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Title: Lecture: On the Reality of Higher Worlds
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furrowed in the life of soul-and-spirit just like the physical brain
which transcends the physical body. After a time we feel that the
physical rhythm of the breath he made himself one with the spiritual
the ether-body in turn permeates the physical body.
he unites with the physical substance provided by the father and
soul-and-spirit whence man has descended into physical existence
of man becomes clearly perceptible. His physical nature is recognised
astral and ‘I’ are woven into the physical body —
united, be it in the realm of spirit, of soul, or in the physical
through birth into physical existence. The soul has been living in
descent through birth into physical existence, is experienced as a
yearning for the physical world. This yearning subsequently becomes

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 1
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events as regards their external side can be seen physically, such as
distinguish in him the physical body, the etheric or life-body, the
therefore that in what we call physical body, etheric body, astral
physical body; he will transform it and change it into the spiritual.
has re-shaped what at present is the physical body; that which to-day
a certain way worked into the physical body by the ‘ I ’;
1. the Physical body,
to form the first foundations of his physical body, then those of his
body was implanted, and finally the physical body during the Saturn
are our astral body, our etheric or life-body and our physical body,
transform his physical body into Atma or Spirit-man.
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
his physical body, but he cannot as yet do this with his physical and
direct his physical and etheric bodies, so there are beings, who have
has developed Spirit-self or Manas command what we call the physical
we call ‘directing one's etheric and physical bodies from
transforming of their physical body into Spirit-man or Atma. We are

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 2
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directly seen with external organs of perception, with physical eyes,
sense also possess a physical body. Their corporeality must be
expressed in some form or other. And this physical form in which the
of the physical world should speak thus, for he only knows what he
united to his physical body, and only alters in so far as the man
in the world with physical consciousness is only maya or illusion. It
That which confronts the physical eyes in the green
cannot intervene in the physical laws. Where, therefore, only the
physical laws work and come into consideration, as in the relations
depends upon the physical conditions, there the influence of the
their evolution to be able to intervene in physical conditions.
the earth; and they embody themselves, as in a physical body, in that
therefore, which is ruled by physical laws. The etheric body of the
worked through by spiritual soul-forces, and the physical piece of
these are able to work even into the physical form, although they are
instrument of speech that it should produce a physical manifestation,
organization, they work into the physical body, so that they set the
forces of the physical body in motion. We must therefore presume,
to a working with physical forces within our earth existence. You can
understand that real physical preliminary conditions are necessary in
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Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 3
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etheric body and of the physical body. But these transformations are
body the intellectual-soul or mind-soul, and in the physical body the
gather that the external physical world which man's senses
in which the physical world appears to man, in which he receives
world all that is merely physical sensation, if you take away
here, upon this physical plane, the individual human beings must

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 4
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parts of man, the physical body, the etheric or life-body and the
that man, in the period between his physical birth and the changing
his physical body. These Spirits of Form have no particular interest
in the development of this physical body, for this is, on the whole,
already often been repeated, and which after the last physical birth
consciousness belonging to the physical body; that as a matter of
physical birth. It would not awake in the form in which it sees the
physical external world clearly and distinctly, if other Spirits who
then man would only come into consideration, as far as the physical
condition as a physical being and would have to go through quite
Spirits of Form, the evolution of man is transposed into the physical
so far as he is dependent upon the physical organizing forces, not
appreciation of physical nature still sleeps, whilst the
primeval past the physical race-character was determined out of the
repetitions of conditions gone through earlier in the physical body,
for humanity in respect to physical, chemical and astronomical
forth. At first he is only a being who grows physically. That which
physically. Afterwards his development is pressed into his inner
original beginning of the physical development of man in Africa, that
physical must be compressed. Thus we see, that as civilization

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 5
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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
related to what is on the one side the human physical body and on the
side and his physical body on the other could not have attained their
present form. What man possesses of will and of physical body he owes
to the old Saturn. The knowledge that he owes his physical body to
physical body, etheric body and astral body, willing, feeling and
the physical body and of the will. The mission of the Sun had to be
We have before us the fact that the external physical body which
wonderful tissue of outer will which we have in the physical body,
nearest domain above the physical world in which this fabric can be

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 6
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forces first of all when they reach the physical body. You know that
imaged in certain parts of the physical body, so that we may say, the
system, and only the physical body stands for itself, it is an image
images of the higher parts in the physical body. They cannot as yet
enter right into the physical body, but they seethe in the other
In these three systems, which belong to the physical body but are
Here you see that the physical body of man is determined
those parts of the physical body which are the projections, the
them. They saw the spiritual in their perceptions of the physical,

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 8
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etheric body, whilst making itself at home in the physical body —
pulsates in the blood of the physical body and that everything within
The way in which the spiritual force holds the physical
man was born out of the macrocosm in a physical-spiritual way. He was

