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Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 1: Forgetting
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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
body. Everything depending on repetition in man or animal is
activity of the etheric body. The termination of the plant's growth
activity of man's astral body. So we can say that everything
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,
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.
man's etheric body has as it were another part too, a free part,
into his soul which this free part of the etheric body deals with. So
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Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 2: Different Types of Illness
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body, it cannot possibly work beneficially with the healthy or the
as a whole and not to one part of him only, namely the physical body.
they only had a body, then however spiritually minded he believes
fourfold nature and for everybody to go repeating that man consists
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
other organ of man's physical body, because these other organs are
expression, the physical counterpart, of the etheric body, then even
course that when he makes a prick in the body blood will flow out
body, is not what flows out when I make the prick and take out a
drop. For the moment blood comes out of the body it changes to such
it, it is no longer the blood it was when it flowed in the body. It
astral body and which therefore affect the external expression of the
astral body, the nervous system. Now whilst mentioning this second
thought necessary here. When man's astral body has an irregularity
the astral body, the first thing we notice physically is a certain
originate therefore in the astral body, it can come from something
you see, the first thing you have to ask yourself when somebody comes
irregularities of the astral body and that appear in certain
you know that the nerve is the expression of the astral body and seek
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Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 3: Original Sin
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man still lived in a very insubstantial material body.
and how little could actually happen in human life, as everybody
would want to do the same thing as everybody else. But in ancient
man was still in a softer, more spiritual body he was much more open
long as they had a body of soft material they could actually become
grew less and less the denser man's body became. Through this
can see that it is really the astral body in particular that is
body into his organism himself to begin with as he comes down from
through the inter-working of the two sexes. So the astral body is the
part of man that shows most clearly the non-divine. The etheric body
and the physical body is the most divine of all; it is God's temple,
astral body man seeks all kinds of pleasures and can have all sorts
of desires that have a harmful effect on the physical body, even
today his physical body is still such a wonderful instrument that it
astral body for decades. And so we have to admit that because of all
these things that occur in the human astral body it has become the
that the deepest causes of illness lie in the astral body and in its
bad effects on the etheric body, and by way of the etheric body on
the physical body. Now we will understand a number of things that
physical body. Now what is the significance of man giving his
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Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 4: Rhythm in the Bodies of Man
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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
astral body and the ego are to a certain extent outside these. But
more accurately today. The astral body and the ego are not active in
the physical body now. But the physical body with its nerves and
blood system and the etheric body cannot exist unless they are
interpenetrated by an astral body and something resembling an ego.
Nor could the etheric body exist without being interpenetrated by
higher entities. When the human being's own astral body and ego
human body cannot remain without there being an ego and an astral
body active within it, so there also has to be an ego and an astral
body active when the human being is asleep. To be exact, we would
have to say that the ego and the astral body that are active in the
human being's sleeping physical body are also within the human being
activity of the human being's own astral body and ego. If we want to
tell ourselves that this human ego is within the human body when man
ego and that has a free hand in the human body, descends into the
human astral body goes through changes in a very similar way. This
describing a circle. With the astral body too the changes are such
astral body. Only present-day man does not notice this descent into
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Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 5: Rhythms in the Being of Man
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between man's ego, astral body, etheric body and physical body. What
similar way to our astral body is the number seven. Whereas the ego
twenty-four hours or a day, our astral body does the same thing in
body's corresponding rhythm, we have to say that if the ordered
regularity of the astral body is really there, then the astral body
through its cycle in a day, the astral body goes considerably slower,
body, on the other hand, takes four times seven days; after four
mind what was said the time before last. With the physical body it is
that the female etheric body is male and the male etheric body
particular organ of the human body is upset. Then the whole organism
various organs of the human body came into existence and developed at
body’ is the most complicated matter imaginable, for the human
today have their origins in the astral body and are to a certain
the lungs have to do with the astral body, how the very first,
Earth, ancient Moon, and how at that time the astral body was as it
astral body. The actual expression of the astral body is of course
began at the same time as the development of the astral body and the
includes the lungs in the rhythm of the astral body, that rhythm that
temperature is connected with certain functions of the etheric body.
Something must be happening in the etheric body if a temperature runs
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Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 6: Illness and Karma
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the physical body, etheric body, astral body and ego, enables us to
complexes of the physical body itself. That is, the ego has its chief
physical equivalent in the blood, the astral body in the nervous
system, the etheric body in all that comes under the heading of the
glandular system, and the physical body represents itself. Then we
irregularities in the astral body manifests in irregularities in the
nervous system, and what originates in the etheric body manifests in
the glandular system, and that it is in the physical body that we
and astral body are connected with the etheric body, but without the
physical body being there. He has, as it were, laid that aside. This
mentioned. During life, when man is asleep, he lays his etheric body
aside as well as his physical body, hence this combination of ego,
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
astral body without man being bound to a physical body. This is the
physical body and physical existence altogether.
still has all those forces in his astral body which were there at the
moment of death. For he has laid aside only the physical body, the
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Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 7: Laughing and Weeping
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individuality is already united with the human body before birth.
