give we will be unable to do so.
independent of this body. Our future salvation entirely
humanity of whom nobody knows that they are initiates.

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body in magical body in magical rites, transforming it

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unite with the physical body which has been created, and
created for every newly generated human body and unites
body, so that they might unite. All these things have
present in the bread and the wine which is His body and

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transformed body of our previous incarnation, our
you are looking at the transformed body of your previous
transformed body of the preceding life — you must
analogy in applying the threefold order of the human body
within the body we call the anthroposophical movement,
‘dreadful’ and everybody I ask tells me
anthroposophical movement, and this means that everybody
Everybody must do his part. It is really necessary for
everybody to to their part.

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continue to think in theories. Everybody supposes that
the body has to be carried differently, that it becomes
come to live in a physical body; we see that a child is
it did so. It entered into a human body that was still
something different, and the whole body is something
into the physical world, a first taking hold of the body,
spirit. That will happen as the rest of the body

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been given the right to vote anywhere. Everybody who has
organizations — everybody would admit this. The
thoughts that are independent of the physical body, so
that their souls may grow free of the body. It is
element of spirit and soul away from the physical body.

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the idea that the human body is a temple. In early times

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physical body. That culture had its limits, however, in
being independent of the body, they were using an
spiritual Principle that is free of the body will come
awareness that had been gained when free of the body. The
given equal validity to body and spirit, as it were. In
present attention focuses on the body. Yet everything is
understanding of the body, this materialism, will one day
well as a physical body. In the West today, human beings
physical human body that will be the spiritual content of
spirit as well as a physical body, but this is then
well as that of the physical body, and by letting clear
repeat the theories relating to the body politic that

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 11: Modern Science and Christianity, Threefold Social Order, Goetheanism
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physical body, a life body, an astral or sentient body,
that we now have a physical body and so forth, going as
evolution. In a sense we relate the physical body to the
Saturn. The life body relates to the Ancient Sun, the
astral body to the Ancient Moon, and the principle we
largely to the past — the physical body to a far
distant past, to Ancient Saturn, the life body to the
earth and that the Christ entered into an earthly body
Jesus first appeared in a physical body at a time the

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this physical body of man is only a part of his whole beingness, and
indeed man has this physical body in common with the mineral world. We
substances of which the human body is built. In the stone and in the
human body the same physical processes appear, but there is a great
bodies and the nature of man. An external physical body, such as a
physical body, on the other hand, or that of another living being, is
the human body in this case is a corpse.
physical body. We call it the etheric body or life body. It is in all
of us. If this second member were not in man, the body would at every
against this decay is the etheric body or life body. Only in case of
death this life body separates from the physical body. Man has this
life body in common with every other living creature; the animal has
physical body has been described as the first, the life body as the
carrier of these sensations, and we call it the astral body or
sensation body of man. This astral body, which is not perceptible to
the physical eye of man, is considerably larger than the physical body.
light-emitting cloud in which the physical body is embedded. Man has
also possesses an astral body.
four-foldness, the first member of which is the visible physical body,
the second member of which is the etheric body or life body, the third
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physical body has a relation to the three natural kingdoms, our
formation of his body, that he is in a certain respect so
Earth-evolution; the body itself can contribute nothing more to
the body; at the same time, because it was the work of divine
beings, it had an organizing power on the body. Homer's poems,
Greek body. That which arose, with such concrete force,
possessed at the same time a body-building power. What we
the body itself, it is forsaken by the activity of the beings
of a body, which has now reached its completion, and develop
the soul, and animalization of the body. Or to seek, on

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he is to-day in body, soul and spirit, every night looks, to a
beyond the spoken word. That works from etheric body to etheric
body. Here lies the secret of the Western languages, that in

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and astral body leave the physical and etheric bodies as we
that the ego and the astral body plunge fully into the physical
existed no complete immersion of the ego and astral body during
that soul and spirit — the ego and astral body —
meaning of this complete immersion in the physical body?
ideas and this scientific view of the world the physical body
body. With this fact is connected everything else I have
completely into the physical body and therewith learn of the
body, educate them to be able to take the complete plunge.
to unite Himself with that body for earthly activity. Through
must be drawn to it. The physical body of man is permeated
particular way: the ego and astral body plunge
body to the earth, it means to present-day science no more than
that the body has consisted of various substances which at
this human body is inhabited by a human soul-spirit being. We
received human bodies (not the animal body!) as a sort of
physical body, in a relationship which works in a particular
the gate of death and leaves his body behind him, he releases
something from the body which serves the Earth as a ferment in
body to the earthly world at death.
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What wonder that the workman experienced, in the effect on body
Anybody who has the opportunity to acquire wider views is bound
“the scientific bodyguard of the Hohenzollerns.”
be present. Nobody talks of its being produced by some common
best in the service of humanity. Actually it belongs to nobody.

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