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 9
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straight out of this clairvoyant state into the physical world. They
saw this physical world in such a way that over the whole of the
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
it is given the possibility of lying. In the physical body sickness
out that everything that appears in the physical body as sickness and
untruthfulness, and in the physical body sickness and death.
man into the physical; and that on the other hand is compensated for
Luciferic influence into man, the physical, etheric and astral bodies
the physical body illness and death. Now what would the Germanic
mingles into human knowledge as error. In man on the physical plane,
possible to indicate wherein our physical view of the world is most
Now we proceed to the influence of Loki on the physical
time when man did not look at the world with external physical
physical plane, just as one now alternates between waking and
picture of the physical world. Thus at the time when Christianity
having a God offered him, who had descended to the physical plane in
order that those human beings, who could only perceive the physical
kingdom of the heavens has descended even here to the physical plane,
even if ye are not able to rise above the physical plane; understand
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Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 10
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people we have to deal principally with the use of the physical body
what is there to be seen on the physical plane, and of perfecting
into that which had to be arranged on the physical plane.
physical plane at one bound, as it were, before the birth of the
which helped this human ‘ I ’ on the physical
Higher Feelings, and the Spiritual Soul on the physical plane. That
physical plane.
as being individual, because it is connected with the physical sun
occurrence of Nature, of seeing not only the physically-sensible, but

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 11
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older Sagas and legends which indicate the development of physical
epoch, descended again to unite themselves with physical human
earthly-physical. Freyr the god, and Freya his sister, who here in
them to develop further, upon the physical plane, those old forces
the physical world, that world limited by the outer senses, Freyr was
received forces. He had therefore to unite himself with the physical
soul-forces, which then can carry into the physical plane what had
physical forces of earthly evolution. These pictures represent the
descent of the divine-spiritual into the physical.
makes it possible for man to manifest on the physical plane that for
which express themselves on the physical plane, then it must be
which, in its development on the physical plane, connects itself on
be able to perceive from the physical plane that which could formerly
the Mystery-training will, by the transformation of the physical
can be seen perceptively from the physical plane, as it will be seen
everything from the physical plane; it was therefore necessary that
they should also be able to see Christ on the physical plane, to have
humanity. It took place on the physical plane because at that time
the forces of man were adjusted to the physical plane. But those
these looked upon Sabbatai as the physical incarnation of a Messiah.
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Title: Paths to Knowledge of Higher Worlds
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external Nature and also of the physical nature of the human
also contained in our physical formulae. In short, we finally must
that inner life which works upon the physical organism from the
upon the physical organism.
You are all acquainted with the physical concept of latent heat
physical organism which he formerly required. The forces which push
appear. They exist however in the whole physical organism.
second teeth were latent forces, bound up with the physical organism.
They gave the child’s physical body its structure, but with the
whereas formerly they were submerged in the physical organism.
into the activity of the soul-spiritual forces in the physical-bodily
element, which is super-sensible, works upon the physical body. We
works upon the physical body out of a super-sensible sphere, for this
ordinary physical world lies behind us like a memory. We must have it
conception of super-sensible forces working upon the physical body, we
birth, or before we were conceived within the physical world, when we
death, we are surrounded by physical beings.
passed before the earth received us into the physical stream of
us a conception of the external physical world, so the steps
here in the physical world we preferably cling to observation and
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Title: Lecture: The World Development in the Light of Anthroposophy
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physical body, shows us that just this super-sensible knowledge
abandons what we designated man's physical and etheric body, or
being looks back objectively upon the physical body and upon the
with the physical body, as the etheric body's real forces. In
the human being which goes out of the physical and the etheric
we are ordinarily conscious within our physical body. But we also
our physical and etheric bodies at the moment of waking up. By
diving down into the physical body, we make use of the senses
use the instruments of our physical body, and that we make use,
acquires plastic form, even as our physical body and our etheric
physical world (when it uses the physical and etheric organs of
lived before descending into our physical being through birth or
physical world and in the world of thoughts or of the intellect.
In the physical world and in the world of thoughts we use ideas
with it, the external physical world, as well as the world of
ordinarily dive down into the physical world only when we awake,
obtaining from this physical world a connection with the senses
kindled in us when we encounter certain people in the physical
when we come across such things in the external physical world.
knowledge, which has become emancipated from the physical and
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Title: Lecture: Foundations of Anthroposophy
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body's physical nature, tried to give many examples taken from
influence of the super-sensible upon the physical.
scientific method which he is accustomed to apply in his physical
the physical plane; that is to say, with a vision of the future
plunge into our physical body; every memory thought is connected
with a parallel physical or at least etheric bodily process. We
shows us what it means to dive down into the physical organism
physical reality.
sanguine person. The physical foundation of desires could soon be
but their physical conditions can be perceived in the special
physical human organism which flares up, comes, so to speak to a
thought we know that we leave behind on the bed our physical body
reality, and with this reality they fill out our physical body as
body. (I might also say, the physical body and the etheric body,
or the physical body and the body of formative forces. We abandon
of the physical organism in the same way in which we ordinarily
with the feeling is above all the physical body. Tomorrow we
aspect of man's physical being. We perceive, above all, the body
physical body which remained behind, become a reflecting
whereas the eye only gives us a physical reflection of something
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Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 1. Angels, Folk Spirits, Time Spirits: their part in the Evolution of Mankind.
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physically, may also have invisible, super-sensible members will be
point of view of Anthroposophy we distinguish the physical body,
can envisage at present is the spiritualisation of the physical body,
the most intractable member of his being. When our present physical
has worked down into the physical body to a certain extent. Therefore
the physical body,
in order to prepare the foundations, first for his physical body,
stage, that of the Old Sun, and the physical body during ancient
in a physical body. Their stage of evolution corresponded to the
physical body, the question arises: is it not equally natural that
physical body into Atma or Spirit Man.
relinquish his physical and etheric bodies which he leaves behind in
am I; below me, perhaps some distance away, are lying my physical and
man becomes conscious in his astral body, i.e. outside his physical
independently of his physical body, activities which are denied to
his physical and etheric bodies. In the distant future, however, he
right time so that he will then be able to direct his physical and
Spirit Self or Manas, command his physical and etheric bodies; he
physical and etheric bodies from without’, but who are able at
last stage in the transformation of their physical body into Spirit