the moment when the kernel from previous lives first enters the body
the astral body. In the case of sorrow that leads to weeping, we can
astral body within itself, squeezing together its forces, as it were.
body, compresses it as it were, to defend itself against being
astral body, the third member.
process. The ego tries as it were to loosen the astral body, to
of the astral body. That is the spiritual state of affairs. Every
the ego is contracting the astral body. Every time someone laughs,
the ego is expanding and making a bulge in the astral body. Only
are, in the first place, active in the astral body. And because
everything spiritual in man finds expression in the body, and the
body is the physiognomy of the spirit — condensed spirit —
human physical body, has to be more mobile within itself than an
animal body. It must not have such a rigid form as an animal body. We
him. Nobody is likely to say that a dog or a parrot has as individual
soon as man changes the general balance of forces in his astral body
forces of the astral body. When, instead of holding the astral body
case of a certain display of feeling the ego makes the astral body
physiognomical expression of that slackening of the astral body that
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Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 8: The Manifestation of the Ego in the Different Races of Men
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actually the human body too, developed in the different epochs of
know, still one body. The conditions within our whole evolution must
was already in a physical body at the time when the sun was still
joined with the earth, it was not like today's body. At that time he
had the kind of physical body like you can imagine if you picture man
himself with a body as airy as it was before, and he would have to be
etheric body and were beings of a more ethereal nature, having only a
souls, and each human being was much more inside his own body. Thus
times in their etheric body, or they had to sacrifice themselves and
died out. Having descended too soon into a physical body, they fell
migrated to Atlantis, the human body evolved its form to the extent
way. And it was only in the course of time that the human body
temperate zones. For in this period of evolution the human body was
still evolving. In Atlantean times the human body was not yet
Atlantean times a gigantically developed physical body. And if you
not on a very high level spiritually, for he has rushed into his body
those days the body was still to a certain extent perfectly capable
we see that in Atlantean times the human body could still form itself
the body hardened in egoism as it were, and it became impossible for
expression in his physiognomy and on the surface of his body, then it
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Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 9: Evolution, Involution and Creation out of Nothingness
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physical world when he leaves his mother's body and frees himself of
During the first seven years of his life the child's etheric body is
outer world, just as the physical body is enveloped until birth in a
etheric body born. Then the astral body is still enclosed in the
the astral body develops freely until the twenty-first or
the protecting sheath first of the etheric body then of the astral
body and only when the twenty-second year has been reached does that
its physical and etheric body here in the physical world, whereas its
astral body is outside it; but only the physical and etheric body
within it. The plant emerges from the seed, forms its physical body,
and then the etheric body gradually develops. And this etheric body
etheric body is still enveloped in the astral body until puberty, and
that man's astral body is not actually born until then. But the
body, for it has none. Therefore the plant has nothing further to
animals. In these lower animals the astral body has quite evidently
not penetrated into the physical body to the same extent as in the
their astral body is not yet entirely within their physical body.
its astral body for the most part outside it, and therefore it has
so it dies. The animal still has an astral body, but no ego.
in the animal. The astral body becomes free, and as long as it
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Title: Lecture: The Ten Commandments
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works into your body and hence affects the coming generations. I am of
everything false about the “I” in you will corrupt your body.
wither in body and soul, destroys him. One need only be objective to
evolution. His physical body was developed on ancient Saturn; gods
then worked upon it. Then his ether body was joined with it on the
divine spiritual beings. Then on the moon the astral body was
my physical body, but they are less exhalted than the Divinity who has
will only experience his astral body in this way when he has changed
it into manas or life spirit, and his ether body when he has
for him the gods who worked on the physical body. If he makes images
worked on his ether body because man has his ether body in common with
only those divinities who worked on his astral body. But man is made
such feeling a healthy force that will make your physical body, your
ether body and your astral body healthy.”
in the right way, the body withers, becomes weak and sickly. If the father
does not place the ego into his soul in the right way, his body
That which does not permit the ego to thrive causes the body to
your body and thus affects the coming generations. I am of divine
cause your body to become wasted!” Thus it was inculcated into every
the ‘I’ in you will corrupt your body.”
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Title: Deed of Christ: Lecture 2: The Deed of Christ and the Opposing Spiritual Powers. Lucifer, Ahriman, Asuras.
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to lay the first foundation of the human physical body. On Old Sun the
Spirits of Wisdom imbued man with the ether- or life-body. And on the
into man as his innermost member at that time — the astral body. They
established their footing in the human astral body and took possession
astral body would have remained in the sole possession of the Spirits
of Form. They would have instilled into this astral body the forces
The Luciferic Beings had crept, as it were, into man's astral body, so
remained in a state of innocence and purity in his astral body. No
body. Why, then, was it that man did not fall away entirely at that
They entrenched themselves in the astral body of man, drew his
man's being must be distinguished: first, his physical body; then his
ether or life-body and his astral body — or as I have called it in
that book, the sentient body, or soul-body.