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 2. Normal and abnormal Archangels and Time Spirits.
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also possess in a certain sense a physical body. They must be able to
whose activity is expressed in this physical form must give some
him as long as he lives. It is united to his physical body and only
intervene in the physical laws. Where, therefore, only physical laws
contours of the landscape and so on, in all cases where physical
in their evolution to be able to intervene in purely physical
physical incarnation, in that which is represented by the
configuration of the landscape, in that which is subject to physical
such a way that these organs could manifest physically as speech.
from their psychic organization, they work into the physical body and
thus activate the forces of the physical body. If, at a certain
corresponds to the utilization of physical forces in our Earth life.
of a physical order are necessary in order to provide for certain
physical plane. Now these physical conditions must not be regarded as
isolated phenomena, but as particular configurations in the physical
his influence in a certain direction, physical objects will
number of physical processes involved before this result could be
changes in his physical being; they stimulate inwardly, fashion the
starts from within and manifests itself externally in a physical

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 3. The inner Life of the Folk Spirits. Formation of the Races.
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astral body itself, of the etheric body and of the physical body.
through the physical body. We can thus distinguish the inner being of
perceptions of the physical world, then you exclude precisely that
grandiose plan is the work of the Archangels. Here on the physical

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 4. The Evolution of Races and Civilization.
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man, the physical body, the etheric body and the astral body were
principally the physical body. The Spirits of Form have no particular
interest in the development of the physical body since this is really
been repeated) and which from the last physical birth up to the age
pertaining to the physical body, namely, the very dim consciousness
had not intervened, man would have incarnated on the physical plane
incarnating on Earth would be alike in (physical) form and inner
his physical environment in a condition which is not designed for
physical environment. In later times race was no longer associated
the forces which determine his physical organism, the terrestrial
period when man's response to physical nature is still dormant,
conditions experienced earlier in the physical body, but which have
when his spiritual life matures. He first develops physically. The
expand physically. Later, when growth is completed, these physical
physical must be compressed. As civilization advances westward into

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 5. Manifestation of the Hierarchies in the Elements of Nature.
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consist of the physical body, etheric body and astral body. So that
ego, we can envisage him as a tapestry consisting of the physical,
related, on the one hand, to the human physical body and, on the
of our Earth, neither the life of will in man, no r his physical body
could have attained their present form. A man owes his physical body
order that these forces of the inner and outer man — physical
could so develop that they are now an integral part of his physical
physical body and the life of will could not have been bestowed upon
physical body which stems from the activity of the Spiritual Beings
which resides in our physical body, and of inner Will, a special
nearest realm above the physical world in which it is possible to

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 6. The Five Root Races of Mankind.
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Spiritual Hierarchies and their Reflection in the physical World. Zodiac, Planets, Cosmos.]
down into his physical body. Now you know that the four fundamental
parts of the physical body: the ‘I’ finds its impress in
life-body in the glandular system. Only the physical body is
higher vehicles in the physical body. They cannot as yet enter
directly into the physical body, but they are active in the three
the physical body of man is determined from within. These various
spiritual Beings invade those members of the physical body, which are
spiritual in the physical and hence became the chief exponents of

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 7. Advance of Folk Spirits to the Rank of Time Spirits.
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physical world. The real inspirers of the worship of a single

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 8. The Five Post-Atlantean Civilizations.
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etheric body, and interpenetrating the physical body, acquired the
upon as a physical process, but to Germanic-Nordic man it was an
the external physical process. All this was seen clairvoyantly. He
way in which the spiritual force holds together the physical body is
macrocosm in physical-spiritual form. He was able to perceive how the
physically the twelve cranial nerves. He sees how the forces that

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 9. Loki - Hodur and Baldur - Twilight of the Gods.
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of the physical world. Their reaction to this physical world was such
his astral, etheric and physical bodies. At the present day one can
the physical body of man.
and is thus disposed to lying. In the physical body the Luciferic
emphasize once again that the signs and symptoms of physical death
physical body sickness and death.
physical, etheric and astral bodies became a prey to sickness and
in the etheric body lying and falsehood and in the physical body
knowledge. In man, on the physical plane, this consists in those
show in which respects the physical view of the world is most
us now turn to the influence of Loki on the physical body. His third
consciousness that was directed to the physical plane, just as we
physical world alone. Thus, at the time when Christianity began to
descended to the physical plane in order that the children of men who
could only perceive on the physical plane, may also be allowed to
even here upon the physical plane. Seek ye therefore the unique
yourself above the physical plane. Recognize that Figure in
physical plane, this darkening of spiritual sight, can only be an
have to discover what the physical world can teach him. This
on the physical plane to be a time of transition.

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 10. The Mission of Individual Peoples and Cultures in the Past, Present and Future.
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with the use of the physical body for the progressive development of
external world, towards the phenomena of the physical plane, and to
to be established upon the physical plane.
incarnated suddenly on the physical plane before the birth of the
physical plane, to whatsoever was necessary for its well-being there
to develop the ‘I’ on the physical plane in accordance
substance of the old clairvoyance, transposed now on to the physical
separate world because it is associated with the physical sun and its
natural phenomena, to see not only the physical and sensory aspects,

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 11. Nerthus, Freyja and Gerda.
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legends which give intimations of the birth of physical man. Njordr
soul-and-spirit with the terrestrial and physical. People believed
soul required in order to develop further upon the physical plane
clairvoyant capacities. Within the physical world, the world limited
unite with the physical-corporeal instruments existing in the human
the physical plane what had been perceived in primeval clairvoyance.
daughter. She is born out of the physical forces of earthly evolution
itself. The descent of the divinespiritual into the physical is still
manifest on the physical plane that for which he has been prepared
clairvoyant forces to the physical plane, then this magic ship is
course of its development on the physical plane, is associated with
perceive from the physical plane that which formerly could be
occult training will, by the transformation of the physical body,
be able to be seen etherically from the perspective of the physical
should comprehend everything from the perspective of the physical
Christ on the physical plane, to receive tidings of Him and to bear
physical plane because, at that time, the forces of man were adapted
to the physical plane. But those forces will evolve, and in the
Christ and yet believe that He will appear in a physical body. The
Sabbatai Zevi was regarded as the physical incarnation of a Messiah.
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Title: Fifth Gospel (1950): Lecture II
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significant moment when, as in a solar eclipse, the physical
when an actual, physical eclipse of the sun casts shadow over
sun and having its physical body in the visible sun, is
connected with life on the earth. And when the physical
all the physical embodiments of the animals and plants seem to
physical body with Christ Jesus.

Title: Fifth Gospel (1950): Lecture III
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physical body. Maeterlinck, a man of some genius, is therefore
labouring under the illusion that the physical alone can suffer
folly here implied, that the physical body which is composed of
physical forces and chemical substances alone can suffer ... as
if a stone were capable of suffering. The physical body cannot
the deprivation of the physical body. Anyone who holds the view
thereafter for three years in the physical body which then
ever greater likeness with this physical body. Notice once
the physical body of a man. What man becomes on earth reflects

Title: Fifth Gospel (1950): Lecture IV
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heathen peoples by actual, physical observation — if one
physical form of John the Baptist disappear and there came to

Title: Fifth Gospel (1950): Lecture V
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disclose the secret of why it is that in their physical life
what had been garnered as it were in the three bodies: physical
process of man's incorporation into the physical world. He felt
that because physical embodiment was a necessity in the
the physical body, the mystery of the sting of Ahriman which
should discern the truth that the physical world too issues
distinguish whether He was present in the physical body or
if we are physically separated in space and in time,

Title: Eternal Soul of Man in the Light of Anthroposophy
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body, in our physical tasks. These depend on the will. After
has been felt in the physical body, and now one begins to feel
this is only the physical body that evaporates in space.
confronting scientific things in laboratories, in physical
actually owing to the physical space-body that the human being
ears, is in the physical-sensory world. And in the deep silence
was before he descended to take on the physical body that had
You must pull it out of your physical body,
speak, that coarser part that is bound to the physical body;
in a very real sense, deprivation of the physical, deprivation
before you descended into physical existence on earth then you
to turn back repeatedly to physical-sensory existence in a
ever and again to the ordinary physical-sensory world.
pain, to do without this physical-sensory world. Then you get a
very different stance with respect to this physical-sensory
sensation of love is felt to a certain extent in the physical
physical-sensory world. Then this love itself gradually becomes
For we have placed the physical body into reality.
love, we remove the physical body of knowledge and we
physical existence on earth. And so we experience immortality
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Title: Cosmic Forces in Man: Lecture I: Cosmic Forces in Man
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into material, physical existence on the Earth. And so we really have
of man, instead of being confined to his outer, physical sheaths. But
The first thing we observe about a human being is his outer, physical
principle so far as physical man is concerned. Now when we embark upon
man's place in the Cosmos. The form and shape of his physical body are

Title: Cosmic Forces in Man: Lecture II: The Soul Life of Man ...
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spheres. Whereas the fixed stars work in man through his physical
way. But the human physical body has already received its form, its
We have thus considered the form of man's physical body, the
different. What is it that our physical and our ether-body provide for
outside the physical body and the ether-body. Now it may be of very
ears are in the physical world. And the more idealistic thoughts and
earth, to the stream of heredity. His Angel, leads him to physical
belongs to the higher Hierarchies just as the physical body and
ether-body of man belong to the physical and etheric worlds.
which permeate our physical organs of thinking in the coming earthly
Within the head we really have a physical mirror-image of the thoughts
When a man here, in physical life, passes through the Gate of Death,
being is no longer within this physical corpse. When a man passes
nature of soul-and-spirit die when he is born into the physical
world and within physical existence become the corpse of the Divine
physical corpse, so we have in abstract thinking, a life of soul that