earthly existence. The foundation of the physical body was laid on Old
Saturn, the ether-body on the Old Sun, the soul or sentient body on
of the sentient body. Lucifer anchored himself in the sentient soul;
ether-body, the intellectual soul came into being, a more detailed
— the transformed part of the ether-body — that Ahriman established
transformation of the physical body. You will remember how this
etheric body corresponding to the head came right into the physical
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Title: Deed of Christ: Lecture 1: Mephistopheles and Earthquakes
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then lays hold of him through injuring his physical body. He indicates
ready for his astral body to become independent, Lucifer and his hosts
end of the Lemurian epoch when, in his astral body, man was actually
of his astral body would have obeyed the influences of certain
instincts, passions and desires which arose in the human astral body
which in consequence of Lucifer's influence upon the astral body of
influence had already taken effect in man's astral body, his physical
body — at that time still transmutable — had been so prepared ever
influence, although it was Lucifer who caused the human physical body
as an astral form visible to the astral body, the manifestations due
influences on the physical body press through into the etheric body
undertake certain measures with his physical body. The method that
consists in the use and misuse of the physical body is the most evil
physical body are taken as the starting-point for occult training.
the forces of the physical body emanate from the influences of
body, it works as a world of phantoms that is nothing else than the
the occult forces which are awakened penetrate into the etheric body

Title: Concerning the Nature of Pain, Suffering, Joy, and Bliss
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our physical body. The physical body contains the substances of the
astral parts of the body belonging to the finger. What are the tasks
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
astral body, for sensation, feelings, live in the astral body.
way. The etheric body lives in the finger and should keep its parts
etheric body) to set in with its activity is felt by the astral part
etheric hand is then unable to work; the astral body feels this tremendous
body in a particular part of the body has grown accustomed to the fact
the pain which we experience in Kamaloka! There, the whole body is suddenly
no longer be active in it. The astral, body feels that the whole can no
carried out within the physical body, — and this want is felt as
Organs of the body which were formerly active and living are, in a certain
If a person treats his body
body and is able to say to himself: I dispose of surplus forces; formerly,
I used up all these forces in order to regulate the physical body; now I
have tamed the physical body, it no longer requires all these forces
— if this is the case, the astral body endowed with these surplus
blissfulness for the astral body to do more than it was meant to do from
body no longer claims it for itself, this implies blissfulness.
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Title: Lecture: History of the Physical Plane and Occult History
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impulses, longings, passions, to be found in the astral body,
taking possession of the physical body. On waking he forgot

Title: Lecture: The Four Human Group Souls (Lion, Bull, Eagle, Man)
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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
united with the forces of the physical body, which are the forces of
physical body — quite a house, so to say. So, with man, too, in
the Atlantean age, the etheric body was still outside, and gradually
which later became different. Through entering the physical body, the
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
not indeed such a beautifully formed etheric body, but still it is a
lion body) developed a special attractive force for the male forms of
lion men, so that these were beings who had outwardly a lion body —
inwardly, however, a male etheric body. There was a powerful etheric
densified itself to the physical lion body. The bull race, however,
had a special attractive force for the female etheric body. Thus the
bull body had the special force to attract the female etheric body
etheric bodies which crystallized a physical lion body out of
themselves, had the power of fructifying the physical lion body
worked back here on the female etheric body. In the course of
The modern female physical nature has in fact a male etheric body,
whereas the etheric body of the man is female. The physical body of
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Title: Astral World: Lecture I
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embedded in a body of an astral being, whom we can actually call the
earth was itself moon and was a body that was outside the sun in the

Title: Astral World: Lecture II: Some Characteristics of the Astral World
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have become accustomed to speaking of physical body, etheric body, and
astral body as ideas, which they can then apply as guides when they
body consists of the same, and therefore, I can treat the human body
just like the stone.” For even the plant body is quite different,
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
spiritual scientist says, “The physical body of the plant would dry
away unless the etheric body kept it alive and fought against this
emphasized that the most elementary principle of the etheric body is
leaf after leaf develops, since the plant's physical body is permeated by
to no termination. The etheric body would press through the plant from
body. The plant possesses in itself no astral body of its own, but as
it grows upwards, the plant-like astral body meets it from above. It
brings to a conclusion what the etheric body would continue in eternal
the astral body, which meets the plant there above, does not take inner
To the degree that the astral body seizes the organs inwardly, the plant
etheric body and the astral body are working together, but the etheric body
has, so to say, the upper hand. The astral body is not in a position to
body, no matter whether plant or animal, you have to look at it as a
separation, you must speak of different bodies; it is a single body when
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Title: Astral World: Lecture III: The Law of the Astral Plane: Renunciation
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can give him. With death, the physical body is stripped off and left
behind, and so, too, the etheric body to a great extent, but the astral
body is still present with its qualities and forces. These do not change
satisfy it. The physical body with its organs is no longer there, and
that consist, really, in a condition within the astral body when the
the physical body. And because the soul has this no longer, it has to
from it only when this longing has been torn out of the astral body.
period, something lives in the astral body that can be called “privation”
means to enter the astral plane out of the body, he or she would always
think that someone leaves the physical body, either through death or
in some other way; then the physical instruments of the body are lacking
that person when out of the body. These frightful beasts are the symbols
body, the red circle changes into nothing, because one permeates the

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