Title: Cosmic Forces in Man: Lecture III: The Mission of the Scandanavian Peoples
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the nature and destiny of man. We heard that the human physical body
when we observe how in his physical life on Earth, man can achieve
into physical existence and we have only to develop it during physical
we fail to impart to him what he ought to receive in the physical
physical world. I have said before that this life before birth is
for he is unaware that the soul-and-spirit extends into physical
existence and that, fundamentally, this physical existence is governed
physical, contributed to this repression of the Spiritual. For they
really the physical man or woman to whom they were listening, but that
which man brings to expression in his life on the physical Earth comes
physical life before him, does not trouble about the life before
life of Norway can be seen even in the physical world; it can be
Because of their physical and racial character, because of the special
without using the physical senses, between the time of falling asleep
physical fellow-beings during the times of their old historical
the spirit. The Northerner will die out, will suffer physical death if
And so what is developed here, during physical life, is connected with

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individuality that He was able to leave the physical world at
Christ-Individuality lived in the physical body, it filled
the physical eye, they were now multiplied as had formerly
set great value on a direct, physical transmission of the
oberves the happenings in the physical world around it. In

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cannot find the right way into the physical body. On the other hand if
the soul occupies the physical body too markedly in an egoistical way,

Title: Question/Economic Life: Lecture: The Central Question of Economic Life
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which depends on human spiritual or physical abilities. I have
to prosper, from the physical skill of the craftsman to the

Title: Foundations of Anthroposophy: Lecture I: Foundations of Anthroposophy
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super-sensible nature upon the body's physical nature, tried to
physical.
accustomed to apply in his physical laboratory. The real facts
something enacted completely upon the physical plane, that is
remember something, we always plunge into our physical body;
physical or at least etheric bodily process. We learn to know
physical organism with our thoughts, when we remember
take hold of the external physical reality.
The physical foundation of desires could soon be discovered by
physical conditions can be perceived in the special composition
in the physical human organism which flare up, come, so to
thought we know that we leave behind on the bed our physical
reality they fill out our physical body as a special etheric
and our thought body. (I might also say, the physical body and
the etheric body, or the physical body and the body of
wake up. The independent will takes hold of the physical
the will and with the feeling is above all the physical body.
gives us a new aspect of man's physical being. We perceive,
itself, so the etheric and the physical body which remained
gives us a physical reflection of something outside. By leaving
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Title: Foundations of Anthroposophy: Lecture II: Man in the Light of Anthroposophy
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the foundation of his external physical being, forms and guides
it. Spiritual science above all can show that man's physical
the same way in which physical experiments are carried on,
simply through influences at a distance, without the physical
teleplastic, in which phantoms and apparently physical forms
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
sleep, as a rule also abandons the physical body when we are
feeling and volitional parts are outside the physical body as
our physical body and our body of formative forces. This body
which has abandoned the physical and etheric body, a mirrored
reflections by the physical body which we left behind, so that
the physical world, but because we now gain an image of the
of the spiritual world to that of the physical world. In other
words, he can alternately live outside his physical body and
return at will into their physical body. They are led into such
physical and etheric bodies, which now exist objectively
physical and etheric bodies with forces developed in the
lectures, we really learn to form a judgment upon the physical
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super-sensible knowledge outside the physical body, shows us
volitional being abandons what we have called his physical body
this sentient-volitional being looks back upon the physical
but remains behind with the physical body, as the true forces
that part of the human being which goes out of the physical and
being as we are ordinarily conscious within our physical body.
when we dive down into our physical and etheric bodies at the
moment of waking up. And by diving down into the physical body,
upon the fact that we use the instruments of our physical body,
form, even as our physical body and our etheric body acquire
only perceive an environing world, namely the physical world,
when it uses the physical and etheric organs of perception,
descending into our physical being through birth or conception,
with which we can live in the physical world and in the world
of thoughts or of the intellect. In the physical world and in
physical world, as well as the world of ideas, really leaves
physical world when we awake, obtaining from this physical
encounter certain people in the physical world, the fact that
across such things in the external physical world. How
physical and etheric bodies, and have experiences outside them
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Title: Lecture I: Man in the Light of Occultism
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of knowledge require to be sharpened by the physical organs, the
all existence, including physical existence; so that by following the
acquired by the human being in so far as he is free from the physical
in quality, are nevertheless bound to the physical brain. Philosophy,
has been acquired outside the physical body; philosophy tries, in so
who can never come again in a physical body; for that would contradict

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to interfere in the external life of the physical plane. This is what
on the physical plane, anything that has come to me as a result of
other faculty that he has at his disposal on the physical plane —
on the physical plane, can still be actively applied on that plane.
persons that we meet with on the physical plane. Thus, we may not
own egoistic ends, we apply our understanding in the external physical
In respect of the objects of the external physical plane he must use
say to himself: As I go about and fulfil my life on the physical
more the things he sees on the physical plane, cease to employ in

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are closely connected with the physical body. True, the physical body
is free of the physical brain.
him with his physical body, makes use of his etheric and astral bodies
physical life, pictures whose origin is in the
physical consciousness. He has only the pictures. But the occultist
now have a spiritual influence upon man that is like the physical
clairvoyance and, as it were, to throw something up into physical
light of the Spirit, just as in a physical aspect moonlight is
just as the physical light of the sun is thrown on to the Earth by the
physical body. In reality my being fills the world; and it is my own
higher heart organism. Our ordinary soul life on the physical plane is
higher members of their body from the physical heart, they come to
than the physical heart of blood and muscle. When the pupil learns to
those connected with the physical heart, then he can in very truth
from the physical brain, the perception of the unspoken word depends
on the emancipation of the higher members from the physical heart.
the higher super-physical forces can reflect themselves; And, as you
set free from the physical heart the higher members of his being,
when, that is to say, he can live not only in a super-physical brain
but in a super-physical organ of the heart.
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in super-physical conditions what they communicated to mankind. And in

Title: Lecture V: Man in the Light of Occultism
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to the fact that man has an inside. From the purely physical point of
inside of the human form. Looked at from the purely physical aspect,

Title: Lecture VI: Man in the Light of Occultism
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means of the reproductive organs which make possible the physical

Title: Lecture VII: Man in the Light of Occultism
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it not for the physical sunlight that illumines the Earth, the middle
had no physical senses open. The picture of the starry heavens stood

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that is to say, from what we know the human form to be on the physical
have here can still only be an after-image of the physical body.
physical world, he allows it then to “echo on” in him in the
longer an image of the physical form but is experienced in the ether
physical earthly sense, that they refer to a history, to an event in

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that does not ray back sunlight on to the Earth. The physical sunlight
their physical symbol in the light of Venus shining down upon us as
Morning or Evening Star, the physical rays of Venus that are sent out
form. And we have before us — man, complete in his physical form.
from man as he presents himself to physical sight. For the next stage
physical stars of the planets are directed by the Spirits of the
into a physical earthly human being. Those of you who have followed my
physical human body? We can, as it were, go in search of the Buddha,
of action that planet which in physical astronomy we call Mars; and he

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impression in the physical world of the senses. Neither is the picture
conditions of human consciousness. We have first the ordinary physical
and returns no more to physical existence on Earth. We have thus
considered three conditions of human consciousness: physical
What is it we are able to experience by means of physical
man beholds other worlds than the physical; and when you remember that
the first rudiments of physical man began, as is shown in Occult
experience their external manifestations. The physical consciousness,
That which can be surveyed with the physical consciousness is called
the physical plane; that which is perceptible to the first
Saturn, and that the very first foundation for the external physical
members, we have the expression of physical man on the Earth as he
successive previous condition of existence. It is the physical human
him: In man, there is the physical body. When we set out to study the
human being, we come first of all to his physical body, that highly
old Sun. Whereas man as physical man bears in him the impress of
The workings of the ether body in the physical world are the inner
own, he has become physical man; in so far as he has had to
several members, — physical body, ether body, and so on. Moreover
discern manifestations of it here in the physical world. The
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Title: Man's Being: Lecture I: On the Nature and Destiny of Man and World
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astral body and our ego, withdraw from the physical and etheric
world, penetrating the physical and etheric body again only
are occurring in the physical-sensible worlds wherein we dwell
things are quite different from things in the physical-sensible
from which we descended after acquiring a physical body by
spirit and soul. And just as we can walk, in the physical
Hence, while the physical and etheric body are lying in bed,
at the point where we began to acquire a physical and an
Fundamentally, we live our earth-life only with the physical
body and, in a certain way, with the etheric body. Our physical
of his birth. The physical body has reached the age of
entering the physical body do we accommodate ourselves to the
physical body's actual age. This accommodation must take place
spirit-soul element and the physical body. It is a mediator
remained — and the age of his physical body.
starting-point of our earth-life. Our physical body reaches,
etheric body, the physical body reflects — corresponding
moment to moment, by the physical body; but resulting from
naturally grow older as the reflecting apparatus, the physical
apparatus functions less efficiently after the physical body
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hindered by the physical body, they judge earthly events much
reverse. The human being who has now discarded his physical and
are visible to physical eyes, actually represent only physical
is seen only externally as a silver disk by our physical
earth as a physical man among the entities of the various
Here on earth we stand at a certain point of the physical
with the anatomist's physical eye, but with the eye of the
its merely physical aspect. It is irrelevant that all this is
of the germ of the physical human being as it exists in the
spiritual world — for the physical germ maturing in the
tried to sketch for you, came forth from a merely physical
of the physical germ, and the human germ particularly, is
it. And this pulverization of the physical germ is brought
about by conception. Physical matter is completely destroyed in
physical matter into an image of the spiritual germ woven
justification did the ancient Mysteries call the human physical
lose the tissue woven by us out of our physical body. The
the physical germ, which we shall have to assume on earth, is
spiritual germ of the physical body has already descended
spiritual germ of the physical body. This has already arrived
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measuring the length of our sleep according to its physical
duration, we take into account only our physical body and our
daily conscious life, within the physical body. What we
spirit descended to earth and was clothed in a physical body.
live as physical men while awake? We are confined, through our
physical body, by natural laws. The laws working outside in
evolution of the cosmos, begins and ends with a physical state.
nothing but physical laws. Will there be moral impulses
nothing but physical laws will prevail. Thus speaks
would seem something real, something secure; and the physical
an illusion, the abstract physical world order would have
physical realm of natural law.
immerse himself again into his physical body and etheric
miraculous unfolding of mathematical-mechanical, physical
attained. And by placing himself, as physical being,
physical world and say: It is based on something spiritual.
the physical world rests on a spiritual foundation, would be
physical objects in the outer world. Think how many people in
connection with physical objects.
character. It can be used only in connection with physical

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undergoes, in a physical sense, a burning-up and consuming of
physical sense, thinking or mental activity is a depositing of
have separated themselves from the physical and etheric
physical and etheric bodies and fallen asleep. Then the future
his body, his physical organism; what he does not want to
When the ego and astral body return again to the physical body,
destiny. He enters again into his physical and etheric bodies.
While our ego and astral body are outside our physical and
the physical and etheric bodies must pass through the portal of
physical body.
elements into a future physical body. For you must
return to the physical body; and, when they wake up, they
do not quite understand how to deal with this physical body.
Because the astral body and ego can form the physical and
that can work in the right way on the physical body: therefore
understand all the things contained in the physical body.
ego, when again immersing itself in the physical body, is
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,
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the physical-bodily one.
age, we notice a renewed dependence on our physical organism.
bodily-physical. Yet this was not always the case. If we go
his fifties, to be just as dependent on the physical as the
separation of the physical body from spirit and soul. He felt
more and more how the physical approximated, as it were, the
corpse-like. And he felt in this estrangement of the physical
body, in this approach of the physical body to the
conception of having a physical body that is slowly becoming a
full of life. Yet the physical body, at the age of fifty,
physical body than we do. Today man crawls into the very core
of his physical body, the experiences of which he shares. Thus
he feels himself to be identical, at one with his physical
felt themselves more self-dependent within the physical body;
reality — for all these reasons their physical body from
experience this dependence of his physical body upon the
earthly. Instead, the aging physical body exerted a different
physical body did not really belong to him, but more or less to
physical body became objective, became shadow-like. He
physical body, but no longer dependent on the stars, the
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means of his physical body, his etheric body, his astral body,
Christ is on earth.” Physically,
paralysis of their physical bodies setting in, it was still
himself related to the transformation of his physical body into
the earthly element. But this transformation of the physical
means of the physical body enabled him to recognize, in the
totally different from external, physical science. I can become
his physical attributes — we must pursue a different
physical, the spiritual element can be found in every single
merely the physical-sensible, we shall call forth a cry
will bring us physical knowledge, but a physical

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the physical body, the oil is the etheric body, the flame that

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Oslo, 10-6-'13
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only sending their effects to the physical plane — they
the soul is contained in the physical body and ends with it. Ahriman

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Oslo, 6-16-10
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where the physical and etheric bodies remain behind on going to
on the physical plane each time.
means to anesthetize physical pains to make them disappear. But they

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of the physical one, and thereby one unites oneself with the

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Oslo, 6-20-10
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physical body firmly with his other bodies and as it were presses
physical body, and we experience all possible conditions, also

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physical body in such a way that not all of the etheric body's forces
were used to permeate the physical body, and it was to these forces
physical bodies, especially in Greece, and those who developed the
greatest things in the physical realm felt that the spiritual world
was a realm of shades. But now the physical body no longer absorbs
it's only through these force that the physical body can no
mere physical life and knowledge, you sensed these unused forces in

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took it down into the physical world to make men glad. Such feelings

Title: Lecture III: WORLD-PENTECOST: The Message of Anthroposophy
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into a physical body on the earth they had lived in the spiritual
earth.” He knew, too, that the stars are not merely physical,
aside his physical body at death he would return to the world of the
physical orb, but as a realm of spiritual Beings.
fear of death. When in earlier times they saw the physical body die,
appearance effective on the earth. He died for all men. The physical
physically, the sun can be seen in the same way everywhere. So too,

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the highest in nature, man's physical form, one must cease to live
anatomy, no physiology, can ever grasp the physical human being in his
artistic approach, man's physical body clothed by an imaginative-spiritual
clairvoyance perceived that, after forsaking its physical body, its
has a counterpart. When man leaves his physical body at death, his soul
understanding of the physical body which falls away from cosmic space-forms
is shaped by and emerges from the cosmos. If one understands the physical
find right access to his physical body. On the other hand, if the soul
in egotistical fashion takes hold of the physical body too strongly,
too deeply into the physical body, and his greenish shade when, because

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in waking dreams, the spiritual behind the physical. Parallel to this
the divine from the physical lingered on. But whereas with the seventh
fifth he reached up to the very limits of his physical body; felt his
third which penetrate into man's etheric-physical body; which is to

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physical sun is darkened over the land of Palestine, over
observation can now verify if a physical eclipse of the sun
the sun also as its physical life – is connected to
life on the earth. And how when the physical glow is
the physical body of him with whom they had wandered. And
of Golgotha, which they experienced in the physical body in

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and can no longer suffer because he has no physical body.
illusion that only the physical body can suffer and a dead
that only the physical body, which consists of physical
could suffer! The physical body cannot suffer; it is the
of the physical that suffering exists in kamaloca. Whoever
earth, lived on the physical plane for three years and
say: Now Christ Jesus stands physically before us, or now
expressed in the human physical body can be understood in

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learned to know the souls of the pagans through physical,
affected by all kinds of terrible mental and physical
which all that was physically and spiritually unworthy was
with John the Baptist, the physical body of the Baptist

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why people can no longer live in their physical bodies
three bodies – physical body, etheric and astral
incorporation of man in the physical world. He felt that
physical body, the mystery of all that had been revealed to
things in such a way that man could feel that the physical
possible to determine whether his physical body was

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even the establishment of a heavenly kingdom in the physical sense in
a physical body in common with the mineral world; an etheric body in
of the physical body and the astral body impressed into the etheric
Otherwise the physical body is a hindrance to bringing to consciousness
the initiator led the etheric body out of the physical body, enlightenment
The etheric body creates and forms the physical body, of course, and
the basis for the physical body. In the spiritual world they had to
do without a picture of the physical human body; they saw only the etheric
initiates always saw the physical human being spiritualized and placed
world from the point of view provided by the physical world. In this
physical form. For this reason Paul knew that what appeared to him before
form of the physical body, not only the etheric body, but the
spiritual-physical form of “Man,” the human being, now
present-day culture we can see in the physical world. But what will

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the physical earth and beyond to spiritual realities. Present-day science
the scenes of the physical, external development of humankind.

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can see very little of what constituted the physical body at that time.
and the human physical body was still very difficult to distinguish
physical nature the most. The occultist refers to them as the bull people.
of the post-Atlantean age, what can be achieved in the physical world.
physical body; but the human being must again subjugate the physical body.
longer slaves of our physical bodies.
of self within our physical bodily nature. On the other hand, we thank
the physical world. We thank the Christ principle for our ability to
beings had to descend into physical life; but in order to preserve them

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to like life in the physical, sensible world. They are to see the sun
this reason it was the concern of Zarathustra to show the physical-material
the earth's fields should be like a cultivation of the physical body
of God, who stands behind the physical world. The ancient Hebrew nation
into thinking there is nothing but physical matter he calls Ahriman,
being may come to like physical life too much.
their lives in physical, sensible bodies. Every life on earth is followed
To the extent that people came increasingly to like this physical world,
human beings already stood so firmly in the physical world that they
Greco-Latin age when people had become so fond of physical matter that
they created physical forms incorporating ideals in the physical world.
not only for the physical world but also for the spiritual world.
in the physical and in the spiritual. The whole of our post-Atlantean
the physical world while, at the same time, keeping awake faith in the
Through the fact that Christ revealed himself in a physical body on
physical body is being preserved until the day when the Maitreya Buddha
we are to learn in the fourth post-Atlantean epoch how the earthly-physical

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had fully entered into the physical world, there appears, among other
everywhere behind the physical world. The science that had penetrated
Christ who had descended into a physical man. But faith and knowledge
only on the external, physical level. The evolution of humankind takes
Egyptians knew we now see appearing in a physical form. In the past

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include in our solar system everything up to Saturn; and just as physical
but the human being existed within the lawfulness of the physical, mineral
being descended more and more into the physical bodily nature this bodily
soul even though his physical body was not as dense as bodies are today.
In terms of their physical bodily nature, Atlanteans were much thinner
physical bodily nature in order to develop our I consciousness.

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developed individuality that he could leave the physical world in the
physical, etheric, and astral, left behind by Jesus were then filled
physical human body. These bodies of Jesus of Nazareth, invisible to
the physical eye, were then replicated in a way similar to what happened
Apostles. They placed value on tradition passed on through physical means.
what is going on in the physical world around it. Today the soul must

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little bit beyond the upper part of the physical body. The etheric body
body having influence over the physical body. However, what has the most
them up. At that time the physical body was only a very small inclusion;
and soon resembled another. Human beings constantly changed their physical
our mountain fog. The human physical body had the most varied colorings
the physical organization, for example the blood system and the skeleton.
physical body, then the human form would have remained as it was —
physical form. However, there were beings that became solid, hardened
expression in the physical body of the various animals. Each of the groups
were first to fall into the physical world during eruptions of natural
the last lower instincts to fall or be pushed into physical matter before
etheric body of the head extending beyond the physical head. That was
body moved into the corresponding part of the physical body only in
to develop a physical form appropriate for the spirit.
The more the I has mastery over the astral body, the more the physical
in our various incarnations. But because the human being's physical

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first. Back then everything in the physical world appeared to the human
the fourth age conquered the beauty of the physical world. The Greeks
physical-sensible existence that the spiritual world became dark for
which has given them mastery over external physical nature, the souls
great deal in terms of external physical martyrdom. But things are coming

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of lower astral world. This could be called the sub-physical astral
world. We have, then, devachan, the astral world, the physical world,
human physical body was prepared for the human being during the ancient
during ancient Moon, then we see how, in its way, this physical body
into the miraculous structure of the physical heart, or the brain that
is structured and organized with so much wisdom that physical science
physical. The I is the least perfect of all. For example, how little
does the I understand the structures of the physical body. This is
physical world is passing away, what the human being achieves in terms

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to draw the I toward the physical head. That is, the I, the spiritual
was pulled “down” toward the physical body, specifically,
head and the physical head did not then coincide, whereas today the
etheric body of the head is approximately the same as the physical head.
hydrocephalic today, as part of an atavistic inheritance. The physical
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
example, in the last third of the Atlantean age the physical body was
intellectual soul, and the physical body thus unconsciously transformed
of its physical body, its etheric body, and its astral body. For this
reason, in the future they must leave their physical body to the external

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